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The Record names Hoke ‘Person of the Year’ and the environment.

Several of these programs are currently sponsored by Shagri La. His management experience also includes facilitating programs at several major universities through National Science Foundation grants and summer institutes.

John Cash Smith is chairman of the officers and sits on the board of directors of the Stark Foundation.

“Michael is a unique individual because of his educational background. He’s added a lot to the job. He’s very creative and it shows in the programs

David Ball

For The Record

Michael Hoke, marketing director of Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, has been an educator for more than 30 years.

Since joining the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation on Aug. 1, 2002, he has given his knowledge and expertise in environmental and educational issues in furthering and facilitating the development of the Shangri La by the Stark Foundation.

It is for these reasons Hoke was named the Record’s 2012 Person of the Year.

Hoke holds advance degrees in science, education and educational supervision. He has taught students from pre-K to college levels. Since 1978, he has originated and directed programs related to science

Michael Hoke, director of Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center was selected as the 2012 Record Person of the Year for his work as a masterful teacher and for developing innovative programs at the center.

RECORD PHOTO: Larry Trimm

Slacum becomes county engineer David Ball

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Bridge project spans past and future David Ball

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Orange County has a new county engineer.

Clark Slacum, former engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation in Orange, was chosen for the position by the Orange County Commissioners’ Court in a special closed meeting Monday morning. The other candidates interviewed were Kenneth Wiemers and James Layne.

Slacum was chosen 3-1 with County Judge Carl Thibodeaux, Precinct 2 Commissioner Owen Burton and Precinct 3 Commissioner John Dubose voting aye. Precinct 1 Commissioner David Dubose voted no. Precinct 4 Commissioner Jody Crump was absent.

David Dubose nominated Wiemers first for the position. After a lengthy pause, Thibodeaux seconded the motion. The result was a 2-2 tie with David Dubose and Thibodeaux voting aye and Burton and John Dubose vot-

he has put together. There’s nobody else around like him,” Smith said.

In fact, Hoke was a science teacher and department chair for the West Orange-Cove CISD for 31 years.

His career can be further broken down as follows: • 1978-present Founder and director of Bios, A School on Wheels: A summer science program has taken more than 2000 area students on science experiences through the southwestern U.S. Students are taught a variety of science disciplines along with taking part in a science Olympiad which emphasized problem solving.

• 1995-2002 Founder and director of DuPont Science Super Stars: This program allowed eighth grade

Clark Slacum, former engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation in Orange, was selected as the new Orange County engineer Monday morning at the Orange County Commissioners’ Court.

RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn

ing no.

“We had three highly qualified candidates,” he said. “I was thinking of longevity for the county. He’s not retired (Slacum retired from TxDOT).

He’s here to go to work. He’s got to make it.

“All the candidates understand the job. I have no problem with Mr. Slacum. He knows our roads and drainage. Sometimes you’re worried about the candidates who apply but this time we had three good candidates.”

Slacum said he worked with Wiemer previously at TxDOT. Slacum currently works for Jefferson County and the new job in Orange County will cut back on his commute since he resides in Orangefield. His annual salary will be around $79,000.

Thibodeaux said it was a tough challenge deciding which one of the three candidates to hire since each is well qualified.

“It was a very tough decision.

We had three highly qualified applicants. Top-notch in their fields. They all have good resumes. Two were with TxDOT. Two worked together there.

Each brought something to the table. Each could had done it,” he said.

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The Cow Bayou Swing Bridge will soon be receiving a makeover.

The bridge was opened in 1941 and will be totally refurbished, according to Paul Smith, a Texas Department of Transportation environmental specialist. Refurbishing the bridge will cost $2 million dollars versus spending $15 million to build a new bridge.

Smith said the bridge rehabilitation project has been in the works for several years, especially since it received some damage from Hurricane Ike. He added they are in the second part of a twofold project.

“Phase I has already been done, preIke in 2007. We replaced the armor joints on the south side of the bridge so it could swing freely because it was binding at the joint,” Smith said. “Phase II will rehabilitate the remainder of the structure.

“After Ike came in, there was a survey of the damages completed. It will be completely refurbished. It will essentially be a brand new bridge.”

Basically, Smith said the mechanics are in good condition and the bridge will open much more efficiently.

Historic preservation of the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge will begin in May 2013.

RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn

“You’ll be able to flip a switch, the crossing arms go down, the traffic stops and the bridge swings open,” he said.

Construction is scheduled to begin in May 2013 and may last a year or two.

Southbound traffic on the taller bridge adjacent to the swing bridge will be converted into a two-way traffic pattern in both direction, southbound and

northbound. Portable traffic barriers will separate traffic lanes.

The lanes will be narrow with no room for shoulders, though both lanes will be 11-feet wide.

“It will be an inconvenience to some folks who aren’t used to this. It’s now a SEE SWING BRIDGE PAGE 3A

Bridge City public library expansion David Ball

For The Record

The Bridge City Public Library is proof that good things come in small packages.

The building at 101 Parkside Drive, however, is beginning to run out of space due to popular demand and the library will be expanding in the future.

Mary Montgomery has been library director ever since it opened 21 years ago.

She said the Friends of the Library have been working on the addition.

“We’re in the second phase,” Montgomery said. “We’re receiving bids on the electrical, air conditioning and closing it in.

We need money for that.”

To expand, the back north wall will come down to make space for a meeting room, extra book space and a new children’s section. The library is currently 2,500 square feet. After the expansion, it will triple in size by adding another 3,250 square feet.

Additionally the existing restrooms LIBRARY EXPANSION PAGE 3A

Libary Aide Michelle Watson, left, and LIbrary Director Mary Montgomery chat in the children’s section of the Bridge City Public Library. The library will soon be expanding and triple in size with a new children’s section, a meeting room and more space for books.

RECORD PHOTO: David Ball

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science students to become science presenters for elementary students. More than 30,000 elementary students were impacted by this program in its seven years of operation. The program ceased when Hoke retired from the school district in 2002.

1995 - present Founder and coordinator of the Nature Classroom: This program introduced more than 3,500 area students a year to the wonders of the natural world through handon experiences in a Cypress/ Tupelo Swamp.

1999- 2002 Founder and director of EcoRangers: This program paralleled the Super Star program with the exception it used seventh grade presenters and highlighted ecological concepts, Awards 1990- Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching 1991- Texas Medical Association for Award for Science Teaching 1992- Outstanding Earth Science Teacher in the U.S.,

American Association of Geology Teachers The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality selected Shangri La with the Texas Environmental Excellence Award in the education category in early April.

“TCEQ has been honoring Texans for 20 years who demonstrate a great impact on the environment,” said Terry Clawson, manager of media relations for TCEQ. “They introduce kids and adults to the environment to become familiar with the ecological system in Southeast Texas. TCEQ is very proud of Shangri La in going above and beyond.”

Clawson added 30,000 children and adults go through the park every year to experience the environment in a safe way they may never had experienced before. Particularly since some of the kids are socio-economically challenged.

“This award speaks highly of the quality of environmentally-conscious events and programs that are offered to visitors of all ages at Shangri La,” Hoke said of receiving the award. “Programs such as the

County business meeting.

The commissioners approved entering into a written contract of employment with the Provost-Umphrey Law Firm concerning a claim against British Petroleum for economic losses sustained as a result of the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horzion oil spill disaster.

Attorney Joe Fisher said under the Oil Protection Act passed by Congress,is for recovery for purely economic damages from an oil spill. The settlement was reached with individuals and it affects four counties in Texas too: Orange, Jefferson, Galveston and Chambers.

For instance, the act covers items such as a seafood busi-

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ness ruined by the oil spill or seafood that was harmed. A court will set a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.

Fisher recommended Orange County and Jefferson County look into filing claims.

Governmental entities can file for economic damages if revenue losses are demonstrated such as motel occupancy losses or a drop in tourism.

The county would enter into a 25 percent contingent fee contract, or as Thibodeaux explained, it would cost them $.25 on every $1.

Fisher said every parish in Louisiana affected has filed and there’s strength in numbers the more who file.

Thibodeaux said there may be a possible economic impact

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Community Trash-Off, Earth Week and Eco-Fest activities, as well as our programming for students and teacher workshops increase the awareness of environmental issues and promote our mission of mentoring children of all ages to kind to the world.”

A statement from the Stark Foundation reads Hoke’s objectives for Shangri La is to become one of the finest botanical gardens and nature centers in the nation. Its mission of “mentoring children of all ages to be kind to their world,” will allow Shangri La to make a positive impact on horticulture and environmental education throughout the United States.

Holly Hanson, volunteer coordinator and tour coordinator, said Hoke is always a teacher.

“He teaches not only the kids and the adults in the group tours, but he is constantly teaching to the staff.

He’s a great man to work for.

He’s a motivator, a mentor and a teacher. I’m just one of hundreds who could say the same thing,” Hanson said.

for Orange County they didn’t think of.

“I wouldn’t think of that myself because we’re not a coastal county,” he said. “But it may had affected things like was there a shortage of seafood? Did the prices go up?”

Mark Wimberley, maintenance director, presented a change order for the Shelter of Last Resort on FM 1442 that was approved.

Wimberley said he thought the facility was within specifications by contractor G and G Enterprise in filling the holes in the cinder block walls to add to the structural integrity of the building.

The work, however, was not in specifications and it will take two-thirds of the county’s contingency fund for the project to remedy.

“It will take up the lion’s share,” Wimberley said. “It’s on the shelter side of the project. It’s a very warranted change.”

The work was shut down at the shelter until the problem is solved. It would cost $79,000 of the $120,000 contingency fund.

Thibodeaux said the shelter side is being built like a bunker and that is where county personnel will be housed in the case of an emergency.

“I don’t want to skimp on that area of the walls,” Wimberley said.

The commissioners approved a 20 percent homestead exemptions rate, a $25,000 deduction for homeowners over 65 and a $25,000 deduction for disabled homeowners.

The court approved the purchase of a new 15-passenger van for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Commissary.

The 2000 Ford van will be traded in.

The van transports inmates to work programs. The van will be paid for out of the Jail Commissary Fund.

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four-land road and we want to keep the capacity as is. Drivers need to be careful and pay attention. We’re concerned for not only the safety of the traveling public, but also for the safety of the construction workers. This is temporary,” Smith said.

He added maybe some of the work could be done during non peak traffic hours and the last thing wanted is to create a big detour for drivers.

Smith said the one year delayed start will give TxDOT additional time to obtain the required permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard. No clearance heights will be changing during the project. TxDOT coordinates with the coast guard to keep them informed.

After completion, boats will be able to move more easily on the bayou because the bridge will open fairly quickly. Environmental issues should not be a huge concern for the project. A more important issue is the fact that the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge is designated a historical bridge.

“We have to be careful with it. We had to go through the historical commission (Bridge City Citizens for Historic Preservation). We had to buy them off on the project. It’s non issues on the environment,” Smith said.

The scope of work according to TxDOT will include: Project Description The federally assisted project will rehabilitate swing bridge over Cow Bayou in Bridge City. This project will be undertaken without the purchase of additional right-of-way.

Although its machinery and electrical components were partially submerged during Hurricane Ike in 2008, the bridge continues to carry northbound traffic along the state highway. While emergency repairs were undertaken after the hurricane, the bridge’s swing span, which is still operable, does not function on a regular basis.

As one of two center-bearing swing bridges in Texas, the National Register nomination completed in 2010 also found the structure to be significant under criterion c, engineering at the state level of significance. The bridge maintains integrity of design, material, location, feeling and association. Its integrity of setting is compromised due to the 1972 construction of the adjacent high-rise concrete bridge that carries southbound traffic on SH 87.

Proposed Scope of Work The proposed project involves the rehabilitation of the swing bridge structure and its associated approaches, pedestrian walkway, embankments, boat fender system and bridge control house. Also included is the repair, replacement, or restoration of electrical and mechanical components, as well as the installation of traffic safety systems.

Replacement of the swing span concrete deck is the preferred option to patching, as largescale concrete repairs tend to fail, even when performed with excellent craftsmanship.

Replacement is also better for the structure’s long term preservation, as deck removal will provide access to undertake substantive cleaning and repairs of the corroded steel structure below. As opposed to the existing deck with joints that allow for the seepage of water, the new deck will be continuous, making it stiffer and less susceptible to cracking and water penetration and stronger to carry larger loads.

The new concrete deck will include a new structurally integrated curb of the same height and dimensions.

Concrete abutments will be partially removed, rebuilt, cracks repaired and stoned rip rap laid at their base. Along the approach slabs and northbound lanes beyond the bridge, a four to six foot wide concrete sidewalk will be built.

A T 221 rail will border the slabs and a metal beam guard fence will provide safety along the lanes beyond. Spalling at the bents will be re-

paired. Steel I-beam approach span concrete deck will also be replaced.

Removal of the existing concrete deck will allow for appropriate interventions to address structural steel corrosion. New plates will be added to ensure added strength and durability of the structure. Riveted steel connections will be required within-kind replacements.

The original, custom-designed traffic rail will be replace din-kind with the concrete posts recast and the historic steel horizontal channels reused. In order to meet current crash test standards and to protect the outer rail, a new low-profile steel safety rail will be incorporated flush along the edge of the new concrete curb.

The 1972 non-ADA compliant walkway will be removed and replaced in similar materials and configuration.

Compliant steel grating and a wire-mesh rail that is similar to one from the same time period will be installed. Existing steel supports will be reused and the walkway will be bolted to the steel structure.

The lead-based paint will be removed. As there is no documented original paint color, a semi-gloss version of the current color will be specified in light gray.

The control house will be rebuilt to the same height and dimensions as the historic to better withstand hurricane force winds. In the exterior, asbestos panels will be replaced with hardie-plank panels replicating the same joint pattern and dimensions. New door and windows replicating the existing will be installed with hurricane wind resistant glass. The current exterior rail and metal grating will be reused.

Inside, the original control desk will be rebuilt.

The currently rusted channel fenders installed in 1972 to protect the concrete piers will be replaced with similar ones in metal.

Mostly hidden form public view, the machinery controlling the swing mechanism will be degreased, cleaned, lubricated and calibrated to specified tolerances.

New components will be installed, such as link arms, bearing house assembly and actuator.

In general, electrical work includes replacement of conduit, safety switches, junction boxes and new submarine cable, which supplies power to the swing mechanism from the land side.

The proposed repairs and replacement materials will complement, as opposed to visually intrude upon the bridge. They will strengthen its structural and operational integrity, insure its future durability, and enhance the safety of vehicular traffic.

As a result, it is determined the proposed rehabilitation work will have no adverse effect to the historic bridge.

Smith said this project is very important because the swing bridge is how the name of the city changed from Prairie View to Bridge City.

“Local folks are very interested that it be done. We want to be sensitive to the local community’s interests. After this refurbishing, this bridge may last another 100 years. It’s a very sound structure,” he said.

Leslie Barras, a consulting party with Bridge City Citizens for Historic Preservation and an attorney who specializes in historic preservation law, said though the bridge is not structurally unsound, the rehab will give the bridge a new lease on life.

“It was the first bridge in Prairie View to cross a navigable waterway. There’s only one older in the area to survive (the Deweyville Swing Bridge opened in 1936). They’re rare in Texas. I love that bridge (the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge),” Barras said.

She also credited fellow consulting party, Mark Dunn, with saving the bridge.

“He had the vision and the passion. If it wasn’t for him, the bridge would be in the river now. He did all the heavy lifting. May part was minor,” she said.

Library expansion planned in the foyer are to be converted to other uses.

The contractor shall remove the existing door and frame and construct a new wall. The existing metal building end wall shall remain in place throughout construction and shall be removed only after the new building addition is completely dried in and ready for ceiling tie-in.

The contractor shall install plastic sheeting to protect existing library from dust and debris during all activities.

The existing concrete foundation was poured one-and-a-half inches lower than existing library building foundation. The new building column locations shall be installed to accommodate the one-and-a-half inch elevation difference and the existing concrete slab shall be grouted up to the finished floor elevation to provide a smooth transition between the existing library and new library addition.

The contractor shall use a non-shrink cement overlay grout.

The Friends have been planning for 10 years.

Some of the larger grants was $25,000 through Praxair, $25,000 from Tony Houseman Homes , $10,000 from Steinhagen Oil Company, $2,000 from Walmart and $5,000 from the Stark Foundation.

The library did receive a renovation after the Hurricane Ike flood.

Currently, the library offers new technologies such as EBooks, and in August, offer access to Kindle and Nook.

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searches, resume writing and testing. The library also sponsors book sales periodically.

Michelle Watson has been a library aide and children’s librarian for eight years. She hosts a children’s summer program and the story time through the school year for birth to preschool.

“We’re busiest in the summer times. We have 100 day usually and over 200 a day in the summer,” Watson said.

The city opened its first public library in March 1991. The Friends led the push for a public library.

The original Library Action Committee consisted of Betty Johnston, Charlotte Chiasson, Cathy Walters and Lucille Armentor. The library is open to all Orange County residents, free of charge.

The Friends of the Bridge City LIbrary began as a support committee in March 1988 when 20 concerned citizens addressed the needs of the community to establish the city’s first public library.

The response from the public was tremendous.

So many books were received that Scales Portable Buildings donated a large building for temporary storage. The chamber of commerce ambassadors hosted a softball tournament and barbecue and volunteers held many book and bake sales. By August 1988 the city appointed a board of trustees and a non-binding referendum passed — $50,000 to start — showing support for a new public library.

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From the Creaux’s Nest WELCOME TO OUR 52ND ANNIVERSARY EDITION Here we go again embarking on another year. With this issue, we celebrate our 52nd anniversary. For all those years this publication has been free and available to anyone who wants one, plus delivered free to 20,000 homes. I believe we’re one of the few free, real community newspapers, not a shopper. Over the past few years there has been some difficult times, especially since Ike, but we bit the bullet and kept on printing and delivering the best product we could.

Ike got our production office in Bridge City and we miss Cox’s Neighborhood and Ms. Ginny, Neighbor Cox, Pate and the rest but we have found a good home here on Henrietta Street. We have good neighbors in Corky, Don and Donnie Harmon and enjoy our visits and friendship with Glenn Oliver and across the street are the Granger boys, Al and Dean Granger. There is always something going on at their Chevy dealership. Now their service department will be open on Saturday for folks who work 9 to 5 on weekdays.

That will bring more folks around on Saturday. Many friends visit us while their cars are being serviced.

This weeks issue is a collector’s edition with many stories recording history, the times we live in and the part Orange County plays as gateway to the west and our cowboy ways.

King Dunn, Ray McDanial, Mike Louviere, Penny LeLeux, David Ball, Nicole Gibbs, Roy Dunn and others have contributed to making it truly a historical issue.

We are very grateful to the advertisers who have supported us though the years and thankful to the many sponsors throughout these pages who are bringing you this special issue. Please look them over and patronize them when you can. They make it all possible.

Most of all, a big thanks to you our loyal readers, you have been so faithful. Everywhere we go we hear your great compliments. We try to carry something for everyone. I’m also amazed at the response from around the world on our website. We try to spread the word around the nation about the great place in Southeast Texas that we call home and about all of our natural resources and how unique our area is.

Not to be left out is how fortunate we are to have such good representation in our governmental bodies in Orange County. We also don’t brag enough about the many natives who have gone off and accomplished great things. Our area has produced many talented people. Yes, Orange County is where the “Sun Rises on Texas” but it’s also where those stars shine first.

We are proud to serve this great community that has so much to offer to anyone who wants to visit. The Stark Foundation makes available the Stark Museum of Art, Shangri La, Lutcher Theater and more. Orangefield, where the oil boom was born, has the outstanding Cormier Museum and soon the county will have the CHAMP building and facilities. A gift to the citizens of Bridge City will be a nature and heritage center and park on the shores of Cow Bayou. It will be a great asset for the families of Bridge City and will draw many visitors to the area. The city government has a chance to make it a great showplace that will benefit citizens for many years. Here fishing and hunting is always great and fresh and salt-water fishing is at it best.

We invite all of you reading this publication around the county and world to visit us for a great vacation.*****Thank you for tuning in. I’ve got to get busy now. Please come along, I promise it won’t do you no harm.

PERSON OF THE YEAR Michael Hoke has been named our Orange County Person of the Year. He is an excellent choice. Much of what Mike does at Shangri La is his job but he goes far beyond to bring interesting programs to the public. He’s an educator and is constantly teaching about nature, stargazing and agriculture. Mike goes out of his way to put on community cleanup programs and teaches how we can make our community and world better through recycling and conservation.

Mike is a great asset to our community and we’re proud to recognize him as “2012 Person of the Year.”

OPTIMISM OVER ECONOMIC GROWTH The Untied States economy will grow faster than expected this year. U.S.A. Today reported, in their Monday, April 23, edition, that economists think job growth for the rest of the year will be about 20 percent stronger than was expected after Christmas. Consumers are buying more vehicles and going out to eat more. The unemployment rate is expected to fall and could go as low as 7 percent. Economist’s optimism also colors a new survey by the National Association for Business Economists. OPEC and Wall Street speculators control oil prices. Oil companies control gas prices at the pump. There isn’t much government can do about it in the short run. Supply and demand moves prices but oil companies could shave their profits, which are at record high level.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME 10 Years Ago-2002 Worldwide reduction in Dupont DTI affects Orange Sabine River Works. In the wake of reorganization, 150 jobs will be lost as of July 31. Gerald Ehrman, plant manager, said it

would include all levels from leadership to technicians. The reduction must save $16.6 million. Last February Dupont announced a restructuring that would separate the DTI into a separate corporation. *****The Sabine River Authority promoted David Montagne to assistant general manager. He has been with the SRA 16 years. He is the son of Bob and Celeste Montagne, Democratic political activist for many years. ****Believe it or not, Judge Don Burgess, the second tightest judge in the county and one of two most conservative liberals I know gave, yes gave, Donito’s jet ski to Russell Bottley. I didn’t believe it either. *****This week, on April 30, Willie Nelson turns 69 and is still on the road. (Editor’s note: Today he’s 79 and still going strong and pushing to legalize pot.)*****Brown Claybar is a candidate for mayor of Orange in the May 4 election. *****Troy William Guidry, 31, a Bridge City grad died in New Iberia. *****Teresa Rena Turner, 41 of Orange died April 28. *****Thurman Keys, 69, of West Orange died April 29. *****Stacy Anne Bane married Jason Sean Ellis on April 27. *****County Bank is now open in Orange at the Round Bank location. Board of directors are Carlos Vacek, Bob Parker, Mike Moreau, Lin Bingham, Robert Hext, Tommy Rash, Robert Latiolais, Joe Burke, Bobby Rozas and Gordon Woods. *****The high flying Bridge City Cardinals of Coach Sam Moore prepare for playoffs with a warm up game this week against Port Neches-Groves. The Cards are undefeated 21-3A champions. Bob Corley is assistant coach. Players are Kaleb Faulk, Chris Jetton, Dustin Guillory, Tyler Hays, Jamey Knight, Hunter Hays, Derek Blacksher, Vince Lapeyrolerie, Coy Hunt, Luther Sanders, Lanston Fults, Andrew Delay, Al Durso and Thomas Hamrick. *****Charlie Wickersham celebrates 50 years in business in Orange. No longer in the car business, his former dealership is now Orange Ford-Lincoln. *****Delta Downs Casino, still celebrating grand opening is giving away $350,000 in prizes. The racetrack at Delta will feature Kentucky Derby day May 4. *****The annual Orange International Gumbo Cookoff will be held May 3 and May 4.

35 Years Ago-1977 The mayor of Orange proclaims Friday, April 28, Ed Lovelace Day. Also on Friday, Linda Richardson and her husband held an elaborate surprise party for Ed at their home.

Most of the prominent names in the community were there.

Baxter made a tape that is a Gordon masterpiece, describing the life of Lovelace. *****The second annual Gumbo CookOff exceeded everyone’s expectations. Robert Nelson and Jim Stelly saw to it that everyone had a great time. The Bridge City gumbo team won best all around gumbo. The most unique booth was that of Carmon Davis and Freda LeBlanc, put together by Brooks Hill, Houston Baker and Dr. Nolan LeBlanc. Frank Bailey, with Texas Monthly magazine, attended. Joe Grossman refused gumbo because it wasn’t Kosher. *****Connie Sue Gunn was named Miss Golden Triangle and Lisa Davis, of Bridge City, was named Miss Beaumont in that beauty contest. They will compete for Miss Texas July 6. *****The Orange County Bar named Bubba Hubbard the recipient of the lawyer’s coveted Liberty Bell award. *****Joe Runnels was the winner of a $1,000 jackpot at Weingartens. *****Judge Halliburton has three female puppies that he wants to give away. He will even deliver them. If you want to be a name-dropper, you can always say you’ve got one of the Judge’s little bitches. *****Richard Belk is building a new house in Dugas Addition across the street from Chief Wilson Roberts and behind Roy Dunn. The neighborhood is really going down. Curtis Lee saw the trend coming and moved out. *****Louis and Nancy Gay have moved to Palm Springs, California. Jim Dugas has taken over as sole owner of the Sport’s Den.*****Dow Gene and Charlotte Anderson were honored with a house warming in their new home on Bower Dr. in Bridge City.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK Darby Byrd, Glenn Jeter, Jeff Fisette, Louise Savoy, Marriet Litton, Roberto Deleon, Bro. James Gilbert, James Gilbert, John Austin Chalmers, Pam Broussard, Julie Williams, Luke Domas, Stephen Russell, Christi Goodyear, Donna Lee, Gus Harris, Nikki Worthy, John Applebach, Mike Cain, Rosalyn Hollingsworth, Tim Batchelor, Chelsea Ballard, Ferrel Ashby, Stacy Mitchell Burns, Joe LaMoine, James Seitz, Josh Blanchard, Jimmie Simmons, Judy DeCuir, Nina Leifeste, Tommy Bourgeois, Candice Vigil, Drew Wappler, Garbrielle Freeman, Harold Haymon, Janice Gooch, Jenni Barrow, Roger Brister, Katie Smith, Kim Izer, Mary Grimes, Samantha Ziller, Virginia Woods, Carl Peltier, David Winfrey, Dot Eshbach, Cindy Landrum, Ramona Walker, Flo Arnold, Loretta Phillips, Karolyn Doiron, Frank Carpenter, Jason Mayfield, Newt Hodges, Tom McDavid, A.J. Sellers and Christina Johnston.

A FEW HAPPENINGS For several years now Tom Rooney, of Hartburg, has been participating in the re-enactment, re-creating the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution at San Jacinto. This past Saturday teams again played his part in the 176th anniversary.

Participants made camp, ran safety drills and slept in the battlefield Friday night. On Saturday, the sound of cannon fire blasted in the fields near the monument. Tom Rooney wore an American Army uniform as his part in the battle. It’s a lot of fun regardless which side of the battle you’re in and it relives the most important battle in Texas history and led to the birth of Texas. *****Congrats to Clark Slacum who was hired as county engineer. He will replace the late Les Anderson.

Clark is a nice, very knowledgeable guy. *****I understand our longtime friend Grady Johnson, the Governor of Pinehurst and pride of Shelby County, was injured in a fall and is now recovering. He’s a tough old bird. *****According to our sweetheart Mary Alice Hartsfield, who is doing fill-in work for Linda Gunstream’s Orange County Tax office, the staff will be raising money for “Relay for Life,” on Friday, April 27. A dollar donation from everyone is their goal but if you want to give a couple more it will be appreciated. *****I had never met Shea Simon before he came into the office last week. We had known his dad Huey since we were both six years old. *****Roy says you can’t trust young people to be familiar with old-fashioned words. Last week, in his Down Life’s Highway column, Roy asked this young staff to run a picture of a 1932 Ford coupe. They had never heard the word “coupe” before and didn’t know what it meant. They ran a picture of a 1932 sedan.

They asked if coupe meant sports car? Not really, but has only two doors. *****Our prayers go out to Todd Edgerly who’s fighting a tough battle and is under Hospice care. Our thoughts are with Judge Flo, Gene and the family. *****Orange Carpet and Sleep Shop is still having that great sale on mattresses this week, all sizes. Don’t miss out if you need one.

Stop by and see Paul or Warren. *****Cathy Clark and the gang at Sure Catch Seafood have a great lunch for only $5.

They are located on Roundbunch Rd. in Bridge City. *****King

Dunn invited Mrs.Verna Simon Duhon of Mauriceville, a native of Vermillion Parish, to the Wednesday Lunch Bunch.

Ms. Duhon said for several years she had wanted to meet Roy, a native of Abbeville. They had a great visit about the motherland. Also in attendance were Cherry and Cedric Stout, our Pearl Harbor survivor. Shirley Zimaman revealed that she learned the power of prayer at an early age. Ask her about the rooster. The Lunch Bunch will dine at Robert’s Restaurant this week. Great folks, great fellowship, no speeches, and everyone is welcome. Next week lunch is at Novrozsky’s. *****Annie Hargrave’s dad operated the lift bridge going to Pleasure Island. Annie and another real cutie, Loretta Parker, drew boys like flies when they visited the bridge. *****If your looking for something to do there will be big times going on at St. Martinville, Louisiana on April 29 to May 2. A delegation from Quebec, Canada will also attend. *****On May 1, one of the greatest people and lovely lady, Dot Eshbach, turns 90 years old. She’s lived two full lives, married to Jay and raising children and in a second life she and friend Margaret traveled the world and maneuvered a big bus around the United States. She was a pioneer Bridge City businesswoman. Everyone loves Dot. I love her fudge also. Happy birthday and best wishes. *****Longtime banker Darby Byrd celebrates being a year older April 25. *****April 26 is Karen Anthony, our Minnesota friend’s big day. We send a big Texas happy birthday out to her. *****Gus Harris celebrates April 27. *****Shangri La and the Astronomical Society will co-sponsor an evening star party from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. Treat yourself and the kids. It’s a lot of fun and you’ll be amazed at what you learn. *****Ms. Pearl Burgess wrote a nice poem titled “Celebration” in recognition of our 52nd anniversary. Thanks Ms. Pearl. *****Saturday I was watching the Boston Red Sox/New York Yankee game, with Boston leading 9-0, when the network cut away to the Chicago White Sox/Seattle game. It was the last inning and Phil Humber, of Carthage, Texas and former Rice pitcher, had a perfect game going. He became only the 21st in the history of the major leagues to pitch a perfect game. I remember when Don Larsen did it in 1956, Jim Bunning, 1964, Sandy Koufax, 1965, and Catfish Hunter, 1968. Nolan Ryan never threw a perfect game. By the way, the Yankee’s scored 15 unanswered runs in the last two innings to beat Boston 15-9. *****Ray Pousson stopped by. Right now he’s fighting the financial battle of having two youngsters in college at the same time. Ray doesn’t change; he’s the same great guy he was over 35 years ago. *****A big happy anniversary to McDonald Baptist Church celebrating their 81st. birthday on May 1.*****CREAUX’S TIP OF THE WEEK: If your cast iron skillet went rusty try this. Scour off the rust with a stiff nylon brush, hot water and a little salt as an abrasive. If that doesn’t work, use hot water and steel wool. After drying lightly coat the pot inside out with vegetable oil and place atop foil upside down in the oven at 350 degrees for one hour to re-season. I made an old iron pot look brand new that way. CAJUN DEFINITION: Gumbo: A roux based soup sometimes thickened with okra or file’.

To make a thick, robust roux, slowly brown flour in an iron skillet. Roux can also be made in microwave. Not my choice.

There are thousands of variations, such as shrimp, seafood, crawfish, duck, but most common is chicken and sausage. No two gumbos are alike. As a child, I ate Grandma’s round steak and okra gumbo and also blackbird, robin or dove gumbo. It’s said a good Cajun cook can make gumbo with shoe sole leather.

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS Al Pacino will be 72 on April 25; Renee Zellweger, 43 and Jason Lee, 42. ***Carol Burnett will be 79 on April 26 and Jet Li, 49. ***Channing Tatum will be 32 on April 27. ***Jay Leno will be 62 on April 28; Penelope Cruz, 38 and Jessica Alba, 31. ***Jerry Seinfeld will be 58 on April 29; Michelle Pfeiffer, 55; Master P, 43 and Uma Thurman, 42. ***Willie Nelson will be 79 on April 30 and Kirsten Dunst, 30. ***Tim McGraw will be 45 on May 1.

CAJUN STORY OF THE WEEK Wen Joe Robicheaux opened da morning paper he was dumbfounded to read in da obituary that Joe Robicheaux’s service was pending. He quickly call his best friend Clovis Comeaux, who answer da phone.

“Hello,” Clovis, did you see da Abbeville paper dis morning,” ask Robicheaux, “Dey say I died me.”

“Yea, I saw dat me,” replied Comeux. “Joe, where you calling from hanh?”

C’EST TOUT Thanks for tagging along. I’ve run plum out of time. I’ve messed around too much but our dedicated staff has worked long and hard to get this publication out. We’re proud of the great work this professional staff does and we thank them.

Please read us cover to cover. We’re looking forward to visiting with you every week in our 53rd year of publishing your community newspapers. We’re always glad to hear from you so drop us a note by mail or on the Internet at TheRecordLive.com. Take care and God bless.

Celebration!

by Pearl Burgess

Fifty-two years have quickly gone by Providing great memories that bind and tie, A paper first published for all to read Informative news to meet every need.

Stories to print, their hope was to please They covered all topics from A to Z, Working together they made their first start Including stories of past that touched each heart.

Owner and helpers worked hand in hand Publishing papers that they carefully planned, Hard work paid off, the paper well done Timely delivered in pouring rain or sun.

People look forward to the paper each week To read about news, each page they will seek, Appreciate “The Record” and say “Congratulations” Fifty-two years calls for a Grand Celebration!

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Community Bulletin Board LSC-O hosts admin professionals luncheon Lamar State College-Orange will host an Administrative Professionals Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25 at The Brown Center, 4205 W. Park in Orange. Guest speaker will be Jackie Simien.

Eagles to host annual charity April 28 The Fraternal Order of Eagles #2353 Auxillary will be holding their annual charity fair April 28, 2012. This year project is for Autism. The Charity Fair is open to the public and will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.. We will be having hamburger and cheeseburgers with chips for $5.00, we will have chili cheese dogs and chili dogs with chips for $5 and plain hot dogs for $2. There will be auction items, raffle tickets, 50\50, scratch off, cake walks and live music by Patty Ferguson Belk. So everyone please come out and support us and help make it a success again this year.

Lutcher Stark Class of 1953 Reunion The Luther Stark Class of 1953 will be having a reunion at 6 p.m. on April 28 at Spanky’s Restaurant in Orange. Call Bobby Vincent at 409-543-5478 for more information.

Dorothy Ann (Dot) Eshbach 90th Birthday open house set for April 29 The family of Dot Eshbach would like to invite all of her friends to an open house on Sunday, April 29 to celebrate her 90th birthday. The open house will be held at 1375 Oaks End in Bridge City from noon to 3 p.m. Stop by for cake and punch and to share memories. While it may not be possible, the families goal is to keep this a surprise, so mum’s the word.

Orange Historical Society Board meeting set for May The Orange Historical Society Board of Directors will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1, in the Danny Gray Room, located in the Orange Police Department Building on Eighth Street between Main and Front Streets. The regular meeting will follow at 6:30 p.m.. Local businessman Jerry Priddy will be the guest speaker. The public is invited.

Lutcher Theater Service Guild dinner set for May 1 The Lutcher Theater Service Guild Installation of Officers’ Dinner will be held Tuesday, May 1 at Sunset Grove Country Club in Orange, at 6 p.m. Reservations must be made by calling the Theater at 886-5535.

Farmers Market opens soon

738-2070

The Orange County Farmers’ Market will open Wednesday, May 2 and continue through November. It will be held in the parking lot in front of Big Lots on MacArthur Drive. Hours are 3-6 p.m., Wednesdays and 7-10 a.m., Saturdays. New vendors are welcome. The Market is sponsored by Texas AgriLife; for infor-

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American Legion to host plate lunch fundraiser American Legion Post 49 will hold a plate lunch fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 3 at 108 Green Ave. in Orange. The cost is $7. The meal consists of brisket, link, potato salad, beans, bread and dessert. Walk-ins are welcome and delivery is available. Call 886-1241 after 12 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2 and before 9 a.m. on Thursday, May 3 for orders and delivery.

BCHS Alumni Association to meet May 3 The Bridge City High School Alumni Association has a meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 3 at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the high school prior to the BCHS Fine Arts Exhibition and Open House.

LCH Class of 1957 to host reunion The Little Cypress High School Class of 1957 will hold a reunion on Saturday, May 5, at the Sunset Grove Country Club. A social gathering will begin at 5:00 p.m. with dinner following at 6:30. The cost is $25 per person, and reservations should be mailed to Charles Bland, 430 Edgewood Drive, Montgomery, TX 77356. Dress is casual. Class members may call 883-3005 if they have questions.

Quantum-Touch® Level one workshop scheduled Quantum-Touch is a powerful yet easy to learn natural healing technique. Through the use of breathing exercises and body awareness, the body’s own ability to heal itself is accelerated.

Join certified practitioner and level 1 instructor, Penny LeLeux in a weekend workshop to be held in Orangefield, May 2627. Receive an early registration discount of $50 off regular workshop fees through May 4.

Call 409-728-5970 or e-mail Penny@NRGTouch.com for more information.

Benefit to be held at Eagles Aerie A benefit will be held on behalf of Tommy Holley from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 5 at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2523, 803 N. 28th St. in Orange.

He was the sole provider for his family and he leaves behind a wife and two daughters, ages 11 and 10. He had no medical or life insurance and his final expenses have put a financial strain on his family.

Barbecue plates will be sold for $7 (orders of five or more can be delivered). Items needed to be donated are briskets, links, potato salad, baked beans, bread, barbecue sauce, pickles, onions, paper plates, napkins, forks, knives and spoons.

Company can benefit by having their name displayed who attend the event.

There will also be a raffle ticket sale. The drawing will be at 4:30 p.m. The ticket purchaser need not be present to win. Donations are from $1 to $5.

Other donated items are needed for the silent auction as door prizes and in the raffle sale.

First prize is an outdoor LP gas barbecue grill. Second prize is a charcoal smoker and grill.

Donors will be listed on the event program and the merchandise given will be on display throughout the event. Donors will be invited to attend the event to meet prospective customers and possibly find a few bargains of their own.

Monetary donations may be made payable to: MCT Credit Union, P.O. Box 279, Port Neches, Texas 77651-0279. Their telephone number is 409-727-1446. Memo: Tommy Holley’s Benefit, account number 7068110-009.

To purchase a ticket before the event, to participate in the event, for for more information, call Lauren Gartshore at 409779-7409.

Habitat for Humanity hosts golf tournament Greater Orange Area Habitat for Humanity will hold their annual charity gold tournament on Saturday, May 5 at Sunset Grove Country Club, 2900 Sunset Drive in Orange. The format is a two person best-ball. Cost is $100 for a two person team.

Gross and net prizes will be awarded. Mulligans, drinks on the course and lunch are included for participants. Entry deadline is Tuesday, May 1. Contact Sunset Grove Country Club at 8839454 for more information.

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Senior Citizen of the Year Nominations sought Nominations are sought for the 2012 Senior Citizen of the Year. The winner will be announced at the 43rd annual Senior Citizen Rally Day “Getting’ Hooked on Health” on May 8.

Nominees must be 60 years old or over. Application must be accompanied by a written summary of the nominee’s service to mankind such as: participation in service organizations; service projects; their contribution towards improving the community; and volunteer service (church, clubs, community, and fellowman). Describe outstanding leadership, service, achievements, and awards.

Deadline for entries is April 16. Mail form to: Extension Committee on Aging, P. O. BOX 367, Orange, TX 77631-0367. Those submitting an application for a nominee must be willing to accept the judge’s decision.

For more information call the extension office at 409-8827010 or check out their Web site: http://orange.agrilife.org.

West Orange Spring Clean up set for May 11, 12 The City of West Orange will host their Spring Cleanup Friday and Saturday, May 11 and 12. Dumpsters available to residents behind the WO Fire Station Residents may bring their debris on Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Saturday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Proof of residency will be required at dump site. The City will provide assistance with unloading trucks/trailers of debris.

No hazardous materials, tires, batteries, paint etc will be accepted. Any items containing Freon must be drained of said Freon and tagged by individual certified to do such work. Appliances, furniture, metal and green waste will be accepted, but must be brought to the dump site. The city will be unable to make arrangements for any “special pickups.”

AgriLife to host canning classes The Texas AgriLife Extension Office and Little Cypress Baptist Church are holding a FREE basic canning class on Saturday, May 12 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Little Cypress Baptist Church.

Learn to preserve your summer’s bounty and stretch your grocery dollars by canning your own produce. Learn about canning equipment, how to can and preserve safely, and resources for recipes and instructions. Call Little Cypress Baptist Church to register at 409-883-8905. The address is 3274 Little Cypress Drive; Orange, TX 77632

WOS Athletic Banquet set for May 16 The West Orange-Stark High School Athletic Banquet, which is catered by Moncla’s, will be at 6:30pm Wednesday, May 16 at the West Orange-Stark High School Cafeteria.

Male and female athletes from the current school year 20112012 will be honored. Each athlete will receive one free ticket.

Parents and other family members may purchase tickets for $7 at the West Orange-Stark Athletic Office by May 10. For more information please contact the Athletic Department at 8825530.

David Ess, Bridge City Strutter Golf Tournament set for May 19 David Ess and the Bridge City Strutters will be hosting their annual golf tournament. The tournament will have a shotgun star at 8 a.m. (sign-in will be at 7:30 a.m.) on Saturday, May 19, at Babe Zaharias Golf Course in Port Arthur. It will be an 18 hole, four-person scramble with prizes awarded. Entry fee is $200 per team, which includes the green fee, cart, food, drink and prizes.

Hole sponsorships are also available for $100, which includes a sign at the golf course and an ad in the Strutters Spring Review Program. The deadline for hole sponsorship is April 17 or tournament entry deadline is May 8. For more information contact any Strutter, or call 735-8521 or 474-1395.

Heavenly Hearts Summer Charity Pageant to be held May 26 Heavenly Hearts Charity Pageants announces it’s next event.

The Summer Charity Pageant will be held on May 26 at the Bridge City Community Center in Bridge City. Entries are being accepted now and will continue until May 24. Early bird entry discounts are given to those that enter by May 5. Age divisions are from babies all the way to adult. The event is open to all areas and to both boys and girls. Attire is formal and summer wear. Awards are crowns, trophies, plaques, sashes, toys, gifts, and much more. No one will leave empty handed and all young contestants receive a tiara just for taking part in this event. The charity that will benefit from this event is the Bridge City MinBULLETINS 10A

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Let’s Ensure Our Nation’s Commitment to Space Exploration U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Special To The Record

For more than 50 years, human space exploration has inspired Americans. Now more than ever, we must capture the imaginations of our young people if they are to aspire to be the scientists and explorers of the future.

I was reminded of this recently when I joined a group of Cub Scouts on their visit to the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston.

They had a memorable adventure, riding on a Lunar Rover model, scrambling around in a mock-up space capsule and quizzing retired astronauts about living in zero gravity. At one point, one of the boys asked, “Why has America given up on space flight?”

The answer, of course, is that we’re not giving up on space flight. But this Cub Scout’s question highlights an urgent question about our nation’s commitment to America’s next chapter of human space exploration.

Two years ago, our nation’s leadership in space was at a critical turning point. The Obama Administration was poised to virtually abandon human space exploration.

Aware that this shift would quickly undermine our irreplaceable human and technological expertise, I worked hard to negotiate a bipartisan NASA reauthorization bill that established a way forward for the U.S. space program. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and I set an achievable, long-range plan for continuing American leadership in space exploration and for encouraging new commercial ventures in low-Earth orbit.

Senator Nelson and I worked throughout 2011 to secure a commitment from the Administration to develop the new Space Launch System’s heavy-lift rocket and the Orion crew capsule needed for deep space exploration.

As this development work proceeds, Houston will remain the heart and soul of America’s human space flight program. The proud Space Shuttle program was managed in Houston, each mission was controlled by the talented professionals at Mission Control, and all astronauts who have flown on shuttles have been trained in the community. The JSC’s astronauts, engineers, and scientists – several of whom met our Cub Scouts – are now putting their expertise and

experience towards helping to achieve the long-range goals of deep space exploration.

As we move forward, we need to accomplish both of NASA’s longrange goals. America’s leadership in human space exploration depends on creating new heavy-lift launch systems and technologies for missions to Mars and beyond. These are challenges at the leading edge of science and technology for which NASA’s scientists, astronauts, and experts are uniquely suited.

We must also encourage America’s entrepreneurs to invest in creating a commercial space industry. This starts with American space companies building reliable, low-Earth orbit launch systems for ferrying crew and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) – services for which we currently rely on Russia and its Soyuz system. As our private companies develop space services capabilities, new industries and American jobs will be created for the future.

Space exploration is not inexpensive. But America’s space program has proven to be a wise investment, leading the way to revolutionary improvements in medicine, communications, weather forecasting, and national security. Technologies developed for our space program – microchips, MRI cancer detection equipment, and much

more – have improved our lives and created entire new industries that employ millions of Americans.

Both of these longrange priorities are essential. Postponing our long-range space exploration program would be a terrible mistake, as bad as remaining dependent on Russia to move our crew members to the space station.

Every penny we spend must be invested wisely - especially in today’s economic environment. If we reconfigure our priorities every few years, we will not reach our goals nor will taxpayer dollars be used most prudently. A key step for NASA to take this year is focusing taxpayers’ investment in commercial space development on no more than two firms that show the capability of providing ISS cargo and crew transportation services by 2017.

In less than a single lifetime, space exploration has broken through unthinkable barriers. We need to continue pushing those barriers, so that youth today – like that Cub Scout – inherit a program that continues, not abdicates, our preeminence in space exploration.

Hutchison, a Republican, is the senior U.S. senator from Texas and Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. hutchison.senate.gov

You may be 50 Nana, but we think you sure are Nifty!

Noah, Piera, and baby Barnes. Daughters, son in Laws, sister, brother, Mom & Dad, Wee all love you!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

We Love and Miss You! Helene Litton April 21, 1931

Pam Broussard Love, Bill, Robert, Tiffany, Lathan, Madisyn, Caine, Stephanie, Branden, Ethan, Matthew, Brad and Haley

We’re proud of you, Adam!

Third Class Petty Officer Adam R. Van Winkle, graduated on Sept. 15 at Prototype School. He is learning to work with the Nuclear Reactor to get his qualification to be a Nuclear Reactor Controller Operator.

He is currently on a USS Abraham Lincoln CXIU-72 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier, operating in the North Arabian Sea. He is expected back in late fall. He deployed Dec. 8, 2011. His ship has been through the Straight of Hormuz four times. We are very proud of him. He is a graduate of West Orange-Stark 2006. You’re the man Adam! We love you! God bless our military.

Thank You For Your Support Accomplishments on Commissioner Court 2009 to present.

• Collection station: Orange County is recycling and with lower cost on regular garbage.

• Roads in PCT 1: 12 miles of road repair. New roads Ben Mack road surfaced with Pine Bluff road to be surfaced spring of 2012 • Airport: Completed the runway extension project with grant money and installed taxiway light with grant money. Secured the airport with code access for entey.

• Mosquito control: Instrumental in hiring pilot for mosquito control aircraft.

• Jail: Working with bidders on Bulk and Prescription medication delivery lowering the cost with better service.

• Sheriff’s Department: 17 new patrol cars on the streets with 7 new cars on order for this year • Grants: Over 48.5 million dollars in grant money over the past 3 years • New Buildings: - Shelter of last resort on FM 1442 (CHAMPS) - Judge Janice Menard - Adult Probation Building • Lowered the tax rate from 2011 to 2012 • Generators on Key buildings needed to operate the county.

• County insurance health prescription plan: negotiated with Caremark to lower county prescription cost, saving the county over $70,000 the first year.

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NINE KEY LEADERSHIP TRAITS – • I believe that a good leader should listen to people and read a lot.

• A leader should communicate starting with telling the truth, even when it’s painful (I mean straight talk).

• Good leadership is the ability and willingness to try something different.

• A good leader should be a person that knows the difdif ference between right and wrong and has the guts to do the right thing.

• A good leader must have moral courage that is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, • As a leader you’ve got to have a passion to get something done (Make Something Happen).

• A leader should have qualities that make people want to follow. It is the ability to inspire.

• People follow a leader because they trust him. A leader has to be Competent. You have to know what you are doing or surround yourself with people who know what you need to do.

• A leader must have good sense and sound judgment in practical matters.

David L. Dubose

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Mix soups, tomatoes, chilies and beans. When soups are blended add chicken. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat.

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• Preparation • Preheat a cast-iron skillet or griddle pan over medium-high heat. Combine the chuck Worcestershire, onion, salt and lots of pepper. Form

into four patties (thinner at the center and thicker at the edges for even cooking). Add oil to the hot pan, add the patties and cook, turning once for 8-10 minutes for mediumrare to medium. Top the patties with the cheese, folded to fit the burgers, during the last two minutes of cooking.

• Meanwhile, in a separate skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the mushrooms and cook until browned, about 12 minutes.

Add the shallot, season with salt and pepper and cook for

2-3 minutes more. Deglaze the pan with the sherry and remove from heat.

• In a bowl, stir together the sour cream, buttermilk, herbs, lemon juice, hot sauce and garlic; season with salt and pepper.

• Put the cheeseburgers on the roll bottoms and top with the mushrooms. Slather the roll tops with the dressing and set into place.

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Shangri La, ASSET co-sponsor Star Party Staff Report

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Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center and The Astronomical Society of Southeast Texas (ASSET) will co-sponsor an evening Star Party from 7:30 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, 2012. ASSET is a friendly group of amateur astronomers from Jefferson, Hardin, Jasper, Newton and Orange counties. Members will be on hand with telescopes through which visitors can enjoy the night sky. This event is free to the public and children accompanied by an adult are welcome.

Michael Hoke, Director of Shangri La says, “With favorable weather, the Star Parties at Shangri La are a great way for the public to learn about astronomy and see celestial objects through powerful telescopes that many people normally would not have the opportunity to use.”

In addition to the numerous telescopes visitors can use to see the night sky, there will be a “star hopping activity” where attendees will be taught how to find objects in the spring night sky. Using a moderately high powered laser, guide stars will be pointed out and visitors will

Director of Shangri La, Michael Hoke, will be welcoming the ASSET members for an evening Star Party on April 28.

learn how to locate celestial bodies using these stars.

This event is free to the public and children accompanied by an adult are welcome.

For more information, call 409.670.9113 or visit www.

shangrilagardens.org. Located at 2111 West Park Avenue in Orange, Texas, Shangri La is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m.

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Deaths and Memorials To Be held:

Jean Marie Henley Zeto Orange “Away from the body, at H o m e with our Lord”. Jean Marie Henley Zeto, entered the Heavenly Realm Sunday April 15th.

She was at home with her daughter and son in law, Vicki and John Crew in Dallas. She slipped away peacefully in the arms of her daughter, surrounded by treasured portraits of loved ones.

Father Zimmerman of Christ the King Catholic Church performed Last Rites.

A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Orange Texas, with Father Joseph P. Daleo Officiating.

Mrs. Zeto was born Feb. 21, 1924, in Heber Springs, Ark,.

Her childhood was spent mostly in Nebraska City, Neb.. She moved to Orange in her twenties to work for DuPont. She then met the love of her life, Victor John Zeto, and they married in Orange at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

They were blessed with two children Vicki Jean and Charles Edward.

Jean was a devoted Catholic, dedicated and loving Wife, Mother and Grandmother.

Jean was a member of Leaf and Petal Garden Club, a friend of AAUW, Sewing Club, Woman’s Club of Orange. She always baked wonderful treats to be auctioned at St Mary’s Alter Club to raise money for the Church She volunteered as a Grey Ladie at Orange Memorial Hospital and in the Gift Shop.

She served as a Board Member of Girls Haven of Orange.

North Orange and Anderson schools were fortunate to have her volunteer with the children.

She and VJ were long time members of Bridge and Supper Clubs.

Jean was a true homemaker, an artist and fabulous cook.

She taught needlepoint and enjoyed china painting. The Zeto’s back yard was declared a Bird Sanctuary by the State.

Jean and VJ loved to travel and were fortunate enough to see so much of the World together Immediate survivors include her daughter, Vicki Crew; son, Charles Zeto; brothers, Keith Henley, Duane Henley; sister, Judy Peiserich; grandchildren, Shannon Feeney, Jason Zeto; and great-grandchildren, Ashlyn Jean Feeney, Sharlett and Jayden Knight.

She was preceded in death by husband, Victor John Zeto; sister, June Henley; brother, Gerald Henley; infant brother; and grandson, Eric Zeto.

Memorials may be made to Orange Christian Services.

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Elwood Paul Bergeron Bridge City Elwood Paul Bergeron, 74, of Bridge City passed away Tuesday, April 17, at Pinehurst Nursing Home.

Funeral Services were held Friday, April 20, at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Bridge City. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City.

Born in New Iberia, La. on April 30, 1937, Elwood was the son of Woodland Bergeron and Anna Mae (Gary) Bergeron.

During 1958 through 1961, Elwood served in U.S. Army. He

Virginia “Jean” Perry Baker, 82, of Alvin passed away Monday, April 16, 2012.

Funeral Services were held Thursday, April 19, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating were her sons, Tony Perry with Roger Perry reading her eulogy. Interment followed at Jett Cemetery.

Mrs. Baker was born Aug. 6, 1929 in Orange to Samuel Edward and Grace Isabel (Bilbo) Dudley. She was a homemaker and member at Texas City Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, George Perry and brother, William Dudley.

Those left to cherish her memory are her husband, J.E. Baker of Alvin and children, Cheryl Donnaud and husband, Mike of Orange, Roger Perry and wife, Ramona of Conway, Ark., Tony Perry and wife, Glenda of Orange, Ronnie Perry and wife, Patsy of Houston, Donna Baker

of League City and Paula Hamrick and husband, Jesse of Alvin.

She is also survived by her grandchildren, Brandi Donnaud Beard and husband Clint, Lena Perry, Staci Boyett and husband James, Ginnie Perry Gott and husband Adam, Torie Perry, Marcy Roland and husband Mike, Julie Martin and husband John, Melinda Gipson and husband Jason, Allison Ward, Jeremy Saulsbury, Joel Saulsbury, Devin Myers and wife Courtney, Adam Perry and wife Whitney, Clay Perry and wife Jen and Austin Perry; 11 great grandchildren; sister, Dell Bergeron and husband, Cliff; sister, Betty Edwards and brother, S.E. “Sonny” Dudley.

Serving as pallbearers were Ike Lafitte, Daryl Lafitte and her grandsons, Joel Saulsbury, Clay Perry, Adam Perry, and Austin Perry.

Honorary pallbearers were Harold Vincent and her granddaughters, Brandi Donnaud Beard, Lena Perry, Staci Boyett, Ginnie Perry Gott, Torie Perry, Julie Martin, Marcy Roland, Melinda Gipson and Allison Ward.

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Marion Bienvenu Robichaux Orange Marion Bienvenu Robichaux, 80, of Orange passed away Sunday, April 15, in Beaumont.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Monday, April 23, at St. Mary Catholic Church with the Rev. Joseph P. Daleo officiating.

Interment followed at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery.

Mrs. Robichaux was born July 26, 1931, in St. Martinville, La. to Wilmer and Lena (Domingues) Bienvenu. She retired after teaching with West Orange Cove School District for many years and was a faithful member of St. Mary Catholic Church where she participated in the St. Mary Altar Society and Catholic Daughters.

She was also a member of the Retired Teachers Association, Service League of Orange and she loved to play Bridge and garden.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Jim Robichaux and is survived by her daughter, Susan Tharp and husband, David of Grapevine; sons, John Robichaux and wife, Sue of Aiken, SC and Alan Robichaux and wife, Joan of Wichita, Kan. She is also survived by five grandchildren, Kimberly, Chad, Kristina, Kyle and Austin; two great grandchildren, Alithea and Neena; brother, Wilmer Bienvenu Jr. and sister, Ellen LeBlanc.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters, 912 W Cherry Ave, Orange, TX 77630.

C.R. “Dick” Davis Orange C.R. “Dick” Davis, 93, of Orange, died Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at The Meadows in Orange.

Graveside services was held Tuesday, April 24, at Autumn Oaks Memorial Park in Orange, with Chaplain Kevin Trinkle officiating.

Cremation was performed under the direction of Claybar Haven of Rest Crematory in Bridge City.

Born in Barbourville, Ky. on Dec. 8, 1918, Dick was the son of Clarence Richard Davis, Sr. and Patti (Blackburn) McGee. He served in the US Air Force during World War II and worked as a maintenance supervisor. He attended McDonald Baptist Church and Community Church. He was an El Mina Shriner and a 32nd degree Mason.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wives; and one brother.

Dick is survived by his daughters, Janet K. Sadlon and husband Paul, Betty Sullivan and husband Richard, all of Franklin, N.C.; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; one great great-grandchild; and sister, Marie Dahm of Jacksonville, Fla.

was an insulator with Local 112 in Lake Charles, La. He was preceded in death by his parents, Woodland Bergeron and Anna Mae Bergeron Maturin; wife, Delores Ann Bergeron; and sister, Rona Breaux. Elwood is survived by his daughters and son-in-law, Lori and Joel Haynes of Bridge City, Claudia Bergeron of Bridge City; son and daughter-in-law, Kevin and Renee Bergeron of Orange; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

The family wishes to express their appreciation to Dr. Wesley Palmer and Harbor Hospice for the care given to Mr. Bergeron.

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Josephine Luna, 86, of Orange passed away Friday, April 13, at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont.

Mass of Christian Burial was held Monday, April 16, 2012, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Orange with Father Joseph P. Daleo, officiating. Burial followed at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Orange.

Born in Nacogdoches, Texas on March 5, 1926, Josephine was the daughter of John and Ella (Sepulvador) Arriola. She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, and was on the Bereavement Committee for St. Mary Parish. She was active in St. Mary School for over 60 years. Josephine was the founding member of the Twin County Little League, a lifetime member of the VFW, and a member of the American Legion. She was also a member of the Eagles Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Robert Arriola Sr.; sister, Rosie Lee Partin; father and mother-inlaw, Joseph G. Luna and Annie P. Luna; and daughter-in-law, Virginia “GiGi” Mazzola Luna.

Josephine is survived by her husband of 70 years, Joseph D. Luna Sr. of Orange; daughters, Rita Bourliea and husband, Larry of Orange, Shirley Boudreaux and husband, Arthur of Orange; sons, Joseph T. Luna Jr. and wife, Margaret of Orange, and James Luna and wife, Millie of Bridge City. She is also survived by her thirteen grandchildren, Lori Anne Wragg, Jaime Phillips, Shana Hurley, Bridget Trawhon, Julie Agee, Joseph T. Luna III, Sara Pavlas, Britney Benavides, Justin Phillips, Lee Phillips, E.J. Christian, Lana Christian, Jake Christian; 18 great-grandchildren; four great great-grandchildren; brother, Michael Arriola and wife, Connie of Missouri; sister, Margaret Arriola of Nacogdoches.

Robert Luna, Olin Chester, George Durling, Robert Arriola Jr., David Durling, Rick Arriola, Joseph T. Luna III, Taylor Stokey and Tony Doiron served as pallbearers.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Mary School Foundation, 2600 Bob Hall Road, Orange, Texas 77630.

Ruby Burch, 86, of Orange passed away on Thursday, April 19, at Pinehurst Nursing Home and Rehab.

A Memorial Service was held on Saturday, April 21, at Dorman Funeral Home, with the Rev. Billy Burch and the Rev. John Fortenberry officiating. Cremation followed the service under the direction of Dorman Funeral Home.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ed and Annie Herman; sisters, Edith and Josephine; brother, Willard Herman.

She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Dennis Burch of Orange , dearest friends, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Jones and numerous of nieces, nephews and friends.

Those wishing to sign the guest book may do so at www. dormanfuneralhome.com.

Myron M. Neely Jr., 53, of Orange, Texas died Monday, March 26, of complications of pneumonia and diabetes.

A visitation was held at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 4300 Meeks Drive, in Orange, on Thursday, April 19. Services followed by Father Tom Phelan.

He was a native of Baton Rouge, La. and lived in Denham Springs, La. and Port Arthur. Myron was an Electronics Technician at Goodyear Custom Audio/Video in Beaumont.

Myron is survived by his loving wife Tina Marie (Jones) Neely, of Orange, two sisters, Angela (Angie) Corvers and husband Bill, of Baton Rouge, La. and Deborah (Debbie) Farr and husband Walter, of Denham Springs, La., as well as many other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents Myron (Melvin) Sr. and Rose Marie (Roppolo) Neely.

Congratulations and Thanks to the staff of the Penny Record for 52 years of service to our community Judge Janice Menard, Penny Nguyen, Daryl Broussard & Aleta Nunez.

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The Farmers Mercantile opened in 1928 and preserves an atmosphere western shoppers are sure to enjoy. Visitors can still buy garden supplies, corn shuckers, sausage stuffers, hand churns, kerosene lamps, well buckets, livestock feed and hay. Also available are horse

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isterial Alliance. Entry fee into this event if entered by the early bird deadline is $85. Late entries will be charged $135.

Raffle tickets for various donated items can be sold to pay the entry fee, or you may get a sponsor if you want to enter at no cost to you. For more information, log on to Heavenly Hearts Charity Pageants on facebook. Anyone can enter, purchase a raffle ticket, or make a donation by calling Kari Stringer 281-259-4437 (Must leave a message) or by email for a much faster response karimstringer@yahoo.com Applications can be mailed or emailed to you by sending your email address to the yahoo account. There are also applications available to pick up at the Ministerial Alliance.

The alliance is open on Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and they are located next to First Baptist Church on Roundbunch Road in Bridge City. Businesses are welcome to advertise free of charge with any donation of any value to the event.

Fraternal Order of Eagles to host pool tournament The Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2523, located at 803 N. 28th Street in Orange, will be hosting a pool tournament every Friday starting at 8 p.m. Prize money goes to first and second place winners. The community is invited to come meet the members of Aerie 2523 and join in the fun.

For more information, please call 409-886-7381.

the test to receive course credit. Additional information and registration forms can be obtained by contacting Gina Mannino at: gina.mannino@bridgecityisd.net.

BCCC now accepting Business, Citizen of Year applications Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for Business of the Year and Citizen of the Year. Please submit all nominations in writing to Bridge City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 150 W. Roundbunch Rd, Bridge City, Tx. 77611. Deadline to submit nominations will be Feb. 8, 2012.

Rape and Suicide Crisis Center to offer support group meetings The Rape and Suicide Crisis Center of Southeast Texas will be hosting a support group for female survivors of sexual assault the first and third Wednesday of every month, starting at 5:30 p.m. Meetings will be held at the Foundation of Southeast Texas building, located at 700 North St. in downtown Beaumont.

To RSVP or for further information, please contact the Crisis Center at 409-832-6530.

American Association of University Women collecting books

Quantum-Touch® Level one workshop scheduled

The Orange branch of The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is now collecting books to be sold in their annual book sale. Anyone able to donate any gently used books is asked to drop them off at Mann Insurance Agency, 1505 Park at 15th Street in Orange. If pickup is needed, call 886-5739 or 886-2194 in Orange. All proceeds from the sale go toward the annual scholarship fund. Each year, the AAUW awards scholarships to two young women from Orange.

Quantum-Touch is a powerful yet easy to learn natural healing technique. Through the use of breathing exercises and body awareness, the body’s own ability to heal itself is accelerated.

Join certified practitioner and level 1 instructor, Penny LeLeux in a weekend workshop to be held in Orangefield, May 26-27. Receive an early registration discount of $50 off regular workshop fees through May 4.

Call 409-728-5970 or e-mail Penny@NRGTouch.com for more information.

American Legion to host pool tournament The American Legion Lloyd Grubbs Post 49, located at 108 Green Ave. in Orange, will be hosting a pool tournament every Friday from 7 p.m. to midnight. There is a ten player maximum. The community is encouraged to join in the fun and free food to help support the Veterans. For more information, call 409-330-4847.

Orange Community Band to meet every Thursday The Orange Community Band rehearses every Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, located at 4103 Meeks Drive in Orange. They are in need of players for the following sections; flute, clarinet, saxophone, French horn, and percussion, but ALL are welcome! The band performs Christmas, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veteran’s Day concerts. At least one traditional band concert is performed annually. Please visit us on Facebook at Orange Community Band.

American Legion hosts bingo on Sundays

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The American Legion Auxiliary Post 49 at 108 Green Ave. in Orange hosts bingo every Sunday, starting at 6:30 p.m. There will also be a bingo game on Easter Sunday at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 886-7202.

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BCISD to administer Credit by Examination Bridge City ISD, in accordance with Chapter 74.24 TAC, will administer the Texas Tech University Credit by Examination Tests. Testing dates will be June 5, 6 and 7, 2012. Students in grades first through fifth will be allowed to take each of the five tests (Math, Science, Language Arts, Reading, and Social Studies) at the elementary level without prior instruction. The student must score at least 90 on each of the five four tests to be considered eligible for grade level acceleration.

Students in grades sixth through 12 will be permitted to take an examination to earn credit for an academic course for which they have had no prior instruction. Students must score at least 90 on

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Civil War widow arrives in Texas by covered wagon age. The territory was still very wild.

For 20 cents an acre, Allen bought a land granted earlier to Stephen F. Austin and Samuel May Williams. He grazed longhorns and farmed

the land.

My great-grandfather, Stephen James Dunn, was In 1883 at the age of 26, Allen married 14-yearkilled during a battle with the Union troops in old Laura Dunn. She was from the DesdemonaSouth Texas. He left behind a young wife and an DeLeon area, the oldest settlement west of the 8-year-old son. The year was 1865. The Civil War Brazos. Her maiden name was Dunn. Allen’s was coming to an end when the young widow and mom was also a Dunn. They claimed to be two her son and younger sister set out for Texas from types of Irish, the dark skin, brown-eyed and the Searcy, Ark., in a loaded down covered wagon. blue-eyed, fair skinned. Laura was fair and Allen Meat was salted down in a wooden barrel; plenty was dark. of flour and meal was stored. Laying hens crated Her mother was the daughter of C.C. Blair. A and a milk cow was secured on the rear of the wagon. raiding Indian party had kidnapped her. They often took chilIt would be a long, difficult journey. Texas was still a new frontier. Comanche Indian Chief Quanah Parker, who took his dren, trading them back for goods. Blair donated the land for a white mother’s maiden name, was still raiding in North Texas. fort. He and his son, James, and other settlers built Fort Blair in Desdemona in 1857. The fort held the women and children He didn’t surrender until 1875.

Cattle drives and gunfights were commonplace. Butch Cas- and protected them from the Indians while the men were away.

Allen found he could do pretty well as a traveling merchant. sidy, the Sundance Kid and the Hole-In-The-Wall gang roamed He would load up goods in a horse-drawn wagon and trade the area and hung out in Fort Worth. Cowtown became a shipthem for merchandise in Galveston that he would resell in Risping and supply depot for millions of cattle from all points of southern Texas, traveling the renowned Chisholm Trail. ing Star. The trip would take three months or more, depending on the rise and fall of the Brazos and the other Meanwhile, cattle were being moved down the rivers. Once while returning, his load fell into famous Goodnight Trail to Abilene. the Brazos. He had waited two weeks for the The young widow packed her husband’s army river to recede from the flood up north. He issue Walker Colt on her hip and a rifle in the became impatient and attempted to cross bebuckboard. Young Allen, my grandfather, rode a fore the water was low enough and it turned horse alongside the wagon, watching for potenover. tial danger. He would also fish and snare rabbits Dad used to tell that his mother got pregfor food. nant every time his father got back from the Cowboys on cattle drives assisted them sevtrip.

They had eight children, two girls and six eral times along the way. Once the wagon axle boys. Pearl, the first, was born in 1884, and broke crossing the Red River. They waited quite they had a child every year or two after that. a few days for a drive to come along. The days Just before his 15th birthday, my father, were long and slow going. Rain and the weather Clay, left home on a donkey and rode to Coin general hampered their travel. manche, the county seat. “Old Cora” is the North of Fort Worth near present day Denton, oldest courthouse in Texas and stands on the the three travelers came up on a place that my grandfather, Allen, would remember for the rest Laura Dunn, age 14 on her wed- town square today. Clay got a job with the telephone company stringing wire and post of his life. The land was covered with a stand ding day. to Houston and eventually Port Arthur. The of beautiful grazing grass that was so long it rest of the boys stayed home and helped run reached over the saddle of his mount. Artesian the farm.

The girls became schoolteachers. wells flowed into a running spring. My grandmother decided

The oil boom hit the area in 1918. Clay had already gone they would winter at this spot. It had fresh water and plenty of game. Allen fell in love with the place. At the first sight of off to war in France during the First World War. Sipe Springs spring, his mom said they would have to move on. He hated to became a tent city. It grew from 500 citizens to over 8,000. A drug store, café, cotton gin, theater and dance hall sprang up leave.

They were due to join up with his uncle, his mom and aunt’s overnight.

By 1921, both banks had failed. In 1922, a fire destroyed most brother at Copperas’s Creek. The place was later renamed Risof the buildings in the town. The oil boom was short-lived and ing Star. It sits 46 miles south of Abilene. today less than 50 people live in the area.

Fourteen month after leaving Arkansas, they met up with From the oil boom and those at Rising Star, Desdemona and Allen’s uncle, who had waited for them several months.

The Dunns moved a few miles to western Comanche County. Ranger, the Dunn brothers learned a trade. They first started They were among the first settlers in 1870 to arrive on a site, hauling oil in barrels with horse-drawn wagons. Son Robert which in 1873 was named Sipe Springs (pronounced Seep) for never did venture very far and stayed on in the farming and dairy business. The other boys followed the oil trade and built the springs that “seeped” out of the rock formations.

Allen came up in the same county with John Wesley Hardin, Dunn Brothers, the largest pipeline stringing company in the who was a couple of years older. Hardin is known as Texas’ nation at the time.

Even though they came from a large family, they only had six most notorious outlaw killing 27 men before he was 21 years of

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Lead In: A Cajun boy’s Irish roots. My family helped settle the state. They left their mark on Texas and me.

Laura and Allen Dunn on their 50th anniversary and eight children later.

children between them. Out of the six, I’m the only survivor.

The pipeline brothers married second wives, who all inherited their wealth and passed it on to their nieces and nephews.

Grandmother Laura died in 1941 at the age of 72. Grandfather Allen lived another 10 years. He left Sipe Springs and moved in with his son Hobby in Dallas. Carl bought the old homestead, built an airstrip and a home. The boys restored the little two-room house they were raised in. On my last trip, I was unable to locate it but I know it’s still there. That’s what is bad about being the last survivor; there is no one else to ask.

After moving in with Uncle Hobby, my grandfather told him about the wonderful pasture and flowing wells on the place they had wintered when he was a boy. Hobby and his dad, after several tries, found the exact place the covered wagon had camped. The village of Stoney had been built on it. Hobby bought it all, the church, station, ice house and hotel on the hill, which he made into his home. He added 7,000 acres to the spread. He and his wife, Clara and grandfather Allen moved on the place Allen had admired as an 8-year-old.

For the last eight years of his life it became his home. Hobby rode him around the ranch everyday. On March 6, 1951, at age 96, Allen died on the place. Thirty-five years ago, on the exact day, March 6, Hobby died at age 80. I find it ironic that other Texas pioneers and heroes, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis and 200 others, also died on the same date when the Alamo fell on March 6.

Uncle Hobby and I had become close. The last time I had been to the old cemetery was when we made the long trip from the Stoney Ranch to bury him in Sipe Springs. His wife Clara died a few years ago and the ranch fell into other hands. The only Dunn’s not buried at the family plot are Carl, buried in Fort Worth; Earnest, who is buried in Dallas; and Ellis buried in Irving. All are entombed with their second wives. All of their first wives, hometown girls, are buried at Sipe Springs.

My great-grandmother started it all by coming to Texas in a covered wagon. The Dunns did their part and that’s how I got this Irish name. I’m one of the few people alive whose grandfather was around during the civil War that ended 147 years ago.

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HISTORY The bridge that gave the city its name Frederick Farwell:

businessman, dog breeder

Frederick H.Farwell

Mike Louviere For The Record From the mid-1950s until the early 1970s, one of the last remaining mansions on Green Avenue in Orange was a popular Mexican restaurant.

In front of the restaurant where there had once been hitching posts for horses and buggies was a post topped with a large Mexican sombrero with the “Little Mexico” logo emblazoned in neon.

Most of the residents of Orange knew the restaurant had once been the home of Frederick Farwell.

To the diners from out of town, it was just a beautiful restaurant.

Frederick Henry Farwell had come to Orange in 1893 and began working for the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company as an assistant bookkeeper. In 1902 he became the company’s general FREDERICK FARWELL PAGE 3B

Nicole Gibbs For The Record There’s been a lot of controversy over the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge for the past few years, but she has withstood every storm.

Construction on the bridge began shortly after the Rainbow Bridge was completed in 1938. The Cow Bayou Bridge allowed travelers a more direct route between Orange and Port Arthur.

Prior to the construction of the bridge, travelers would have to drive through Orangefield to reach Prairie View (Bridge City) and Port Arthur. In the early twentieth century, travel between Orange and Port Arthur was only possible by a 40 mile boat trip. In May 1926, Dryden’s Ferry provided a crossing at the Neches River and cut 27 miles off the trip.

There was much debate on whether the state should build an electric swing bridge or a hand-operated swing bridge at Cow Bayou.

While the final decision is unclear, the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge was built with an electric motor that operated the swing span, the traffic gates and navigations lights, requiring only 10 minutes to open the bridge. The hand operations system was installed as a back-up in case of possible power failure.

The construction on the bridge was complete in 1940 and was part of the “Hug-theCoast-Highway” project that began in Center (in Shelby County) and travels south along the Sabine River to Orange and on to Galveston.

However, State Highway 87 between Sabine Pass and Galveston has been closed since the 1990s.

After its dedication on April 2, 1941, Prairie View became known as Bridge City. The new name was suggested by O. Eudale Granger since the community was between two bridges. The bridge also helped pave the way for the consolidation of the Prairie View and Winfree school districts, now known as Bridge City Independent School District.

“I remember as a child in the summer afternoons, we drive over the bridge and there were two or three boys jumping off the bridge” said Beverly Perry, long time Bridge City resident and co-chair of the Bridge City Citizens for Historical Preservation. “It always amazed me of what kind of guts it took for those kids to jump off into the water.”

The Cow Bayou Swing Bridge, giving Bridge City it’s name, was built in 1940. This bridge was one part of the “Hug-the-Coast-Highway” project that ran from Center, Texas to Galveston.

In 1972, construction on an adjacent highrise concrete bridge began. This new bridge carried traffic south on Hwy. 87 and the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge carried traffic north.

On Feb. 11, 1999, Steve Sadowsky, Historic Structures Specialist with the Environmental Affairs Division of the Texas Department of Transportation, wrote a letter to Jamie Wise of the Texas Historical Commission (THC) stating that a replacement of the Cow Bayou Bridge would be federally funded.

The replacement was based on an Oct. 31, 1996 inspection that revealed cracking, spalling, failing armor and expansion joints, surface and pack rust and the swing span was, at that time, inoperable, having been wedged at the joints after being turned 180 degrees. As a result, vessels taller than the 13-foot vertical clearance allowed by the swing bridge could not access the upper reaches of Cow Bayou, which is still considered a navigable waterway.

The following month, the THC conducted a project review regarding the Cow Bayou Bridge. Wise, the reviewer, told TxDOT that the Cow Bayou Bridge was (and still is) one of two rare types of swing bridges in Texas and that it was important to consider all options for its preservation.

On April 2, 1941, the a ribbon cutting was held celebrating the completion of the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge. The ribbon wa cuty by Miriam David, the young daughter of the president of the Orange Chamber of Commerce. Pictured above are the Lutcher Stark Bengal Guards and the Lutcher Stark High School Band.

While the both the THC and the February 1999 letter recognized that the bridge was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the THC stated that BRIDGE CITY PAGE 2B

ORANGE COUNTY

A different kind of church with cowboy culture

WESTERN HERITAGE

Coleman Peveto:

the man behind the mic

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Mike Louviere For The Record

tent up front and speakers on the porch.”

Besides the decorative barrels in the back for offerings, other unusual décor at the nontraditional church is the use of washtubs for light fixtures and a watering trough at the front of the church used for baptisms. There is also a pond outside for baptisms.

The Cowboy Cross Band plays lively toetapping music on the stage. Band members fluctuate from week to week due to work schedules. The music can be heard as soon as you get out of your car.

One thing you won’t normally see in most churches is reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before the opening prayer.

“We do it every week,” said Castille. “Typically we open the two doors and a rider comes in with a horse carrying the flag.”

They also have a full size rodeo arena with events almost every weekend. Recently, they installed lights and hope to add restrooms in the near future. Last week’s event did have to be postponed due to Friday’s rain soaking the

Anyone who has been around rodeo in Southeast Texas for the last 40 years has likely crossed paths with Coleman Peveto.

There may not be a rodeo producer in the region he has not worked for. He also has one of the most distinctive voices in rodeo.

It was never his intention to be a rodeo announcer. The late Laurence Winfree Coleman Peveto put him in that position.

“I was working for Winfree and felt lucky to be doing so, any boy who was interested in rodeo wanted to be doing what I was doing. One night Mr. Laurence told me to go to the announcer’s stand and watch the announcer. He told me I was going to start announcing for him. The announcer that night was Danny Sheridan from Iowa, La. I watched everything he did and at the next rodeo I was the announcer. When it was over I told Mr. Winfree, I was terrible and was never going to announce again,” said Peveto. “That was about 1971 or so. I’m still trying.”

Peveto was raised in Mauriceville and was in FFA in school. Raising cattle and attending rodeos was a big part of his life. A picture from those early days shows him in a coat and tie with a Santa Gertrudis bull, ready to show. The picture was taken at the first livestock show in the newly built Astrodome complex in 1965.

“I really had a good bull that year. What knocked me out was a trailer full of the same breed from Winthrop Rockefeller. Rockefeller had some of the leading cattle in the nation and I had to go head to head with them. I got a ribbon and I guess I was

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Around 400 people attend Cowboy Church of Orange County at a typical Sunday service. RECORD PHOTO: Penny LeLeux

Penny LeLeux For The Record In today’s rapidly changing world, churches are turning to alternative methods to get the Word of God dispersed to the masses. Cowboy Church of Orange County is a success story that started four and a half years ago.

“We really had no idea what to expect,” said Pastor Dale Lee. “We just felt like God led us to help get a Cowboy Church started and we were obedient and left the results up to him, but it has been beyond our expectations.”

Linton Joseph “L.J.” Castille, one of the elders at the church has been with Cowboy Church since its inception. “Me and [Lee] were at First Baptist Church and some things happened and we left. The Lord put it on his heart to start a Cowboy Church,” said Castille. “ I told him I would help him, but when we got the Cowboy Church started, I was going to go back to traditional, but it never happened. I feel at home here.”

There were eight members of the start-up

group and all but maybe two are still with the church. “They still come from time to time,” said Castille. “I think it’s the feel of love and openness when you walk in. You don’t have to wear a suit and tie. You can come as you are. If you’re out working cows in the morning, you can come in.”

Longtime church member Pam Scales Crew said she thinks one of the draws is there is no offering plate passed and no altar call. There are barrels at the back of the church where offerings can be deposited. They feel if you are called to service, that is between you and God and doesn’t require going to the front to profess it.

The very first service that was held in a barn had around 400 in attendance. That included a lot of friends and relatives said Lee. The initial congregation was around 175. That has swelled to over 500 on the rolls and an average of 400-450 in attendance at regular services with over 700 showing up on special occasions such as anniversaries said Lee. “We have to open the back doors and put chairs and a

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Coleman Peveto lucky to get that,” said Peveto.

After high school, raising cattle became a sideline to Peveto’s “real job” as a welder. His announcing career that started with the Winfree Cattle Company rodeos became a second career.

“I spent a lot of time with Winfree and people got to know me and I began to get calls from other producers. After my first night of doing bad, I began to improve and settle down and learn the job. Larkin Franklin from Vidor was producing rodeos in East Texas and asked me to work for him. I bought a sound system and began to go to places like San Augustine, Tarkington, Madisonville, Deridder and a bunch of other places. I would work all week and rodeo all weekend,” said Peveto. “I hauled my kids to so many rodeos when they were young that they don’t go to many now.”

In addition to working for Winfree and Franklin, Peveto also worked for Mutt Neumann.

Neumann produced rodeos in East and Central Texas. Peveto started a relationship with Neumann that lasted for several decades. Neumann still produces a Saturday night rodeo at his ranch near Dayton.

“I stayed with Mutt for five or so years. We spent a lot of time on the road. He had a lot of rodeos that were hours away. We’d be on the road and away from home nearly every weekend. In the weeks I did not have a rodeo with Mutt I may get a job with Johnny Ackle, Larkin or some other producer. It was a lot of work in those days,” said Peveto.

Perhaps the most interesting phase of his career was the time he announced rodeos at Gilley’s in Pasadena.

“Working at Gilley’s was the fanciest arena I ever worked in up to that time. It was air conditioned, heated and had a great sound system.

When I got there, they handed me a microphone and asked me what else I needed. Sheldon Cryer and Mickey Gilley were business partners in the big night club and Cryer decided to build the indoor rodeo arena a few blocks from the club. It was a big deal and was crowded every Saturday night,” said Peveto.

“Sheldon Cryer had heard me announce a rodeo and came up to me and offered me the job.

I really liked working there. I had the job for

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nearly a year when one Sunday afternoon after the rodeo the producer called me and told me the rodeo was shutting down. All I ever knew was that Cryer and Gilley had some sort of business dispute and ended the partnership. I lost the job as quick as I had gotten it.”

Once while working a two day rodeo at Deridder, Peveto was contacted by a representative from Wrangler who asked him to do a job announcing a benefit rodeo.

“It would not have paid me, so I turned it down. I always wondered if I made a mistake by turning Wrangler down,” said Peveto.

After Gilley’s string of rodeos ended, Peveto continued working for various producers and doing rodeos in many areas of Texas and a few in Louisiana.

Over the years he had become friends with Ray Cotton.

Cotton built a large entertainment complex in Vinton and in 2006 asked Peveto to work with him on building an indoor bull riding arena in the club. Peveto took that job on and became the announcer for the indoor bull ridings held twice monthly in the club. Cotton wanted to expand his rodeo business and convinced Peveto to become the rodeo director at the Texas Longhorn. Cotton’s dream was to build an outdoor, covered arena. Peveto took on the job of designing the arena.

Eventually the arena was built and several bull ridings, rodeos, team ropings, barrel racing events, ranch rodeos and a nationally sanctioned cutting horse event were held before the Longhorn management phased out the rodeo phase of the complex. Future rodeo plans at the Longhorn are not known at this time.

Since the rodeos at the Longhorn have ended, Peveto is taking a little well deserved time off.

He will always be on call to do a rodeo. In his career he has done many benefit rodeos for injured cowboys or for some civic organization, or for any other good reason.

Announcing rodeos will always be a possibility, even though for now he is enjoying the time he spends with Linda, his wife of 45 years.

They are the parents of their twins Shane and Shanna, and sons, Bruce and Scott.

Peveto is also an active member of the Buna Masonic Lodge. He has been a Mason for 16 years and progressed through the ranks to become the Past Worshpful Master of the Lodge.

Dorothy Ann (Dot) Eshbach 90th Birthday open house set for April 29 The family of Dot Eshbach would like to invite all of her friends to an open house on Sunday, April 29 to celebrate her 90th birthday. The open house will be held at 1375 Oaks End in Bridge City from noon to 3 p.m. Stop by for cake and punch and to share memories. While it may not be possible, the families goal is to keep this a surprise, so mum’s the word.

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removal of the Cow Bayou Bridge would be an adverse effect under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The THC also stated that every effort should be made to preserve the bridge.

In December of 2006, TxDOT wrote a letter to former Bridge City Mayor Bobbie Burgess acknowledging plans to replace the swing bridge. In the letter, the design engineer mentioned the bridge’s eligibility for listing on the NRHP. The letter stated that TxDOT was ready to move forward with replacing the bridge with a high-rise concrete bridge but asked if there was any interest in preserving the bridge.

In early 2007, a small group of Bridge City citizens met to become the collective public voice for the bridge, known as the Bridge City Citizens for Historical Preservation. They began the process of nominating the Cow Bayou Bridge to the NRHP. In February of 2007, the Historic Bridge Foundation wrote a letter to the Bridge City Citizens for Historic Preservation in support of the bridge’s preservation. In August of 2007 and at the request of the Historic Bridge Foundation, the Bridge City Citizens for Historic TECL# 28475

Preservation were granted a consulting party status for all proposed projects involving the Cow Bayou Bridge.

“The bridge has been a constant in Bridge City,” Perry said. “Not saving the bridge would not be anything close to tragic, but it is a part of Bridge City. Cow Bayou Bridge, along with the Rainbow Bridge, is why Prairie View was changed to Bridge City. It’s a part of the city’s history and that’s why Mark Dunn, myself and others were so enthused to save it. We would have lived through losing the bridge, but we would have been without some of our intricate history and there’s only one other bridge in the state like the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge.”

With local support for the bridge’s preservation, TxDOT revised their plans for replacement and in mid-2008 rehabilitation and construction began on the bridge.

“I was so adamant to save the bridge,” Perry said. “At the time, it wasn’t necessarily a popular project to be on. Everybody was saying that we needed a new bridge, but there was nothing wrong with our old bridge. It hadn’t been used in so long, but that was fixed by the state BRIDGE CITY PAGE 3B

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was still able to find time to sales agent. About this time he become a respected judge at built the family’s home. It was shows, including Westminstucco, Spanish Mission styled ster. In 1940 he retired as a mansion that would be the last of judge. the great Victorian mansions built A photograph of Farwell on Green Avenue. taken in his study shows a In the western end of West Ornumber of silver award cups ange, Farwell built his Sabine Kenon the mantle of the fireplace nels to house and breed Smooth and on a wall shelf. During Coated Fox Terriers. Farwell’s World War II Farwell donatkennel was a source of recreation ed a number of the cups to for him, a hobby he wanted to exa metal drive. Several of the cel at. He was not satisfied in buysurviving cups are on display ing dogs from other kennels; he at the Heritage House Muwanted to breed well enough to seum in Orange. win some top shows.

Farwell’s dog Sabine Rarebit Farwell had a great interest The top kennel for the breed that won the 1910 championwas the Norfolk Kennels. Farwell ship at the Westminister Dog in the future of Orange. One thing that he realized was the would have to breed well enough Show in New York City. need for deep water access to to face those dogs at major shows.

Orange. He was instrumental He placed the purchasing of his first dogs in the hands of George Thomas, who in helping to have Port Arthur established as a would become his kennel master. As a result port of entry. He knew that the digging of the of Thomas’ selections, and close attention to channel to Port Arthur would be the first step breeding, the dogs of Sabine Kennels would in getting a channel dredged to Orange.

Later this was done, giving Orange a deep soon be making their mark in the dog shows.

At the Westminster Dog Show in New York water port.

In May of 1920 he was one of the signers of City in February, 1910, two of Farwell’s dogs became champions. Sabine Ferbie was named the resolution that stated the necessity of buildthe best female in the show. Her brother. Sabine ing a bridge across the Sabine River at Orange to replace the ferry. The resolution was signed Rarebit, was named best male dog.

Sabine Rarebit went on to be named Best in by 18 other business leaders and taxpayers and Show. This was the only time that one of Far- presented to the Orange County Commissionwell’s dogs was named Best in Show. It was also ers Court. He is also given credit for promotthe last time a Smooth Coated Fox Terrier won ing the building of the large wooden ships in Orange. the coveted title.

In 1946 he became president of Lutcher and Farwell’s dogs continued to compete and win at various dog shows. His dogs continued to Moore. Farwell died in 1947. His wife, Fannie, compete in such prestigious shows as the Mine- continued to live in the mansion until her death ola Dog Show on Long Island and the Philadel- in 1952. After her death the mansion became phia Dog Show. His dogs won accolades across the Little Mexico restaurant.

For the next 20 or so years many diners who the United States and Europe. In 1913 Sabine Bandmaster was named Best Sporting Dog at ate in the various dark paneled rooms or on the porch that was converted into a dining area had the Dallas Kennel Club Dog Show.

Articles about and advertisements for the no idea of the history of the old mansion and “famous Sabine Kennels” were often in Dog the family who lived there for so many years.

The restaurant closed and the mansion sat Fancier magazine in the years 1912, 1913, and vacant for a while. It fell victim to progress.

1914.

In 1920 he was named general manager of With the building of the Stark Art Museum a Lutcher and Moore. Even though his job as gen- parking lot was needed so the old home was eral manager took much of Farwell’s time, he torn down and the land paved over.

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arena. They eventually hope to cover the arena so events can be held rain or shine.

“We have several things we are working on right now,” said Lee. “We want to expand our parking; build a youth building. At some point we’ll want to build a new building, but that’s down the road.”

Jared Sarver of Orangefield attended Cowboy Church with his family for the first time Sunday.

“It was more than I expected. It was great. I was sad it was over,” he said. “We’ve heard a lot of people talk about it and we wanted to get back into church. I didn’t feel out of place. I could wear my boots and everybody’s okay with that. We’ll be back next Sunday.”

They also have a large children’s church group. The youth group is growing and is pastured by Lee’s son, Brannon. Silver Spurs is the organization of church seniors.

“Our church is open to anybody that wants to come,” said Lee. “Our arena activities are open to anyone. We have a lot of things lined up for the arena.

“God has blessed us here in unbelievable ways,” said Lee. The churches main goal is to reach out to the cowboy culture, but you don’t have to wear a hat and boots to attend.

The church is located at 673 FM 1078. For more information you can contact Pastor Lee at 409718-0269 or edalelee@hotmail.com. The church Web site is www.cowboychurchorangecounty. org

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with very little difficulty and very little expense than what would have incurred had a new bridge to be built.”

The National Park Service officially named the Cow Bayou Bridge to the NRHP on May 10, 2010, joining the Rainbow Bridge, which was listed in 1996.

The Cow Bayou Bridge has already undergone two phases of rehabilitation and will so undergo her third and final phase soon.

The third round involves the rehabilitation of the swing bridge structure, pedestrian walk-

way, embankments, boat fender system, bridge control house (restoring it to the original 1940s look), repairs on the electrical and mechanical components, replacement of the swing span concrete deck and the installation of traffic safety systems (for full details, see the news story regarding the third phase of construction).

While many may feel inconvenienced by the closure and rehabilitation of the bridge, this project will save a piece Bridge City’s unique history.

Eagles to host annual charity April 28 The Fraternal Order of Eagles #2353 Auxillary will be holding their annual charity fair April 28, 2012. This year project is for Autism. The Charity Fair is open to the public and will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.. We will be having hamburger and cheeseburgers with chips for $5.00, we will have chili cheese dogs and chili dogs with chips for $5 and plain hot dogs for $2. There will be auction items, raffle tickets, 50\50, scratch off, cake walks and live music by Patty Ferguson Belk. So everyone please come out and support us and help make it a success again this year.

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Carl Godwin, an American Hero Mike Louviere For The Record

Since I started writing for the Record Newspapers, I have written on a variety of topics. In the process I have, of course, written about things I did not have much personal connection to and I have written a few articles that ended up meaning something.

In the process of interviewing people and writing about them I have made some new friends. Writing historical articles has been a learning process. However a chance remark by an old friend led me to write the story that means the most.

My friend had returned to West Orange after being away for a number of years. We drove by the Carl Godwin Auditorium and wondered who Carl Godwin was.

His statement to me made me realize I did not really know anything about Carl Godwin either. I knew that he was from West Orange and had been killed in World War II. I knew where his grave was and had taken a picture of it. I had slightly known his father as a member of the West Orange school board.

When I thought it over, I wanted to know more. The result was that I wrote “A Hero We Never Met.” The story was published in the Record in June 2009. Godwin was killed in action in June 1944.

After the story was published I received an email from Mike Godwin, Carl’s nephew.

Mike’s dad was Ed, Carl’s brother. Ed had also been in the service in World War II. He was in the 40th Division in the Pacific Theater.

Ed survived the war, unharmed, and died in 2003.

Mike wrote that as the oldest grandchild he had inherited Carl’s Purple Heart medal from his grandparents.

The next day I received another email; this one was from John Godwin, Carl’s other nephew. John gave me some information that I had not discovered about Carl’s service.

John Godwin is the town manager at Fairview. John has built a website to memorialize veterans from that area and has included his uncles on the site.

John uncovered information about Carl’s service and also included excerpts from some of Carl’s letters home.

John related that Carl knew he would be entering the service and dropped out of school and went to work at Levingston Shipyard to make a little money before he entered the service. Ed had gone to work there after he finished high school.

After being drafted Carl was sent to Fort MeCellan, Ala., for basic training. He was due a short leave after finishing basic training, but casualties in Europe had been high and there was a demand for replacements, so Carl’s leave was cancelled and he was sent to New York for transport to the European Theater.

He probably went to a replacement depot in Naples. He was assigned to Company G, 2nd Battalion, 141st Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. The division had suffered heavy casualties at Salerno and in the disastrous, failed crossing of the Rapido River.

Carl was 19 years old and his letters seem to be both youthful and mature. In a letter written in December, 1943, he thanked his family for a cake he had received in the mail and also his grandmother for

some pecans; fantryman Badge, the Euro“They sure were pean-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with bronze good,” he wrote.

February 9, service star, the World War II 1944, in a letter Victory medal and the World written by candle- War II Service lapel button. light, he confirmed The letter and the medals he was in Italy and hung on the wall of Carl’s parsaid, “Don’t worry ents for many years until they about me, because were passed to Ed and then to I am OK.” In one Mike.

Carl was buried in a temletter he told them he had not written because he porary military cemetery in was not able to get paper. An- Tarquina, Italy. In March, other letter related that he was 1949, nearly five years after his chewing candy he had gotten death, his body was exhumed in some rations,”and it tastes and returned home to be burgood, because you don’t get ied in Evergreen Cemetery.

He had been the first boy much.”

In May, 1944 the Americans from his school to die in comstaged an amphibious inva- bat. On October 15, 1950, the sion at Anzio. The 36th was Carl Godwin Auditorium was brought up from the south to dedicated in his honor. It was the first auditoassist the invarium in Orange sion. Carl saw and served the combat and was community for in the capture of decades. For a Velletri. few years it was Before the out of service, battle began he needing repairs. had written what In 2010 the auwould be his last ditorium was reletter home. furbished and re“Boy, the turned to service.

Americans are Writing about sure cleaning Carl and meeting out the Germans Mike and John by over here. They email has given can’t hold out Carl Godwin me a feeling like I much longer,” he had known Carl. wrote. He told his Carl was just an parents he had received a letter from the pas- average small town teenager tor of the church at West Or- who like so many young men ange and also asked about his of his generation. when faced with the fact that they were brother, Ed. On June 4, the Americans going to war and may not entered Rome, then went come home, did what they had north in pursuit of the Ger- to do, when they had to do it, man army. On June 17 at and did it well.

The fresh faced kid in the Campagnatico, the 141st Regiment caught the Germans and high school picture was a true Carl’s outfit, the 2nd Battalion hero. Thanks Carl, for your was sent forward in the attack. sacrifice.

Carl’s parents received a telegram informing them that he had been wounded. Later they received a letter from President Franklin Roosevelt that stated he had been killed in action.

“The President…has awarded the Purple Heart, established by George Washington at Newburgh, New York, August 7, 1782, to Private First Class Carl H.Godwin…for military merit and for wounds received in action resulting in his death June 17, 1944.”

In addition to the Purple Heart he was also awarded a Bronze Star, the Combat In-

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One man searches for lost heros nam veterans and thanking them for their efforts.

In 2010 the Lutcher Stark High School Class of 1964 was planning a reunion. They decided to find out how many veterans were class members. There were 29 veterans identified. All were Vietnam era veterans. Some had seen active duty and combat in Vietnam, some had seen reserve duty; several had ended up making the military a career.

The class decided to give them a formal welcome home and thank you at the reunion. The outcome was the formation of the Stark ’64 Veterans Association. Each veteran was given a special pin and an individual “Welcome Home.” The veterans took the ball and ran with it. They formally organized, elected officers, got a tax-exempt status, and began to look around to see how they could help other veterans.

Their first project was to assist the City of Refuge, a home for homeless veterans in Vinton, La. They first made a cash donation and then in March, 2011, staged a picnic for the residents at the shelter. They have also been involved in fundraising for the new administration building at the shelThe statue in the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washingter. Now they are focusing on another project. ton D.C. “The immediate goal of the Stark ’64 Veterans Association is to build and dedicate the Orange County Vietnam Mike Louviere War Memorial as a permanent salute to those from Orange For The Record County who gave all in the war of our generation,” said JerWhen World War I ended, returning troops came home ry Gatch, commander of the Stark ’64 Veterans Association. by divisions and were given ticker tape parades in New York The first step for the association has been to identify the City. The 36th Infantry Division returned home to San An- 24 men from Orange County who were killed in the Viettonio where the division had been formed. The division was nam War. Gatch and several other association memgiven a parade and a barbecues, according to Jerry Gatch, bers have been compiling short biographies commander of the Stark ‘64 Veterans Association. of those 24 men and are publishing a speAt the end of World War II there were celebrations for cial section for Memorial Day in the Record returning troops. Troopships coming home from Europe Newspapers to honor them. and the Pacific were met at the docks and given jubilant Gatch has biographical information on 16 welcomes. At the end of the Korean War, things were of the 24, but still needs any information a little more subdued, but there were still welcomes available on the last eight. The men he for returning troops. needs information on are: Daniel Earl Troops returning from Vietnam were not welWinters, USMC, KIA, 8 Oct 1968, from comed, in some cases they were scorned. They Bridge City. were coming home from an unpopular war that had Men from Orange: Anthony Clark divided a nation.

Armbruster, USMC, KIA 9 Jan 1969; They returned home one by one as opposed to Carl Richard Crone, USN, KIA 12 Sept coming back in large groups like from prior wars.

1969; Norman Lee Dupre, USA, 26 Sept The majority of returning troops had been 1966; Jimmy Lee Fomby, USA, KIA 8 Dec draftees. They went to war because they were 1969; Franklin D.R. Gilbert, USMC, KIA 28 told to, not because they wanted to. While they Feb 1966; Preston Douglas Sharp, USA, KIA were there they followed orders and did what 19 Mar 1970 and Peter Garland Thompson, they were told to do when they were told to do USA, KIA 19 Oct 1968.

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If you have any information on any of these In the most extreme cases they were spat upon men, or know anyone who may give informabecause of the uniform they wore. In the better tion on these men, please contact: Jerry Gatch, commandcases they were simply ignored. They did not deserve to be er, Stark ’64 Veterans Association, 5 Circle D, Orange, TX treated as they were. They were victims of an unpopular 77630. He may also be contacted by phone: 409-920-4601, war and foreign policy of three different administrations. or email: thegatchergatch@gmail.com.

Now the young warriors have become older veterans. For Planning and fundraising are underway for the Orange decades they have put aside the hurt and done their best to County Vietnam War Memorial. Contributions to the mebecome good citizens and live productive lives. They de- morial park may also be made to Gatch with any of the serve a “Thank You and a Welcome Home.” above information. Checks should be made payable to the One group is working toward a goal of remembering Viet- Stark ’64 Veterans Association.

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Sheriff’s Posse Rodeo set for July 20-21 Mike Louviere For The Record The Orange County Sheriff’s Posse puts on an annual rodeo at their arena on Highway 90.

The dates for this year’s rodeo are July 20 and 21. For many years they had the second largest rodeo in Orange, second only to the Jaycee’s rodeo.

The Posse also used the arena as their practice arena for the drill team. The Orange County Sheriff’s Posse Drill Team has a reputation for being one of the finest drill teams in Texas.

Over the nearly 60 years of its existence the Drill Team has traveled and performed in many rodeo venues in Texas including many years at the old Houston Fat Stock Show, now the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Taking center stage in the Orange rodeos was the annual Jaycee rodeo held in the arena on Highway 105. The arena was the biggest event in Orange each summer, kicking off with a rodeo parade through downtown Orange.

Seating at the arena approached 2,000 seats and was sold out for each performance. The Jaycees were able to attract leading regional cowboys who competed on an amateur basis as well as cowboys who were members of the Rodeo Cowboys Association, now the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Prize money was always enough to fill the books with rough stock riders, ropers, bull doggers and barrel racers.

Some years there were even cutting horse contests included.

Every year the Jaycees brought in entertainment from “stage, screen and television.”

Western actor Rory Calhoun was a headliner.

Before Steve McQueen became a major star, he was on television as Josh Randall, the “Bounty Hunter”. McQueen appeared at the rodeo; stayed at the Jack Tar Hotel and gave Sprad a near heart attack with the way he drove a boat Sprad made available for him to use while in Orange.

Lee Majors and John Smith from the “Big Valley” TV series appeared. Jimmy C. Newman performed his hit song “Alligator Man” in a yellow sequined suit with green alligators crawling up and down each arm and leg. Each year there was a headliner of similar stature.

Sadly for rodeo fans, those days are long gone. The rodeo producers have all passed away. Winfree Rodeo Company’s large pastures where they had rodeo stock for so many years is now home sites and a large RV park.

There were arenas in Bridge City, Vidor, Mauriceville and three in Orange. Nearly every Saturday night there was some sort of rodeo, barrel racing, or roping at one of the places. Laurence Winfree, Durwood Dorman, and Larkin Franklin, local rodeo producers, all stayed busy in Orange and on the road producing rodeos.

Tresmo Granger had one of the first arenas

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in Orange. It was located on Winfree Road, behind the Winfree Homestead. Many of the early Orange cowboys got their start at Granger’s arena. It went out of use in the 1950s.

The old rodeo arenas are all gone except for the arena on Highway 105.

When the Jaycees decided to stop producing the annual rodeo the arena was bought by the OCSP, who then sold their arena on Highway 90. Over the years the arena has been modified, repaired and remodeled. The OCSP is a dedicated group of men and women who are keeping rodeo and western tradition alive in Orange County.

Each summer around the third week in July they produce the annual two night rodeo. The rodeo still attracts some good amateur cowboys and cowgirls.

The rough stock events have changed over the years to the point that you seldom see any bareback or saddle bronc rides. It has gone to bull riding now, usually two sessions each night.

The “pretty girls and fast horses” are still going strong, running the cloverleaf barrel patterns.

Girls as young as six years old are beginning to barrel race, some on ponies; some on horses. It is still two good nights of rodeo action.

The OCSP has made some major improvements in the old arena. The seating has been reduced, because over the years attendance fell off to the point that the large bleachers were no longer needed. That’s OK; the Posse still makes money with the rodeo. The old announcer’s stand has been replaced with a nice one with plenty of room for everyone that needs to be there. All of the fences and light poles have

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The biggest and most appreciated thing that the OCSP has done to the arena was to revamp

the arena and move the alley to the center, away from the left side where it had been for decades.

The ones who really appreciate this move are the barrel racers. For years they had to come in slow and move to the center and then kick their horse to start the run. Now they can enter the arena at a fast run and go straight into running their pattern. It is easier on the horse and rider and more exciting for the fans.

The six decade rodeo attracts over 2,500 fans each year and provided the Posse with the funding for their yearly projects. They have given scholarships to area youth for 17 years. Over the years this has amounted to over $52,000.

They make annual contributions to the Red Cross and Salvation Army, as well as providing manpower and horsepower to places like the North Early Learning Center, Library Day at Bridge City schools, churches and other places interested in Western heritage presentations.

For the past several years they have made the arena available for the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Honeybears to hold the Bulls and Barrels money raising event.

You do not have to ride a horse, or even own a horse to become a member of the OCSP. If you have an interest in keeping Western heritage alive in Orange and wish to be a part of the foremost organization that promotes it, you can become a member of the Posse. The best way to do it is to attend their rodeo and look for someone in the white shirt and orange vest.

They will welcome you with open arms.

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Stark Museum: One of the most important western art collections in the world

Sarah Boehme purchased the Marriage of Hiawatha to expand the scope of the Stark Museum of Arts’ extensive American west collection.

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Penny LeLeux For The Record Sarah Boehme came to the Stark Museum of Art as director about five and a half years ago and has been very active making the collection more accessible and available to the community.

“This is one of the most important collections of American western art in the world. It is comprehensive in that it surveys American Western art from the early 19th century into the 20th century,” she said.

The Stark collection holds over 7,000 works of art with about 500 works of art on view at any one time.

“It gives a good overview of the different styles of art and the different approaches to creating art.” Boehme said it helps us understand our history. “The west was such an important concept in who we are and what our country is,” said Boehme.

The collection contains a variety of mediums from oils, watercolors, bronze sculptures, works on paper and more. The details in some of the paintings are so exquisite you could almost count the pony beads decorating American Indian traditional costumes.

What got the Starks interested in collecting western art?

“I think it started from Lutcher Stark’s love of art and the land and nature. He loved natu-

ral beauty and we see that reflected in Shangri La. I think that was part of what influenced his interest in the land of the country,” said Boehme.

The Starks had a summer place in Colorado.

From there, they would go into Taos and Santa Fe. “I think that is what really developed their love of the Southwest, seeing the beauty of that landscape and their wonderful representation of American life in the Southwest. I think once Lutcher Stark started developing the collection, he saw the focus and really worked to strengthen it and build a more comprehensive view.”

Boehme said one of the things she was charged to do was an active exhibition program. “We work very hard to have changing exhibits; at least three a year. With smaller exhibits we’ve done more than that.”

Rotation is also very important for conservation as many of the works on paper or made with watercolor can greatly be affected by light so they are only left on view three months at a time.

“There is always something changing and we’re using the collection in new ways.” The current exhibition: “From Russia: Fechin and Gaspard in the Southwest” is an example of that. Pieces in the exhibit have been used in other displays, but this is the first time a comprehensive collection of the two artists have been on display in the museum. It shows a progression of the artists’ techniques and subjects, how they migrated from Russia to the American Southwest.

“We want the exhibitions to be understandable and give a flow for the visitor. We work very hard to present them in a good light that makes them enjoyable for the public,” said Boehme. If somebody comes every three months, they are going to see something different.

The museum still has on view most of its collection by Charles Russell which includes three oil paintings, a number of sculptures and about 19 illustrated letters. The exhibit was part of a collaboration with the Lutcher Theater for Performing Arts, which recently held the world premier of “Charlie Russell’s Recollection of the Old West,” a one man show performed and written by Jim Crump.

A very important aspect of the museum is the education program. Over 4,000 students every year visit the museum. “Our education department works very closely with teachers.”

Tours are geared to the students’ curriculum and age level. Students are divided into smaller groups and guided by docents. They try to include a hands-on art activity during the visits. Tours are given throughout the year, but Boehme said most happen in April and May,

near the end of the school year.

“Adding educational programs in general is one of the places I wanted to expand. One of the biggest programs we’ve added is family days,” said Boehme. They hold four family days a year where they have special activities geared to families with children.

“I’m really pleased with the reaction we are getting from the public,” she said.

Since Boehme joined the museum, acquisitions have been on the back burner because the emphasis has been on exhibitions and education, but she as added five or six works of art.

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“One of the acquisitions I’m most proud of is the Marriage of Hiawatha which is the white marble sculpture in gallery one. This was a piece that I think really expanded what we are able to show in a variety of ways.” Most of the sculpture collection is composed of bronzes, which is the typical medium for late 19th century. Boehme said in the 18th and early 19th century, many of the artists were working in marble because they were influenced by ancient art. “They wanted to show America was in the same artistic tradition as Greece and STARK COLLECTIONS PAGE 10B

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Charlie Toups: 78 years, just as strong a roper as ever ride cost me a pair of gloves,” said Richards.

“I didn’t want to see them stiff leg the horse, I wanted them to bring their legs out and come in wide legged and spur that way. You made more points and you would really hold on better. It forced you to develop a hard grip,” said Toups. “The hard grip was hard on them gloves, though.”

“Charlie had an old ’47 Chevy and there would be about seven of us trying to fit in that old car to go to rodeos. We were packed in there like sardines. Lots of the times Dickie did most of the driving cause he was the only one that could stay awake,” said Cappadonna. “We started chewing tobacco so we could stay awake. I got to where the tobacco was making me sick.

I started chewing licorice. I could still spit and stay awake.”

Toups worked for the Texas Highway Department, now TXDOT, in Port Arthur and would book rodeos on the weekends.

“I had a pretty good thing with the highway department. It was a job I could take off from pretty easy to go rodeo. It was still tough though. One time I booked Thursday night at Naples, Friday at Weatherford, and Saturday at Paris. I worked Thursday and drove to Na-

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Ten years ago a story appeared in the Record about Charlie Toups. Toups was 68 years old and had been rodeoing for over 50 years. Last week he had birthday number 78 and he is still making every rodeo and team roping he can, and still winning from time to time.

Recently Toups and two of his close friends, Dickie Richards and Roy Cappadonna, sat around the living room of Toup’s home in Orangefield and tossed tales around about how they got started, times on the road traveling to and from rodeos, trying to rodeo and keep steady jobs and raise families, and friends they were on the road with in those times.

The trio did not come from rodeo backgrounds, or even lived in the country; they were raised in the center of Port Arthur. No one in their families had rodeoed, they just wanted to do it, so they did it.

Toups was the first to make the move.

“Charlie started before we did. He had been off to a high school rodeo and won a trailer.

Some of us saw that trailer with all the fancy paint on it and we wanted to try to do what Charlie was doing,” said Cappadonna. “Charlie got a few of us together and rigged up a door.

He hung a door from two ropes. The edge was

facing up and he tied an old mattress around the door. Then one guy would get on the door and two other guys would pull on the ropes and make the thing move like a bucking horse. It was really hard to stay on.”

Toups had an informal rodeo school. In addition to Cappadonna and Richards, there were Raymond Hulin, Gene Bourgeois, Johnny (Courville) Preston and anyone else that wanted to try the door.

Bourgeois and Preston made a few rodeos, but decided they would rather go into music.

Both did well Preston had a huge hit with the song “Runnin’ Bear” and “Jiving” Gene is still drawing crowds with his performances of hit songs like “Breaking up is hard to do.”

The guys that stayed with rodeo stayed close to Toups. He was the leader of the pack in many ways, from teaching the ropes of bareback riding to building the riggings for himself and his friends.

“We would go to the old G.I. Surplus store and buy these aviator gloves. They were good leather and thin. They would give you a good grip on the handle,” said Toups.

“Well, Charlie would wrap tape on the handle of the rigging with the sticky side out to help you hold on and by the time the ride was over and you had tried so hard to hold on, the palm of the glove would be rubbed off. Nearly every

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ples. I was winning money there so I drew out at Weatherford, drove back to Port Arthur to work Friday and Friday when I got off work I drove back to Naples. I had to work that Saturday, so I drove back to Port Arthur and worked Saturday and then drove to Paris for the Saturday show there,” said Toups. “I did good with that job for a long time until they put me on inspection and I had to work the hours the road contractors worked. It got harder then. I made things work pretty good though; I paid for the birth of my first two kids with rodeo money.”

Toups rode bulls for three years and then decided to just ride bareback. After nearly 30 years of riding, he decided to become a team roper. He convinced Cappadonna to make the move also, but Richards stayed with rough stock and rode bulls until he was 52 years old.

Richards can often be found judging at a rodeo and Cappadonna is very much an avid fan. His health has slowed him down a step or two. Toups is still very much a competitor. Last weekend he entered a roping at Silsbee and he will probably enter Jasper’s show on April 21.

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Rome and all these wonderful works of art from the past.”

The artist’s biography was also interesting and was something that was not currently represented in the collection. Edmonia Lewis was born to an African-American father and an American Indian mother. She was an active working artist which was unusual and difficult for a woman at that time.

Boehme just completed overseeing a major renovation of the entire facility and is in the process of hanging the next special exhibit: “Explore Art: Materials and Methods Revealed.” The exact opening date has yet to be set.

The next special event is a night time viewing 5-8 p.m., Friday, May 18 in celebration of International Museum Day. There will be spotlight presentations and light refreshments.

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has seen him rope knows. He is a level competitor with ropers decades younger than he is.

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There is no justice in the world of competitive bass fishing. After fishing three McDonalds tournaments every year except one since 2001, Gilbert Miller of Killeen, Texas had to believe that he had finally put himself in line for a monster payday last Friday morning.

Gilbert brought the first double digit bass to the scales, a 10.23 pound bass, in only the second hour of the tournament. A soldier in the U.S. Army, he was forced to miss the 2011 events due to deployment, but he got an early jump on the field Friday morning and had to be thinking, “Now I get to sweat out my big fish for three more days.”

In a more just world, he had indeed earned the right to nervously sweat out each hourly weigh-in across the three day weekend. Unbelievably, however, he had scarcely pulled away from the weigh-in station before his double digit bass was relegated to second place status. He actually caught the big bass on a lizard during the first hour so he did squeeze out two hours of fleeting glory!

John Martin of Beaumont closed the deal on the entire field the following hour with a 10.83-pound bass that ate a crankbait in 6 to 15 feet of water. Had Martin’s trim unit not gone out on his engine, Gilbert’s big bass might well have never held down first place at all. Martin was trying to get back to weigh the fish during the T-Shirt hour to double his hourly money, but didn’t quite make it. Gilbert was at least able to double his money due to Martin’s only blip on the way to a huge payday.

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bles and Blem .377. Swan has ripped 27 RBI going into Friday’s contest against Nederland.

The Bears have been impressive on the FOR THE RECORD mound all season. Reid Fults has sent 55 batThe Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears (9-4) ters back to the dugout after 42 2/3 innings defeated the Livingston Lions (9-4) Saturday pitched and a 1.31 ERA. Humphery has 5-2 in the fight to hang on to the second place fanned 56 batters in 37 1/3 innings, seven spot in Dist. 20-4A. The Bears finish off the wins and a .75 ERA. Carlin has a 1.75 ERA, regular season hosting the Nederland Bull- while Dyllon Young has three wins on the hill dogs (8-4) on Friday. With the victory LCM and a 1.85 ERA. bounced back from a tough loss on WednesMeanwhile, the Bridge City Cardinal day to Port Neches-Groves for the top spot baseball team has finally reached the heading into the playoff rounds next week. last week of district play and continA five-run fifth inning pushed the Port ues to sport an unblemished district Neches-Groves baseball team to a 5-4 record. The Cards took care of a come-from-behind scrappy Hamshire Fannett Longvictory over LCM to horn club on Monday after having claim first place. that game stopped last Friday due to The five runs weather in the 3rd inning. scored in the fifth Senior Jake Lemoine tossed a were more than one hitter while his defense LC-M had given played lights out behind him. up in the previInfielders Hayden Guidry, ous four Zach Smith, Bryce Samgames. pere, and Cameron Coul“We were ter all had top notch plays one play away in the 3-1 victory. The from winning this Longhorns were unable game,” said LC-M to get anything going coach Steve Griffith, against the Cardinals as their “one play here, one only score came courtesy of play there.” a solo homerun by Rhett Alex Blem went 3 Williamson. for 3 against PNG inBC on the other cluding a two-run home hand banged out ten hits run for LC-M in the secand seemed to have base ond inning. runners on in every inning. The Blem would also Cardinals finally broke through chalk an RBI in the with two insurance runs late Bear’s victory over and sealed the outcome. LemLivingston. Casey oine helped himself out at the plate with two Burleigh doubled Bridge City hits as did Matt Menard. Cameron Coulter in the first inCardinal and Mitchell Hubbard also pitched in with Cameron Dishon RBI’s in key situations for a Cardinal club ning and was driven which now has scored 69 runs in district while home by only surrendering four.

Kevin Adams. James Swan The game with Fannett was the closest had an RBI double that scored contest thus far in district for the Cardinals Ryan Carline in the third. LCM took and it happened at a great time as the playoffs control of the game in the bottom of are right around the corner. Bridge City head the fourth inning. Swan notched an- coach Chad Landry has to be pleased that his other RBI, as did Zack Drouillard. The Lions club is playing this well and still improving scored two runs in the fourth and fifth in- while heading into playoffs. Seeing players nings. Brandon Humphery and Reid Fults like Matt Menard and Zach Smith back at full pitched. Fults got the win on the hill. game speed to go along with an already potent The LCM Bears are tough at the plate. lineup just increases both expectations and Drouillard has racked up eight doubles and odds that BC will make another deep playoff five home runs batting a .342. Jacob Garza is run. hitting at .378, Shea Richards .379 with 7 douFirst things first, BC has one final district

game ahead of them with the always tough Orangefield Bobcats who secured the third playoff spot from district 213A. The Bobcats will come to BC for the district finale and Senior Night for the Cardinals.

This graduating class is certainly one of the most accomplished groups to come through Bridge City and they certainly aren’t ready to quit now. The Cardinals pursuit of an undefeated district campaign will take place Friday night at 7 p.m. in LCM Bear BC. Reid Fults.

Now RECORD PHOTOS: Mark Dunn looking ahead for BC the pieces of the playoff puzzle are beginning to fall into place. The Cardinals get a first round bye as a result of being the district champ and will play the winner of the game between the runner up from District 24 and the third place tem from District 23. As of this column it appears that game will be between Columbus and Rockdale. Bridge City will play a warm up game with District 28-3A champion Cuero on May 1st at Baseball USA in Houston at 7 p.m.. The Cards will continue their momentum while waiting to find out who their first opponent will be in playoffs.

Baseball fans can follow the Bridge City Cardinals on Twitter at #bccardsbaseball and on our website at www.bridgecitycardinalbaseball.webs.com.

The Orangefield Bobcats (5-4) are also heading to the playoffs as the third place team in Dist. 21-3A after defeating the Hardin-Jefferson Hawks 11-6 on Saturday. Orangefield hosts Bridge City to finish off the regular season on Friday.

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LCM Lady Bears swing into playoffs DAVID BALL FOR THE RECORD

The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bears’ softball team is once again performing to their customary high standards this season.

The team has a 25-6 overall record and a 10-3 mark in District 20-4A. They are co-champions with Nederland and earned a second seed playoff spot.

Coach Dena Adkins said the Lady Bears will face either Baytown Lee or Dayton in the first round. If they play Dayton, Adkins prefers a two out of three games format while Coach Daryl Bell wants a one game, winner take all format, to be played at Memorial High School in Port Arthur as the neutral field. If it’s the two out of three format, LCM will play a home game, an away game.

LCM has been the district tri-champion the past two years. Adkins said they were knocking on the championship door this year before some heart-breaking losses such as to Nederland to split the district crown.

The fourth year coach said a big advantage this season for her is the luxury of having three good pitchers — senior Camrie Helm, junior Raven Cole and sophomore Hope Russell — on the roster.

“We have good pitching. It’s a pleasure to coach such a talented group,” she said.

Helm throws the screwball, the curve, drop, rise, change-up and fastball. Her best pitches are the screwball and the curve.

Cole throws the fastball, change-up, curve, drop rise, screwball and a split finger. She likes throwing the rise out of the arsenal of her pitches.

Russell throws the same pitches as Cole but she likes the drop pitch the best. The sophomore has started one game this season and is used predominately in relief situations.

Any of the three, however, can come in and pitch if the team is in a “pickle.”

“We have a back-up for the back-up,” Russell explained.

Another weapon for the Lady Bears, perhaps the main weapon, is their power hitting.

“Our hitting is outstanding,” Adkins said. “I’ve never seen a team hit more home runs than this one. Two of my hitters are leading district in home runs.”

One of her players even hist a grand slam, something AdCoach Dena Adkins kins hadn’t seen for a number of years in high school softball.

“There’s not a weak link,” she said.

In addition to the solid hitting and pitching, the Lady Bear also have a solid infield and a speedy outfield.

Senior outfielder Ashleigh Jones uses her speed to get on base. She slap hits the ball which gives her a two-step advantage of getting out of the batter’s box, on her way to first base. Once on base, she’s a threat to steal.

Though the team has a couple of good small ball players, the Lady Bears are a power hitting team without a doubt and it’s feat or famine for them with their bats.

For instance, during the last district game against Nederland, the bats were a little cold and several were left on base.

Adkins called the game a bad momentum starter for the playoffs and the girls just need to get back on track.

There are four seniors, four juniors, three sophomores and one freshman on the varsity roster.

“This team will go as far as it wants to go if they keep their eyes on the prize and work hard. We’ll also reload next year and we’re going to be strong. LCM is a softball rich environment,” Adkins said.

Jones, who will be playing in the newly inaugurated Lamar University-Beaumont softball program in the fall along with teammate Bailey Comeaux, said she badly wants to advance in the playoffs in her last year of high school.

“This is a great team and we can go far if the desire is there,” Jones said.

OF’s Ackerman to rodeo for Panola Junior College Orangefield High School senior, Wesley Ackerman, signed a rodeo scholarship for Panola Junior College on Friday, April 20. Ackerman is an all-around cowboy that participates in team roping, calf roping, and steer wrestling. He will be competing in his final State Finals Rodeo in Abilene June 9-16.

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Bridge City Lady Cardinals enter playoffs Friday The Bridge City Lady Cardinals will enter the bi-district round of the state softball playoffs against the Liberty Lady Panthers at West Brook High School in a best-of-three series starting Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m. and continuing again on Monday, April 30, with Game Two beginning at 5 p.m.

UIL Track and Field Region III Championships The Class 5A and Class 3A Region III Track and Field Championships will be held Friday, April 27 at Humble High School. The Class 4A and Class 1A regionals will be held at Sam Houston State and the Class 2A regionals will take place at Whitehouse High School.

Regular season baseball ends Friday Friday marks the final game of the 2012 regular baseball season. The Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears travel to Nederland, the Bridge City Cardinals host the Orangefield Bobcats, the West Orange-Stark Mustangs travel to Hardin Jefferson, the Vidor Pirates travel to Livingston.

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Indy fans hope Andrew Luck is Peyton Manning’s clone KAZ’S KORNER JOE KAZMAR FOR THE RECORD

The cat has been out of the bag for quite some time now that the Indianapolis Colts will make Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck their No. 1 pick in the 2012 National Football League Draft that begins on prime time TV tomorrow (Thursday) night.

Only Round 1 will take place Thursday in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall beginning at 7 p.m. (CST) on ESPN and the NFL Network. Rounds 2 and 3 of the draft will resume Friday at 6 and Rounds 4-7 will start at 11 a.m. Saturday on the same two television networks.

The Indy football fans had been spoiled rotten for the past decade—until the 2011 season last year—about having the NFL’s best quarterback in Peyton Manning playing right in their own backyard.

Manning was a picture of health and never missed a game until a neck injury shut him down for the entire 2011 NFL season. And without Manning at quarterback last season, the Colts lost gameafter-game until they obtained the first overall pick in the 2012 draft by being the league’s lousiest team.

Last month Manning pronounced himself fit and ready to resume his role as the Colts’ field general. But team owner Jim Irsay realized that if Manning remained on the team he was due a $28 million roster bonus, so he was cut loose to find himself another team.

That didn’t take very long for Denver Broncos vice president John Elway to decide Manning would be a better quarterback for his team than Tim Tebow and another transition was made with Tebow strangely winding up on the New York Jets’ roster.

Irsay decided to transform the entire Indianapolis Colts’ roster, starting at quarterback where the unanimous choice became Luck as the No. 1 pick in tomorrow’s draft.

Former Colts’ offensive coordinator Tom Moore has been tossing around

The Indianapolis Colts will make Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck their No. 1 pick in the 2012 National Football League Draft that begins on prime time TV tomorrow (Thursday) night.

glowing compliments about Luck ever since it became apparent Indianapolis would get the first pick in tomorrow’s draft. He visions numerous similarities between Luck and Manning when he first came off the University of Tennessee campus.

Coincidentally, Luck’s dad Oliver asked Moore if he would spend some time in the “classroom” with his son, according to an article in this week’s USA Today Sports Weekly.

The pair worked together for three or four hours a day, five days a week, for three weeks, according to the article.

“Why would the Lucks do this? What did Luck have to gain when he knew he had the No. 1 spot locked up? Nothing really. It was just a chance to get better and to learn from one of the greatest offensive minds the game has known,” the article continues.

“We had old NFL tapes of different teams, and I’d stop the tape and say ‘OK, you’re at the line of scrimmage, you see the defense doing this, this and this.

What are you thinking?’ We’d go over the possibilities, what you should do, what you can’t do,” Moore said.

“Maybe we’d do that on a Monday,” Moore continued. “Then on Friday, I’d do it again and stop the tape. ‘OK, what do we want to do here?’ And he’d tell me that we want to do this and this. He had great application and recall from what we studied earlier. It’s instantaneous.”

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ate on time from Stanford with a high grade-point average in architectural engineering by being a lunkhead.

Both stayed in school an extra year when they were viewed as the No. 1 pick. Both finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting.

Luck and Moore talked about Manning and how he prepared.

“It’s been well-chronicled how Peyton and I used to look at tape in the off-season and go over every play,” Moore was quoted in the article.

“I think Andrew is a guy, like Peyton, who can be very critical of himself. One of the big things to me that make the great ones even greater is a willingness to work on things they know they need to work on,” Moore pointed out.

However, the one thing Moore and the Indianapolis coaches can’t fully prepare Luck to face is the pressure he will encounter as being “the guy who replaced Peyton Manning.” He has massive shoes to fill.

Luck operated an NFL offense during his career at Stanford, but not necessarily with NFL talent like he will in the future. No one should expect Luck to be Manning, who’s in the debate for the best quarterback of all time.

But, the article concludes, Moore saw Manning as a 22-yearold fresh out of college and loved what he saw. Now he sees 22-year-old Andrew Luck fresh out of college and he loves what he sees there, too.

KWICKIES…Former Rice Owls pitcher Phil Humber recorded the major league’s first no-hitter of the season Saturday when he pitched a perfect game as the Chicago White Sox blanked the Seattle Mariners 4-0 Saturday. It was the second April perfect game in major league history and the first perfecto since 2010 when Philadelphia’s Ray Halladay and Oakland’s Dallas Braden turned the trick. There now have been 21 perfect games thrown

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in major league history. During his college career at Rice from 2002-2004 Humber was a three-time All-American, national cofreshman of the year and the winning pitcher for the Owls in the 2003 national title game against Stanford.

Congrats are in order for my son-in-law Brian Smith of Lufkin, who earned a nifty $900 check for the 6.86-pound bass he caught on Sunday’s final day of last weekend’s Big Bass Splash at Sam Rayburn Reservoir.

Several sons of pro sports heroes are getting their starts at various college campuses. Trey Griffey, son of Ken Griffey Jr. and grandson of Ken Griffey, is a wide receiver at the University of Arizona, Jerry Rice, Jr. is a wide receiver at UCLA, Nick Montana, son of Joe Montana, is a quarterback at the University of Washington while D. J. Strawberry, son of Darryl Strawberry, is playing basketball overseas.

The Lamar Cardinals baseball team clubbed Nicholls State 12-4 in Thibodaux, La. Sunday to win the rubber game in their best-of-three series and up their record to 8-13 in the Southland Conference and 19-20 for the season. The Cards returned home to play a non-conference game against Prairie View 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday night at Vincent Beck Stadium in Beaumont.

And while on the subject of college baseball, the Baylor Bears swept a three-game series from the Texas Aggies to give them a send-off present to “big-time college sports” with a 7-5 victory

Sunday. The win extended the Bears’ current winning streak to 23 straight, including an 18-0 to set a record the Big 12 Conference for consecutive victories in league play.

Two Lamar University wide receivers and two Southeast Texans have high hopes to be drafted by the NFL later this week.

Cardinals J.J. Hayes and Marcus Jackson could be called while former Beaumont Kelly and University of Texas defensive lineman Kheeston Randall is expected to be selected in the third or fourth round and East Chambers and Arkansas safety Tramain Thomas should go in a late round or possibly as a free agent.

JUST BETWEEN US…Although the Houston Astros are a disappointing 6-10 in games through Sunday, they have outscored their opponents 71-61, thanks to blowout victories like Sunday’s 12-0 shutout over the red-hot Los Angeles Dodgers. If they had only spread out their runs over the first 16 games, they probably would be playing better than .500 baseball. Nevertheless, Houston appears to be toughest in the final game of a series after crushing the Washington Nationals 11-4 in their getaway game Thursday. But the Astros will need to do better than merely winning each series finale and nothing else like they did with the four-game set against Washington and last weekend’s short three-game home series against the Dodgers. On the positive side centerfielder Jordan Schafer, who went four-for-four Sunday including slugging a grand-slam home run, has reached base safely in all 16 games this season, which is one game shy of Craig Biggio’s record of 17 set in 2000. Left fielder J. D. Martinez has reached base safely in all 15 games in which he has played.

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huge field of amateurs as the front that roared through East Texas Friday night churned the lake into an ocean of whitecaps.

The weather slowly improved throughout the day, however, and Sunday was colder, but much more forgiving.

Several Orange County anglers fared well, especially Jonathan Simon and Corey Rambo. Simon won the one o’clock hourly weigh in Friday with a 7.09-lb. bass and Rambo took home first place money in the 11 o’clock weigh in Saturday. I don’t know if those were T-shirt hours, but they each won at least a $1000 with their winning bass.

Kelly Alford also had a good tournament earning checks in two of the hourly weigh-ins. Donny Pickard, Joe Stidham, Jose Catano and Carl Trussell all cashed hourly checks as well. In the Little Angler’s Division, Hunter Hooks of Orange won second place in the bass category and earned a $75 Academy gift card. Martin’s big bass earned him a boat, truck and accessories worth $125,000.

The next Big Bass Splash is scheduled for Toledo Bend May, 18,19, 20. With the lake levels back to normal this year I look for that event to produce more double digit bass than were brought to the scales on Rayburn.

Back here on the Sabine River, Trey Smith may have regained his touch on the river bass as he won last week’s event with a single bass. The 1.98-pound bass was worth first place and big bass money earning him a $520 check for a short afternoon’s work. Melvin Dunn finished right behind Smith with a 1.30-pound bass good for $120 while earning an extra $40 in gas money as well with a 5.58 pound grinnel.

Twenty-seven teams fished the afternoon event. Unfortunately, I stay a week behind as the paper goes to press the same day they fish the tournament each week.

The wind has been the fly in the ointment for most local Sabine Lake anglers lately. The week end just got blown completely out and you had to endure a bumpy ride the rest of the week to get to the easier fishing. Even if you simply had flounder on the brain and wanted to fish the Game Reserve the ride back was rough every day.

Depending on the tide and the wind, we are starting to see more gull activity in the open lake. On the north end they are chasing small shrimp, but on the south end they are hustling larger white shrimp and ribbon fish that trout up to six pounds are driving to the surface.

The topwater bite is obviously the most enjoyable, but we have been catching the most fish on Swim Baits and four inch paddle tails like the TTF Flats Minnow and the Assassin Sea Shad. Bug juice, Texas Roach and Red Shad have been the hottest colors for us thus far. We have been fishing with a 1/16th or 1/8th ounce jig head and generating more strikes with the slower fall.

The flounder and slot reds in the bayous are still jumping all over Gulp mullets and 4-inch tails in pumpkin chartreuse and chicken on a chain rigged on a Mr. Blitz Tic-N-Spin. We have done better on an incoming tide of late.

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Think outside the shallow with topwater plugs 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

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 enjoyable for yours truly.

April and May are terrific 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 myself used this technique to dupe a 30” Calcasieu trophy trout. 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

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.

Art Wright unhooks a solid trout from the jetties that inhaled a Mirro-lure She Dog.

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 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

Police, FBI probing Saints allegations NEW ORLEANS -- A joint Louisiana state police and FBI task force is investigating allegations that the New Orleans Saints set up general manager Mickey Loomis’ booth in the Superdome so he could listen in on opposing coaches.

State police Col. Mike Edmonson confirmed the joint effort Tuesday after discussing the matter with Dave Welker, special agent in charge at the FBI’s New Orleans field office.

“I thought that was an excellent opportunity to share resources to see if federal or state wiretapping laws were in fact broken,” Edmonson

said by phone from Baton Rouge. “It’s important for the public to know these are allegations at this point.”

Loomis and the Saints have called the allegations “1,000 percent false,” and have said they are reviewing legal recourse after an ESPN “Outside The Lines” report on Monday in which anonymous sources described a setup that would have allowed the general manager to eavesdrop on opponents from 2002 to 2004.

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Sheriff’s Posse Rodeo set for July 20-21 Mike Louviere For The Record The Orange County Sheriff’s Posse puts on an annual rodeo at their arena on Highway 90.

The dates for this year’s rodeo are July 20 and 21. For many years they had the second largest rodeo in Orange, second only to the Jaycee’s rodeo.

The Posse also used the arena as their practice arena for the drill team. The Orange County Sheriff’s Posse Drill Team has a reputation for being one of the finest drill teams in Texas.

Over the nearly 60 years of its existence the Drill Team has traveled and performed in many rodeo venues in Texas including many years at the old Houston Fat Stock Show, now the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Taking center stage in the Orange rodeos was the annual Jaycee rodeo held in the arena on Highway 105. The arena was the biggest event in Orange each summer, kicking off with a rodeo parade through downtown Orange.

Seating at the arena approached 2,000 seats and was sold out for each performance. The Jaycees were able to attract leading regional cowboys who competed on an amateur basis as well as cowboys who were members of the Rodeo Cowboys Association, now the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Prize money was always enough to fill the books with rough stock riders, ropers, bull doggers and barrel racers.

Some years there were even cutting horse contests included.

Every year the Jaycees brought in entertainment from “stage, screen and television.”

Western actor Rory Calhoun was a headliner.

Before Steve McQueen became a major star, he was on television as Josh Randall, the “Bounty Hunter”. McQueen appeared at the rodeo; stayed at the Jack Tar Hotel and gave Sprad a near heart attack with the way he drove a boat Sprad made available for him to use while in Orange.

Lee Majors and John Smith from the “Big Valley” TV series appeared. Jimmy C. Newman performed his hit song “Alligator Man” in a yellow sequined suit with green alligators crawling up and down each arm and leg. Each year there was a headliner of similar stature.

Sadly for rodeo fans, those days are long gone. The rodeo producers have all passed away. Winfree Rodeo Company’s large pastures where they had rodeo stock for so many years is now home sites and a large RV park.

There were arenas in Bridge City, Vidor, Mauriceville and three in Orange. Nearly every Saturday night there was some sort of rodeo, barrel racing, or roping at one of the places. Laurence Winfree, Durwood Dorman, and Larkin Franklin, local rodeo producers, all stayed busy in Orange and on the road producing rodeos.

Tresmo Granger had one of the first arenas

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in Orange. It was located on Winfree Road, behind the Winfree Homestead. Many of the early Orange cowboys got their start at Granger’s arena. It went out of use in the 1950s.

The old rodeo arenas are all gone except for the arena on Highway 105.

When the Jaycees decided to stop producing the annual rodeo the arena was bought by the OCSP, who then sold their arena on Highway 90. Over the years the arena has been modified, repaired and remodeled. The OCSP is a dedicated group of men and women who are keeping rodeo and western tradition alive in Orange County.

Each summer around the third week in July they produce the annual two night rodeo. The rodeo still attracts some good amateur cowboys and cowgirls.

The rough stock events have changed over the years to the point that you seldom see any bareback or saddle bronc rides. It has gone to bull riding now, usually two sessions each night.

The “pretty girls and fast horses” are still going strong, running the cloverleaf barrel patterns.

Girls as young as six years old are beginning to barrel race, some on ponies; some on horses. It is still two good nights of rodeo action.

The OCSP has made some major improvements in the old arena. The seating has been reduced, because over the years attendance fell off to the point that the large bleachers were no longer needed. That’s OK; the Posse still makes money with the rodeo. The old announcer’s stand has been replaced with a nice one with plenty of room for everyone that needs to be there. All of the fences and light poles have

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been given a coat of bright orange paint. The back pens where the stock is held have been fine tuned to improve them.

The biggest and most appreciated thing that the OCSP has done to the arena was to revamp

the arena and move the alley to the center, away from the left side where it had been for decades.

The ones who really appreciate this move are the barrel racers. For years they had to come in slow and move to the center and then kick their horse to start the run. Now they can enter the arena at a fast run and go straight into running their pattern. It is easier on the horse and rider and more exciting for the fans.

The six decade rodeo attracts over 2,500 fans each year and provided the Posse with the funding for their yearly projects. They have given scholarships to area youth for 17 years. Over the years this has amounted to over $52,000.

They make annual contributions to the Red Cross and Salvation Army, as well as providing manpower and horsepower to places like the North Early Learning Center, Library Day at Bridge City schools, churches and other places interested in Western heritage presentations.

For the past several years they have made the arena available for the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Honeybears to hold the Bulls and Barrels money raising event.

You do not have to ride a horse, or even own a horse to become a member of the OCSP. If you have an interest in keeping Western heritage alive in Orange and wish to be a part of the foremost organization that promotes it, you can become a member of the Posse. The best way to do it is to attend their rodeo and look for someone in the white shirt and orange vest.

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BCCC names Chicken Express BCCC Student as Business of the Month

Bridge City Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Shirley Zimmerman and April Business of the Month, Chicken Express Owner Gary McCarty.

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The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce announced that Chicken Express was honored as the April Business of the Month at their monthly

networking coffee on April 10 held at Complete Staffing, located at 1145 Texas Avenue in Bridge City.

The Chamber welcomed Chicken Express into its membership after Hurricane Ike. Franchise owner, Gary McCarty and his staff,

located at 2250 Texas Ave., have always been willing to help local organizations in any way they can. Over the past four years, Chicken Express has become a favorite eating spot. The restaurant is clean and their landscaping beautifies the drive through Texas Avenue.

Great customer service is their hallmark. The employees work hard to keep customers from waiting in line long. Chicken Express also serves breaded chicken tenders, and has great catfish fried to perfection. There are a variety of complimentary side dishes to satisfy everyone. The food is great and their famous sweet tea is brewed fresh daily. Chicken Express also has the ability to cater for large groups with delivery and set up.

Bridge City is proud to have Chicken Express in their community as they are a valuable asset and make a positive impact on dining out in Bridge City. Chicken Express is open seven days a week from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Chicken Express received a plaque, sponsored by David Self Ford, honoring them as the April Business of the Month and gift certificates to Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City and David Self Ford and a candy jar from Complete Staffing.

at Solo and Ensemble contest, grades 9-12.

In Clubs and Organizations, Lindey was on JV and Varsity Track grade 9-11, Student Council grade 11, Band grades 9-12, F.O.R. Club grade 12 and Interact grade 12.

Lindey’s community service contributions are participating in the Adopt a Beach campaign for grades 11 and 12, Hurricane recovery clean up in grades 9 and 10, and participated in can food drives for grades 10, 11, and 12.

Bridget Trawhon, Lindey’s Speech Communication teacher says: “Lindey Fon-

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tenot is a kind an honest young lady! I am honored to have been her Speech Communications instructor in her senior year. Lindey was helpful to the freshmen who looked up to her for guidance and assistance. I wish Lindey the best in her future endeavors!”

Laura Slacum, Lindey’s Algebra II teacher stated: “Lindey is always willing to help explain Algebra II problems to classmates who do not understand.”

Lindey’s future plans include attending college at McNeese State University where she will pursue an RN degree in Nursing.

Both Brooklyn and Lindey received a certificate honoring them for their accomplishments along with gift certificates from Walmart, Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City, Sabine Federal Credit Union, COS Printing and David Self Ford.

Time for Spring Cleaning!

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AND LAUNDRY

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BCISD to administer Credit by Examination Bridge City ISD, in accordance with Chapter 74.24 TAC, will administer the Texas Tech University Credit by Examination Tests. Testing dates will be June 5, 6 and 7, 2012. Students in grades first through fifth will be allowed to take each of the five tests (Math, Science, Language Arts, Reading, and Social Studies) at the elementary level without prior instruction. The student must score at least 90 on each of the five four tests to be considered eligible for grade level acceleration. Students in grades sixth through 12 will be permitted to take an examination to earn credit for an academic course for which they have had no prior instruction. Students must score at least 90 on the test to receive course credit. Additional information and registration forms can be obtained by contacting Gina Mannino at: gina.mannino@bridgecityisd.net.

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BCCC names Frederick Employee of the Month

Jill Malagarie, Bridge City Chamber Employee of the Month Vicki Frederick with Platinum Studio, Bridge City Chamber Ambassador Scot C. Shaffer. COURTESY PHOTO.

Staff Report

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The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce presented Vicki Frederick of Platinum Studio as the Employee of the Month at their monthly Networking

Coffee hosted by Complete Staffing, located at 1145 Texas Avenue in Bridge City.

Vicki was nominated and chosen for her professional work habits, wonderful pedicure skills, and her warm personality. Vicki has the ability

to make one feel at ease the moment she begins working on her clients.

The nomination read as this: “I have known Vicki for about four years now and I don’t think I have ever seen her without a smile. And I

Jimmy Scales: Statement My name is Jimmy Scales. I am 60 years of age and I was born and raised in Orange County. I have been married to the former Donna Dorman for the past 37 years. We have three children, Jackie, James IV and Jerrid. I was employed by Firestone in the early 1970s to early 1980s. I am proud to be a part of a family business my parents started in 1968.

I have been actively involved in my community. I have coached baseball, basketball, soccer and served on the board of directors of the Bridge City Little League,

BCYRA and Bridge City Youth Basketball League. I am the former chairman of the board for the Orange County American Red Cross and still serve on the board today. I am a member of the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce.

As your representative on the board of the Orange County Drainage District for the past four years, I have, and will continue to strive to work with the ever-changing drainage issues within our county. Issues such

can promise that I have never been around her for more than two minutes without her making me laugh. Vicki does pedicures and reflexology at Platinum Studio in Bridge City. And if you ask me she is the best at what she does.

She is always making you feel right at home and is always entertaining while she gives you her famous foot rubs. If you are ever wondering if she is working just look outside your window as you drive by the shop. That red suburban is in the parking lot at least six days a week from early to well past 5 p.m.”

Vicki Frederick is located inside Platinum Studio at 1650 Texas Avenue next to Dairy Queen. Please call 7356258 to schedule an appointment.

Vicki received a plaque, sponsored by David Self Ford, honoring her as the Employee of the Month as well as gift certificates to The Record Newspaper, Bette’s Gift Shop, Luv Lingerie, DuPuis Tire and Service Center, Sonic Drive-In, Total Impressions Salon, Peggy’s on the Bayou, Trendz, Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City, David Self Ford and a candy jar from Complete Staffing.

as when new homes are constructed, new office buildings are built, or when new roads are needed our existing drainage is affected. These are major issues that are addressed. It is no easy task. I believe it takes dedication and the desire to work with a situation that affects many people.

I take special interest in assuring taxpayers that their tax dollars are well spent. I am here to serve in a legal, efficient manner.

I humbly ask for your continued support as your director on the Orange County Drainage District Board.

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CHURCH

BRIEFS Back to God to celebrate first anniversary Back to God Fresh Anointing Ministries, located at 1011 10th Street Suite 108 in Orange, will hold their First Year Anniversary Service will be Sunday April 29, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. The guest speaker will be Pastor Quincy Armstead of Lake Charles, La.

St. Mary’s Class of 1962 to hold reunion The 1962 graduating class of St. Mary’s High School is having their 50th Reunion the weekend of April 28-29. They will meet at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the school library to share memorabilia, view a “scrapbook” DVD, tour the school and enjoy the St. Mary’s School Spring Festival together.

On Sunday, they will meet in the St. Mary’s Church hall at 9:30 a.m. and will attend the 10 a.m. Mass memorial service honoring their deceased members.

The weekend will culminate with a picnic at Niblett’s Bluff Park at 12:30 p.m. where they will enjoy entertainment with live music. The St. Mary’s High School classes of 1961 and 1963, as well as former classmates, are invited to join them.

The cost is $20 for those attending the picnic. Reservation information was mailed, but some former classmates from earlier years haven’t been located. If you ever attended St. Mary’s with the Class of 1962 and would like to join us, contact Lesylee Prejean Gautreaux at lesyleegotro@msn.com or 745-5984.

BC/OF Ministerial Alliance to host National Day of Prayer The Bridge City/Orangefield Ministerial Alliance will host the 61st National Day of Prayer from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, on May 3, at the Bridge City courtroom at 260 Rachel. The public and all faiths are invited by the alliance to attend.

National Day of Prayer calls on all people of different faiths to pray for the nation and its leaders, our military, city and county leaders and educators of children.

In 1775, the Continental Congress set aside a time for prayer in our forming nation. On April 17, 1952, President Harry Truman signed a bill proclaiming the National Day of Prayer into law in the United States. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan amended the law making the first Thursday in May as National Day of Prayer.

It is designated as a day on which the people of all faiths in the United States turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals, according to a press release.

This year’s theme, “One Nation Under God,” is based on Psalm 33:12 which states “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”

As American troops remain in harm’s way, the economy wavers and elections are upcoming, the alliance state they are honored to gather together to pray for the country.

Cowboy Church to host Bulls & Barrels Cowboy Church of Orange County will be hosting “Bulls & Barrels” on Saturday May 5. Events begin at 8 p.m., which include senior bull riding, junior bull riding, mutton bustin’, open barrels, senior barrels, junior barrels and peewee barrels. Jackpot payout. Added money to open barrels and senior bull riding.

Books open Wednesday May 2 for Bull Riding and Mutton Bustin’, 6-9 p.m. 409-698-6165. Admission is $5, 3 years and under free. Current negative coggins and signed release required.

Stark Museum of Art hosts Audubon Video Screening, April 28

John James Audubon (1785-1851), artist; Robert Havell, Jr. (17931878), engraver; Swallow-tailed Hawk (detail),1829 first published; 1836 this printing; etching and aquatint on paper, hand-colored, forThe Birds of America, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas, 91.100.15.

Staff Report

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On Saturday, April 28 at 3:00 p.m., Stark Museum of Art will host a showing of A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon in Louisiana, with an introduction by Museum staff. This educational program explores the profound influence that Louisiana had on Audubon’s study of birds and touches on conservation issues. The video screening will take place at the Education Center, adjacent to the Museum at 812 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas. Light refreshments will be served, and following the screening participants will visit the Audubon exhibit in the Museum. The program is free and open to the public.

A Summer of Birds is a documentary by Louisiana Public Broadcasting that chronicles the summer of 1821 which Audubon spent in Louisiana at the Oakley Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, located near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

John James Audubon (1785 - 1851) was an ornithologist, naturalist and painter. He was known for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America, is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.

“After viewing the video about Audubon’s summer at Oakley Plantation in Louisiana, we will return to the Museum to view the Audubon works in our gallery Exploring America’s Frontiers.

The current selection focuses primarily on birds that Audubon saw that summer, including the beautiful swallow-tailed hawk, the white ibis and the spotted sandpiper,” said Sarah Boehme, Stark Museum Director.

The Stark Museum of Art is fortunate to possess the complete volumes of The Birds of America. The Museum’s set is unique in that it is bound in five volumes rather than the usual four.

The set belonged to the artist and some pages within the volume include pencil notations by Audubon himself.

Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, Stark Museum of Art is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Admission is free for all ages. Group tours are available by appointment. For more information, call 409.886.ARTS (2787) or visit www.starkmuseum.org.

409-738-2070

Church Directory

First Baptist Church Orangefield

“Our church family welcomes you!”

9788 F.M. 105 Orangefield, 409-735-3113 Pastor Forrest Wood Sun.: Bible Study - 9:30 a.m., Worship Service - 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship- 6:30 p.m.

Wed.: Midweek Meal- 5:30 p.m., Praise & Prayer - 6:30 p.m.

Youth & Children Activities, 7:15 p.m. - Choir Practice Email: office@fbcof.com www.fbcof.com

First Christian Church of Orangefield

Cowboy Church of Orange County 673 FM 1078 Orange 409-718-0269 E. Dale Lee, Pastor Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

“Round Pen” (Small Group) Studies: Ladies & Men’s group: 7 p.m. Mondays, Come as you are!

Boots & hats welcome!

St. Paul United Methodist Church 1155 W. Roundbunch Rd., Bridge City 409- 735-5546 Pastor Brad Morgan office@stpaulfamily.org Sun. Mornings: Worship Experience - 8:15 a.m.; Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Worship - 10:45 a.m.

(Nursery provided at all services) For Mid & Sr. High Youth Sun. Afternoon: 3:30 to 6 p.m.

Sun. Evening : Taizé Service - 7 p.m.

For Children Ages 4–10 on Wednesday evening – 6 to 7 p.m. – JAM (Jesus & Me) Club

Apostolic Pentecostal Church IH-10 at Highway 62, Orange (409) 745-3973 Sun. Morning at 7:30 a.m. on A.M. 1600 KOGT Radio Sun.: 2 p.m. • Tues: 7:30 p.m.

24 Hour Prayer Line: 409-779-4703•409-779-4702

Back to God Fresh Anointing Ministries

American Association of University Women collecting books

1011 10th St., Suite 108, Orange 409-779-3566•409-883-0333 backtoGodnow@gmail.com www.backtogodfreshanointingministries.com Pastor Gerald Gunn Co-Pastor Pearlie Gunn Sun. School 9:45 a.m.

Sun. Morning Worship 11 a.m.

Tues. Night Bible Study 7 p.m.

Men of Valor & Women of Warfare classes on Thur. 7 p.m.

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For The Record

The Orange branch of The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is now collecting books to be sold in their annual book sale. Anyone able to donate any gently used books is asked to drop them off at Mann Insurance Agency, 1505 Park at 15th Street in Orange. If pickup is needed, call 886-5739 or 8862194 in Orange. All proceeds from the sale go toward the annual scholarship fund. Each year, the AAUW awards scholarships to two young women from Orange.

First United Methodist Church

Church Sponsors H.K. Clark & Sons

Knox Clark, Hiram Clark Jr, & Philip Clark

Celebrating 50 years

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502 Sixth Street 409-886-7466 Pastor: Rev. John Warren Dir. of Fine Arts & Music: Doug Rogers Organist: Justin Sanders Dir. of Youth & Christian Education: Allisha Bonneaux Sunday: Worship in the Chapel: 8:15 a.m., Celebration Service in Praise Center: 8:55 a.m., Sunday School for all ages: 9:50 a.m., Worship in the Sanctuary: 11 a.m., UMYF & Methodist Kids: 5 p.m.

Web site: www.fumcorange.org

West Orange Christian Church 900 Lansing Street, W.O. 409-882-0018 Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship 10:40 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday Evening - 6 p.m.

4234 FM 408 (between BC & Orangefield) 409-735-4234 Minister Jim Hardwick Sunday School: 9 a.m.; Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday: Prayer & Bible Study 7 p.m.

Nursery provided For a ride, call 735-4234

Trinity Baptist Church 1408 W. Park Ave. @ 14th Street, Orange Office: 886-1333 Pastor Dr. Bob Webb Worship Leader Dan Cruse Sun. Morning Worship 11 a.m.

Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Nursery Provided

Miracle Restoration Revivals Church 608 Dogwood St., Orange 409-883-5466 Residing Pastor Rev. Larry Doucet Founding Pastor Rev. Tunney Vercher Sr. Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Wednesday night Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday night Bible Study 7 p.m.

Orange First Church of the Nazarene 3810 MLK Drive, Orange Lead Pastor: Ray McDowell Music Pastor: Bruce McGraw Youth Pastor: Michael Pigg Children’s Pastor: Marilyn Ball Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Celebration Service 10:45 a.m.

Prayer Service: 6 p.m.

Wednesday Service: 7 p.m.

Everyone Welcome!

First Baptist Church of Bridge City 200 W. Roundbunch, BC Office: 409-735-3581 Fax: 409-735-8882 www.fbcbc.org Rev. Bob Boone, Pastor Sunday Schedule: Traditional Worship - 8:15 a.m.; Bible Study at 9:30 a.m.; Celebration Service - 10:45 a.m.; CSI, Youth Bible Study, Discipleship Classes - 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday Schedule: Prayer Meeting - 6:30 p.m., Youth Worship “Living Stone”

Harvest Chapel 1305 Irving Street, Orange 409-882-0862 Ruth Logan Burch, Pastor Sun. Morning 10 & 11 a.m.

Evening Service 6 p.m.

Wednesday Service 6 p.m.

Gospel Singing first Friday of the each month.

Echo Church 1717 FM 3247, Orange 409-735-8580 Pastor George A. Cruse Jr. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

Praise & Worship Contemporary music!

Come as you are!

Maranatha Christian Center 7879 Hwy. 87 N Music: Sherry Dartez Pastor Daniel Ray KOGT Broadcast 8:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Evening 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

To list your church, call 886-7183

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• Just $10 For A 30 Word Ad In Both Papers And The Web • Classified Newspaper Deadline: Monday 5 P.M. For Upcoming Issue • You Can Submit Your Ad ANYTIME Online At TheRecordLive.com

Community Classifieds Your ads published in both newspapers, the County Record and the Penny Record plus on our web site TheRecordLive.com EMPLOYMENT HELP WANTED! need experienced cooks for BC Foodmart, 1000 W. Roundbunch Rd., (409) 735-3563.

ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN, INC. “A CASA Program” is accepting volunteer applications at this time. You can apply by calling 1-877-586-6548 [toll free] or going on-line to www. advocates-4-children-inc.org [there is an application at this website]. 30 hours of training is required. Record numbers of children are being abused.

Your volunteer help is needed!

The program serves Orange, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler and Sabine counties.

APPLIANCES USED APPLIANCES, starting at $99.95 & up, Harry’s Appliances, 302 10th. St. (10th. & main), Orange, We buy used appliances, 8864111.

FURNITURE BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN MARBLE coffee table, ornate rod iron legs, paid $800, asking $125. If interested call (409) 735-9125.

MISCELLANEOUS 2 LIFT REMOTE BEDS, $35 ea.; 1 full size bed set, $40; 1 twin all wood bed set, $70; 1 king bed set; $70; 1 antique

Singer sewing machine, mint cond., $140; 1 black & silver queen head board, $35, (409) 499-2128.

JUGG’S PITCHING MACHINE, like new, auto feeder, throws 90 MPH, fast & curve balls etc., paid $3,000, used vey little, will sell for $1,500, (409) 474-1518.

PROPANE TANK W/100 GAL of gas - $400; Truck hitch - $45. 409-746-3390.

FARMALL “A” TRACTOR, with woods belly mower, $1,800, (409) 745-3363.

WANT TO BUY! Exercise equipment, stair stepper, treadmill, etc., (409)728-3443.

SEARS CARDIO FIT Exerciser, total body motion, low impact, $75, (409) 7352325.

Maximum Effects Now Hiring in Orange!

WANT TO BUY! Finger lengtH Catfish, (409) 7353624.

Hair dressers, massage therapist and nail technicians. Room or booth rental – $75 per week. Have walk-ins, but clientele helpful.

48” MOWER, Power King, good cond., $800, (409) 7453363.

‘94 2/2 MOBILE HOME, $10,000; Whirlpool Elec. range, $175; Whirlpool Refrig., $175, (409) 499-2128.

Call Christine at 409-886-7776

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Business is Booming!

Join our team in Beaumont, TX Run Day & Night Positions!

Sign-On Bonus for Experienced Drivers We offer: 401k, Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

Must have Class-A CDL with “X” endorsement.

18 wheeler or tanker experience preferred. EOE

800-577-8853 or Apply Online: www.gulfmarkenergy.com

PETS & LIVESTOCK FREE KITTENS TO GOOD HOMES, 1M & 3F, blk. & wht., (409) 735-2826. Leave message, will call back.

RESCUE DOGS, spayed & neutered, needing good homes. Pet food donations welcome. (409) 746-9502.

LAB/PIT MIX, 8M old, spayed female, on heart worm prev., free to good home, (409) 7469502.

PUPPIES! I have 7, mixed breeds (some Lab looking), can’t afford to keep feeding them, free to good homes, (409) 988-9472.

REWARD: LOST GERMAN shepherd, large black face sable male missing in the area of 1135, 1442, Duncan Woods and Japanese Lane.

Please call 409-779-3820, 409-504-0134, 409-504-4194 or 409-767-9908.

FREE TO GOOD HOMES 2 full blooded Choc. Labs, females, 4 & 5 years old, very playfull, (409) 792-9911.

SERVICES COMMERICAL, RESIDEN-

FIELD WORKERS 5 temporary positions; approx 7 months; Duties: to operate farm equipment; planting of sugarcane by hand, farm, field and shed sanitation duties; operation and performing minor repairs and maintenance of farm vehicles and equipment. Able to work in hot, humid weather, bending or stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired, workers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination. $9.30 per hour; Job to begin on 6/1/12 through 1/5/13. 3 month experience required in sugar cane farming. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; ¾ guaranteed of contract; subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate. Employment offered by Agricultural Advancements, L.L.C. located in Lafayette, LA. Worksite located in Duson, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview at (337) 278-1217 or may apply for this position at their nearest State Workforce Agency using job order #413514.

For more info regarding your nearest SWA you may call (409) 839-8045.

Call 735-5305 • Penny Record Office: 333 West Roundbunch, Bridge City • County Record Office: 320 Henrietta, Orange Note: Offices Closed On Wednesday

TIAL HOUSECLEANING. Excellent references. 409734-8096.

1155 W. Roundbunch Rd., BC each Sunday at 8:15 AM or 10:45 AM for worship experience at 9:30 AM for Sunday School. You’ll be glad you came, and so will we!

GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOUGHLOVE is a self help parents support group for parents of children displaying unacceptable behavior.

Meets every Tues. at 7 pm. at Immaculate Conception education building, 4100 Lincoln (corner of Lincoln & Washington) in Groves. For more information call 9620480.

SUICIDE RESCUE of Orange County. Suicide is not the answer, give us a chance, 769-4044 Vidor.

CRISIS CENTER. Rape and crisis center of S.E. Texas needs volunteer advocares to provide direct services to survivors of sexual assault in a medical setting.

Comprehensive training is provided, Anyone interested should contact the Crisis Center at (409) 832-6530.

AT. ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST you can experience the warmth of friendly people, beautiful music, and inspiring sermons. Join us at

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Learn to paint on Porcelain and create your own heirloom pieces: Tea sets, dishes, Gone With the Wind lamps, etc. Classes are on Mondays, 9am to noon. If Interested call (409)738-2032.

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LiveCrawfish Crawfish peelers.

Need 20 experienced peelers.

“If you can peel Crawfish fast, this is your job!”

Call (409) 670-8821.

ORANGE COUNTY AUDITOR’S OFFICE Assisis seeking qualified applicants for a First Assis tant Auditor. Beginning Annual Salary $43,326.40 plus full benefit package. This position assists the County Auditor in supervising the operations of the Office, serves as the senior administrator in the Auditor’s absence, and performs general clerical duties. The First Assistant Auditor is principally responsible for General Ledger (GL) accounting and reporting.

This position requires strength in accounting skills and ability to multitask. Required Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Accounting or Business Administration; Experience in internal auditing, accounting and computer software applications; Supervisory and/or management experience. The incumbent works with confidential information and must maintain high ethical standards. Essential functions include but are not limited to: • GL accounting and reporting, • Assist Auditor with revenue and expenditure estimates in budget preparations, • Prepares interim and Year End GL journal entries, • Pre-audit preparation for outside auditors, • Prepares depreciation schedule for capital assets, • Primary accounts payable backup, • Interaction and communications with other officials and departments.

EmOrange County is an Equal Opportunity Em ployer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or disability. Deadline to apply is 04/27/2012.

Apply to Orange County Personnel Department; 123 S. 6th Street; Orange, TX 77630; www.co.orange.tx.us

HERE’S MY CARD! 735-5305 or 886-7183

COW BAYOU MARINA “Enjoy fishing under our new covered dock, and enjoy our hospitality!”

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Orange’s Oldest Hometown Appliance Dealer FREE LOCAL DELIVERY

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APPLIANCE & SERVICE INC Big Selection of Reconditioned Appliances All Used Appliances Sold with Warranty

We Sell Parts For All major Brands ~ We Service What We Sell

886-4111

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Tree Removal, Tree Trimming, Haul Offs and Stump Grinding.

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Interior - Exterior Speciality Painting Drywall Finishing, Etc.

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APARTMENTS MAGNOLIA TRACE APTS. in Bridge City.

Very nice and updated We are located in a quiet neighborhood, but walking distance to major stores, 2/1 with laundry room in Apt., $650 upstairs, $675 downstairs, $500 dep. Call (409) 886-1737, and leave message. (5/16)

HOME RENTALS 3/2/2 IN BRIDGE CITY, fenced back yard, CA/H, stove & dishwasher, No Pets, $950 monthly + $1,200 dep, first & last month + dep to move in, (409) 745-0838.

MOBILE HOME RENTALS BC AREA , as little as $30 daily for rooms, M.H.’s by day or week, starting at $30 a day THE VILLAS AT COW Bayou located at or weekly, 735-8801 or 734-7771. (cctfn) 3650 Fish Hook in Bridge City, now has 1&2 bedroom openings! Enjoy comfortable living LARGE 2 BEDROOM IN BC, A/C, all appliin a quiet, secluded surrounding. Located ances, covered patio, $520 monthly + dep. in the Bridge City School District with con- & utilities, (409) 697-2552. venient access to Orange, Port Arthur and Mid-County areas, we are close to all area 16’ x 80’ 3/2 & 2/1 IN OFISD, 1 block from refineries! Covered parking, washer/dryer schools, Large lot, W./D hookups, No Pets, connections are provided. We supply your City of Bridge City water, trash & sewer!

Please call today and ask about our movein special! Call to make an appointment for your personal tour! 409-735-8803.

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$650 & $400 monthly + dep., (409) 720- screened in patio, corner lot, $95,000, (409) ment to see call (409) 735-6231 or 748- utility room, porch off back, 12’ x 16’ work 8699 or 735-6701. (5/9) 883-8389.

0081. shop building in rear, (409) 738-2412. (5/3) NICE TRAVEL TRAILER, all appliances, 3/2 PORT ARTHUR HOME, 2,200 sq. ft., A/C, patio, $350 monthly + dep. & utilities, formal living & dining rooms, utility rm., (409) 332-6699 kitchen has 10’ breakfast bar, bonus room off kitchen, lots of storage, security system, home sits on a 100’ x 300’ lot, fenced back MOBILE HOME SPACES TRAVEL TRAILER SPACE, grass mowed, yard, No Owner Finance, $75,000, call quiet, No Pets, 370 Warner St., BC, (409) (409) 720-9463 for more info.

735-9176. (4/25) 3/2/2 IN BCISD, 380 Quincy, Brick, totally QUIET BC TRAILER SPACE, $200 plus remodeled, spacious home, new carpet in utilities & dep., (409) 697-2552 bedrooms, tile throughout, wood burning fireplace in den, landscaped yard, boat storage, shop in back. Owner finance a HOME SALES 4/2/2 IN LCMISD, 1717 Greenbriar ave., possibility, $158,000 OBO, for an appoint-

REMODELED 3/1.5/1 for only $93,900! This home qualifies for a USDA LOAN w/ ZERO DOWN PAYMENT! New ac/heat system and all new ductwork. Foundation repaired with transferable Lifetime Warranty! Granite counters in kitchen and baths! Neutral colors, simply beautiful in quiet neighborhood with fenced yard in BCISD. The best buy in town with $3,000 CASH TO BUYER AT CLOSING! Call REGENCY Real Estate Pros at 409724-MOVE(6683) for more information.

1421 ELIZABETH STONE DRIVE. Tile and neutral colors throughout, with carpeted bedrooms. Brushed nickel contemporary fixtures, fenced backyard, front landscaping. Lot is 60x120. Great cul de sac neighborhood. No owner finance or rental. $155,000 Call 409-779-8170.

LAND & LOTS LOTS for SALE: Own your piece of property for just $6k or buy all three lots for an even better deal! Deweyville ISD, Call 3/1/2CP IN WEST ORANGE, 2729 Dowling REGENCY Real Estate Pros at 409-724St., 1 block from school, Lg. kitchen, Lg MOVE(6683) for more information

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THE VILLAGE APARTMENTS, located at 245 Tenny St., Bridge city, is now leasing 1 bedroom /1 bath apartments. Monthly rates start at $450 - $625, water / sewer / trash included, come by and take a look! (409) 735-7696 or 504-9952 or 474-9731.

Greatly Appreciated!

ROOM FOR RENT IN BC, in quiet home, WiFi, cable, utilities inc., $125 weekly, (409) 553-3332.

Legal Notice

Early Voting: May 14 - May 25

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Republican Primary: May 29, 2012

Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Testamentary for the Estate of JERRY LEE HOWINGTON, Deceased, were issued on the 17th day of April, 2012, in Cause No. P-16,128, pending in the County Court, Orange County, Texas, to: MARY SUZANNE DENOSOWICZ.

Question & Answer with Rodney Townsend

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 Jerry V. Pennington Attorney At Law P.O. Box 2010 Orange, Texas 77631-2010

DATED the 17th day of April, 2012

Jerry V. Pennington Jerry V. Pennington

Attorney for Mary Suzanne Denosowicz State Bar No.: 15759000 P.O. DRAWER 2010 ORANGE, TEXAS 77631-2010 Telephone: (409) 886-0575 Facsimile: (409) 996-1353

Pol. Adv. Pd. for by Rodney Townsend Campaign, Amy Townsend, Treasurer in compliance with the voluntary limits of the Judicial Campaign Fairness Act and Fair Campaign Practices Act.

‘03 Chevy Malibu

‘04 Saturn Ion

‘04 Chevy Ext. Cab white

‘05 Dodge Caravan

‘04 Chevy Cavalier

silver blue

$6,500

Automatic - Air, 97k, 4 door

‘08 Chevy Cobalt 4D

‘04 Buick Century

$9,850

‘04 Pontiac GrandAM

‘07 Chevy Monte Carlo

4 door, Automatic - Air, 63k, Window Locks

$9,900

s ‘04 Volkswagen GLS

107k, Automatic - Air, Very Clean

‘03 Chevy S10 Pickup

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‘98 Dodge Ram

$9,850

85k, Convertible, Automatic - Air

‘98 Nissan Altima

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$1,600

Needs some repair

‘04 Buick

‘05 Kia Sedona LX

Very, ‘05

Lincoln TC Sig.

$7,995

BUY HERE! PAY HERE! FAST IN-HOUSE

financing! available

$10,500

‘09 Chevy Aveo

SO

Automatic - Air, Nice, 78k

$7,500

Hatchback, 66k, Automatic - Air

$9,950

‘04 Chrysler Sebring red

2 door, 79k, Automatic - Air

$7,450

‘02 Grand Marquis

Conv, 42k, Automatic - Air

Very, Very Clean, A lot of equipment, 105k

$12,300

$8,950

‘04 GMC Envoy

‘05 PT Cruiser Conv

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LT, 118k, Automatic - Air

$7,900

‘08 Dodge Dakota

Ext. Cab ST, V6, Automatic - Air, 101k

$9,500

‘00 Chevy 1 Ton

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white

$8,500

‘03 Cadillac Deville

Extended Cab, 454 engine, Automatic - Air

$5,950

‘02 Chevy EXT. white

white Automatic - Air, 4 door, 69k

MERCURY GS 4 DOOR Auto. trans., air, 75k CLEAN!

white

dark blue

LD!

Automatic - Air, 71k

$6,950

4c, Automatic - Air

4 door, white,

red

Quadcab, Work truck needs some attention

$9,850

white

$7,950

110k, Grand SXT

blue

4 door, maroon,

57k, Automatic - Air

$11,995

Extended cab, Automatic - Air, 103k

blue

tan 4d

Automatic - Air, 32k

$8,000

Automatic - Air, Clean, 101k

$11,800

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409.670.0232 OPEN: MONDAY - FRIDAY 8 AM TO 6 PM & SAT. 8 AM-4 PM • CLOSED SUNDAY

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Ext Cab, 129k, 3/4 Ton

$9,850

“We can use your bank or credit union for financing!”

Price + TTL

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County Finalists compete Stark Reading Contest Staff Report

For The Record

The County Final Competition of the Miriam Lutcher Stark Contest in Reading and Declamation will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 29, at Lutcher Theater, 707 Main Street in Orange.

Classmates from each high school within Orange County and area residents are invited to attend the competition and support the contestants.

The host of this year’s Final Contest is Bridge City High School. Entertainment will include pianist Seth Wade, soloist Shanna Miller, a

4-piece wind ensemble, including musicians John Ellis, Colton Huebel, Ryke Moore and Gregory Sattler and a special performance by Luke Hebert playing the ocarina.

The school-level winners competing in the County Final Contest are listed below.

• West Orange-Stark High School - Brittney Perry, Declamation; Paige Pollard, Interpretive Reading • Vidor High School - Julian VanDevender, Declamation; Kinnedy Mitchell, Interpretive Reading • Orangefield High School - Haley Permenter, Declamation; Kirsten Wolfford, Interpretive

Reading • Bridge City High School - Jordan Smith, Declamation; Adrian Morgan, Interpretive Reading • Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School - Zoe Casteel, Declamation; Ivy Casteel, Interpretive Reading The aim of the Stark Reading Contest is to enhance the literary and forensic quality and skills of the students.

The Contest has continued annually since its inception in 1904 and offers educational opportunities and experiences for students at Orange County public schools. This year more than

128 students participated and since 2001, almost 1,800 students have competed in the Stark Reading Contest.

The first place winners from each of the Orange County schools will compete in the county-wide contest for scholarship awards totaling $15,000. All students in the County Final receive a gold watch commemorating the contest, as is tradition for the event since the early 1900s.

The Miriam Lutcher Stark Contest in Reading and Declamation is sponsored by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation as part of its continuing mission to enrich the community and encourage education.

GARAGE SALES THURS. - SAT., 336 BELL AVE., BC, 9 till ? Moving sale, All Must Go! FRI. & SAT., 501 HYDRANGEA AVE., ORG., 8 till 1. Desk, coffee table, side tables, kitchen items, clothes, sheets, bi-fold doors, beer lights, mirror, frames, pictures, misc.

SAT., 2928 WESTERN AVE., W.O., 8 till ?

SAT., 6607 LANDCASTER, ORG., Little Cypress across from LCM H.S., No Friday Sales, 7 till noon. 50” DLP HDTV, furniture, household items, Misc.

SAT., 1537 STRICKLAND, ORG., Estate / Garage sale, 8 till 5. Chairs, furniture, infant to plus size clothes, lamps, new fans in box, pictures and frames, lots of collectable Elvis memorabilia, comic books, N- Sync booble head, antique lunch buckets, old Avon bottles, Goebel collectable plates, “Gone With The Wind” plates, fishing equip., Way Too Much More To List! (409) 883-6267 or 3837176.

SAT., 117 WOODSONG, BC, 7 till ? Home decor, glassware, bedding, toys, lots of misc, too much to list!

SAT., 1155 W. ROUNDBUNCH RD., BC, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church event to send kids to camp, 8 till 2. Link dinners, car wash, bake sale, donations.

SAT., 405 JEANNETTE, BC, 7 till noon. Clothes, good stuff, Come See! SAT., 610 ROMEREO ST., BC, off Osborne, large multi family sale, 8 till ? Household items, baby items, exercise equip., clothes, etc.

FRI., 602 W. ORANGE AVE., ORANGE, furniture, clothes, tools, bathroom cabinet, dishes and more.

FRI. & SAT, 13329 N HWY 62, MVILLE. Estate/Garage sale 7 til ...furniture, gas clothes dryer, 2x & 3x men’s clothing, collectibles, misc. NO EARLY BIRDS.

1 ACRE REPO, wooded tract in Mauriceville, Mobile homes and live stock welcome, seller finance, COUNTRYLAND PROPERTIES, LLC, (409) 745-1115.

CEMETERY PLOTS Hillcrest Memorial.

Side by side cemetery plots in Lord’s Supper Section, $4,300. Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery Orange Tx. 281-5929531 leave message if interested. (4/25)

10 ACRE TRACTS, on FM 105, OFISD schools, Mobile homes and live stock welcome, seller financing available, COUNTRYLAND PROPERTIES, LLC, (409) 745-1115.

‘68 FORD MUSTANG. GT Fastback, Automatic, runs and drives well, Price $6950, for details mail me at stephbo2@msn.com / 512-782-4586.

430 HOLLY ST., BC, lots 28 - 29 - 25’ of 27 and 15’ of 30, $30,000, water and sewer tap paid; 450 Holly, 1 bedrm. house, zone B, buy ALL for $50,000, No Owner Finance, (409)735-5041.

40 ACRES FOR SALE, 29 acres of it pastured land w/ rice canal, fenced, end of Gilbert Rd., Motivated Seller! (409) 745-1936. (5/9).

AUTOMOBILES

‘98 FORD TAURUS: motor, 3.0 V-6, asking $350 OBO; Whole car, $500, for more info call (409) 221-9996.

‘06 SUBARU LEGACY (OUTBACK), silver, 58K miles, 4 dr., excellent cond. except one tiny dent on Dr. side back behind door, 1 owner, always kept in garaGE, HEATED FRONT SEATS, ELEC. w/seats, side shields on side windows. $14,000 OBO, (614) 483-8075.

‘T R U C K S & VA N S ‘92 CHEVROLET P.U., auto, 350 V-8, runs good, $1,295, (409) 594-8293. ‘'85 CHEVY C-10, V-8, LWB, A/C, C. player, auto trans., PS/B, good motor, no oil leakage, real workhorse, $3,000 OBO, ask for Ruth @ (409) 735-7353 ‘02 CHEVY BLAZER 4X4 FULLY LOADED! Power steering, power brakes, power windows. Call 409-779-3354

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2011 Ford Escape

Less than 10,000 miles. Very Clean.

Loaded, moon roof, leather interior, running boards. Allowance made for front bumper damage. Kelly Blue Book say $19 to $21,000. Call 409670-9090 for an appt. and make offer.

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