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Vol. 52 No. 26 Week of Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Penny Record of Bridge City and Orangefield • Founded 1960
President Obama wins Veterans Day: a day to honor and celebrate Debby Schamber For The Record
Veteran’s Day was set aside in 1954 as a day to honor and celebrate the service of all veterans. Locally, we have two amazing veterans who after their years of service in the military have continued to serve by helping their fellow veterans and community. Marv and Arlene Howland, who have been married almost 22 years, never consider themselves as “I” or “Me” but as a “We.” They work together as a team in a ministry devoted to veterans and their families. Their mission has always been to assure that the men and women of our nation’s military received the honor and respect due to them. Together they have coordinated available resources to provide needed items such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, clothing, food and more. During the time when Marv was employed, he used his own money and from sources connected with his work to augment the charitable efforts of the veterans groups where he was a chaplain. Marv is a combat veteran of the war in Korea and earned four battle stars. He also served in the New York Reserves and New York Guard as a Non-Commissioned Officer. He was honorably discharged from the Texas Guard as a Captain (Chaplain). Near the end of the war in Korea, Marv and some of his “buddies” scrounged up pieces of plywood to make an altar and lectern to allow their Regimental Chaplain to have a more “church like” setting in the open fields of the war zone. Most of their services, when they VETERANS DAY CON PAGE
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President Barack Obama waves as he walks on stage with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha at his election night party Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Chicago. Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Debby Schamber For The Record Across the nation, people were on the edge of their seats as election results came in and the numbers for each candidate increased along with the gap between them. Nationally, the race went back and forth and as of press time, Barack Obama (D) was declared the winner with 303 votes in the electoral college while Mitt Romney (R) received 206 electoral votes. In Orange County, there were 30827 votes cast. Those voting straight tickets totaled 16,801 with 12,198 for Republicans and 4,438 votes for Democrat candidates. There
were 136 people who voted for the Libertarian party while there were 29 votes for the Green party. In the presidential race in Orange County, Mitt Romney (R) won the race with 23,361 votes compared to Barack Obama’s (D) 6,797 votes. In addition, Gary Johnson received 280 votes and Jill Stein received 64 votes. There were 136 votes for a write-in candidate. In other races, for the position of United States Senator, Ted Cruz(R) won the election with 21,866 votes in Orange County and 4,098,107 in the state . His opponent Paul Sadler(D) had 7,562 votes in Orange County and 2,831,967
state votes. John Jay Meyers (L) had 520 votes in Orange County and 138, 247 statewide votes while David Collins (G) had 175 votes in Orange County and 58,614 votes for the entire state. For the election of U.S. Representative, Steve Stockman (R) won with 21,564 votes in Orange County and 160,161 statewide, 7,364 votes in Orange County for Max Martin (D) and 57,681 votes in the state and Michael Cole (L) received 1.006 votes and 6.007 statewide. Christi Craddick (R) won the job as Railroad Commissioner in Orange County and received 3,905,855 total votes. Barry Smitherson (R) also
won the position as Railroad Commissioner in Orange County and a total of 4,160,757 votes. Dan Willet (R) won the vote in Orange County by a large margin for the position of Supreme Court Justice Place 2 and 4,376,607 votes. In the Place 4 Supreme Court Justice position, John Devine (R) won in Orange County and across the state. Supreme Court Justice Place 4 was won by Nathan Hecht (R) in Orange County and across the state. Sharon Keller (R) overwhelmingly won the job as Presiding Judge Court of Criminal Appeals. Barbara Parker Harvey (R) won the vote for Place 7 Judge Court of
Appeals. Eksa Alcala (R) won in Place 8 Court of Appeals. In the race for the State Board of Education, David Bradley (R) defeated his opponent. Robert Nichols (R) was elected to be the State Senator in District 3. In results from Orange County, indications from early on showed a clear winner in the local races. Mandy White-Rogers(R) won by a wide margin. She received 21,610 votes while her opponent, Mike Abbott (D), had 8,454 votes. “I’m thankful for all the support everyone has shown me. OBAMA CONT. ON PAGE 2A
Banquet kicks off Bayou LSC-O Nursing Department Anxiously Awaiting New Building Construction Bowl festivities Debby Schamber For The Record
Monday night kicked off a week long buildup to the Bayou Bowl match up between and Bridge City and Orangefield under the lights of the football field on Friday. More than 100 people arrived to support the teams during the fourth annual scholarship banquet. Master of Ceremonies, Jerry McGinnis, welcomed the guests to the event. “This has been a dream of mine,” McGinnis said. “ Just because we live five miles apart doesn’t mean we have to hate each other.” He went on to say, the group just all “needed to be friends.” “Our two communities are number one, even though we are fighting for number
three,” he said. “I hope the best team wins.” McGinnis was referring to the third playoff spot. Whichever team should win Friday night will clench the third playoff spot while for the other team their season will end. A long list of supporters was read during the event. “I want to thank Mark Dunn and the Penny Record,” McGinnis said. “They never fail to support us.” A friendly rivalry surrounds the Bayou Bowl which began in 2000 when UIL district realignment assigned Bridge City from a Class 4-A to a Class 3-A. As a result, the change pitted the Cardinals against the neighboring Bobcats. The Penny Record newspaper coined the game name to BAYOU BOWL PAGE
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LSC-O Nursing Department Anxiously Awaiting New Building Construction Nursing students contribute to nearly half of the enrollment on the Lamar State College-Orange campus, so when a property was acquired to help house an area of study, it was quickly decided that nursing students would benefit the most. New labs, lecture halls, computer rooms and more much-needed space await the more than 1,000 nursing students on campus. The concept of the new LSC-O CONT. ON PAGE 2A
Lamar State College-Orange held the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Allied Health Nursing Building on Nov. 1. Construction on the new building is to begin immediately and will provide new, up-to-date labs, equipment and space for the college’s nursing department, as well as new classrooms for general use. Pictures L-R are: Regent David Montagne; Representative Allan Ritter; Dana Rogers, LSC-O Director of Finance; Corky Harmon, Chairman of the LSC-O Foundation; Dr. Michael Shahan, President of LSC-O; Marsh Ragland, Skanska; Ian Powell, PBK Architects; Jerry Vandervoort, SpawGlass; Gina Simar, LSC-O Director of Allied Health.
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