Vol. 51 No. 47 The Community Newspaper of Orange, Texas Week of Wednesday, February 22 , 2012

County RecordSpeed limit lowered on county road

Some residents who live on one Orange County street are hoping a lower speed limit will now be safer.

The Orange County Com-m i s s i o n e r s ’ Court approved lowering the speed limit on Nelson Street from 30 mph to 20 mph at their meeting Tuesday morning. Precinct 3 Commissioner John Dubose said his office received a peti-tion from residents there for the request since a number of children reside on the dead-end street off of FM 1442.

A letter from the Road & Bridge Department to County Judge Carl Thibodeaux read their department and the Or-ange County Sheriff ’s Office investigated the matter and concurred the 20 mph speed limit would be a reasonable speed for the street.

“Nelson Street is short in length and is a dead-end street,” it read.

An OCSO memo read the street is half a mile in length, narrow in width, with no strip-ing.

“I observed the residences placed close to the road with very short residential drive-ways. The road is a dead-end with some of the residences having to sue the ditch right of way for parking,” the letter stated.

Dubose said the residents originally requested the speed limit be posted to 15 mph but that would be too slow. They also requested street lights be placed on Nelson but the

county has no street light pro-gram.

Tina Barrow, elections ad-ministrator for the county, said the state primary is ten-tatively set for May 29, the day

after Memorial Day. Early vot-ing would run from May 14-19 and May 21-25.

No date has been set yet for run-off elections.

Barrow added it may be

unlikely to use Lamar State College-Orange students as election workers again because they will be out of school.

Ricky Jorgensen, Vidor city manager, is ending his seven year tenure with the city on March 9.

He’ll be the new city manag-er of Giddings, city on High-way 290 that is 40 miles south of Austin. Jorgensen said he looks forward to the move for two reasons: his daughter and his three-month-old grand-child lives in Austin and also Giddings has its own water, sewer and electrical works utilities.

“It’s really pretty there,” he said.

Jorgensen feels the city has accom-plished much in his stay in Vi-dor.

“Vidor is a good city,” he said. “There’s lot of hard-working people concerned about the city. It shows in our service organiza-tions. People who live outside have only heard things about Vidor.”

Some of those accomplish-ments that stand out to him include completing two prop-erty annexations that allowed the city to grow, building the

Joe Hopkins Memorial Park, building a new city hall, using Hotel Occupancy Tax money to improve the quality of life in an effective way and more revenues coming in. In fact, the city is close to balancing its budget for the first time in years, he said.

The city council has also reached the halfway mark in the zoning process for the city.

“It (the zoning process) is left in good hands,” Jorgensen said. “The hard work is done in mapping out the areas.”

The city council and the Vi-dor Police Association also agreed upon a new contract two years ago.

Sitting at the kitchen table with a glass of Paul Masson brandy and a Black and Mild cigar Bobby Brown, 75, looked back at nights of playing clubs all over the South.

“I used to drink a lot of gin. I had to quit drinking that gin cause it would go to your head.” He said he couldn’t really smoke anymore because of his lungs, but he liked to taste it. “If I inhale this thing,” he said, “It would look like my chest is going to blow up. I can’t inhale it.“

Brown said he used to take two fifths of liquor to the band-stand to play. “And smoke them cigarettes.” He said, “Sometimes you couldn’t even see the band in clubs because of the cloud of smoke.”

Brown is the youngest and last remaining member of a family of musicians. His father started singing and playing the violin on the street corner in Orange in front of Farmers Mercantile. He was joined with Bobby’s oldest brother James “Widemouth”

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With a March 5 deadline, races are beginning to take shape for the May 12 elec-tion.

OrangeFormer City Councilman

Jimmy Sims has filed to run for mayor. Current Mayor William Brown Claybar has reached his term limit. Thus far, Sims is running unopposed.

Place 1 incumbent Coun-cilwoman Theresa Beau-champ has filed and is also running unopposed.

Likewise, incumbent Charles Guillory is running unopposed for Place 6 at-large. Place 3 Councilman Jeff Holland submitted his letter of resignation to the council last week and will not be running again, leav-ing his seat open.

The council opted to fill the position with whoever wins the May 12 election.

PinehurstPinehurst has the busiest

election cycle so far with challenges to the incum-bent mayor and two council seats being left vacant.

Mayor T.W. Permenter will face Pete Runnels who is former mayor of Pinehu-rst, city administrator and county judge.

Incumbent Councilman Bob Williams announced he is not running for re-election and incumbent Councilman John Zerko also has not announced his intentions to run again.

Those filing for the coun-cil positions are David Ball, Billy Harris, Terry C. Ja-cobs III, Mathew Chandler

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Recently, students majoring in edu-cation at Lamar State College–Or-ange completed critical thinking projects which were recycled by par-ticipants in the Gifted and Talented (GT) Institute. The Education Divi-sion at LSC-O is in partnership with local school districts to prepare their teachers to meet the needs of gifted and talented students.

The Education Division at LSC-O began doing customized training for area schools about four years ago and continues with the Gifted and Talent-ed Institute. The education division has developed its own curriculum for teachers of gifted and talented and high-achieving students based on guidelines set by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The Education Divi-sion caters to the needs of the district with materials for all Gifted and Tal-ented teachers.

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Allison Vandagriff, a junior at Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School excels when it comes to writing essays.  Each year the Veterans of Foreign Wars hosts their annual Voice of Democracy Audio/Essay Scholarship Competition on local, district, state and na-

tional levels.  Allison was the Orange VFW Post 2775 first place winner and advanced to the District 2 level where she placed first.  She was au-tomatically advanced  to the State level where she placed second.  Her scholarships for this year amount to $300, $300 and $4,500. These will be added to her winnings last year as first in Orange for $300

and second in District for $200. Other Orange winners were Carrie Grace Hender-son, second place for $200 and Kirby Clayton 3rd place for $100. During the annual Loy-alty Day Awards Program on April 30, each winner will re-ceive a plaque and Scholarship Letter of Intent, which will be honored upon registration in an institute of higher learning. 

Orangefield TAFE students attend conventionThe Orangefield TAFE (Texas Association of Future Educators) attended the state convention

in San Antonio last week. Sixteen students and three sponsors attended the convention. Several of the students competed at state level. Kelsey Sheppard created and presented a “count on char-acter” storybook.

Elizabeth Newell competed in the speech competition; Robert Erhlich, Jourdyn May and Ashley Kibodeaux competed in the ELF (Educational Fundamentals) test. Rachael Hunnicutt received a red ribbon on her “project visualize” project which showcases a service project the club performs. Emily Blanke was award a blue ribbon on the scrapbook that showcases the club in general.

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Pictured are (l to r): District 2 President Patricia Latino, Second Place State Winner Allison Vandagriff, State Commander John Spahr and District 2 Commander Robert LaFleur.

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The LSC-O Introduction to Teaching students had to cre-ate and design a critical think-ing project in the form of a model of what they thought was a perfect classroom. They had to research the compo-nents of a classroom and bring it to life in a confined area.

The projects from last se-mester’s class were used at the Gifted and Talented Institute. The Gifted and Talented teacher participants used some of the same projects to assess or evaluate what was learned as a result of project-based learning.

Teachers were assigned to small groups to come up with criteria and assessment.

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If any school district would like more information about gifted and talented training or other customized training, they should contact Brenda Mott, director of education, at 409-882-3053.

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Brown and Wilson “Cutie” Brown. They had a washtub and people would throw money.

“My dad had a pretty big name around here. Everybody downtown liked him. He helped out nearly everybody that came to Orange. Helped them get started. He played violin, guitar, French harp. Cutie played bass.”

The most famous member of his family was his Grammy award winning brother, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown.

“Widemouth” and “Gatemouth” moved to Houston to pursue their music careers. Clar-ence’s big break came when he was at a T-Bone Walker concert in Don Robey’s Bronze Peacock club in Houston. “T-Bone got sick. I guess he was on drugs real hard back then, backstage like all musicians. Robey said, ‘Man we gotta have a guitar player. T-Bone can’t perform, he’s too sick back there.’ Gatemouth used T-Bone’s guitar and improvised “Gatemouth Boogie.” Bobby said Robey told T-Bone he was through and Clarence had the gig. “You got a new star in town, so he took the crown,” said Bobby.

Bobby said they busted up the guitars left at home, because they didn’t want him to learn how to play. That ploy didn’t work. He went to Houston to follow his brothers and went in a club where Albert Collins was playing. Bobby thought is was “Gatemouth” because of the way he was dressed in a cowboy hat and shirt, but it wasn’t. Frank Newsome, “Widemouth’s man-ager” was in a bar playing cards. Bobby said Newsome hustled cards sometime to get trav-eling money. “Hey ‘Little Gate,’” he said, “uh all your brothers play something, you don’t play nothing?”

“I didn’t know I could play anything, I had never tried. Before Gatemouth left home he took a guitar and busted it on a block to keep me from learning.”

Newsome put some money in the jukebox and told Bobby, “You get up there and play be-hind them drums.”

“I was play behind Little Richard and James Brown records. I’m up there playing every day, every day, every day and one night some group needed a drummer. And they carried me way up into Louisiana. I think it was near New Or-leans. It was back up in a cornfield. There was a club way back there.” That was the start of his career. He auditioned for the Showboat, which was ‘across the river.’ “Wesley Brown was play-ing there. He had a jazz band. I went there that day to give an audition. I’m not bragging, I sung like anybody. I sung like Fats Domino, Joe Turner,” He stole Brown’s job and traveled to Mississippi.

He spent three years playing on the Missis-sippi River Boat, the “Robert E. Lee.” “The ship like to sunk two times because it was all rusty on the bottom. We had everybody on that boat. The old boat would be bouncing with all the dancing, it could have broke and killed us all. It broke loose a couple of times,” laughed Brown.

Later, playing drums for his brothers was an on again off again proposition. They would come get him to play drums for them, then they would get in fights and he would leave and come back home. They played all over Texas, Louisville, Ky. Oklahoma.

“We lived in Austin and worked out of Aus-tin. When you’re a musician you can’t make money where you live at. You have to get out to make it.”

“We were on the road like you call it, but this was home. We couldn’t play around here be-cause the people didn’t like us. That’s for all musicians. We don’t play in your own home-town too much, you might play a little bit. You know I played across the river a lot at Lou Ann’s over there for years and years, but if I play over here, ‘oh that’s ole Bobby Brown, we ain’t going in there.’ That’s the way it was,” he said.

Bobby said he doesn’t play anymore. Occa-sionally he might sing one song if asked when he’s at a club. He never achieved the same fame of his older brother.

Gatemouth not only received a Grammy in 1982, he released several albums and the Rhythm and Blues Foundation recognized him in 1997. He was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Museum of the Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame in 2002.

Clarence died of lung cancer in Orange on Sept. 10 2005 after evacuating from his home in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina and two weeks before Hurricane Rita ravaged Orange County. He was buried in the Hollywood Cem-etery on Simmons Drive.

When the waters of Hurricane Ike came through in September of 2008, Gatemouth’s was one of the many bodies that were removed from their resting place by the surge of waves during the storm. Bobby had to identify the body. He said the cover of the tomb floated off and upended in the vault allowing the casket to float out and away. Luckily, Gatemouth’s casket was found against the fence. He was one of the easier ones to identify.

Bobby is the only one left. He has buried them all. He lives in Orange, in a house that “Rita” built. Brown spends his evenings shoot-ing pool or playing dominos, while enjoying a bit of brandy and cigars.

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Precinct 2 Commissioner Owen Burton said county department heads should be made aware of rising fuel costs.

The court approved rejecting all bids re-ceived on the Coastal Impact Assistance Pro-gram Grant for installation of sewer tie-ins at various locations in Vidor.

Thibodeaux reported there were issues with the bids and to allow Connie Cassidy, county purchasing agent, to go for bids again.

Commissioners also approved abandoning

an easement within the Waterwood Subdivi-sion. The easement will go away and the prop-erty will go to the adjacent property owners who will pay for surveying costs.

Douglas Manning, county attorney, said the easement was part of the original subdivi-sion plat in ingress and egress to Waterwood I and II. The easement was dedicated to Orange County by the original developers for the pur-pose of building a road.

and Ron Cowling Sr.West OrangeIncumbent at-large council members Shirley

Bonnin, Mike Shugart and Dale Dardeau have filed for reelection and are running unopposed.

Bridge City Incumbent office holders, likewise, are also

running unopposed in the city. Mayor Kirk Roccaforte, Place 2 Councilman

Mike Reed, Place Councilman Eric Andrus, and Place 6 Councilwoman Lucy Field have filed to run again.

West Orange-Cove CISDNo filings have been made, including incum-

bents Pete Amy and Eric Mitchell, for the May 12 election.

Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISDThus far, seats held by Position 2 Trustee Da-

vid Jones, Position 4 Trustee Keith Adams and Position 5 Trustee Don Anderson incumbents are running unopposed since no yet has filed.

Orange County Drainage DistrictTwo seats are up for grabs: Precinct 2 incum-

bent Trustee J.B. Arrington has refiled. Incum-bent Precinct 4 Trustee Jimmie Sims still has not field. No other candidates have filed.

Orange County Navigation and PortIncumbents Barbara Winfree and Jimmy

Smith are both running unopposed at the pres-ent time.

Orange County Water Control & Improve-ment District #2

Both Linda Premeaux and Kenneth Pigg have filed for re-election for their seats. No others have filed.

SKEETER INVASION – TIME TO FIGHT BACKSix months ago we predicted it would be a mild winter

but we are even surprised that it has been so mild, not only here but all over the country. The rain we’ve gotten lately is appreciated but would have been a lot more help-ful last spring and summer. Many of our great trees might have been saved. *****I don’t recall that mosquitoes have ever been so bad in February. It’s really time to do some-thing about it. We were raised with “Skeeters” and learned to live with them, small price to pay for the privilege of living here. The present situation however is unbearable and should be declared an emergency. I’ve joked about it before but believe me, it’s no joke when they attack by the 100’s, from house to car. *****I’ve gotta move on. I’d ap-preciate you coming along, I promise it won’t do you no harm.

SHEDING LIGHT ON DOMESTIC OIL

I haven’t said it before but we are grateful to Lynn Greenwell for the donation of the Sunday Houston Chronicle to The Record every week. We read many pa-pers daily from different parts of the country and also several magazines. Today our reading is costly so we are thankful to Lynn for her contribution. The lead story in the latest Sunday Chronicle is titled “Oil and Outlook Gushing.” It’s a long study of the present oil outlook. Here’s how they sum it up. Bouncing back after falling to levels not seen since the 1940’s, U.S. oil production began rising again in 2009. More rigs are working, the number of rigs in U.S. oil fields have more than quadrupled in the past three years. The U.S. energy information adminis-tration likes it’s bright forecast of crude production by the EIA. They forecast the U.S. will challenge Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil producer, including crude and other forms of oil. That’s all good. No doubt the Obama ad-ministration has been good for big oil but it leaves me with questions. Why are oil companies killing natural gas wells? It’s cheap is one good reason. Why are gas prices at the pump so high? We have to look at the whole picture. Something is really wrong plus the working class suffers.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME

10 Years Ago-2002Monte Morphew plans to restore the house at 205 Col-

lege Street, in Orange, from its current condition to the glamorous home it was in the early 1900s. The home is owned by Monte and Kathy and is the second house they own, the other is in the historical district. *****Pct. 2 Constable Parker “P.T. Thompson receives DPS award for averting a crisis. Texas Ranger L.C. Wilson present-ed Thompson with the award at the DPS headquarters. Thompson had convinced Keith Wayne Gonzales to surrender and give up the hostage he was holding in Judge Clark’s courtroom. *****Drainage District candidates begin filing. Brent Peveto filed Monday for the OCDD’s at large director’s seat. Three district directors plan to run again. They are Pct. 1 Bill Dixon, who has served 24 years, Pct. 3 Karl Stephenson and Elwayne McCray, in-cumbent in the at large position, who will seek his first full term. He was appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Albert Adams. *****Diane and Mark Wimberly celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary on Feb. 18. (Editor’s note: Congrats on your 28th this week.)*****Donna Scales is one of the areas best pastry bakers. She also makes a great Almond Joy cake and from time to time she sends Jimmy over with a platter full of goodies. (Editor’s note: I remember those good old days at the old Creaux’s Nest.)*****Mike and Darlene Peebles, owners of the Yel-low Rose Barbecue place, brought the crew etouffee stuffed baked potatoes. (Editor’s note: I wonder what hap-pened to the Peebles anyway. I’m also wondering if Dar-lene is still hanging with that guy.)*****Sidney Poitier turns 75 on Feb. 20. *****Fain Holbrook celebrated an-other birthday Feb. 18. *****The Gunn twins, Trevor and Tyler, turned seven on Feb. 10. *****Blum “Sonny” Smith and Frances celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday, Feb. 17. *****Ricardo “Ricky” Trevino has an-nounced he will be a candidate for mayor of Pinehurst. *****Justice of the Peace Cimron Campbell seeks a sec-ond term to Pct. 2 post. Others running against the Re-publican Campbell are Democrats Ed Barton, Roy Derry Dunn, A.C. Helton and “Dawl” Cooper. (Editor’s note: Derry Dunn won and is still J.P. Pct.2.)*****Judge Martin Ardoin turns 99 on Feb. 23.

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEKB.E. “Bob” Hankins, George W. Stevens, Barry Mur-

chison, Chad Boatman, Harry Risher, Jasmine Lind-ner, John Curphy, Leslie Braus, Wesley Arnold, Brint Carlton, John Hughes, Jody Andes, Betty Davis, Crys-tal Jones, Misti Bishop, Juanita Sullivan, Kelle Betz, Matthew Bland, Rachel Doucet, Joe Hebert, Dalton

Bonds, Brently Sholmire, Regina Harrington, Scarlett Fontenot, Taylor Brownlie, Bill Bennett, Brad Frye, Zelda Jones, Kaylea Smith, Doris Byrd, Angela Brin-son, Anita Murchison, Betty Sherman, Kayden Meule-mans, Braelyn Baugh, Michael Gray, Claudia Wil-liams, Eleanor Shult, Marilyn Powell, Zachary Gil-liam, Amanda Beeson, Jeffrey Fregia, Beth Lee, Ellen Nickum, Bailey Noah, Beth Mathews, Butch Choate, David Claybar, Gretta Brinson, James Wilkinson, Lindsey Moreau, Sarah Havens, Allisha Bonneaux, La-Verne McDonald, Anna Marshall, Randy Lowe, Bob Moore, Amy Ball, Kathy McKenzie, Kurt Reeves, Royce Pendergast and Ginger Romero.

A FEW HAPPENINGSJudge Buddie Hahn’s court coordinator Judy Mingle,

who has been with the county since 1987, is retiring at the end of February. We wish her God’s speed and happy re-tirement. Our longtime friend Cheryl Donnard has been hired to replace her. We’re proud for her. *****A few folks celebrating their special day this week. I’m not sure when but I do know that Chief Jerry Wimberly has a birthday this week. I think it’s Feb. 20. ***Best wishes to Barry Murchison and happy birthday on Feb. 22. ***Our friend, the beautiful Regina Harrington, celebrates Feb. 24. She’s a brand new grandmother. ***Feb. 25 is a special day for major Brad Frye. Surely the Bridge City Police De-partment is hosting a birthday party. ***One of our bes-tist friends, Moe Litton, cuts another notch on the tree of life on Feb. 26. What a guy. *****Lovely Ellen Nickum, who a long time ago was from Rye, Texas and for many years happily married to Bill, will celebrate another birth-day Feb. 27. Best wishes for a long, healthy life. ***David Claybar celebrates Feb. 27 as his special day. Happy birth-day and we wish for clear sailing ahead. *****Wednesday, Feb. 22 will mark the beginning of the Lenten season. When I was a boy, the holy season was taken very serious-ly and was a special time. *****Feb. 23 will mark 16 years since the death of Annalee Knight who passed in 1996. A remarkable lady, mother and teacher who we will never forget. *****Mike Marion, assistant district attorney and retired chief deputy Orange County Sheriff ’s Dept., is re-tiring at the end of March. He will go into private practice in Vidor. He has been with the county 22 years. *****The Postal Service is warning it will lose as much as $18.2 bil-lion a year by 2015 unless it can cut Saturday deliver, slow First Class mail by a day and raise stamp prices five cents. A five-year cost cutting plan would close up to 252 pro-cessing centers and 3700 post offices. It’s the changing age of the computer world. Mail delivery started with the Pony Express, that took mail weeks, now it takes seconds.*****CREAUX’S TIP OF THE WEEK: To clean a thermos bottle, fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka Seltzer tablets and let soak for an hour or longer. Your thermos will be like brand new. *****CAJUN DEFI-NITION: Zydeco (Zid-e-co) a kind of Creole dance music that is a combination of traditional Cajun dance music, R&B and African blues. The word Zydeco in Cajun means green bean or snap bean. ***** With the primaries moved to May 29, Texas can kiss its GOP clout goodbye, it’s like-ly the Party would have picked a nominee by then. The long, contentious redistricting dispute was the culprit. The primary has already been postponed twice and the battle over Republican drawn gerrymandered maps may not be over yet. It’s a sure bet Texas will not play a key role in the GOP presidential race. It will be interesting to see who the Party picks and if it differs with the voters. *****Twenty-eight states already have the birth control law. More than 600 physicians and medical students, from 49 states, signed a letter of support to President Obama. They said millions of women rely on birth con-trol pills for other medical conditions. Ninety-eight per-cent of all women have used contraceptives. Women’s groups say most women are united when it comes to ac-cess to birth control. Rick Santorum, on the campaign trail, has blistered the policy. *****LBJ lost the South for Democrats over the Civil Rights Act, and the GOP will lose the women’s vote in large numbers if they continue to politicize the contraception issue. Bet on it. *****The GOP presidential race is far from over but some people are al-ready thinking ahead to the number two spot. Florida’s Sen. Marco Rubio tops the list in a survey of registered Republican and Independent voters nationwide. Next is Rick Santorum, followed by Gov. Chris Christie. Santo-rum as of now leads Mitt Romney in the presidential race and Rubio and Christie both said they don’t believe they will be on the ticket. *****Former Orange Police Chief Sam Kittrell is the new chief of Pineforest. He will do them a good job and it will keep Sam busy and not likely to get in trouble. We wish our friend the best. *****Our buddy King Dunn was feeling puny, went to Houston for test. Last Wednesday they put a stent in an artery that was 95 percent blocked. The good news is he’s home, ready to run a race, drive his tractor and make the Lunch Bunch meeting. By the way, this Wednesday the Bunch will dine at Novrozsky’s. Special guests are ex-pected. Next week it’s back to Robert’s. Everyone is al-ways welcome.

WHITNEY HOUSTON LAID TO REST

After over a three-hour service at her home church, Whitney Houston was buried next to her father. Her cat-alog of songs and albums sold one million copies in one day after her death. Since her death album sales are up 6,000 percent. In one week sales of Whitney’s music ex-ceeded all 2011 and 2012 sales for both years. Dolly Par-ton isn’t doing bad either, the song she wrote, recorded by Whitney, “I Will Always Love You” sold 195,000 down-loads in the fist couple of days after the death. In the com-ing weeks consumers will scoop up millions of albums. This will make Whitney’s estate the most earning of any artist of the year. Reports are that she was very low on funds despite being one of the best selling artist world-wide.

A NOTE ON MISS MATTIE

I’ve been asked about the latest on Mattie Dellinger, the 100 years old historical columnist for the Shelby County Light and Champion. Like this Creaux’s Nest column, Mattie still writes a long column every week called “Party Line” about the happenings around East Texas. In January her son Dan died. It was sudden and unexpected. Another sad episode for Mattie was the death of classmate and lifelong friend Kate, who died in Sulphur. There were 47 in their 1929 graduating class and

she and Kate wrote each other daily. Then her devoted tomcat and companion Tuffy died at age 18. Mattie called Susie Nelson about son Dan’s death and she noti-fied Willie, who called her right away while on his bus going to Amarillo for a concert. A few days later, Mattie received several CD’s of Susie and Willie’s recordings, one a recording of Susie’s gospel hour. One song by Wil-lie and Susie is dedicated to Mattie. She also received re-cordings of Willie and sister Bobbie. If you would like to drop Miss Mattie a note address it to Mattie, Box 744, Center, Texas, 75935. A lot of folks in Orange County are imports from East Texas, such as Grady Johnson.

NEWS ON THE LIGHT SIDE

The final four GOP candidates will meet Wednesday in Mesa, Arizona for their 20th televised debate to air on CNN. *****The long wait for Oscar finally arrives Sunday night. All the final ballots from the 6,000 voters arrived Tuesday by 5 p.m. Of all the talent, two of the biggest stars, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, add a level of ex-citement, both double nominees. The two friends say people love to see them pitted against each other. This year features other high profile performers like Meryl Streep, Octavia Spencer, newcomer Gary Oldman and a host of others. *****Lindsay Lohan will make her return to Saturday Night Live on March 3. That will mark Lo-han’s fourth turn as guest host. Hopefully, this time she can stay straight. Over the years, she has been riddled by multiple arrest and battles with substance abuse. *****Sir Paul McCartney says he’s given up pot for his daughter. Paul reveals that Bob Dylan introduced him to cannabis and that he also experimented with heroin, LSD and co-caine but had stuck with the weed habit until now. He says, “It’s time to give up that part of my life.” I would think so after nearly 50 years. He was busted for pot in Ja-pan in 1980, over 32 years ago. *****MSNBC dropped con-servative commentator Pat Buchanan after four months of suspension. His book, “Suicide of a Super Power,” contains chapters titled, “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.” Critics called the book racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic. The for-mer GOP candidate, who was once with CNN News, was out of place with MSNBC. *****Marc Anthony and J. Lo will be together again on a television project. “Q’Vival! The Chosen” will premiere March 3rd at 8 p.m. ET, on FOX. The reality competition show, which focuses on Latin music and dance, will be a two-hour episode lasting five weeks. The project was announced before the couple split in July. *****The “VOICE,” NBC’s singing competi-tion, is about to unseat 11th season FOX juggernaut, “American Idol” from it’s rating throne, particularly among younger viewers that advertisers covet. It’s a game change for NBC.

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Drew Barrymore turns 37 on Feb. 22; On Feb. 23, Da-kota Fanning will be 18; Peter Fonda, 73 and James Blunt, 35. ***Joe Lieberman will be 70 on Feb. 24; Paula Zahn, 56 and Billy Zane, 46. ***Nancy O’Dell turns 46 on Feb. 25; Carrot Top, 45; Julio Iglesias Jr., 38 and James Phelps, 26. ***On Feb. 26, Michael Bolton will be 59; Erykah Badu, 41 and Corinne Bailey Rae, 33. ***Adam Baldwin will be 50 on Feb. 27; Chelsea Clinton, 32 and Josh Groban, 31. ***John Turturro will be 55 on Feb. 28 and Ali Larter, 36.

CAJUN STORY OF THE WEEK

Amy Comeaux was riding da bus from Abbeville to Baton Rouge wen da bus stop to take on passengers in Lafayette. A man got on da bus wit boat of his front trouser pockets full of golf balls. He sat next to Amy, who is a very attractive blond. Amy was puzzled and she kept looking at da man and his bulging pockets. Finally, after many glances from Amy, da man said, “It’s golf balls.” Amy her, continued to look at him for a very long time tinking deeply about wat da man had said. After several minutes, not being able to contain her curiosity any longer axe, “Does it hurt as much as tennis elbow, hanh?”

C’EST TOUT

The Dow tops 13,000 Tuesday for the first time since May of 2008. Meanwhile, gas consumption is down sev-en percent since last year, yet prices, at the pump, con-tinue to rise. Everyone loses because taxes are collected on each gallon sold at the pump. The only one who grows with high prices is the oil company. Don’t buy into the lie that restrictions are causing high prices. It’s not the Key-stone Project either, that oil will belong to Canada. Our refineries are overflowing, docked tankers are full, and there is no shortage. They’re gutting the poor and middle class.*****Every four years you can expect the Rev. Franklin Graham to inject himself into the political ac-tion. He’s making the rounds of the talk shows question-ing President Obama and Mitt Romney’s religious be-liefs. He draws attention to himself and gets more expo-sure. What he doesn’t say is that he supports extreme right-winger Rick Santorum. If Graham professes to be a preacher he should stay out of politics. He might be his son but he’s no Billy Graham even though he is trying to capitalize on his name. Well, I knew I couldn’t make it through a column without getting in trouble but it aggra-vates me when tax-exempt preachers go down a political path, influencing who we should vote for. Something Franklin’s dad never would have done. We’re not electing a preacher, we’re electing a president.*****I’m done, thanks for your time, mine is up. Please read us cover to cover and shop our family of advertisers. Look them over in-side this publication. I hope I’ve run a little something for everyone. Have a nice week. Take care and God bless.

4A • The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 22, 2012

From the Creaux’s Nest

I’m dating myself, but remember when you were in grade school and the class was electing officers? Like most young-sters back then, if your name was in nomination, you probably always voted for your opponent.

That’s the way it was done back in the days before Super PACs and the nine gods on the Supreme Court. Today’s elections don’t cover issues as much as they do the trash in a candidate’s life.

He’s a Fascist; he’s a communist; he’s an adulterer; he’s too re-ligious; he’s a bigot; he’s a racist; and much, much worse. Obvi-ously, candidates today believe the only way they can win elec-tion is by trampling the good name of an opponent, even if the accusation is or is not true.

Herman Cain comes to mind as does many others. Heck, just recently, accusations have been hurled at JFK for indiscretions almost fifty years old.

It’s like we’re saying, “To heck with issues, let’s sling mud, and lots of it.”

But before you lay a gypsy curse on the modern political system, take a look at the political bloodbaths during past campaigns.

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson accused the sitting president, John Adams of being a “repulsive pedant” and a “hideous hermaphro-ditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

Davy Crockett claimed that Martin Van Buren wore women’s corsets. Makes you wonder how old Davy knew that little tidbit.

And poor old James Buchanan who had a congenital condition that tilted his head to the left was accused of attempting, but failing to hang himself.

Even Abraham Lincoln caught his share of the mud when he was accused of the dastardly deed of having “stinky” feet.

One of the most vehement in my estimation was between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. To the latter’s chagrin after a bitterly fought campaign, Adams won the presidency in the House of Representatives in 1824.

Even before the inauguration, Jackson and his supporters set out to destroy Adams.

Seems like Adams was the secretary to the American envoy to Russia when he was a teenager. Jackson’s supporters spread the rumor that Adams, while in Russia, had procured American girls for the sexual services of the Russian czar. They even called Adams a pimp and that procuring women was the reason for his great success as a diplomat.

He was also accused of having a billiard table in the White House and allegedly charging the government for it. He produced receipts that he had paid for it himself out of his own funds.

Adam’s supporters were every bit as vicious as Jackson’s, at-tacking his wife Rachel as a bigamist who deserted her husband to live in sin with Jackson.

Jackson explained that they thought the divorce was finalized, but they were vilified nevertheless.

And then there was a Whig effort in 1844 to discredit Demo-crat James Polk by claiming Polk’s slaves were branded with his initials. It was untrue of course, but the accusations did cut into his votes. Topping that dirty tactic, the Whigs printed up phony ballot on which the names of Democratic and Whig electors were mixed up so to confuse the voters.

After the Civil War, dirty tricks became even more malicious and insidious. �The Truth’, a New York scandal sheet published a letter James Garfield had supposedly written endorsing the right of corporations to hire the cheapest labor available, obviously taking advantage of great influx of Chinese labor at the time.

He answered the forged attempt to disenfranchise the middle and lower classes by releasing an example of his own cursive

script, proving the published letter was a forgery.The Twentieth Century must have ushered in the “rodent

era” for in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt, decked out in a sombrero and smoking a cigar, referred to William Howard Taft, the current president and his former vice-president as “a rat in a corner.”

Some years later, Franklin D. Roosevelt picked up on Teddy’s gambit by calling Alf Landon, his 1936 opponent “The White Mouse who want to live in the White House.”

Seems like in the last few decades, the media has taken more of a hand in ferreting out “sensational truths” in the name of investigative reporting.

One such hatchet job was done on John McCain in 2000 when the New York Times released a story that accused McCain of a romantic liaison with a woman lobbyist thirty years younger than him.

During the recent South Carolina primary, phony emails made to appear from CNN (they did not) reported that Newt Gingrich had pressured his ex-wife, Marianne, to have an abortion.

Whoever was responsible must have been the jerk who sent out flyers alleging that Rick Santorum’s wife had once had a re-lationship with a doctor who performed abortions.

The list goes on and on.And the seeming anonymity offered by the Internet offers en-

couragement to those sickos, who might be surprised to learn that everything that goes through your computer stays there, even if you delete it.

So if you’re one of those brain-dead reprobates who thrive on slandering others, and decide you want to hide the evidence, then you’re only hope is to make the platters on your drive un-spinnable.

That, you can figure out yourself. rconwell@gt.rr.comhttp://www.kentconwell.blogspot.com/ www.goodreads.com/author/show/13557.Kent_Conwellwww.amazon.com/-/e/B001JPCK26

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AARP income tax assistance program offeredThe AARP Tax Filing Assistance Program will have trained

volunteers available from 12:15 to 4 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday through April 13th in the Orange Public Library.

Anyone seeking assistance should bring the following: all W-2 and 1099 forms, including Social Security benefits and state-ments; records of Capital gains and losses; receipts of medical expenses, taxes paid, interest paid, contributions, casualty and theft losses, job expenses, sales tax receipts for major purchases and Social Security cards for dependents; a copy of your 2010 tax return, which will be very helpful for the volunteers assisting in the preparations of the 2011 return.

Electronic filing will be available. No tax returns will be start-ed after 4 p.m.

Orangefield HS FFA to host plant saleThe Orangefield FFA will host a plant sale each day until Fri-

day, Feb. 24 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or until the plants are all sold. Plants may be purchased at the Orangefield High School Ag De-partment. All plants cost $1 each and all proceeds will benefit the Orangefield FFA. Those interested can chose from the fol-lowing: Early Girl Tomatoes, Sweet 100 Tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, cucumbers, yellow squach, petunias, coleus and mari-golds.

For more information, please call 409-735-2034.

Girl’s Haven Gumbo Cook-off set for Feb. 25Girl’s Haven is excited to announce that their 18th Annual

Gumbo Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25. They will hold their annual gumbo cook-off to be held in the Parkdale Mall parking lot in Beaumont. This year’s entry fee will be a $100 donation to Girl’s Haven per team to secure a 10x10 space or $150 donation to Girl’s Haven per team to secure a 10x20 space. Spaces are available to those (businesses or persons) wish-ing to participate as cook team.

Gumbo will be judged in three categories: seafood, poultry and combination. There will also be a People’s Choice award given.

The Gumbo is schedule for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Live entertain-ment will be provide by Texas 80 Proof, Lamar Port Arthur, Stone Cold and other live entertainment. They will also be hosting Sonny “The Bird Man” for a live show. There will be a kid’s area with carnival like games that fun for the whole family. Gumbo tickets are sold on-site. Admission and parking is free. A large bowl or four small bowls of different gumbo is cost $7.

Sponsor’s include YMBL, SETMA, Quality Mat, Valero, Lamar Advertising and Clear Channel Radio, as well as many others.

For more information on cook teams or sponsorships, please call Alice Teeler or Pati Crittenden at Girl’s Haven at 409-832-6223.

OC Republican Party to meet Feb. 28The regular monthly meeting of the Orange County Republi-

can Party will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 28 in the Salvation Army Complex, on the corner of MLK and Strickland. The Orange County Republican Party will meet the fourth Tuesday of each month.

BC Knights of Columbus host Lenten dinnersBridge City Knights of Columbus Lenten fish dinners (fried

catfish, fries, coleslaw,hush puppies) begins from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Friday through March 30. Cost $8 per plate. Dine-in or take-out. Will deliver for ten or more. Please call in orders  Thursday evening or early Friday by 9 a.m. Please call 735-5725.

LCM Young Farmers to sell barbecue platesLittle Cypress-Mauriceville Young Farmers are taking orders

for barbecue plates with brisket, sausage, potato salad, beans and trimmings. They are $10 per plate and you can contact ei-ther Jennifer at 281-793-3364 or Carrie at 409-886-7988 to buy tickets. Pick up for plates is Saturday Feb. 25 from 11 am to 1 p..m at the Orange County Livestock Barn in Mauriceville, you will need to pre-order plates as we will not be selling additional plates on day of pick up. Last day to order plates will be Feb. 15th. The monies raised will go toward our scholarship fund.

LCM Young Farmers is having a garage sale Saturday March 3rd from 8-2 at Grace Lutheran Church 2300 Eddlemen Rd Or-ange (across from Memorial field). Monies raised will go toward scholarships and 2012 FFA State Convention for LCM students

BCHS Alumni Assoc. to meet March 3

The BCHS Alumni Association will meet on Thursday, March 3 at Bridge City High School. Also, a Fine Arts Exibit and Open House will be held at BCHS.

Deadline for BCISD Board of Trustees Application approaches

The deadline to file applications for be placed on Bridge City I.S.D School Board of Trustees. Regular (special) election ballot may be filed until March 5, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Drop off or mail applications to Bridge City I.S.D., Superintendents Office, 1031 W. Roundbunch, Bridge City, Tx 77611.

Lion Pride 5K set for March 24

A 5K run/walk has been scheduled for Saturday, March 29 at 9 a.m. in Claiborne Park. All proceeds will benefit the Community Christian School Athlet-ic Department. Paper registration forms can be found at www.searimstriders.org or those interested can register online at www.active.com under “Lion Pride 5K.”

A 1K kids run will begin at 10 a.m on March 29 and is for kids 12 years of age and under.

Pre-registration must be done by Friday, March 16, guaranteeing a t-shirt.

The pre-registration fee for the 5K is $20 and for the 1K is $12. Registration can be complete on the day of the race with fees for the 5K at $25 and $15 for the 1K.

Trophies for overall male and female winners will be given. First, second and third place trophies will be given in each age group . Groups include 14 and under, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69 and 70+. All 1K participants will receive a finisher’s med-al.

For more information, please contact Amanda Brit-

nell at 409-313-4357, 409-746-9753 or at amanda_britnell@yahoo.com.

Former DuPont instrument employees reunionThe annual reunion of former DuPont instrument employees

will be held Tuesday, March 6 at JB’s Barbecue at 5750 Old High-way 90 in Orange. The group will meet in the parking lot at 12 p.m. to visit and will move inside at 1 p.m. In the event of bad weather, plan to arrive at 12:45 p.m. Attendees will pay for their own lunch selection through the serving line. If you are a retired or former DuPont or INVISTA instrument employee, you are in-vited to attend this reunion.Visitors are welcome. For more in-formation, contact Dan Ryder at 409-504-5046 or danryder@ymail.com.

LCM FFA to host Spring Easter FundraiserThe Little Cypress-Mauriceville FFA is kicking off their Spring

Easter Fundraiser. Meat items and the dessert orders must are being taken and should be turned in by Friday, March 9, (Friday before Spring Break) and will be in before Easter Weekend. The forms and information are attached. To place an order, contact Brandy Whisenant, 409-886-5821 extension 1040 orbwhisenant@lcmcisd.org.

BC Project Graduation to host Ladies Night OutThe ladies of the community are invited to attend LADIES

NIGHT OUT, a night to come and enjoy a night of socializing and browsing with local vendors supporting your local business and Bridge City 2012 Project Graduation. This event will be held on March 24 at the Bridge City Community Center from 5 to 8 p.m. Admission is $5 and door prizes and finger foods will be available. For more information, please call Judy Shockley at 409-734-7365

Art in the Park scheduled for March 24

The 10th Annual Art in the Park is being planned by the Or-ange Convention and Visitors Bureau. March 24 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Artists, crafters, bands along with other activities will cre-ate this year’s one-day event.

There will be pony rides, a petting zoo and if weather cooper-ates a couple of bounce houses will be available for entertain-ment for children. Blues and jazz bands will play throughout the day and evening. Plans will also include a Barbershop Quartet and a Bagpipe Band strolling thru Stark Park as additional enter-tainment. Of course, food vendors will be on site all day.

For registration forms and details, please call 409-883-1011, 409-883-1010 or 800-528-4906 or stop by the office at 803 Green Avenue, Orange, Texas.

OC Relay for Life Survivor Dinner set for March 29

The Orange County Relay for Life Survivor Dinner is sched-uled for Thursday, March 29 from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Bridge City Community Center.

American Association of University Women collecting books

The Orange branch of The American Association of Universi-ty 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 annu-al scholarship fund.  Each year, the AAUW awards scholarships to two young women from Orange.

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 per-formed annually. Please visit us on Facebook at Orange Com-munity Band.

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Deaths and Memorials

To Be held:

JoAnn Guidry HernandezOrange

JoAnn Guidry Hernandez, 64, passed away Sun-day, Feb. 19, at Pinehurst Nursing and Rehab in Orange.

A grave-side service will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22, at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City with the Rev. Jeff Bell of Calvary Baptist Church in Port Acres.

Mrs. Hernandez was born Nov. 14, 1947, in Orange to Johnny Abe and Edna Joyce (Jordan) Guidry. She was a homemaker who enjoyed spending time with her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Michael J. Guidry and John R. Guidry and is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Stacy LeJeune Jarrell and Troy Jarrell of Athens, AL; son and daughter-in-law, John Steven LeJeune and Lea LeJeune of Bridge City. She is also sur-vived by six grandchildren and her sister, Alice Guidry Cox and husband, Damon of Spring. Marion D. “Mike” FultsOrange

Marion D. “Mike” Fults, 84, of Orange, p a s s e d away Sun-day, Feb. 19, at Bap-tist Hospital in Orange.

G r a v e -side Ser-vices and Military Honors will be held to honor his life at 2 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 25, at Autumn Oaks Memorial Park in Orange. Ser-vices are under the direction of Dorman Funeral Home in Orange.

Mike was born on Septem-ber 29, 1927 in Borger, Texas to his parents, Ernest Fults and Ethel (Waggoner) Fults, he resided in the Orange area since the early 50’s, he worked as a sales representative for George Wilson’s Men’s Cloth-ing Store in Beaumont and he was a veteran of the United States Army during the Korean era.

Mike enjoyed bowling where he played in bowling leagues, he enjoyed playing dominos and he enjoyed spending time

with his family. Mike is preceded in death by

his parents; his brother, John-ny Ray Fults Sr.; his daughter, Eva Marie Fults and his step son, Frankie.

Those who will most cher-ish his memory are his neph-ews, Johnny Ray Fults Jr. and wife, Ronecia of Orange, Da-vid Fults and wife, Donna of Bridge City and Jeff Fults and wife, Dawn of Bridge City and his sister-in-law, Clara Fults of Orange.

Held:

Charles “Charlie” GomezLittle Cypress

Charles “Charlie” Gomez, 77, of Little Cypress passed away Wednesday, Feb. 15, at Harbor Hospital in Beaumont.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 18, at Clay-bar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange with the Rev. David Turner, pastor of Little Cy-press Baptist Church, offici-ating. Burial followed at Hill-crest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City.

Born in Wiergate, Texas on April 23, 1934, Charlie was the son of Manuel and Juanita (Gonzales) Gomez. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Ko-rean War. He retired after 27 years from Inland Orange as a maintenance operator. Charlie was an active member of Little Cypress Baptist Church where he donated his time and skills. He was a 32nd Degree Mason with Lodge # 126. He was also an avid fisherman and enjoyed sharing his “catch” with oth-ers.

Preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Charlie is survived by his wife, Annette Gomez of Little Cypress; son and daughter-in-law, Jeffrey and Lynn Gomez of Little Cy-press; daughter and son-in-law, Juliana and Joshua Todd of Lewisville, Texas; grand-children, Joseph C. Spence and wife, Renee, Kimberly Gomez and Makayla Todd; six great-grandchildren; sisters and brothers, Delia Mendez of Conroe, Lola DeLuna of San Antonio, A.J. White of Orange, Josie Tipton of Little Cypress and Leroy Gomez of Pinehu-rst; god child, Ryan Anthony Hill; and numerous nieces, nephews and other loving family.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Little Cypress Baptist Church Building Fund, 3274 Little Cypress Drive, Or-ange, Texas.

Charles E. TealLawton, Okla.

CW4 (Retired) Charles E. Teal, 90, of Law-ton, Okla., p a s s e d away on Jan. 14, at his home.

Fu n e r a l s e r v i c e s were held on Jan.26 in the Becker Fu-neral Home Memorial Chapel with Lester Ogan, Pastor, New Testament Baptist Church in Lawton, officiating.

Burial with Full Military Hon-ors were held at Post Ceme-tery at Fort Sill under the di-

rection of the Becker Funeral Home and Cremation Service.

He was born May 14, 1921 in Orange, to Felix “Tom” and Theodocia (Cassel) Teal. He married Ursula I. Schweder-sky on Oct. 2, 1948 in Berlin, Germany. She died Aug. 20, 2006. He was a member of the New Testament Baptist Church.

He enlisted in the Army July 2, 1942 and retired July 31, 1971 after more than 29 years of service. He served in the SW Pacific (Australia, New Guinea and the Philip-pines) during World War II and later in Germany, Korea, Viet-nam and Alaska. He received numerous awards, citations, decorations and medals-in-cluding two Bronze Star Med-als and four Army Commen-dation Medals.

Charles was a quiet man of strong principles. He loved his family, his church and many friends-and was well-loved by all in return. He was an avid gardener and was still actively planting and harvesting at the age of 90. His pride and joy every year was his large har-vest of elephant garlic, which had been in his family for over 100 years. It will be harvested again this summer.

He is survived by a daugh-ter, Linda Carpenter, Lawton, Okla.; a son, Frank Teal, Las Cruces, N.M.; three grand-children; Bryan Teal and wife Tammy, Colorado Springs, Colo., Trida Teal, San Diego, Calif., Tiffany Sweeden and husband John; three great grandchildren, Haleigh, Lind-sey and John Jr. all of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; a broth-er, Aoyd Teal, Texas; and his favorite nieces, Gladys, Avis, Shirley, Doris Jane and DeeDee, all of Texas.

He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, seven brothers, Thomas, Granville, Raymond, Jack, Jessie, Lloyd and David, and seven sis-ters, Alberta, Bernilee, Viv-ian, Vernilee, Melvy, Evia and Doris.

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once known, It shall never forget.

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Mom and Family

Shangri La Botanical Gar-dens and Nature Center an-nounces upcoming programs for the Spring Saturday Adven-ture Series. Many of these pro-grams are hands-on activities and explore the natural world through informative natural history lessons from Shangri La educators. Below, you will find upcoming programs for the months of March, April and May. The Saturday Ad-venture Series programs begin at 9:30 a.m. and last about an hour. Participants will meet at the Admissions Window at the scheduled event time. All programs offered in the series are free of charge, but an RSVP is required as space is limited. Call 409-670-9799 to reserve a seat today.

March 3: Off the Beaten Path at Shangri La - In this adult program, visitors will view historic images of the artist’s cottage, old swimming pool, historical ferry crossing and more.

March 10: Green Clean-

ing Products - Attendees will learn how to make environ-mentally-friendly cleaning supplies from items found in the kitchen. This is a hands-on program for adults that will allow participants to make cleaning supplies and take home the finished products.

March 17: Landmarks of Shangri La - Explore histori-cal aspects of Shangri La in this adult program. Learn about the little-known his-tory of some familiar sights, including the bat house, bells throughout the gardens and greenhouses.

March 24: Lettuce on Your Patio - Adults will participate in a program about patio gar-dening to save space and will plant a container lettuce gar-den that can be taken home.

March 31: Morning Bird Walk - The whole family is in-vited to take a leisurely stroll along the pathways of Shangri La to look for migrating birds. Visitors will also visit Shangri La’s state-of-the-art heronry to view nesting birds on Ruby Lake.

April 7: Tree ID - Adults and plant enthusiasts will enjoy a

brief discussion on native tree species followed by a tree iden-tification walk.

April 28: Tracking 101 - During this family-friendly program, visitors will search for animal signs and markings while learning how to track animals using these clues. This program teaches the ba-sics of tracking in a fun, edu-cational way.

May 5: Wild Edibles - Ex-plore Shangri La and look for wild edibles. This family pro-gram educates visitors on the preparation of edible items found in the region. Attendees must also note that children are welcome, but there are po-tential allergy risks associated with eating wild plants.

The Saturday Adventure Series has programs for the young and young-at-heart. For those interested in attending, please RSVP by calling 409-670-9799. Located at 2111 West Park Avenue in Orange, Texas, Shangri La is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.shangrilagardens.org.

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Liberty Tax Service will of-fer a free tax preparation week to salute teachers, police, fire-fighters, medical service pro-fessionals, military service professionals, veterans, volun-teers, and those who work for charities and non-profit orga-nizations.

These tax breaks on prepa-ration fees will be in effect dur-ing the dates below for those

who are first-time customers. For more information, call 1-866-871-1040 for the office closest to you, or stop by one of the area offices.

Feb. 20 - Feb. 26: Military/Vets Appreciation Week

Feb. 27 - March 4: Teacher Appreciation Week

March 5 - March 11: Police & Firefighter Appreciation Week

March 12 - March 18: Hospi-tal/Medical Employee Appre-

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“With this offer, we wish to honor those that contribute to our community and show our appreciation for them making the Golden Triangle a better place to live,” said Kendra Wil-liams, Franchisee of Liberty Tax Service.

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LCM Young Farmers to sell barbecue platesStaff ReportFor The Record

Little Cypress-Mauricev-ille Young Farmers are tak-ing orders for barbecue plates with brisket, sausage, potato salad, beans and trim-mings. They are $10 per plate and you can contact either Jennifer at 281-793-3364 or Carrie at 409-886-7988 to buy tickets. Pick up for plates is Saturday Feb. 25 from 11 am to 1 p..m at the Orange County Livestock Barn in Mauriceville, you will need to pre-order plates as we will not be selling additional plates on day of pick up. Last day to order plates will be Feb. 15th. The monies raised will go toward our scholar-ship fund.

LCM Young Farmers is having a garage sale Satur-day March 3rd from 8-2 at Grace Lutheran Church 2300 Eddlemen Rd Orange (across from Memorial field). Monies raised will go toward scholarships and 2012 FFA State Convention for LCM students

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Here is a popular chicken dish that I love to cook. I hope to feature this dish on one of my daily specials coming up in March. Serve it with mashed potatoes, or alfredo pasta. As most of you know the Bakery people that I was sharing the building with has moved out. There-fore, I have the whole place to myself now, with the exception of the renter in the back of me. But he is separate from us and rarely there. So come check out our small, cozy little place for your next lunch outing start-ing March 1. Our Lunches will start at 11 a.m. and last till 2 p.m. We had such fun with the Sweetheart Dinner, that I may continue doing Reservations only Thursday, Friday and Sat-urday night. Oh, be sure and look for the Betty Boop Menu sign. I am still catering and doing our Casseroles to Go. In March we are featuring the Chicken and Dumplings Cas-serole, something you really need to try because it is sooooo good. Happy Eating!!

4 (6oz.) skinless, boneless

chicken breast halves2 oz. all-purpose

flour, divided (about ½ cup)

½ teaspoon of Kosher salt

¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 ½ tablespoons but-ter, divided

2 tablespoons olive oil, di-vided

¼ cup finely chopped shal-lots

4 medium garlic cloves, thinly sliced

½ cup dry white wine¾ cup fat-free, lower-sodium

chicken broth, divided2 tablespoons fresh lemon

juice1 ½ tablespoons drained ca-

pers3 tablespoons coarsely

chopped fresh flat-leaf parsleyPlace each chicken breast

half between two sheets of heavy-duty plastic wrap; pound to 1/2-inch thickness using a meat mallet or small heavy skillet. Place one tea-spoon flour in a small bowl, and place remaining flour in a shallow dish. Sprinkle both sides of chicken evenly with salt and pepper. Dredge chick-en in flour in shallow dish; shake off excess.

Melt one tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add one tablespoon oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add chicken to pan; sauté four minutes on each side or until done. Remove chicken from pan; keep warm.

Heat remaining one table-spoon oil in pan; swirl to coat. Add shallots to pan; sauté three minutes, stirring frequently. Add garlic; sauté one minute, stirring constantly. Add wine; bring to a boil scraping pan to loosen bits. Cook until liquid almost evaporates, stirring oc-casionally. Add ¼ cup broth to reserved one teaspoon flour;

stir until smooth. Add remain-ing ½ cup broth to pan; bring to a boil. Cook until reduced by half (about five minutes). Stir in flour mixture; cook one minute or until slightly thick, stirring frequently. Remove from heat; stir in remaining 1 ½ tablespoons butter, juice, and capers. Place one chicken breast half on each of four plates; top each serving with about two tablespoons sauce. Sprinkle each serving with about one teaspoons parsley.

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First thing off the bat I must tell you that I left the 3/4 cup milk off the recipe for cream cheese pound cake last week. Thanks to the watchful eye of Jenean Franks I have corrected my copy and learned a valu-able lesson. I have always put the date on the back of my copy before filing it, however, now I will also list exactly where I got the recipe from on it. That will save me much time digging for it.

If I were making a cake us-

ing a package cake mix as the base and found myself in such a pickle, I would check to see what the original box called for and go from there. If it was a liquid and I wasn’t sure of it, I’d use a little less than

the box said at first. You can always add liquid but you can’t take it out. Sorry ‘bout that.

Now for a warning I want to tell you: a “believe it or not.”

Now for the taco salad:1 head of lettuce (I use an al-

ready prepared garden fresh lettuce package)

2 tomatoes1 small onion (I use a purple

onion)1 cup grated cheddar cheese1 9-ounce package taco

chips (I bought a 16-ounce package and just took out a double handfull, saved the rest to make cheese nachos with)

1 bottle catalina dressing

1 large can ranch style beans, well-drained (I added 1 large can pitted black olives)

Directions: First, I put the beans and olives to draining. Then, I put the lettuce in the large bowl that I was going to serve the salad in. I cut the Ro-man tomatoes in half length-wise, then in small slices crosswise, but do not add until the last minute. Slice the pur-

ple onion and add to lettuce. Put the chips in a plastic bag, mash and put aside for later.

Now, if you are sure that you are ready to put it all together, do so. Save the chips to last so they won’t get soggy. It is kind of hard to save everything to last, but that seems the best way to do it. Use just how much dressing you like. It is gooder ‘n syrup, Von.

Cooking with Katherine: Chicken PiccataKatherine ArasFor The Record

Country Taco saladCountry Cookin’by Von Broussard

Von Broussard

Irish potatoes are a cool-season crop that grows best in the full sun with soil that is loose and well-drained.

Unlike other vegetables, they are not grown from a seed. You will need what is called seed potatoes. Do not use the potatoes from a gro-cery store for planting. The seed potato contains buds or “eyes” that sprout and grow into plants.

One pound of seed potatoes will make nine to 10 pieces.

For a spring crop, cut large seed potatoes into pieces that are one and a half to two inch-es. This is about the size of a medium egg. Each seed piece must have at least one good eye. You need to cut the pota-to five or six days before plant-ing and then keep the cut pieces in a well-ventilated place to it can heal and that prevents it from rotting when planted.

The potatoes should have small sprouts at planting time. Use a hoe to make your trench about three inches deep. Drop the seed pieces 10 to 12 inches

apart in the trench and cover about three inches deep.

All tubers that are produced on a potato plant are above the seed piece. The roots are be-low.

Because the seed piece is placed only three inches deep, the soil must be pulled toward the plant as it grows. This gives the tubers a place to grow.

Potatoes are ready to har-vest when the tops begin to doe and the potato skin be-comes firm. Most potato vari-eties are ready to dig 95 to 110 days after planting.

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BCCC now accepting Business, Citizen of Year applications

Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is accept-ing nominations for Business of the Year and Citizen of the Year. Please submit all nomina-tions in writing to Bridge City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 150 W. Round-bunch Rd, Bridge City, Tx. 77611. Deadline to submit nominations will be Feb. 8, 2012.

BCISD to administer Credit byExamination

Bridge City ISD, in accordance with Chapter

74.24 TAC, will administer the Texas Tech Uni-versity 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, Lan-guage 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 exami-nation to earn credit for an academic course for which they have had no prior instruction. Stu-dents must score at least 90 on the test to re-ceive course credit. Additional information and registration forms can be obtained by contact-ing Gina Mannino at: gina.mannino@bridgec-ityisd.net.

Rape and Suicide Crisis Center to offer support group meetings

The Rape and Suicide Crisis Center of South-east 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 Founda-tion 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 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 maxi-mum. The community is encouraged to join in the fun and free food to help support the Veter-ans. For more information, call 409-330-4847.

American Legion to host a brisket lunch

The American Legion Post 49, located at 108 Green Ave. in Orange, will host a brisket lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 1. The lunch includes brisket, link, potato salad, beans, bread and dessert for $7 per plate. Walk-ins welcome and delivery is available. Call 409-886-1241 after noon on Feb. 29 and before 9 a.m. on March 1 for orders and delivery.All proceeds go back into the American Legion Post 49, which is a non-profit Veteran organi-zation.

Something Old/Something New at Thrift and Gift set for March 1

The Thrift and Gift Store, located at 350 37th Street in Orange, is rearranging the their store to make space for their special Spring Sale. New vendors, experienced quilters and more volunteers are needed. They hold their monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to noon. Coffee, tea dessert and fellowship are offered at each meet-ing. For more information, please call 886-7649 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., Tuesday through Friday.

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Richard K. Catching III and Donnetta S. Harper

Melton J Marceaux and Bridget F Marceaux

Chad L Eaves and Kimberly A Carter

Matthew R Williams and Jennifer R Johnson

Robert B Fairall and Tracy A LeBlanc

Matthew A Boyd and Jenni-fer L Sullivan

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David C. Smith and Mayra D. van Bommel

Donald R. Richardson Jr. and Brandis L. Judge

Jesse Castaneda Jr. and Tri-cia D. Peterson

Jared S. Perkins and Jane L. Marburger

Brandon L. Nix and Chelsea B. Morales

Isaiah E. Raney and Kari M. LaStrapes

Steven R. Dressen and Mari-lyn E. Harper

Robert W Ellis and Whitney A Savage

Marriage Licenses issued by the office of Karen Jo Vance, Orange County Clerk for the week Jan. 9 to Feb. 17

Jacqueline D. Martin and Ci-cero Martin Jr.

David D. Smith and Veronica Smith

Crystale Lynn Falasco and Richard Kent Falasco

Curtis Robin and Annie Robin

Monica Marie Sprague and William Harold Sprague Jr.

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William Jones Jr. and Brandy Jones

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Debra Jone Garret-Smith and Jimmy Dale Smith

Samuel Walker Dial and Kristy Cheri Ellis

David M. Hastings and Pa-tricia L. Hastings

Jason Edward Dowell and Kathy Irene Dowell

Rachelle Rae Alhatri and Mahros Abubaker Alhabri

Valerie Nicole Morrow and David Wayne Morrow

Mary Ann Luquette and Kenneth Gregg Luquette

Kristi Anne Psencik and Kristoffer Psencik

Kami K. Francisco and Al-fredo E. Francisco

Bonnie J. Allen and Rodger D. Allen

Felicia Denise Charrier and Joch Price Charrier

Rodney E. Cole Jr. and Shei-lah G. Cole

Robert G. Ashworth III and Teri D. Ashworth

Krystal Lee Kendall and Jo-seph Allan Touchet

Gwen Leonard and Joseph Leonard III

Christina Ellis and William Ellis

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Mark S Fukuda and Phyllis Fukuda

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Miranda Sue Luckey and Le-roy Anthony Luckey

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Reka Lassien and Joshua Ed-wards

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Roger Richardson and Scar-let Richardson

Ashely Nichole Tipton and Wesley Donald Tipton

Angela Reeves and Lance Reeves

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Divorces issued by the office of Vickie Edgerly, Orange County District Clerk for the week Dec. 24, 2011 to Feb. 3, 2012

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I ran into Trey Smith over at Daley’s Hunt N Fish Friday morning and he wasn’t overly excited at the time about the weather forecast for the follow-ing day. He and his part-ner, Hunter Gothia, were headed to Rayburn to fish a Bass Champs event and a massive weather cell was on the same course.

Trey later said that Saturday was as bad as predicted.“We not only got rain and light-ning, but a big wind to go along with it all day long!”Unable to put a productive pattern to-gether obviously made the rain feel even cold-er and the wind more cutting for the Bridge City team. I can sympathize with them as I have been there and done that!

In spite of the horrendous weather or maybe because of it, the Louisiana team of Jerry Silm-on and Brett Hortman won the tournament with a very impressive five fish catch weigh-ing 29.61-pounds. Mike Garrett and Jarod Sheldon took home the big bass money with a 9.09-pound fish.

Rusty Clark of Sam Rayburn and Cory Ram-bo of Orange stayed on a roll and got it done once again as they took home the fifth place check with a solid 20.82-pound stringer. Jona-than Simon and AP Castino of Orange also had a good tournament as they cashed the ninth place check with 19.36-pounds.

Carolina rigs and football head jigs account-ed for the deeper fish, but slow rolled spinner baits and Traps fished over the shallow grass were responsible for good numbers as well as size. If you are waiting for the spawn to get started you are obviously late as a lot of the larger females are already staging.

On the salt water scene it was the same song

Big catch inbad weather

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Most any fisher-man who spends time on our lo-cal waters has a theory about how the tides work and where they need to be to catch fish during those tides.

S u r p r i s i n g l y enough there are plenty of people who don’t understand how important the tides really are, or for that mat-ter what a tide is. According to Web-ster’s dictionary, tide is the periodic variation in the surface level of the oceans, bays, gulfs, inlets, and estu-aries caused by gravitational attrac-tion of the moon and sun. The influ-ence the moon has over the tides is extreme to say the least. During the first and third quarters of the moon phase the tides are the weakest and have the smallest differences between the highs and the lows.

These small tide changes are called “neap tides”. On the other end of the spectrum are the “spring tides”, these occur when the moon is new or full. During the spring tides the differ-ences between the high and low tides are the greatest. By thinking about these patterns you can understand why so many people plan fishing trips around the moon phases. The full or new moon phases mean more mov-ing water because the tides are more extreme, this translates into more ac-tive fish.

Now that we have established what the tides are and how they get there energy we need to know what effect they have on the fish. During certain

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second verse for the Orange team of Aaron Hommel and Adam Jaynes. “We could deal with the wind and rain,” said Jaynes, “but lightning sent us scrambling for cover more than once during the day. In a nut shell…it was scary!”

After a week of struggling to find any trout at all, Hom-mel and Jaynes were pleased just to weigh in three fish for a 10-pound total.“You always want to place in the money, but consistency is equally im-portant when fishing a series,” pointed out Jaynes. “We didn’t finish in the money this time, but the ten pounds earned us enough points to keep us in second place for the year.”

All of the fresh water proved to be the stumbling block as the few big trout that they found in practice had moved.

“We got very few bites and I can’t say that we even got a shot at a big trout, but we knew it was going to be tough before we ever launched the boat.”

Because of the travel time involved in making it to the weigh-in, the Orange duo los-es a couple of hours of fishing when they fish Sabine. That hasn’t been a problem thus far, but Jaynes pointed out that they may fish a whole lot closer to the weigh-in site next month. “We’d love to fish here again, but if it keeps raining we’ll have to run to the short rigs to find any salt water on Sabine.”

The teams that chose to fish the Matagorda area dealt with the same conditions early, but the weather passed through and their big trout showed up for them. Roger and Joe Fried-

richs posted an incredible three trout stringer weighing 19.09-pounds that included two fish over the seven pound mark. After buying their boat in the Calcutta and winning first and third in the big trout pot, the duo walked off with a $6026 check. That tends to make inclement weather much more bearable!

Even after earning the sec-ond place check of $2789, Ray Malone and Ryan Sweezy must have still been some-what disappointed. They had to have felt pretty confident driving back to the scales with 18.49-pounds of trout on a day when most sane folks wouldn’t even consider fishing and not win. It took very respectable 13.41-pounds to finish in the top five, but the weights fell off pretty quickly after that.

The redfish were still do-ing their thing on Sabine fol-lowing all of the rain, but the trout have gotten even harder to find for most of us. Calmer winds will help a lot of the silt settle out in the open lake, but the bayous and the rivers are still pumping in a lot of cold muddy water with more rain on the way.

This is really pretty typi-cal for Sabine this time of the year, but we had gotten spoiled with the water clarity, compli-ments of a year long drought. The good news is that while we will struggle a little local-ly both Rayburn and Toledo Bend are finally building lev-els. With the current levels as low as they are right now, you can look for a parade of double digit bass to make their way to the scales again this spring.

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ATHENS--So far five fish have been entered into the Toyota ShareLunker program for the 2011-2012 season, and Lake Austin has produced three of them.

Wesley Hayden of Round Rock caught Toyota Share-Lunker 527 from Lake Austin February 11. Landon Glass of Jarrell caught No. 528 from the lake February 14.

Brett Ketchum caught No. 526 from Lake Austin January 29, starting the three-fish streak.

Hayden was fishing in four feet of 57-degree water about 2 p.m. using a jig when he hooked the 13.22-pound fish. It was 26 inches long and 21.25 inches in girth.

Glass caught his 13.03-pound Toyota Share-Lunker while fishing in 10 feet of 58-degree water with a Sixth Sense football jig. A scan

of the fish revealed it is the same fish caught February 27, 2010, by Carl Adkins of Aus-tin, at which time it became Toyota ShareLunker 481. At that time the fish weighed 13.1 pounds. DNA testing at the time revealed the fish to be pure Florida largemouth.

The explosion of big fish from Lake Austin has its roots in years past. “I believe a com-bination of our Florida bass stocking program and good habitat have led to great pro-duction over the years,” said Marcos DeJesus, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s fisheries biologist in charge of managing the lake’s fishery. “There were probably a couple of good year classes several years ago, and some of those individuals are now breaking that ShareLunker barrier.”

Every fish entered into the Toyota ShareLunker program has a passive integrated tran-sponder (PIT) tag injected into its body cavity for tracking and can be identified if re-

caught. One fish from Lake Alan Henry was caught and entered into the program three years in a row.

Both Lake Austin fish were picked up by a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Inland Fisheries staff member from the A.E. Wood Fish Hatchery in San Marcos. Since the Glass fish is pure Florida large-mouth, it will be taken to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens for the duration of the spawning period. DNA testing showed ShareLunker 527 to be an in-tergrade. Intergrades, mix-tures of Florida and northern largemouth, are returned to

the lake where caught as soon as possible.

Lake Austin will receive a portion of any Toyota Share-Lunker fingerlings produced during the current season. Any lake that produces a ShareLunker receives a share of the season’s fingerlings, whether any of the fish from that lake are spawned or not. These fingerlings will be the offspring of pure Florida fe-males paired with pure Florida males that are themselves the offspring of ShareLunkers.

“We feel that this selective breeding process results in the

Latest ShareLunker catch is recapture of fish caught in 2010

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Brett Ketchum of Austin landed Toyota ShareLunker 526 from Lake Austin January 20. The 13.0-pound fish was 25.75 inches long and 20.25 inches in girth.

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Forshage also noted that the main purpose of stocking ShareLunker fingerlings is not to pro-duce trophy fish for anglers to catch. “The rea-son we stock these fish, and the reason we want to use only pure Florida bass in the selective breeding program, is that we know Florida bass grow bigger and faster than native northern largemouths, and by stocking pure Florida fin-

gerlings from trophy fish, we will have a greater impact on the genetics of the overall large-mouth population in the lake,” he said. “In ad-dition, since fingerlings from different parents are mixed before being stocked, these stock-ings help to promote genetic diversity.”

TFFC also uses some of the ShareLunker off-spring to produce broodfish for TPWD’s regu-lar largemouth bass stocking program, which annually stocks millions of fish into Texas pub-lic waters. “In this way we are introducing ShareLunker genetics into the general large-mouth bass population,” Forshage said.

Recent advances in DNA technology now al-low TPWD to determine if a fish entered into the Toyota ShareLunker program is an off-spring of a previous ShareLunker. This tech-nology has been available only since 2005, and it takes seven to 10 years for a bass to reach 13

pounds and be eligible for the program. “We are looking forward to the day when we get the DNA test results from a ShareLunker and can say, ‘That is one of our fish,’” Forshage said.

Anyone legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may submit the fish to the Toyota ShareLunker pro-gram by calling program manager David Campbell at (903) 681-0550 or paging him at (888) 784-0600 and leaving a phone number in-cluding area code. Fish will be picked up by TPWD personnel within 12 hours.

Anglers entering fish into the Toyota Share-Lunker program receive a free replica of their fish, a certificate and ShareLunker clothing and are recognized at a banquet at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens.

The person who catches the season’s largest entry will be named Angler of the Year and will receive a prize package from G. Loomis valued at $818. If a Texas angler catches the largest en-try of the season, that person also receives a lifetime fishing license valued at $1,000.

For complete information and rules of the ShareLunker program, tips on caring for big bass, a list of official Toyota ShareLunker weigh and holding stations and a recap of last year’s season, see http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/share-lunker. The site also includes a searchable data-base of all fish entered into the program along with pictures where available.

Information on current catches, including short videos of interviews with anglers when available, is posted on www.facebook.com/sharelunkerprogram.

The Toyota ShareLunker Program is made possible by a grant to the Texas Parks & Wild-

life Foundation from Gulf States Toyota. Toyo-ta is a long-time supporter of the Foundation and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, pro-viding major funding for a wide variety of edu-cation, fish, parks and wildlife projects.

Pictured left to right: Jonathan Breaux, Jacob Tre-vino, DeAndre Jones and Alex ParrishPhoto courtesy of BD Photography

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During the fall it is opposite, outgoing tides help bring the bait into the lake as they empty the marshes. Either tide will help you catch fish, the main thing is to at least have some tidal movement. The periods between the tides are referred to as “slack”, during these times the fishing tends to be much slower. The tides trig-ger most fish into becoming more active, it is almost like ringing the dinner bell so to speak.

Now the tide schedules you see in the news-papers and magazines will give you an idea when the tides will occur. These schedules do not take into account what kind of weather or wind conditions may be present so you need to use a little common sense. For example, if the schedule calls for a weak outgoing tide and the wind is blowing strong from the south you may not see any change in the water level. The big south wind will essentially hold the water up from leaving. The exact opposite happens in the winter months when you have an out going tide and a strong north wind, the water levels fall dramatically. There are different factors to take into account, just be aware of the condi-tions.

One other important piece of the tide puz-zle deals with correction factors for the tides. Your evening news may call for tides at Sabine Pass to take place at 1 a.m., that time will be different if you fish in another part of the Sa-bine area. What you need to know is what is the correction factor for your area. The time differ-

ence between Sabine Pass and Sydney Island is just over an hour depending on the conditions.

So if the tide is supposed to change at 1 a.m. at Mesquite Point it should start to change at Sydney Island around 2:00 a.m. under normal conditions. Now the visible movement may not be evident but the influence is there. The marshes on the other hand are tougher to gauge when it comes to tides, things like wind and runoff can make it almost impossible to calcu-late the tides correctly. All you can do is keep good records and watch the conditions in order to get a better feel for how the water will react to certain conditions.

The tides are not difficult to understand as long as you find some reliable information. My own personal choices for tide information comes from the Gulf Coast Fisherman maga-zine, sometimes called the Harold Wells report. The tides, moon phases, feeding times, and other information is in there in great supply. The correction factors and tide schedules are listed for the entire gulf of Mexico, from Texas to Florida. It is a very valuable piece of litera-ture. Another great publication for tide infor-mation is Texas Saltwater Fishing magazine, they have probably one of the best overall tide charts out there.

Along with the tide chart there are also some great forecasts for feeding times all on one graph, very helpful when planning trips for both fishermen and hunters. There are oth-ers out there as well, all you can do is look at some of them and see if they match what you see on the water. Having confidence in one over another takes time, but it is time well spent.

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4B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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For over 30 years the Bridge City Little League has ensured a special group of children don’t miss out on the fun of playing baseball.

Amy Patterson with the Bridge City Little League Challenge League are teams with special needs children playing on them. Though Pat-terson and her husband don’t have a child playing in the Challenge League, she said they have always admired the idea of the Challenge League.

“It’s a great thing,” she said. “It’s one of the most things we get to do. The kids are so won-derful. They don’t complain; it’s about them having fun.”

There are over 25 special needs kids playing in the

league and it’s free for any child. All different ages, from 4 to 18, play with girls as well as boys playing.

Games are usually played on Saturday nights and the sea-son lasts from March to May. Some of the kids are also in-volved in Little Dribblers and the Cub Scouts.

Patterson described the league as close-knit . She add-ed the league couldn’t func-tion without the parents par-ticipating.

“We’re more like a family. Last year, the parents wore their tennis shoes and played baseball that day. The kids got to put their parents out at first base. It was pretty classic. Par-ents are the true heroes. We couldn’t do it without them,” she said.

Patterson said Erin James is a big help to the league and she really appreciates parents trust them to work with their

kids each week. Many youth organizations

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from Bridge City High School and the Big Red mascot always come out. A little later in the season, the varsity cheerlead-ers from neighboring Orange-field High School and the Bob-cat mascot also come out.

Patterson said those days are pretty special for the kids.

Cub Scouts, church groups, BCHS and OHS baseball, soft-ball and volleyball players also visit the Challenge League.

Closing ceremonies are a big deal too for the children.

“Everyone pretty much vol-unteers when I ask,” Patterson said. “We have lots of volun-teers at the game and we also celebrate with a dunking booth and bouncy castles.

“There’s lots of hugs, smiles and high fives.”

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WASHINGTON, Texas – Historical re-en-actors portraying Texas heroes Col. William B. Travis, Gen. Sam Houston and Davy Crock-ett will help lend an authentic air to the Texas Independence Day celebration March 3-4 at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site.

This year’s two-day festival commemorates the 176th anniversary of the signing of the Tex-as Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836, by 59 men who gathered on the banks of the Brazos River for the Independence Conven-tion. Children are invited to have their photo taken with the Texas heroes.

A special Texas Independence Day program will be held starting at 1:30 p.m. in the park amphitheater with a performance by the Ag-gie Wranglers, a high-energy country-western dance group. Highlighting the program will be a 3 p.m. roll call of the direct descendants of the

signers of the document who declared Texas’ freedom from Mexican rule. Visitors may want to arrive at the amphitheater at 12:45 p.m. to enjoy the Tanner Family Minstrel Show.

Appearing on the afternoon program will be Bob Heinonen, who will portray Alamo com-mander William B. Travis for the final time after 20 years of interpreting his character at the annual celebration. The day’s program con-cludes at 3:15 with a blackpowder rifle salute and the traditional cutting and serving of piec-es of a Texas-sized birthday cake.

There is no cost to attend the two-day festi-val that takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the 293-acre “Birth-place of the Republic of Texas” located between Navasota and Brenham.

Throughout the weekend, park visitors will be transported back to a time when Texas was a sovereign nation. The public can mingle with members of the Texas Army and other re-en-actors attired in period clothing, admire the

craftsmanship of skilled Texas artisans and immerse themselves in the music and stories of the republic’s past. On both days, vendors will be selling food and drinks.

During the weekend, park visitors will be able to stop in at a river overlook campsite and ex-perience a slice of what daily life was like for those who volunteered to fight for Texas in-dependence as a member of the Texian Army.

There also will be small arms and artillery firing demonstrations at the overlook and the Washington Inn.

Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site features three attractions that are open year round: Independence Hall, the Star of the Republic Museum and the Barrington Liv-ing History Farm. The event is made possible through funding from the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park Association, Exxon/Mobil Corporation and Bluebonnet Electric Co-op.

The Star of the Republic Museum will be opening a new exhibit titled “A Slice of Life: Washington in the 19th Century.” The exhibit focuses on the people, businesses and events that influenced the fledging village of Wash-ington in the 1830s. In the early days of the re-public, the village at the site of a major Brazos River crossing was a hub for medical practices, land offices, mercantile establishments, hotels, a newspaper and taverns. A sneak preview of the Asa Hoxey collection also is planned. The exhibit continues through the end of the year.

Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site is located between Brenham and Navasota off State Hwy. 105 and FM 1155, approximately one hour northwest of Houston. For directions or more information, call the state historic site at (936) 878-2214.

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Entergy Texas, Inc. is joining forces with other low-income advocates in Washington, DC, this week to urge Congress to find $5.1 bil-lion for America’s front-line energy assistance program. The Low Income Home Energy As-sistance Program helps low-income citizens pay utility bills for heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.

Mary Young, senior customer operations support specialist for Entergy Texas, is on hand to represent the company, along with employ-ees from Entergy’s other utility companies.

According to a new study from Indiana Uni-versity, tough economic times have driven mil-lions of Americans into poverty in recent years

and those numbers will increase even as the economy rebounds. The U.S. Census Bureau ranks Texas as tied for America’s fourth-high-est poverty rate in the nation with roughly 4.4 million Texans living at or below the poverty level. Meanwhile, LIHEAP funding has been reduced by nearly 40 percent over the last two years.

“If LIHEAP funding is cut as proposed, it will mean nearly 62,000 fewer families will be served in Texas,” said Vernon Pierce, customer service director, Entergy Texas, Inc. “We’ve got to do all we can to help our neighbors and fel-low Texans find the means to pay for essential heating and cooling.”

Although LIHEAP prioritizes families with preschoolers, elderly or disabled members, many U.S. veterans and their families need

LIHEAP. In fact, 20 percent of LIHEAP house-holds are veterans, and in some cases, the fami-lies of active-duty service men and women.

Entergy employees and charitable groups are participating in the National Fuel Funds Net-work’s Action Day for Low Income Home Ener-gy Assistance Program to call for more funding at the federal level. Entergy has many programs designed to meet the needs of its low-income customers including The Power to Care Fund made up of contributions from customers, em-ployees, and shareholders. However, even with these programs and charitable organizations, the needs still outpace available resources.

“We and many others are asking Con-gress to provide $5.1 billion for LIHEAP,” Pierce said. “Families in vulnerable situa-tions are turning to LIHEAP in record num-

bers to make it through these still tough times.”

Citizens can stay connected to the discussion and can even sign an online petition in

support of LIHEAP funding by visiting na-tionalfuelfunds.org and clicking on “LIHEAP Action Day”.

Entergy Texas, Inc. provides electricity to more than 400,000 in 27 counties. Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power produc-tion and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approxi-mately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy deliv-ers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

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Entergy Employees Speak Out for LIHEAP Proposed Budget Cuts Threaten Assistance to Nearly 62,000 Texas Households

Last week, President Obama announced his Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget proposal. Rather than a blueprint for putting our financial house in order, his budget plan would add more than $11 trillion to the national debt in coming years – in spite of the nearly $2 trillion in higher taxes that would only serve to undermine our economic recovery.

The President’s new budget would increase spending for dozens of programs that have been proven ineffective. And it would slash defense spending to unprecedented levels that could put our troops and our citizens at risk. But worst of all, President Obama once again ignored our biggest fiscal challenge.

The Social Security and Medicare Trust

Funds are on a path to bankruptcy. Social Security’s Chief Actuary estimates that its re-serves will run out in 2036, which would mean automatic benefit cuts by about one-fourth in order to keep sending out monthly checks to tens of millions of senior citizens. Medicare is in worse shape, with bankruptcy looming as early as 2022.

To ignore all of this is the present day equiv-alent of Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Nevertheless, in his 7,000 word State of the Union address, the President devoted 40 words to the Social Security and Medicare pro-grams.

We need – and the American people ought to demand – a serious, bipartisan effort to shore up these two vital programs before it is too late. By making incremental reforms now, we can protect retirement and health care benefits for several decades. But endless fiddling by Con-

gress and the White House guarantees huge pain for taxpayers and financial insecurity for tens of millions of senior citizens.

The place to start is Social Security. Ameri-cans are living longer, healthier lives than when Social Security was first enacted in 1935. If no adjustments are made, these huge demographic shifts will exhaust the Trust Fund’s financial reserves in less than 25 years, and big, auto-matic cuts in monthly benefits ($270/month, in today’s dollars) will be triggered.

Fortunately, such a catastrophe can be avoid-ed without taking drastic steps – provided ac-tion is taken soon. Legislation I introduced last year (The Defend and Save Social Security Act) illustrates that only modest steps are needed today.

My bill would assure that Social Security remains solvent until 2085 without raising taxes or cutting core benefits. It would do so by gradually increasing the Social Security eligibility age for those who are 57 or younger by increasing the eligibility age three months each year with a cap at 69 in 2027. Additionally, under my bill, the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) would be modified, so that any year in which the COLA exceeds 1 percent it would be decreased by 1 percent. However, if in any year, the COLA is calculated to be less than 1 per-cent, the final COLA would be reduced to zero. For example, this year’s COLA was 3.6 percent, so under my bill the increase of 3.6 percent would be reduced to 2.6 percent.

Exactly how to adjust eligibility age and cost-of-living adjustments can be worked out, if

there is leadership from the White House and a bipartisan Congressional commitment to take responsibility for protecting Social Security now. The same type of timely, bipartisan action would assure that Medicare is shored up, too.

Social Security, Medicare, and other man-datory spending programs already account for more than one-half of annual federal govern-ment spending. Without reforms, all of these mandatory spending programs will grow to more than 75 percent of the federal budget within ten years. Not only would this threaten millions of senior citizens, it would leave too little for national defense, education, research, and other vital national priorities.

It is profoundly disappointing that President Obama’s last budget proposal before he stands for reelection has all of the weaknesses of his previous ones. The Senate unanimously reject-ed his budget last year, and will probably do so again this year. But rejecting a bad budget plan isn’t enough.

Just as Social Security and Medicare were enacted with broad bipartisan support, secur-ing and saving these programs requires both political parties in Congress to work together. That is the only way to avoid the politicizing of the issue. Constructive dialogue and debating choices openly will bring us to solutions that are in the national interest.

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

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A budget lacking entitlement reform shows no leadership, proposals increase debtU.S. Senator Kay Bailey HutchisonSpecial To The Record

Registration is now open for Art Quest, free youth art classes offered by the Stark Museum of Art. The classes will be available for students in grades 1 - 8 and will take place during the week of Orange County public school spring break, March 13 - 16, 2012.

Art Quest participants will learn about the paintings and sculptures at the Museum and gain hands-on experience creating art. Advance registration is required and appli-cation forms are available on the Museum’s website, www.starkmuseum.org. Applica-tion forms are due by March 5, and class space is limited. Each class takes place over two half-days.

Children in grades 1 - 2 can take an imagi-nary trip in “Around the World in Two Morn-ings” on March 13 - 14, from 9:00 until 11:30 a.m. Or, children in grades 1 - 2 can choose to play with paint in “Squish, Squash, Gouache”

on March 15 - 16, from 9:00 until 11:30 a.m.Children in grades 3 - 5 will build tall towers

and learn about pueblos and pagodas in “Awe-some Architecture” on March 13 - 14 from 1:30 until 4:00 p.m.

Older students in grades 6 - 8 will create art inspired by international adventure in “Maps and Journeys,” on March 15 - 16 from 1:30 until 4:00 p.m.

Amelia Wiggins, Educator for Public Pro-grams at the Stark Museum of Art, encourages local families to sign up for Art Quest soon. “We are very excited to offer extra-curricular art classes for children once again this spring. Classes fill quickly, so we encourage families to apply as soon as possible by filling out the ap-plication form available on our website,” says Wiggins.

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Located at 712 Green Avenue in Orange, Texas, Stark Museum of Art is open to the pub-lic 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.

Stark Museum of Art offers Art Quest: Spring Break Art Classes for ChildrenStaff ReportFor The Record

6B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 22, 2012

A fuel refund announced for Entergy Texas, Inc. customers late last year has been final-ized with the impact to cus-

tomer bills more than origi-nally expected.

Entergy Texas, Inc., the Pub-lic Utility Commission of Tex-as and other stakeholders ironed out details of the re-fund which will cover over-re-

covery of fuel costs for Decem-ber 2010 through December 2011, bringing the total refund up to $67 million.

As a result, customers can expect to see a refund of $21.70 reflected on bills each month

in March, April and May.“Fuel costs have remained

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Per PUCT rules, Entergy Texas determines twice a year what it will charge customers for the fuel it uses to generate electricity. The amount charged is based on fuel costs at that time. The recovery charge stays in place on bills for the next six months. Fuel prices, however, change fre-quently, so the company may not recover enough of what it paid for fuel or it may recover too much.

When too much is recov-ered, customers receive the re-fund through their bills. En-tergy Texas does not earn a profit on fuel expenses and only passes actual fuel costs through to its customers. The PUCT must approve all fuel charges.

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When Texas seceded from the Union, and the Civil War came to Orange, three mili-tary companies were estab-lished.

They were the Orange Light Guard, The Orange Greys, and Hannah’s Company. There was also the Orange County Coast Guard and several com-panies of state troops.

There was never an estab-lished system of fortifications. There was a Confederate en-campment up the Sabine River at Niblett’s Bluff.

The Sabine River forks near West Bluff. The main channel goes west and the old river fork goes eastward. Niblett’s Bluff is on the east fork.

Between the two forks is a 14-mile long island. The actu-al crossing of the river takes several miles since Niblett’s Bluff is upriver from the fork. It is a short voyage as opposed to a direct crossing.

The Bluff is the first cross-ing into Louisiana on the river. From the mouth of the Sabine to the Bluff is marsh and swamp. If the Union forces were to attempt to cross into Texas up the river from Or-ange, it would be at Niblett’s Bluff.

There had been a settlement at the Bluff since about 1840.

It was first called Millspaw’s Bluff and later Jericho. It was finally named for Robert C. Neblett, who had a plantation in the area before moving into Grimes County.

It is not clear how the spell-ing of the name changed from Neblett to Niblett.

Niblett’s Bluff had become an important and convenient shipping point for lumber and cotton as well as being the crossing for the road between Houston and Opelousas. At one time there had been two stores and a hotel. The popula-tion had dwindled to about 50 by 1861, but it was still a scene of much shipping and stage coach crossings.

The importance of the Bluff to the Confederacy and to the Union invaders was well known. By 1863, there was a significant army presence.

The fortification at the Bluff was a “redoubt” — a rectangu-lar fortification with walls six-feet thick at the base and eight-feet high. There was an enfi-lade; a platform for the troops to stand on to fire over the wall. Artillery would consist of one two-gun section of Cap-tain O.G. Jones Texas Light Artillery, two mountain how-itzers and one 32-pound can-non.

Major General John Bank-head Magruder, commander of the District of Texas, came to Niblett’s Bluff in May, 1863.

Magruder had been the commander of the Confeder-ate forces that recaptured Galveston from the Union in January, 1863.

The defense of the Bluff was closely tied to the defense of Texas. Magruder was an ag-gressive and innovative offi-cer, just what the isolated Dis-trict of Texas needed.

Louisiana was important to

Texas as well as to the Trans-Mississippi Department. Niblett’s Bluff would be the first fort to encounter the Union forces if they should in-vade up the Sabine River and it was important to block the crossing from Union land forc-es attempting to cross into Texas. Orange, Sabine Pass and Beaumont were tied into the railroad hub at Houston.

In April, 1863, Union Gen-eral Nathaniel Banks was pushing out of captured New Orleans and had taken Bayou LaFourche and had moved into Bayou Teche. Port Hud-son and Vicksburg would shortly be under siege by the Union.

Forces were moving through central Louisiana and the Confederate forces did not know if Banks would continue to move westward through Southwest Louisiana and in-vade Texas by way of Niblett’s Bluff.

After Union victories at Bis-land Plantation and Irish Bend, Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Mouton, with a brigade of Louisiana Infan-try, was ordered to Niblett’s Bluff.

By May 19, it had become oblivious that the Union was turning east to attack Port Hud-son and that Banks was with-drawing from Alexandria to at-tack Port Hudson. Confederate Lieutenant General Kirby Smith believed that Niblett’s bluff would be the ideal place to ren-dezvous forces in the event that Port Hudson fell and the enemy then attempt to enter Texas.

Smith also ordered a military

road to be built between Niblett’s Bluff and Vermilion-ville. Smith approved Magruder as the commander of forces at the Bluff.

Magruder ordered large quantities of supplies to be stored at the Bluff and made it an important commissary

center. He ordered two com-panies of the 20th Texas In-fantry Regiment to protect the army supplies.

On September 8, 1863 a Union invasion force of four gunboats and seven troop transports appeared off of Sa-bine Pass. After a 45- minute battle, the 46 Confederate de-fenders of Fort Griffin with six old smoothbore cannons had defeated the 6,000 man Union invading force.

Magruder later learned from captured Union prisoners that had the invasion been success-ful, the Union force would im-mediately have attacked Niblett’s Bluff and then marched to Beaumont and Houston.

On September 12, Magrud-er learned that the enemy had returned to Berwick Bay but was planning to march to Niblett’s Bluff by land across Southwest Louisiana.

Rebels on the river; the fort at Niblett’s BluffMike LouviereFor The Record

Old Confederate Road marker

NIBLETT’S BLUFF PAGE 9B

Close-up of the monument at the memorial

The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7B

CHURCH BRIEFS

First Baptist Church Orangefield

9788 F.M. 105 Orangefield, 409-735-3113

Pastor Forrest WoodSun.: 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 PracticeEmail: office@fbcof.com

www.fbcof.com

Cowboy Church of Orange County

673 FM 1078 Orange409-718-0269

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- 735-5546Pastor Brad Morgan

office@stpaulfamily.orgSun. 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 YouthSun. 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) 745-3973Sun. 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

1011 10th St., Suite 108, Orange

409-779-3566•409-883-0333backtoGodnow@gmail.comwww.backtogodfreshanoint-

ingministries.comPastor Gerald Gunn

Co-Pastor Pearlie GunnSun. 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.

First United Methodist Church

502 Sixth Street 409-886-7466

Pastor: Rev. John WarrenDir. of Fine Arts & Music:

Doug RogersOrganist: Justin SandersDir. of Youth & Christian

Education: Allisha BonneauxSunday: Worship in the Cha-

pel: 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.

409-882-0018Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

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

Wednesday Evening - 6 p.m.

“Our church family wel-comes you!”

First Christian Church of Orangefield

4234 FM 408 (between BC & Orangefield) 409-735-4234

Minister Jim HardwickSunday School: 9 a.m.;

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

Wednesday: Prayer & Bible Study 7 p.m.

Nursery providedFor 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 CruseSun. 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 DoucetFounding 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, OrangeLead Pastor: Ray McDowell

Music Pastor: Bruce McGraw

Youth Pastor: Michael PiggChildren’s Pastor: Marilyn

BallSunday 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, BCOffice: 409-735-3581

Fax: 409-735-8882www.fbcbc.org

Rev. Bob Boone, PastorSunday 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, Orange409-882-0862

Ruth Logan Burch, PastorSun. 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, Orange409-735-8580

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 NAsst. Pastor Daniel RayMusic: Sherry DartezPastor Bob Simmons

Sunday Morning 10:30 a.m.Sunday Evening 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

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First UMC to host Ash Wedensday serviceFirst United Methodist Church of Orange will host Ash

Wednesday services at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Feb. 22 in Slade Chapel. The church is located at 502 N. Sixth St.

St. Francis KCs holding fish frySt. Francis of Assisi Knights of Columbus Council 13825 will

be selling fish dinners from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 24, March 9, March 16, March 23 and March 30 in the San Damiano Center located at 4300 Meeks Drive from during Lent on the following Fridays:

The dinners include two fish filets, fries, hush puppies, cole-slaw, dessert and tea for $8. Dine or carry out.

St. Mark Lutheran Church to host Wednesday potluck

St. Mark Lutheran Church will host a potluck dinner on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. The community is invited to bring a covered dish, join brothers and sisters from Trinity Luther Church in Orange and share in a great fellowship and food on Ash Wednesday. A gathering in the St. Mark Lutheran Sanctu-ary will begin at 7 p.m. to commemorate their Lenten journey with the imposition of ashes, Holy Communion and anointing of

heating oil. St. Mark Lutheran Church has open Communion for those

who believe in the Lord. The community is invited to attend their services for wonderful Christian fellowship.

St. Mark Lutheran Church is located at 945 W. Roundbunch in Bridge City.

Wesley UMC selling pecans, walnutsWesley United Methodist Church is selling pecans and wal-

nuts. This year’s crop of pecans halves and pieces sell for $10 per pound. Walnuts sell for $8 per pound. To place orders call Billy at 409-883-3210 or 670-6350, Frankie at 409-988-4215 or Con-nie at 409-883-4995. We will deliver five pounds or more to in-dividuals or businesses.

Starlight COGIC to host Women’s RetreatThe Women’s Department of Starlight COGIC invite women

in the community to join them for Women’s Retreat 2012. The retreat will be held April 13-15 at the Omni Houston Westside Hotel. The Theme of the retreat is “Woman at The Well,” St. John 4:15.

Their Guest Speakers are Evangelist Yvonne DeVaughn of Phoenix, Arizona and Supervisor Lena McClain of Houston, Texas. There will be dynamic powershops such as, “Empowered to Serve,” “Will the Real Men Please Stand Up,” “Soloing with a Song,” “Till Death Do We Part...So Help Me,” and more. For double occupancy, the cost is $225 per person, a triple is $195 per person, a quad is $180 per person, and teens $99. Pay your $75 deposit by March 12 at 2800 Bob Hall Rd to guarantee your space or go to www.starlightcogic.net and pay by using paypal. Rev. E.B. Lindsey is Pastor of Starlight and First Lady Josie Lind-sey is the Director of the Women’s Dept. For more information call 409-8864366.

Boy Scout Troop 23 honored ‘The Four Chaplains’

Boy Scout Troop 23 presented a memorial service the night of Feb. 8 at North Orange Baptist Church in memory of “The Four Chaplains.” The four chaplains gave their own life jackets to soldiers who were jumping overboard the SS Dorchester after it hit by a German torpedo. This was the first time the Boy Scouts have presented the memorial. RECORD PHOTO: David Ball.

Niblett’s Bluff From Page 6B

In relation to Lutcher The-ater’s upcoming performance of My Fair Lady on Feb. 29, The W.H. Stark House will have a new exhibit entitled Miriam Melissa Lutcher Stark: A Fair Lady in the adjacent Carriage House located at 610 W. Main Avenue in Orange.

Included in the exhibit will be personal items belonging to Miriam that relate to her love of the theater. From 5 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., The W.H. Stark House Carriage House will be open on the evening of Feb. 29 to allow theater patrons to view the exhibit prior to the My Fair Lady performance. This exhibit will be on display through May 31. Adults and children 10 years of age or older are welcome.

Miriam was a patron of the theater and opera and saw many shows in Orange, as well as on her travels abroad.

In the exhibit, visitors will see various personal objects that she would have used to prepare for a night out at the theater. Also featured will be letters to her husband, William Henry (W.H.) Stark, describing the performances she had seen.

On display will be some of Miriam’s elegant gloves, shoes and other accessories, including some never before exhibited jewelry, folding fans, hat pins and purses. In addition, an Irish lace cro-cheted dress from the collection will be on display from Feb. 28 - March 3.

“Miriam Lutcher Stark was for her time a cultured lady, inter-ested in the arts, theater, reading and antiques, as well as being one of Orange’s most fashionable.

This exhibit offers visitors an up-close view of Miriam Stark’s personal belongings, letters and photographs, allowing insight into her lifestyle” said Patsy Herrington, Managing Director of The W.H. Stark House.

Located at 610 Main Avenue in Orange, The W.H. Stark House is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

For more information, call 409-883-0871.

Staff ReportFor The Record

Stark House to open Miriam Melissa Lutcher Stark Exhibit

Miriam Melissa Lutcher Stark.

Magruder urged General Richard Taylor to fall back to the Calcasieu River. However, Generals Smith and Taylor agreed that Taylor should stand fast in Central Louisiana until the Union’s intentions could be better determined.

By October, the Union invasion of Louisiana had halted in the Sunset area and Banks had reconsidered his attempt to reach Texas by land.

In the spring of 1864 Banks launched his Red River Campaign to capture Shreveport and invade Texas from there.

Banks took Alexandria which cut off Niblett’s Bluff from Gen-eral Richard Taylor’s Army of Western Louisiana.

Reinforcements from Texas could reach Taylor from crossings farther north, such as Burr’s Ferry. Confederate victories at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill convinced Banks to call off his cam-paign. By May18, 1863, Union forces had retreated back into their strongholds in Southeast Louisiana.

The last threat to Niblett’s Bluff was an incursion by blockad-ing gunboats Wave and Granite City which put in at Calcasieu Pass. They were only there to buy stolen livestock from Jayhawk-ers and to try to recruit for the Union Navy. It was not a true military incursion.

With the end of the Red River Campaign and the Battle of Cal-

casieu Pass the war was all but won in Southwest Louisiana and Texas. Texas was never successfully invaded by Union forces. The fortifications at Niblett’s Bluff were never tested by the Union. The only casualties at Niblett’s Bluff were caused by an epidemic of measles. There is a memorial to those soldiers who died in the epidemic is a memorial across the road from the old fort.

The fortification at Niblett’s Bluff was named Camp Pleasant. There is one source that refers to it as “Fort Niblett”.

No matter the official name, it was an important post for the defense of Texas. In the early part of the 20th Century the Bluff was heavily used as a point to dump logs into the river to make rafts to send to the mills at Orange.

Today, the site of the old fort is a popular park. The only sign of the original fortifications is a low ridge of dirt about 100-feet long behind the church.

There are cabins on the river, a playground, picnic area, RV camping sites, and a building for use by the community. Across the road from the park is a memorial to the soldiers who died there in the epidemic. There is also a sign that gives the explana-tion of the Confederate Road.

Today’s casual visitor may have no idea how important this small area was to Texas in the Civil War.

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direct services to survivors of sexual assault in a medical set-ting. Comprehensive training is provided, Anyone interested should contact the Crisis Center at (409) 832-6530.

APPLIANCESUSED APPLIANCES, start-ing at $99.95 & up, Harry’s Appliances, 302 10th. St. (10th. & main), Orange, We buy used appliances, 886-4111.

FURNITUREFURNITURE SALE! All in excellent cond. Blue 3 cushion couch, blue 2 cushion love seat, dark blue leather recliner, oak coffee table W/ glass, Zenith TV with wood cabinet, (409) 543-7346.

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CASH FOR APPLIANCES, bat-teries, any rusty materials, air conditioner. Call for details: 409-745-4117 or 409-291-1064.

JUGG’S PITCHING MACHINE, like new, auto feeder, throws 90 MPH, fast & curve balls etc., paid $3,000, used very little, will sell for $2,000, (409) 474-1518.

SERVICESWOULD LOVE TO SIT with Elderly, light house work, life-long resident, reasonable rates, (409) 313-0857. (2/29)

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

FREE LAB MIX PUPPIES. Already wormed. Call 409-313-0510.

LAB/PIT MIX, 8M old, spayed female, on heart worm prev., free to good home, (409) 746-9502.

PUPPIES! I have 7, mixed breeds (some Lab looking),

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PUBLIC NOTICES:

AL-ANON MEETS ON Wednesday & Sunday at 7 p.m. 1512 Strickland Dr., Orange, call (409) 779-4289 or Cindy @ 994-5503 for details.

GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOUGHLOVE is a self help par-ents support group for parents of children displaying unac-ceptable behavior. Meets every Tues. at 7 pm. at Immaculate Conception education building, 4100 Lincoln (corner of Lincoln & Washington) in Groves. For more information call 962-0480.

AT. ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST you can experi-ence the warmth of friendly peo-ple, beautiful music, and inspir-ing sermons. Join us at 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!

CRISIS CENTER. Rape and cri-sis center of S.E. Texas needs volunteer advocares to provide direct services to survivors of sexual assault in a medical set-ting. Comprehensive training is provided, Anyone interested should contact the Crisis Center at (409) 832-6530.

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R. Coward PaintingInterior - Exterior

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Tommy30 yrs. exp.Phone: 409-782-6527 • 409-786-2148

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Help WantedPart-time CASA

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Must be self-starter; very computer literate; family

law legal expertise a plus; dependable

transportation; good PR; Salary DOE.

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LOOKING FOR LODGING55 YR. OLD MALE, retired, secure monthly income, seeking room - RV - Apt. rental or room-mate in Bridge City, P.Neches,

Groves area, call Bill at (409) 313-1873.

APARTMENTSTHE VILLAS AT COW Bayou

located at 3650 Fish Hook in Bridge City, now has 1$2 bed-room openings! Enjoy comfort-able living in a quiet, secluded surrounding. Located in the Bridge City School District with convenient access to Orange, Port Arthur and Mid-County areas, we are close to all area refineries! Covered parking, washer/dryer connections are provided. We supply your City of Bridge City water, trash & sewer! Please call today and ask about our move-in special!

Move-in by January 31st, 2012 and we will take $250.00 off of your first month! Call to make an appointment for your personal tour! 409-988-5754.

DOUGLAS OAKS LOCATED at 604 Douglas Street in Bridge City, now has 1&2 bedroom opening. Enjoy comfortable liv-ing in a quiet, secluded sur-rounding. Located in Bridge City school district with conve-nient access to Orange, Port Arthur and Mid-County areas,

we are close to all area refiner-ies. Garage/Covered parking, washer/dryer connections are provided. We supply water, trash & sewer! Please call today for your personal tour! 409-988-5754.

BC BRICK DUPLEX APT., 2/1/1, CA/H, W/D hookups, in quiet residential neighborhood, ideal for 1 or 2 persons, No Pets, $625 monthly + $400 dep., application required, (409) 728-8995.

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AUTOMOTIVE BUILDING on Border st., Orange, Re/Max Platinum (409) 738-3000, call Jackie Crow at (409) 920-2238 for more information.

COMMERCIAL SUITES FOR LEASE in Concord Physicians Bldg. Call 409-882-0696

HOME RENTALS

2/1/1 IN BCISD, Lg. fenced back yard, all kitchen applianc-es, W/D hookups (gas or elec.), CA/H, wood & tile floors, $750 monthly + $600 dep., (409) 735-3281 or 553-1929.

BRICK 3/1 W/ LG. YARD, VISD, Orangefield area, 2061 Liston Rd., $750 monthly + $500 dep., (409) 882-4706. (2/22)

ORANGE 2/1, convenient to Walmart, $450 monthly, (409)738-2883. (2/29)

BRIDGE CITY 4/2 on 1 acre,

CA/H, all brand new, totally remodeled, 1,90 sq, ft., fenced yard, $1,300 monthly + dep., (409) 363-4165. (2/29)

WEST ORANGE 2/1, 1411B Milam, all elec., water paid, HUD accepted, $550 monthly + dep., (409) 553-3415. (3/6)

MOBILE HOME RENTALS

BC AREA , as little as $30 daily for rooms, M.H.’s by day or week, starting at $30 a day or weekly, 735-8801 or 734-7771. (cctfn)

‘06, 2/2 & 2/1 IN OFISD, 1 block from schools, Large lot, W./D hookups, No Pets, $425 & $400 monthly + dep., (409) 720-8699 or 735-6701. (2/15)

HOME SALES

4/2/2 IN LCMISD, 1717 Greenbriar ave., screened in patio, corner lot, $95,000, (409) 883-8389.

CUTE 2/1/1 IN ORANGE,1,059 sq. ft. home, fully furnished, nice covered patio to relax on, fully fenced back yard w/ out building, Re/Max Platinum (409) 738-3000, call Jackie Crow at (409) 920-2238 for more infor-mation.

NICE 4/2/2 IN BRIDGE CITY, 1,390 sq. ft. home, fully fenced, acreage size is .685. Re/Max Platinum (409) 738-3000, call Jackie Crow at (409) 920-2238 for more information.

3/2 PORT ARTHUR HOME, 2,200 sq. ft., formal living & dining rooms, utility rm., kitchen has 10’ breakfast bar, bonus room off kitchen, lots of stor-age, security system, home sits on a 100’ x 300’ lot, fenced back yard, No Owner Finance, $75,000, call (409) 720-9463 for more info.

BEAUTIFUL 4/4/3 with over 3992SF and now priced well below appraisal at just $349,900! Exquisite custom built home featuring grand cathedral ceilings and hand cut specialty hardwoods through-out including black cherry, black walnut and solid oak. Enjoy your own loft library, private office w/ built-in safe, stately formal dining, spacious family room with fireplace and gorgeous views from the kitchen window. Outside city limits for lower taxes! BCISD rated Exemplary. Situated on almost two tree shaded acres. Call Libby Mitchell at REGENCY Real Estate 724-MOVE (6683) for your personal tour today! (2/29)

LAND & LOTSOVER AN ACRE, VICTORY Gardens, nice quiet neighbor-hood, water and electric ready, cement dr., perfect homesite, $28,000 OBO, Call Mike @ (409) 735-7680.

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.

BEAUTIFUL LOTS LOCATED IN DESIRABLE AREA OF FINE HOMES! Regal Pointe offers underground utilities, decora-tive street lights, profession-ally landscaped boulevard , city water & sewer, BCISD & no city taxes! Regularly priced at $32-35K , RIGHT NOW SAVE 25% ON ANY LOT THRU March 31st!. Call REGENCY Real

Estate Professionals (409)724-MOVE (6883) or visit www. REGENCYRealEstatePros.com for details!

745 ADAM CIRCLE: Very nice lot to build your new home, at a NEW great price $8,900 (93’x160’)! Located in Tyler Estates, a quiet restricted neigh-borhood in BCISD. 35ft drain-age easement on left side. Call Libby Mitchell at REGENCY Real Estate 724-MOVE (6683) for more information today!

HWY 12, MAURICEVILLE, 10 acre tracts, livestock and Mobiles OK, some commercial tracts with Hwy frontage, MMUD water and sewer available, WOODRIDGE LAND, (409) 745-1115.

780 ADAM CIRCLE: Very nice corner lot to build your new home, at a NEW great price $16,900 (100’x160x’)! Located in Tyler Estates, a quiet restrict-ed neighborhood in BCISD. Call Libby Mitchell at REGENCY Real Estate 724-MOVE (6683) for more information today!

23 ACRES, wooded, quiet, live-stock & mobiles OK, LCMISD, MMUD water & sewer available, WOODRIDGE LAND, (409) 745-1115.

LOT 17 FRONTIER DR: Build your dream home on 1.4 (150’x416’) acres located in Colonial Estates in BCISD at a NEW great price of $39,900! Call Libby Mitchell at REGENCY Real Estate 724-MOVE (6683) for more information today!

QUAIL TRAILS 3, LCMISD, 3.735 acres, ready to move on, MSUD water and sewer, mobiles and horses OK, WOODRIDGE LAND, (409) 745-1115. (2/29)

AUTOMOBILES

‘68 FORD MUSTANG. GT Fastback, Automatic, runs and drives well, Price $6950, for details mail me at steph-bo2@msn.com / 512-782-4586.

‘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.

BOATS

‘96 BAYLINER, 18.5’, 120 Force outboard, runs per-fect, new drive rod, 75 hours, needs a little cleaning, $2,500, (409) 553-3332.

MOTORCYCLES

HONDA REBEL 250, runs good, w i th ex t ra par ts b ike , $1 ,200 takes a l l , (409) 221-7126.

‘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

‘82 DODGE PU., brown, 93k miles, nice camper on it, extra nice, no rust, asking $2,000, (409) 886-2978.

‘08 DODGE DAKOTA, 4 dr., V-6, very clean, low miles, $17,500 OBO, call Ray @ (409) 745-4059.

‘06 FORD F-250, Turbo Diesel, crew cab, 146K mi;es, new tires, A/C works, Auto matic, PW/L, $13,500 OBO, (409) 735-3782 or 363-0330.

CUSTOM RIMS, 15”, off ‘86 Camero, $300, (409) 883-4992 or 221-4610.

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NOTICE TOCREDITORSNotice is hereby given

that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of LLOYD WAYNE BARROW, Deceased, were issued on February 15, 2011, in Cause No. P16019, pending in the County Court at Law of ORANGE County, Texas, to: AMANDA GAIL BARROW DILLE.

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 pre-scribed by law.AMANDA GAIL BARROW DILLEc/o: JOE D. ALFORDAttorney at Law105 S. Market StreetOrange, Texas 77630DATED the 18th dayof February, 2011Joe D. AlfordJOE D. ALFORDAttorney for AMANDA GAIL BARROW DILLEState Bar No. 01012500Attorney at Law105 S. Market StreetOrange, TX 77630Telephone 409-8832-9014Fax 409-882-0564

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GARAGE SALESSAT., 4905 WESTMORE AVE, ORANGE, 6:30 til noon. Men’s - women’s - juniors and children’s clothes of all sizes, toys, ganes, books, Hope to see you there!

SAT., 497 E. SUSAN, BC/ORG., off Hy 1442, 8 till noon. Scrap book, paper cutter, stichers, storage cases, misc.

SAT., 5155 WOODLAND CIRCLE, BridgeField Estates. 8 a.m. Rain or Shine! Small household appliances, ice maker, never used black privacy windows for home. Bikes, toys, Barbie battery op-erated jeep. Nice maternity and children’s clothing. Kids recliners and Wilton character cake pans. Much more and priced to go!

SAT., 2378 FM 3247, OFF ECHO ON ELMIRA, 7 a.m. Multi Family garage sale. Adult & children’s clothes, books, toys, household items.

SAT. 525 S HWY 87, ORANGE. 8-11am. Rain or shine! Collectibles, antiques, furniture, books, toys, household items.

The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 22, 2012 • 9B

The Stark Museum of Art, 712 Green Avenue in Or-ange, invites families to Musical Family Day from 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 25. Attendance is free and all ages are welcome.

Musical Family Day will celebrate the in-tersection between music and the visual arts. Children can participate in a scaven-ger hunt for musical instruments in the paintings on display in the galleries to win a prize.

Visitors will have the opportunity to cre-ate their own unique musical instrument and to play music. Families can join in a game of freeze dance, read a story together and enjoy complimentary refreshments.

A highlight of Musical Family Day will be the participation of Tonalta School of Music.

A variety of student bands from the music school will play in the museum throughout the event.

In addition, Tonalta teachers will lead interactive dem-

onstrations of musical instruments such as a drum kit, congas and bongos, a keyboard, guitars and bass guitars.

Located in Port Neches, Tonalta School of Music is re-garded as the area’s premier music school.

Amelia Wiggins, educator, Public Pro-grams, welcomes the public, saying, “We in-vite families to come to Musical Family Day to dance, listen to music, create, and look at art together.”

Wiggins reminds families that all ages are welcome, but children under 12 must be ac-companied by an adult.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to view the newly opened special exhibition-From Russia: Fechin and Gaspard in the Southwest.

This exhibition explores the art of Nicolai Fechin and Leo Gaspard, two Russian artists who settled in the American Southwest. The

exhibition includes an interactive education area. From Russia will be on view through June 2.

Musical Family Day at the Stark Museum on Feb. 25

Young musicians from the Tonalta School of Music will play at Family Day.

10B • The Record • Week of Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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