Art in the Park will return to Stark Park this year.

The Orange City Council ap-proved an agreement with the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation for the use of Stark Park for the 13th annual Art in the Park to be held on Saturday, March 21. The event was held last year at the Riverfront Pa-vilion.

Jay Trahan, Orange Econom-ic Development Corporation director, said the event coin-

cides the same day the Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce will hold the BASS Master fishing tournament.

Art in the Park will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be live entertainment, children’s activities and over 110 booths reserved.

There will also be a 5K run that day and Tracy Byrd will headline a concert at the River-front Pavilion that night.

Also approved was another agreement with the Stark

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Deadline draws near for ACAenrollment

The deadline to enroll in the Affordable Care Act is fast ap-proaching with a less than a week left.

Feb. 15, 2015 will be the last day to sign up at www.health-care.gov. The next available day to sign up will be in No-vember.

In a prior Record article, Lesly Johnson, is assisting resi-dents to enroll in the ACA or renew their coverage if they haven’t done so already. John-son is the Community Rela-tions Manager for Legacy Community Health Services in Beaumont and she also is the

chair for events on the Enroll Southeast Texas subcommit-tee. She wants to remind every-one the enrollment period for the ACA is from Nov. 15, 2014 through Feb. 15, 2015 and that there is also help out there to apply.

Healthcare plans range from a bronze plan to a platinum plan. “People can window shop and browse different plans and see what their monthly premi-ums would be. Each will also have a deductible,” Johnson said. As with Rangel, an enroll-ee’s insurance plan will start paying a percentage of medical costs such as insurance paying

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Bridge City athletic director Richard Briggs, embraces Mrs. Pearson during halftime ceremonies honoring her hus-band.

Annie Pearson address the audience dur-ing a special ceremony at halftime honor-ing her late husband Glenn Pearson.

Annie Pearson is presented with 32 red roses, one for each year her late husband, Glenn Pearson, was with BCISD.

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Glenn Pearsonremembered

It was an emotional reunion on Satur-day as former Bridge City Cardinal

basketball players and coaches came to-gether for the 8th Annual Glenn Pearson Alumni Game. For the first time the alumni game was held in the absence of it’s namesake, former coach, teacher and retired BCISD superintendent Glen Pear-son. Pearson passed away on April 27, just two months after his final appear-ance as a coach and speaker at the 2014 alumni game.

Pearson’s wife of 62 years, Annie, and daughters Terri and Paula, were among the attendees at Cardinal Gym on Satur-day as the ‘Red Team’ and ‘White Team’ of former Cardinal basketball fame took to the court in the annual contest. The “White Team,” representing the odd number graduating years, snapped a six year winning streak by defeating the “Red Team” of even number years, 107-55. Nate McAnelly lead the scoring with 30 points.

Former Cardinals from the ‘Red’ and ‘White’ teams spanned the years dating back to 1973 with Elmer Ernst, from 1981 with current athletic director Richard Briggs, Jerry Wiegreffe from the class of 1991 and Billy Melancon 1992. The new-est alumni basketball members to join the event included Bret Philpott, Byron Bacon and Alex Bingham from the class of 2014. Bridge City basketball coach Tony Knight, 1993, and track and field coach Cody Knight, 1999, were among the former Cardinal basketball players on the court.

Highlighting the event each year is the awarding of scholarships to two Bridge City senior athletes during halftime. This year the $1,000 scholarships went to Sarah Acosta and Conner Wilbur. The scholarship is funded by the Pearson family and awarded through the BCHS Alumni Association.

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Pearson Alumni Basketball Game

Tip-off for the 8th Annual Glen Pearson Alumni Basketball Game as Alex Bingham for the Red Team and Justin Pittman for the White Team battle for the ball.

Halftime entertainment was provided by the award winning BCHS Strutter Dance and Drill Team. Strutter Captain Chassadi Decker leads the team in a novelty dance to “Move It, Move It” from the movie Mada-gascar.

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BCHS senior Sarah Acosta was the girls re-cipient for the Glenn Pearson Scholarship. The scholarship was presented to her by Lady Cardinal basketball coach Jennifer Willis.

BCHS senior Conner Wilbur was the boys recipient of the Glen Pearson Scholarship. The scholarship was presented to him by Cardinal basketball coach Tony Knight.

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The fourth time wasn’t the charm for a Vidor business-man.

Gary Biehslich, owner of GT Auto in Vidor, requested the waiving of penalty, interest, and attorney’s fee associated with his property for the fourth straight week at the regular meeting of the Orange County Commissioners Court. The court took no action on the item because Denise Gremil-lion, assistant county attorney, advised the court they had no legal authority to waive this. Jody Crump, Precinct 4 com-

missioner, ab-stained from the vote.

Commis-sioners either wanted to gather more information on the matter or a county at-torney wasn’t

available for the reason it took four weeks for a decision to be made.

In a letter to the commis-sioners court, Biehslich wrote GT Auto owns a rent house and two garage buildings, all

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Valentines: Couple still together through toughest of times

When Pete and Char-maine Runnels took

their wedding vows, they took them seriously. Particularly the phrase about “….for better or worse, in sickness and in health.”

Pete, former Orange County judge and present mayor of Pinehurst, and his wife have been married for 33 years through the most challenging of times and they are still to-gether.

Charmaine suffered from two brain aneurysms about 20 years ago. Since then, it has been one day at a time for the couple.

“We were married in Decem-ber 1981. It was the year before my term as county judge end-ed,” Pete said. “We met at a dance. We dated a while. I wanted a stable home environ-ment.”

The couple were married in Pete’s home by Martin Ardoin, the justice of the peace in Bridge City. Pete’s oldest son came to live with them. His other son moved in too. Char-maine’s daughter moved in as well.

“I couldn’t ask for anyone to be nicer to my children than she was,” he said.

One morning, about 10 years later, Pete was getting dressed and leaving for work. Char-maine was still in bed. He kissed her on the forehead and headed out the door.

Later that day, Pete received a phone call he needed to get home. His wife attended a fu-neral where she passed out and stopped breathing. Fortunately a nurse was in attendance at the funeral and helped Char-maine regain her breathing.

She was taken to Orange Me-morial Hospital where Pete found her lying on a gurney. He said Charmaine then let out a blood-curdling scream. The staff immediately ran tests on her.

They said Charmaine need-ed to get to Beaumont as quick-

ly as possible.When they arrived at Chris-

tus St. Elizabeth Hospital, they discovered she suffered an an-eurysm that busted inside of her brain. The doctor wanted to wait 10 or 12 days so the an-eurysm would stay contracted. If it was touched there was a chance it could cause a stroke.

On the next day, however, another aneurysm in her brain ruptured. The doctor said he only had 30 minutes to locate it by hand because there was no technology available to locate it.

Afterward, Charmaine was  in a coma for 13 days and on life support for 20 days. In fact, she has been dead five different times and brought back to life.

Her doctor next wanted to see if she was eligible for reha-bilitation. Pete feared the staff would say she wasn’t eligible, so he helped out.

He gathered all the available pillows and sheets from nearby

vacant beds. He propped up Charmaine with the pillows and covered them with the sheets so no one could tell what happened and it appeared she was ready for rehab.

“It worked!” Pete said.Charmaine spent three

months in the hospital. Pete also spent the majority of his days and nights there.

His mother, sister and young-est son would sometimes come to the hospital so Pete could take some breaks.

Pete owned a furniture store at the time. His son just gradu-ated from college. He quit his job so he could run the store while his dad was out so it wouldn’t shut down. He only took a minimum compensation in return.

Charmaine couldn’t talk or walk when she got home. She could only eat.

Pete taught his wife to walk again by wrapping a weight lift-er’s belt around her to hold her

up. They first walked around the house and then progressed to walking in the yard.

He had to clean, dress and cook for his wife for 30 days be-cause there was no one else to help.

“I treated her the way I thought she would like to be treated,” he said.

She also learned to talk again during this time.

Later, Charmaine had pro-viders in the home 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Pete would let them off on Thanks-giving and Christmas and he looked after Charmaine.

Her doctor, though, said eventually Charmaine should be in a nursing home in a con-trolled environment.

“It was the best thing we could have done for her be-cause she was aggressive,” Pete said.

Prior to all of this Char-maine showed no signs she had an aneurysm. Two of her sis-ters, however, died from them.

“Aneurysms are first cousin to a stroke,” Pete said doctors had told him. “Her doctor said you don’t live with two aneu-rysms, but Charmaine did.”

Pete said he visits her every Sunday and often times more than once a week. He brings her all of her favorite snacks to last throughout the week and a fried shrimp dinner from Hush

Puppy Seafood Restaurant on Sundays.

He also gives her big birth-day parties including decora-tions, birthday hats, cake and presents. For Christmas, he gives her lots of presents throughout the day since she can’t remember things.

“We make a whole day of giv-ing presents,” he said.

Charmaine grew up in Or-ange and graduated from Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School.

Pete said she loved to cook. He said her gumbo was better than anyone else’s he has tasted in his life.

He added she was always late and he joked she couldn’t be on

time if her life depended on it.“I have more respect for her

than anyone,” Pete said. “She has never given up. She still has a lot of her old personality. She’s always been the life of the party. She messes with her nurses. They enjoy her because she’s not a problem.”

Pete then gave his motiva-tion for everything he does for his wife:

“I’m so sentimental, but I can’t say why some people will walk away in a year or two. I can’t imagine walking away from a loved one when they need your help,” he said. “The person it’s hard on is Char-maine, not me. She lives with it 24 hours a day.”

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Pete Runnels, former Orange County judge and current mayor of Pinehurst, holds one of the few pictures he has of his wife, her driv-er’s license. He lost all but a few photographs of her before her ill-ness in a house fire. Pete has been married to his wife, Charmaine, for 33 years. She has been ill from two ruptured brain aneurysms and Pete has looked after her ever since. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn

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Charmaine Runnels in a pola-roid photo taken before two brain aneurysms hospitalized her for life. The polaroid some-how escaped the fire that de-stroyed Runnell’s home.

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family the Bridge City school district presented Mrs. Pearson with a bouquet of 32 red roses, one for each year Glen Pearson was with BCISD.

“Coach Pearson started with the district as a teacher and coach in the late 1950’s and would move into administra-tion and on to become Superin-

tendent of Schools,” said Rich-ard Briggs, athletic director and longtime school adminis-trator during the halftime pre-sentation, “His tenure as super-intendent saw BCISD grow not only in enrollment but also into one of the most respected school districts in the state.”

To cap off the event the

award winning BCHS Strutter Dance and Drill Team per-formed the halftime routine a novelty dance to “Move It, Move It” from the movie Mada-gascar. It was a preview of the Strutter competition team’s upcoming contest performance next week at the Lone Star State Competition in Austin.

Remaining players from the “Red Team” included; Andrew Havens 2006, Luke Hilliard 2002, Tanner Girouard 2010 and Nate McAnelly 2010. Rep-resenting the “White Team” were Tanner Cervenka 2013, Bryce Sampere 2013, Mike Lund 1995, Korey Read 2003, Sean Neil 2013, Justin Pittman 2009 and Jeff Fisette 2007.

On Monday, Terri Pearson Webb said, “Mother wants to thank Bridge City for all that they have done in keeping his memory alive. She knows that they were blessed to be a part of the Bridge City community. The entire event on Saturday was perfect and we felt Daddy was there with us. Thank you BCISD for all that you have done for our family.”

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80 percent and the enrollee paying 20 percent out of pocket.“There’s a broad spectrum of plans. It puts insurance back in

your hands; you get to pick,” Johnson said. “You can pick some-thing this year and something else for next year.” She gave an example of going with dental insurance or opting out, or a young couple purchasing ahead of time for a pregnancy.

Legacy, along with Spindletop MHMR, and Gulf Coast Health Center, are part of the ACA coalition because they have CACs. Other stakeholders are Christus St. Elizabeth, Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas, and the Salvation Army.

Johnson cautioned that the law dictates residents who have a certain income above a certain level are required to carry health insurance or pay a tax penalty. The penalty was $95 or one percent of income for year one of the ACA, $325 or two percent for year two, and $695 or two-and-a-half percent for year three. She added year three is the plateau amount but it still may rise due to inflation. “It’s no jail time, it’s just a tax penalty. You have to weigh the costs and benefits. It’s important to look at each plan,” she said.

Also, Medicaid expansion wasn’t accepted in Texas to cover those workers making less than or up to $11 an hour and with-out insurance. On the other hand, those who couldn’t get in-surance previously can now get coverage. Medicaid is still available, but only for those with a very low income. Further-more, they won’t be expelled from their coverage for preexist-ing conditions.

“If they have to go to the ER, they don’t have to wonder how they will cover this emergency (under the ACA) out of pocket or how it will affect my credit because it will be reported to the credit bureaus,” Johnson said.

A person may also see a physician immediately after consult-ing with an CAC and after enrolling in the ACA. The ACA, ad-ditionally, covers mental health under different plans.

Johnson said all three coalition partners- Legacy, Spindletop and Gulf Coast- help people who don’t meet the enrollment cri-teria due to low income. All three also have grant funding and sliding scale payments.

While one needs to be a U.S. citizen to enroll in the ACA, one doesn’t have to be a citizen to use Legacy.

Though officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday projected that up to 9.9 million people would be enrolled in ObamaCare in 2015, millions few-er than Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates, Johnson said more people will be enrolling locally in the ACA this year. “There will be more people this year. More will re-enroll and the word is getting out it’s a good thing,” she said.

Getting at least a bronze plan is a good idea because it can cover unexpected health issues such as cancer or heart attack.

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Foundation for the use of the city’s boat ramp for the Shan-gri La Community Trash Off on February 28.

The event was previously held at Lion’s Den Park, but due to growth of the event the organization considered using the boat ramp.

The boat ramp will still be open for boat launches.

If there is bad weather, the event will be held the following week.

The Orange County Mos-quito Control District was au-thorized to fly low altitudes to apply insecticides for mosqui-to abatement within the city.

Councilwoman Essie Bell-field wanted to know ahead of time when the planes would be spraying for residents who have breathing difficulties.

The bid to demolish sub-standard residences was awarded to Lark Group, Inc. for $31,900.

The list is as follows:

802 Texas St.  $3,0001005 Texas St.  $4,000407 Rhode Island St.  $4,200801 Sholars Ave.  $3,2001009 Cooper Ave.  $4,5002037 Simpson St.  $3,5001205 Link Ave.  $3,5003318 20th St.  $6,000The council waived all

building permit fees associat-ed with the bond construction at Little Cypress-Mauriceville Junior High and Little Cy-press-Mauriceville Elementa-ry/Intermediate Schools. The bond passed by voters was for $56 million.

City Manager Shawn Oubre reported the LCJH building permit fees are $46,234 and $2,000 for LCE/LCI.

The school district request-ed the reduction of fees.

Oubre told the council they have good relations with LC-M CISD and the savings will be put back into the project.

“It will benefit the entire community,” he said.

Dr. Pauline Hargrove, dis-trict superintendent, remind-ed the council before they vot-ed how important the school district is to the community and how they needed each oth-er.

“We have the same goal. It will definitely be a help to us,” she said.

Councilman Tommy Fergu-son said LC-M CISD repre-sents the heart of the city and the new facilities will get fami-lies to move to Orange.

The council approved the first reading of an ordinance to rezone Bunn Addition at 1211 10th St., 1311 10th St., 1401 10th St., 1405 10th St. and 1106 Hart Ave. from medium densi-ty residential to special com-mercial zoning.

The location is where the former Old North Orange Church was located.

The owner of the property wishes to place a restaurant there.

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on adjoining property to Burg-er King’s administrative build-ing. All were purchased at dif-ferent times.

As a result of a tentative offer to purchase GT Auto, he decid-ed to make sure all possible items that could hinder any sale were addressed.

There was a building identi-fied as built in 1972 on the Or-ange County tax statement that was incorrect. Bieshslich wrote Chief Appraiser Mike Cedars of the OCAD to look into the matter on Nov. 21, 2014. He then wrote the OCAD on Dec. 3, 2014. He received a tax state-ment for taxes dating back to 1998, the date he purchased the Burger King property for a to-tal of $782.91 plus penalty and interest and attorney fees total-ing $801.46.

He wrote the issue regarding this small piece of property has to do with the drive through window that he would had ac-quired originally. The over-sight was corrected prior to submitting the property’s legal description to the title compa-ny and OCAD.

Biehshlich said the tax code requires the property owners to notify the district within 181 days after receiving the bill.

He concluded his letter stat-ing the responsible government districts did not properly fol-low procedures and claim that no one has the authority to cor-rect the error.

“Everyone I talked to in both districts tell me they under-stand and sympathize with my problem,” he wrote.

Prior to the vote, Biehslich told the commissioners they

are the governing tax unit boy of the county. He also read a le-gal opinion by then Attorney General John Cornyn of Janu-ary 2001 ruled commissioners court had the power to waive fees, penalties and interest.

Gremillion said the Legisla-ture has since rewritten the law and commissioners court doe not grant waiving of fees, pen-alties and interest.

She added the law reads an error by the tax office does not exempt a taxpayer from paying on time.

John Banken, Precinct 3 commissioner, the court need-ed to take no action because they have no authority over the matter. Likewise, David Du-bose, Precinct 1 commissioner, said the court cannot grant waiving the matter because both Gremillion and special at-torney for the county, Steve Byrd, said it couldn’t be done.

Crump asked what course of remedy did Biehslich have and where could he go and to whom could he speak with for a legal remedy.

Banken answered he can go to courts of law.

Biehslich told the court they know this is wrong because he was “abused” by a governmen-tal worker and the commis-sioners do not care about prop-erty taxpayers.

Barry Burton, Precinct 2 commissioner, said he under-stands Biehslich’s frustration.

Bieshslich said he will now go to taxpayer organizations with the issue and all the way to the Texas Supreme Court if necessary.

“There’s no justice,” he said.

“It’s not about the money, it’s about the issue.”

Biehslich also asked if the payment could be suspended until he found a venue to bring his case. County Judge Brint Carlton said the court could not do so because it wasn’t posted on the agenda.

During citizens comments, Sonny Stevenson, a fellow Vi-dor businessman, suggested the new adjustment and ap-peals board being formed could speak with the attorneys about Biehslich’s matter. He  was also curious if the board would have the authority to act upon the is-sue.

“We need to find some new ways to handle some issues,” he said.

Stevenson was followed by David W. Smith, a Mauriceville businessman. He said he found it odd the Legislature wouldn’t allow commissioners courts to either approve or deny the is-

sue.He asked if a resident refused

to pay their taxes, would the court have the authority to pursue it or would they leave the matter alone.

In other county business, the commissioners decided the fol-lowing for three vacant depart-ment heads in transportation, maintenance and personnel:

Transportation employee Valli Lott was promoted to head the department with a six-month probationary period. Crump opposed the motion be-cause he wanted a pool of ap-plicants to vet from. He added he wasn’t voting against Lott, but the process.

Kirk Guidry, longtime assis-tant director, was promoted with a six-month probationary period. There were three other applicants.

Commissioners approved in-terviewing the top five appli-cants for personnel director.

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VALENTINE, A SPECIAL DAY

To some ladies, maybe most, Valentine’s Day is not just another day, if you’re a man and if you forget it, or ignore it, shame on you. The ladies will let you know about it and it may not be pleasant. This Valentine’s Day there are a few beautiful people who serve us in the public sector that I believe deserve recognition. I’ll probably end up getting in trouble for omitting some but I’ll start with those who come to mind in no particular order. My oldest and longest friend, my Black, Cajun sweetheart, the girl from Rayne, LA, former Orange mayor, city councilwoman, Essie Bellfield, a special Valentine.***District Judge Courtney Burch-Arkeen, who I bet has a little Cajun blood in her genes because she’s so pleasant, not only to look at.***County Tax Assessor Linda Gunstream is so quiet and sweet you often forget that she’s around.***District Clerk Vickie Edgerly, a pretty “spitfire.”***County Treasurer Christy Khoury, the granddaughter of a wrestler, the late Ike Khoury and like her granddad, is special.***County-Court-at-Law Judge Mandy White-Rogers, pretty as a picture, raised in a pawn shop.***Judge Joy Dubose Simonton, JP, Joyce and John’s longtime special Valentine by choice. She has brought joy to their lives.***City Secretaries that always do a great job and are special throughout the year: At West Orange,Theresa Van Meter; in Orange, Rhonda Haskins; Bridge City, Sherry Tisdale; Pinehurst, Debbie Cormier.***Also to our only Orange County woman school superintendent, Dickie’s lovely sister, LC-M’s Dr. Pauline Hargrove.***A special Valentine goes out to our friend, Parks Director Donna Scales, the late Vivian and Jack Dorman’s little girl. She’s a barrel of fun to be around but don’t mess with her.***Happy Valentine’s Day to some special senior ladies. Ms. Pearl Burgess, Virginia “Ms. Ginny” Cox, Barbara Taylor and Marilou Gunn.***Also to “Boob’s” wherever she may be. I’m thinking of her and hope she’s thinking of me. To all the ladies who read this column, have a very Happy Valentine’s Day.***** Now I best be going, I have a long way to go. I would be honored if you came along, I promise it won’t do you no harm.

CONDOLENCES

We were saddened to learn of the death of our friend and neighbor Gerald Morris, who passed away Saturday, Feb. 7. Over the years that we had known him, he had battled several health problems. In the last few months he had been hospitalized and was fighting against the odds. He did get to come home a few days at Christmas and that was a blessing. Gerald was the kind of guy that everyone wishes they could be like, strong family values and a deep embedded faith. He was just a good man who valued his family and friendships. His church work, over many years, was important to him. If anyone is ever prepared to meet their Maker Gerald was. He loved the outdoors and always looked forward to his annual hunting trips. In the 40-odd years I had known him, I’ve never heard him say a negative word about anyone or never heard a negative word said about him. That’s the mark of a man who lived a good and decent life. To Julia, his wife of many years, daughters Kellie and Audra, son Clint and their families, we extend our sincere condolences from all of us who knew this good man. Services were held Tuesday at First Baptist Church in Bridge City, where he had been a member for nearly 70 years. May he rest in peace. Please see obituary.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME16 Years Ago-1999

Area pioneer Roy Melvin Hatton, 80, dies. Services held Feb. 16 at St. Paul United Methodist. He was born in a house where the Entergy plant now stands. A long time school board member, hunter and 46-year Texaco employee. He is best remembered for his knife making. A Hatton knife is a sculptured handiwork, molded with skill and crafted by a man who appreciated cutlery. He created close to 500 knives. In WWII Hatton made 38 survival knives at the request of the U.S. Navy. The knives contained a compartment. He survived by his wife Mildred. who has since passed away, sons Roy Michael, Mark and daughter Milla Don.*****Students at Bridge City High School proclaim “FAYE-DAYE” in honor of assistant principal Faye Parish. Tears of joy filled her eyes. Faculty and students painted posters and wore buttons in her honor. The former math teacher started her career with the district in 1974.*****American Legion ceremony honors W.T. Oliver.*****Beaux Deville, Orangefield running back received the 1999 Willie Ray Smith award for offense. Defensive winner was Rod Gulley, of Newton. Deville, in the 1998 season, earned 2,101 yards and 25 touch downs to lead the Bobcats to their first playoff in 10 years.*****President Bill Clinton was exonerated on two articles of impeachment by the United States Senate by a 55-45 vote and a 50-50

split. This was far short of the 67 votes needed to remove him from office.*****In the matter of one week, Terry and Ella Steubing lost both their mothers. Elvina Saltzman was both Ella and Jim Saltzman’s mom.*****GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Sympathy to the Jerry Stone family on the tragic death of their 16-year-old son Jeremy on Feb. 15.***Bennie Johnson, longtime owner of Southern Printers, died in Dallas.***Ed “Buttons” Bacon, III, died Feb. 6 at age 45. He, like his dad, was a fun loving guy. He is survived by wife Karen, daughters Bobbie Fife, Shonna and son Ed Bacon, IV, six sisters and one brother.*** Edna Mae Burch Callahan, 55, passed away. She was a longtime secretary for Paul Cormier Well Service. She is survived by sons Alvin and Gene Callahan.

36 Years Ago-1979

The winners in the Optimist Club’s oratorical contest were Stephen Nichols, Carson Childers, Thomas Sigler, Deana Marcantel, Ronald Teal, Dee Ann Pence and Betty Ashworth. Bill Cunningham was the contest coordinator.*****Holiday on Ice contest winners were Terry Jaques, 11, Samual Kirksey, 11, DeAnna Renne Hebert, 6, Johnal Kidder, 8, Reneada Poole, 12, Angela Campbell, 8, Kim Juluris, 5, Bobby Getz, 3 and Renee Laughlin, 5.*****Local fishing guide Dickie Colburn had another good outing with 37 pounds of ticket fish---that’s bass over 5 pounds. Harold Bull had four bass weighing in over 18 pounds, 10 ounces. Harold “Speedy” Lange was third, Ordean Williams, fourth, Lynn Clark, fifth, Larry Shorde, sixth.*****Bill Skelton, former Stark High and University of Arkansas grad and art teacher, brings his artwork to Orange, hosted by the Chamber and Lamar.*****Bridge City girls basketball team wins the district title by defeating Cleveland. Also the BC girls golf team places second in tourney. Sherri Vanbreeman has a score of 92 for the Lady Cards.*****Elizabeth Ann Kibbe receives her bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Texas.*****Shirley Hunter is this week’s top bowler with a 197 game and 507 series.

A FEW HAPPENINGS

We were sorry to hear about the death of Joe Francis, age 77, who died at his home Feb. 6. Funeral services were held Monday, Feb. 9. Joe was a native of Natcitoches, LA., not Cajun country so we came from different worlds. I had known him for many years and he was a very fine man. Even when time had gone by with us not seeing each other, he always smiled and extended his hand. I always felt he was genially glad to see me. Joe made everyone feel that way. Longtime owner of Bargain Warehouse Carpet he always had a deal cooking in real estate and other ventures. Our sincere condolences to his family. May he rest in peace.*****Several guys or their parents came in last week to claim their highlight football videos that Coach Les Johnson put together. One of the people we got to visit with was former sheriff Huel Fontenot. He was picking up the video of son-in-law Chad Hanks, who is with the Canine Unit at the Bryan Police Department. Chad’s wife Amy is teaching school in Navasota. Huel mentioned that Feb. 5 marked five years since his wife and Amy’s mother Mary had passed away.*****A reminder: Feb. 15 is the last day to sign up for the Affordable Care Act, (Obamacare). It may not be a perfect system but it is the best we’ve got. It makes affordable insurance accessible to those who couldn’t otherwise afford to be insured. There are several ways to apply that I’m not familiar with but if you call Judge Pete Runnels at 920-5223 he can explain your options or lead you in the right direction. Act now. *****Ms. Ruby Wimberly, who a couple of years ago broke her hip, had the misfortune of breaking the other a few weeks ago. Last I heard, she was still in a Beaumont hospital. Best wishes for a quick recovery.*****Speaking of hospitals, I understand our friend Margie Stephens is scheduled for surgery Feb. 18. She says she’s ready, she’s tired of hurting.*****Loretta Strong retired last Friday from the Bridge City Branch Bank in Orange. We had a long visit with her. She has spent 48 years in banking. She spoke about all the great bankers she has met, among them Carlos Vasek, Darby Byrd Billy Barrow. She recalled board members at Orange Bank, Joe Burke, Glenn Oliver, Pete Sterling and others. She plans to stay busy but for now she just wants to rest. She then plans to travel.*****A few folks we know celebrating their special day. On Feb. 11, Deric and Eric Provost celebrate as does Brittany Carpenter and Kevin Bourque. They join Burt Reynolds, 76 and actresses Jennifer Aniston, (Friends), 45 and Tina Louise (Ginger on Gilligan’s Island), 80.*****On Feb. 12, Sara Childs, Michele Moore, Christy Reves and John Hall all celebrate. They join basketball star Bill Russell, 80, Arsenio Hall, 58, actor Josh Brolin, 46 and actress Joanna Kerns, 61.*****Feb. 13, Liz Fontenot, Jeremy Delano and Judy Ford celebrate. They are joined by Jerry Springer, 70, Chuck Yeagar, 91, and Prince Michael Jackson, 17. Also on this day Joyce Young passed away in 2012, at age 78.*****Feb. 14, Valentines Day, is also the birthday of T.W. Permenter, former mayor and Lynda’s other half. Fred Kennedy and Dan Batchelor also celebrate. They join Florence Henderson, 80, quarterback Jim Kelly, 54 and actress Meg Tilly, 54.*****On Feb. 15, Robert Montagne and Drew Domas celebrate. They join actress Jane Seymour, 63, actor Christopher McDonald, 59 and Melissa Manchester,63.*****Feb. 16, President’s Day, is also Keith Wallace’s birthday. He’s president of Reliable Cleaners and secretary of the Port board. Also celebrating are Vicky Stanley, Mandy LeBauve, Patricia Davis and Clint “C.W.” Britt. They join tennis star John McEnroe, 55, actor LeVar Burton, 57 and Pittsburgh Steeler Jerome Bettis, 42.*****Feb. 17 is Mardi Gras’ “Fat Tuesday” It is also the big day for Kim Harmon, Tom Edwards, Melissa Tuttle, and Ashley Floyd. They are joined by basketball star Michael Jordan, 51, actress Paris Hilton, 33 and Larry the Cable Guy, 51.*****Don’t miss the Greater Orange Coin Club spring show, Feb. 21 to Feb. 22. The show is at a new location, the Convention and Expo Center on Hwy. 1442. Buy--Sell--or Trade. Free appraisals on coins, paper money, jewelry etc. A lot of action including youth auction. Call Delton Anthony at 779-7161 for more information. Also see ad in this newspaper.*****Gas prices are going up slightly as refineries adjust for summer gas. What I think would be ideal for everyone, oil producers and consumers, is $80 a barrel oil and a steady $2 a gallon at the tank. It wouldn’t stop drilling and we could live with the price.*****About three months ago, in this column, we said Conn’s would be

closing their stores in Orange and Port Arthur. Friday they announced that they would be closing the Orange store only. For 40 years they have been in Orange. At first they did really well, when they advertised in this weekly paper. They haven’t used us the last 20 years to reach consumers. They had no visible advertising in the greater Orange County area. That was a mistake. We deliver results. When you advertise locally, people buy locally.*****The WednesdayLunch Bunch have been having some great gatherings. Last week at Robert’s, Pete Runnels was the center of entertainment. Judge Carl Thibodeaux said he has played two 18 rounds of golf and his phone didn’t ring once. Every Thursday he has lunch with a grandchild at Orangefield Elementary. Mark Wimberly says he’s enjoying the time off. Commissioner Barry Burton and his dad John, who is healing from surgery, reports that former commissioner Owen Burton has some new kids (goats) that he’s proud of. Judge Rodney Price came into town to do some work in JP Court Pct. 1. He and Judge Derry Dunn have been handling the case load while Judge Peck recovers. Bobby Fillyaw and his “Girl Friday” Shirley Zimmerman talked about how good the new Sterling Shipyard will be for Orange County. Sheriff Keith Merritt was away last week attending a Federal trial in Beaumont. Donna Scales is always good for a laugh. The rest just hold their breaths. The Bunch will dine at Novrozsky’s this week and back to Robert’s next. Everyone always welcome.*****The 57th Grammy awards show Sunday was the best in several years. I was glad to see the late Johnny Winters get the award for “Best Blues Album.” It was a big night for Sam Smith and Miranda Lambert surprised me with her new look and her rocking movements. Now if the Grammy folks can just figure out how to keep Kanye West off the stage.*****Rosie O’Donnel is calling it quits on “The View” this week. She blames her departure on a split with second wife Michelle Rounds. Rosie has teenagers and an infant at home to care for.*****We heard from our friend Phillip Welch on Monday. He had come by Saturday but missed us. He’s happy as can be as the business manager at Kountze School Dist. Phillip is just one of those great guys, always upbeat. We had lost track of him even though he’s been in Kountze since July. He says he sees our friend Jeanie Moore, longtime employee of the district and former owner of Kountze News.*****Come pass yourself a good time. A really nice guy, Jeff Hatch, has opened and remolded the Bayou Club on Strickland in Orange. You’ll be impressed. Happy hour every day, live band on Friday and Karaoke featured on Saturday. Come have fun on the Bayou.*****Just a few years ago, I couldn’t have imagined it but today I’m predicting that same-sex marriage by July will be the law of the land.*****Don’t put your jacket away just yet. A few cold mornings and cool days are yet to come but spring is right around the corner. The last couple days have been great. Mark’s daughter, Jenna, says 73 inches of snow has fallen on them in the last 30 days in Boston. The kids may have to go to school all summer to make up the snow days. So count our blessings.

CAJUN STORY OF THE WEEK

Lloyd Premeaux is a longtime night janitor at da plant. One night before work time he stopped by T-Boy’s Bar & Grill and drink hisself a couple of beers. He start feeling sorry for hisself, he had not had a night off in six monts so he decide to skip work and have himself a little party. He walk over to Joe Landry’s liquor store. He says, “Joe give me a pint of “Old Squirrel.”

“I have some Old Crow,” Joe answered.“No, I want some Old Squirrel me,” Joe insisted.“You must mean Old Crow,” Lloyd said.“Look Joe, I want some Old Squirrel, I don’t want to fly

me, I jus want to hop around.”

C’EST TOUT

Ever wonder how the Cajuns took over Southeast Texas without firing a shot? They started arriving in the early 1900’s but the migration from South Louisiana really stepped up during WWII when the Cajuns came to work in the refineries and shipyards. They brought their recipes and spices, they introduced boudain, cracklins, gumbo and all the rest. Until then, only a Cajun would ever try to eat a crawfish, Today, the Houston/Galveston market is the largest importer of Louisiana crawfish in the country. Several years ago, Amos Roy introduced crawfish farming in the area. He was joined by several other farmers. Today, Todd Landry, with “Big Daddy’s,” is the largest producer of crawfish in the area. King Cake came from the Cajuns also several years ago. Now the Cajuns have introduced a new boudain King Cake, topped with Steens Syrup, an Abbeville product that Roy was raised on, gotten daily with a visit to the syrup mill. This product, like the rest, in the next few years will be common place in Southeast Texas.*****This week, in his Down Life’s Highway column, Roy writes about the early Mardi Gras in Cajun country, how much it has changed and what those days meant to a young, Catholic boy and how it has followed him through life. Orange had a very nice parade last Saturday, the largest number of floats and biggest crowd ever. The Port Arthur Southeast Texas Mardi Gras festivities will be Thursday through Sunday. It has really grown since a bunch of Cajuns started it.*****This weekend I’m going to eat Cajun at Peggy’s on the Bayou. She has some great specials including some with boiled crawfish. Buy one, get one at half price. Bring your Valentine, celebrate with the delicacies the Cajuns introduced to our area from the Mother Land.*****Well, it’s come time for me to get out of here. Thanks for your time. Read us cover to cover. Patronize our family of advertisers when you can. Advertise Local--Shop Local. Be sure and check us out on our worldwide web, www.therecordlive.com, 24-hours a day, updated regularly.

From the Creaux’s Nest

Scottish Society of SE Tx. to meete Scottish Society of Southeast Texas will

meet ursday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 pm, at St. Andrew’sPresbyterian Church, 1350 N. 23rd St., Beaumont.A covered dish supper will be served.

Dr. Harland Merriam will present a History ofthe Church of Scotland in the Post ReformationEra, with emphasis on the formation of the church’sconfession of faith. Dr. Merriam has been pastor ofSt. Andrew’s Church in Beaumont since 1987,served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Chaplain forthe past 34 years as well as Chaplain for the Beau-mont Police Department in addition to roles ofleadership in the broader community.

For more information, call 409-898-4986.

Texas Red Flashers set meeting e Texas Red Flashers of the Red Hat Society

will hold their Feb. 19 meeting at 11:30 a.m. at theSunset Grove Country Club.

Birthday ladies are: Queen Helene, Helen Brous-sard and Lady Betty Boop, Betty Morgan.

Ladies will bring small door prizes and decoratetheir hats with Valentines. All ladies are welcome.

For information, call 409-866-1609.

Birthday parties at Tiger Rock As a parent, you’ll love our birthday parties at

Tiger Rock Martial Arts in Bridge City. After all,we have all the bases covered. You get to just sitback, enjoy your child having the time of his or herlife, and chat with other parents. We offer person-alized invitations, two hour party, games, real les-son for all guests, party supplies and the birthdaychild gets to be the star of his party with special ac-tivities.

e cost of the party is $200 for up to 15 kids and$10.00 for each additional. You can even order your“TKD Uniform Cake” and not have fuss or worry.Call to book your date today at 409-920-1462 andyour child will be engrossed in games, activities,great food and more in every moment. You do notneed to be a member to book your party.

Dr. Shaw to speak at WO ChristianDr. Eldon Shaw, president of TLC International

will share his missionary work and his love ofChrist at the West Orange Christian Church, Feb.15, at 6:00 pm. e church is located at 900 Lans-ing, West Orange.

e purpose of the TLC International is to teachand equip leaders for ministry in the Kingdom ofGod around the world.

For more information, contact Nelda at 719-3992.

Evadale VFD to hold Car/Bike Showe Evadale Volunteer Fire Department will hold

their 2nd Annual Car and Bike Show April 4.Check in time is from 8:00 am until noon. Cost is$25 for pre-registration and must be in by March25. Entry fee day of the show will be $30.

Winners will be named in Best in Class, People’sChoice and Fireman’s Choice.

For more information, contact Larry Fountain at409-233-9426, or Billy Lamb at 409-276-2280.

Fish and BBQ plates will also be available forpurchase. Proceeds to benefit the Evadale Volun-teer Fire Department.

Master Gardeners to hold meetinge Orange County Master Gardener’s will hold

their monthly meeting ursday, Feb. 12, from 6:00PM – 8:00 PM, at the Orange County EXPO Cen-ter, 11475 FM 1442, Orangefield (1/2 mile Southoff Exit 869 I10). A pot luck supper will be held at6:00 with the meeting starting at 6:30. David Pool

of Mid-Farm Supply will be speaking on the use oforganics in the spring lawn and garden. e publicis welcome and the meeting is free of charge. Socome with your questions for Mr. Pool. For moreinformation contact Sheri Bethard at 409-673-5057or email sheribethard@yahoo.com.

American Legion sets Valentine Dancee American Legion Post 49 is sponsoring a

Valentine’s Dance with karaoke by Chad with TexasStar. e dance will be Wednesday, Feb. 14, at 7:00pm at the American Legion, 108 Green Ave., Or-ange.

ose in attendance will be able to vote for aKing and Queen. Voters will pay $1 per vote fortheir choice of King and Queen.

ere will be no BYOB as there will be mixeddrinks available at the cash bar.

For more information, please call 886-1241 orvisit the Post.

Friends of the Orange Depot announce 2015 meetings

e regular meetings of Friends of the OrangeDepot will be held every other month in 2015.  enext meeting of the board and volunteers will beheld on ursday, March 12, 5:30 pm at GraceLutheran Church. e group will participate in Artin the Park on March 21, so the meeting is oneweek early that month. Normally, the meetings willbe scheduled on the third ursday of every othermonth. If anyone would like to sign up to help inthe FOOD booth for Art in the Park, please cometo the March 12 meeting.

Chuck Young Alumni Baseball Gamee Chuck Young Alumni Classic Baseball

Game is planned for Saturday, Feb. 21 at the BCHSBaseball Field. e Homerun Derby will begin at11:00 am and the alumni game will begin at 12:30pm.

ose interested in participating in the derbyand/or the game may contact Coach Chris Mooreat chris.moore@bridgecityisd.net. .

It is hoped that many alumni will salute theBCHS baseball teams and Coach Young by attend-ing the event, as well as visiting with Coach Youngand sharing stories with former teammates.

Master Gardeners hold plant faire Orange County Master Gardener’s Annual

Bloomin’ Crazy Plant Fair will be held Saturday,April 11, from 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM at JewelCormier Park, 8235 FM 1442, Orangefield (Exit869 S off IH 10). Perennials, annuals, shrubs, trop-ical, Satsuma’s, limes, lemons, cold-hardy avoca-dos, Texas Superstars and heirloom vegetables arejust a few of the unique and hard to find plants wewill have available. Specialty booths will be avail-able selling unique items. For more informationcontact Sheri Bethard at 409 673-5057 or sheri-bethard@yahoo.com.

El Mina Shrine hosts Mardi Gras/Valentines Dance

e El Mina Shrine will host a dance Feb. 14, at8:00 pm at the Orange County Convention andExpo Center on Hwy. 1442 in Orange. Music willbe provided by Na Na Sha.

Tickets are $30 per couple and can be purchasedin advance from Pierre DeLaFosse (883-8568 orMike Kelly (886-7729), or they may be purchasedat the door.

No beverages are sold at the center, therefore youmust bring your own drinks. Coolers are welcome.Ice and cups will be furnished.

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Community Bulletin Board

Income tax assistance offerede AARP Tax Filing Assistance Program will be

offered starting at 12:15 pm, Wednesday, Feb. 4, atthe Orange Public Library. Trained volunteers willbe available from 12:15 through 4:00 pm eachWednesday and Friday through April 15.

ose interested in assistance should bring All W-2 and 1099 forms, including social security benefitstatements; records of catalo gains and losses, re-ceipts of medical expenses, taxes paid, interest paid,contributions, casualty and theft losses, job expenses,sales tax receipts for major purchases and social se-curity cards for dependents; all health insurance in-formation, form 1095-A if received and any healthcare exemptions received from the IRS or the mar-ketplace and a copy of your 2013 tax return.

Pinehurst Animal Shelter in need of blankets, other items

A volunteer with the Pinehurst Animal Shelteris asking for help during the winter months for the

dogs who are in the shelter. e shelter is in needof towels, blankets, collars, leashes, toys, treats,food and other items that may be helpful to them.

If you would like to help with any of these items,please contact Traci James at 409-9882614. Items canbe dropped off at the shelter, or the County Recordoffice, 320 Henrietta, Orange (attention Evelyn).

You can also visit their Facebook page athttps://www.facebook.com/PinehurstAnimalShel-ter.

CASA Gala scheduled for Feb. 13e Advocates for Children, Inc. more com-

monly known as CASA will host a black tie event,“Open Your Hearts Gala” 6:30-10 p.m. Feb. 13 atthe Orange County Convention and Expo Centerfeaturing Jimmy Wayne.

It will be an evening of dining and dancing.Tickets are $75 for individuals or $125 for cou-

ples. Tickets can be purchased online at: www.ad-vocates-4-children-inc.org/CASA_Fundraiser.htmlor at the CASA office, 2120 Gloria Dr., Orange. Formore informations call 409-886-2272.

Sabine Federaloffers $8,000 inscholarships

Sabine Federal Credit Union willaward $8,000 in scholarships this year.SFCUWe offer a $1,000 scholarship toeach of the six Orange County highschools.

Applications can be picked up ateach school’s counselor’s office. Weoffer a $500 scholarship to two CUT$(Credit Union Teen $aver) Club mem-bers.

Applications can be picked up at ei-ther of locations. One $1,000 scholar-ship is also offered to a student atLamar State College-Orange.

e LSC-O scholarship can be ap-plied for through the LSC-O financialaid office. All applications are nowavailable.

Pork Chops and RiceEVY’S CAJUN KITCHENEvelyn Brandone Record

One of our readers contactedme today asking for more of theone pot recipes like the one Iposted last week. Since I lovecasseroles as much as any onepot dish. It’s all about quick andeasy for me most of the time.

My Facebook friend, Mrs.Katherine Johnnie, from BridgeCity, was telling me that she likedsimple, easy one pot meals. Shemade my Shrimp Opelousas andsaid she really liked it. Katherinewent on to say that she had somerecipes for rice pots and lostthem and her rice pots in Hurri-cane Ike in 2008.

So, just for my friend, I amgoing to share another easyrecipe. is is one of my favoritecasserole meals. It doesn’t takemuch time to prepare and it re-ally only needs warming once it’sput together.

I hope you like this recipe Mrs.Katherine.

Pork Chops and Rice1 package of pork chops, cut intopieces1 envelope Lipton Onion Soup Mix1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup1/2 cup half and halfsalt, pepper, garlic powder andCajun seasoning to tasteRice, measured as per directionsfor your rice cooker

Cook rice as directed, thenturn off rice pot when rice is fin-ished cooking. Season porkchops and fry in a skillet.

In a large mixing bowl addrice, onion soup, mushroomsoup and half and half, mix thor-oughly. Smooth rice mixtureinto 9x13 casserole dish and laypork chops on top.

Since the rice and pork chopsshould already be completelycooked, you just need to put thecasserole dish into the oven andwarm at 350 for about 20-30minutes.

Remove and serve immedi-ately. Bon appetit!

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Lots of Valentine activities to treat your special sweetheart this weekend

Looking for something special to do with your honey this weekend for Valentine’s Day? There are lots of choices in Orange County this week. Don’t have a honey, then grab a couple of friends and enjoy the night out.

The “Dixie Swim Club” starts of the week’s possibilities, Thursday night at Orange Com-munity Players, Inc. This is definitely one that would be good to go with your friends. They are serving complementary wine before each per-formance and at the Saturday, Feb. 14 perfor-mance, the will be serving desserts at intermis-sion.

Written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, the “Dixie Swim Club” revolves around five Southern women, whose friend-ships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every Au-gust to recharge those relationships.

The curtain rises on “The Dixie Swim Club” at 7:37 p.m., Feb. 12-14, 19-21, with a matinee at 2:37 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 22 at the theater located at 708 W. Division Ave. in Orange.

“Make your reservations now, tickets going fast for Valentine Night,” said director Diana Hill. “...bring a friend, your hubby, girls night out, your best friend...” Word is the Sunday mat-inee, Feb. 22 is almost sold out.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for stu-dents. They can be purchased online at orange-communityplayers.com or reserve seats by call-ing (409) 882-9137 and leaving a message with the day you plan to attend and the number of people in your party.

Looking to treat your loved one to a red car-pet event? Try the CASA Black Tie event, “Open Your Hearts Gala,” Friday, Feb. 13 at the Orange County Convention and Expo Center. Nikki Jones, executive director for Advocates for Chil-dren, Inc. promises an evening to remember starting off with an elegant entry and profes-sional pictures, “red carpet style.” She said there are several surprises planned. The hall will be filled with roses and candles in a very romantic setting. Guests will be served their choice of a steak or chicken dinner. There will be dancing and a private concert by Nashville country sing-er and songwriter Jimmy Wayne. He will relay his story of living in the foster care system through word and song.

It is a black tie optional event, so a tuxedo isn’t required, but gives people the opportunity to get all gussied up. “How often do you really get to dress up?” asked Jones.

Tickets for the event are $75 for individuals and $125 for couples. You can purchase tickets online at: http://www.advocates-4-children-inc.org/CASA_Fundraiser.html or by calling the CASA office at 1-877-586-6548 or 409-886-2272.

There are multiple events for Saturday night. You can basically get a “twofer” at the Lutcher Theater. Saturday they are hosting the eighth annual Hearts for the Arts event sponsored by the Southeast Texas Arts Council. The annual event combines hors d’oeuvres, wine, chocolate and art, recognizing art endeavors in Southeast Texas.

Hearts for the Arts will once again recognize those in our community who have tirelessly and generously promoted the arts and humanities. It will take place at 6 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the Lutcher Theater.

Entertainment for the evening is the RIOULT Dance NY performance at the Lutcher Theater which begins at 7:30 p.m.

“Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the sensual, articulate and exquisitely musical modern dance works of Pascal Rioult, a former principal Martha Graham dancer, for which Ms. Graham created the central role (Death Figure) in her ballet Eye of the Goddess,” states the Lutcher Theater’s website. “Since starting his own com-pany, RIOULT Dance NY in 1994, Mr. Rioult has dedicated his energies to developing his own choreographic style and nurturing a robust ensemble of dancers.”

Tickets for both events are $65. Lutcher pa-trons who already have tickets for RIOULT Dance can attend Hearts for the Arts for just an additional $25. Tickets can be purchased at lutcher.org or call 409-835-2787 for more infor-mation.

If you prefer to dance yourself instead of just watching a dance performances, the American Legion Post 49 is sponsoring a Valentine’s Dance with karaoke by Chad with Texas Star. The dance will be Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Amer-ican Legion, 108 Green Ave., Orange. Those in attendance will be able to vote for a King and Queen. Voters will pay $1 per vote for their choice of King and Queen.

A cash bar will be provided, no outside liquor permitted. For more information, please call 886-1241 or visit the Post.

At 8:00 p.m., Saturday, the El Mina Shriners are holding a Valentine/Mardi Gras dance at the Orange County Convention and Expo Cen-ter on Hwy. 1442 in Orange. Music will be pro-vided by Na Na Sha.

Tickets are $30 per couple and can be pur-chased in advance from Pierre DeLaFosse (883-8568), Mike Kelly (886-7729) or they may be purchased at the door.

No beverages are sold at the center. Coolers are welcome. Ice and cups will be furnished.

Rioult Dance NY will perform at the Lutcher Theater Saturday at 7:30 p.m. following Southeast Texas Arts Council’s Heats for the Arts event to be held on the theater’s third floor at 6 p.m.

Orange Community Players, Inc. will be offering sweet treats Saturday during the intermission of the Dixie Swim Club. The play’s two-week run starts Thursday. RECORD PHOTO: Mike Louviere

Nikki Jones promises an elegant affair Friday at the CASA Open Your Hearts Gala at the Orange County Convention and Expo Center.

Jimmy Wayne is the headliner at the CASA Gala Friday.

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Johnny Sanchez and McCoy”s Building Supply donated tools to the Orange Lions Club for use inpreparation of the Lions Club Carnival. Carnival dates for 2015 are set for Sept. 30, Oct. 1-3 and7-10. Pictured left to right: Lions Tara Edgerton Lanphar, Johnny Sanchez, Rusty Honeycutt andLions club President Chris Kovatch. RECORD PHOTO: Stump Weatherford

Stormy – this sweet girl loves people but does not care to be around other dogs. She is upto date on her vaccines and spayed. She is about three years old. A securely fenced yard isa must for this rambunctious beauty.

Valentino is a 10-month-old hound mix. As his name suggests, he is a real lover! He is up-to-date on shots, currently on heart guard for heart worm prevention and has already beenneutered. He is housebroken and has a very good temperament. A sweet and playful guy.He’d love to go for long walks in the sunset or maybe cuddle with you on the couch. He is notbeen around many dogs or cats but the he has been fine with the dogs he has been around.He has been around his foster mom’s two and five year-old grandchildren and has done greatwith them.

Meet Big Boy. He is almost 9 months old. His mother was rescued from a local shelter. Heand his siblings were born at their foster moms house on May 5, 2014. He is fully vetted, upto date on his shots and on heart worm preventative and flea meds. He is a very sweet boywho loves being held and cuddling. He plays well with all the dogs in his foster home and iscrate trained and house broken.

Our web site is also live now.. adoption applications can be filled out online and submittedonline at www.pupsinperil.org

PETS OF THE WEEK

Big Boy Stormy Valentino

Several Orangefield High School band students participated in the UIL Solo & Ensemble contestFriday evening at Lumberton High School. Students who perform a solo, play a piece of music witha piano accompanist, and are rated by a judge. The Superior rating is the highest you may receive,and earns a UIL Medal. Students play solos of different class levels of difficulty, with the Class 1solo being the most difficult.

Performing a Class 1 solo from memory and receiving a Superior rating allows the performer toadvance to the State Solo & Ensemble contest in May. Katy Swiere chose to memorize her Class 1solo and received a Superior rating so she will advance to the state contest. Other students re-ceiving a Superior rating on their solos are: Jacob Buckles, Class 1; Emily Frost, Class 2; SuzyMadrid, Class 2; Jeremy Broussard, Class 2; and Seth Doucette, Class 2.

Also receiving a Superior rating for their percussion ensemble are: Lani Cole, Brody Judice,Aaron Sprayberry, Malorie Flanigan, Luke Padilla, Sean Russell, Sam Truncale, and Jeri Agee.

Spend Valentine’s at Lutcher Theatere Lutcher eater invites area residents to cele-

brate Valentine’s Day with the sensual, articulate andexquisitely musical modern dance works of Pascal Ri-oult. His contemporary dance company, Rioult DanceNY will perform, Saturday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 PM. Tick-ets ranging from $30-$45 are available atwww.lutcher.org or by calling 886-5535.

Pascal Rioult was formerly a principal repertorydancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, forwhich Ms. Graham created the central role (DeathFigure) in her ballet Eye of the Goddess.  Mr. Rioulthas performed opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov andJoyce Herring (now his wife) and was featured in twotelevision specials: “Martha Graham in Japan” and

“Five Dances by Martha Graham,” filmed at the ParisOpera. S

For this Valentine’s Day performance, Mr. Rioulthas created a program of beautifully romantic piecesincluding his interpretation of the passionate Boleroby Ravel. In addition to treats on stage, Lutcher pa-trons can expect free Valentine’s Day chocolates astreats before the show, compliments of show sponsor,MCT Credit Union.

For $65, patrons can enjoy the Hearts for the Artsevent with pre-show hors- d’oeuvres and wine, the Ri-oult Dance NYperformance and post show dessertsand coffee. e Frances Ann Lutcher eater for thePerforming Arts is located at 707 Main, Orange.

The Orangefield HighSchool FCCLA (Fam-ily, Career and Com-munity Leaders ofAmerica) hosted TWIRPOlympics Mondayto kick off TWIRPWeek. Each gradelevel and the fac-ulty/staff have ateam. They competein 5 events includingthe scooter race,sack race, egg toss,free throw shoot out,and a dance competi-tion. This year’s win-ning team is thesenior class. TheFCCLA advisor is Mrs.Kimberly Spears

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I remember back many years ago celebrating Mardi Gras, even before I knew what it meant. It was a special day for us south Louisiana Cajuns. Most communities had their own way of celebrating Fat Tuesday, the day before the Lenten season begins. Large communities like New Or-leans and Lafayette held a car-nival with hundreds of cos-tumed children--clowns, bal-lerinas--large parades and fan-fare. Few of us rural people ever witnessed or attended these festivals.

For country folk, Mardi Gras day began early in the morning with masked horse-back riders going through the countryside collecting chick-ens for a big gumbo that would be enjoyed later in the day. It was a day filled with laughter, fun, pranks and a lot of mis-chief and games. Youngsters wore paper bag masks decorat-ed with crayons.

The men always came on their finest horses and often left with the long hair on their horses tails cut off. The boys responsible also put red pep-per on the dance floor. That drove all the dancers noses crazy. Hiding boys rolled with laughter. By then the adults were well juiced, mostly im-bibing home brew. King cakes were unheard of.

While the gumbo was sim-mering, a made-up band struck up the music. I recall Mardi Gras at John Thibeaux’s place way out in the country. The gumbo was brewed on an open fire. The women did the chores while the men cut up with each other or played mu-sic. There was always an accor-dion, a fiddle, a harmonica and anything that made a rhyth-mic noise, scrub board, upside down tub, spoons--two of them upside down, slapping together on the knee and the free cupped hand. Thibeaux had a big room and all the fur-niture was moved outdoors leaving a makeshift dance floor.

The party lasted all day. The young played games, hide and seek and others. On most Sat-urday afternoons and evenings a dance, called a fais-do-do, was held, but this was bigger. The celebrating of this day was a Cajun tradition. School closed and business came to a halt and still does. Mardi Gras is instilled in the heart of every Cajun who ever took part.

Today many communities sponsor celebrations, and they’re getting bigger and big-ger. Orange, Port Arthur and Galveston events are growing every year.

I recall the first Mardi Gras celebration I attended in New Orleans. I was amazed. A far cry from our simple country affair.

The day after Mardi Gras, the Lenten season begins. Lent is the Catholic season of fast-ing and penitence, and for 40-days we Catholic kids took part in many religious ceremo-nies beginning with Ash Wednesday, when the priest marked our foreheads with ashes as a symbol of repen-tance and continuing through Easter.

On Friday, school would let out an hour early and most of us walked the mile and a half to Mary Magdalene church in Abbeville for service. All the Catholic students walking two or three abreast. I never thought about it before but I don’t know what non-Catholic students did. Went home prob-ably. The Stations of the Cross, we called it the Way of the Cross, filled the church to ca-

pacity. Night services were held throughout Lent, a beau-tiful mass. 

Cajuns are a fun-loving peo-ple, but they were extremely serious about their religion, no dancing, drinking or partying in any form during Lent was the order of the day, all 40 of them. Fridays were always meatless and we always gave up something for Lent and stuck to it. We also believed that if you dug in the ground on Good Friday, you would see Christ’s blood, so we did not dig, not even for worms. It meant you didn’t work on Good Friday.

Attending those old tradi-tional Lent services always spiritually moved this Cajun kid. So strong, in fact, that I even considered the priest-hood. (I can hear the laughter.) My Grandma Availa instilled in all of us a strong feeling for Christianity. Even though my life has taken me in many di-rections, down many a wind-ing roads, some not so good, one thing I never lost sight of is my belief in God. The Lent-en season of many years ago are still deeply embedded in me.

I believe a person doesn’t of-ten get too far from their roots. Two things a Cajun kid was made to do were respect his el-ders and attend church. There’s not enough of either today. The upbringing by tough disciplinarians often

surfaced to make me right my course. It’s a time long past that will never be again. Change has never come easy to me unless it’s gradual. 

As the years have come and gone, the Mardi Gras season has taken on a whole new di-mension. It’s fun for all, with large parades and balls, trin-kets, and beads and wonderful floats that take a year to as-semble. It’s great. And it’s not just Catholics who enjoy and partake in the celebration. I’m astonished at really how far the simple fun day of my youth has come, now embraced and embracing so many.

Horseback raiders, a few “stolen” chickens, gumbo, Ca-jun music and home brew. Those old Cajun people would never believe it if they showed up for one of today’s affairs, like the one in Orange last Sat-urday.

One indelible Mardi Gras memory is John Thibeaux’s old mother chewed tobacco. I hid under the house. She sat on the porch. As I crawled out, she spit a mouthful of fresh tobac-co juice that landed squarely on the back of my neck. For years I was razzed about that.

Mardi Gras, it’s come a long way all right. Even the spirit of the Lenten season is not what it used to be, but then nothing is.

It doesn’t hurt to look back down Life’s Highway every now and then and grab hold of your roots, smile and press on.

Back in the 1930’s, Cajuns were looked down on, discrim-inated against, so most Cajuns in the 13 parishes stayed to themselves. As Cajuns moved to other areas, Port Arthur, etc., they brought their food customs and traditions with them. Today, I’m proud to see that the Cajun way has been adopted by so many in the rest of the country. Acadians are no longer ashamed to admit their heritage and are now proud to say they are Cajun.

Mardi Gras--Cajuns, Faith and ChangesDown Life’s HighwayRoy DunnFor The Record

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Action keepsgetting hotter

in SE Texas

While the local trout fish-ermen couldn’t be happierthat the generators are shutdown again up on Toledo,the BASS pros headed thisway for the March Eliteevent on the Sabine are ab-solutely ecstatic.For themost part they have beenlaunching at the tournamentsite here in Orange and burning lots of gas insearch of clearer water and a dependable bite.

Mileage equates to time lost fishing, but theyhave proven time and again that they will run sixhours for a single hour of catching. I spoke with acouple of the visiting pros recently that said thatthey were finally finding clearer water drainingout of the surrounding swamps, but still had notlocated the kind of bass they needed to be com-petitive.

ey were convinced, however, that baring any-more significant rain events that warranted hav-ing to crank open the generators on Toledo Bend,they could possibly get it done within an hour’srun from the launch. After fishing the tournamenthosted here two years ago, their biggest concernwas finding enough solid fish in one area to sur-vive the cuts and make the final day!

e last event hosted out of Orange producedall kinds of attendance records and I won’t be sur-prised if they are broken this year ... weather per-mitting. Spectators were shoulder to shoulderfrom blast off to weigh-in every day in 2013 and Istill talk with clients from Houston to BatonRouge that knew nothing about the tournament.ey do now and they won’t miss this one!

While the local bass fishing is improving at amuch slower pace, the reduced influx of freshwater via the rivers has certainly helped the salt-water bite. e redfish simply returned to pound-ing away at anything they can chase down, but

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See COLBURN, PAGE 4B

MLB commish promises faster games

February 1, 2015 notonly can be rememberedfor the worst offensive playin Super Bowl history butalso for the day that RobManfred took over thereins of Commissioner ofMajor League Baseball from Bud Selig.

It was a relatively smooth transition mainlybecause Manfred had been working with thecommissioner’s office for the past two decades.

Selig, who owned the Milwaukee Brewers’franchise, apparently is satisfied with the job hehas done since he was installed at the insistenceof other fellow owners in 1992, according to thisweek’s issue of USA Today Sports Weekly.

Under Selig, MLB has flourished into a $9 bil-lion industry and is run at the top like a Fortune500 company.

“Closer to the field is a world invaded bybrainiacs who dissect every aspect from the bio-mechanics of the pitching motion to metrics toaccess and predict performances,” the articlestated.

“Statistics, technology and acronyms that did-n’t exist two decades ago are requirementsmerely to keep up with the innovative franchiseslooking for the next market inefficiency to lever-age,” the article continued.

But one item that Selig was unable to improvewas the pace of a major league baseball game,which saw the average time of games grow from2 hours, 33 minutes in 1981 to 3 hours and 8minutes last season.

And according to this week’s edition of ESPNe Magazine, MLB apparently is open to anyand all options.

e most recent proposal from the Commis-sioner’s office is that pitchers and batters mustbe ready to go shortly after the end of radio orTV commercial breaks.

Although most baseball fans believe that thelengthier games are caused by using relief pitch-ers earlier in a game, MLB statistics reveal thatrelievers are not throwing more innings thesedays.

In 2014, relievers threw 33.5 per cent of all in-nings and 16 years ago they threw 32.2 per cent.But in 1998 a total of 431 relievers were usedduring that season while last year 538 relieverswere utilized, contributing in a 14-minute in-crease in the time of a game since 1998.

Manfred believes that if the number of moundvisits and mid-inning pitching changes were lim-ited, games should end somewhat sooner.

Another reason for longer games is because ofstrikeouts. “Strikeouts are boring,” this week’s

edition of ESPN e Magazine wrote. “And for seven straight seasons the rate of K’s

has increased. One big reason is that the bottomof the strike zone has increased by 40 squareinches since 2009 and the length of games in-creased by 11 minutes during the same time pe-riod,” the article concluded.

Not only are strikeouts boring, but they alsoare very time-consuming. In 2014, more thanhalf of all plate appearances reached two strikes.So if MLB fixes the strike zone, it should speedup the games.

e magazine pointed out that the averagenine-inning MLB game (at 3:02:21) was onlyeight minutes shorter than the NFL’s average in2013 and 20 minutes shorter than a college foot-ball game.

e NFL average 128 offensive plays per gameand college football averages 148. In 2014 anMLB game averaged just 52 balls in play. Conse-quently, baseball at 3.5 minutes per play lags farbehind the NFL (1.48) and the NCAA (1.37).

Although MLB can’t match those numbers,the new commissioner believes that cutting 15minutes (eliminating a few mid-inning workstoppages might do it) and adding four balls in

play per game (which should come from asmaller strike zone) would get the game belowthree minutes per play, which would be accept-able.

However, Commissioner Manfred cannot ad-dress this problem single-handedly, because anychanges to working conditions must be ap-proved by the player’s association.

And another problem bugging baseball puristsall over America is the fact we have two leaguesplaying by different rules when it comes to thedesignated hitter.

For more than four decades these purists havebeen upset that the sport is supposed to havenine players on each side, not 10.

e players union would love to see the DHexpand to the National League because those areusually highly-paid positions and often lengthenthe careers of veterans.

Plus the game desperately needs more offenseinstead of the pitcher’s spot in the lineup almostalways being an automatic out.

KWICKIES…Although the Kentucky Derbyis more than 10 weeks away, the LouisvilleCourier-Journal polled a panel of racing media

See KORNER, PAGE 4B

Joel Peralta, who now plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is known to be one of the slowestpitchers in Major League Baseball.

KAZ’S KORNERJOE KAZMARFOR THE RECORD

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ursday Feb. 5, the Orangefield Powerliftingteam competed in the Silsbee Quad Meet.

In the Boy’s division, finishing 1st, were WesleyReed (810 lbs) in the 132 pound class; AustinMoore (1430 lbs) in the 198 pound class, and Jer-rod Watkins (1570 lbs) in the 242 pound class.

Second place finishers were Cameron Guillot inthe 165 pound class, Adam Jacobs in the 242pound class and Aaron Galitz in the SHW class.

3rd place finishers were Shayne Arceneaux in the198 pound class and Juan Padilla in the SHW class.Austin Moore was named Outstanding Lifter on the

heavy platform. e boy’s team finished in 2nd place.In the Girl’s division, Finishing 1st was Lauren

Groom (710 lbs) in the 132 pound class. Laurenwas also named Outstanding Lifter on the LightPlatform. Second place finishers were BrittonEdgerly in the 123 pound class, Brooke Morphewin the 132 pound class, Skyler Hammons in the 165pound class, and Bre Norton in the 181 poundclass. Krista Wheeler finished 3rd in the 123 poundclass. e girl’s team finished in 3rd place.

Both Teams compete next week in the LCMQuad Meet.

Experience birding 101 this weekendFriday, Feb 13 visitors to

Galveston Island State Park canget the basics of birding, thenmeet Sky, a young red-tailedhawk in rehab and training.

Keen eyes, finely-tuned ears,and a sense of wonder about na-ture are some of the rich rewardsof birding. Join us and see whyGalveston is a great place forlearning the basics of bird watch-ing.

We’ll being at the park NatureCenter for a brief introductioninto island birding, as we discussthe use of binoculars, scopes,and habitats of the park. We’ll gofor a short hike (weather permit-ting), and review listing andjournaling.

After we discuss birding, comemeet Sky (Red-tailed Hawk) andhis handler, Charli.  Sky is ayoung hawk who was rehabili-tated, and is being trained for fal-conry.

Charli and Sky will discussbirds and wildlife rehabilitationon the island, and ways humanscan help the natural worldaround their homes.

Before you come...• Be sure to get a park pass

(found at park office)• Bring your binculars, bird

guides, and camera• Come dressed for the

weather• All children must be accom-

panied by an adult 

For further information,please contact Lisa Reznicek at409-737-1222.

OF powerlifters take Silsbee medals

Texas coast to get $1.74 million in grantsLand Commissioner George P.

Bush today announced $1.74million for projects to improvepublic beach access and help re-store sensitive bay systems onthe Texas coast.

“ese projects were carefullyselected to be a good investmentfor the Texas coast,” Bush said.“We’re able to accomplish somepretty ambitious goals — like im-proving water quality in the bays— with these relatively smallgrants by working smartly withlocal coastal communities.”

e grants flow from the Gen-eral Land Office’s Coastal Man-agement Program, which hasfunded nearly $40 million incoastal grants since 1994.Coastal Management Programgrants have made it easier for thepublic to get to the beach, re-stored wetlands, revitalized wa-terfronts and educated the

public about the coast.Projects on the Upper Texas

Coast include:• Port Neches Riverfront En-

hancement Planning & DesignProject, $45,000

e City of Port Neches willprepare a comprehensive planfor developing the riverfront.Byhaving a plan available, the Citywill have “shovel ready” projectsas funding opportunities arise toproceed with revitalization ef-forts.As envisioned, the plan forthis area would be consistentwith CMP objectives involvingwaterfront revitalization to in-crease shoreline accessibility tothe coastal zone, enhancedrecreational utilization, and im-proved public enjoyment.

Contact: Taylor Shelton, 409-719-4204

• Port Neches River Front En-hancement Clean Up Project

(Phase I), $85,000e City of Port Neches will

remove derelict structures anddebris from its riverfront thatconstitute an impediment to saferecreational boating,tanker/barge traffic, and generaluse of the area by the public.

Contact: Taylor Shelton, 409-719-4204

• Bucket Brigade – What is inour water?, $99,816

e Artist Boat, Inc. will en-gage between 100,000 to 200,000beachgoers of all ages on Galve-ston Island in place-based learn-ing events to promote improvedperceptions and attitudes towardwater and sediment quantity andquality on Texas gulf waters andbeaches. Transforming impres-sions of poor water quality basedon water clarity, sediments andsargassum in the water, and thelarger role of non-point source

pollution (litter, marine debris,and chemicals) transported fromacross oceans and down water-sheds will promote increased ac-tions at home to improve waterquality on Texas gulf waters andbeaches.

Contact: Karla Klay, 409-770-0722

• e Wetland Plant Partner-ship, $97,615

Texas A&M AgriLife Exten-sion Service will design and con-struct storm water wetlanddemonstration projects inGalveston, Brazoria and Harriscounties, a three-county regionthat contributes flows to Galve-ston Bay. Funding will also beused to construct a plant nurs-ery, which will provide stock forthe storm water wetland demon-stration projects, and to educatestudents and volunteers on thevalues of wetlands.

Contact: Dr. John Jacob, 281-218-6352

Projects funded that will havean impact across the coast are:

• Texas Coastal Planning Pro-gram: Providing Technical Assis-tance to Texas CoastalCommunities, $31,000

Texas A&M University willsupport land-use and environ-mental-related planning in Texascoastal communities that lack theplanning capacity or knowledge toeffectively prepare for issues, suchascoastal environmental hazardsand economic development.TexasA&M University will providetraining, tools, and assistance nec-essary to facilitate the transforma-tion of communities from highrisk/low opportunity to equitable,resilient, and adaptive, by mitigat-ing the threats to the economy,environment, and culture.

Contact: Josh Gunn, 409-741-7115

Game Warden Field Notese following items are com-

piled from recent Texas Parksand Wildlife Department law en-forcement reports.

Drunk in LoveWhile patrolling near the Trinity River in

Walker County, the local game wardenstopped a vehicle for failing to maintain asingle lane of traffic. When the wardenmade contact with the driver, he showedsigns of impairment. After performing poorlyon the standard field sobriety test, the driverwas arrested for driving while intoxicated.This was his second offense. Shortly after,the suspect’s wife arrived at the scene andstopped behind the warden’s patrol vehicle.She also displayed signs of impairment anddid poorly on the standard field sobrietytests. She was subsequently arrested fordriving while intoxicated, her first offense.

A Shot in the FootA Montgomery County game warden

received a call regarding a hunter who ac-cidentally shot himself in the foot whileloading a deer he had killed. During the in-vestigation, it was found that the hunterdid not possess a valid license and hadtagged the deer with another hunter’s tag.Additionally, the buck was not legal, andthe hunter had never taken a hunter edu-cation class. The buck was seized and do-nated; the hunter was issued threecitations plus a warning, and restitutionwas assessed.

Captain ConfusedTwo Calhoun County game wardens

made contact with a commercial oystervessel while patrolling San Antonio Baydoing commercial oyster enforcement.The vessel’s captain said that he did notknow he needed an oyster boat captain’slicense to harvest oysters commercially.He was escorted to the docks and placedunder arrest for taking oysters without anoyster boat captain’s license, a Class Bmisdemeanor. The oysters were sold tothe highest bidder. Case pending.

Don’t Mess With Texas... or ArkansasA Gregg County game warden re-

sponded to a Longview Animal Control callregarding a decaying doe hanging in a res-ident’s tree. When the warden located thedeer, he also discovered an additional un-tagged doe behind the property and an un-tagged nine-point buck. Two of the fourindividuals interviewed claimed they har-vested the two deer in Arkansas. One of the

subjects confessed to taking a fourth deerin Texas, which was wasted and dumped inArkansas. When questioned about the dis-crepancy between their harvest dates ver-sus the date printed on their Arkansashunting licenses, two of the subjects ac-knowledged hunting without a license. Thewarden then contacted Arkansas Gameand Fish Commission wildlife officers whoadvised that they were pursuing more than$2,500 in charges. They also said that twoof the men face one year suspensions,while another would receive a lifetime hunt-ing license suspension in Arkansas. Civilrestitution and multiple charges were filed,including no hunting license; hunting duringclosed season; failure to keep game in ed-ible condition; untagged deer; and no har-vest log. Investigation is ongoing and casespending.

“For Medicinal Purposes”A landowner was watching deer on his

property when he heard a gunshot nearby.He called the Montgomery County gamewarden to report someone hunting withoutlandowner consent. He believed that hisneighbor had attempted to shoot a deer.When the warden made contact with theneighbor at his home, he immediately no-ticed a strong odor consistent with mari-juana. After a short interview, the manadmitted to growing marijuana plants in hishome “for medicinal purposes.” Four plantsof varying sizes were seized, and the sub-ject was arrested for Class A possessionof marijuana. The plants were taken to theMontgomery County crime lab. It turnedout that the subject had nothing to do withthe original call. Cases pending.

A Loon on the PontoonWhile on boat patrol in the Rio Grande

near Chimney Park, the local game war-den noticed a pontoon boat traveling east-bound. As he passed the boat, heimmediately recognized one of the pas-sengers as someone who had a felonyand misdemeanor warrant pending inCameron County. The warden stopped thepontoon, identifying himself as a stategame warden. He then asked the passen-ger on the pontoon boat to board the pa-trol boat and advised him of two warrantsfor his arrest. The man was then trans-ported to Cameron County Jail for war-rants that included a felony charge of falsefinancial statements and a misdemeanorcharge of tampering with ID numbers.

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‘White’ defeats ‘Red’ snapping 6 year streak to win 8th Annual Glen Pearson Alumni Basketball Game 107-55

LEFT TOP: Bridge City basketball coach TonyKnight (Class of 1993) representing the WhiteTeam, takes the ball down court with brother,track coach Kody Knight (Class of 1999), asRed Team defender Tanner ‘Pokey’ Girouard(Class of 2010) moves in.

LEFT MIDDLE: Bryce Sampere (Class of 2013)moves the ball for the White Team againstRed Team defender Tanner Girouard (Class of2010).

LEFT BELOW: Tanner Cervenka (Class of2013) dribbles the ball during the 8th AnnualGlenn Pearson Alumni Basketball Game atCardinal Gym. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn

RECORD PHOTOS: Mark Dunn

A melee’ of basketball action in the 8th Annual Glen PearsonAlumni Basketball Game as White Team member Mike Lund(Class of 1995) is surrounded by Red Team members Alex Bing-ham (Class of 2014), Andrew Havens (Class of 2006) and BretPhilpott (Class of 2014). RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn

experts and came up with thisTop Ten Kentucky Derby con-tenders for the 2015 event: 1.Texas Red 2. Dortmund 3. Up-start 4. American Pharoah 5.Carpe Diem 6. Imperia 7. ElKabeir 8. Ocho Ocho Ocho 9.Calculator 10. Frosted.

e Dallas Cowboys may befacing a huge dilemma when itcomes to playing the 2015 NFLseason with both wide receiverDez Bryant and running backDeMarco Murray. e moneyunder the salary cap just isn’tthere to pay either of those starplayers their market value. Andif the Cowboys have to make achoice, five will get you tenthey’ll keep Dez Bryant, whomay be the best playmaker in theNFL. Besides Murray has saidthat he wants to be paid whathe’s worth, so money is moreimportant than any loyalty to histeam. And if he signs with an-other team for more money, hehad better be prepared to haveto learn an entire new offensewith different terminology andan entirely different blockingscheme in front of him. enhe’ll wonder why he will struggleto gain 1,000 yards with his newteam.

And the other Lone Star Statefranchise—the Houston Tex-ans—came a long way in a shorttime last season by improving byseven wins to better the horrid 2-14 record of 2013 with a 9-7record last season. But in orderto reach the playoffs and eventhe Super Bowl in the very near

future, the Texans will need a“real” quarterback either via thefree agent market, by trade oreven drafting one.

UCLA head coach Jim Mora,Jr. last week signed four-star re-cruit Cordell Broadus of LasVegas, who is the son of rapperSnoop Dogg.

e college basketball world ismourning the passing of NorthCarolina basketball coaching leg-end Dean Smith who died lastweekend at age 83. Smith tookthe Tar Heels to 11 Final Fours,won two national championshipsand a 1976 Olympic gold medal.His four corners offense led thecollege basketball brain-trust toinstall the shot clock used today.He retired in 1997 with a Divi-sion I record of 879 victories, atotal that ranks No. 4 today andwon at least 20 games for arecord 27 consecutive seasons,making the NCAA 23 consecu-tive times.

JUST BETWEEN US…TigerWoods’ golfing career appears tobe going in a reverse vicious cir-cle. When he’s playing badly hisback is aching and when his backis aching it makes him play badly.He keeps changing his swing andit doesn’t seem to help. In his lastsix tournaments since returningfrom back surgery a week beforethe Masters, Tiger has missedthe cut three times, withdrawntwice and finished 69th in theBritish Open, his lowest 72-holefinish in a major tournament. Wemay have seen the best of TigerWoods 10-20 years ago.

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they never completely shutdown even on thecoldest of days.

We haven’t seen them schooling on thesurface, but we have found them feeding inbig numbers on the flats in three to five feetof water lately. Unlike the trout, they are get-ting it started early and staying late.e bet-ter trout bite, on the other hand, has beenduring the afternoon hours. When nighttime temperatures stay closer to the fifty de-gree mark, the surface temperature warmsup faster during the day and the bite usuallystarts a little earlier.Lots of sunshine is a goodthing for the trout fishermen!

Prior to figuring out that the trout werenot cranking up until much later than wefished, I spent an enjoyable day last Fridaycatching redfish with Jim Franklin andSportco Marketing rep, Hughes Andry. Notime spent in the presence of Franklin is everboring and Andry shared a wealth of infor-mation concerning a few of the products inthe Sportco stable.

On this particular day, Shimano reels werethe main topic of conversation and anythingHughes does not know about them is of novalue to anyone anyway. He shared every-thing from the composition of parts to de-sign improvements that once again havereturned the reels to the top spot they dom-inated for years.

He asked that I fish with two of the reelsthat he brought along and I should havefished with only the new Curado. e im-proved gear design keeps more surface areain constant contact resulting in an evensmoother retrieve than my own Curado andChronarch 50E’s and I was already pleasedwith them.

Hughes also pointed out that previous totheir newest models, drag washer consis-tency had long been a major concern for allreel manufacturers. If it was thin and smoothit didn’t hold up well and thicker moredurable material resulted in chattering andinconsistent drag tension. Slot red after slotred tested Shimano’s improved drag washermaterial Friday morning and it was even qui-eter and smoother than advertized.

Franklin, with a devious smile on his face,then insisted that I give one of their new “topof the line” Metaniums a shot. It is a $400reel, but the performance was so impressivethat I dismissed the price tag following thevery first cast. I nearly emptied a spool ofthirty pound braid with no effort and“smooth” is an inadequate description forevery turn of the handle.

I fish over 200 days a year and I believethat any quality reel can only do somuch.Following that trip, however, I am nowcompelled to upgrade once again to the newCurados and I will upgrade to a couple ofMetaniums as well the day I bow out of theguiding profession. I share all of my equip-ment with my clients and having a clientheave a $700 rod and reel combination overthe side of the boat would affect net earningsfor the week!

Jim grew up in Orange and sharing theboat with him is always an overdue reunionas well as a treat. Over the years he has won

more big trout tournaments than most folkseven enter and good luck played a very smallrole. I have always believed that the strengthof his game is his attention to detail. He in-variably notices the smallest of slicks to thesilent swirl of a single mullet even in themidst of recounting one hilarious past expe-rience after another.

While I would hope that he has gleanedeven a little something of value from ourtime spent fishing together over the years, Ican assure you that I never fish with him thatI don’t learn something new. I can think ofno greater legacy for any fisherman!

Sportco’s, Hughes Andry with another solid redfish.

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The LCM Lady Bear Golf Team placed third at the Anahuac GolfTournament held at Chambers County Golf Course. Junior, Lau-ren Cox won the second medalist with a score of 77. Nederlandwon the tournament, followed by PNG then LCM. Pictured fromleft: Ashley Young, Senior; Lauren Cox, Junior; Kacie Nichols,Junior; Theresa Beckett, Sophomore; Hope Henry, Sophomoreand Jessica McLain, Freshman.

Little Cypress-MauricevilleHigh School’s Powerlifting team,Bear Iron, took top scores at theSilsbee meet on ursday, Feb. 5.e Boys team finished in FirstPlace, with 50 points and theGirls team won Second with 32points. e lifters compete inthree events, squat, bench pressand dead-lift to accumulate atotal for the meet.

Boys placing in their individ-ual weight classes were: HunterAngelo, First with a total lifted of815; Hunter Fontenot, First with1045; Carter Beck, First with1190; Dustin Forester, Secondwith 675; Victor Davilla, Secondwith 840; Alex Reed, Secondwith 955; Blake LeBlanc, Secondwith 1065 and Lucas Russell,Sec-ond with 815.

Girls individual results includeNikki Mathis,First with 815;Sh’Kayla Rogers, First with 575;Taylor Reichart, Second with460; Carly Norris, Second with555; Breana Dyson, Second with530 and Michaela Dearing, irdwith 600.

David Kendrick and Kim Lev-ens are powerlifting coaches forLCM.

LC-M lifterstake top spotsat Silsbee meet

Little Cypress-Mauriceville Lady Bear junior golfer, Lauren Cox, captured the first place medalistspot at the Hardin-Jefferson Golf Tournament with a score of 78. The Lady Bear team won thirdplace behind PNG and Nederland. Pictured from left are: Kacie Nichols, Hope Henry, Lauren Cox,Ashley Young and Jessica McLain.

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The Lamar State College-Orange Foundation has set Saturday, April 11, as the date for its fourth annual “Boot Scootin’ at the BrownEstate” fundraiser. The evening will begin at 7 p.m. with a “social hour” and barbeque dinner that will be followed by dancing to themusic of the band Twangsters Union. Guests will be seated under tents so that they can enjoy the springtime ambience and beautyof the Brown Estate grounds. The “Boot Scootin’” event is the primary fundraiser for the Foundation. The proceeds support theFoundation’s scholarship program and its efforts to aid in the development of the downtown Orange campus. Over the past fiveyears, the Foundation has awarded over $320,000 in scholarship aid to LSC-O students and has assisted in the acquisition of propertyfor campus expansion. Tables to the event are available at several different sponsorship levels: Platinum Buckle Baron—$5,000;Gold Buckle Baron—$2,500; and Silver Buckle Baron—$1,000. Sponsor tables seat eight guests and include the cost of valet parking,food, and drink. A limited number of single tickets are available and priced at $100. Tables and tickets can be reserved by calling(409) 882-3314. Reservations must be made by March 27, 2015.

LSC-O Foundation sets date for ‘Boot Scootin’

Ethan Reed, Little Cypress-Mauriceville senior, signed Feb. 4, toplay football with Louisiana Tech. Reed was named All DistrictFirst Team Offensive Line earlier this year and has been an inte-gral part of the Battlin’ Bear line during his high school career.Ethan’s parents are Neville and Ellen Reed and his signing eventwas attended by a large contingent of family, friends, teachersand fans. Brother Hayden tuned in electronically to be a part ofhis brothers celebration. Ethan Reed is flanked by dad Nevilleand mom Ellen and offensive line coach Chris Pachuca (standingright) and private weight coach Mike Denmon.

St. Mary Catholic School is honored to share the “Good Samaritan”award winners for this week. St. Mary staff nominates studentsthey witness displaying acts of kindness, helping others and show-ing respect at school and within the community. The principal,Donna Darby announced the winners at morning announcementsin front of all students and staff. The winners received a certificateand other prizes for their wonderful behavior. Pictured from leftare Dayne Seay, Karson Guidry and Marco Bandiero.

St. Mary Catholic School was honored to have the 2015 MardiGras visit the school and participate in a parade. Students en-joyed music and beads that the members threw. Students werethrilled to see two staff members present and in costume at theparade. Pictured are Mardi Gras members: Mr. and Mrs Harmon(Mrs. Harmon teaches Pre K 3 at St. Mary Catholic School); Mr. &Mrs. Chad Orillion (Mrs. Orillion is the receptionist at St. MaryCatholic School) and Mrs. Harmon’s Pre K 3 students.

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Deaths and Memorialsand 4-wheeling. Bobby lovedspending time with his family, es-pecially his daughter and grand-child.

He was preceded in death by hisfather; maternal grandparents,Jimmy and Elizabeth Young; pater-nal grandparents, Earl and PaulineMcGalin; brother, Elton McGalin.

Bobby is survived by his mother,Pearl McGalin of Orange; daugh-ter, Nicole McGalin of Bridge City;grandchild, Jaden Williams; step-daughters, Carita Douvio, SarahFuselier; step-sons, John ReynoldsJr., Joseph Reynolds; and numer-ous aunts, uncles and cousins.

A funeral service was held Tues-day, Feb. 10, at Dorman FuneralHome. Burial was at AntiochCemetery in Buna.

Honoring Bobby as pallbearerswas Chris Ledoux, JosephReynolds, John Reynolds, DavidCall, and Jason Corn.

Rufus HanksBridge City

Funeral services were held Feb.6 at  the Geesey-Ferguaon FuneralH o m eChapel forRufus Hanks,Jr., 70, whodied at hisresidence inBridge City.

Fr. ClintTrahan, Pas-tor of Im-m a c u l a t eConceptionCatholic Church officiated theservice. Burial followed in HanksCemetery in Morse, La.

He is survived by his son, StacyHanks and wife Rachel of NewIberia, La.; four daughters, AngelaChampagne, Tracy Hebert andhusband Joey, all of Loreauville,La., Melissa Crane, of Broussard,La. and Monica Boutte and hus-band Phil of New Iberia; brother,Larry Hanks, of Vidor; two sisters,Laura Smith of Morse, La. andWilda Benoit, of Orange; 11grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by hisparents, Rufus and Daisy TrahanHanks and a brother, Elton ReedHanks.

Peggy WagnerOrange

Peggy Jo Wagner, 83, of Orange,passed awayFeb. 7, atMid- Jeffer-son ExtendedCare Hospi-tal in Neder-land.

F u n e r a lservices willbe at 2:00p.m., urs-day, Feb. 12,at Claybar Funeral Home in Or-ange. Officiating will be the Rev.Carl Wagner. Burial will follow atAutumn Oaks Memorial Park inOrange.

Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m.to 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11,at Claybar Funeral Home in Or-ange.

Born in DeRidder, La., on July,17 1931, she was the daughter ofHal Slaydon and Ruby Lea DuBoseSlaydon. Peggy loved gardening,going to garage sales, shoppingand baking.

She is preceded in death by hus-band, Edward Wagner; son,William Goodwin and daughter,Tina Goodwin.

She is survived by her sons, EllisGoodwin, Jr. of Orange andRonald Wagner and wife Sonia of

Groves; daughter, Aileen Howardand husband Robert of PortNeches; brother, Sambo Slaydonof DeRidder; four grandchildrenand two great-grandchildren.

Gerald MorrisBridge City

Gerald A. Morris, 76, of BridgeCity, passedaway Feb. 7,at BaptistHospital inBeaumont.

F u n e r a lservices wereTuesday, Feb.10, at FirstB a p t i s tChurch inBridge City.Officiating was the Rev. Dale Leeof Cowboy Church of OrangeCounty in Orange. Burial followedat Hillcrest Memorial Gardens inOrange.

Born in Sour Lake, August 7,1938, Gerald was the son of OcieMorris and Bessie Morris. Heserved in the United States AirForce Reserves for six years and re-tired from Dupont Sabine RiverWorks. Gerald was a member ofthe First Baptist Church in BridgeCity since 1946 and served as adeacon for 41 years. He served onvarious committees at the churchand was presently serving as achurch trustee.

He is preceded in death by hisparents.

He is survived by his wife, JuliaMorris of Bridge City; daughtersand sons-in-law, Kellie and Ken-neth Miller of Port Arthur andAudra and Erich Stafford ofBrookfield, Ct; son and daughter-in-law, Clint and Sherry Morris ofBridge City; grandchildren, KristinRay and husband, omas, ChadMiller, Lauren Miller, Travis Mor-ris, Jason Morris, Emma Staffordand Beau Stafford; sisters, BettyMcDaniel and husband, Willie ofVidor and Frances Ervin of BridgeCity and brother Ronald GeneMorris of Bridge City.

In lieu of flowers, memorialcontributions may be made to FirstBaptist Church, 200 W. Round-bunch Road, Bridge City, Texas77611.

Clarence WattsOrange

Clarence Wright Watts, 78, ofO r a n g e ,passed awaySaturday, Jan.31, at theTexas StateV e t e r a n sHome inTemple. 

C larencewas born onOctober 20,1936 inSaline, La., (Bienville Parish) andhe grew up on a farm. After grad-uating from High School, he en-listed in the Army Reserves at theage of 20 and he served for 6 years.He joined the Army in 1962 and hewas deployed to Post War Koreafor combat training where heserved for three years. He was thendeployed to Vietnam in 1965 andserved as a combat engineer inVietnam from 1965 and 1966. Hewas an expert with the M-16 Rifleand he earned several ribbons forhis service. He returned to the U.S. and completed his 21 years ofservice at various bases includingFort Polk, La. Clarence also servedin the Headquarters Company ofthe 208th Military Police Bn.(Texas State Guard) for five years.He was a proud member of the

VFW in Nederland and the Amer-ican Legion Bridge City Post 250.He served in various positions, in-cluding Post Commander at botha VFW Post and an American Le-gion Post. He was also commanderof the Cooties Pup Tent, which isthe highest order of the VFW,wherein you must be invited tojoin, based on your individualmerits and service.

R. Lavonne TaylorOrange

R. Lavonne Wagnon Taylor, 73,of Orange passed away, sur-rounded byher family ather home onFeb. 6.

F u n e r a lservices wereTuesday, Feb.10, at Clay-bar FuneralHome in Or-ange. Offici-ating wasPastor Don Sheffield of Corner-stone Baptist Church. Burial fol-lowed at Fellowship Cemetery inWarren.

Mrs. Taylor was born in Warrento C.B. and Wilma Elwood (Lee)Wagnon on July 25, 1941. She wasa 1959 Warren High School grad-uate, attended Chenier BusinessSchool when she met the love ofher life and was a member of Cor-nerstone Baptist Church. Later shewas a pre-school teacher at BearCountry Academy and was also asecretary at South Newton WaterSupply for five years. Most of allshe was a loving wife, mother andgrandmother who loved spendingtime with her family.

She is preceded in death by herparents and is survived by her hus-band of 54 years, Clyde Taylor Jr.of Orange; sons and daughters-in-law, Ret. Lt. Col. Steve and JanetTaylor of Bristow, VA and Markand Rachel Taylor of Orange;grandsons, Rob and Mike; sistersand brother-in-law, Beverly Call-away of Silsbee and Sherry andRonnie Grimes of Beaumont; sis-ters-in-law, Margaret Pope, MaryAnn Miller and Brenda Kay andRaymond Henry and brother-in-law, J.D. Taylor, all of Woodville.Also is her very special aunt, Bob-bie Marcontell; her grandpuppies,Chloe, Libby, Chubbs and Buddy.She was well loved by her friends,nieces and nephews.

Serving as pallbearers wereChris Callaway, Kevin Wheeler,Douglas Bubela, Carl Pope, JaredTaylor and Dwight Taylor. Hon-orary pallbearers were J.D. Taylorand A.W. Cook.

Mrs. Taylor’s family appreciatesthe services of River City Hospiceand especially the help of Becky,her nurse and Vanecia, her CNA.

Joe FrancisOrange

Joe D. Francis, 77, better knownin e Golden Triangle area as “Ja-maica Joe”, passed away at his res-

idence on Friday, Feb. 6, sur-rounded by his adoring family andfriends.

Joe was born on July 13, 1937 inNatchitoches La., to Nathan andEla (Jones) Francis. He was aprominent businessman as theowner and operator of BargainCarpet Warehouse for over 25years, a real estate investor with aknack for finding a good deal, aswell as many other ventures andadventures to keep himself busy inretirement. He was a faithfulmember of e Church of JesusChrist of Latter-Day Saints in Or-ange. Joe got the most joy fromleaving love notes around thehouse for his wife, spoiling his chil-dren, bragging about his grand-children and great grandchildren,traveling the world with his closestfriends and above all else, makingmemories with his family. Heawoke every morning with a smileon his face with the intent ofspreading joy and laughter toeveryone he met. His biggest goalin life was to inspire positivity inothers and to encourage people tosee the best in themselves and toappreciate the joys of life. Hetouched countless people with hisdaily good deeds and generous,loving nature. Everyone that metJoe will remember him as afriendly jokester and devoted andsincere father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, uncle and friend.

He was preceded in death by hisparents; brother, CB Francis andmost recently his eternal compan-ion, Vallie Sue (Whitman) Francis.

Joe is survived by his brotherGary Francis of Ocala, Fl; hisbeloved children, Lem Francis,wife Christi and family of Fannett,Missy Aucoin, husband Gregoryand family of Lake Charles, ScottFrancis, wife Beverly and family ofOrange and Fara Francis of Den-ton.

A funeral service was to beheld  Monday, Feb. 9, at eChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in Orange. Burial wasto follow at Autumn Oaks Memo-rial Park in Orange.

Honoring Joe as pallbearerswere Chris Francis, Evan Aucoin,Ty Lewis, Dwight Lewis, CazzyFrancis, Dwight Whitman, DavidBloxom, David Whitman andKalvin Francis. Honorary pallbear-ers were Tige Egan, Eddie Egan, Je-remy Keller, Timani Tonga Jr., RoryWilliamson, Roger Dale Brodnaxand Michael McMillen.

Minnie AshworthBridge City

Minnie Merle Ashworth, 86, ofBridge City, died ursday, Feb.4. She was born on July 21, 1928,in Bon Wier, to Imelda DoughertyBoyett and George Boyett. 

Minnie was a dedicated mem-ber of the United PentecostalChurch of Bridge City. She was adevoted wife, mother, grand-mother, and great-grandmother.She worked at Nobles DepartmentStore and later as a grocery clerk atHoward’s Big Star, Dick’s Grocery,Weingarten’s, and PriceLo.  rough her work she had

contact with many individuals andmade numerous friends.  For manyyears, she frequently enjoyed play-ing boardgames with“ eChicken FootClub”. Shewas verycompetitiveand loved towin.  Withher healthd e c l i n i n g ,Minnie be-came a resi-dent of Silsbee Oaks Healthcare in2007 where she remained until herpassing.  Minnie will be greatlymissed by those who knew andlove her.

Survivors include her children,Lynn Young and husband, Russell,of Mauriceville and Nathan Ash-worth and wife, Pam, of Auburn,Wa; grandchildren, Bobby Ash-worth, Jason Ashworth and wife,Missi, Vanessa Wintner and hus-band, Gregg, Rodney Young andwife, Kristie, Damon Young, Mon-ica Smith and husband, Mike,Nathan Joel Ashworth, Lisa How-land, Cindy Bowman and hus-band, Nathan, and Matt Howlandand wife, Cherie; and 15 great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by herparents; husband, Robert GervisAshworth, Sr.; son, Robert GervisAshworth, Jr.; brothers, GeneBoyett and Earl Boyett and sister,Ruby Burkett.

A gathering of Mrs. Ashworth’sfamily and friends was Monday,Feb. 9, at United PentecostalChurch of Bridge City, under thedirection of Broussard’s,Silsbee. Her interment followed atHillcrest Cemetery, Bridge City.

e family wishes to acknowl-edge with deep appreciation, theabundant love and exceptionalcare provided these many years toMinnie by the entire staff of Sils-bee Oaks Healthcare.

Timothy BrownOrange

e Celebration of Life for Mr.Timothy C. Brown, 80, of Orangewas Saturday, Feb. 7, at  In HisSteps Church in Orange. Rites ofChristian burial followed in Holly-wood Community Cemeteryunder the di-rection ofSparrow Fu-neral Home.

A native ofHillsboro, heresided inOrange 10years.  Hewas an hon-orably dis-c h a r g e dVeteran of the U.S. Navy.

Survivors include his wife,Shirley Brown; children Jordan,Jamar, and Jerrica Brown, all of Or-ange and sisters Mary McGee ofFort Worth and Dorothy Priesterof Orange.

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Audrey FieldsAudrey Mae Broussard Fields,

81, passed away at her residenceMonday, Feb. 9. A private gather-ing will takeplace, at thefamily’s re-quest, at ana p p o i n t e dtime.

She wasborn Nov. 4,1933, in Or-ange, toWW1 vet-eran JustilienJohn Broussard and Stenie MarieDecuir Broussard. She is precededin death by her parents; husbandBenny Fields; brother, HiltonBroussard and sister, DorothyGuidry.

She is survived by her lovingchildren, George Boudreaux, DaleBoudreaux, Walter Gerlach, GeneFields, Audrey Prince and TinaGeorge;  grandchildren, great-grandchildren; brother, JimmyBroussard and sisters, Rella Gar-diner, Teresa Krout and JuanitaSoape.

We are very thankful to the Lordfor her doctors, nurses and AltusHospice for all their kind help inour time of need and the specialcare given by her dear son GeneFields.

With much appreciation to all,condolences may be sent to thefamilies of Audrey’s six childrenand her siblings.

Wilson PerryOrange

Wilson Perry, 89, of Orange,passed away Feb. 9, at SoutheastWar Veter-ans Home inReserve, La.

F u n e r a lservices willb eat  10:00am, u r s d a y ,Feb. 12, atClaybar Fu-neral Homein Orange.Officiating will be the Rev. DavidTurner of Little Cypress BaptistChurch. Burial will follow at Or-ange Forest Lawn in West Orange.

Visitation will be from 5:00pm-8:00pm, Wednesday, Feb. 11  atClaybar Funeral Home in Orange.

Born in Crowley, La., on Oct.26, 1925, he was the son of EliPerry and Olive Abshire Perry.Wilson served in the U.S Armyduring WWII and the Korean War.He worked as a carpenter and wasan avid LSU fan. He was also amember of Little Cypress BaptistChurch for over 50 years. He wasa wonderful husband, father,grandfather, and great grandfather.He will be greatly missed.

Wilson is preceded in death byhis parents; sisters, Virgie Perryand Euvera Eldridge; brothers, Al-fred Perry, Wilbur Perry, MayoPerry and Garlan Perry; sisters-in-law, eda Perry, Lois Perry,Juanita Perry and Janice Jones andbrothers-in-law, J.T. Parker andFred Eldridge.

He is survived by his wife, of 68years, Jessie Perry; son, Boyd Perryand wife, Beth; grandchildren, An-gela Balsam and husband, Tobyand Andrew Perry; great-grand-children, Carly Beth Balsam, LexiBalsam, Camille Balsam, and RylanPerry.

Wilson is also survived by hisbrothers, Leo Perry and wife, Lav-erne, Alvin Perry and wife, Peggy,John Perry and wife, Mary andMatthew Perry and wife, Debbie;sister, Beatrice Powell and hus-band, Lewis and his sisters-in-law,Vera Perry and Velma Parker.

Serving as pallbearers will beKeith Perry, Bruce Perry, RobertStalnacker, Collen Jones, Jeff Jonesand Dickie Perry. Honorary pall-bearer is Langston Fredrick.

In lieu of flowers, memorialcontributions may be made to Lit-tle Cypress Baptist Church PhaseII Building Fund at 3274 Little Cy-press Dr. Orange, TX 77632.

Bobby McGalinOrange

Bobby L. McGalin, 53, of Or-ange passedaway Friday,Feb. 6, atBaptist Hos-pital in Beau-mont.

Bobby wasborn Dec. 1,1961 in Or-ange to PearlE l i z a b e t h(Young) andKenneth Wayne McGalin. He wasa tree surgeon for many years inthe Orange area. He enjoyed theoutdoors; going hunting, fishing

Winfree Baptist to host ‘Spring Thing’

e Spring ing fundraiser atWinfree Baptist Church will beSaturday, March 7, from 10:00until 4:00 pm. e event will in-clude a BBQ cook-off, open carshow and craft sales. All pro-ceeds will benefit the 110th an-niversary. For more information,contact the church at 735-7181.

LC Baptist to host Expoe Little Cypress Baptist

Church will host the 5th annualSoutheast Texas/SouthwestLouisiana 2015 Crisis Prepara-tion Expo, from 8:00 am until3:00 pm, Saturday Feb. 21 atLCBC, 3274 Little Cypress Dr.,Orange.

e expo is an exhibition hallwhere those in attendance cancome and go to view displaysfrom dozens of experts or topicsof interest in crisis preparation.Some crisis preparation gifts willbe given away by vendors.

Forty classes lasting about 45minutes each from 25 peoplewith experience in crisis prepa-ration at three levels. e lec-tures are scheduled to begin at10:00 am and the class listingmay be picked up at www.little-cypressbaptist.org, beginningursday before the vent.

For more information, visit thewebsite listed above, or call 883-8905.

Fish dinners at St. Frances St. Francis of Assisi Knights of

Columbus Council 13825 is sell-ing fish dinners in the San Dami-ano Center (behind the Church)located at 4300 Meeks Drivefrom 5:00 to 7:00 pm on the fol-lowing Lenten Fridays: Feb. 20,Feb. 27, March 6, March 13,March 20 and March 27.

Dinners include two pieces offish, french fries, hushpuppies,coleslaw, drink and dessert for$8.

Dine in or carry out.

El Bethel Baptist to hold fish fry

e El Bethel Baptist Churchsenior choir will hold a fish frydinner Friday, March 6, from9:00 am through 2:00 pm, at thechurch. Dinners will consist ofsouthern fried fish, dirty rice,green beans, potato salad, bread,cake and a drink. Deliveries willbe available for those orderingthree or more dinners. For deliv-ery or other information call thechurch at 883-8996, 988-9002 or670-5057.

e church is located at 704 N.12th St in Orange.

Disney and Diningat First UMC

For your special ValentineFirst United Methodist Churchof Orange invites everyone to at-

tend a magical evening of Disneyand gourmet dining at 6:30 p.m.Friday Feb. 13, in the Praise Cen-ter on the corner of 5th and ElmStreets. Cost is $50.00 per per-son. Call 409 886-7466 for reser-vations and details.

Salem goes HollywoodJoin Salem United Methodist

Church as they go HollywoodSaturday night at 6 p.m., with avaried tasting menu from someof your favorite Celebrities fa-vorite foods. Stars featured willbe Denzel Washington, Patti La-belle, Ray Parker Jr., Sweetie Pieand more.

Cost is only $10 per person.Email salemorange@sbcglobal.netfor tickets. e event will be heldat 1911 16th St., Orange.

Dr. Eldon Shaw tospeak at WO Christian

Dr. Eldon Shaw, president ofTLC International will share hismissionary work and his love ofChrist at the West Orange Chris-tian Church, Feb. 15, at 6:00 pm.e church is located at 900Lansing, West Orange.

e purpose of the TLC Inter-national is to teach and equipleaders for ministry in the King-dom of God around the world.

For more information, contactNelda at 719-3992.

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Church Briefs

Discover your treasure, share it with othersEveryone is born with a treasure chest of

gifts and talents that they need to discoverand share, Pope Francis told a group ofyoung people with disabilities who explainedto him how technology has brought them joyand helps them communicate.

Seven young people from six countriesshared their stories with the pope and askedhim questions Feb. 5 during a Google Hang-out, a live video conversation online.

“You help us understand that life is a beau-tiful treasure that has meaning only if weshare,” the pope told the young people.

Alicia, a 16-year-old amateur filmmakerfrom Spain, asked Pope Francis if he, too,likes to take photographs and upload themto his computer.

“Do you want me to tell you the truth,” heasked the young woman with Down syn-drome. “I am a disaster with machines. Idon’t know how to deal with a computer. It’sembarrassing, isn’t it?”

e videochat with the pope came at theconclusion of a gathering in the Vatican ofScholas Occurrentes, a project Pope Francissupported as archbishop of Buenos Aires andexpanded as pope. rough schools it linksstudents from different neighborhoods,countries, economic backgrounds and faithsto promote communication, understandingand cooperation.

Isaiah Bauer from Kearney High School inKearney, Nebraska, and his schoolmateTeynor Karson also were part of the Google

Hangout. Bauer told the pope he has diffi-culty keeping up with his studies and that his“lack of fine motor skills” slows down hiswriting and typing.

“What do you do when you face some-thing difficult?” Bauer asked the pope.

“First, I try not to get angry, stay calm.en I try to figure out how to do it, to over-come the difficulty. If that is not possible, Itry to endure it until I have the possibility ofovercoming it,” he said. “We should not beafraid of difficulty. We are capable of over-coming anything, but we need time to under-

stand, intelligence and courage to keep mov-ing forward.”

Manoj Kumar, a 13-year-old from India,who told the pope he is a big fan of Bruce Leefilms on YouTube, asked the pope how theScholas Occurrentes project can help youngpeople.

“Building bridges, communicating witheach other,” the pope responded. “When youcommunicate with each other, giving the bestof what you have inside and receiving thebest from others, this is very important.When we do not communicate we are leftalone with our limitations and this is bad forus.”

Pope Francis ended the conversation withthe young people by telling them and thethousands of other children watching onlinearound the world, “All of you have a chest, abox, and inside there is a treasure. Your jobis to open the chest, discover the treasure,develop it, give it to others and receive fromothers the treasures they offer.”

Some people discover their treasurequickly, the pope said, but sometimes “it’slike playing treasure hunt because it is notfound easily. But once you find it, share it.”

“Each one of us has a treasure inside,” hesaid. “If we keep it there, closed up, it will staythere. If we share it with others, the treasurewill multiply with the treasures that comefrom others. What I want to ask of you is thatyou do not hide the treasure that each of youhas.”

Valentine’sChristianconnection

At first, the connection betweenValentine’s Day and religion mightseem obvious -- isn’t the daynamed after a Christian saint?When we consider the mattermore closely, we find that thereisn’t a strong relationship betweenChristian saints and romance. Weshould then realize that our initialideas may have been too hasty. Togain a better understanding of thereligious background of Valentine’sDay, we have to dig deeper.

ere is a lot of debate and dis-agreement among scholars aboutthe origins of Valentine’s Day.We’ll probably never be able todisentangle all of the cultural andreligious threads in order to recon-struct a complete and coherentstory. e origins of Valentine’sDay lie too far in the past to besure about everything. Despitethis, there are a number of specu-lations we can make which are rea-sonably sound.

For one thing, we know that theRomans celebrated a holiday onFebruary 14th to honor Juno Fruc-tifier, Queen of the Roman godsand goddesses, and that on Febru-ary 15th they celebrated the Feastof Lupercalia in honor of Luper-cus, the Roman god who watchedover shepherds and their flocks.Neither of these appear to havemuch to do with love or romance,but there were a number of cus-toms focused on fertility whichwere associated with one feast orthe other. Although attributionsvary depending on the source, theyare consistent in their descriptionof the rituals.

In one, men would go to a grottodedicated to Lupercal, the wolfgod, which was located at the footof Palatine Hill. It was here the Ro-mans believed that the founders ofRome, Romulus and Remus, weresuckled by a she-wolf. It was alsohere that the men would sacrificea goat, don its skin, and then pro-ceed to run around, hitting womenwith small whips. ese actionswere taken in imitation of the godPan and supposedly a womenstruck in this way would be guar-anteed fertility during the nextyear.

In another ritual, women wouldsubmit their names to a commonbox and men would each draw oneout. ese two would be a couplefor the duration of the festival (andat times for the entire followingyear). Both rituals were designedto promote not only fertility, butalso life generally.

Our modern festival isn’t calledSt. Lupercus’ Day, it’s called St.Valentine’s Day after a Christiansaint -- so where does Christianitycome into play? at’s more diffi-cult for historians to decipher.ere was more than one personwith the name Valentinius who ex-isted during the early years of thechurch, two or three of whomwere martyred.

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tWIn LaKeS eStateS - newest development in the desired orangefield ISd, 4 ~ 2.0 acre tracts w/private lake access. Water, sewer, gas, electricity, and internet are all available! Several homes completed and several under construc-tion! come get your lot today! owner financing available. countrY-Land ProPertIeS, LLc, 409)745-1115. (3/4)

1 acre In MaurIcevILLe. Prop-erty has been partially cleared, LcMISd, at the end of a county main-tained road. owner fi-nancing available. countrYLand ProPertIeS, LLc, 409)745-1115. (3/4)

10 acreS on WeSt gIrgSbY rd. with 500’ private drive. adjoins large timer tract. ac-cess to Mauriceville water & sewer and elec-tricity, owner financing available. Mobile homes and livestock oK. countrYLand ProPertIeS, LLc, 409)745-1115. (3/4)

aPPliaNCeS

reFrIgerator, Ken-More eLIte SIde bY SIde WIth ManY Fea-tureS, 30cu.Ft., 3

1/2 YearS oLd, $750, caLL or text (409) 330-1255. (2/11)

uSed aPPLIanceS, starting at $99.95. har-

ry’s appliances, 302 10th. St. (10th. & Main), orange. We buy used appliances, 886-4111 (hs)

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Orange’s Oldest Hometown Appliance Dealer

HARRY’SAPPLIANCE & SERVICE INC

FREELOCAL

DELIVERY Since1963

Big Selection of Reconditioned AppliancesAll Used Appliances Sold with Warranty

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302 N. 10TH. Street 886-4111 FINANCINGAVAILABLE

• FREEZERS • DISHWASHERS • REFRIGERATORS• WASHERS/DRYERS AIR CONDITIONERS • RANGES

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

Cleaning ServiCeNOW HIRING

Residential & Commercial Cleaning

LLCCleaning ServiCe

Sparkling

409-886-16303515 Mockingbird, Suite D, Pinehurst

Here’s My Card

409-735-5305 or 409-886-7183

StakesElectricResidential & Commercial

Free Estimates

Specializing in older home rewires.

409-749-4873License #’s

Customer: # 25151Master: # 14161

TRACTOR WORK BY DANNY COLE

• Dirt / Shell Spreading• Bushhogging• Garden Tilling

• New home pads Prepared • Sewer / Water / Electrical

Lines DugHome 735-8315Cell 670-2040

THE RECORDCommunity Classifieds

Call 735-5305• Penny Record Office: 333 West Roundbunch, Bridge City

• County Record Office: 320 Henrietta, OrangeNote: Offices Closed On Wednesday

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

Your ads published in both newspapers,the County Record and the Penny Recordplus on our web site TheRecordLive.com

Home RepaiR Inside or Outside

Plumbing, Electric & Carpentry

25 years ExperienceCall Jimmy Harmon

409-594-5650

CHATEAU ROYALE’ APARTMENTS

Taking Applications

SPACIOUS 1 & 2 BEDROOMS

208 10TH STREET ORANGE TX

(409) 886-4176

COMPLETE HOME REMODELING

And RepairsKitchens, baths, floors,

Ceramic tileAll wood flooring, paint,

sheetrockTexture, plumbing, trim,

sidingWindows and doors

All interior and exterior jobs Big and small

No money up front50 years experience

Best rates around409-988-1659

Misc. FOR sALE

NICE WASHER TOSS board game, $125; Mikasa China set, $75; new ladies bike, $80; twin bed set with head-board, $75; nice rocker/recliner chair, $75, (409)499-2128. (2/11)

INVACARE WHEEL-CHAIR, brand new M91 sure step, heavy duty, elevating seat, head rest, reclines, ad-justing foot rest, 300 lb. capacity, 6.5 mph, manuals, lifetime war-ranty, paid $5,500 will sell for $2,000 OBO! (409) 499-2121. (tfnKG)

AutOs

99 SATuRN SCI $500.00 as is- runs good. 214,000 miles. Ray 330-5359.

TRuCK DRIVERSDrivers/OwnerOps! Lo-cal Work! Home Daily, Benefits! CDL-A, 1yr exp, Great Driving re-cord. Sunsetlogistics.com 281-693-4587 or 888-215-4285. (3/4)

sERVicEs

SEWING, HEMMING and custom made items. You still have time to get custom made Christmas outfits for holiday pictures! 238-1230. JS

Experienced House-keeper. Call Helen 409-734-8096.(2/18)

LAWN MOWING and lawn service, flower beds, free estimates, (409) 988-9232. (3/4)

PEts

NEEDS A GOOD HOME, inside. Cute, sweet and very love-able 2 black and white female kittens about

5-6 months old. One has long hair and one is medium length. Some-one threw them away on my street. I have had both of them spade. They will make wonder-ful pets. Please call 886-7863. (2/11) FOuND! We rescued two young male dogs, about 10 months old, 1 tan & Wht (Boxer mix) and one black (Lab), free to good homes, have shots and we will neuter. (409) 886-7240. (2/18)

GARAGE and EstAtE sALEs

FRI AND SAT. 501 Hy-drangea Ave. Orange, 8-1, King headboard, kitchen table, wrought iron bed frame, kitchen items, lamps, exercise equipment, kid stuff, toy box, poker table, metal filing cabinet, home se-curity system in box, pictures and more.

FRI-SAT. 1517 Browning Rd-Lindenwood 8-3 Es-tate Sale -Furniture, bedroom, living room and dining room, glass-ware, kitchenware, washer & dryer, linens, books and more books.SAT., 290 TYLER DR., ORG (77630), 8 till 1. Home decor, household items, lots of misc.

SAT., HWY 62, BC/ORG., 1 mile N. of BC on 62, blue house.

PsA

ALCOHOLICS ANONY-MOuS meets daily at noon and 8 pm at 240 Dobbyn St. in Bridge City. If you are strug-gling with a drinking or drug problem come see what AA has to of-fer. Call 409-735-8094 for more info.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP to promote healing after the loss of a loved one meets Mondays at 7 p.m. and Wed. at 10 a.m. at

Good Shepherd Lu-theran Church at 945 W. Roundbunch Rd, Bridge City. Good Shepherd Compas-sionate Friends is open to anyone who would like to join.

DEMENTIA CARE GIV-ERS SuPPORT GROuP meets monthLY the 2nd Wed. at 10 a.m. and the second Thur. at 6:30 pm. at St.Francis of As-sisi Catholic Church, 4300 Meeks Dr. in Or-ange in the Brother Sun Room of the Canticle Bldg.

AL-ANON meets Wed. & Sun. at 7 pm 1512 Strickland Dr., Orange. Call 409-779-4289 or Cindy 994-5503 for de-tails.

GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOuGH LOVE is a self help parents support group for parents of children displaying un-acceptable behavior. Meets Tues. 7 pm. at the Immaculate Con-ception Ed. Bldg., 4100 Lincoln (corner of Lin-coln & Washington) in Groves. For more info call 962-0480

RAPE AND CRISIS CENTER of SETX pro-vides critical services for those in crisis due to sexual assault, rape, suicide or general cri-sis. In addition, a 24

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BOOKEEPER NEEDED for local CPA firm. Please mail resume to: Penny Record Ad PO, Box 1008 Bridge City, TX 77611

THEME: BE MY VALENTINE

ACROSS1. Range rovers6. Effervescence9. “Hamlet” has five of these13. Heads-up14. Hula neck-lace15. Accustom16. Relating to moon17. Big coffee holder18. Three-masted vessel formerly used in Mediter-ranean19. *A top Valen-tine’s Day seller

21. *”How do I love thee? Let me count ___ ____”23. It follows the note soh24. *In the ____ for love25. Golf’s Ryder ____28. Flexible mineral30. *He offici-ates many wed-dings

35. Bryce Can-yon state37. Grannies39. *Love in Paris40. It distin-guishes a father from a son in French41. Lowest deck43. Away from port44. Annoyed46. Kind of pickle47. Calf-lengthskirt48. Broadband predecessor50. Capital of Ukraine52. Bottom line53. Jab55. “___, borrow or steal”57. Desdemona’s suspicious hus-band61. Properly deserved65. Innocent66. *It’s the loneliest num-ber?68. Egg-shaped

69. The Dow, e.g.70. *Barbie’s beau71. Sherpa’s land72. Subsequently or soon after-wards73. *I love ___74. Anoint

DOWN

1. One of two equal parts2. Twelfth month of Jewish year3. Known for gambling4. A southern _____5. “Islands in the______,” by Rog-ers and Parton6. *Bring a date or a ____ one7. Ever, to a poet8. Spotted bean9. Again10. Target of Bay of Pigs invasion11. Deuce topper12. Seconds15. Outdoor stone seating20. Endangered species22. Before skip and a jump24. Resembling a human25. *His aim is true?26. Wombs27. Winter wear29. *It often ac-companies #19

Across31. Prayer leader in mosque32. Fluorescent red dye33. Elvis’s “Blue _____ Shoes”34. Distinguish-ing feature36. Last piece of a loaf38. Musical com-position for one, pl.42. A military trainee45. 2-unit house49. One who’s ac-tive in politics51. *Romeo and Juliet’s home-town54. Like the Ad-dams Family56. Established fact57. “Put a lid __ __!”58. Hyperbolic tangent59. What those on the lam do60. 2 and 4, e.g.61. *It’s usually full of romantic fare on Valen-tine’s Day62. Broken at fin-ish line63. And others, for short64. To erase or cancel67. “New” prefix

Field Workers

12 temporary positions; approx 10 months; Du-ties: To opérate farm equipment during field maintenance; planting of sugarcane by hand; operating farm equip-ment during harvesting of sugar cane; farm and field sanitation duties; operation and perform-ing minor repairs and maintenance of farm ve-hicles and equipment; Able to work in hot, hu-mid weather, bending and stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired, workers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to worker. Test-ing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination. $10.18 per hour; 35 hrs week; OT varies, not guaranteed . Job to be-gin on 4/1/15 through 2/1/16. 3 months expe-rienced required in job offered. All work tools provided. Housing and transportation provided to workers who can not reasonably return to their permanent resi-dence at the end of the work day; Transporta-tion and subsistence expenses to the work-site will be provided by the employer upon com-pletion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employment offered by A & M Farms, Inc. lo-cated in New Iberia, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for in-terview (337) 364-8903 or may apply for this position at their nearest State Workforce located at 304 Pearl St., Beau-mont, TX 77701.

Field Workers

5 temp. positions; ap-prox 10 months; Du-ties: To opérate farm equipment during field maintenance; planting of sugarcane by hand; operating farm equip-ment during harvesting of sugar cane; farm and field sanitation duties; operation and perform-ing minor repairs and maintenance of farm ve-hicles and equipment; Able to work in hot, hu-mid weather, bending and stooping to reach ground level crops and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Once hired, workers may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to worker. Test-ing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination. $10.18 an hour; 35 hrs week; OT varies, not guaranteed. Job to be-gin on 3/22/15 through 1/15/16. Must have 3 months experience in job offered All work tools provided. Housing and transportation pro-vided to workers who can not reasonably re-turn to their permanent residence at the end of the work day; Transpor-tation and subsistence expenses to the work-site will be provided by the employer upon com-pletion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate; ¾ hours guaranteed in a work day during contract. Employment offered by Mistretta Farms located in Gonzales, LA. Work-site located in White Castle, LA . Qualified applicants may call employer for interview (225) 746-0220 or apply for this position at their nearest SWA office lo-cated at 304 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701.

NOTICE TOCREDITORSNotice is hereby given

that original Letters of Testamentary for the Estate of MARY JUNE LAND, Deceased, were issued on the January 6, 2015, in Cause No. P-17070, pending in the County Court, Orange County, Texas, to: RICHARD EARL LAND.

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.

c/o Jerry V. PenningtonAttorney at Law110 N. 7th StreetOrange, Texas 77631-2010DATED the 6th day ofMay, 2015

Jerry V. Pennington Jerry V. PenningtonAttorney at Law RICHARD EARL LANDState Bar No.: 15759000P.O. DRAWER 2010ORANGE, TEXAS 77631-2010Telephone: (409) 886-0575Facsimile: (409) 996-1353E-mail: jerryvpenn@sbcglobal.net

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