BISD official stories contradict in ongoing audit

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‘Caught in a lie’ BISD official stories contradict in audit debacle
By Jerry Jordan
Managing Editor
Seeking an explanation for Beaumont Independent School District trustees seeing a different Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report/audit (CAFR)
than what was presented to the Texas
Education Agency, trustee Mike Neil
says he caught superintendent Carrol
Thomas and assistant superintendent
for business and finance Robert Zingelmann in a lie, and it was all recorded on
the district’s video system.
The audit in question was marked as
a “DRAFT” but submitted for approval by Zingelmann during the January
board meeting. At that time, he
implored trustees to move forward
with approving the “DRAFT” version
saying they were only accepting the
document and not verifying its contents or accuracy. He was concerned
the district would miss the deadline to
file the audit with the state. But then
changes were made – changes board
members didn’t see – and the audit was
submitted to the TEA, complete with
the signatures of board president
Woodrow Reece and secretary Terry
Williams, even though the other board
members never signed off on the new
document.
The discrepancy, which included a
$2.2 million difference in the amount
of cash the district had in its accounts
on Aug. 31, 2011, wasn’t made public
until information about both
audits was published in The
Examiner two weeks ago.
However, that was not the story Thomas and Zingelmann
told the board. And now, to
hear Zingelmann and Thomas
tell their version of events,
there were at least three audits
floating around.
“There were several different versions, and it was a Botley
many-day process to update the
CAFR,” Zingelmann told the board.
“What happened that day was what the
board received was not the most current version. The board received a version that had errors that had not been
corrected on the most current version.
During that report, we were not aware
that the board had the older version.
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BISD trustees meet to discuss why an audit not approved by the board was submitted to the Texas Education Agency
proclaiming that it had been.
Thomas is questioned about the audits
as Trustee Tom Neild looks on.
“I did not go onto the agenda to
verify the CAFR the board was looking at was the most current. So during
the presentation we were under the
impression that we had given
the board the most current
CAFR that had a lot of these
errors corrected already.”
Although Zingelmann said
he wasn’t aware the board
didn’t receive the correct
audit, he was the person who
supplied the electronic PDF
file to the computer department so they could e-mail a
link for the audit to the board
members. Several board members,
including Neil, Janice Brassard and
Tom Neild, all confirmed they received
the audit Jan. 15 – the day before the
meeting where the faulty audit was
approved.
Additionally, at the January meeting, those same board members
requested more time to review the
Superintendent Carrol Thomas tries to explain himself after trustee Mike Neil
catches him in a lie.
audit and go over the numbers that
were being presented by independent
auditor Gayle Botley. Again, that is
when Zingelmann expressed the urgency of moving forward with the audit
even though he has now admitted he
didn’t know what the board was looking at.
“We are going past the deadline if it
is not voted on tonight,” Zingelmann
said in Janaury.
During the January meeting, Zingelmann also openly lied to trustees when
he said the board was only “accepting
the opinion of the auditor” and not voting on the final document, which was
pointed out by trustee Neild.
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“As it is presented to the board and
that you are accepting the opinion of
the auditor,” Zingelmann said in
response to a question from Brassard
about doubts she had with the contents
of the audit.
At the time, Neild also pointed out
the wording being used was not consistent with the explanation Zingelmann was providing the board. Neild
said the item on the agenda stated to
approve the audit, “not to consider, not
to think about, but to approve. The way
this is stated is that we, as board members, are approving that document
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when we have not had time to review it.”
Zingelmann tried to correct his previous statements in the March meeting
but Mike Neil again pointed out that
he wasn’t being truthful with the
board.
“In January, we brought a report to
the board for approval,” Zingelmann
said at the March meeting. “In that
report were several errors. What happens is the external auditor audits our
books; that’s our general ledger. Once
that is complete we take those numbers, the district takes those numbers
and transfers them over to the CAFR.
We do this through several different
ways. We do this through electronic
transfers, and we do it
through manual transfer.
“What we had, we
had several issues with
that report and I am
going to go over both of
them. One of the issues
we had is we converted
our financial software
from an old system to a
new system. However, we ran the fiscal year on both systems so when we
closed the year and had to convert that
to the CAFR, there’s conversion that
didn’t take place correctly. So those
numbers were put into the CAFR,
many of those mistakes were noticed
and were starting to be corrected and
were saved.”
“They thought you had the most
current copy. You did not have the
most current copy,” Thomas said,
seeming to indicate that in January, he
knew there were multiple drafts. “Then
they went and sent it to the TEA; there
were minimal corrections from that
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Trustee Brassard tells Zingelmann he
made the board look like ‘.idiots.’
particular copy.”
Botley told the board he was made
aware of the changes before the documents were sent to TEA in January, but
some board members wanted clarification because they understood that
Thomas had not been made aware of
the changes until March.
Brassard called out
Zingelmann saying she
went to Thomas after
The Examiner first
broke the story this
month about the two
audits, and that was
when the district began
looking into the issue.
“I got a copy of the documents, both
the document that was sent to TEA and
the document that was given to us,”
she said. “I went over it and it took me
six hours. I then came down to Dr.
Thomas’ office to show him what was
being talked about and asked him if we
could get an explanation, at which
point, as far as I know, the investigation was launched.
“The problem had already hit the
press before anybody had bothered to
talk to Dr. Thomas to figure out what
happened.”
Brassard was even more concerned
that Reece and Williams signed a
document that was “attached theoreti- paring BISD’s financial information.
cally to the document that you (ZinThat fact was also pointed out by
gelmann) presented to us at the board Williams, whose name is on the fraudmeeting saying that we had approved ulent document sent to the state. And
that document. Now we are given because of the discrepancies found by
another document. It sure makes a Neild and the newspaper, the state
bunch of people look like idiots.”
demanded answers from the board as
When it was his turn to speak, Neil to why it received a document that was
called Botley back to the podium and altered after board approval.
asked when he became aware changes
Williams, who said prior to the
were made to the audit.
meeting that he was angry about
“Before we sent it to TEA,” Botley changes being made without his
said.
knowledge, made it clear he wanted
Thomas’ first reaction was to tell someone to be held accountable.
Neil he was wrong, saying, “There is
“If this had happened anywhere
something you said that is totally other than BISD, whoever did it would
incorrect – that we knowingly sent have been fired,” Williams said. “We
that. That is totally, totally, totally don’t need to go through this again. I
wrong. We did not knowingly send have been doing this secretary deal for
that.”
probably the last 15 years now, and we
In the very next breath, Thomas never had this problem. I don’t like it.”
said, “My first to know anything was
Following the meeting, Neil said it
when she (Brassard) brought it to my was apparent to him that either Thomattention.”
as or Zingelmann was lying about the
Brassard had just said she was the audit, when it was changed, and how
first to tell Thomas about the problems the audit was sent to the state without
with the audit, and one of
board review.
Thomas’ two statements con“I think it was very obvifirmed that.
ous someone was lying when
Neil pounced on Thomas’
you compare Botley’s statecomments saying, “You just
ment with those of Thomas
told me that you weren’t
and Zigelmann during the
aware of it until Ms. Brassard
meeting,” Neil said.
brought it to your attention,
Neither Thomas nor Zinand I don’t care if it is signifigelmann attempted to clarify
cant or not significant, if we
why there was $2.2 million
approve an audit and it changless in the cash account for
es, it should come back to us Williams
the audit sent to the state than
to be approved, and I bet you the state the one approved by the board. The
agrees with that.”
cash account should have been the
Thomas then said it was the practice amount of money the district had at the
of the district in the past to change the end of the 2010-11 fiscal year, accordaudits after the board had approved ing to a local auditor who reviewed
them, but a previous article in The both documents for the newspaper’s
Examiner revealed that has only been original investigation.
the case for the past two years – since
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By Jennifer Johnson
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The 1,280 days city of
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a fire station to call their own
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Orange Fire Chief David Frenzel said the wait was worth the
heartache as he looked upon
the city’s newest fire station
with awe and appreciation.
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firefighter’s eyes as he stood
in front of a crowd of about
100 guests and friends Friday,
March 16, and officially
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“Some might say this is a
dream come true; but my
dreams are never this grandiose,” Frenzel said of the stateof-the-art new firehouse. “This
is like heaven for me.”
When Hurricane Ike bombarded Orange in September
2008, the city’s main fire station took on 30 inches of
water, destroying the building.
Although Frenzel and crew
tried desperately to save their
workstation,
engineers
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forced to find alternate shelter.
The crew was housed in the
library for a time, then moved
on to a small trailer where they
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Frenzel said he is still flabbergasted by today. For starters,
the new building is three times
its former size and comes
equipped with technology the
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People in Southeast Texas
and across the country are out
buying guns, and are doing so
at a record clip.
While the reasons for the
run on guns varies from person to person, there is one
thing universal to gun buying
that remains true – gun safety
and making sure that each new
gun owner knows exactly
what they are getting into and
most importantly, knows how
to operate their newfound
weapon of choice.
Joe Paul, a Port Arthur
police officer for the past 19
years and a former Marine,
has been a gun enthusiast for
most of his 42 years, and with
his military and law enforcement training, he knows how
to correctly use a firearm. He
oversees the firearms training
for the Port Arthur Police
Department, which includes
requalification training as
well, so that the officers are
well-versed in using their gun,
whether it’s a pistol or a rifle.
Paul also runs a business on
the side that trains civilians in
order to obtain a concealed
carry permit, as well as provides a gun safety course that
gives fundamental and crucial
information as to how to properly use and care for a firearm.
“During these economic times, you’ve
got a lot of first-time
gun buyers buying
guns to protect and
defend themselves,”
said Paul, who’s been
running his business,
F.A.S.T. Company, for the
past two years. “But it’s
important that people buying
guns know how to use them.”
This brings up gun safety
and how paramount it is for
folks just learning the nuts and
bolts of operating a gun,
regardless of the size or type
of gun it is.
“Most people buying guns
(for the first time) don’t know
how to work the gun, clean the
gun, break down the gun,” said
Paul, “and that’s one of the
biggest problems I have as a
police officer, is people having
Landon and Alaina Fragstein of Deweyville
weapons – they’re untrained,
and they bring these weapons
home with kids in the house.
So what I try to tell people in
my classes is to educate the
gun-holder and educate the
family about the gun, because
the most important thing is
keeping the children safe.”
Sonia Bozen has seen the
gun boom pop off personally
as the co-owner and manager
of BZ’s Gun Shop in Groves,
which has been in the gun
business for 37 years. Bozen,
42, said gun sales at her store
have increased dramatically
over
the past year, and a
lot
of that, she said, has
to do with mainly
two thing – families
trying to keep their
homes and family safe
from intruders, and
because it’s an election
year.
“The big thing is the start
of the election year, and we
had a big month last month,”
said Bozen, who is no stranger
to using a gun after her mother
and father started the gun shop
years ago and practically
raised Bozen around guns.
“My distributors and I deal
with some of the biggest distributors in the country.
They’ve had record sales, and
manufacturers, they can’t
keep up with the demand,”
Bozen said. “I’d say within
the past year, selling guns has
also gone up because of the
crime, and you’ve got people
stealing because the economy
is so bad.
The fact its 2012 is another
reason for gun sales. “And the
end of the world, of course,”
said Bozen with a laugh.
Lisa Williams is another
woman who has been around
guns most of her life, and she’s
the owner of a pistol and a
rifle. At 51, gun safety is
something she’s practiced all
her life, especially when she
was a young mother and the
family had guns in the house.
“We always kept the guns
away from the children, but
they also knew about the guns
and when they were little, they
shot the .22,” Williams said,
adding that she stressed how
important it was for her kids
not to touch the guns, and fortunately, her kids knew better
and they didn’t have any accidents with guns.
Williams attended one of
Paul’s concealed carry and
safety courses a few weeks
back at the behest of her sister,
Judy Ferguson, 53, a firearm
neophyte who had owned a gun
for two years and never fired it.
Williams said the class was a
revelation to both women.
“What really impacted me
were the laws that go into being
able to carry a weapon,” said
Williams, who admits there
was a lot more to learn than
even she anticipated. “But for
anyone who’s never been
around a gun, they definitely
need to take a gun class, just to
realize it is a weapon and you
need to learn gun safety. Always
treat a gun like it’s loaded; and
people don’t realize that. I
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Courthouse calm, quiet a week
after gunman’s deadly rampage
By Fred Davis
Metro Editor
One week after a deadly
shooting left a 79-year-old
Deweyville resident dead and
three others injured, life is
slowly getting back to normal
at the Jefferson County Courthouse.
“It’s been good, pretty quiet
though; there’s a somber mood
around here since it opened
back up,” said Jefferson County Sheriff Mitch Woods on
Tuesday afternoon, March 20,
as he was walking through the
courthouse. “That’s to be
expected, and there’s probably
still some anxiety, but it’s
finally getting back to normal.”
The courthouse was closed
last Thursday after one of the
most brazen attacks in county
history saw 41-year-old Bartholomew Granger shoot and
kill Minnie Seabolt, 79, after
he shot both his ex-wife and
his 20-year-old daughter, who
Photo by Jerry Jordan
Sheriff Mitch Woods said he’s proud of the way law enforcement responded to the shooting at the county courthouse.
he also ran over with the 2001
GMC pickup truck he was
driving.
Granger remains in the Jefferson County Correctional
Facility on two bonds totaling
$4 million. Those bonds are
for murder and aggravated
sexual assault, said Woods.
Granger was on trial last week
for the aggravated sexual
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know people who have been
shot cleaning their guns, and
these people have handled
guns all their lives.”
Tom Swope, an officer
with the Beaumont Police
Department who works
at the gun range
and helps train
Beaumont officers,
said in addition to
gun safety and
always keeping guns
out of the reach of children,
there’s the mental aspect to
owning a gun and knowing
when to use it.
“Having the right mindset
is very important,” said
Swope. “If someone in the
middle of the night breaks
into your house and there’s a
situation where you need to
use your weapon, does that
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and just an overall better comfort level with
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According to the Jefferson County Appraisal District, the Greyhound station at 650 Magnolia is valued at $111,000.
Greyhound hitting the
road, leaving Beaumont
By Jerry Jordan
Managing Editor
The Greyhound Bus Station
and its iconic sign will soon
vanish from Beaumont, and
the building that has housed
the transportation facility for
decades will be sold, a spokesperson for the company has
confirmed.
Greyhound will officially
close its doors and relocate
operations Tuesday, March 27
– going from Beaumont to the
Gateway Travel Plaza at 1480
West Freeway (Interstate 10)
in Vidor. The reasons given for
the move centered primarily
around comfort for travelers,
said Tim Stokes, Greyhound
spokesperson.
“The main reason for the
move is that they believe the
location is better for passengers,” Stokes said. “They will
be free from waiting outside,
and there is food service available at the new location. There
are a lot of things that passengers didn’t have (at the current
location).
“There is also easy connectivity to the highway and, in
essence, this is a benefit for
our passengers.”
Stokes said Greyhound
evaluates its routes and schedules each year, but it is unlikely the service will return to its
current location as the company intends to sell the property
on Magnolia Avenue.
According to the Jefferson
County Appraisal District, the
Greyhound station at 650
Magnolia is valued at
$111,000.
“We do own the facility,
and it will be placed on the
market for sale once we vacate
the area,” Stokes said.
In a press release, Greyhound’s area sales manager
Robert Hawkins stated, “With
this move, we believe the location will provide passengers
with a more convenient and
accommodating travel option.
From this agency, passengers
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Apple seeks Texas leverage
$304 million investment and 3,600 jobs at stake
By James Shannon
Special to The Examiner
The March 9 announcement by Gov. Rick
Perry that Apple would expand its presence in
Texas with a $304 million investment in Austin
that will create more than 3,600 new jobs was
greeted with predictable fanfare. A key part of
the deal for the new campus that would more
than double the size of Apple’s workforce in
Texas over the next decade was an investment
of $21 million in state taxpayer dollars over 10
years through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF).
Perry said the Apple deal “adds to the growing list of visionary high-tech companies that
have found that Texas’ economic climate is a
perfect fit for their future, thanks to our low
taxes, reasonable and predictable regulations, fair legal system and skilled workforce.”
Perhaps overlooked in the
hoopla was a single sentence near the end of the
announcement from the
governor’s
office:
“The agreement is
contingent upon the
finalization of contracts and a local
incentive agreement
with the City of Austin
and Travis County.”
In the following week,
however, it became apparent that this contingency
was a key factor as Apple
openly shopped the deal to
Mesa, Ariz. The Austin City Council is expected to approve a waiver of real and
personal property taxes on the new development worth at least $8.6 million over 10 years;
Travis County is expected to offer additional
incentives that may need to be substantial after
Mesa Mayor Scott Smith said, “There is no
doubt we would be neck and neck and provide
anything Austin could provide and then some.”
There is already a significant Apple presence in Austin, with a customer support center
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have easier access to Greyhound’s services
and can connect to the company’s 3,800 locations throughout North America.”
Beaumont City Manager Kyle Hayes said
he had heard rumors that Greyhound was
leaving the city for some time, but no one
from the company had ever contacted him or
indicated they had concerns.
“The city has never really interacted with
Greyhound, so I don’t know how many riders
they have at that location or what the impact
will be,” Hayes said. “There has been no contact between the city and Greyhound, now or
in the past that I am aware of; I know I have
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that has grown to 3,500 employees over the
past 20 years. A report from Kevin Johns, Austin’s director of economic growth and redevelopment services, indicated the Apple expansion would create 650 new full-time jobs with
an average salary of $63,950 by the end of
January 2015, with another 2,985 jobs
added through 2021. The company
would build a 200,000 square-foot
structure, followed by an 800,000
square-foot expansion as needed.
Although the Austin project
cannot be characterized as a
done deal just yet, a March
15 report from Bloomberg
suggests Apple will proceed
with the Texas deal after it
extracts maximum concessions
from government entities here.
The report suggested the Arizona bid faltered after Apple
failed to obtain unspecified
“tax policy assurances at
the state level” and faced
issues on its preferred site,
which is controlled by the
state land department.
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reserves and about 64,400 employees worldwide.
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never had any meetings with anyone from
Greyhound. And if they ever had contact with
any of the council members, it was not passed
along to my office.
“I had heard a rumor six months or so ago,
I guess, that they were moving, but we
weren’t contacted.”
According to police reports, crime has
been an issue at the current location with
vagrancy, numerous assaults, robberies and
thefts over the years.
Additionally, the Greyhound location at
the Chevron gas station (across from the Flying J Truck Stop) at Highway 62 and Interstate 10 in Orange is being closed. That location is being consolidated with the location in
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Local bank running low on deposits … of blood
By Fred Davis
Metro Editor
In trying to buck a bothersome trend that’s plagued the
area the past few months, Lifeshare Blood Centers is putting
on their best Dracula impersonation – they want your
blood.
Interim executive director
Robert Taylor said on Wednesday, March 21, that the Lifeshare location in Beaumont is
struggling with blood donations as fewer people come
into the center to donate,
thanks to Mother Nature
wreaking havoc as of late, ultimately postponing or canceling blood drives.
“What we’re seeing, and
this is not just in Beaumont,
but blood donation is just
down,” said Taylor, who is no
stranger to the need for blood
considering he spent most of
his career as a hospital administrator before moving to
Lifeshare 15 years ago. Taylor, who lives in Shreveport,
La., worked as the executive
director of Lifeshare’s north
region, which encompasses
Shreveport, Monroe and Texarkana.
Taylor came out of retirement recently to take over the
spot vacated by former Beaumont Lifeshare executive
director Debbie Madar, who
retired this week after 21 years
with Lifeshare, including 12 in
Beaumont, to move to Houston to be closer to her family.
“She left big shoes to fill,”
Taylor said. “Debbie did an
outstanding job.”
Taylor said he has no plans
on taking the job full time and
will proceed in the interim
capacity as long as he’s needed, adding that right now there
is no timetable on when a new
executive director will be
named.
And Taylor’s first item of
business is trying to get people
to donate blood. According to
Taylor, the center needs about
“2,900 units” of blood each
month to satisfy the hospitals
in the area. A unit of blood is
one pint.
“Weather has definitely had
something to do with donations being down,” Taylor
said, “and our O-negative
blood, we have very few units
of that. And that’s the kind of
blood, in the case of an accident, hospitals will use that if
they don’t have time to crossmatch, so it’s very important
that we get the word out to our
community. It’s not just
O-negative; almost all blood
types are low.”
Taylor knows this area well
and, traditionally, Beaumont
has been strong about its donations, so the idea of the Beaumont center running low on
blood donations seems foreign.
“This is unusual because
we don’t normally have to go
and do this,” Taylor said of
reaching out to the public for
blood donations. “It’s things
like weather, beyond our control, that have happened and
caused some of this.”
Taylor said the Beaumont
Lifeshare location gets the
bulk of its blood from both the
drives, which include the large
mobile units that travel
throughout Southeast Texas,
as well as the from those who
go into the center and donate.
“We have very dedicated
donors,” Taylor said.
He’s also encouraged by the
young people, especially high
school students, who have
done well in giving blood
when their schools have blood
drives. “We had a blood drive
at Kountze High School today,
and we predicted 75 would
donate and we had 78, so
we’re very proud of our young
people in the area,” Taylor
said.
While all blood types are
needed, Taylor said the O and
B types are in dire need, so
anyone with those blood types
in asked to come in, spend
30-40 minutes and help save a
life.
“Spend 30 minutes with us
and you’ll save three to four
lives,” Taylor said.
And if you can’t get to the
Lifeshare Blood Center in
Beaumont, which is located at
4305 Laurel, Taylor encourages calling (409) 838-5289 to
find a local blood drive or
where the mobile unit may be.
“This is your community
blood center, so we need people to come on out, roll up
your sleeves, and donate blood
because you never know who’s
going to need it.”
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assault charge that alleges he
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mentally handicapped, and
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different occasions
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Woods said he’s
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the courthouse security did in preventing
Granger from entering the building.
“That whole incident
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system we have in place is
doing a good job,” said Woods.
The veteran lawman said
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District Attorney’s Office.
While Granger’s daughter
remains in the hospital in
critical condition, Woods said
he’s proud of those
who acted so bravely
last week to prevent a
chaotic and dangerous
situation from spiraling further out of control and claiming more
innocent victims.
“I can’t say enough
to all those that
responded,” Woods
said, pointing out all
the bailiffs, deputies, courthouse security and Beaumont
police officers who were also
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In all, seven Beaumont officers and two Jefferson County
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Guilty verdict is quickly
followed by life sentence
By Jerry Jordan
Managing Editor
After finding him guilty, jurors
hearing the murder case filed against
Cedric Granger took little time sentencing him to life in prison for murdering his 73-year-old father by
shooting him in the face, stabbing
him six times in the neck
and bludgeoning him in the
head with a dumbbell.
During the trial Wednesday, March 21, Granger took
the stand but never denied
his involvement in his
father’s death – instead he
blamed the use of PCP for
his actions. He also, for the
first time ever, claimed that
his father physically and Granger
sexually abused him.
“I was sexually abused, molested
by my dad and physically abused,”
Granger told jurors before they broke
for lunch. “I just want the jury to
know the truth. I never denied my
actions.”
In the same breath, Granger talked
about how much his father loved him
and helped him in life.
“He did for me more than he did
for my other brothers and sisters,”
Granger said. “He loved me.”
Granger said he once made an outcry to a doctor when he was a juvenile and then claimed the outcry was
“doctor-patient privilege.”
“I wasn’t pressing charges against
my dad,” he said.
Several of Granger’s family members in the audience broke
down crying and left the
courtroom after hearing his
revelations of abuse. Many
did not return following a
short break taken by the
court.
Granger has a troubled
legal history – being certified as an adult for crimes he
committed when he was 16.
At that time he was charged
with aggravated assault and
pleaded guilty. He also pleaded guilty
to charges of possessing cocaine. He
told the jury that he never carried a
gun while selling drugs because he
was afraid: “I could get hard time.”
“I never asked for leniency, just
telling my side,” he said. “I feel sorry
for what I did.”
The trial took place in the court of
Judge Layne Walker.
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more than 20,000 feet of living space
and administrative quarters. “This is a
wonderful day for me, for my firefighters, and for the city of Orange,”
Frenzel said.
One of the assets Frenzel is most
proud of at the fire station has to be the
fact that the building is 100 percent
bought and paid for – without any
money from Orange taxpayers. Though
grants and assistance from the BushClinton Recovery Fund, the Nelda C.
and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation,
Temple Inland and the federal government, Central Fire Station’s $4.8 million price tag was
paid before the ribbon cutting ceremony this past week.
“I love coming to
work every day,”
Frenzel told the
crowd who gathered
to celebrate the
building’s opening.
“This is a great place
to work, and I don’t Frenzel
plan on leaving any time soon.”
Orange City Manager Shawn Oubre
said he, for one, hopes Chief Frenzel
stays put.
“He and I are both ‘old school.’ We
believe in leaving something better
than the way we found it, and I think
that’s exactly what we’ve done here,”
Oubre said. “Frenzel is an asset to this
community, and I’m proud to have him
on our staff.”
Attending the fire station dedication
alongside Oubre and Frenzel were
longtime Orange Mayor Brown Claybar, representatives from the Stark
Foundation, the Bush-Clinton Recovery Fund and the architect responsible
for the design, and assorted dignitaries
from Orange and Jefferson counties.
“This culminated from a lot of hard
work from a lot of people,” Oubre
said. “And it’s quite a successful product.”
Jennifer Johnson can be reached at
(409) 832-1400, ext. 231, or by e-mail at
jennifer@theexaminer.com.
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Man arrested after
vehicle pursuit
in the 1700 block of Bean Court.
Investigators determined at that time
there was some type of disturbance
Beaumont Police and the U.S. Mar- involving a black male, believed to be
shall’s Office were in the area of the Jeremy Kneeland, and a 25-year-old
Tyrrell Park neighborhood searching white female.
for 35-year-old Patrick Tyler on
Wednesday, March 21, who was wanted in connection with an outstanding
felony warrant for continuous sexual
assault of a child. The offense carried
an $80,000 bond. Officers had received
information that Tyler was in that
neighborhood and located a vehicle
matching a description of the suspect’s.
A short vehicle pursuit ensued, which
ended in the 1500 block of Euclid, after
officers tried to stop the auto. Two
occupants bailed out and ran on foot.
Officers pursued and
were able to catch up
to the passenger,
identified as 21-yearold Mark Pearson.
Pearson had outstanding warrants
including one for From left, Vernon Pierce, customer
aggravated assault. service director, Entergy Texas Inc.,
Just a couple hours and Dr. Paul Szuch, president, Lamar
later,
Beaumont Institute of Technology
Tyler
Police would catch
their man. Tyler was apprehended within blocks of where investigators were
initially searching for the fugitive.
Entergy Texas Inc. and the Lamar
Institute of Technology plugged into
the future Wednesday, March 21, with
the unveiling of a newly installed elecBeaumont Police Detectives have tric vehicle charging station in the
named two persons of interest in the institute’s parking lot. It is the first
double homicide that occurred on Bean electric charging station Entergy has
Court on March 18, 20-year-old Travis installed in the Golden Triangle. Two
Kneeland and his brother, 24-year-old other stations are already installed, one
Jeremy Kneeland.
each at Texas A&M University in ColOn March 19, Jeremy Kneeland lege Station and Sam Houston State
gave enough information to investiga- University in Huntsville. A fourth will
tors regarding the crime to obtain a be installed at Lamar University.
warrant on him for capital murder.
“Electric vehicles are gaining widePolice reports state the motivation for spread acceptance as an important
the crime appears to be retaliation technology solution for the nation’s
from an earlier fight. Travis Kneeland energy future,” said Vernon Pierce,
had not been arrested as of press time. customer service director, Entergy
According to reports from BPD, Texas Inc. “But infrastructure must be
victims 27-year-old DaShondra Guil- in place to support the evolution of the
lory and 25-year-old Israel Manuel technology. We hope our donation of
were shot at the residence they shared EV chargers to schools in Texas will
‘Charged Up’ over
electric car station
Suspects named in
double homicide
help start that process.”
The charging stations are currently
capable of providing a full charge to
any electric vehicle on the market.
They were donated by Entergy and
paid for by Entergy shareholders.
Missing man found
dead in Orange ditch
Southeast Texas Arts
Council honors the
Stark Museum of Art
The Stark Museum of Art, located at
712 Green Ave. in Orange, was named
the Outstanding Arts and Humanities
Organization for 2011 by the Southeast
Texas Arts Council. The award recognizes the many years the museum has
worked to inspire and enrich the lives
of those who have visited. In the
awards presentation, the council cited
the museum’s outstanding collection
and noted that the museum has been
renovated with new state-of-the-art
lighting. For more information about
The Stark Museum of Art, call (409)
886-ARTS (2787) or visit www.starkmuseum.org.
Officers of the Orange Police
Department responded to a vehicle in a
ditch at the end of Chasse Ridge Drive
on Wednesday, March 21, to discover
the auto belonged to a missing elderly
resident. Officers checked the surrounding area and discovered the body
of the missing subject, 75-year-old
Appleton Lonnie Stroud, about 100
feet from the vehicle, in a very deep,
water-filled ditch. The area had recently been covered with water from the
heavy rains. Justice of the Peace Pct. 1,
Judge David Peck, responded to the
The sixth annual Black, Red, and
scene and ordered an autopsy; however, at this time no foul play is suspected. Green Banquet & Ball is coming up for
the 100 Plus Black Women Coalition
of Beaumont Inc. The event will be
held this year at the Beaumont Plaza
Holiday Inn & Suites on Saturday,
Two locals finished first and second March 31, starting at 7 p.m. for the
respectively at the Rodeo Houston BP banquet and 9 p.m. for the ball.
Super Series Bull Riding Championship on March 17 at Reliant Stadium.
Beau Schroeder of China won first
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service at
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By Jennifer Johnson
Metro Editor
When Thairapy co-owners Suzanne Shirley and
Ginger Crisp started pondering what their next endeavor
would be, it didn’t take long
for the duo to decide to take
on a philanthropic fete benefiting the local women and
children’s shelter.
Shirley and Crisp have
been in business in Beaumont for about eight years
now, operating a salon in
Beaumont’s West End.
“We knew that we wanted
to be present in the community, to give back to the
place that has given so much
to us,” Crisp said. “Beaumont has been really good to
us.”
That spawned Thairapy’s
first (but definitely not last,
Crisp noted) fundraiser. On
Saturday, March 31, every
cent earned from haircuts
will be forwarded to Women’s and Children’s Services
for use in their everyday
expenses. Women’s cuts will
be $50, men’s $30, and children’s $20. The prices are a
little higher than normal,
Crisp said, to try to meet a
goal of $3,000 to give to the
shelter.
“This is the first time
we’ve ever done anything
like this, so we’re kind of
getting our feet wet right
now,” Crisp said. “We’ve
given to plenty of organizations over the years, but this
Thairapy haircuts
benefiting the Women’s
and Children’s Shelter
5955 Phelan, Suite M
Saturday, March 31
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Call (409) 860-4930 for an
appointment
Walk-ins welcome
planning of an event is totally new to us. In the future,
we hope to do even more.”
Shirley said the salon will
have six hair stylists and
three assistants on duty
March 31, all ready to give a
quality cut to those coming
in to support the cause.
“We’re all mothers here.
We wanted something to
benefit children, as well as
women, and we can’t think
of a more worthy cause.
These women are basically
in hiding, and we just want
them to know that their community cares about them.”
Walk-ins are welcome on
the day of the event, or call
ahead for scheduled appointments with no waiting at
(409) 860-4930.
Jennifer Johnson can be
reached at (409) 832-1400, ext.
231, or by e-mail at jennifer@theexaminer.com.
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Commentary
The opinions that appear directly below are the official
views of The Examiner and its publisher/CEO, Don J. Dodd.
Opinions expressed elsewhere on these pages are the views of
the writers only and not necessarily those of The Examiner.
Let in the light
“Government ought to be all outside and no inside. …
Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places,and
avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption
that secrecy means impropriety.”
– Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President
Last week was what is known as Sunshine Week in Texas
– a time when governmental agencies are supposed espouse
the importance of open dialogue and access to public documents and foster a more open relationship with the public.
But why should there be a week to commemorate such an
idea when government is supposed to be open to the people
365 days a year, save a few holidays and weekends? And it
may come as a surprise to some but as members of the
media, this newspaper and others supplying the news across
the state are no different from ordinary citizens when it
comes to accessing the inner-workings of government.
The records, documents, data, financial expenditures and
reimbursements are just as open to John Q. Citizen as they
are to the media. The only real difference between a citizen
and a journalist is the journalist will usually fight harder,
longer and louder when denied the basic rights of access
guaranteed under Texas law.
For years, The Examiner has fought a continuous battle
with BISD over public information. It has not been easy, and
it has not been cheap. However, every dollar spent and every
hour exhausted has been worth it so the public will know
how its money is being spent.
But the fight is not limited to BISD. When Beaumont City
Attorney Tyrone Cooper cut a backroom deal for an NBA
superstar, The Examiner stepped up and called him out, and
at least some information about the secret deal came to light.
Vidor Independent School District fought The Examiner
on an open records request all the way to the Travis County
District Court before throwing in the towel. The district
learned that this newspaper will never give up.
For those wanting to get information from a public entity,
all you should have to do is ask, according to the law. All
public entities must comply, and they are not allowed to
assess exorbitant fees or take months to provide the information – but reality is usually different. Luckily, if someone
feels the law is being violated, there are remedies.
According to Texas Government Code Section 552, public
entities must “provide information.” Some take that to mean
they have 10 business days, but that is not the law. The law
gives 10 days to ask the attorney general if the information is
public, not to fulfill the request.
Contrary to the beliefs of many public employees and
elected officials, the records they fight so hard to keep hidden away aren’t theirs to hide. They belong to the public, and
you should never be hesitant to look at how your tax dollars
are being spent, where your elected officials are going on
city business or how much money they are giving out.
Why are my property taxes so high?
In the early 1960s in Texas, education. Today, the state
homeowner paid lower prop- pays just of 30 percent, with
erty taxes on their homes than the rest of the cost of public
homeowners in 45 other states. education borne by local property taxes on your
Currently, Texas prophome and business.
erty taxes are among
While the mantra of
the highest in the
“no new taxes” at the
nation. There are sevstate legislative levels
eral reasons for this
is one of the villains in
change.
escalating property
First of all, the photaxes, it certainly is
ney “no new taxes”
not the only one.
mantra, which has
Another culprit is the
been the by-word of
Carl
increasing number of
politicians seeking a
seat in the Texas Leg- Parker exemptions. While
admittedly many good
islature, has led to
arguments can be
higher and higher taxes on your homestead as well made for every exemption
as higher fees for almost from property taxes on the
books, they do in fact, each
everything you can imagine.
In the 1940s when the Leg- and every one, increase the
islature made a serious com- taxes on your home or busimitment to public education, ness. One of the larger exempour state was paying more than tion games is the one played
65 percent of the cost of public to supposedly attract new
businesses to a particular area.
Too often large exemptions
from taxation are offered to an
industry or business to locate
to a particular area. Not only
does such an exemption add
an additional tax burden to the
local folks who do not have
exemptions, but in many
instances, it is downright
unfair to many of the local
businesses. A prime example
of such is the huge exemption
from taxation given to the
giant Cabela’s store in Kyle,
Texas, a small town just outside of Austin. While Cabela’s
built a mega-sporting goods
store and created some jobs, it
certainly did not benefit local
mom and pop shops that sold
rod and reels or fishing gear.
In fact it forced the mom and
pop shops that sell sporting
See parker on page 19 a
Expensive care can hurt patients
The biggest challenge in fixing American cruel and a crying waste of money.
health care isn’t finding more money. It’s
• MRIs for athletes with minor pains. MRIs
learning not to spend money on the wrong can detect tumors and help doctors confirm
things. The solution, conservatives say, is their suspicions. But they also find “problems”
simple: Have patients bear more of the costs that, while best ignored, nonetheless provide a
now being covered by private or government pretext for expensive medical intervention.
insurers. The concept has merit, except for
As an experiment, Dr. James Andrews, a
this: How on earth can we mortals
sports medicine orthopedist in Gulf
know we don’t need something when
Breeze, Fla., did MRI scans on 31 fit
the god wearing the stethoscope says
and happy professional baseball pitchwe do?
ers. He found abnormal shoulder cartiGuidelines are needed, and this is a
lage in 90 percent of the athletes.
job for government working with medBased on the scans, he could have
ical experts. To advance the process,
operated on nine out of 10 of them —
here are examples of some low-hangtotally unnecessarily.
ing fruit of waste, ripped from the
Insurers pay over $1,000 for an MRI
news:
Froma scan. The operation to fix the insignifi• Obesity surgery for teenagers. The Harrop cant problems highlighted costs a lot
New York Times reported on a 17-yearmore.
old — 5 feet tall and 271 pounds —
• Regular bone density tests for all
who could have lost her excess weight through
women
over
65. By the time women hit age
diet and exercise but didn’t try very hard. So a
65,
bone
loss
leading
to osteoporosis progressNew York state program for low-income people paid $21,369 for an operation whereby a es very slowly. If their bone density is found to
surgeon placed a silicon band around her stom- be normal for their age, they don’t need bone
density tests every two years, which Medicare
ach to curb feelings of hunger.
After losing only 34 pounds, the girl began covers, according to The New England Journal
again downing chips and chocolate with aban- of Medicine.
And when all this testing finds only mildly
don. She was almost back to where she started.
Psychological factors often underlie serious lower bone densities, the women are often overweight problems. Until obese young people prescribed bisphosphonates, such as Fosamax.
— who have time on their side — deal with the Bisphosphonates can cause rare but gruesome
emotional part, subjecting them to surgery is
See Harrop on page 19 a
Doonesbury
By Garry Trudeau
19 A
PARKER
from page 18 A
goods, hunting clothing,
archery equipment, etc. to help
finance a major competitor
that likely will put them out of
business.
The city of Port Arthur
granted huge tax breaks for
major refining operations in
the area. Theoretically, had the
city not done so, refinery
expansions would have gone to
some other location. Also, the
exemption of charitable or religious organizations adds to the
tax burden. While I realize I’m
now treading on sacred ground
to even dare suggest the Baptist Church, the VFW or the
American Legion facilities be
taxed, just imagine how much
we could lower the average
homeowner’s tax bill could be
were we willing to tax everything. As a matter of fact, a
good argument could be made
that it is unfair for an atheist to
help subsidize churches he
does not believe in.
Recently, the state Legislature folded into law what I
consider one of the most egregious tax breaks ever enacted.
In the recent session, the Legislature gave tax exemptions
on Chamber of Commerce
buildings. The theory presented was that businessmen in a
community pay lots of taxes;
therefore, a building dedicated
to promoting business should
not be taxed. This appears to
me to be an extremely dangerous trend. What’s next? Should
HARROP
from page 18 A
side effects. They make far
more sense for older women
with osteoporosis.
• Stents for patients with
stable heart pain. Patients
showing symptoms of a heart
attack often undergo angioplasty, involving the insertion
of a metal tube called a stent.
But about one in eight angioplasties are done on patients
with stable angina who are
showing only minor chest
pain, according to an article
in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
For these patients, another
study showed, stents didn’t
do any more good than oral
medications — and the operations themselves pose some
risk. One doctor in Maryland
union halls be taxed? If all
lawyers in a community got
together and created a Taj
Mahal to promote the law
business in a particular county,
should it be taxed?
If you’re tired of your taxes
continuing to go up year after
year, maybe it’s time you, as a
citizen and homeowner or
business owner, begin to ask
your elected officials about
some of these matters. Even
better, we should all, as citizens, begin to ask our elected
officials, particularly, those in
the Legislature, to at least start
having open discussions and
explore new ideas of fair ways
to support the essential services of government. Currently,
the subject of taxation or raising revenue is such a taboo that
the only political conversation
we hear at election time is how
we can balance our budget by
simply cutting out the waste.
Invariably, what I consider
waste is someone else’s necessity. A good example of this is
the Texas leadership’s shortchanging of our children’s
future by cutting education
funding and endangering
women by abolishing vital services to screen for cancer and
other serious illnesses.
Carl Parker has practiced law
in Port Arthur since 1958. He is a
1958 graduate of the University of
Texas School of Law. Elected to
the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and the Senate in
1976, Parker continued to practice law while writing and sponsoring hundreds of bills that
became laws relating to every
aspect of life in Texas.
reportedly extracted $3.8
million from Medicare for
implanting nearly 600 medically unnecessary stents.
I almost forgot to mention
double CT scans, whereby
hospitals administer two computerized tomography scans
to a patient in the course of a
single day. CT scans are both
expensive and expose patients
to high levels of radiation.
Medicare pays whatever. A
hospital in Tulsa, Okla., was
found to have double-scanned
80 percent of its Medicare
chest patients in 2008.
Note that the above examples involved not only wasted money but subjected
patients to potentially harmful “treatments.” Want to
curb medical spending?
We’ve hardly scratched the
surface.
20 A
Community support goes a long way for CASA
By Jennifer Johnson
Metro Editor
Every day in Southeast Texas, another child is thrust into
the court system, though
they’ve done nothing wrong.
Some of the circumstances
that bring the youth into that
situation are neglect or abuse
at the hands of those who are
supposed to be loving guardians, but every case is different. What doesn’t seem to
change is that all across the
U.S., there aren’t enough volunteers to step in and help the
children through the difficult
process ahead of them. But
organizations such as Advocates for Children Inc., a
CASA Program, try to help as
much as possible.
According to information
on file with CASA, last year in
the United States, more than
500,000 children were in foster care or institutions at an
average annual cost of $16,479
per child. In Texas alone, each
social worker carried an average caseload of 50 children.
Each child without a CASA
representative, or court
appointed special advocate,
spent an average of 24.2
months in multiple placements
in the foster care system.
But advocates try to give a
more one-on-one experience
for the children they serve,
getting to know the child in
Jane Stephenson, executive
director of Advocates for Children Inc., a CASA Program,
preps for one of many fundraisers for the organization.
order to look after the best
interest of the child.
Advocates for Children is a
nonprofit organization consisting of volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected
children in Orange, Newton,
Jasper, Hardin, Sabine and
Tyler counties. The children
they serve are generally placed
in foster care by the courts,
and a CASA is assigned to
familiarize themselves with
the child’s case and report to
the court what is in the best
interest for this child. It is serious and needed work, with the
agency’s 40 volunteers currently tending to 242 children
in 158 separate cases. While
the judges review all the infor-
mation they receive to decide
the future placement of a child,
a CASA representative is
always working with the child
to seek a safe, permanent
placement for their charge.
To become a CASA volunteer, participants must go
through at least 30 hours of
intensive training, be certified
by a judge and commit to work
at least 10 hours per month on
a child abuse or neglect case
for a least one year. A volunteer must be at least 21 years
of age, submit to CANRIS and
criminal checks, and complete
an extensive application,
which allows the organization
to check references. Volunteers should be committed and
diligent in their efforts for
these at-risk children.
Jane Stephenson, executive
director of Advocates for Children Inc., said she would welcome any interested CASA
volunteers, as the
agency is now registering for its next
training class. More
information
on
becoming a volunteer can be obtained
from the CASA
office at 2120 Gloria Drive in Orange,
or by calling the
office at (877) 586-6548.
“The program is always
seeking volunteers,” Stephenson said. “No matter how
many we have, it never seems
to be enough.”
Court Appointed Special
Advocates of Southeast Texas
Inc., based in Beaumont, is
also actively seeking volunteers. Volunteer coordinator
Wendy Frederick said CASA
of Southeast Texas can be
reached at its 2449 Calder Ave.
address or by phone at (409)
832-2272. Serving Jefferson
County and other nearby areas,
the Southeast Texas CASA
program will be registering for
volunteer classes in April.
The funding
Making a lasting impression on the life of a youngster
can pay off many times over,
for both the child and the adult
who puts forth the effort.
Unfortunately, not every child
has an adult mentor looking
out for their best interests, and
that makes what the CASA
volunteers do on a
daily basis needed –
and appreciated. But
in order to train the
volunteers
into
becoming what they
need to be, funding
is necessary.
In these economic
times, federal and
state funding has
dwindled but enterprising volunteer agencies such as Advocates for Children and Southeast Texas CASA have stepped
up to the plate to secure community support for the programs.
In “Tee it up for Tom and
The Kids 2012,” CASA of
Southeast Texas orchestrated
the annual Tom Mulvaney
Memorial Golf Tournament on
Monday, March 19, at the
Beaumont Country Club. Dozens showed up to support the
cause, with all the proceeds
benefiting the local CASA
program.
“Judge Mulvaney saw the
possibilities in everyone.
Though wise enough to know
how a case would likely end,
he offered sincere encouragement to CASA’s children and
their parents, never giving up
hope. Judge (Mulvaney) had
dreams for the future of children in CPS care that a parent
would have for his own children. His positive attitude was
a blessing to us all,” recalled
Randi King, Family Law Division Chief of Jefferson County
District Attorney’s Office, of
the namesake’s legacy.
Advocates for Children Inc.
also had a recently successful
fundraiser wherein the annual
Chili’s Pancake Breakfast,
held in Orange, drew in customers from all over the Golden Triangle. Stephenson said a
total of $6,000 was raised that
one morning, with all the proceeds going to provide training for new volunteers.
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took part in the Sabine Area Labor Council and Sabine Area Building Trades Annual Golf
Tournament, which was held Monday, March 19, at Brentwood Golf Course.
21 A
S PORTS
Pair of stakes ends Delta’s thoroughbred season
By Chad Cooper
Sports Editor
Two stakes races were held
on closing night of the 2011-12
thoroughbred season at Delta
Downs, and while it was 19-1
longshot Wicked Vow upsetting the field in the
$60,000 Au Revoir, it
was the 8-5 favorite
Amazing Saint who
stole the show with a
dominant performance in the $60,000
Bonne Chance on
March 17.
Veteran rider Gerard Melancon kept the 5-year-old mare
near the front of a quick pace
set by Tracy Hebert and Miss
Noon by Doon with the 1/4
fraction of 22.34 and the halfmile at 46.32.
Once the front-runner tired,
Melancon made his move and
cruised to a 3 1/4-length win to
cover the mile in 1:39.46 over
a fast track. Sweettalkin Hottie rallied from 10 lengths
back to finish second with
See the Stream good
enough for third. The $2
win ticket returned a
modest $5.20 on such a
strong runner.
Bred in Kentucky, trainer
Brent Delahoussaye claimed
the daughter of Stephen Got
Even for $30,000 back on Feb.
15. Amazing Saint won for the
eighth time in 26 starts for
earnings of $156,362. She is a
perfect 3-3 at Delta, and Melancon has been in the saddle all three trips.
Wicked Vow shook
things up some two
races later as the
6-year-old Oklahoma bred rallied to
win the Au Revoir
by two lengths in
1:39.93 over the
mile course at 19-1 odds. Ridden by Billy Patin for trainer
Ronald Mattieu, who claimed
the gelding for $15,000 in his
last start, Wicked Vow won for
just the seventh time in 48 starts Assiniboia Downs in Canada.
Finishing second was Sir
for earnings of $148,427. The
Maxwell followed by Brendyn
gelding was 0 for his last 8
Jo. The $2 win bet returned
starts, and his last win
$40.20, exacta $307 and tricame at
fecta paid $1,158.
Gerard
Melancon
and Amazing
Saint cruise in
the Bonne
Chance. The
veteran rider
kept the 5-yearold mare near
the front and
cruised to a 3
1/4-length win to
cover the mile in
1:39.46.
Wicked Vow
upsets the
field at 19-1
to win the
Au Revoir.
Photos
by Nicole Walker
Final standings
The 2011-12 thoroughbred
season has come to an end and
with 904 races in the books,
and Tracy Hebert won his second consecutive riding title
with 84 wins in 442 starts for
earnings of $1,785,59. Hebert
was second for most of the
season until Gerard Melancon
was injured in late January and
missed more than six weeks.
Rounding out the Top 10
were Diego Saenz (68),
Don Simington (58),
Gerard “G-Money”
Melancon
(57),
Colby Hernandez
(54),
David
“Chip” Bourque
(50), Kevin Smith
(45), Jansen “Lil
Gee” Melancon (44), Chris
Rosier (41) and Eddie Martin
Jr. (38).
Texas native Karl Broberg
earned his first training title as
he saddled 44 winners in 190
starts for earnings of $679,486.
Rounding out the Top 10 were
Sam Breaux (37), Keith Bourgeois (30), C.J. Woodley (26),
Brian House (24), Shane Wilson (23), Brett Brinkman (22),
Joey Foster (22), Thomas
Amoss (17) and James Schultz
(15).
Leading owner title for the
season belonged to End Zone
Athletics Inc., which also
includes Karl Broberg. They
sent out 15 winners in 46 starts
for earnings of $194,842.
Quarter horse season
The 46-day quarter horse
season at Delta Downs will
begin Friday, April 27, and run
through Saturday, July 14.
Live racing will be held every
Wednesday-Saturday with a
first post time of 6:45 p.m.
A total of 27 stakes races
are scheduled including the
Louisiana Laddie and Lassie
Futurities on Saturday, May
26, Firecracker Futurity and
Derby on Saturday, July 7, and
closing night will be headlined
by the Lee Berwick Memorial
Futurity.
The stakes action will begin
opening night with the $50,000
John Alleman Memorial for
older Louisiana bred horses
going 350 yards.
Chad Cooper can be reached
at (409) 832-1400, ext. 241, or by
e-mail at cooper@theexaminer.
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A dejected Victor O’Donnell
Bellator 61
Horeshoe Riverdome
Bossier City, La.
Photos by David Block
A sellout crowd at the Horseshoe
Riverdowm in Bossier City, La.,
watched plenty of action from Bellator 61, and four of the middleweight
tournament fights were shown live
Falcao with a hammer-fist on Paraisy
on MTV2 and the preliminary card
on spike.com.
Lake Charles native Josh Quayhagen headlined the preliminary card
on March 16 and defeated Brent
Taylor via unanimous decision (3027 x3). Quayhagen improved to 3-0
while Taylor dropped to 4-2.
The quarterfinals of the middleweight tournament, which will determine who moves on to face champion Hector Lombard, saw plenty of
drama including one of the year’s
best knockouts.
Brian Rogers (9-3) was a trending
topic on Twitter after knocking out
Vitor Vianna (12-3-1) via a flying
knee at the 4:14 mark in the first
round. It’s plastered on YouTube —
and it’s a must see.
Other winners in the middleweight
tournament were Maiquel
Normany Paraisy nearly connects with a front-face kick.
Falcao (29-4) over Norman
Paraisy (10-2) via unaniBrian Rogers celebrates after a flying knee KO.
mous decision (30-27 x3),
Vyacheslav “Slava” VasiLake Charles native Josh Quayhagen
levsky (16-1) over Victor
O’Donnell (11-4) via unanimous decision (29-28 x3),
and Bruno Santos (13-0)
over Giva Santana (17-2)
via unanimous decision
(30-27, 29-28, 29-28).
Also on the undercard,
Derrick Krantz (11-5)
defeated Eric Scallan (104) via submission (D’arce
choke) in the first round,
Jason Sampson (9-1)
defeated Jeremy Myers
Vyacheslav
(3-4) via submission (rear-naked
choke) in the third round, and Trey Vasilevsky dominated Victor
Houston (9-0) defeated Jeremiah
Maiquel Falcao with a leg
O’Donnell for
Riggs (7-6) via submission (armbar)
kick on Norman Paraisy
three rounds.
in the first round.
23 A
S PORTS
Baseball Cardinals get first conference win
The Lamar Cardinals clawed their
way into the Southland Conference
win column after being swept on the
road by Central Arkansas and losing
the first two home games
with UT Arlington.
According to Lamar head
coach Jim Gilligan, the pivotal point in the Cardinals’
4-3 victory over UTA on
March 25 came when he got
ejected from the game by
home plate umpire Shaylor
Smith in the top of the ninth
inning.
With Gilligan still soothing his temper in his office just behind VincentBeck Stadium’s third base dugout,
freshman shortstop Wayne Stanley
drilled a single down the left-field line
to drive in pinch runner Joe Arechiga
with the winning run with one out in
the bottom of the ninth inning.
“Give this win to Scottie (Hatten,
the Cardinals’ 12th-season assistant
coach),” said Gilligan. “He stuck with
Stanley when I probably would’ve
pinch-hit (Seth) Dornak in that situation.”
Stanley, a 6-foot-1, 151-pounder
from Lumberton who had only three
hits in 11 at-bats entering the game,
improved his batting average to .357
by going 2-for-3 at the plate, and he
helped the Cardinal defenders turn a
season-high four double
plays.
In addition to moving to
1-5 in the league, the Cardinals improved to 7-12 on the
season with the win over the
University of Texas at
Arlington. The Mavericks,
who won the first two games
of the weekend series, fell to
13-8 overall and 3-3 in the
SLC.
The Cards took a break from league
play when they traveled to play at No.
5 Rice on March 21. Lamar returns to
SLC play March 23-25 to play at
Northwestern State in a three-game
set.
Lamar will host Rice on Tuesday,
March 27 at 6:30 p.m.
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Football
Lamar University’s football team
opened spring training Wednesday,
March 21, some six weeks later than it
did last year on Feb. 7.
Coach Ray Woodard’s Cardinals,
who are coming off a 4-7 campaign in
2011, will conduct 4 p.m. practices on
Friday and Saturday. After that, the
Cardinals will go to a Monday through
Thursday practice schedule, unless
later altered by weather conditions.
Most of the spring workouts will be
held in Provost Umphrey Stadium,
although some may be held at the adjacent Vernon Glass Field of Champions
practice facility. The Cardinals will
conclude spring training with the playing of the annual Red-White Spring
Game, tentatively set for Tuesday,
April 17, in Provost Umphrey Stadium.
“I’m excited about getting spring
training started with our new coaches
under tow,” said Woodard. “I’m looking forward to seeing how the new
coaches relate to our returning players
and how the players react to the new
coaches.”
Earlier this month, Woodard
announced the additions of former
NFL All-Pro player Bill Bradley, former Lamar offensive coordinator Larry
Kueck and former Trinity High School
athletic director and head football
coach Chuck Langston to his Cardinal
staff. Bradley, who starred at the Uni-
versity of Texas before going on to the
Philadelphia Eagles, will be the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator, while
Kueck, who has coached at Marshall
University, SMU, Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi as
well at Lamar, will be an offensive
assistant. Langston, a Beaumont West
Brook graduate and four-year letterman at center for Oklahoma University, will serve as director of football
operations.
“We have a number of starters coming back on both sides of the ball, and
we’re excited about seeing how all of
the pieces fall together in preparation
for this next season,” said Woodard.
“Hopefully, a lot of questions will be
answered between Wednesday’s first
practice and the playing of the spring
game.”
Among the quality players departed
from the 2011 Cardinals are wide
receivers J.J. Hayes and Marcus Jackson, quarterback Andre Bevil, offensive lineman Cameron Epple and linebackers Asim Hicks and Darby Jackson.
Lamar will open its 2012 football
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S PORTS
Surprise reversal of penalty ignites controversy
Wowie-zowie!!! Yeah, it
sounds like something Daphne
from Scooby Doo might say,
but after what I just read from
National Stock Car Racing
Chief Appellate Officer John
Middlebrook, I can’t help but
believe I am now living in a
cartoon world.
In case you somehow
missed the shocking news
from Tuesday, March 20, Middlebrook was the last person
who could overturn NASCAR’s penalties against Jimmie Johnson’s crew chief
Chad Knaus for alleged cheating at Daytona, and he did
exactly that, reversing the suspension and rescinding the
point deductions.
No, he didn’t give them
back their $100,000 fine and
Knaus and car chief Ron
Malec are still on probation,
but who freaking cares? The
real meat behind the penalties
that NASCAR handed out
were the 25-point deductions
for Johnson and co-team owner Jeff Gordon and the suspension for Knaus and Malec. So,
Knaus and Malec go on to live
another day and even though
Knaus is $100,000 light in the
wallet, he is laughing all the
way to the ATM.
How could this happen? We
were all sure that Middleton
would uphold the three-judge
appellate ruling from last
week. Is there something sinister behind Middleton’s ruling?
Did someone pay him off? Or,
is he repaying his old buddy
and co-owner of the No. 48
Lowe’s Chevrolet, Rick Hendrick?
At this point we may never
know, but what we do know is
there isn’t a higher authority
than Middlebrook, and his ruling stands. However, we can
take a look at Middlebrook
and, for those NASCAR conspiracy theorists out there, they
can read between the lines.
Middlebrook spent a lifetime at General Motors – 49
years, to be exact. That makes
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him a GM loyalist, and Hendrick fields Chevrolets. At
Middlebrook’s retirement ceremony, Hendrick was one of
the speakers – there were a
total of six. That means Hendrick must have been in a pretty special category of people.
Middlebrook worked with and
around Hendrick for more than
20 years as he was the VP of
Global Sales and Service. Hendrick owns numerous automobile dealerships selling General Motors cars. Specifically,
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Last but not least, Middlebrook
didn’t take the position of commissioner for the money.
According to the official NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rulebook, he gets paid a paltry $1 a
year. What better way to repay
your friends than being able to
help them on their way to
another championship trophy?
As I previously stated, the
conspiracy theorists are frothing at the mouth.
But in fairness, let’s look at
the history of Middleton since
he has been in his current position as the high and mighty
over all things NASCAR.
File photo
Going into this most recent
appeal, Middlebrook had
reduced three of three penalties – some more than others,
but still reductions nonetheless. Most everyone, including
NASCAR and Hendrick, have
said Middlebrook is one of the
most honest and fair people
around and that he has great
integrity. So which is it, conspiracy theorists? I guess the
answer could be both – maybe
we should take this argument
one step beyond conspiracy to
ridiculous.
NASCAR penalized the
Hendrick team to make it
appear as if it was hard on rule
violations after an in-car video
showed Knaus telling Johnson
to destroy the car if he won the
race at Talladega last year. But
NASCAR knew all along there
was no real violation at Daytona so they let the system
play out with full-knowledge
Johnson would ultimately win
his appeal. The whole Daytona
penalty issue was a ruse to
throw conspiracy theorists off
the scent, let NASCAR continue its secret support of Hendrick and put Johnson back up
on a pedestal as champion, all
while keeping Dale Earnhardt
Jr. from ever becoming a
champion. After all, “everyone” knows Hendrick gives
Dale Jr. subpar equipment and
crew chiefs. So, the secret is
out. It’s all a big conspiracy
and the endgame is to run Dale
Jr. out of the sport.
OK, back to the real reality
and not the reality of NASCAR conspiracy nuts. How
about this? The system
worked. There was an alleged
violation. It was appealed and
ultimately the penalty was
overturned because Hendrick
and Knaus proved their case.
Does that mean there wasn’t
some sort of “gray area” that
Knaus was entering with the
C-post issue that brought this
about in the first place? No.
And I bet NASCAR will probably enact the “Knaus rule” in
the coming weeks. Regardless,
it’s over, done and finished so
let’s move on to Fontana and
get ready for the Auto Club
400 – it’s Johnson’s home
track, so he’s guaranteed a
win, right?
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The good and bad news
on fishing at Sabine Lake
A few days ago I pulled my
boat up to the ramp on the
Sabine Pass side of the causeway bridge and notice something a little strange. The ramp
was closed. It looked like
something out of a Third
World country. Apparently it’s
already coming unglued, and
it’s not even more than a few
years old. The wind was blowing about 20 mph out of the
southeast so it’s basically useless to put in there anyway.
The waves were crashing over
the bulk head. So I did what I
normally do — put in at the Robert Sloan photo
protected and very nice ramp
on the Louisiana side of the Johnson bayou. Last weekend,
causeway bridge.
we caught most of our trout
I wrote a column a few about 200 to 300 yards off the
months ago about the shoddy Louisiana shoreline. The best
Texas boat ramps at the cause- lures were Egret Bayou Chubs
way bridge. At that time, we in black/chartreuse or splithad two working ramps at that tailed chartreuse Gulps. We
location. That column cen- fished them on 1/8 or 1/4
tered on how bad those par- ounce lead-head jigs.
ticular ramps are, but I didn’t
Guide Jerry Norris says his
expect them to disintegrate best catches of trout and reds
this soon.
are coming from fresh
There is good news
slicks, or by fishing
to report on Sabine
100 to 200 yards off
Lake fishing. But first,
the Louisiana shorethe bad news — there is
line in 6 feet of water.
a ton of freshwater in
He’s been using black/
the lake right now.
red split-tailed AssasThat’s due to all the
sins on 1/4 ounce jig
runoff moving into the Robert Sloan heads.
lake from the Neches Outdoors
Right now, catches
and Sabine rivers. And
of big trout are few
the most recent rains
and far between. If we
won’t help the situation. The can go a week or so without a
good news? Fishing is a lot substantial amount of rain, the
better than you might expect. lake will clear up enough for
Last weekend I fished on Sat- some serious trophy trout fishurday and Sunday. Both days ing. The trout are out there;
we had enough trout, reds and it’s just a matter of finding
founder to make a trip well them when they’re feeding.
worth the effort. The Sunday
Meanwhile, the flounder
weather was the worst of the bite all over the lake is excelweekend. The wind was honk- lent. Sherry Schwarzna at
ing at about 20 mph. The Causeway Bait Camp reports
water was brown and very that a guy stood on the boat
fresh. I had my doubts as we ramp right outside the store
left the boat ramp. But at the and caught 27 flounder a few
end of the day, three of had nights ago. She said he was
nine trout to four pounds, four using live mud minnows on
reds and three flounder. That’s bottom. Many of the flounder
not bad for fishing in some- being caught are under the
thing akin to gale-force winds. 14-inch minimum length limThe ticket has been to drift it. But there are quite a few out
while fishing jigs on the lower there that are big enough to
lake reef. Another option is to drop right into the cooler withdrift away from the Louisiana out measuring.
shoreline up close to Madame
Some of the best areas to
This is all
that is
left of the
causeway
bridge
boat
ramp at
Sabine
Pass. The
end of
the ramp
is washed
out and
boat trailers were
getting
tore up.
target Sabine flounder are at
the mouths of bayous feeding
into the lake. What I’ve been
doing is staking out on a point
and fishing Bayou Chubs up
close to the bank. The outgoing tide is usually best.
Another good thing that’s
happening on Sabine right
now is the pier fishing under
the lights. The good news is
that the public fishing pier at
Walter Umphrey State Park,
adjacent to the causeway
bridge, is now lit up like a
Christmas tree every night.
The bad news is that those
lights are not nearly bright
enough. In fact, they barely
put out enough light to tie on a
hook. Whoever came up with
the plan for the lights on this
newly rebuilt pier totally
screwed up. However, it’s better than nothing.
I talked to a friend of mine
that fished off his pier the
other night. It’s on the lower
end of Pleasure Island. He
caught a box full of solid trout,
along with a few reds. But on
the following three nights, he
struggled to catch anything.
If you’re going to fish off
the piers or the bank at night,
the best bait is definitely a live
mud minnow. They can be
bought at the Causeway Bait
Camp. Live mullet will also
work. Sherry says they can’t
get live mullet right now. But
mud minnows are in good supply. By the way, if you’re
looking for a good pizza, live
bait or a fishing report, give
the Causeway Bait Camp a
call at (409) 985-4811.
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Bass move into shallows as lake levels rise
Over the past several months, there
has been little written about the pursuit
of largemouth bass. With all three of the
big lakes being extremely low on water
there was a constant danger to boaters.
Now that the levels have begun to rise
and with the springtime and warm
weather, the scenario has begun to
change. Bassing will continue to get
more attention for the
next few months.
Our plentiful rains
have not filled the big
lakes, but they are definitely on the rise. What
that means is that feeding
fish including the black
bass will follow the rise Billy Halfin
into shallow-water feeding areas. That is the case Outdoors
on most of the popular
fishing waters but not on all of them.
Even on the exceptions there will be
some of the bass that will follow what is
normal for them to do.
Lake Livingston Lake is a unique
basing lake. Largemouth black bass on
Livingston are rarely if ever active in
water over 10 feet deep. Certainly there
will be exceptions to any rule, but for
more consistent bass action, go to areas
with structure under 10 feet deep. This,
Toledo Bend largemouth
HR&G photo
of course, makes Lake Livingston a
prime place for topwater lures as well as
spinner lures. Yes, plastics are also good
choice at times, but the topwaters and
spinner lures are a lot of fun to use
when the bass are in a striking mode.
Lake Livingston has long been loaded with shad, thus the great white bass
and catfish fishery. The largemouth also
feed upon those shad as well as the
bream that are also numerous in the
lake. Only the bass know for sure, but I
believe that’s what makes the lighter
colors for the lures more attractive to
the black bass.
A good plan of action is to locate
some points that run from the shoreline
out to deeper water. Also any type of
structure such as bulkheads, old stumps,
boat docks, or any other vegetation
make good locations. Then if you are a
boater, keep the boat in or around water
10 feet deep. Cast lures into the shallows or toward the bank. This technique
has paid off for me no matter the time of
year or whether the lake’s water level
was rising or not.
I’ve noticed through observation that
Toledo Bend’s black bass will move
toward the shallows before those on
Sam Rayburn. There is also plenty of
evidence that the bass fishing in the
shallows begins further up the lake
above the Pendleton Bridge and then
that action follows on down to the lower
end. The north end of the lake is, for the
most part, more shallow than that
toward the dam. That shallow water
will warm more quickly, thus earlier
shallow-water action.
Lures such as the chartreuse orange
or red Rat-L-Traps begin to be the go-to
lures. These offerings will remain productive from now until the upcoming
spawn is over. The orange belly, gold
side, and black back Rogue or similar
topwater shallow diving lures are the
choice of many Toledo Bend anglers.
These lures are especially deadly during
the springtime warm days. They usually
take more fish when they are retrieved
very slowly. Don’t overlook the chartreuse spinner lures. These lures are
very versatile and may be fished in
various water depths
Plastics have long been really good
choices along drop-offs when the largemouths are moving toward the spawning areas. I prefer either the Texas rig on
the whacky rig around isolated structure
or drop-offs into submerged creeks.
Sam Rayburn’s black bass seem to
begin moving into their nesting areas
later than on the other lakes. This
makes them more catchable with the
use of plastics or deep diving crank
lures. The Carolina Rig has long been
one of the more productive rigs on Sam
Rayburn. The use of lizards or plastic
worms in the 6 to 8 inch length are
good choices. Watermelon, chartreuse
and pumpkin seed seem to be the more
used colors.
Deep diving crankbaits fished along
old roadbeds, grass with creeks nearby,
and drop-offs are good choices. There
will not normally be fast action, but the
fish that are there will be larger. It is
getting to be largemouth black bass
time all over the place.
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If you have a tendency to forget to water and otherwise
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fleshy water storage organs. Succulents store water in their leaves,
their stems or their roots. You are
probably familiar with cactus,
aloe and agave. There are hundreds more lovely succulents
available around town when you
start to look. It is addictive.
Christina LaDee, a local avid
gardener, recently gave a program
on succulents. Upon hearing this
news, her friend and
fellow gardener, Helen Solinger asked
her why. Now they
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15 finish of the season with a 14th place tie
with a 9-over 225. Purdue’s Paula Reto won
medalist honors with a 9-under 207.
LU freshman Nghi Ngo tied for 25th with
a 13-over 229.
Other Cardinal golfers were sophomore
Katelyn McDougal (T44, 233), sophomore
Lauren Van Gerven (T63, 241) and senior
Sarah Nicholas (T68, 245).
The Lady Cardinals will compete in just
one more tournament before next month’s
Southland Conference Championship. Lamar
will open play in the HBU Husky Invitational
at Riverbend Country Club on Apr. 2.
schedule on Sept. 1 with a road game at former rival Louisiana-Lafayette, now a member of the Sun Belt Conference. Woodard’s
Cardinals will face a second Football Bowl
Subdivision school when they travel to Honolulu, Hawaii, to play a Sept. 15 game against
the University of Hawaii.
The Cardinals’ home opener in 16,000-seat
Provost Umphrey Stadium is set for Sept. 8
against Prairie View A&M University. Their
Southland Conference opener will be in
Beaumont against Southeastern Louisiana Men’s tennis
University on Sept. 29, and their 2012 HomeThe Cards dropped a 7-0 match at No. 43
coming Game will be against McMurry Uni- Arkansas (13-5) on Tuesday, March 20, in
versity on Oct. 13.
Fayetteville.
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they defeated UMKC (1-9) by the score
of 6-1. Rob Lee won his second consecuMen’s golf
tive match at No. 1 singles with a 7-6 (1),
With senior M.J. Daffue
6-3 triumph over Grant Fleming. Denis
taking home the individual
Ermilov,
Carlos Valdenebro, Bruno Snytitle on March 17, the rest of
der
and
Mikko
Rajamaki also won at sinthe Lamar men’s golf team progles
for
the
Cardinals.
vided plenty of support to lead the
“We played very solid in both doubles and
Cardinals to the team title of the annual Borsingles,”
said head coach Scott Shankles.
der Olympics at the Laredo Country Club.
“We
did
a
great job holding serve throughout
Lamar, who also won the Border Olympics
doubles.
That
proved to be the difference.”
in 2007, picked up its first team title since
The Cards also defeated Marist, 4-3, at the
winning the 2009 Southland Conference
Championship. The Cardinals (870) and No. Thompson Family Tennis Center on March
31 Baylor Bears (875) were the only two 15. Bruno Snyder’s three-set victory at No. 4
teams to shoot a cumulative score under 880. singles snapped a 3-3 tie.
Lamar opens a four-match homestand by
Daffue, who won for the fourth time in his
Lamar career, finished with a 5-under 211. taking on Alcorn State at 10 a.m. March 24.
Other Cardinal golfers who played were
Xavier Feyaerts (T3, 216), freshman Luke Women’s tennis
The Lady Cards defeated McNeese State
Jerling (T11, 221), senior Kevin Hesbois
(T18, 223), sophomore Stephane Dubois 6-1 at home March 16 then dropped a non(T60, 232) and freshman Gustaf Burenstam conference tilt to South Alabama, 6-1, on
March 18.
(T29, 225), who played as an individual.
In the win over McNeese State (1-9, 0-4),
Lamar will have two weeks off from competition before playing in the Insperity Alessandra Pennesi won her seventh straight
singles match for Lamar, taking a 6-3, 6-2
Augusta State Invitational on March 31.
decision over Marcella Castaldi at No. 5 sinWomen’s golf
gles. Carolina Salas, Natalia Mayagoitia,
The Lady Cards competed in the Insperity Carolina Maso and Helene Czudek also won
Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate in Augusta, Ga., their singles matches for the Lady Cardinals.
LU (4-6, 2-2) will next host a two matches
last weekend and finished ninth with a team
total of 926. UTSA won the team title with a on Saturday, March 24, beginning with
Southeastern Louisiana at 10 a.m. and UT
16-over 880.
LU junior Julie Aime posted her sixth top Pan American at 3 p.m.
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30 A
‘We may not have the same goals’
Remembering Mark A. Wilson, MD
Last year, I thought, “this will be the a part of SETMA told us that it was a
last.” It had been two years since SET- waste of money with no benefit for
MA’s co-founding partner Mark A. Wil- patient care. We believed it was the
son, MD, passed away. I had written a future of health care. But it was hard.
number of articles about him and I
In May 1999, Mark was emotionally
thought that it was enough. But as down and I asked him what the matter
March 23, 2012, approaches — the was. He said, speaking of our progress
third anniversary of
with electronic records,
Mark’s death — his
“We’re not even crawlfather has announced
ing yet.” Remember,
that on that day at 3
we purchased the EHR
James
p.m., there will be a
in March 1998, but it
Holly,
graveside memorial to
was an empty box. It
M.D.
celebrate Mark’s life
took us until Jan. 26,
and the placing of the
1999, to build the funcbeautiful markers on his
tionality that allowed
grave and on the Wil- Your Life, Your Health us to start using the
son-cemetery plot.
new tool. During that
A number of memo10-month period, we
ries surround this event for me. The first were paying for the transcription seroccurred in 1983. Mark had moved to vice we had developed with which to
Beaumont in 1982. He and his partner document a patient encounter, we were
started Medi-Quick Inc. chain of clinics paying for the HER, and we were payand had created controversy in South- ing a number of staff to develop the
east Texas (If you Google Medi-Quick content of the EHR. Needless to say, the
Inc., it still yields results). I first saw pressure was enormous, so much so that
Mark in a Baptist Hospital Medical at the time of Mark’s lamentation about
Staff Executive Committee Meeting. I health records, I was confident that we
remember how young he was. He was could not succeed financially. In May
not yet 30 years old, and he seemed like 1999, I feared that we would go banka teenager.
rupt. And I could not tell anyone.
In 1995, I got to know Mark well as
In response to Mark’s comment, I
we began discussing the formation of said, “You are probably right, but let me
SETMA. On Aug. 1, 1995, we launched ask you a question. When your oldest
SETMA. The general opinion was that son first turned over in bed, did you
Mark Wilson and Larry Holly could not lament that he could not crawl, or did
work together successfully. When Mark you shout to your wife and say, ‘Our
passed away, we were the only two son just turned over in bed?’” He smiled
founding partners left in SETMA. and I continued, “If in a year, all we are
Through hours and hours of conversa- doing is what we are currently doing, I
tions, sometimes loud and contentious will join your lamentation. but today, I
but always resolved with understanding am going to celebrate that we have
and collegiality, Mark and I came to started.” We agreed that from then on
understand that we had common inter- we would celebrate what we were doing
ests and common goals in healthcare.
while we were accomplishing what we
In October 1997, we attended the wanted to be able to do. Celebration
Medical Group Management Associa- became the core of our philosophy. In
tion annual meeting in Washington, August 2007, this event was the subject
D.C. In a daylong pre-conference ses- of an article in Health Data Managesion on strategic planning, Mark and I ment Magazine titled “Vision and Celcontinued our dialogue. As we walked ebration.”
out of a session, Mark said, “You know
In January 2000, the first of more
Larry, you and I may not have the same than 130 articles about SETMA
goals.” I agreed and asked him, “What appeared in a national medical magaare your goals, Mark?” He stated his zine. Family Practice News and then
goal in what has become SETMA’s Health Data Management in July 2000
Mission Statement. After he told me his wrote articles about SETMA and ours
goals, I opened my notebook and in a use of EHR. We were on our way. In
box outlined in ink, I had written, word January 2003, SETMA was named
for word, Mark’s goals, which were Microsoft Clinic of the Year. In Novemtitled “My goals.”
ber 2003, SETMA was named PhysiOn March 30, 1998, we signed our cian Practice Magazine, Southwest
first check for electronic health records. Clinic of the Year, and the next year, the
It was for $675,000. I remember that same magazine named us runner up
our accountant told us that we had lost National Clinic of the Year. In 2006,
our minds and a physician who was not SETMA was awarded the prestigious
HIMSS Davies Award, and the list continues to grow.
In 2002, SETMA began to receive
invitations to “tell the SETMA story” at
national meetings. The American Medical Association, the Massachusetts
Medical Association, the Toward Electronic Patient Record Institute (TEPR),
the Health Information and Medical
Management Society (HIMSS) and
many others began requesting SETMA’s story be told. On SEMTA’s Web
site at www.setma.com under In-TheNews SETMA Presentations, there are
more than 40 presentations made in the
past 10 years about SETMA’s work.
In 2003, I gave Mark a framed poster
titled “Priorities.” It is a beautiful picture of a little boy with hands in his
back pockets looking over a beautiful
lake. The inscription states, “A hundred
years from now, it will not matter what
my bank account was, what kind of
house I lived in or what kind of car I
drove, but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a
child.” Little did we know that Mark
had less than six years to live when we
hung that picture outside his office door.
Mark had always been devoted to his
three children, but he did begin to leave
office earlier and he was important in
the lives of his three children and in the
lives of countless other young girls who
were ministered to by Girls’ Haven.
In 2005, Mark wrote me a letter. I
wish I could find it; I know where I put
it, but alas, it is not there. In that letter,
Mark said that he wanted me to become
an expert in national health-care policy
and transformation of health care. Mark
had always had a vision of SEMTA
becoming a local and regional resource
for health-care information, but now he
saw the opportunity for us to become
national spokespersons for the future of
health care. We were already well on
our way but, Mark’s support was a
major factor in the future of SETMA.
On April 12, 2007, two SETMA
partners announced that they were leaving SETMA. They had been starting
businesses that competed with SETMA
for several years and without our knowledge had been going to companies with
whom we had contracts and negotiating
their taking over those contracts after
leaving SETMA. During this “exit”
meeting, they announced that others
were leaving with them and that this
was a “tipping point” and that within six
months SETMA would no longer exist.
April 12, 2012, will be five years since
that prophesy, and SETMA is stronger
and larger than ever. One of the eight
physicians has returned to SETMA.
And three others continue to speak of
SETMA as being the best job they have
ever had.
The fracture of relationships is never
a pleasant thing, although no one took
their prophesy seriously. On July 30,
2007, eight physicians left SETMA.
Four left to form a new group and four
left coincidentally but not related to the
first four’s departure. I remember thinking, now nothing could be worse than
this. But little did I know that it could.
Nine days after this exodus, Mark
called and asked to come to my home.
This was unusual and I wondered if
maybe he was discouraged and also
wanted to leave. I was not prepared for
what he told me. As Mark and I sat in
my living room, he said, “I have terminal cancer.” At first, it was as if he had
told me, “I have a cold.” But as I sat
silent, and for two hours listened to
Mark, it sunk in. This was as bad as I
could be. As Mark talked about his
symptoms, diagnosis and future, only
two things gave him emotional distress:
his children and being a physician. He
grieved over the loss of both.
I never doubted that SETMA would
not only survive but succeed in the
absence of the eight physicians who had
left, but now … I was not afraid that
SETMA would not survive Mark’s loss,
but I did know that the comfort and
camaraderie that we had shared would
be sorely missed long after the end of
his life. Our relationship, which others
said could not survive, had become pivotal to both of us.
In a very real sense, the loss of Mark
was like the loss of my father two years
before. I was 17 when I left home for
college and I never lived again in my
father’s home except as a brief guest.
My father had never been involved in
my career or business but his presence
had always been like a safety net. I felt
certain that if I were about to make a
mistake my father would step out of the
shadows and shake his head and say
“No.” Mark was not a father to me, but
we shared a relationship that while neither of us really “needed” the other, we
enjoyed the confidence that if either of
us were about to make a mistake, the
other would step up and say by the
shaking of the head, “No.”
In the five years since his diagnosis
and the three years since his death, there
have been numerous times that I reached
for the telephone to tell Mark about
some new enterprise or adventure SETMA was undertaking. I never touched
the telephone before remembering, but
the desire was there. I often visit Mark’s
gravesite and often stand there and talk
about SETMA’s new adventures.
I so want to tell Mark how far we
have come and how we have fulfilled
his vision of being national leaders in
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31 A
You still owe after
account ‘write off’
Pinterest, a media-based
social networking service
We are all likely cognizant of the only. At present, prospective users can
major social networking Web services, receive an invite from current Pinterest
as they have become an integral part of users, or can apply for an invite at the
many of our daily lives. I have written top of the main page. While some conabout Facebook, Twitter and Google temporary blogs mention that invites
Plus in this column, and have accounts are almost instant and automatic after
on all three. I use Facebook and Google requesting one from the Pinterest Web
Plus almost daily but admittedly have site, I received the following obviously
not been on Twitter in several months. automated response to my invite
I have been seeing a lot of refer- request: “ Hi! Thanks for joining the
ences recently about another social Pinterest waiting list. We’ll be sure to
networking service, Pinterest (pinter- send you an invite soon. In the meanest.com), which is different than the time, you can follow us on Twitter. You
other major social networking services can also explore a few pins. We’re
in that it is based on
excited to get you pin“themed image boards”
ning soon! — Ben and
composed of images
the Pinterest Team.”
(and other media)
Once registered, PinIra
uploaded from the
terest requires the user
Wilsker to link his Pinterest
members’ computers or
media found online. If
account with either a
media is found online,
Facebook or Twitter
it is added to the ownaccount.
Technology
er’s image board
In exploring the
through the use of a
Pinterest Web site, I
“Pin It” button. When
viewed dozens of
visiting Pinterest for the first time in “boards” composed of a mix of media,
order to write this column, my first each known as a “pin.” The pins were
impression was that it is millions of mostly photos and other images, but
billboard-looking pages used by indi- also included embedded videos and
viduals (mostly women) to post images discussion threads. On mousing over
of interest, and by businesses to create any of the images, three buttons appear
virtual catalogs of their products.
offering the user options to “RePin,”
According to its listing in Wikipe- “Like” and “Comment.” The RePin
dia, Pinterest is a fairly new social process allows the viewer to add the
medial Web site launched in March image to his or her board, and the Like
2010, and is managed by Palo Alto, button works similar to the Like funcCalif., based Cold Brew labs. Member- tions on other social networking Web
ship for full access to the Web site is sites, indicating the number of viewers
required, and available by invitation who liked that particular media item.
Web sites
pinterest.com
blog.pinterest.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintrest
www.makeuseof.com/tag/pinterest-pointtwitter-opinion/
https://pinterest.com/about/terms/
www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/
startups/2012/02/pinterest-copyrightissues.html
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Pintrest#Copyrighted_content
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintrest#Use_by_
scammers
Q. I had a credit card account
that was written off several years
ago. I have now received a letter
from a debt collector stating that if I
don’t pay, I will be sued. How do I
owe any money if the account was
written-off? Should
I just ignore this?
A.
Basically,
when an account is
written-off by a
creditor, the creditor
has made the decision not to take any
further efforts to colKnow
lect. It does not
Your
mean, however, that
you no longer owe Rights
the money. In fact,
the account is often with Richard
transferred to a debt Alderman
collector who will
continue collection efforts. The debt
collector can request payment and
can file a lawsuit, assuming that the
time is within what is called the
“statute of limitations.” In Texas,
the limitations period for filing a
lawsuit for a credit card debt is four
years from when the account went
into default.
If it has been more than four
years since you defaulted, the debt
collector’s threat to file suit probably violates federal debt collection
law. If it has not been more than
four years, they have the right to sue
if you do not work out a payment
plan. I suggest you try to work out a
payment plan you can live with, and
do not ignore any legal papers you
receive. If you do, a judgment will
be entered against you for the full
amount they request.
The Comment button allows the reader
to post a comment under the image or
other media device. The comments are
all interlinked, and clicking on the
name of the person who left the comment will open that individual’s board.
At random, I clicked on the name “Jennifer” on a comment left on another’s
board, and it opened Jennifer’s board.
Jennifer’s board shows her personal
activities and interests, as well as
records her participation on Pinterest.
In Jennifer’s case, she has created 15
of her own sub-boards, had 132 “pins”
and 50 “likes.” Her personal board has
15 major areas of her individual choice:
“My Style,” “Equus,” “Movie & Theater,” “Food & Drink,” “Funny,” and
several other sections. Having my own
sense of humor, I clicked on Jennifer’s
“Funny” listings and opened up her
collection of funny images and quotations. The header on her Funny page
indicates that there are six followers of
her Funny page, and 12 of her funny
images have been “pinned” or used by
Q. My checkbook was stolen
during a break-in of my home. I
called the bank and it said that
because I didn’t have any checks
outstanding, I should just close the
account. A collection agency is now
asking me to pay some of the checks
the thief wrote that bounced. Do I
have any liability?
A. If your checks were stolen and
your signature was forged, you have
no liability on the checks. A forged
signature does not impose any liability on the person whose signature
was forged. In fact, under the law,
the thief’s forgery of your name
actually operates as his or her signature and they are the ones from
whom the collection agency should
be trying to collect. I suggest you
contact the collection agency, in
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health-care affairs. Mark would be
thrilled that the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine has elected
me an adjunct professor of Family
and Community Medicine. He
would be thrilled at the recognitions
SETMA has received. In his last
days, we had applied for Medical
Home recognition. He would like
the fact that we are a Tier Three (the
highest) NCQA Medical Home. He
would love the fact that we are a
Joslin Diabetes Affiliate. The public
reporting of quality metrics by provider name would have scared him
like it did all of us, but he would
have done it. Mark would be proud
of the other accreditations we have
received. As I prepare this article, I
received an invitation to be on the
Advisory Board for a conference in
Washington, D.C. in September
titled “Diabetes Innovation 2012 –
Connect, Care, Cure.” The six members of the Advisory Board are recognized national leaders in healthcare transformation.
Mark would have loved the note
forwarded to me last night, March
13, from the IBM global director of
Healthcare Transformation, who
said, “Hi, Susan. Nice video — Dr
Holly and the SETMA COGNOS
solution are now folk heroes in Australia — sort of a ‘Mary Watson’ folk
hero. The Minister of Health loved
the slides on SETMA and the
empowering of the patient with data
and the story of personalizing data to
the individual and lots of interest in
Wellby Kiosk as well. Susan, can
you send the team in Australia the
COGNOS SETMA information and
the video? Thanks.” Australia?!
Mark would be proud.
The SETMA Foundation was
formed before Mark became ill, but
he never saw it performing as it does
today. I told Mark once, “Until, I met
you, I had never known a man who
was more generous than my father,
but you are.” Mark would have been
overwhelmed at SETMA’s partners
giving the foundation in excess of $2
million by the end of this year.
As we all stand by his gravesite
on Friday, March 23, 2012, at 3 p.m.
in the afternoon, we will remember
Mark A. Wilson, MD. And in remembering him, we will be thankful that
we could all be known as “Friends of
Mark.”
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To learn more, visit your local
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Dr. James L. Holly is CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP
(SETMA) in Beaumont.
33 A
R ELIGION
Let’s eat and make merry Listening with your ears and heart
My son was lost and now is found
We can learn so much save that which was lost.”
from the story Jesus told
The love demonstrated in
about the prodigal son and the three parables in Luke’s
his family. Today we read gospel, Chapter 15, is a
from Luke 15:3-10.
seeking love. Love
“So He spoke this
strides across hills in
parable to them, saysearch of a lost sheep.
ing, ‘What man of
Love gets down on
you, having a hundred
its knees and gropes
sheep, if he loses one
as it seeks a lost coin.
of them, does not
And love raises,
leave the ninety and
trains, loses, seeks
Pastor
nine in the wilderness,
and then runs out to
Delmar
and go after the one,
embrace a lost son.
Dabney
which is lost until he
God is love. It was
1925-1994
finds it? And when he
God in Christ’s
has found it, he lays it
description of Himon his shoulders, rejoicing. self. John 3:16 shares it. “For
And when he comes home, God so loved the world that
he calls together his friends He gave His only begotten
and neighbors saying I have son…” God has this pursuing
found my sheep, which was love with probes into all the
lost. Likewise there will be dangerous places of the world
more joy in heaven over one and pushes into all of the dinsinner who repents than over gy corners seeking those of us
ninety and nine just persons who have lost the way. No
who need no repentance. Or, one of us is too much for Him
what woman, having ten sil- Who comes searching. And
ver coins, if she loses one no joy is greater than that
coin, does not light a lamp, when what is lost is found.
sweep the house and seek
Hear me fellow Christian.
diligently until she finds it? It is time for every child of
And when she has found it, God to join a search party
she calls her friends and and to help seek and to save
neighbors together, saying, that which is lost.
rejoice with me, for I have
And my unsaved friend, it
found the piece, which I lost. is time for all of us to move,
Likewise there is joy in the in repentance, toward that
presence of the angels of God searching love of God.
over one sinner who repents.”
Lost! Found! The only
Now, let’s go to Verse 23 difference between those two
and 24 and read the words of is the amazing grace of our
the prodigal’s father. “Let us God in Jesus Christ. If you
eat and make merry for this are lost and want to be found,
my son was lost and is now it begins with this prayer.
found.”
Lord, I am willing to be
It is a fearful thing to found. Find me before I
know that you are danger- destroy myself. Track me
ously lost. There is a panic down and wrap me around
and a dread in that, perhaps with Your redeeming love,
only experienced people can which never lets go.
tell about. I have experienced
Then, having prayed that,
this type of “lostness” on you need to find a Christthree occasions in my life. centered church and become
What is less fearful, but just a vital part of it.
as dangerous, is to be lost
Grant it, Master. In Jesus’
without knowing it.
name. Amen and amen.
God’s heartbroken word is
for any of us who are not
The Rev. Delmar Dabney
saved and are hopelessly was a spiritual inspiration in
lost. And God provided the Southeast Texas for many years
solution for us. Before we before his death in 1994. This
other messages from his
were even born, or ever knew and
daily television show, “Coffee
that we were lost, God in with Pastor Dabney,” are feaChrist came to “seek and to tured here regularly.
As a writer for many years, I have tried to
I thought that was a shame. She is beautiful,
learn to listen with my heart when people never in any trouble, and really deserved the
speak. What I mean by that statement is I want award she was to be receiving in front of her
to hear more than just the words people are peers. She even had a bright red formal dress
saying to me. One can learn a lot by facial to wear and she was excited. There is such a
expressions, the tone chosen, and points of thing as too much love and protection, and
emphasis. The same exact words can seem so often, a child in this situation will rebel and go
different in print or when spoken verbally and the other way just as soon as they get the first
clearly in love, in hate, or somewhere in opportunity.
between. Often, when the same thoughts are
The second teen I have been talking with
put into print, they can seem cold, harsh, or left her home and moved in with another famcritical, when perhaps the intent was not meant ily simply because she could not bear the conto be so damning.
ditions where she lived. This girl is dynamic,
This past weekend I have had occasion to very beautiful, and has a bright, inquiring
speak with and learn a great deal about four dif- mind. She can and will be something special
ferent teens, all of whom are good kids, not in with just the right direction, support and guidany serious trouble, and well loved and cared ance. Teachers and church leaders have tried to
for by parents and other family members. I trust be helpful, but there are limits. I pray that this
I was listening with my heart.
is a right choice for her at this time in
All four of these good kids are strugher life. She has so much to offer if she
gling with some very real issues and
can just make it to adulthood.
need love, direction, guidance, and help
I know both a boy and girl, not relatto reach adulthood and become contribed and not connected by a relationship,
uting members of society. For our older
that have stated their intentions to move
readers of this column, it is not the same
out of the parental home, get a place of
world in many ways you and I grew up
their own, and make a charming, funin when neighborhoods were safe,
filled life for themselves. Only problem
Brenda
school chums were lifelong pals, and
is in both cases, they have no reputable
Cannon
home meant something special.
job, no vehicle, and are still in school.
Henley
One of the teens is a beautiful girl,
Other students that have left home and
Senior
just now 15, and really a stunning young Correspondent
live alone to fend for themselves have
lady whose father is so super strict that to The Examiner tempted them. You might be surprised at
he hardly lets her out of his sight. His
the number of young teens that live
motives are perhaps good. He loves her and alone these days. One told me recently, “Yea, it
wants to protect her from all evil, and espe- was a lot of fun to live in the trailer by myself
cially that of the masculine gender. Boys call for about a week. And then, I wished I could
the home and want to speak to the daughter, just go home, but I can’t.”
much to his despair. One even dared to ask her
What the other kids see is immediate freeout on a date. The father said “No,” loudly and dom, no boundaries, and lots of fun. There are
clearly when the date was to be to a teacher/ few rules because these parents are too busy to
sponsor event where adults would be present. rear them. Out of sight, out of mind. Little do
He said the only condition he would permit his the youngsters realize that these kids often do
daughter to attend is if he and his wife accom- not have a good meal to eat, worry about the
panied her to the ball, which happened to be a little electric bill being paid, and have to ask
military one. The daughter, I failed to mention, others to pick them up and give them a ride to
is a top sharpshooter and the best marksman in where they are going. That’d not even menthree Atlanta area high schools. She has never tioning sickness, new clothing, insurance, and
been allowed to hang with her friends or stay trips because these items haven’t crossed their
over without an intense investigation and tons thinking patterns as of yet.
of rules. She said it was far to embarrassing for
Adults in many cases want to help their own
the parents to accompany her to the military and other children so much that they make life
ball and that she would prefer just skipping it too easy. Everything is handed out on a silver
and staying home.
See HENLEY on page 34 A
CHURCH NOTES
Singles adult retreat
in Lumberton
Singles Christian Connection at 1534 Highway 96 S. in
Lumberton is holding a singles
adult retreat on emotional
healing April 20-21. Along
with nine guest speakers,
including featured speaker
Dusty Wells, there will be a
concert by Dove award nominees Beyond the Ashes from
Nashville, Tenn.
The event begins at 5 p.m.
Friday, April 20, with registration for $45.
For more information, visit
www.singleschristianconnection.com or call (409) 8604400.
Sunday • 10:30 AM
Tuesday Family Prayer 7:00 PM
Wed. Night • 7:30 Bible Study
Everyone Welcome!
Pastor Michael LaBrie
Gospel Tabernacle
1225 Glendale • Beaumont
409-866-2000
www.GospelTabernacleBeaumont.com
34 A
HENLEY
from page 33 A
platter and there are no consequences for bad choices or mistakes. It is
simply easier to say “yes” rather
than a firm “no” to hard questions
or ill-advised behavior.
I know in my heart I wish I could
give my children the tools they need
to make good choices, but I also
know that my words of advice
would likely fall on deaf ears. There
are other young people God has put
in my path that I want to help, but
there are limits to that help. In some
cases, these young individuals have
to learn principles for themselves.
We cannot do it for them.
C.S. Lewis, one of my favorite
authors wrote, “Experience, a brutal
teacher, but my God, do we learn.”
And learn, we do, more by our bad
choices and the consequences that
follow, in some cases, than by the
good ones we make.
Brenda Cannon Henley can be
reached at (409) 781-8788.
TECH
from page 31 A
others on their boards. As with all
other images on Pinterest, each of the
images has the same three buttons
available, as did all of the images on
the front page, allowing viewers to
RePin, Comment or Like her images.
In doing a quick search for local
content, I entered “Beaumont” and
found hundreds of boards with the key
word “Beaumont” in their name; many
were individuals, organizations or
businesses, but many were also cities
with the name Beaumont. I found the
Beaumont-based African Violet Society, a local commercial photographer,
and the local Beaumont Convention
and Visitors Bureau (CVB), as well as
several others. In looking at the CVB
board, with its 16 sub-boards and 150
pins, a viewer can readily see some of
the charm and attractions of Beaumont, and appropriate task and function of the CVB. Local museums, restaurants, special events, theater, shopping, architecture, art, religious activities, local sports, local businesses, and
other local items of interest are highlighted. I found the “Beaumont Made”
board listed under the CVB very
refreshing, as it listed Douget’s Rice,
TexJoy Seasonings, Seaport Coffee,
Jason’s Deli, and a video history of
famous Beaumont photographer Keith
Carter. Pinned to the CVB’s “Local
Flavor, Beaumont Style” board were
images and other information about
local restaurants and foods including
Suga’s, Rao’s, Major League Grill,
Chaba Thai Bistro, Koi Japanese Sushi
GARDEN
from page 28 A
topiary or wreath, it will hold its shape
for a long time without much work on
your part. Also, some succulents are so
sculptural that a single plant can be
striking in a pot by itself.”
Well, as these things go, Solinger
spread her enthusiasm to another friend
and gardener, Jan Pearce, by sharing
some succulent plants. Pearce
realized that this is the perfect
plant to put at her new beach
house. If any plant can suffer,
endure and even thrive in the
windy, salty climate there, it
would be a succulent. The
mechanics of succulents’
water saving are interesting: Their
impervious outer skin, interior mucilaginous substances inside, and a waxy
and hairy or spiny outer surface create
a humid micro-habitat around the plant.
No matter what kind of succulent
you grow, there are some general rules
for their happiness. Succulents prefer
bright light or sun if outdoors. Too
Bar & Lounge, and the Beaumont
Farmers Market.
While Pinterest offers a great deal of
content from millions of people, businesses, and other organizations, it is not
without controversy. A recent article in
the Boston Business Journal titled
“How your business could get sued for
using Pinterest” explains why the Boston Business Journal removed all of its
boards from Pinterest, citing the Pinterest users agreement. According to the
Pinterest Users Agreement (pinterest.
com/about/terms), “By making available any Member Content through the
Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license,
with the right to sublicense, to use,
copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license,
sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly
perform, transmit, stream, broadcast,
access, view, and otherwise exploit
such Member Content only on, through
or by means of the Site, Application or
Services. ... You represent and warrant
that: (i) you either are the sole and
exclusive owner of all Member Content
that you make available through the
Site, Application and Services or you
have all rights, licenses, consents and
releases that are necessary to grant to
Cold Brew Labs the rights in such
Member Content, as contemplated
under these Terms.” According to the
Boston Business Journal article, this
agreement opens the user to possible
legal action by stating, “ Unless you
know you have a “worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license,” you’d
better tread carefully. Similar concerns
much light will show as scorched leaves
while too little light will cause the plant
to stretch with super elongated stem
and widely spaced leaves (etoilation).
They prefer daytime temperatures
around 75-85 degrees and nighttime
around 55 degrees but are tolerant of
extremes. As Solinger suggests on
water, “I’ve learned a few
things since discovering succulents. Over-watering is the
fastest way to kill a succulent, but ‘low water’ doesn’t
mean ‘no water.’ They are
drought-resistant, but they
will be better with regular
watering. Just make sure they
are in a soil that drains well.”
The potting soil should be a fastdraining mixture with perlite to increase
aeration and drainage. Fertilize during
the summer growing season.
Helen, with her usual wit and sense
of humor adds, “On the other hand, if
planting 40 plus succulents doesn’t
give us a rainy, humid summer, nothing
will. When I single-handedly end the
drought, I expect thank-you notes.”
have been expressed by others in
regards to the legal rights of items
pinned on Pinterest.
Another issue, which has also come
up on the other social networking services including Facebook and Twitter,
is that scammers and phishers (identity
thieves) have set up shop on Pinterest,
a fact that caught the interest of such
Internet security companies including
TrendMicro and Symantec. In the past
few weeks, scam images bearing the
logos and images of reputable, well
known companies have appeared in
Pinterest boards. These rogue boards
are offering incentives, such as high
value gift cards for completing a survey (a common identity theft ploy).
Clicking on the link connects to the
scammer’s Web site, where the victim
enters his personal information, which
is then used by identity thieves. Victims are then encouraged to re-pin the
original images (spread them further
around Pinterest), in exchange for
additional gifts or free products. Of
course, the free products and gift cards
are never delivered, and the victim’s
identity is stolen. It needs to be repeated that scams like these are not unique
to Pinterest, and do commonly occur
on the other social networking services
as well.
Pinterest offers a lot of potential as
both a social networking service and as
an advertising and promotion media. I
plan to get involved on Pinterest and
play with it for a while; it looks like a
lot of fun, but I will be careful about
what I do on the site.
Listen to Ira Wilsker’s weekly radio
show on Mondays from 6-7 p.m. on KLVI
560AM.
RIGHTS
from page 31 A
writing by certified mail, and let
them know the situation. If you
have filed a claim with the police,
include the case number. Also,
demand that the collection agency
stop all further communication.
Under federal law, they must then
stop calling you.
Q. I have a power of attorney for
my 87 year-old mother. The nursing
home where she is staying has started sending her bills directly to me.
Am I responsible for her debts
because of the power of attorney?
A. If they are sending you her
bills to pay on her behalf, you
should not be concerned. On the
other hand, if they are sending bills
to you for her obligations, you need
to make it clear that you are not a
responsible party. The power of
attorney gives you the right to sign
documents and act on behalf of your
mother. It does not impose any liability upon you for her debts. For
you to be responsible to the nursing
home, you must agree to pay. Unless
you have signed something or otherwise agreed to pay her bills, you
have no liability.
Q. My ex has stopped paying
child support. Is it true that someone who doesn’t pay his child support may lose his driver’s license?
Do I need an attorney?
A. Under the law, a court has the
right to suspend any professional
license, including a driver’s license,
of a person who does not pay child
support as ordered. In fact, a court
may even throw the person in jail. I
suggest you contact the child support division of the attorney general’s office, which can help you
enforce your support order.
Q. How do I get a copy of a living will? Does it have to be notarized to be valid? What does it cost?
A. For a free copy of a living
will, just go to my Web site below
and click on “Wills, living wills and
powers of attorney,” section under
Legal Topics. A living will, formally called a “Directive to Physicians,” does not have to be notarized but must be signed by two
witnesses. You may make several
originals and give them to a number
of people to insure that it will be
available when needed. For example, you can give one to a family
member, one to your physician and
one to a close friend.
Do you want to know more about
your legal rights? Visit my Web site at
www.peopleslawyer.net.
Su•do•ku
35 A
• Fill the cells in such a way that each row,
column and 3x3 subsquare has digits 1-9.
• Some digits are already given as clues.
Puzzle 1 (Medium, difficulty rating 0.51)
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times-bloody
fistfights so that
they
start
the
new year clean.
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province is capped by a sym5 8 ren- • In a tradition
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have
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in the eighth
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century,
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village
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12th day of the lunar new year,
marks
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the
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7 holding a wooden4 phal-2 festival of Saint Anthony,
lus-like object stands in total
commenced in style by villagdarkness
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holding a wooden plank with a ers riding their horses through
in the streets (“Las
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As horses jump
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become
purified,
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at penetration, then there will
are
destroyed,
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fertility
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ceremony, villagers are ordered good health result. (Apparentto “go 2and be free,” 7
which, ly, no horses are harmed, and
according to a February report an on-the-scene priest blesses
each for its courage.)
by Thanh Nien
9 News Service,
5 4 3
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means uninhibited friskiness Latest Religious Messages
during the lights-out period.
5 8
7
• Prophet Warren
Jeffs, of a
breakaway Mormon cult, is
Cultural Diversity
2• In the 5remote state of serving
4 life (plus
6 20 years) in a
Meghalaya, India, a matrilin- Texas prison for raping two
eal7 system endows the women
4 2 underage parishioners, but
with wealth and property insists that his power has not
rights
3 and relegates
2 4 the 6men to been
5 diminished. He was discislow-moving campaigns for plined in December for making
equality. A men’s rights1advo- a phone3call to his congregation
cate, interviewed by BBC announcing several decrees,
News in January, lamented including barring marriages
6 9 favoring8 from taking place until he can
even the language’s
of women, noting that “useful” return to “seal” them and pronouns seem all to be female. hibiting everyone from having
The system, he said, breeds sex. (Since Jeffs retains his
generations of men “who feel “messiah” status among many
useless,” falling into alcohol- church members, and since
ism and drug abuse. In mater- life-plus-20 is a long time to
nity wards, he said, the sound wait, and since the cult is recluof cheering greets baby girls, sive, it is difficult for outsiders
and if it’s a boy, the prevailing to assess the level of sexual
sentiment is “Whatever God frustration in the compound.)
• Recovering alcoholic
gives us is quite all right.” The
Ryan
Brown recently moved
husband of one woman interviewed said, meekly, that he his licensed tattoo parlor into
“likes” the current system — The Bridge church in Flint
or at least that’s what his wife’s Township, Mich., which is
one more indicator of the Rev.
translation said he said.
• Each year, the town of Steve Bentley’s nontraditionChumbivilcas, Peru, celebrates al belief that mainstream relithe new year with what to gion had become irrelevant to
Americans
might
seem most people. Tattooing is a
“Festivus”-inspired (from the “morally neutral” practice,
Seinfeld TV show), but is Bentley said, although Brown,
actually drawn from Incan tra- of course, does not ink tattoos
dition. For “Takanakuy,” with lauding drugs, gangs or the
a background of singing and devil. (The Bridge has also
dancing, all townspeople with loaned out its plentiful floor
grudges from the previous 12 space in a shopping mall to
months (men, women, chil- wrestling, cage fighting and
dren) settle them with some- auto repair facilities.)
Lead Story
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• In December, Pennsylvania judge Mark Martin dismissed harassment charges
against Muslim Talaag Elbayomy, who had snatched a
“Zombie Mohammad” sign
from the neck of atheist Ernie
Perce at last year’s Halloween
parade in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
(Perce was mockingly dressed
as an undead person, in robes
and beard.) In tossing out the
charge (even though Elbayomy seemed to admit to an
assault and battery), Martin
ruled that Sharia law actually
required Elbayomy to take the
sign away from Perce. Judge
Martin later explained that the
technical basis for the ruling
was (he-said/he-said) lack of
evidence. (The December ruling did not attract press attention until February.)
Questionable Judgments
• Jack Taylor, 18, of Worcester, England, was given a
lenient sentence in January for
an August burglary he admitted
to. He and another youth had
tried to steal a resident’s motorcycle but damaged it in the
process. Since he was remorseful, made restitution, observed
a curfew and did community
service, he was released by the
judge when he secured fulltime employment. (However,
the employment, the court later
learned, was as a slaughterman
in Norway, where he was to
take part in the culling of Alaskan baby seals.)
• According to a municipal
street sign in front of Lakewood Elementary School in
White Lake, Mich. (filmed in
February by Detroit’s WJBKTV), the speed limit drops to
25 mph on “school days only,”
but just from “6:49-7:15 a.m.,
7:52-8:22 a.m., 8:37-9:07 a.m.,
2:03-2:33 p.m., 3:04-3:34 p.m.
(and) 3:59-4:29 p.m.”
See Weird on page 37 A
36 A
Annie’s withMailbox
Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers
column. Write to Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators
Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700,
Los Angeles, CA 90045 or e-mail your
questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net
Dear Annie:
Five years ago, an encounter with a large, vicious dog
put me in the ER and left me
with lasting scars, physical
and otherwise. I’m
almost 20 now.
I can pet and
play with small,
quiet dogs, but
larger ones strike
panic in me. I
cringe when I hear
barking. I still have
nightmares
and
sometimes feel phantom pains where I was
attacked.
Spending
time with my parents’
medium-sized dog doesn’t
help, especially since it has
bitten people before, and my
family still treats it like the
best dog in the world.
I never got professional
help, because I was told shortly after the attack that I needed
to “get over it.” I feel no one
understands my fear because
it’s an American tradition to
love dogs. Besides, I don’t
have money for therapy. What
can I do?
— Terrified
Dear Terrified:
were well groomed to represent our establishment. If a
prospective
employee
appeared looking like something the dog brought home
from a weekend fling, there
was no way he would
be considered.
Tattoos,
long
hair, whiskers or a
junkyard of iron
piercings on their face and
ears are simply not appropriate when looking for
an emissary for your business. Young adults looking for employment
might consider presenting a better image of themselves.
— Oregon
Dear Annie:
I cannot believe the gall of
some of the retired people in
my area. Some white-haired
old guy actually tried to muscle his way in front of me in
the grocery checkout line
today. My items were already
on the belt, and the people in
front of me were paying when
I looked up and this old whitehaired guy behind me says,
“I’m just going to go in front
of you” — not “May I?” or
“Would you mind?”
Just because you are retired
or old does not give you the
right to do whatever you
want. I was on my lunch
break. My time is just as
important as yours, and you
probably have more of it than
I do. You should be offering
to let the working people of
the world go in front of you.
After all, we support your
butt by paying Social Security
taxes — something that probably won’t exist when I retire.
— Hermitage, Penn.
People who tell you to “get
over it” do not understand the
extent of the problem. Your
fear is not irrational. You were
viciously bitten, and such a
trauma is difficult to overcome. The fact that you can
pet and play with small dogs is
quite an achievement, all considered. If you regularly
encounter larger dogs and
wish to work on your fear,
please know that low-cost
therapy is available. Ask your
doctor, and check your church
and United Way. You can even
search online for tips on overDear Hermitage:
coming phobias.
Feel better now? Retired
Dear Annie:
people have already worked
I need to respond to “It’s hard and paid their share of
Only Hair.” As a former busi- taxes, so let’s not get into that
nessperson, my company argument. And we hear the
See ANNIE on page 37 A
hired only employees who
By Darby Conley
Annie
from page 36 A
37 A
selfishness and possessiveness. It’s OK to talk to her
about a child’s need to become
independent and how parents
should not deprive the child
of this progress toward maturity. But the two of them are
rather enmeshed right now,
and there’s not much you can
do. We hope Lisa finds the
perspective to realize the
emotional damage she could
do to their relationship.
REAR-END COLLISIONS By Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden/ Edited by Will Shortz
Weird
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22
A c ro s s
1 S p a n i s h g i rl s
7 L a b e l fo r
unmentionables?
1 5 B u rro , e . g .
2 2 L o we r
23 Like some
collisions
2 4 “ F o r re a l !”
2 5 H e ro o f a n o l d
Scottish ballad
26 When the
p re s s u re ’s o n
2 7 Av a i l s o n e s e l f o f
2 8 F a c e -o ffs
29 Bottom line?
3 0 Yo o fo l l o w e r
3 1 H e a rt
32 Godzilla, e.g.
34 Epitome of
simplicity
36 One of the
“ D e s p e ra t e
Housewives”
3 7 F o rm a l / i n fo rm a l
re p l y t o “ W h o ’s
t h e re ? ”
4 1 D a re d e v i l
Knievel
42 Lampoons
45 Big media event
4 7 H i k e t h e p ri c e o f,
p e rh a p s
49 Cultivate, in a
way
5 0 F o u r fro n t ?
5 2 S n o o p s (a ro u n d )
5 3 Wi d e l y p o p u l a r
s h o ws , s a y
5 5 B u n t i n g i s p a rt o f
it
5 9 O l d F re n c h c o i n
60 Beknighted
souls?
6 1 R o y o f c o u n t ry
music
6 2 D ra ft p i c k ?
6 3 An a ffro n t
For any three answers,
call from a touch-tone
phone: 1-900-285-5656,
$1.49 each minute; or,
with a credit card, 1-800814-5554.
6 4 S o u rc e s o f p o l l e n
g ra i n s
6 8 L e t t e r-s h a p e d
opening in some
pistons
6 9 Di a p e r w e a re r
7 1 S o m e m o rn i n g
fu n d -ra i s e rs
7 3 “ T h e C l o s e r”
a i re r
7 4 “ _ _ _ m e !”
7 8 L a s t p l a c e y o u ’l l
see a bachelor
79 Jumbo
combatants
8 0 M e y e rb e e r o u t p u t
8 2 S u ffe re d a
fi n a n c i a l
setback, slangily
8 3 Irk
8 5 Ge n _ _ _
8 6 L a t e ra l l i e s
8 8 It i n v o l v e s a t ri p
to the
u n d e rwo rl d
9 0 S t a re s s l a c k jawed
91 Stuck
92 Al dente, say
9 5 It ’s n o t l i q u i d
9 6 It ’s n o t l i q u i d
9 7 B l u e m a t e ri a l
9 8 Da n d e r
9 9 C a r s a fe t y
fe a t u re
1 0 1 Da t a s t o ra g e
device
1 0 6 Wa s m a n i c
108 Pulls down
1 0 9 De c a l o g u e
possessive
11 0 B o x e r A l i
111 M e x i c a n
cooking
i n g re d i e n t s
c a l l e d “ fl o re s d e
calabaza” in
Spanish
11 5 B a re l y g e t s
11 8 _ _ _ ra t
11 9 E c h e l o n
1 2 0 A rl e s
a ffi rm a t i v e s
1 2 1 M u rd e r, _ _ _
1 2 2 S p e c i a l d e liv er y
1 2 4 H a l f b ro t h er o f
Athena
1 2 5 1 9 5 0 fi l m in
w h i c h F ra n k
Bigelow
i n v e s t i g a t e s h is
o w n m u rd e r
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s o u v e n i r?
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1 4 1 C ro s s e d t h e
t a rm a c
1 4 2 O c c a s i o n s to tr y
o u t ri ffs
1 4 3 P e e p i n g To m’s
home
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same complaints about stayA Special Place in Hell
36
at-home moms and people
(1) John Morgan, 34, was
with flexible work schedules,
45
charged in February in Port St.
but those folks might also
Lucie, Fla., with embezzling 51
have restrictions on their time.
over $40,000 from a trust fund
Here’s our best suggestion:
that had been established for
No one should be rude to
his daughter, who has special
69
others or expect to jump the
needs because of cerebral pal- 73
line. Those who can manage,
sy. Because of the theft, she is 80
please try to go at less busy
unable to have dental work
times to banks, post offices Dear Annie:
necessitated because a care
and other places that are only
provider failed to lock her
I own property out of state.
open during business hours.
wheelchair, sending her
I
use
it
mostly
in
the
summer,
101
The rest of you, please be tolsprawling face-first. (2) Police
but
it’s
checked
on
at
least
erant.
109
officer
Skeeter
Manos,
34,
was
once a month. My neighbor
D o wn
116
charged
in
February
in
Seattle
1 O K s e t t i n g i n th e
there is married to a woman
Dear Annie:
summer
with
embezzling
over 121
who
is
no
longer
friends
with
2 G o (t o )
I have been best friends
$120,000 from a fund for the 128
3 P ro t e c t e d a g a in st
me,
but
we
are
civil
to
each
with “Lisa” for more than 25
4 C l a m b a k e d i sh
families of four colleagues 136
5 S k e we d
years. We are both single other. The problem is, the wife
who had been shot to death in
6
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k
s
u
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mothers. Her 16-year-old son, thinks she’s entitled to dig up
7 Im p re s s c l e a r ly
the line of duty. Manos’ alleged
8 S e wi n g m a c h in e
“Dean,” is friends with my and take or remove any of my
p a rt s
expenditures included several
plants, shrubs, gravel, etc.
9 O rt s
17-year-old son, “Jon.”
trips to Las Vegas.
1 0 P o e t i c p e ri od
Every
season,
I
check
the
gar1 0 5 I tem at
I have begun to notice that
11 H i g h -_ _ _
1 0 7 Co r n u
1 2 L e t t e r a ft e r d elta
Lisa is overly attached to den to make sure nothing else
11 2 H amlet
People With Issues
co n f id a
1 3 Ta n g e n t , e . g.
Dean. When we go some- is missing.
1 4 F re n c h we a p o n
What Do You Mean, I’m Not 11 3 M an y B
I
took
great
pride
in
my
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l
s
fo
r
where after work, she says
Mentally Stable: Ms. Fausat 11 6 M
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she can’t stay because Dean garden of perennials and
n
17 Diploma, e.g.:
Ogunbayo, 46, filed a federal 11 7 soP omeo
litica
A b b r.
wants her home. He’ll call or enjoyed the fruits of my hard
w r itin g s
lawsuit
against
New
York
City’s
1
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h
b
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text that it’s time for her to work. Last fall, I noticed the
1 9 M a n c h e s t e r ’s S t.
Administration for Children’s 11 22 34 Zh
Co llect
_ _ _ C h u rc h
leave, and she happily com- daylilies were pulled right out For solution,
1 2 5 Car to o
Services
because
it
had
taken
2 0 “ N o b o d y e l se is
ar acte
coming”
plies. She asks Dean for per- of the ground. She also dug up see page 28 A
away her kids (aged 13 and 10 ch
b y M el
21 Choir voice
No. 0318 at the time) in 2008 for quesmission before going any- a hosta that had been in that
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where on
weekends.
tions about Ogunbayo’s mental
great.
She
obviously
does
her
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By
Mike
Nothnagel
and
Byron
Walden/
Edited
by
Will
Shortz
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stability. The lawsuit, for “reckdirty work when her husband 25 22
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out-of-state
universities,
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lessly disregard(ing)” her “right
Across
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home.
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simply helps
g r a i nabout
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e l i v e r 32
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offering, for
Athe na to my garden.
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be l1 fSopan
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herself
g r a i npe
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i r l s own.
3s hort
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i ng in som
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city to pay her $900 trillion.
u nm e nt i o n a b l e s ?
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pistons
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g. e n t i o she
s hthrough
o rt
o p e n i nwherg i n s o m e whic
n a b l e sis
? going
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r o , e . g . goes, and right they
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lesgseon?
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B i g e lte
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a p ning
er wearer
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souve
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ell,
Wash., has apparently been
1 2 8 if
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graduates,
and she
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7 9 Jucan
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b o then 137 F ir sts uebsta
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into
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at high schools and befriended
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ac
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live
wherever
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stationed
plant
2 9 B ot t o m l i n e ?
78
79
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81
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t into motion
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M de yae r b e e r o u t p140
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78
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season
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83
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31 H e a r tWhen I sjokingly
career.
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s l a n g i l y frustrating.
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police,
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98
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without permission and was
getting
48
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF
SHERIFF’S SALE
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON
BY REQUEST OF THE
JEFFERSON COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS’
COURT (RESOLUTION
DATED FEBRUARY 21,
2012), THE SHERIFF OF
JEFFERSON COUNTY IS
OFFERING THE
FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
REAL PROPERTIES FOR
SALE AT A PUBLIC
AUCTION. THE AUCTION
WILL BE HELD AT 10:00
O’CLOCK A.M. ON THE
3rd DAY OF APRIL, 2012
ON THE STEPS OF THE
JEFFERSON COUNTY
COURTHOUSE IN
BEAUMONT, TEXAS.
A bidder at the sale must
be registered at the time
the sale begins with the
sheriff, deputy sheriff or
agent conducting the sale.
C
C
Texas House Bill
335 has required
bidders at tax sales
to preregister and
obtain a certificate
from the Tax Office.
There may or may
not be redemption
periods outstanding
on properties being
offered for sale.
NOTE:
Additional
taxes, penalties, and
interest may have accrued
since the date of judgment
which constitutes an
additional tax lien not
extinguished by the
Sheriff’s Sale.
Given under my hand
February 22, 2012.
Sheriff of Jefferson County,
Texas
SHERIFF SALE
April 3, 2012
1. CAUSE: A-123455
ACCOUNT: 011750-007400
STYLE:
NEDERLAND
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
DIST. VS WALLACE A.
THIBODEAUX, SR.
ORIGINAL SHERIFF SALE
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION: LT 35 BLK
3 CENTRAL GARDENS
A P P R O X I M A T E
LOCATION:
114 1ST AVE
ADDITIONAL TAXES DUE:
-0CURRENT YEAR VALUE:
$75,840
MINIMUM STARTING BID:
$500
2. CAUSE: E-130611
ACCOUNT: 046650-052700
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS THE VAN
HEUSEN COMPANY
DATE: 12/04/2007
DESCRIPTION: NORTH LT
1 & 2 BLK 61 LT3 NW 90’
LOCATION: ----ADDITIONAL TAXES DUE:
$5,340
$5,340
3. CAUSE: D-130621
ACCOUNT: 053400-366900
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS AMICK S.
BONEAU
DATE: 10/02/2001
DESCRIPTION: N 1/3 OF
LT 5 BLK 322 CITY OF
PORT ARTHUR
LOCATION:
2424 BLUBONNET AVE
$730
$730
4. CAUSE: E-130661
ACCOUNT: 006451-004700
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS DELORES
GILES, TRUSTEE
DATE: 02/04/2003
DESCRIPTION: BOOKER
HTS L1 B4
LOCATION:
2720 WASHINGTON BLVD
$4,520
$4,520
5. CAUSE: E-131613
ACCOUNT: 046350-000800
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS NORYOUR
AKINS
DATE: 01/06/1998
DESCRIPTION: NOB HILL
L8 E25’ L7 B1
LOCATION:
625 E. GILL ST.
$1,860
$1,860
6. CAUSE: E-131802
ACCOUNT: 271430-003600
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
LEONA
HINES JONES
DATE: 11/07/2000
DESCRIPTION: PL D30
T68 OUT OF T69 J DRAKE
LOCATION:
180 MANNING ST.
$750
$750
7.CAUSE: A-133089
ACCOUNT:006450-019200
STYLE:
BEAUMONT
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
DIST VS A.G. RANDOLPH
DATE: 05/01/2007
DESCRIPTION: BOOKER
HEIGHTS L30-31 B11
LOCATION: HARRIOT ST.
$2,350
$2,350
8. CAUSE: B-134897
ACCOUNT: 035200-013100
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS NELL
COLEMAN MOORE
DATE: 05/01/2007
DESCRIPTION: LAMAR
L25 B11
LOCATION:
1175 IOWA ST.
$3,390
$3,390
9. CAUSE: A-134899
ACCOUNT: 038200-000300
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS MARY
ESTHER S. YANTIS
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION:
LONG L2 B2
LOCATION:
1030 MAGNOLIA AVE
$3,960
$50
10. CAUSE: E-135476
ACCOUNT: 023350-018700
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS MS INDIE
R. SANDERS
DATE: 09/06/2005
DESCRIPTION:
GOLD
HILL 2 L5 B10
LOCATION:
2139 POPE STREET
$1,960
$1,960
11. CAUSE: E-135587
ACCOUNT: 053400-189600
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS PAULINE
ANDERSON ANDRIS
DATE: 04/01/2008
171
CITY OF PORT
ARTHUR
LOCATION:
2610 5TH ST.
$980
$980
12. CAUSE: E-137995
ACCOUNT: 046650-054200
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON
VS
LAWRENCE DAVIS, JR.
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION: NORTH
L5 B62
LOCATION:
2070 LINSON ST.
$1,700
$1,700
13. CAUSE: A-139527
ACCOUNT: 012250-020700
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS LYNDON
M. DUCHAMP, ET AL
DATE: 05/06/2003
DESCRIPTION:
W
W
CHAISON L7 B27 N ½ L8
B27
LOCATION:
4160 ECTOR AVE
$3,680
$3,680
14. CAUSE: B-142907
ACCOUNT: 008700-001500
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS JOSEPH
M. MIKESIC, JR., ET AL
DATE: 09/06/2005
DESCRIPTION: CALDER
L7 W ½ L6 B2
LOCATION:
1179 NORTH ST.
$8,550
$8,550
2950 CHARLES
$2,500
$2,500
15. CAUSE: E-144717
ACCOUNT: 053400-194400
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS WILLIAM
MEHOLICK, ET AL
DATE: 06/01/2010
175
CITY OF PORT
ARTHUR
LOCATION:
2245 PROCTER ST.
$1,410
$1,410
21. CAUSE: A-154368
ACCOUNT: 062500-009400
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS EDWARD
J. KREMLING, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
D E S C R I P T I O N :
SUBURBAN ACRES L8 B9
LOCATION:
------ADDITIONAL TAXES DUE:
$2,550
$2,550
16. CAUSE: E-144762
ACCOUNT: 068000-030300
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS DAISY
BELL WILLIAMS, ET AL
DATE: 06/01/2010
DESCRIPTION:
WEST
OAKLAND L6 B15
LOCATION:
3633 ST. JAMES BLVD.
$1,470
$1,470
17. CAUSE: A-146400
ACCOUNT: 053400-392800
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS ANITA
GAY
DATE: 12/06/2011
349 CITY OF PORT
ARTHUR
LOCATION:
2201 19TH ST.
$980
$980
18. CAUSE: A-146896
ACCOUNT: 020650-000200
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS WILMER
LAND, ET AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
FLETCHER L3 L4 B1
LOCATION:
LEE ST.
$1,490
$1,490
19. CAUSE: B-147381
ACCOUNT: 000700-001200
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS HOWARD
JOSEPH HOLST
DATE: 03/01/2005
DESCRIPTION:
THOS
ALEXANDER L6 B2
LOCATION:
4492 PARK ST.
$2,450
$2,450
20. CAUSE: D-151477
ACCOUNT: 268427-006400
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS JACK
HOWELL, ET AL
DATE: 06/03/1997
DESCRIPTION: PL D27
T75 OUT OF T24
H.
WILLIAMS JR.
LOCATION:
22. CAUSE: A-156035
ACCOUNT: 011550-010700
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS G. S.
RUSHING
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION: CARVER
TERRACE L11 B8
LOCATION:
3485 W. EUCLID ST.
$1,370
$50
23. CAUSE: E-158172
ACCOUNT: 010200-003200
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS LINDER
CERIL, ET AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION:
CARDINAL MEADOWS L1
B4 TR 1 116X70’
LOCATION:
1455 HILLEBRANDT RD.
$5,010
$50
24. CAUSE: A-158216
ACCOUNT: 062500-009300
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS EDWARD
J. KREMLING, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
SUBURBAN ACRES PT L7
B9
LOCATION:
-------ADDITIONAL TAXES DUE:
$3,540
$50
25. CAUSE: A-158843
ACCOUNT: 038750-008500
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS HARRY K.
SPRINGFIELD, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION:
LUCAS ACRES E PT OF N
½ L10 N ½ L11 B3 .50 AC
LOCATION:
3075 CHARLES ST.
$6,140
$50
26. CAUSE: D-158902
ACCOUNT: 068000-036800
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS LYDIA
WILLIAMS, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION:
WEST
OAKLAND L5-6 B18
LOCATION:
3445 GLENWOOD AVE
$2,940
$50
27. CAUSE: B-160828
ACCOUNT: 003350-007800
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS SHIRLEY
WILLIAMS
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION: BMT IMP
CO. TR A1 N137.39’ OF LT
28 LT33 LT40 LT45 BLK B
LOCATION:
3985 MAIDA RD.
$2,460
$50
28. CAUSE: A-162348
ACCOUNT: 018150-002100
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON
VS
ABRAHAM RAHAM, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION:
DRIVING PARK L22 B1 &
ADJ 10’ ALLEY
LOCATION:
4141 KENNETH
$2,500
$50
29. CAUSE: B-163274
ACCOUNT: 001950-019800
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS EMELDA
GUILBREAUX, ET AL
DATE:
05/03/2011
ARLINGTON L9 L10 L11
B33
LOCATION:
820 MADISON
$5,940
$50
30. CAUSE: A-167991
ACCOUNT: 010850-062900
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS JAMES
EUGLON, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION:
CARTWRIGHT L10 B66
LOCATION:
1140 ROBERTS ST.
$12,530
$500
31. CAUSE: A-171627
ACCOUNT: 048600-014200
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS HORACE
JANISE, ET AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION: OGDEN
S½ L11 N ¾ L12 B11
LOCATION:
2240 NECHES ST.
$16,800
$500
32. CAUSE: E-178051
ACCOUNT: 300041-013600
STYLE:
COUNTY
OF
JEFFERSON VS ESTATE
OF ADLES HEBERT
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION: ABST 41
TR 144-A T F McKINNEY
.514 AC
LOCATION:
313 PINE ST.
$25,500
$500
33. CAUSE: A-180839
ACCOUNT: 053500-000400
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS JAMES C.
LUCE, ET AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION:
LTS 18 TO 20
BLK 1
PORT NECHES
LOCATION:
208 PINE ST.
$40,960
$500
34. CAUSE: A-183055
ACCOUNT: 247406-000600
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS JACOBS
WELDING AND MARINE,
INC., ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION:
A
WILLIAMS PL D-6 TR 45,
TR 6, TR6A, 6B, 6C, 6D,
6E1.867AC
LOCATION:
3290 CONCORD RD
$54,490
$500
35. CAUSE: D-183790
ACCOUNT: 010850-093900
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
JOHN
WALLACE GOODHUE
DATE: 12/07/2010
CARTWRIGHT L8 28 ¼ FT
L9 B94
LOCATION:
2990 AVENUE B
$21,650
$500
36. CAUSE: D-184696
ACCOUNT: 000560-012500
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
JOHN
HOWARD PIPES, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
19 AIRPORT #2
LOCATION:
3412 AVENUE E
$12,000
$500
37. CAUSE: A-184736
ACCOUNT: 048850-000400
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
JESUS
HERNANDEZ, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION: N 54’ OF
LT 3 ORANGE ACRES (54’
X 300’)
LOCATION:
2100 ORANGE ACRES DR.
$5,180
$50
38. CAUSE: A-185288 (a)
ACCOUNT: 021850-002700
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS ROBERT
MACK FINK
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION: FRENCH
HTS E100’ OF W300’ L7 TR
11
LOCATION:
--------ADDITIONAL TAXES DUE:
$2,760
$50
39. CAUSE: A-185288 (b)
ACCOUNT: 021850-002300
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS ROBERT
MACK FINK
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION: FRENCH
HTS E100’ OF W300’ LT 6
TR 7
LOCATION:
5325 PINE BURR BLVD
$6,880
$50
40. CAUSE: B-185583
ACCOUNT: 035000-052900
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS JOE WOODS,
ET AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
22 LAKEVIEW
LOCATION:
5233 10TH ST.
$2,430
$50
41. CAUSE: D-186065
ACCOUNT: 053400-133900
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS RICK L.
MOODY, ET AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION: LTS 13
THRU 20 & W 12’ OF LT 21
BLK 110
CITY OF PORT ARTHUR
LOCATION:
500 AUSTIN AVE
$59,580
$500
42. CAUSE: D-186184
ACCOUNT: 012100-012800
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
JONES
EVELYN
DATE:05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION: CHAISON
L10 B15
LOCATION:
1210 ASHLEY ST.
$1,960
$50
43. CAUSE: D-186241
ACCOUNT: 044750-008900
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS FRED B.
FIELD, ET AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
DESCRIPTION: LT 1 & LT 2
BLK 10 MONTROSE 2
LOCATION:
8848 LOUISIANA AVE
$25,590
$500
Continued on
page 39 A
LegaLs
Continued from
page 38 A
44. CAUSE: A-186349
ACCOUNT: 014700-011000
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS EUNICE
DUNCAN, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION:
COUNTRY CLUB TER L37
B5
LOCATION:
1804 RIVERCREST ST.
$33,810
$500
45. CAUSE: D-186825
ACCOUNT: 053400-230900
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY VS EXZELTA
WATSON
DATE: 05/03/2011
205 CITY OF PORT
ARTHUR
LOCATION:
1815 6TH ST.
$24,060
$500
46. CAUSE: D-187616
ACCOUNT: 005250-027200
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
TED
RANDALL SANDERS, ET
AL
DATE: 05/03/2011
BLANCHETTE 1 L5 B32
LOCATION:
1250 AVENUE G
$29,380
$500
47. CAUSE: A-187681
ACCOUNT: 053400-533900
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
VINEY
DIXON, ET AL
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION: F91’ OF LT
9 BLK 481 CITY OF PORT
ARTHUR
LOCATION:
147 15TH STREET
$21,610
$500
48. CAUSE: D-187704
ACCOUNT: 260419-003500
STYLE:
JEFFERSON
COUNTY
VS
SANG
CHRETIEN
DATE: 12/06/2011
DESCRIPTION: PL D-19
TR 49 A WILLIAMS
LOCATION:
1150 LASALLE ST.
$60,210
$500
NOTICE INVITING BIDS
Sealed
proposals
addressed to the City of
Beaumont, Texas will be
received at the office of the
City Clerk, City Hall,
Beaumont, Texas until 2:00
p.m., April 12, 2012 for
furnishing
all
plans,
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ,
superintendence,
labor,
services, materials, tools,
equipment,
supplies,
transportation, utilities, and
all other items and facilities
necessary therefore, as
provided in the Contract
Documents
for
the
construction of: driveways,
pavement and sidewalks
SURFACE RESTORATION
DUE TO UTILITY CUTS
REHABILITATION
PROJECT
together
with
all
appurtenances
thereto,
being improvements for the
City of Beaumont, Owner,
Beaumont, Texas. Bids will
be opened in the Council
Chambers at City Hall. The
Owner reserves the right,
after opening Bids, to reject
any or all bids or to make
award to the lowest,
responsive,
responsible
Bidder and reject all other
bids.
Bidders must submit Bid
Bond, Cashier’s Check,
Certified
Check
or
irrevocable Letter of Credit
issued by a bank satisfactory
to the Owner, payable
without recourse to the
order of the City of
Beaumont in an amount not
less than five (5) percent of
the largest possible bid
amount as a guaranty that
the Bidder will enter into
contract and execute bond
and guaranty in the form
provided within fourteen
(14) calendar days after
date of Notice of Award of
the contract. Bids without
required financial security
deposit
will
not
be
considered.
Prevailing Highway-Heavy,
Municipal and Utilities wage
rates for Jefferson County,
published as part of the
Contract Documents and
subject to revisions, shall
govern or control minimum
rates for work performed
during execution of the
contract. Also, qualifications
being equal, citizens of the
City of Beaumont shall be
given
preference
in
employment
for
work
performed
under
the
contract.
A MANDATORY Pre-bid
Conference will be held at
2:00 p.m., on April 2, 2012
in the First Floor Conference
Room
at
City
Hall.
Attendance at the Pre-bid
meeting is a prerequisite to
bidding. Bids WILL NOT be
accepted from any firm not
in attendance at the pre-bid
conference. Prior to the prebid conference, interested
bidders should obtain forms
of proposal, contract, bond,
and specifications at the
Public Works Department/
Engineering Division Office,
Suite 200, City Hall,
Beaumont, Texas. Complete
sets of said Contract
Documents
may
be
purchased at $40.00 dollars
per set and are obtainable
from the City Engineer, P. O.
Box 3827, Beaumont, Texas
77704. No refund will be
made of any charges for
sets of Contract Documents.
A full set of Contract
Documents is available for
inspection without charge at
the office(s) of Associated
General
Contractors,
American Marketing Co.,
and F. W. Dodge.
Plans
and
contract
specifications
will
be
available on March 29, 2012
CITY OF BEAUMONT,
TEXAS, OWNER
By: Tina Broussard - TRMC
City Clerk
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that
original
Letters
Testamentary for the Estate
of
John
H.
Powell,
Deceased, were issued on
March 21, 2012, in Cause
No. 104819, pending in the
County Court of Jefferson
County, Texas, to Susan L.
Long.
All persons having claims
against this Estate are
required to present them
within the time and in the
manner prescribed by law
to:
Susan L. Long
c/o S. L. Greenberg
Attorney at Law
P. O. Box 3708
Beaumont, TX 77704
39 A
by the City Clerk of the City
of Beaumont, 801 Main
Street, Room 125 until
2:00 p.m. , local time,
Thursday, April 5, 2012
and all bids will be opened
and publicly read in the City
Council Chambers on that
date for:
Six (6) Month Contract for
Water Treatment
Chemicals Aqua Ammonia
Bidding forms, specifications
and
all
necessary
information may be obtained
from
the
Purchasing
Division, City Hall, 801
Main, Room 315, Beaumont,
Texas 77701.
Vendors
requesting bid packets
should call the Purchasing
Division at (409) 880-3720
or you may download the
specifications from our
website at:
http://www.
cityofbeaumont.com/
Purchasing/purchasing_
bidlists.htm
Bids shall be submitted to
the City Clerk’s Office, 801
Main, Room 125, prior to
the above stated time.
The City reserves the right
to reject any or all bids, or to
accept
any
bid
or
combination of bids deemed
advantageous to it.
Please make reference to
Bid Number: BF0312-18
Bid Closing Date:
April 5, 2012
Tina Broussard, TRMC
City Clerk
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
NOTICE OF CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that
original
Letters
of
Independent Administration
for the Estate of David
Adams, Deceased, were
issued on March 21, 2012,
in Docket No.104,697
pending in the County Court
of Jefferson County, Texas,
to: CHERIE ADAMS and
ROBERT D. ADAMS, as
C o - I n d e p e n d e n t
Administrators.
The
address
of
the
appointed Resident Agent is
as follows:
c/o
William H. Yoes
THE YOES LAW FIRM,
L.L.P.
P. O. Drawer 7584
Beaumont, Texas
77726-7584
All persons having claims
against this estate, which is
currently
being
administered, are required
to present them within the
time and in the manner
prescribed by law.
DATED the 21st day of
March, 2012.
Respectfully submitted,
THE YOES LAW FIRM,
L.L.P.
3535 Calder Avenue,
Suite 235
P. O. Box 7584
Beaumont, Texas
77726-7584
Tel: (409) 833-2352
Fax: (409) 838-5577
William H. Yoes
State Bar No. 22157000
ATTORNEY FOR THE
ESTATE OF
DAVID ADAMS
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed bids will be received
Sealed bids will be received
by the City Clerk of the City
of Beaumont, 801 Main
Street, Room 125 until
2:00 p.m. , local time,
Thursday, APRIL 5, 2012
and all bids will be opened
and publicly read in the City
Council Chambers on that
date for:
SIX (6) MONTH
CONTRACT FOR
WATER TREATMENT
CHEMICALS FLUOROSILICIC ACID
Bidding forms, specifications
and
all
necessary
information may be obtained
from
the
Purchasing
Division, City Hall, 801
Main, Room 315, Beaumont,
Texas 77701.
Vendors
requesting bid packets
should call the Purchasing
Division at (409) 880-3720
or you may download the
specifications from our
website at:
http://www.
cityofbeaumont.com/
Purchasing/purchasing_
bids.htm
Bids shall be submitted to
the City Clerk’s Office, 801
Main, Room 125, prior to
the above stated time.
The City reserves the right
to reject any or all bids, or to
accept
any
bid
or
combination of bids deemed
advantageous to it.
Please make reference to
Bid Number: BF0312-17
Bid Closing Date:
APRIL 5, 2012
Tina Broussard, TRMC
City Clerk
Assumed
Names
Jefferson County
Graham, Devin
Dba Graham’s Pressure
Washing
2031 E 15th
Port Arthur, TX 77640
Filed 1/17/2012 cert no
80495
Hopper, Jason
Dba Hopper
118 Hilldale DR
Nederland, TX 77627
80496
Casses JR, Joseph
Casses, Diana
Dba Casses Cajun
Companies
2328 Cox ST
Port Arthur, T 77640
80497
Dixon, Michelle
Kelley, Lydia
Dba The Ebony Misses
Social Club
3900 Highway 365
#253
80498
MM Merrill Construction
LTD
Dba Windstar Builders
7945 Eastex Freeway
Beaumont, TX 77726
80499
Whitley, Ellen Payne
Dba Imagine Art Studio
104 Matthews Lane
Lumberton, TX 77657
80500
Jones, Faleasha Dawn
Dba Yayaa’s Reflections
4835 Shoestring Road
Sour Lake, TX 77659
80501
Hall JR, Howard Thomas
Dba Boomtown Film and
Music Festival
2535 Laurel
Beaumont, TX 77702
80502
Allen, Addie Dainell
Dba Committee to Elect
Addie Dainell Allen for
9695 Gross Street
Beaumont, TX 77707
80503
Robertson,Susan
Dba Peebles Beauty
Supply
3306 13th ST
80504
Williams, Nicole
Dba Williams Catering
1220 East 18th ST
80505
Taylor, Cathy Louise
Dba Cathy’s Provider
Services
2215 Magnolia ST
Beaumont, TX 77703
80506
Richard, Ateya Meshell
Dba Smuve Complexions
5085 Woodland Park
Beaumont, TX 77708
80507
Fontenot, Stacie
Dba Z Fit Studio
3911 Tolivar Canal RD
Beaumont, TX 77713
80508
Heartfield, Rhonda Kaye
Dba RKH Rentals
13515 Thousand Oaks
Beaumont, TX 77713
80509
Dirden, Janet Benjamin
Dba Proactive Caregiver
Consulting Services
PO Box 5442
80510
Clary, Charles E
Dba Eddie’s Automotive
8179 HWY 124
Beaumont, TX 77705
80511
Ennis, Jerome
Valvzno, Robert
Dba XPRT Radio
6070 Suzanne CT
Beaumont,TX 77706
80512
Farshad, Laurie
Dba The Law Office of
Laurie Farshad
398 Pearl Street
Suite 915
Beaumont, TX 77701
80513
Browne, Elaine
Dba Cadeau
1080 Twenty-Second Street
Beaumont, TX 77706
80514
Noel, Nathan
Dba Noel Tax Pros
PO Box 1923
Nederland, TX 77627
80515
Segeada, Emanuel
Di Dio, Michael Stephen
Dba Triple Siete’s Family
2490 Calder Avenue
Beaumont, TX 77702
80516
Sabih, Mostafa
Dba Best Import Salvage
5705 Washington BLVD
Beaumont, TX 77707
80517
Wan Xing INC
Dba King Palace Café
Chines Buffet
365 Durden Drive
Silsbee, TX 77656
80518
Guidry, Joseph L
Dba Guidry’s Lawn
Services
5730 Roadrunner
Beaumont, TX 77708
80519
Dancer, Janet
Dba Janet Dancers Just for
Fun Photography
13397 Mesa Lane
Hamshire, TX 77622
80520
ANBR Inc
Dba The Royal Stop
8350 Gladys
Beaumont, TX 77706
80521
Holland III, Ransom H
Dba HaULS MADE EZ
PO BOX 12214
Beaumont, TX 77726
80522
Gulf Copper &
Manufacturing
Corporation
Dba GC Energy Services
Group
7200 HWY 87 East
80523
Mason, Heidi
Dba Rollins Real Estate
5475 Westchester
Lumberton, TX 77657
80524
Pickney, Tracy
Dba Facial Impressions
1300 Rosedale DR
80525
Graves Quantis
Dba Champ’s Boxing &
Fitness
6095 W Windmere
Beaumont, TX 77713
80526
Woods, Jodi
Dba Skin Society
1002 Helena Ave
Nederland, TX 77627
Filed 1/20/2012 certno
80527
Heufelder, Robert
Dba High Output Offroad
1820 N 31st
Nederland, TX 77627
80528
Latta, G
Dba Captain Carpet
8294 Latta RD
Beaumont, TX 77705
80529
Verdine, David
Verdine, Tammy Chance
Dba This N That
2728 64th Street
80530
King JR, John L
Dba United Together as 1
Promotions – UTA-1
2271 Hazel APT #5
Beaumont, TX 77701
80531
Hughes, Thomas S
Dba Medicare Champion
5925 Phelan BLVD Unit I
STE 115
Beaumont, TX 77706
80532
Hawthorner, Ashley
Dba The Blackboot
Connect
1425 Washington BLVD
Beaumont, TX 77707
80533
Contreras, Sergio
Dba Restaurant El Abe Jo
2129 Jefferson DR
80534
Harrison, Brandon K
Dba Trendsetters Classic
Kuts
2630 Main Street
Groves, TX 77619
80535
Bottley, Vanessa
Chilo, Glenda
Dba H.O.N.E.Y. Foundation
1740 Rena ST
Beaumont, TX 77705
80536
Odom, Nikki
Dba South East Texas
Heavy Equipment & Truck
1050 HWY 365
80537
Cornett, Allison M
Dba Dooder Buds Boutique
13143 FM 365
Beaumont, TX 77705
80538
Douglas, Colin
Goodman, Christopher
Dba At Your Service
1380 Royal ST
Beaumont, TX 77701
80539
Betar JR, Lloyd J
Betar, Heather Christine
Dba L&C Hay Sales
21148 Burrell Wingate RD
Beaumont, TX 77705
80540
Nederland Hardware
Supply LP
Dba DK Wholesale Supply
390 Park Street Suite 500
Beaumont, TX 77701
80541
Richard, Mary
Dba Mary Richard Self
Provider
1230 SO 9th ST
Beaumont, TX 77701
80542
Petrotex Fuels INC
Dba Cowboy Truck Stop
PFI #17
24740 IH 10
Hamshire, TX 77662
80543
Harris, David
Dba David’s Trucking
2522 Ave C
Nederland, TX 77627
80544
Fussell, JR. Terry Joe
Dba Just Windows
1965 Leight ST
Beaumont, TX 77793
80545
Roy, Clay
Dba Golden Triangle Voices
of Brotherhood
PO Box 313
80546
Henslee, Betsy
Dba Betsy Henslee
Insurance
4852 Dowlen RD
Beaumont, TX 77708
80547
Williams, Cynthia
Dba Angel Eyes Janitorial
1610 Fairway
Beaumont, TX 77703
80548
Brooks, Joseph M
Dba Cables Ready
6362 Phelan BLVD
Beaumont, TX 77706
80549
Brooks, Joseph M
Dba Zydeco Technologies
6362 Phelan BLVD
Beaumont, TX 77706
80550
Brooks, Joseph M
Dba Zydeco Computer
Technologies
6362 Phelan BLVD
Beaumont, TX 77706
80551
Frank, Stacey
Dba Edward J’s Lawn
Maintenance
804 S 14th Street
Nederland, TX 77627
80552
Lers LLC
Dba Pools U Love
3555 Westmoreland ST
Beaumont, TX 77705
80553
Cooper Fulton
Entertainment
Dba You Only Live Once
5800 Westchase Loop
Lumberton, TX 77657
80554
Sipaque, Antonio
Dba Tony & Sons Auto
Service
2795 Eastex FWY
Beaumont, TX 77701
80555
Reado, Weldon
Reado, Cheri
Dba Catering Masters
760 Prairie ST
Beaumont, TX 77701
80556
The Examiner • March 22-28, 2012
795 Willow
Beaumont, TX 77701
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