Thursday November 20, 2014 - South Belt

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November 20, 2014
Holiday closings set
South Belt-Ellington Leader
The Leader office will close at noon Wednesday, Nov. 26, and remain closed until Dec.
1. The deadline for copy will be Thursday, Nov.
20, at noon, and the deadline for paid advertisements and classified word ads will be Monday,
Nov. 24, at noon. The Thursday edition of the
Leader will be available Wednesday, Nov. 26.
Clear Brook City M.U.D.
The Clear Brook City Municipal Utility
District office will be closed Nov. 27 and 28 in
celebration of Thanksgiving. The office will
reopen on Monday, Dec. 1, at 8 a.m. Payments
may be left in the drop box located on the
drive-through window side of the building.
Parker Williams Branch Library
The library will close at 5 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 26, through Sunday, Nov. 30, for the
Thanksgiving holiday.
Bracewell Branch Library
The library will be closed Thursday, Nov.
27, through Monday, Dec. 1, for Thanksgiving.
Holiday trash pickup
Clear Brook City M.U.D.
Residents living in the Clear Brook City
MUD will not have regular trash pickup on
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27. Regular
services will resume on Monday, Dec. 1.
City of Houston
Residents living in the city of Houston will
not have trash pickup on Thanksgiving Day,
Thursday, Nov. 27. Residences scheduled for
that day will have their service moved to
Friday, Nov. 28. Residences normally scheduled for Friday, Nov. 28, will have their service moved to Saturday, Nov. 29.
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The contractor assigned to head the City of
Houston’s Hughes Road reconstruction project
has withdrawn its bid, citing delays from another
entity associated with the endeavor, which was
responsible for hooking up necessary utilities.
The project will go out for bid once again in
the next two weeks, according to Public Works
and Engineering Department spokesman Alvin
Wright.
“It (the project) is still on,” Wright said. “The
company in charge of doing the utility work –
not the city – couldn’t get done in time, and the
contractor (Menade Inc.) pulled out.”
Sources within Council Member Dwight
Boykins’ office stated CenterPoint Energy was
the company responsible for the initial delay in
utility work.
Wright said the cost of the project has likely
increased since the original bid was given back
in April. Despite, the setback, however, Wright
said the project will remain on the city’s 2015
Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).
The long-awaited project will repair Hughes
Road from Beltway 8 to the Houston city limits
in Sagemeadow.
In the works for more than a decade, the endeavor will remove existing paving and replace
it along with curb, gutter and sidewalks on both
sides of the street and provide necessary storm
sewer system and street lighting.
The undertaking was initially proposed in
1999, while Rob Todd served as the South Belt
area’s city councilman.
Construction was originally scheduled to begin in 2000 but has been pushed back multiple
times to make room for other projects.
A 1999 preliminary engineering report conducted by Snowden Engineering called for re-
Dixie Farm closed, to reopen
Dobie presents Grease
The Kirkwood Civic Club will meet Thursday, Nov. 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Sagemont
Community Center on Hughes Road near
Beltway 8. While meetings are normally held
the last Thursday of the month, this month’s
has been changed due to Thanksgiving.
Kirkwood South meets
The Kirkwood South Committee will hold
its final HOA meeting of the year for all six
sections on Nov. 20, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the
courtroom of Judge Jo Ann Delgado located at
10851 Scarsdale, Ste. 500, at Beamer Road.
One item on the agenda will reveal the
Sagemeadow MUD response to inquiries discussed at the Special HOA Meeting held in
October. This is an opportunity to be apprised
of what is happening in the subdivision and
what the board is doing on residents’ behalf.
Church sells turkey dinners
Genoa United Methodist Church, 12501
Palmsprings, will hold its annual turkey dinner on Saturday, Nov. 22, dine-in or pick-up.
Each dinner includes turkey, dressing, gravy,
cranberry sauce, mashed sweet potatoes, green
beans, roll and cake. Plates are $8 for adults,
and $5 for children.
Frazier honors veterans
Frazier Elementary third-grade students
will present a Veteran’s Day program Thursday, Nov. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. All
community veterans are invited to attend this
performance in their honor. For more information, call the school at 713-740-0560.
Thanksgiving lunch set
The Gardens Houston, 12001 Beamer, will
host a Thanksgiving lunch on Tuesday, Nov.
25, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is invited
to attend. The event is sponsored by Officer
Ruben Loreto and friends, H-E-B Blackhawk,
and disc jockey Sonido Nuevo Leon.
Knights sell ham, turkey
The Knights of Columbus will sell honey
baked hams and turkey breasts at St. Luke’s,
11011 Hall. Orders will be taken after all
Masses on the weekend of Nov. 23. Avoid long
store lines, Pick it up at the social hall Tuesday,
Nov. 25, after 5 p.m.
Funds raised support ACTS Retreats given at
prisons throughout the Galveston-Houston
Archdiocese. Items for sale include: 8-lb. half
ham (serves 12) - $60; 11-lb. half ham (serves
18) - $75; 4-lb. boneless ham (serves 16) - $40;
14.5-lb. whole ham (serves 26) - $90; smoked
turkey breast sliced and glazed (serves 8-10)
- $30; roasted turkey breast, sliced and glazed
(serves 8-10) - $30. Orders taken through
Sunday, Nov. 23, by contacting Jose Pena at
832-638-8391 or Deacon Al at 281-992-4625.
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Hughes Road project delayed, again
J. Frank Dobie Fine Arts Department will
present Grease Nov. 20-22 at 7 p.m. and Nov.
23 at 2 p.m. in the school auditorium. Tickets
are $10 at the door. Call 713-340-0370, ext.
04245, to purchase tickets in advance.
To purchase tickets online through the Dobie Webstore visit http://pasadenaisd.revtrak.
net; select Dobie HS; select Fine Arts; Select DHS Musical Tickets; enter the student’s
name and ID number. In the box under the
name, state how many tickets to be purchased;
pay and print out receipt or take a picture of
receipt with a cell phone; pick up tickets at the
ticket booth before the show – bring receipt
for verification.
Kirkwood to meet Nov. 20
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placing the current pavement, which varies in
thickness between 5 inches and 13 inches, with
9-inch reinforced concrete on a 6-inch limestabilized subgrade and removing the existing
sidewalks and replacing them with 4.5-inch sidewalks (4-feet wide) on both sides of the street.
The study further called for replacing the
current 18-inch storm sewer pipes with 24-inch
pipe.
An environmental assessment of the area, performed by Snowden partner HVJ & Associates,
concluded sites along the street have a moderate potential for soil and/or ground water contamination that may impact the project. The firm
recommended monitoring wells be installed and/
or soil borings be drilled in conjunction with further environmental investigations.
The Snowden report determined the existing
twin bridges crossing Beamer were in satisfactory condition.
The firm also conducted a traffic study that
determined traffic lights were not warranted at
the intersections of Sageyork and Blackhawk.
The group, however, did recommend that a leftturn lane be added to the southbound lane at the
intersection of Sagecreek to improve traffic flow
near Stuchbery Elementary.
While the design phase of the project was
reassigned to Othon Inc. in 2012, Wright said
changes are minimal.
Dangerous Dixie Farm ramp to close
At the Leader’s request, a dangerous entrance
ramp on the Gulf Freeway at Dixie Farm Road
will be closed until a safer replacement can be
put in its place.
The entrance, located on the southbound side
of the freeway just south of Dixie Farm, has been
the site of multiple accidents over the last couple
of weeks, with at least three collisions occurring
in just two days earlier this week.
One accident victim, whose vehicle was totaled in a crash at the entrance, said he was told
by a responding tow truck driver that he just
waits at the site for an accident to take place because they happen there so frequently.
Several drivers have complained that the existing entrance ramp does not provide enough
room to safely merge with oncoming freeway
traffic.
Following multiple complaints, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials had
already deemed the ramp unsafe and designed a
replacement to be constructed but had originally
opted to leave the existing ramp open until the
new one was completed.
TxDOT officials have since, however, reversed their decision.
Construction of the new ramp has also been
expedited. While officials last week said construction of the new entrance would take roughly
a week, they now say the work could be done in
as few as two days.
Officials said on Wednesday morning work
was scheduled to begin in a couple of days.
The entrance in question is part of an ongoing state project to widen the Gulf Freeway from
Beltway 8 to El Dorado Boulevard.
The freeway will be increased from three to
five lanes in each direction, and the frontage
roads will be increased from two to three lanes
in each direction.
Construction is expected to continue through
mid-2016.
Longtime area residents seek help
The above entrance ramp to the Gulf Freeway at Dixie Farm Road has drawn the ire
of several area residents, who said it posed a safety hazard, as vehicles did not have significant room to merge with oncoming traffic. The ramp has been the site of numerous accidents. Officials from the Texas Department of Transportation closed the ramp
Wednesday, Nov. 19. It is set to reopen next week when a replacement entrance has been
constructed.
Photo by Marie Flickinger
Vandals shoot out more windows
The vehicle window shootings described in
last week’s Leader have continued, with multiple
other incidents being reported this past week.
In the attacks, which residents and police say
took place late at night, victims have the windows of their vehicles shot out by either a BB or
a pellet gun.
Police believe the attacks to merely be acts of
vandalism, as nothing was reported stolen from
the vehicles.
While the article in last week’s Leader focused on shootings along Wheaton Drive in the
Beverly Hills subdivision, several other shootings were reported the following day in the same
neighborhood.
“(I) wanted to let you know that a lot of vehicles, including ours, were hit that were parked in
the street starting from Stover at Fuqua and all up
and down through Carmalee Street in the Beverly Hills subdivision,” one resident said in an
email to the Leader. “We rode around yesterday
and could see so many cars with their windows
shot out. It’s upsetting that they have not been
caught, and no one has witnessed it. Replacing
a window is not cheap; it’s $130 and up. We are
now seriously thinking of placing cameras in
front of our house.”
Houston Police Department spokeswoman
Jodi Silva said six incidents (none of which were
on Wheaton, Stover or Carmalee, as told to the
Leader) were reported between Nov. 10 and
Nov. 12. Two additional shootings in the Sagemont area were reported to police on Nov. 4.
Silva said extra officers will patrol the area
during the night shift to deter or try to catch the
suspect(s).
“They’re (the officers) aware of it,” Silva said.
“We’re putting an alert out to hopefully curtail
the activity.”
No similar incidents were reported to the Harris County Precinct 2 Constable’s office during
the same time frame, but deputies there are also
on alert.
“Thankfully, we haven’t had anything like that
happen here,” said Precinct 2 Lt. Mike Kritzler.
“But if it does, hopefully, our guys will catch
them. Our night shift guys are pretty proactive.”
The Leader strongly encourages residents to
report any such crimes, as it will likely help to
increase area patrols.
Anyone with information is urged to contact
HPD’s Clear Lake Division at 281 218-3800.
A longtime South Belt family is in need of
help following a Nov. 9 house fire that nearly destroyed their home.
The family of Anthony and Terry Schillaci
have resided at the residence in the 11400 block
of Blackhawk for nearly 40 years, with three
generations now calling the address home.
The ordeal is worsened by the Schillaci’s
daughter Tracy’s health, as she just underwent
major surgery and is scheduled for two more in
the near future.
Despite having insurance for decades, family
members said they were told by their provider it
would take at least a month before they would
receive any emergency funds.
Sagemont Church has come to the family’s
aid by providing a hotel for the family to stay in
for one month.
The family, however, is still in need of clothes
food and money.
Men’s, women’s and children’s clothes are
being sought. Desired men’s sizes are 40 inch
by 32 inch pants and extra large shirts. Desired
women’s sizes are size 16, medium length pants,
size 18 pants and extra large shirts. Desired girl
children’s sizes are junior 4 pants and large tops.
Desired boy children’s sizes are 30 inch by 32
inch pants and small and medium adult shirts.
Donations may be made to the family directly or left at the Leader office, located at 11555
Beamer at Beltway 8. The family may be reached
at 281-965-5539.
Neighbor and longtime family friend Jerry
Plunkett has also set up a website to receive
funds. To donate online, visit www.gofundme.
com/h0tfbg.
Man arrested in Macy’s burglary
A suspect was arrested late Wednesday, Nov.
12, after police said he was attempting to burglarize the Macy’s at Almeda Mall after the store
was closed.
According to police, the suspect set off an
alarm around 10:45 p.m.
He had reportedly been inside the store before
it closed, then hid and waited for employees to
leave.
Once alone, the suspect loaded up on merchandise but was unable to find a way out of the
store.
Police responded to the incident by releasing
a K-9 unit into the store. The dog found the suspect hiding in a clothing rack and bit him on the
leg.
The suspect was subsequently apprehended
and charged with burglary and theft.
Man climbs utility tower
Suspect arrested on cocaine charges
Deputies from the Harris County Precinct 2
Constable’s office arrested a suspect Tuesday,
Nov. 4, in the 13300 block of Beamer Road for
drug possession.
According to police records, deputies spotted
a vehicle around 3 p.m. that had broken down
on the area street. Upon making contact, depu-
ties said the driver appeared nervous and evasive
and was reportedly witnessed to be attempting to
hide something.
A search of the vehicle yielded a small bag of
suspected cocaine, and the driver, Austin Stoney,
38, was subsequently arrested and charged with
possession of a controlled substance.
Chaos erupts at Kirkmont meeting
Precinct 2 deputies were needed Wednesday,
Nov. 12, to help keep the peace at the monthly
Kirkmont Section 1 Homeowners Association
meeting.
The disturbance stemmed from allegations
that an HOA officer had spent organization funds
and sought to hire a new management company
without prior approval from other board members.
During a short recess, the accused director’s husband arrived at the function and reportedly threatened other board members and their properties.
Witnesses said the man also tried to talk to
HOA members in attendance but was silenced
by deputies.
An additional deputy was called to the scene
and remained until the meeting’s completion.
The official in question has been removed
from her position as an officer on the board but
according to bylaws, has been allowed to stay on
as a director.
All Kirkmont residents are encouraged to attend the group’s annual meeting next month, set
to take place Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at
the Kirkmont Municipal Utility District building
at 10102 Blackhawk.
Precinct 2 deputies will once again be in attendance to maintain order.
More than a dozen emergency vehicles responded to an incident Tuesday, Nov. 18, around
4:45 p.m. on Beltway 8 between Beamer and Hughes Road, where a man had climbed
to the top of an electrical tower. After nearly falling from the structure, the individual
climbed down on his own, leaving unharmed. The unnamed male was transported to Ben
Taub Hospital for mental evaluation. The incident caused significant traffic delays, as
authorities closed the eastbound feeder lanes of the beltway during rush hour. The man
is shown above descending from the tower.
Photo by Marie Flickinger
Page 2 Section A, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Thursday, November 20, 2014
In My Opinion
Gadd: Dobie pride
still lives
It has been my honor and joy to be a part of
the Dobie High School campus as a volunteer
for many years. During this time, I have had
the privilege of being the on-field statistician
for all of the varsity football games. This responsibility has allowed me to witness many
victories and defeats over the years, and to
have a “front row seat” to observe the emotions and behavior of the players and coaches, as well as the cheerleaders, band, and drill
teams. I’ve also seen the stands on both sides
of the field.
I’m saddened to say that there have been
some games where there wasn’t much parental or community support for the school and
kids on the visitor’s side. I have wondered why
so few parents and students support their
school. Most of the time, I am proud of Dobie turnout. This year was a case of extreme
pride. I want to give a great big “shout-out” to
the entire Dobie Nation and to our community
for their tremendous support this season. To
our Football Team, Cheerleaders, Band, Drill
Team–Great Job!
A big thank-you goes to the South Belt
community, the Dobie student body, Principal
Franklin Moses and the entire Dobie faculty
and staff for all your support this season. The
student body has begun to take over the stands
at the 50yard line cheering and standing in the
12th Man fashion. The report was that last
week’s pep rally was “standing room only” (with
even some trying to counterfeit a ticket to get
in). Dobie Pride was everywhere this year!
Dobie’s current football season came to an
end last Friday night as the North Shore Mustangs were able to overcome the Longhorns’
lead in the 3rd quarter to win the first round
of the playoffs. This season, Dobie’s first five
games were against the state ranked teams of
Deer Park, Clear Springs, Pearland, Manvel,
and Dawson, and I proudly watched our Longhorns stand “toe-to-toe” with these teams.
(The best game of the year was the solid undoing of the Dawson Eagles!) Dobie’s final
season record stood at 6 wins and 5 losses.
They stayed strong and focused even
during the first four losses to the area ranked
teams. Their upset of Dawson, winning the last
6 games, and the leading over North Shore
until the 3rd quarter were all accomplishments
of which Dobie should be proud. My congratulations to Coach Jim Phillips, his staff and the
entire Dobie Longhorn team for the way they
prepared week after week.
I would also like to thank the entire South
Belt community for your overwhelming support
of the PISD Bond Issue. Under the leadership
of Dr. Kirk Lewis and the Board of Trustees,
our community will have a new 9th grade campus for Dobie, a new Intermediate School, and
many upgrades to our existing campuses. Our
district’s central athletic facilities, under the direction of Athletic Director, Rodney Chant, for
football, basketball, volleyball, and swimming
have all been upgraded. A huge investment
has been made in our students and in the future of the South Belt. This is a great time of
year for all of us to give thanks for all these
blessings.
Once last thing: Do yourself a favor....show
your support to Dobie’s Theatre Arts department and see their production of “Grease,”
November 20-22 at 7:30 p.m., and November
23rd at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are only $10. Also,
consider attending one of the largest and
finest high school basketball tournaments in
the nation. The McDonald’s Texas Invitational
includes 48 boys’ teams and 32 girls’ teams
from all over the state of Texas. It will begin
Thursday, November 20, and continue through
Saturday, November 22 at 10 locations in our
area. All proceeds are returned to our educational foundations to be used for our students
and schools. For more information visit: www.
texasinvitational.com.
God bless,
Emory Gadd
Associate Pastor, Sagemont Church
Volper comments
on elections
I have wanted to let the truth dust settle
and the tv pundits tell and fail to tell how the
past elections were a telling story of truth and
fact as to exactly what President Obama made
very clear. It was a test or a failure to accept
his policies/mandate, the same argument I
used but was accused of being a racist because I disagreed with him. Well this nation
2/3 exactly voted against him and his policies.
In fact I don’t think this this country reflects
those kind of numbers as being based along
racial divide or hate.
So, I Guess I will listen to the crickets for
that apology from Mrs Bowman an old friend
and from the others who cried out the same
mantra thinking they know me but most of all
whats in my heart.
A.C.Volper
KPRC Local 2 anchor to deliver
San Jac commencement address
Khambrel Marshall, KPRC
Local 2 meteorologist and
host of Houston Newsmakers,
will speak to December graduates at San Jacinto College’s
commencement ceremony on
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014.
The December commencement ceremony will
bring together San Jacinto
College graduates from each
of the three campuses for one
combined ceremony. It will
take place at 2 p.m. at Minute
Maid Park.
“Khambrel Marshall is
not only a well-recognized
television personality in
Houston, he is a tireless advocate for many causes,
including education,” said
Dr. Brenda Hellyer, San
Jacinto College chancellor.
“He cares about the issues in
our region, understands the
challenges we face, and encourages conversation around
these issues and challenges,
to find opportunities and
solutions. I look forward to
hearing his speech during our
commencement ceremony.”
Marshall has had a multifaceted career in broadcasting. While studying for his
broadcasting degree from
Arizona State University, he
began his first job in television as weekend sports
anchor in Phoenix. Through
the years, he was sports
reporter, sports director, then
primary news anchor in
Miami before joining KPRCTV as weekday anchor in
May 1999.
Marshall took a newsroom
leadership role as executive
producer for several years,
before accepting a position as
weekend meteorologist. This
self-proclaimed “weather
geek” earned his Broadcast
Meteorology Certification
from Mississippi State University.
He has won numerous
awards in journalism and
community service. Among
them is one of broadcasting’s
top awards, the Emmy, for a
feature series titled Guardians
at Sea, chronicling the efforts
of the U.S. Coast Guard to
rescue Cuban and Haitian
refugees crossing the Florida
Straits. He is actively involved with the March of
Dimes, YMCA of Greater
Houston, and Goodwill Industries of Houston.
With a focus on helping
students complete what they
start, San Jacinto College has
implemented many student
success initiatives over the
past several years. This has
resulted in more than 5,000
students earning their credentials from San Jacinto College
in each of the last two academic years. This is nearly
double the number of graduates as in the 2006-2007 academic year.
More information about
the San Jacinto College commencement ceremony can be
found at www.sanjac.edu/
graduation.
Fun at
the
Frazier
carnival
Arceneaux conveys
gratitude
It is with sincere gratitude and appreciation
to Marie Flickinger, Lt. Kritzler, and the respectful and patient officers of the Pct. 2 Constable
division, who have taken the time to resolve an
ongoing issue with a neighbor. Because of their
professionalism and diligence, I can now have
a sense of security and privacy in my home.
The disrespect, destruction and disregard for
my property and self have subsided. I am so
very grateful for what they have done to end
the eight year issue. I would like to extend my
gratitude to the Sageglen Homeowner’s Association, who have been extremely helpful in this
as well. I had for a time lost the sense of community due to the issues with my neighbor. Ms.
Flickinger, the officers, and the ladies with the
HOA have restored that sense of community
with their help and attention. A sincere Thanks
to all of you!
Shirley Arceneaux
The Frazier Fall Carnival
held on Saturday, Nov. 8, was
a huge success. Students and
their families enjoyed fun
games, inflatables, auction
baskets, dance performances and delicious food. The
staff, parents and Dobie High
School volunteers worked
hard to make this the best
carnival yet. All of the money raised will be used to fund
field trips this school year.
At left, Torri Price shows off
the cake she won at the Cake
Walk.
Photos submitted
Lariaettes hold dance clinic Dec. 13
The Dobie Lariaettes will hold their annual Winter Dance Clinic on Saturday, Dec. 13,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dobie High School, with a parent show at 3 p.m. in the gym. The
clinic is open to pre-K through 12th grade boys and girls. Lunch will be provided. Preregistration is $40, or at the door is $50, cash or money order only. Participants will also
have the opportunity to perform in the Lariaette’s spring show April 30 through May 2,
2015. For more information, contact Amanda Castro at amanda.castro54@yahoo.com.
Beverly Hills Int. seeks photos, memorabilia
Lawson Blackmon and Myrtle Kendrick Blackmon. He
was a former longtime South
Belt area resident.
He was preceded in death
by his parents; Ruby Dark
Blackmon; Dorothy Mixon;
and numerous aunts, uncles
and cousins.
Blackmon graduated from
B.B. Comer High School in
1959. He continued his education to become an aerospace engineer employed by
NASA Johnson Space Center
in Houston for 37 years before retiring. He was a member of Coldspring United
Methodist Church.
Blackmon enjoyed woodworking, reading, gardening
and astronomy. He was the
assistant Scout Master for 27
years for Boy Scout Troop
#30.
Survivors include his wife
of 49 years, Marilyn Froehner Blackmon; daughters
Robin Sweet and husband
Karl, and Susan Rogers and
husband Kevin; grandchildren Duncan James Rogers
and Ethan Leander Rogers;
and numerous other family
members and friends.
Services were held at
10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18,
2014, at Coldspring United
Methodist Church in Coldspring, Texas with the Rev.
David Green officiating.
Interment followed at Oakwood Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Coldspring UMC youth, Habitat
for Humanity of San Jacinto
County, or a charity of choice.
The Best Christmas Pageant
Ever opens at PLT Dec. 5
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, a comedy by
Barbara Robinson and
directed by Craig Trauschke, opens Friday, Dec. 5, at
Pasadena Little Theatre,
4318 Allen-Genoa Road.
The play continues weekends through Dec. 21.
Showtimes are 8 p.m.
Fridays, Saturdays and
Thursday.
Sunday matinees begin
at 3 p.m.
Ticket prices are $15 for
adults and $12 for seniors
and students.
Thursday, Dec. 18, is a
specially priced AdmitTwo-for-$15 show.
For reservations, call
713-941-1758 or reserve
online at http://www.pasa
denalittletheatre.org/. Credit
cards are accepted.
In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church
Christmas pageant is faced
with casting the Herdman
kids – probably the most
inventively awful kids in
history. It’s hard to believe
the mayhem – and the fun
– when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas
story head on.
This delightful comedy
has become a holiday staple
with lots of laughs. McCall’s
Magazine hailed it as an
American classic.
White Elephant/Bake Sale Dec. 7
St. Luke’s seeks donations
Frazier student Sophia Gonzalez gets her face painted by Dobie High School
volunteer Diana Torres.
Santa needs a children’s elf
chorus for Christmas musical
Santa Claus needs children elves for the San Jacinto
College Central Campus
Department of Theatre and
Film’s production of Santa’s
Christmas Magic: The Musical.
The cast calls for 50 children, ages 4 to 15, and auditions are open to all community residents. Auditions will
be held in the Powell Arena
Theatre, 8060 Spencer Highway in Pasadena on Thursday,
Nov. 20, starting at 6 p.m.
Materials need not be prepared in advance, and all
those auditioning should
dress to move.
“The older actors were
cast several weeks ago, and
Am. Legion Post 490 donates to veterans
have been working hard
learning lines, songs and
dances,” commented Jerry
Ivins, artistic director for the
musical. “Now the artistic
team is hoping to cast local
children who have one week
of evenings open for rehearsals. We encourage all children who can sing, dance,
tumble, act, or who just have
an interest in theater to come
out. No experience is necessary.”
The Children’s Elf Chorus
will attend four rehearsals,
and will appear in up to six
scenes in the show. Most
rehearsals are about two
hours in length, until a few
days before the opening of
the show.
Santa’s Christmas Magic:
The Musical is a fantasy
about a sinister plot to steal
Santa’s magic. The cast
includes 120 male and female
actors, singers and dancers
from ages 4 to adult.
Performances are set for
Dec. 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 at
7:30 p.m., and on Dec. 7 and
14 at 2:30 p.m.
Special day matinee performances will be performed
for area schools and daycares
on Dec. 4 and 5.
For information about San
Jacinto College theater and
film programs, visit www.
sanjac.edu/career/theatre-fi
lm.
Care Partners meet Nov. 21
Interfaith Care Partners Ministry group at St. Frances
Cabrini Catholic Church, 10727 Hartsook Street (near
Almeda Mall), a gathering for persons with Alzheimer’s,
dementia or memory loss, meets the third Friday of
each month from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Gatherings consist
of a continental breakfast, arts and crafts, exercises, entertainment, a singalong, a devotional break, lunch, and ends
with a game. Those who have a family member or know of
someone with these challenges, are welcome to attend. All
services are provided free of charge. An initial interview
must be conducted by Interfaith Care Partners staff to welcome new participants into this program.
The next gathering will be held in the Mother Cabrini
Center at the church on Friday, Nov. 21, with a theme of
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby. For more information or to register a loved one, call Interfaith Care Partners
at 713-682-5995 or visit the website at www.interfaithcarepartners.org.
Tax-Aide volunteers sought
American Legion Post 490 delivered donations of
Buddy Poppies and American flag lapel pins, requested by Interfaith Ministries to be delivered with
the Meals on Wheels for Veterans Day, to the organization on Friday, Nov. 7. Pictured are, left to right,
Winston
Blackmon
Catholic Daughter Court
Mother of Unity #2292 will
hold a white elephant and
bake sale on Sunday, Dec.
7, in the social hall at St.
Luke
the
Evangelist
Catholic Church, 11011
Hall Road, after Sunday
Masses beginning at 8:30
Social Services at St. Luke’s Catholic Church is conducting a food drive for their
Thanksgiving program. Nonperishable foods and gift cards are needed as well as toiletries and paper goods. Bring donations to the church, except the gift cards, which should
be brought to the church office at 11011 Hall Road. All donations are greatly appreciated. For additional information, call the church at 281-481-6816.
Parker Williams Branch
The following events are scheduled for the Parker Williams Branch Library, 10851
Scarsdale Blvd., Nov. 20 through Nov. 26.
Preschool storytime is held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays, and toddler storytime is at
10:30 a.m. on Thursdays.
Vietnamese storytime is every Saturday - Level 2 at 10 a.m., Level 1 at 11:15 a.m. and
Level 3 at 2:30 p.m. For more information on Vietnamese programs, speak with Loc Bui.
The library will be closed from 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, through Sunday, Nov. 30,
for the Thanksgiving holiday.
For information on programs and events, call the Parker Williams Library at 281-4842036.
Bracewell Branch Library
Bracewell Neighborhood Library, 9002 Kingspoint, recently listed its programs for
Nov. 20 through Nov. 26.
Thursdays – Computer Basics at 2 p.m.; Internet Basics at 3:30 p.m.; Basic
PowerPoint at 5 p.m.; and Spanish Computer Basics 1 at 6:15 p.m.
At 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, Not Your Mama’s Book Club is scheduled. Fall into
a good book with Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
On Saturday, Nov. 22, Citizenship classes are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. This free
course is designed to guide particpants through the naturalization process, and preparation for the interview.
Tuesdays – A storytime-themed craft is set for 11 a.m., and a children’s craft will be
at 4:30 p.m.
Wednesdays – Baby/Toddler Storytime is at 10:30 a.m. followed by Baby/Toddler
Playtime at 11 a.m.; Computer Basics at 3:15 p.m.; and Internet Basics at 4:30 p.m.
The library will be closed Thursday, Nov. 27, through Monday, Dec. 1, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
For information on programs, call the Bracewell Branch Library at 832-393-2580.
la Wardlow-Wyatt, Angie
Baucum, Melissa Patterson,
Devin Cooper, and Nicholas
and Seth Paulk; great-grandchildren Whitley, Brittany,
Brianna, Gracie and Caleb;
her brothers and sisters, Evelyn Garrett Bledsoe, Ron
G. Garrett and wife Linda,
Larry Earl Garrett and Faye,
and Patricia Garrett Hayes
and husband Tim; along with
a number of nieces, nephews
and friends.
The service celebrating
Suits’ life was held at 10 a.m.
on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014,
at Niday Funeral Home –
Beamer Chapel. Interment
followed at Forest Park East
Hazel Suits, 75, died on Cemetery in Webster.
Monday, Nov. 10, 2014, at
her home in South Belt, with
her family by her side. She
was born on Nov. 18, 1938,
in Lohn, Texas, to Jess W.
and Daisy Garrett.
She retired from Schlumberger Oil Company after
30+ years of service. After
her retirement, Suits loved
traveling, shopping, playing
bingo, crocheting, oil painting and spending time with
her many grandchildren. As a
Christian, she called East Haven Baptist Church her home.
Suits is preceded in death
by her parents, Jess W. and
Daisy Garrett, and one brother, J.W. Garrett.
She is survived by her
children, Claude E. Wardlow and wife Debbie, JanWinston Blackmon, 73,
et Wardlow-Murphy and of Coldwater, Texas, died on
husband Mike, and Lisa Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. He
Suits-Paulk; grandchildren was born on Dec. 25, 1940,
Raymond Wardlow, Pame- in Sylacauga, Ala., to Claude
Hazel Suits
Catholic Daughters set events
On Jan 16, 2015, Beverly Hills Intermediate will celebrate 50 Years of Excellence.
The school is seeking memorabilia and pictures from the 1960s through the 2000s. If
anyone has something they would like to share, email it to beverlyhillsbears@gmail.
com. In addition, those who would like to share a favorite Beverly Hills memory may
send it to beverlyhillsbears@gmail.com.
Local library events set
Deaths
Elijah Elmore, Post 490 member, active duty U.S.
Air Force; Wendell Denney, finance officer; Faith
Federspiel, commander; Gregory Treacy, judge advocate; Jerry Hunter, historian; and Joseph Garlowich, Club Room Committee.
Photo submitted
Each year from Feb. 1 through April 15, Houston-area
AARP Tax-Aide volunteers help about 50,000 low-income and over-60 taxpayers. For the 2015 tax season,
volunteers are needed now for two four-hour shifts weekly as a Tax-Aide tax counselor, greeter, technology coordinator or administrator. Training will be provided in
January at Clear Lake-area churches. Speakers of Spanish
and English are especially needed. Learn more and sign
up at www.aarp.org/tavolunteer8 (English only).
a.m. Everyone is invited to
shop for homemade baked
goods to stock up freezers
for Christmas or for early
holiday parties.
There will also be white
elephant items available for
purchase for those little
things needed for hostess
gifts, party gifts, as a stocking stuffer, last minute
“oh,oh I forgot something
for “Aunt Lucy,” decorations, etc. All proceeds will
benefit the many charities in
which the court is involved,
including the scholarship
program.
Gift of Life event Dec. 9
Catholic Daughter of the
Americas’ Court Mother of
Unity #2292 will sponsor a
Gift of Life event on
Tuesday, Dec. 9, in conjunction with the regular
business meeting.
All women of the area
are invited to St. Luke the
Evangelist Social Hall at
11011 Hall Road at 6 p.m.
A potluck supper will begin
at 6:30 p.m. and the court
asks everyone to bring a
side dish to share. Meat,
dessert and drinks will be
furnished by the court.
The court will also sponsor a baby shower for Jesus
that night and would like
donations of infant baby
items (diapers, wipes, onesies, clothing, etc. – anything is welcome) for the
manger. All donations will
go to St. Luke’s Gabriel
Project.
During dessert there will
be a presentation by team
members from the LifeGift
organization regarding the
importance of becoming an
organ donor and will share
how the program works and
who is eligible to become a
donor. Afterward, women
who are not interested in
staying for the meeting will
be dismissed.
For information about
this event or the Catholic
Daughters, call 281-484-4170.
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Military veterans, students honored at Veterans Day ceremonies Cheerleaders rise to the top
United States military veterans gathered at San Jacinto
College on Veterans Day to be
honored for their service.
The day began with ceremonies at the North, South
and Central campus locations.
D.A. Buell visited the
Central campus and told his
story of fighting on the shores
of Normandy on D-Day. At the
age of 15, Buell joined the
The Veterans Day celebration at the San Jacinto College South campus included awarding veteran student
scholarships to Samuel Alix and Camillo Rojas, along
with unveiling a portion of a parachute donated to the
campus’ Center of Excellence for Veteran Student Success by Pfc. Robert Granche of the 101st Airborne Division, who landed in France on D-Day 1944. Pictured
Arkansas Color Guard in
1939. He joined the U.S. Navy
thereafter and placed in the top
10 percent of his class in navigation school.
In 1942, Buell was commis-
sioned as an ensign in the Naval
Corps and transferred in 1944
to a B24 Bomber Squadron. By
the time World War II was over,
he had completed 32 missions.
Following his presentation,
are, left to right, Eugene Bernard, South campus veteran success coordinator; Dr. Laurel Williamson, San Jacinto College deputy chancellor and president; Samuel
Alix; Camillo Rojas; Dr. Brenda Jones, South campus
provost; and Tammy McAdams, San Jacinto College
Foundation advancement coordinator.
Photo by Andrea Vasquez
Local fourth-grader competes
in National Bible Bee in Florida
A local youth headed to
Florida to compete in the
2014 National Bible Bee this
past Oct. 29 through Nov. 1.
The competition was held at
the Hilton Lake Buena Vista
in Orlando.
Mikaela Curtis excelled in
Bible memorization and
study enough to secure one
of 360 top scores from across
the country during the local
Bible Bee Contest which was
held on Aug. 23.
Mikaela is the daughter of
Sageglen residents Eugene
and Amy Curtis and a member of Sagemont Church.
She memorized up to 24
Bible passages and studied
the Bible book of Jonah in
depth over the summer and
now has another 450 verses
and the book of Nahum to
study for the national contest.
During the national contest, the 360 national qualifiers demonstrated their diligence in Scripture knowledge and memorization
through oral and written
rounds. The top winners
received a share of more than
$280,000 in awards and prizes, and every contestant was
encouraged and recognized
for their biblical excellence.
The national contest is
surrounded by a familyfriendly atmosphere and
activities, including daily
prayer gatherings, inspiring
speaker sessions, and a fun
“Friday Night Party Night”
that included a full concert
Mikaela Curtis
from the GLAD a cappella
group. Mark McMahan, the
foundation’s chief executive
officer, emphasized that
everyone was welcome to
attend, whether they had
been previously involved in
the Bible Bee or not.
Family-friendly activities
were offered at economical
wristband and ticket prices.
Many families were also
inspired and challenged by
the onstage semifinal rounds,
in which the top national
contestants engaged in a
word-perfect, single-elimination Bible memory contest,
as well as the final challenge
rounds in which the advancing contestants gained points
by reciting passages and
answering questions on the
knowledge they had gained.
These rounds culminated
with the awarding of the
$100,000 Senior Division
prize.
Curtis’ family moved
back to the the South Belt
area three years ago after
buying a house in Sageglen.
Her parents, Eugene and
Amy, grew up in Sagemont
and both attended Dobie
High School. Eugene and
Amy’s parents (Curtis’
grandparents) have lived in
the area since the early
1980s. Curtis, 9, is a homeschooled fourth-grader.
Information about attending the National Bible Bee,
placing a sponsorship ad to
support the local qualifiers,
and getting involved locally
in 2015 is available at www.
BibleBee.org.
Ruth Keenan, executive director of the San Jacinto College
Foundation, unveiled a piece of
a parachute that was used on
D-Day, which is to be displayed at the college.
The day’s ceremonies also
included presentations of
$500 scholarships to San
Jacinto College student veterans Samuel Alix, Camillo
Rojas, John Foster, Michael
Brown, Robert Crowder and
Cameron Manuel.
San Jacinto College was
recently named a military
friendly school by Victory
Media Inc. for the fifth consecutive year for its dedication
to veterans and offering the
resources needed to result in
their success. In 2012, the
Centers for Excellence for
Veteran Student Success were
officially opened, providing
one location on each San
Jacinto College campus for
veteran student services.
Manuel, who is studying
process technology and
already interviewing with
companies, said having a
place just for veterans at San
Jacinto College helps him and
his fellow veterans after coming back home and adjusting
to college. “I have a lot of
friends who are veterans, and
some have post traumatic
stress,” said Manuel, U.S.
Marine Corps veteran. “It can
be hard, hard to even get out
of the house. But going to
school and having a place just
for veterans definitely helps.”
Crowder, who spent 20
years in the U.S. Navy and is
studying business management, said adjusting to civilian
life can be a challenge but is
one that is met with assistance
at San Jacinto College. “Here,
they treat us very well,” said
Crowder. “We have our own
counselors, our own veterans
centers, our own support
group. I utilize the services
every day.”
San Jacinto College had
1,461 veteran students enrolled collegewide last academic year. The college continues to support community
and student veterans through a
number of projects and events
like the Backpacks for
Veterans project, Veterans
Oral History project, and the
Veterans Education Network.
The college also participates in the College Credit for
Heroes Initiative administered
by the Texas Workforce
Commission and works with
partner schools across the
state to examine ways to
award college credits for military experience from all
branches of service.
“We are so very proud to
have our military service
members and veterans here at
San Jacinto College,” said
Keenan. “We will always
strive to assist them in every
way that we can and offer the
resources they need to help
them through college and to
become successful in their
next chapter of life.”
For more information on
San Jacinto College veteran
services, visit sanjac.edu/vet
erans.
The Dobie cheerleaders get ready to take on the Pasadena Memorial Mavericks before the game on Friday, Nov. 7. Pictured are, left to right, (bottom
row) Hannah Brady, Samantha De La Cruz, Julia Lohse, Alexis Corpus,
(middle row) Adriana Resendez, Tia Joseph, Megan Cook, (top row) Johnea
Blevins and Alyssa Murillo.
Photo submitted
CCCT presents Miracle on 34th Street
Clear Creek Community
Theatre will present Miracle
on 34th Street Dec. 5-21.
“This is a tale that we
want to believe in, that creates a world we seem to desperately desire, free of the
blatant commercialism that
surrounds us, where love and
decency and generosity of
spirit are their own rewards.
What we want Christmas to
be all about, really.”
Santa Cruz Sentinel
This perennial Christmas
classic tells the story of a little old man named Kris
Kringle, living in a retirement home, who gets a job
working as Santa for Macy’s.
Kris unleashes waves of good
will with Macy’s customers
in the commercial world of
New York City by referring
parents to other stores to find
exactly the toy their child has
asked for. Seen as deluded
and dangerous by Macy’s
vocational counselor, who
plots to have Kris shanghaied
to Bellevue Psychiatric
Hospital, Kris ends up in a
court competency hearing.
Especially at stake is one little girl’s belief in Santa.
Director David LeMaster
sees this production as a
unique opportunity to mix
the wonder of live theater
with actual film.
LeMaster feels “the concept is to wrap ourselves
around the original film and
the old Santa Claus.” Along
with co-director Jeff Coletta,
LeMaster will bring to the
stage a production full of
wonderful surprises and joyful celebration. He believes
that this story truly embraces
everything about the traditional Christmas story. “The
spirit of Christmas makes us
want to be better people and
kinder to others,” said
LeMaster. “This play embraces that spirit.”
Miracle on 34th Street,
adapted by Mountain Community Theater from the
novel by Valentine Davies
and based upon the Twentieth
Century Fox motion picture
opens Friday, Dec. 5, at Clear
Creek Community Theatre,
18091 Upper Bay Road in
Nassau Bay.
CCCT’s performances run
Dec. 5-21 at 8 p.m. on
Fridays and Saturdays and
2:30 p.m. on Sundays.
There will be two additional matinee performances
on Saturday, Dec. 13, and
Saturday, Dec. 20, at 2:30
p.m.
From 1 to 2 p.m. prior to
Hospital volunteer Weingartner
honored for 40 years of service
Volunteer Kiki Weingartner (second from left) was honored for 40 years of
volunteer service at Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital by, left to right,
Rebecca Lilley, director of physician resources; Evan Austin, south sector
manager for Houston City Council Member Dave Martin; and Glenn Burnett,
Hermann Southeast Hospi- are taken directly to the car- veloped national hospital chief financial officer.
Photo courtesy of Memorial Hermann
Hospital races to save heart attack victims
Every second counts for
heart attack patients undergoing an angioplasty, a cardiac
procedure where a catheter
with a small balloon at the tip
is inserted and inflated to
open a blocked artery.
The total time from when
a patient arrives at a hospital until the artery is
re-opened is called “doorto-balloon” time. Memorial
tal recently performed the
lifesaving treatment in just
33 minutes.
“After rapid evaluation in
the emergency room, patients
NOTICE OF PROHIBITED
PARKING REQUIREMENT AREA APPLICATION:
The Kirkwood Civic Club has submitted an application for the establishment of a
Prohibited Yard Parking Requirement Area (Section 28-303 of the Code of Ordinances)
for Kirkbriar Drive (East and West) Between Kirkglen Drive and City Easement and
for Kirkdale Drive (North and South) Between Sabo Road and Kirkholm Drive and for
Kirkdale Drive (North and South) Between Kirkholm Drive and Beamer Road and for
Kirkdale Drive (North and South) Between Beamer Road and Kirkfalls Drive and for
Kirkfalls Drive (East and West) Between Kirkmeadow Drive and Newton Street and
for Kirkglen Drive (North and South) Between Sabo Road and Kirkholm Drive and
for Kirkglen Drive (North and South) Between Kirkholm Drive and Kirkway Drive
and for Kirkglen Drive (North and South) Between Kirkway Drive and Beltway 8 and
for Kirkhall Drive (North and South) Between Sabo Road and Kirkholm Drive and for
Kirkhill Drive (North and South) Between Sabo Road and Kirkholm Drive and for
Kirkhill Drive (North and South) Between Kirkholm Drive and Kirkway Drive and for
Kirkhollow Drive (North and South) Between Beamer Road and Kirkglen Drive and
for Kirkhollow Drive (North and South) Between Beamer Road and Kirkville Drive and
for Kirklane Drive (North and South) Between Sabo Road and Kirkholm Drive and for
Kirkmeadow Drive (North and South) Between Beamer Road and Kirkglen Drive and
for Kirkmeadow Drive (North and South) Between Beamer Road and Kirkfalls Drive
and for Kirknoll Drive ( East and West ) Between Kirkglen Drive and City Easement
and for Kirkshire Drive (North and South) Between Sabo Road and Kirkholm Drive
and for Kirkshire Drive ( North and South) Between Beamer Road and Kirkfalls Drive
and for Kirkvalley Drive (North and South) Between Road and Kirkglen Drive and for
Kirkvalley Drive (North and South) Between Beamer Road and Kirkville Drive and for
Kirkville Drive ( East and West) Between Newton Street and Kirkmeadow Drive and
for Kirkway Drive (East and West) Between Kirkdale Drive and Kirkglen Drive and for
Kirkwyn Drive (North and South) Between Kirkvalley Drive to Newton and for Newton
Street ( North and South) Between the Beltway 8 and Kirkfalls Drive with the Houston
Planning and development Department.
Once established, violating the Prohibited Yard Parking Requirement Area will be a misdemeanor and violators will receive a fine not to exceed $150.00 a day.
Protest to the establishment of the Prohibited Yard Parking requirement Area can be filed
with the City of Houston. A written protest must be received by the City of Houston,
Planning and Development Department, Neighborhood Services Division within twenty
(20) days of (date of the City of Houston Notification Letter).
For information, contact the applicant at 281-989-9990 or the Houston Planning and
Development Department at 713-837-7880.
diac catheterization lab so
blood flow to the heart can be
quickly restored,” said
Trauma, Stroke and Chest
Pain Programs Clinical
Manager Andrea Holmes,
R.N., M.S.N. “The faster, the
better – reducing the time
lowers a patient’s risk of
death and serious damage to
the heart muscle.”
Each year, an estimated
500,000 patients have the
most serious kind of heart
attack, called a “STEMI” (ST
– segment elevation myocardial infarction), caused by a
complete stoppage of blood
supply to the heart muscle
due to a blocked artery.
Unless the blockage is quickly removed, that part of the
heart muscle dies.
If an individual is experiencing chest pressure or chest
pain, call 911 or get to a
hospital immediately. Especially if this feeling is
accompanied by pain or discomfort in one or both arms,
back, neck, jaw, or stomach.
Also, watch for shortness of
breath, sweating, nausea, and
lightheadedness.
The American College of
Cardiology and the American
Heart Association have de-
guidelines calling for a doorto-balloon time of less than
90 minutes.
“Every minute matters
when a patient is having a
heart attack; that’s why cardiologists always say ‘Time is
Muscle,’” said Cardiology
Section Chair Rajan Kadakia,
M.D., who also serves as the
medical director of the Chest
Pain Center. “Fast treatment
is crucial to improving a
patient’s chance of survival
and minimizing damage to
the heart.”
As a Chest Pain Center
with percutaneous coronary
intervention accredited by
the Society of Cardiovascular
Patient Care, Memorial Hermann Southeast’s comprehensive heart and vascular
care includes noninvasive
cardiology, peripheral invasive cardiology, peripheral
vascular surgery, and cardiac
rehabilitation services. The
only hospital in southeast
Houston listed on the Transradial Hospital Locator website, it offers three cardiac
catheterization labs, complete with electrophysiology
capabilities, to provide an
array of diagnostic and interventional procedures.
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Davy & Marie Flickinger, owners
each matinee, Santa Claus
himself will be in the lobby
to listen to Christmas wishes
and have photos taken.
Call the box office at 281335-5228 to reserve tickets.
Tickets and Santa pictures
may also be purchased online
at www.clearcreekcommuni
tytheatre.com.
Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital volunteer Kiki
Weingartner was honored for
40 years of service during the
hospital’s annual Volunteer
Recognition Banquet on
Wednesday, Nov. 5. The event,
held at Golfcrest Country
Club, was attended by more
than 130 people.
Memorial Hermann Southeast opened on Bellfort
Avenue near Hobby Airport in
1963. Weingartner began volunteering on Nov. 5, 1974.
When the hospital moved to
the South Belt area in 1986,
she was one of the volunteers
assisting with opening activities.
In addition to her duties as
hospital gift shop buyer,
Weingartner has worked at the
hospital’s front information
desk for all 40 years.
During the ceremony,
about 70 hospital volunteers
were recognized, including
three for more than 25 years
of service: Mary Lewis,
Barbara Monfort, and Rosemary Krenek, for 26, 27, and
32 years, respectively.
District clerk, FBI warn that jury service
scam has resurfaced in Harris County
Harris County District
Clerk Chris Daniel and the
FBI in Houston urged southeast Texas residents not to be
duped by con men who pose
as police officers and demand
that callers pay fines for purportedly missing jury service.
A local resident was
recently tricked out of $250
by such a phone scam. The
scam died down after it started occurring late last year,
but it has recently resurfaced
in Houston and dozens of
other states, prompting
Daniel and the FBI to warn
the public.
Daniel said he requested
the FBI’s help in investigating the crimes because “these
criminals are giving jury service a black eye. Innocent,
hardworking people have
been tricked into giving these
con artists money. They need
to be behind bars.”
FBI Special Agent in
Charge Perrye K. Turner,
head of the FBI’s Houston
office, said one of the best
ways to curb the scam is to
inform the public not to fall
prey to it.
“We’ve seen variations of
this scam hit unsuspecting
residents across the country,”
Turner said. “These scammers are using fear and
intimidation to pressure victims into paying them money,
and they often move from
state to state very quickly to
avoid detection. Educating
yourself on the latest scams
is the best defense, and
remember – law enforcement
authorities will never demand
you pay a fine by phone.”
People should report
scammers’ calls to the district
clerk’s jury service operation
at 713-755-6392 and to the
local police or the FBI. Tips
to the FBI also may be submitted online at https://tips.
fbi.gov. All tipsters may
remain anonymous.
Daniel said he contacted
the FBI after learning that
similar scams were occurring
recently in dozens of states,
including California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Nevada,
Michigan, Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina.
In many instances, the
scam artist says he is a local
police officer and often gives
the name of a real local police
officer and a badge number.
Daniel said the district
clerk’s office never contacts
people by phone to say that
they have not appeared for
jury service, never asks people to pay fines and never
asks people to give debit
account information, personal identification information
or other sensitive information
on the phone.
“If you receive such calls,
do not give these con men
any money or debit card
information,” Daniel said.
A northwest Houston man
informed the district clerk’s
office that he was recently
duped out of $250 by a caller
who said he was a law
enforcement officer seeking
to collect a fine that the man
owed for missing jury service. The caller threatened to
send two officers to arrest
him if he didn’t pay the fine.
The northwest Houston
man said he was frightened
so he carried out the caller’s
instructions: He went to a
Walgreens and put $250 on a
prepaid debit card. The caller
stayed on the phone with the
Houston man for an hour
while he traveled to the store
and went in. The caller hung
up only after the man read the
debit card number over the
phone. The northwest Houston man said the caller knew
his address and did a good
job of scaring him.
Earlier this year, a Galleria-area woman informed
the district clerk’s office that
she was tricked out of $350
during a similar scam. The
woman said she came home
one day to find several messages on her answering
machine from a man who said
he was Capt. Terry Griffin
from 1200 Baker Street – the
real address of the Harris
County Sheriff’s Office.
“Capt. Griffin” told her
she had failed to report for
jury service and that she
should appear before state
District Judge Randy Wilson
– a real judge – at 1201
Franklin Street – the real
address of the Harris County
Criminal Justice Center.
“Capt. Griffin” told her
that she would be arrested if
she didn’t pay the fine. He
told her the fine was $350
and that he would accept a
green dot prepaid debit card.
The caller stayed on the
phone with her, and she put
$350 on the card and gave
him the number on the back.
He even called her back later
and said she owed more
money, but she was not
tricked a second time.
The jury service scam is
occurring all over the U.S. In
Georgia earlier this month,
Ivan Cain Hamilton, 28, was
charged with duping numerous victims out of at least
$10,000 by posing as an officer trying to collect fines for
missing jury service. Where
do authorities say Hamilton
ran his scheme from? From
behind bars at a Georgia state
prison.
An Arizona woman in her
80s was tricked out of $6,500
recently by a jury service
scam, the Sierra, Ariz.,
Herald reported last week.
Daniel said, “These con
men need to be caught, but
they are difficult to catch
because they often use disposable phones.”
Page 4, Section A, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Thursday, November 20, 2014
Lariaette of the Week
Over The Back Fence
SCHOOL DAZE
The following personnel and staff
members of the Pasadena Independent
School District celebrate birthdays Nov.
20 through Nov. 26.
Burnett Elementary
Lekisha Jones is wished a happy
birthday Nov. 23.
Bush Elementary
Wishes for a happy birthday are sent
to Julius Roberts Nov. 20. Celebrating
a happy birthday Nov. 21 is Gilberto
Garza. Sing a happy birthday song Nov.
22 to Maria Montelongo. Light the birthday candles for Dila Velez Nov. 25.
Frazier Elementary
Greetings for a wonderful birthday are
sent to Pat Singletary Nov. 24. Marking
a birthday Nov. 25 is Cathy Silas. Luz
Chaidez will celebrate a happy birthday
Nov. 26.
Moore Elementary
Light the birthday candles Nov. 23 for
Lily Sanchez.
South Belt Elementary
Nov. 21 is the day for a birthday cake
for Laurie Weathers. A birthday greeting
is sent to Lucia Smith Nov. 26.
Stuchbery Elementary
Ana Moreno enjoys a birthday Nov. 20.
Celebrating a birthday Nov. 26 is Oralia
Contreras.
Melillo Middle School
Birthday greetings are sent to Maria
Chapa Nov. 22.
Thompson Intermediate
The day for a party for Jane French is
Nov. 21. Light the birthday candles Nov.
26 for Laura Garcia.
Dobie High
Clinton Hopper is wished a happy
birthday Nov. 20. Blow out the candles on
a double-layer cake for Maria Chapa and
Irene Gomez Nov. 22. Light the birthday
candles for Juliet Weigand Nov. 25.
FACEBOOK FRIENDS CELEBRATE
BIRTHDAYS
The Leader sends happy birthday
wishes to its Facebook friends who celebrate a birthday this week:
by Alexis
Atkinson honors vets
Thursday, Nov. 20: Toni Muse, Thomas
Marks, Trevor Cobb, Tim Hasse
and Sica Marcello; and Friday, Nov.
21: Jennifer Hugghins and Edie Mari;
Saturday, Nov. 22: Phillip Webb, Gene
Perez and Sheri Jennings; Sunday,
Nov. 23: Linda Greuter, Ricky Mitchell,
Dorlene Salas, Angela Connally,
Monika Patterson, Johnny McNeil and
Don Doss; Monday, Nov. 24: Alice Vanek,
Tim Tingle, Rhonda Baird, Makenzie
Martinez and Santiago Gonzalez;
Tuesday, Nov. 25: Keith Brown, Karen
Allen, Caroline Kacal, Susan Hansen,
Jeff Sconyers and Jennifer Ross; and
Wednesday, Nov. 26: Kathy Husband,
Amanda Marshall, Lydia Fernandez,
Luisa Villarreal, Glenda Dick, Trish
Simmons and Gabe Gabino.
LEADER WANTS YOU IN THE NEWS
Email birthday, anniversary, vacation,
congratulations, etc., to mynews@south
beltleader.com with OTBF in the subject
line. Items must be submitted by Friday
noon for the next week’s publication.
Westbrook Robotics heads to Regional Championship
WIRED (Westbrook Intermediate Robotics Engineering Division) won the first
place BEST Award at the
USTEM Competition on
Oct. 25, 2014. This award is
given to the team that ranked
highest overall on its project
The Dobie High School Lariaette of the Week for
Nov. 3 through Nov. 7 is sophomore Brittany
Gonzales. She is a first-year line member and the
daughter of Christy and Frank Adame.
engineering notebook, marketing presentation, display
booth, robot, spirit and
sportsmanship.
WIRED then moved on to
the Texas BEST Regional
Championship at UT Dallas
Nov. 14-15 (see next week’s
Leader for update).
The WIRED robotics team
was formed 16 years ago.
These Westbrook students
compete against other intermediate and high school students across the state, including teams from engineering
magnet schools. WIRED has
advanced to Texas BEST
eight of the last nine years.
For the 2014 competition,
the challenge is to transport
and assemble a wind turbine
while dealing with bad roads
and endangered prairie chick-
Space City Lions Club meets
The Houston Space City Lions Club will meet
Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 7 p.m. at the Golden Corral, 12500
Gulf Freeway. For more information, call George
Malone at 281-438-7243.
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Representing Westbrook Intermediate at the robotics team competition are, left to right, (front
row) Mascot Sammy Rainer, Tyler Mai, Owen McLucas-Lopez, Steven Wu, Adarsh Suresh, Adam
Schoenberg, Walter Zelaya, Evelyn Rix, Brian Chu,
(middle row) Hank Broddle, Sofia Diggins, Christa
Westheimer, Yosuke Matsumoto, Kate Zimmerman,
Rebecca Vicary, (back row) Les Quiocho (volunteer
coach), Claire Romero, Reed Blanchard, Jared Foltyn, Marcus Schlauch, Saad Nadeem, Arish Maredia, Isaiah Roque, Nathan Poling, Joel Schoenberg,
Steve Knerr (volunteer coach) and Lisa Pfeifer
(Westbrook faculty sponsor). Not pictured are Amy
Chen and Spencer Cookson.
Photo submitted
ens. At the beginning of the
season, the team received a
box of raw materials, including things such as plywood,
PVC, metal, and nuts and
bolts. WIRED designed, prototyped, built, and integrated
robot subsystems into a final
product.
This robot required only
one tool to efficiently complete the tasks. “Because
every item has an eye hook,
we can effectively grab
every item,” says Reed
Blanchard, collection subsystem lead for WIRED,
when discussing his team’s
aluminum hook strategy.
BEST, however, is not
only about the robot competition. It requires a project
engineering notebook documenting the engineering process and design (including
CAD drawings), a marketing
presentation and exhibit, and
the team’s enthusiasm and
sportsmanship during events.
WIRED team members
are also committed to community outreach, including
through their pledge to environmental stewardship. This
year, WIRED helped the
Armand Bayou Nature Center plant native tall grass
vital to the habitat for prairie
chickens. Also, for a second
year, the WIRED team mentored students at the Rice
School in Houston, and
assisted elementary school
robotics teams in the Clear
Creek Independent School
District.
Remember When
New Covenant
Christian Church Daycare
10603 Blackhawk Rd.
281-481-2003
(corner of Blackhawk & Kirkfair)
Mon.- Fri. 6 a.m.- 6:30 p.m.
# We accept Workforce Solutions (NCI)
Serving ages 6 weeks - 12 years
# CPR/First Aid Certified Teachers
A Beka Curriculum
# Family Discount Rates
TOT Fundamental & Creative
Basketball
# Hot Breakfast/Lunch, CACFP
After School Meal Program
Before & After school service from
Weber Elementary & South Belt Area schools
including Melillo & Morris Middle Schools
35 years ago (1979)
Bob Buchanan was
elected president of the
Sagemont-Beverly
Hills
Pony-Colt Baseball Association.
More than 300 area residents packed the Thompson
Intermediate School cafeteria for a flood meeting.
The residents received more
answers to their flooding
questions than they had at a
previous meeting.
30 years ago (1984)
The city of Houston
postponed annexation of
Sycamore Valley until the
end of the year.
Dan Carlisle, a 1981 Dobie High School graduate,
GARNER VISION CENTER
Family Owned & Operated
“We Specialize in Old-fashioned Service”
• Treatment of
Eye Diseases
Dr. B.J. Garner
Therapeutic Optometrist
Optometric Glaucoma Specialist
was named Mr. University
of Houston at the school’s
homecoming ceremony.
25 years ago (1989)
Houston homicide detectives were investigating a robbery attempt of a
Sagemont resident, which
resulted in the deaths of
three suspects.
Despite reservations from
Harris County Judge Jon
Lindsay concerning undercover drug busts by deputies
under Precinct 2 Constable
Gary Freeman, citizens had
given their support to the
constable’s actions.
20 years ago (1994)
Houston police were investigating the robbery of
the Citgo on Hughes Road.
A judicial ruling that prior testimony could be used
in a slew of Brio trials was
a victory for plantiffs and
the defendant, Southbend
developer Farm & Home.
15 years ago (1999)
A 4-year-old South Belt
resident died after being
struck by a motorist in Deer
Park.
After two overtime periods, the Dobie High School
Longhorns defeated the
Clear Brook High School
Wolverines to advance to
the area round of the 5A Division II football playoffs.
10 years ago (2004)
For the second time in 14
months, a fire swept through
the Scarsdale Village shopping center on Scarsdale
at Beamer. The center was
heavily damaged by smoke
from the Food Town to the
CVS store.
A 37-acre tract of land
was donated by Exxon/Mobil to the Veteran’s Museum
in Texas to house a 203,000
square-foot building on
Scarsdale at the Gulf Freeway. At the time, the area
was used as a golf driving
range.
The City of Houston
announced it was adopting
a zero tolerance policy to
address the improper placing of curbside heavy trash.
Residents were told to place
the trash out no earlier than
the Friday before the scheduled heavy trash date. Violations could result in fines
up to $2,000 per day if convicted.
Plans for a traffic light
at the intersection of Blackhawk and Kirkville had
moved forward and were in
the hands of Harris County
Precinct 1 officials. Due to
traffic problems surrounding Moore Elementary and
Dobie High School, PISD
agreed to subsidize a por-
tion of the design and cost
of the light.
5 years ago (2009)
Representatives
from
several different local government entities came together at a meeting sponsored by Houston City
Councilman Mike Sullivan
to discuss possible solutions
to flooding in the South Belt
area for a follow-up meeting to a similar function
held six months before.
The Leader received several calls and emails regarding the potential closure of
the Genoa branch of the
U.S. Postal Service. Many
residents were concerned
that if the branch were to
close, the Windmill branch
would become overcrowded.
New York Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte helped kick
off the 14th annual San Jacinto College Foundation
Golf Tournament.
The official court-naming ceremony honoring
former Dobie High School
varsity boys’ basketball
coach Scott Talton was set
at Dobie. The main gymnasium floor at Dobie High
School would be known as
Scott Talton Court, honoring the longtime Longhorn
coach who died earlier in
Congregation Shaar Hashalom sets events
• Laser Surgery
Consultations
Israeli Folk Dancing
Laura Garner,
Registered Optician
• Contact Lenses
• Eyewear
Melinda McClure,
Optometry Tech
– Serving the South Belt Area for 38 Years –
11408 Hughes Rd.
281-484-2020
Israeli folk dances – the fun way to exercise – are held at Congregation Shaar Hashalom
on Mondays, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 1, 8 and 15. There will be no dances on Dec. 22
and Dec. 29. Lessons are $4 per session, or $35 for 10 sessions for CSH members and $5 per
session or $45 for 10 sessions for nonmembers. Everyone is welcome to join the group – even
if never attended before. Congregation Shaar Hashalom is located at 16020 El Camino Real
in Houston and is the conservative synagogue in the Bay Area.
The entire community is invited to attend. For more information, contact the Synagogue
office at 281-488-5861 or at shaar.hashalom.email@gmail.com.
Judaica Shop open
Congregation Shaar Hashalom Sisterhood’s Judaica Shop is stocked for the approaching
holiday of Hanukkah, as well as with other Judaica items. Holiday items include Hanukkah
decorations, gifts, gift wraps, chocolate gelt and more. Shopping hours are Sundays, Dec. 7
and Dec. 14 from 9 a.m. to noon, and Wednesdays, Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Additional times and dates may be requested by calling the synagogue at 281-488-5861 and
leaving a message for Sheilla Goldberg. The congregation is located at 16020 El Camino Real
in Houston and is the conservative synagogue in the Bay Area. The entire community is
invited to attend. For more information, visit www.shaarhashalom.org.
the year. Talton had retired
from Dobie after the 20072008 season.
1 year ago (2013)
More than 100 Dobie
students either didn’t show
up at school or checked out
early after a Facebook post
sparked rumors of a possible shooting at the area
campus. The rumors began
to circulate the previous
evening when an online
comment of a former Dobie
student on the social networking site mentioned his
school getting shot up. The
targeted student was later
determined to have recently transferred to a Houston
Independent School District
campus. As a precaution,
Dobie had extra security in
and around campus.
Atkinson Elementary School recently held a
Veteran’s Day Program where the students
invited a family member who is in the military.
Fourth-grade student Paola Pombo (right) invited her uncle, U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. John
Rojas.
Photo submitted
SE Dynamic Women
Christmas luncheon set
The Southeast Dynamic
Women Networking Group
will hold its Christmas-themed
luncheon and shopping event
Thursday, Dec. 4, at Golfcrest
Country Club in Pearland
from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Everyone is invited to join in
the Christmas shopping fun,
make some new friends, and
enjoy the luncheon with
dynamic area women.
The luncheon will feature
guest speaker Adrian Miller
from Colorado, whose theme
will be How some of the best
Christmas memories come
from the most humble circumstances. Miller, a professional speaker and singer,
will share her Christmas
inspiration through stories
and song.
Doors will open at 9:30
a.m. when guests can do
some Christmas shopping
and networking with area
vendors who feature Christmas items, home décor,
clothing, fashion accessories,
jewelry, health and beauty,
and business and professional services.
Lunch will be served at
11:15 a.m. and the event ends
at 1:30 p.m.
Guests can register for
free door prizes when they
sign in.
The cost of the luncheon
is $16 which includes the
networking/shopping event
and lunch.
Everyone is welcome to
come and enjoy the guest
speaker, shopping, and the
luncheon. For reservations,
email Sandee Ellis at sand
eeellis@comcast.net or call
713-823-3575 by Dec. 2.
Hall Rentals
Weddings, Receptions, Retirements, Birthday Parties
American Legion Post 490
11702 Galveston Road
(across from Ellington Field)
281-481-1179
Call between 9 AM - 1 PM M-F
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Thursday, November 20, 2014, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Section A, Page 5
Meador Elementary donates food
Frazier celebrates
’50s-style
Frazier Elementary celebrated the 50th day of school on Wednesday, Nov. 5. The students and staff sported their best ’50s wear to
help celebrate the day.
Photos submitted
Johann Castellanos, Andre Espinosa and Laura Mata
Meador Elementary School hosted a food drive for
two weeks, collecting a generous amount of food
to share with Action Ministries Houston. Gordon
Berg of Action Ministries Houston is always very
generous in donating items to Meador, so the school
wanted to find a way to give back. Students were
excited to contribute to their community. Pictured
are, (front row) Kentatta Robinson, Xion Jefferson, Jaylon Burgess, Warren Sellers, Taylor Pervis,
(back row) Assistant Principal Veronica Grimaldo,
Gordon Berg; and Principal Beverly Bolton.
Photo submitted
Dobie’s Rankin, DeClercq attend gala
On Tuesday, Nov. 4, CIS coordinator at Dobie deClercq, nurse at Dobie, attend the 2014 Treasures
both Cassandra Rankin, High School, and Carol had the opportunity to of Texas Gala at the River
Oaks Country Club. At the
event, Liz McIngvaleCegelski, daughter of
Houston area businessman
Jim McIngvale, received
the Spirit of Hope Award
from
Mental
Health
America of Greater Houston.
The award is given to an
individual who demonstrates the spirit and singular ability to convey hope to
those living with mental
illness.
Mental Health America
has greatly increased its
efforts, making it a top priority to help youth, families, schools and communities understand and establish ef- fective prevention
approaches to identify mental health issues early, and
to help children and young
people get the services they
need before crisis situations
Shown are, left to right, Cassandra Rankin, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Carol develop.
Special guest was Dr.
deClercq.
Photo submitted
Drew Pinsky, star of reality
series Celebrity Rehab with
Dr. Drew and No. 1 iTunes
health podcast, Dr. Drew
NASA Aglow invites 28 years of faith and ministry Western Kenya on the Ugandan Podcast.
NASA Aglow welcomes Rev. Garza
border. One hundred churches
are affiliated with their ministry in Kenya and 50 in Uganda.
Join NASA Aglow at 9:30
a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11, to
hear this exciting couple.
NASA Aglow meets at Praise
Chapel, 18516 Highway 3 in
South Houston High
Webster, the second Thursday School alum Rene Garza,
of every month. For informa- Class of ’91, encourages
tion, call 281-910-1971.
drivers to take “A Moment”
this fall and travel down I-45,
near the University of
Houston-Main Campus to
experience art in motion.
The New York celebrity
stylist is working collaboratively with art teachers and
students throughout the district to create a 100-foot
interactive art piece made of
Wedding writeups must be run in the newspaper, not substrips of trash bags.
Innovation meets collabomitted, in the time outlined:
ration with this unique display. The project requires a
From wedding date to six weeks – photo and full article;
group of up to 14 participants
Six weeks to three months – photo and limited information;
to sit directly across from
each other and tie the strips to
After three months from wedding date – will not be run.
25 feet of chicken wire. Garza
engineered the project so
Engagement and wedding announcements are published
eventually participants meet
free of charge on a first come, first served basis. Information
in the middle of the display
and connect with one another.
must be submitted by noon on Friday to be considered for the
“I was invited to display
next issue.
my artwork in a public place,
so I thought it would be a
good idea to do something
women to Praise Chapel on
Thursday, Dec. 11, at 9:30
a.m. to hear missionary Rev.
Larry Garza. He and his wife,
Rev. Linda Garza, have traveled to Asia for many years.
The Garzas are founders of
Heavenly Vision Ministries,
an international Gospel outreach.
Larry and Linda celebrated
in 2014. That calling has taken
them to 50 nations of the
world. Their heart is to save
souls, impart their life experiences, and to help others to
accomplish their calling. They
have built churches, supported
local ministries, and implemented many humanitarian
projects. Most recently, this
year they have built a church in
Pictured are, left to right, (front row) Allisen Steward, Barbie Hicks,
Connie Groves, (middle row) Bonnie Murray, Emily McLaughlin,
Pam Williams, Gerri Watkins, (back row) Mauricio Amaya, Katrina Nicole Saracay, Kaylynn McClain, Phoenix Mobley and
Mitchell, Christine Roberts, Evelyn Baldauf and Angie O'Quin.
Lucius Monarez
PISD awarded over $3.4 million in grants
The Pasadena Independent
School District recently received two competitive federal grants, totaling more than
$3.4 million, to develop,
enhance and expand initiatives that address mental
health illness among students
and improve the school climate throughout the district
over the next five years.
Pasadena ISD is one of 71
school systems in 23 states
selected to receive the School
Climate
Transformation
grant by the U.S. Department
of Education in the amount
of $3.4 million. The grant
will be used to develop the
district’s Foundations for
Academic Success program,
a multi-tiered behavioral
framework for supporting
students socially and academically.
Some key goals of the
program are to create positive
school climates districtwide
that increase school safety,
reduce bullying behaviors
and improve student academic achievement.
The district will coordinate with community partners to train more than 3,500
teachers and support staff in
behavior management over
the next five years and implement an evidence-based
multi-structured framework
for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for students.
The district was also
awarded the Project AWARE
(Advancing Wellness and
Resilience in Education)
grant by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human
Services’ Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services
Administration in the amount
of $99,890. The grant will be
used over the next two years
to provide Youth Mental
Health First Aid training and
curriculum to 500 district
staff and community members.
The purpose of the Project
AWARE program is to help
adults in school settings and
communities identify and
appropriately respond to
mental illness among students.
“Through the Pasadena
AWARE project, early identification of youth with mental
conditions will help families
understand how to help their
children and result in an
increased number of youth
Wedding,
engagement policies
bags because of their shiny
lightweight material. When
the project goes up on display,
it will shimmer in the sunlight
and dance in the wind.
Garza learned to view the
world differently early in life,
he said. When he reached
adulthood, he applied that
proposal seeking support of
the two programs.
Both grants are part of
President Barack Obama’s
“Now is the Time” initiative
to increase access to mental
health services and create a
safer
environment
in
schools.
Corral the grease: Learn ways
to reduce sewer problems
Cooking fats, oil and
grease could ruin your holiday this year. Many people
make the common and costly
mistake of pouring fats,
cooking grease and oils in the
kitchen sinks. These fats,
greases and vegetable oils
poured into drains, solidify
and clog pipes.
Cooking grease can get as
hard as concrete, causing
sewage to back up and overflow into streets, yards, storm
ditches, and yes, even homes.
The most practical way to
South Houston High alum to display
community artwork on Houston highway
positive for the district that
made me who I am today,”
Garza said. “I have been
working with students and
staff to design an art piece
that everyone in Pasadena
ISD can be proud of because
we did it together.”
Garza decided to use trash
receiving the help necessary
for them to function each
day,” Linda Rodriguez, project director and the district
coordinator of behavior
response and crisis said.
Rodriguez worked collaboratively with the district’s
grant department to submit a
reduce grease overflows in
the home is to follow these
easy steps.
• Remember, garbage disposals are not effective for
disposing of fats, oils and
greases.
• Consider pouring grease
into coffee cans, cups and
other storage devices to collect cooking oil or grease.
• Use paper towels to soak
up grease in pans after it
cools and dispose of in the
trash.
Cooler temperatures cause
grease to harden quicker in
the sanitary sewer lines, and
it is the homeowner’s responsibility to maintain the sanitary sewer lines from the
homes to the city line connection. If a blockage is causing problems in a home and it
is discovered to be in a city
line, a crew will come out
and clear the line.
For more information on
how to reduce sewer line
blockages, visit the Corral
the Grease website at http://
www.publicworks.houstontx.
gov/utilities/corral_grease.
html.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
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281-484-4230
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WEEKLY SERVICE TIMES
Sunday
Wednesday
Early Service • 7:45 a.m.
Prayer Meeting • 7:00 p.m.
Sunday School • 9:30 a.m.
Mid-Week Service • 7:45 p.m.
Worship Service • 10:45 a.m.
Nursery Available at all Services
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Rev. Douglas J. Guthrie, Pastor
Rev. Desmond Daniels, Parochial Vicar
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Psalm 100: 1-5
Kirkwood South Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ)
Where God Makes Lives Better
10811 Kirkfair (At Beamer)
281-481-0004
Sunday School - 9 a.m.
Worship for Everyone - 10 a.m.
www.KSCchurch.org
(between Beamer & Blackhawk)
www.stlukescatholic.com
LITURGY SCHEDULE
Saturday
Vigil 5:30 p.m.
Sunday
7:30, 9:15, 11:15 a.m.
Sunday
1:00 p.m. Misa en Espanol
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
9:00 a.m.
Tuesday & Thursday
7:00 p.m.
Sacrament of Reconciliation is celebrated
Thursday 6 to 7 p.m
Saturday 4 to 5 p.m.
Parish Office 281-481-6816 Faith Formation 281-481-4251
Youth Ministry 281-481-4735
St. Luke’s offers ministries for ALL-families, men, women,
youth, children, young adults, single, divorced, separated,
widowed.
Attend the
Church of Your Choice
Traditional Worship
8:30 & 11 a.m.
Sunday School
9:45 a.m.
The Fountain (Contemporary) 5 p.m.
Cokesbury United Methodist Church
281-484-9243 • 10030 Scarsdale Blvd.
Page 6, Section A, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Thursday, November 20, 2014
Atkinson announces first 9-weeks rolls
Atkinson
Elementary
School recently released its
first nine-weeks honor rolls
for the 2014-2015 school
year. Students earning status
are:
SUCCESS
Perfect attendance
Edgar Avila, Rebecca
Cook, Mya Gordon-Demerson, Izmael Guzman, Jade
Hall and Adrian Monita.
Kindergarten
Perfect attendance
Arlette Aguirre, Deacon
Akinloye, Kevin Alfaro,
Judith Andrade, Ayden Arambul, Cordarus Bibbs, Alexander Brock, Diva Burgess,
Kiahna Davis, Joy Denman,
Jade Fernandez, Sophia Garcia, Isaiah Garcia and
Natalynn Garner.
Luis Gonzalez, Grace
Hernandez, Corinne Jackson,
Alexandria Linthicum, Lauren
Liscano, Esther Lopez,
McKenzie Mandani, Laila
Martin, Jacob Martinez, Nathan Mata, Jasmine McGee
Cooper and Samantha Moreno-De Moses.
Manuel Olera, Jazalynn
Randall, Audrey Rodriguez,
Keira Rodriguez, Jonathan
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Rachel Sanchez, Ashlyn Terry,
Guadalupe Torres, Jeremiah
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Dolton Wofford.
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Reemas Alazzeh, Abel
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Jada Moore, Angie Muñoz,
Cordon Nguyen, Tiffany
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Jazmin Pineda, Nelson Rivera,
Donnie Robinson, Gio Rodriguez, Jorgen Rodriguez,
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Christopher Vanegas, Marissa
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Rigoberto Alanís Jr.,
Alphin Anthony, McKenzie
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Adriel Cruz, Jaila Davis,
Kaden Dillard, Viviana
Fernandez and Alfonso
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Leon Gravesande, Corynn
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Jones, Destiny Mays, Derek
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Tristan Tran and Jasmyn
Willis.
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David Abdelmalak, Bianca
Barrera, Victoria Byrd, Emily
Cano, Alejandro Del Villar,
Eliana Gaetjen, Eliana Gilbert,
Jaylon Lasker, Aiden Narcisse,
Huy Nguyen, Diego Perez and
Milagros Regalado.
Joshua Rios, Grettel Rivas,
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Tailin Curtis, Daniel Dávila, Jaila Davis, Christopher
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Chelsea Akinloye, Tirza
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Zeni Comabella-Vives,
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Melanie de la Rosa, Richard
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Eric Garcia, Josiah Hamlin,
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Sang Lam, Sienna Le,
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Nelson Machado, Maria
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Jacqueline Oba, Xavier
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Jer’Keithric Moore, Vivian
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Frazier Elementary School participated in the
City of Pasadena’s Can Do Food Drive this month.
The school’s student council worked hard to collect and count the food items from classrooms each
morning. The students donated 495 items weighing 530 pounds, all of which will be donated to the
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SECTION B
SPORTS & CLASSIFIED
Led wire-to-wire
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wins pickers contest
Debbie Vaughn, in
just her second season
in the competition, is the
champion of the South
Belt-Ellington Leader’s
annual high school football game predictions
contest.
Leading wire-to-wire,
Vaughn went 8-2 in the
final week of the contest,
finishing 90-28 overall.
The contest closes
when either Dobie or
Clear Brook is eliminated from the playoffs.
Vaughn, a longtime
employee at C&D Burg-
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in 2013 after C&D owner and longtime contest
participant Joe Craddock
died.
Realtor Troy Leland
did his best to catch
Vaughn down the backstretch but wound up
second at 85-33.
Leader sports editor
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Wild play ignites Shore
over Longhorns, 38-17
Just over seven minutes
remained in the third quarter.
Dobie led North Shore
17-10 in a bidistrict playoff football game at Pasadena ISD’s Veterans
Stadium. Disaster then
appeared to strike North
Shore.
Instead, one of the
wildest plays of the entire
2014 season ignited the
Mustangs to 28 unaswered
points and a 38-17 win
over Dobie.
For the Mustangs, it
was a fourth straight playoff win over Dobie dating
back to 2011. Now 7-4
overall, the Mustangs will
host Clear Springs in an
area round playoff game
Nov. 21.
Dobie’s season is done
at 6-5 overall, and the locals know just how different things could have
been.
Specifically, the Mustangs were facing a second-down play with about
seven and a half minutes
to play in the third qaurter
and Dobie leading by seven.
The second-down snap
sailed way over quarterback Miciah Long’s head.
Long, turned and began
chasing the loose ball
some 25 yards the other
way. With Dobie defenders in pursuit, Long somehow recovered the ball and
flung a short pass over the
middle to receiver Autria
Lynch. Now roughly 65
yards from the end zone,
Lynch turned the play into
a 43-yard touchdown for
North Shore at the 7:19
mark. Tied 17-17, the
game had turned in an instant. The Mustangs had
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championship Saturday.
The tournament will
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and Deer Park areas.
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As for championship
Saturday Nov. 22, the action all culminates with
the boys’ Division I gold
bracket title game, set to
be played at Phillips Field
House in Pasadena.
Tip-off will come at 8
p.m., just after the completion of the Alumni
Challenge game, also at
Phillips.
Championship Saturday at Phillips begins at
4:30 p.m. as the girls’ Division I gold bracket title
game is played beginning
at 4:30 p.m.
Depending on fans’ differing allegiances, there
are a variety of championship game options, all on
Nov. 22.
The boys’ Division I
silver bracket finale will
be played at Dobie High
School, beginning at 6
p.m.
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the Clear Brook varsity boys’ basketball team
dropped its season opener
to Pearland, 75-63, Nov.
18, at Clear Brook.
The Wolverines led
17-9 after a quarter of play
but were then outscored
45-25 over the course of
the second and third quarters.
Pearland’s Ajare Sanni
led the way for the winners with 25 points in the
game. David Azore, mean- meno had 11, with Colin
while, had 25 to pace the Walthall and Spencer SnyWolverines. Cesar Cali- der adding 10 apiece.
Girls’ teams get Ws
The results have been
mixed through the first 10
days of the season, but the
Dobie and Clear Brook
varsity girls’ basketball
teams have pocketed their
first wins.
Dobie defeated Goose
Creek Memorial 36-35
during the Gander Tip-
Off Classic in Baytown
as Jade Giron led the way
with 20 points. Dobie then
lost a head-to-head game,
46-42, to Baytown Lee
Nov. 17.
Clear Brook defeated La Porte, 39-36, after
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Pasadena ISD’s cross-country
season begins at intermediates
Without
further
ado, the intermediate
cross-country season is
under way in the Pasadena Independent School
District.
There wasn’t much
competition in the final
team standings. Much
like in 2013, the Bondy
girls controlled things
in both the seventh- and
eighth-grade divisions.
And the San Jacinto
Intermediate boys scored
wins in both divisions.
However, the Bears
got a big lift from
eighth-grader
Jordy
Reyes, who was the top
overall medalist at 12
minutes, 41 seconds over
the 2-mile course.
San Jacinto easily
won the eighth-grade
boys’ title with a low of
31 points. Bondy was
second with 77, and Beverly Hills was third with
88.
BHI’s Reyes steals show
Reyes went stride for
stride with Nick Cisneros (12:42) of San Jacinto, South Houston’s
Richard Lopez (12:43)
and Gustavo Gurrusquieta
(12:45) of Southmore before claiming the win.
Next up for the Bears
were Illsen Urrutia (13:37
for 18th place) and Jason
Ramirez (13:42 for 19th
place).
The Bears’ other two
official scorers included
Trevor Pervis, who was
27th at 13:55, and Joseph
Hernandez, 29th at 13:57.
Other runners for the
Bears were Tanner Vega
(14:26), Khang Tran
(14:37), Oliver Delarosa
(15:03), David Le (15:29),
Isiah House (15:43), Kareem Salomon (15:57),
Franklin
Villalobos
(16:21),
Jacob
Haas
(16:48) and Christian Valadez (17:19).
GAT 8s are sixth
The Thompson eighthgrade team wound up
sixth as its top six scorers
combined for a total of
171 based on overall finish.
The Lions were led by
Giovanni Solis, whose
time of 13:53 was good
enough for 22nd overall. His teammate, Jason
Ramirez, was next at
13:54 for 23rd.
Thompson’s
Trevor Hondros was 30th
after posting a time of
13:57, and Sebastian
Gaona crossed the finish line 44th overall at
14:13.
The Lions’ fifth and
final official scorer was
Christian Vela, who was
at 14:38 for 52nd place.
Others who competed
for the Lions included
Alex Hernandez (14:52),
Marco
Velasquez
(15:04), Justin Lavinier
(15:17), Aaron Nguyen
15:43), Isaac Mesitzo
(15:53), Jonathan Moreno (16:00), Daveante
Lopez (16:49), Emmanuel Morrison (17:00),
Eduardo Gomez (17:01)
and Christian Saldivar
(17:06).
SJI sweeps boys meets
The San Jacinto boys
also easily won the seventh-grade title with a
low of 33 points, with
Bondy tallying 70 for
second.
Locally, the Thompson
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McD’s championship Saturday has potential thrillers
Continued from Page 1B
bronze title tilt will be
played at Deer Park High
School’s Watkins campus,
at 6 p.m.
In the boys’ Division
II ranks, the gold division
championship game is set
for Pasadena High School,
also at 6 p.m.
Two other 6 p.m. championship game starts will
include the boys’ Division
II silver bracket title game,
there are others.
The girls’ Division I
silver bracket title game
is set for 4:30 p.m., at Memorial High School.
In girls’ Division I
bronze bracket action, the
championship game will
be played at 1:30 p.m.,
also at Memorial High
School.
Shifting to the girls’
Divison II gold bracket,
the championship will be
decided at Deer Park High
School’s South campus,
starting at 6 p.m.
In girls’ II silver bracket
action, the top trophy will
be contested for beginning
at 3 p.m., also at Deer Park
High School’s South campus.
South Houston High
School will host the girls’
Division II bronze bracket
title game, beginning at
1:30 p.m.
The girls’ Division I
consolation bracket title
game will be played at
Deer Park High School’s
South campus, at 1:30
p.m.
The girls’ Division II
consolation bracket title game will be played
at Dobie High School, at
1:30 p.m.
Dobie pool play
As shown in last week’s
Leader, the Dobie varsity
boys’ basketball team will
open its season at the invitational.
The Longhorns will
face the Humble Wildcats
at 9 a.m., at Dobie.
Dobie returns to Scott
Talton Court (Dobie) once
more at 1:30 p.m., this
time against Klein Collins.
The Lady Longhorns
begin play Nov. 20, at
noon against Rayburn at
Phillips Field House.
Game is Nov. 22, 6 p.m. — Phillips Field House
Alumni Challenge to add to Texas Invitational’s excitement
With a year to recover
from their aches and injuries, alumni basketball
players from Pasadena
and Deer Park will let discretion be the better part
of valor when they clash
again during the Nov. 2022 McDonald’s Texas Invitational Tournament.
Yes, it’s true. Even
living legends need reinforcements.
About a dozen new recruits will be in uniform
when the invitational plays
host to the second Alumni Challenge showdown
between old-timers from
JFD senior linemen relish Beltway victory
Dobie varsity football’s offensive line class of
seniors celebrated the Longhorns’ winning the
Battle of the Beltway trophy after a 37-20 victory over Memorial Nov. 6 at Pasadena ISD’s
Memorial Stadium. Members of the unit include,
at Sam Rayburn High
School.
The boys’ Division II
bronze bracket title game
will be at South Houston
High School.
Prefer girls’ basketball
championship
games?
There are plenty of options.
Aside from the Division
I girls’ gold bracket title
game Nov. 22, at Phillips
Field House (4:30 p.m.),
left to right, Tony Cantu, Collyn Davis, Jonathan
Woodall, (back row) offensive line coach James
Freeman, Nathan Flores, Juan Pedraza, Jacob
Salinas, Xavier Rodriguez, Chris William and
Xavier Brown.
Deer Park High School
and the five Pasadena ISD
high schools.
The game is set for Saturday, Nov. 22, at Phillips
Field House, with tip-off
at 6 p.m.
Although designed as
a fun warmup contest for
the boys’ Division I gold
bracket
championship
game at 8 p.m., the Alumni Challenge, in its debut
last year, nearly filled the
gymnasium.
Alumni cheerleaders
and drill team members
will be on hand to perform
and cheer on their heroes
to even greater glory.
A ticket to the Alumni
Challenge will be good
for admission to the boys’
Division 1 championship
game to follow.
The Alumni Challenge
is sponsored by Loomis International. Larry
C. Johnson, president of
Loomis, played forward
for Deer Park in the 1970s
and will be participating in
the game.
Deer Park won the inaugural contest, 35-30.
The winner of this
year’s game will take
possession of a traveling trophy to be awarded
each year to the prevailing
squad.
The alumni coaches are
both icons of the area’s
basketball past. Directing
the Deer again this year
will be Ray Landers, who
earned four district Coach
of the Year honors during
a 12-year varsity career at
Deer Park that began in
1971.
Phil Eaton, who played
at Pasadena High in the
early 1970s and enjoyed a
highly successful stint as
the Eagles’ head coach in
the 1980s, will once again
coach the Pasadena ISD
squad.
Landers will be assisted
by David Nutt and Dean
Evans. Eaton will be assisted by Greg Clary and
Rick Sherley.
In addition to Johnson,
Landers coached eight of
the 17 players on the Deer
Park roster. David Adair
(class of 1972), Steve
Hester (1972), Nick Snell
(1978), Tom Fuller (1979),
Keith Westerman (1979),
Tim Johnson (1982) and
Ed Berg (1982) all played
for Landers.
Easton coached three of
the 18 players on the Pasadena ISD roster: Jeff Wylie (class of 1987), Marco
Alvarado (1992) and Manny Coronado (1992).
Arguably, the two participants with the most
celebrated careers in athletics are Wylie and Jason
Skaer, a 1994 Deer Park
graduate.
Skaer, a high-school
All-American his senior
year, played on Oklahoma
State’s Final Four team in
1995.
Wylie, a forward for
Pasadena High in the mid1980s, reigned four years
as Southwest Conference
high jump champion at
Baylor, twice earning
All-America honors.
Playing for the Eagles, he twice led Eaton-coached teams to district championships.
Wylie will be inducted into the Pasadena ISD
Athletics Hall of Fame
next April, as will the late
Scott Talton, who won 500
games as the head boys’
basketball coach at Dobie.
Five of Talton’s former
players will participate in
the Alumni Challenge: Bill
Cole (class of 1982), Kevin Carpenter (1984), Chris
Cole (1993), Deondray
Carter (1995) and Talton’s
son, Scott. (2008).
Deer Park High School Alumni
Player
Bruce Newman
David Adair
Steve Hester
Larry C. Johnson
Nick Snell
Tom Fuller
Keith Westerman
Ed Berg
Tim Johnson
Adam Berg
Chris Bowyer
Oscar Madrigal
Jason Skaer
Ryan Nygaard
Chris Fountain
Ryan Bright
J.T. Fletcher
Jacob Munoz
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Pat Naff
Jim Perritt
Bill Cole
Kevin Carpenter
Robert Kolakowski
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Chris Cole
Deondray Carter
Cedric Ballard
Adrian Castro
Kevin Richard
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North Shore takes fourth straight over Longhorns, 38-17
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not only averted disaster but basically taken
the wind out of Dobie’s
sails.
On the next Dobie possession, Longhorn starting
quarterback Joe Gonzalez
exited the game with an
ankle injury. Both its pride
and its quarterback compromised, Dobie did not
recover.
Over eight possessions in the second half,
the Longhorns punted six
times. One of those was
blocked. Backup quarterback Tyler Giron was intercepted twice to end the
Dobie defensive players, from left, Chandler Tisby
(90), Dalvin Sterling (9) and Quinton Bolling (48)
converge to make a stop against North Shore backup
quarterback Myron James during the Longhorns’
other possessions.
“The ball is rolling 25
yards back the other direction and North Shore
winds up with a touchdown,” Dobie head coach
Jim Phillips lamented.
“That, and we had a
touchdown called back on
an illegal procedure call.
We looked at the film,
and nobody moved on the
play. If we get that, we’re
up 21-10.
“Instead, they stay close
and then hit on that crazy
play. Give credit to North
Shore. They are who they
are for a reason. It’s just
one of those things.”
Prior to the miraculous
Long to Lynch hookup,
the Longhorns had been
in position to at least go
late into the game with a
chance to win.
Senior tailback Rashaad
Randall, who finished his
senior season with just
under 1,500 yards rushing along with 16 touchdowns, scored on a 3-yard
burst midway through the
first quarter to give Dobie
a 7-0 lead.
Later, Randall put Dobie ahead as he sprinted
untouched up the middle
for 18 yards and another
score. Alexis Saldivar added a 27-yard field goal for
the Longhorns.
Although North Shore’s
Saul Ruiz connected for a
31-yard field goal on the
final play of the half, the
Longhorns led 17-10 and
were closer to their first
win in the playoff series
than at any other time
since 2011.
Clearly, the injury to
Gonzalez played a role
as well in the final outcome.
More suited to fit the
Longhorns’ read option
attack than Giron, a more
accomplished
passer,
Gonzalez may have been
able to convert a couple of
fourth-and-one situations
in the second half. Instead,
Phillips chose to punt.
North Shore respondeventual 38-17 bidistrict playoff loss to the Mused with three touchdowns
tangs Nov. 14, at Pasadena ISD’s Veterans Stadium.
after Dobie punts. “LookSterling and Bolling played in their final games for
ing back on it, maybe we
Dobie.
Photos by Gary Williams
would have gone for it on
fourth down instead of
punting,” Phillips said.
“You’re playing the percentages and knowing that
you’re still in the game.
Even at 24-17 or even
31-17, you’re still within
striking distance. Those
situations just didn’t work
out for us.”
So it’s four years and
four consecutive losses
to the Mustangs. Dobie,
a winner of six straight
games to close the regular season, has not won
a playoff game since the
2004 campaign.
Yet Phillips and his
crew will push on.
The majority of the offensive line and the offensive backfield will be lost
to graduation. But there
are subvarsity options on
the way to fill some of
those spots. Defensively,
there will be graduation
losses as well, but several
standout performers will
be back.
It’s the proverbial wait
until next year talk, but it
is what it is.
North Shore running back Tristan Houston (41), the game with an injury. On this play, Houston is
who has committed to play at the University of Tex- bottled up by Dobie’s Rolando Rocha (far left), Dedas, had a rough night against Dobie before leaving rick Simpson (40) and Darius Hypolite (8).
Thursday, November 20, 2014, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Section B, Page 3
As San Jacinto College athletes strive to make pros, leadership, responsibility still take center stage
By Allison Davis
San Jacinto College has
turned out many athletes
who have gone on to play
a variety of professional
sports over the years.
Through baseball there
have been more than 100
players, including Roger
Clemens and Andy Pettitte who both played for
the Houston Astros during their baseball careers,
drafted by more than 25
different teams.
Matt Albers, Scott Barrett and David Rollins
have also played for the
Houston Astros.
A total of 18 players
from San Jacinto’s men’s
basketball program have
gone to the pro ranks, including Walter Berry, Sam
Cassell and Steve Francis,
who wore the No. 3 Houston Rockets’ jersey.
Dane Richards continued playing soccer after
his time at San Jacinto and
is currently a midfielder for
Bodø/Glimt in Norway.
Between the number of
professional careers, 12
national championships
and 116 All-Americans,
many marvel about the
San Jacinto athletics department and just how it
has generated such success.
Leadership is the most
important part of any
team.
At SJC, the coaches
put forth their best when
working with their student-athletes, and many
referred to coaching for
San Jacinto as a dream job.
When recruiting, these
coaches look not only for
star athletes, but for players who are personable,
and those who love the
game they play.
They want players who
work hard and are prepared to further cultivate
the rich tradition San Jacinto College has.
The coaches prepare
their student-athletes for
not only four-year college
sports, but the classroom
as well.
“Community college is
a second chance for a lot
LSA’s Salazar picks ALR baseball program
of these guys,” said Scott
R. Gernander, the men’s
basketball head coach at
San Jacinto, also a former
player in the prgoram.
The college staff focuses on helping the athletes
build and keep their grade
point averages above 2.5,
which is required for university sports.
They want to prepare
their players for more
than just next week’s
game; they want to lay the
groundwork for life in the
real world.
Players are expected to
have drive and work ethic,
attend every class every
day, and motivate others
to do the same.
Success is earned and
the players are driven by
their coaches, professors,
and peers to excel in their
studies and aspirations.
Coaches instill in their
student-athletes
leadership, sportsmanship, and
the importance of time
management.
Every lesson these
coaches teach impacts
their athletes. The players
learn leadership and how
to be overall better people.
Every lesson players
are taught through sports
can be taken with them
and applied to real life situations beyond the field.
After playing for San
Jacinto, former Pasadena
Memorial High School
softball star, Kelsey McClain returned to help
coach softball at the college.
She’s had to make the
transition from player to
coach mindset. This transition has altered her perspective on the game, and
she says it has made her
into a better person.
The
players
have
taught the coaches just as
much.
When asked what
coaching has taught them,
Kelly Saenz, the softball
coach, and Gernander both
replied “adaptability.”
They said they never
know as much as they
think they know, and every player has a different
learning style and mentality. Sometimes one way
of saying something will
work for a player, but an
entirely different approach
must be taken with another.
No matter the sport,
sportsmanship is stressed
to the players in practices
and games.
Every day, on and off
the field, these players are
ingrained with integrity.
Gary Gaetti, head coach
of the Sugar Land Skeeters, a member of the
Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, men-
tioned after a scrimmage
game with the baseball
team that the SJC players
and coaching staff were
cordial, and he acknowledged the rich history the
college has and talked
well of the current players and coaches upholding
that history and traditions.
Excellence is a core
value the college instills in
its students. The studentathletes are expected to
give their best and to set a
positive example for those
around them.
The coaches select the
players they feel will positively impact the team the
most and who deserve to
represent the college.
Thompson duo take honors at Pasadena ISD PPK
At right, Thompson
Intermediate students
Taylor Pleasants (left)
and Nicholas Gaytan made their school
proud during the Pasadena ISD’s annual
Punt, Pass and Kick
competition,
taking
top honors in their respective age categories.
Pleasants claimed her
win in the 14 to 15-yearold division, while Gaytan’s win came in the
12 to 13-year-old division.
Photo by Gary Williams
Lutheran South Academy varsity baseball player Paul Salazar (seated center) will continue his
education and playing career at the University
of Arkansas at Little Rock after signing a letter
of intent with the Trojans. Those with Salazar
at the signing included, left to right, (seated) Daryl Thomas (stepfather), Sarah Villery-Thomas
(mother), (standing) LSA head baseball coach
Aaron Schneider and LSA assistant coach A.J.
Bettcher.
Families visit former Dobie football players Caballero, Childs
LSA’s Franson
headed to TCU
baseball
Lutheran South Academy varsity baseball
player Trent Franson
(seated center) will continue his studies and
playing career at Texas
Christian University in
Fort Worth after signing a letter of intent
with the Horned Frogs.
Those with Franson at
the signing included,
left to right, (seated)
Susanne
Franson
(mother), Brian Franson (father), (standing)
LSA assistant coach
A.J. Bettcher, academy athletic director
Rob Psencik and head
baseball coach Aaron
Schneider.
Marietta College freshman football players and 2014 Dobie High
School graduates Kevin Caballero and Darien Childs were visited by
family and friends at the college during Marietta’s home game against
Muskingum University Nov. 8, a 17-13 win for Muskingum. Those in
attendance included, left to right, Marina Richard (Caballero’s aunt),
Rose Ruiz (Caballero’s grandmother), Rachal Richard (Caballero’s
cousin), Henry Caballero (Caballero’s father), Victoria Maldonado
(Caballero’s girlfriend), Kevin Caballero, Maddy Caballero (Caballero’s sister), Alicia Caballero (Caballero’s mother), Darien Childs,
Wendy Childs (Childs’ mother), and Dre and Devin Childs (Childs’
brothers). Kevin Caballero has seen action in two games, and Childs
has played in seven games for Marietta (2-8, 1-8 in conference) so far
this season.
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
7 a.m.
AA Meeting – “Breakfast With Bill” each Tuesday through
Friday, 7 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1062
Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, in Cornell Conference
room. Call 281-487-8787 for information, or just drop in.
Noon
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) – Imperfect Nooners
Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, 2245 N. Main
(building next to pawn shop). For information, call 713856-1611.
4 p.m.
Houston Area Parkinson Society – Free water exercise for individuals with Parkinson’s disease, 4 to 5
p.m., Kindred Rehabilitation Hospital Clear Lake, 655
E. Medical Center Blvd., Webster. Call 713-313-1652 or
visit www.hapsonline.org for a list of all services.
6 p.m.
Texas German Society, South Belt (SE) Chapter – A
social group interested in the culture, music, heritage
and language of German immigrants in Texas. Meetings
are on the third Thursday of each month, 6 p.m., in the
Fellowship Hall of Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 10310
Scarsdale Blvd. Visitors are welcome. Call 281-4811238 for information.
7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Women’s Group of
Narcotics Anonymous, open meeting, 7 p.m., 2930 E.
Broadway (FM 518), First Presbyterian Church in the
youth building on the Westminster side. For information,
call 713-856-1611.
Al-Anon (English Speaking) – Provides support for family and friends of alcoholics and addicts. Thursday, 7 p.m.,
First United Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont Parkway,
Pasadena, Room 215. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
Alateen – Provides support for teenage children,
friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts.
Thursday at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church,
1062 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, Room 208. Call
281-487-8787, or just drop in.
8:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Alcohol problems? AA
meetings are held Thursdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., and
Sundays and Tuesdays, 8 to 9 p.m., St. Stephen
Presbyterian Church, 2217 Theta Street. For information, call 713-204-2481.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
7 a.m.
AA Meeting – “Breakfast With Bill” each Tuesday through
Friday, 7 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1062
Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, in Cornell Conference
room. Call 281-487-8787 for information, or just drop in.
10 a.m.
Interfaith Care Partners – Interfaith Care Partners ministry at Saint Frances Cabrini Catholic Church, 10727
Hartsook St., near Almeda Mall. This gathering, for
those with Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, strokes,
etc. and their caretakers, meets the third Friday of
each month, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It consists of a continental-type breakfast, arts, crafts, exercises, entertainment, a sing-a-long, devotional break, lunch, and bingo
game. Those who have a family member or know of
someone with these challenges are invited. For information, call the church at 713-946-5768; Claudia Rojas,
Interfaith Care Partners, at 713-682-5995; or visit the
website at www.interfaithcarepartners.org.
Noon
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) – West End Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Shepherd of the Heart United Methodist Church, 12005 County Road 39, Pearland.
For information, call 713-856-1611.
6 p.m.
Un Dia a la Vez Alanon Group (Spanish) – Provides
support for family and friends of alcoholics or addicts.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 p.m., room 215, First
United Methodist Church, Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont
Parkway. Call 281-487-8787, or just in.
7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Vigilance Group of
Narcotics Anonymous, open meeting, 7 p.m., 2930 E.
Broadway (FM 518), First Presbyterian Church in the
youth building on the Westminster side. For more information, call 713-856-1611.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22
7:30 a.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – “Breakfast with Bill”,
Saturdays, 7:30 a.m., First United Methodist Church,
Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont Parkway, Cornell Conference
room. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
10 a.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Vigilance Group of
Narcotics Anonymous, open meeting, 10 a.m., 2930
E. Broadway (FM 518), First Presbyterian Church in
the youth building on the Westminster side. For more
information, call 713-856-1611.
11 a.m.
Al-Anon Meeting (Women Only, English) – For persons whose lives are affected by an addict. Saturdays,
11 a.m., First United Methodist Church, Pasadena,
1062 Fairmont Pkwy, Cornell Conference Room #111.
Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23
11 a.m.
First Christian Church of Pasadena (Disciples of
Christ) has an innovative worship service Sundays 11
a.m., Sept. 7 through Nov. 23. This service will combine
contemporary and traditional worship with an interactive message and experiential prayers. All are welcome
to join and participate in this worship experience! 4848
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2 p.m.
Grief Support Group – For any adult who has lost a
loved one. Meets Sundays, except Mother’s Day, Easter
and Christmas, 2 to 3:15 p.m., First United Methodist
Church Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont Parkway. For information, call 281-487-8787.
5:30 p.m.
Celebrate Recovery – A faith-based 12-Step Program,
Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Chapel of the Educational Building
at Life Church in Houston, 9900 Almeda Genoa. Call
713-419-2635 for information or to RSVP for child care.
6:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Candlelight Meeting,
Sunday, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1062
Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, Cornell Conference
Room. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Vigilance Group of
Narcotics Anonymous NA meets Sundays, 7 p.m., 2245
N. Main St., Pearland (building next to pawn shop). For
more information, call 713-856-1611.
8 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Alcohol problems? AA
meetings are held Thursdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., and
Sundays and Tuesdays, 8 to 9 p.m., St. Stephen
Presbyterian Church, 2217 Theta Street. For information, call 713-204-2481.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24
10 a.m.
Al-Anon Deer Park – Mondays 10 to 11 a.m. Literature
Study. In His Presence Fellowship Church, 1202 East
P Street, Deer Park. Enter through Fellowship Hall in
back of church. Call 409-454-5720 for information, or
just drop in.
11:30 a.m.
Overeaters Anonymous Deer Park – 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. Literature Study. In His Presence Fellowship
Church, 1202 East P Street, Deer Park. Enter through
Fellowship Hall in back of church. Call 409- 454-5720
for information, or just drop in.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Noon
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) – Imperfect Nooners Group of
Alcoholics Anonymous meets at noon at 2245 N. Main (building next
to pawn shop). For more information, call 713-856-1611.
3:30 p.m.
Houston Area Parkinson Society – Free exercise and speech
therapy from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Clear Lake Rehabilitation Hospital, 655
E. Medical Center Blvd., Webster. Visit www.hapsonline.org for a complete list of services offered. For adults with Parkinson’s disease only.
6 p.m.
Scrabble Club #511 – Meets Mondays at IHOP, 11222 Fuqua, 6 p.m.
Come and improve crossword game playing skills. Call 281-488-2923
for more information.
6:30 p.m.
Pearland Overeaters Anonymous HOW Meeting – meets Mondays
at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 2535 E. Broadway (FM 518). Enter
door closest to recycling bins. For more information, call 713-8653668 or visit www.oahouston.org.
7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Vigilance Group of Narcotics
Anonymous, open meeting, 7 p.m., 2930 E. Broadway (FM 518), First
Presbyterian Church in the youth building on the Westminster side.
For more information, call 713-856-1611.
Friends Helping Friends Grief Support Group – Group meets
Mondays, Kindred Rehabilitation Hospital, 655 E. Medical Center
Blvd., Webster, 7 to 8:15 p.m., in the staff meeting room. Anyone who
has lost a loved one is welcome. Free. For information, call Betty Bielat
at 281-474-3430 or Diana Kawalec at 281-334-1033.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
7 a.m.
AA Meeting – “Breakfast With Bill” each Tuesday through Friday,
7 a.m., First United Methodist Church Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont
Parkway, in the Cornell Conference room. Call 281-487-8787 for
information, or drop in.
9:30 a.m.
Pasadena Heritage Park and Museum – Exhibits include dioramas,
an old-time kitchen and a turn-of-the-century doctor’s office. Tuesday
through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., 204 S. Main, Pasadena. For
information, call 713-472-0565.
10 a.m.
American Begonia Society – Houston Satellite meets the fourth
Tuesday of each month, Clear Lake Park, 5001 NASA Parkway (on
the lake side), Seabrook. For information, call Joe at 281-481-2458.
Noon
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) – Imperfect Nooners Group of
Alcoholics Anonymous meets at noon, 2245 N. Main (building next to
pawn shop). For more information, call 713-856-1611.
Rotary Club of Pearland – Meets weekly, Tuesdays, noon to 1 p.m.,
Golfcrest Country Club, 2509 Country Club Drive, Pearland. Lunch is
served for $15. Variety of interesting speakers. For information, call
281-900-7257 or visit nalix@texascitizensbank.com.
1 p.m.
Ballroom Dance Practice – Tuesdays, Hometown Heroes Park,
League City. Come and enjoy free ballroom dancing,1 to 3 p.m., on
a beautiful 3,630 sq. ft. floating hardwood floor. Dancers practice to a
large variety of ballroom music. Instructor available to assist people
with new moves. Everyone is welcome! For questions, call 281-5541180. 1001 East League City Pkwy.
1:30 p.m
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) – TOPS #1530 meets at the
Sagemont Park Community Center, 11507 Hughes Road, at 1:30 p.m.
For information, call Jeanette Sumrall at 713-946-3713.
6 p.m.
Un Dia a la Vez Alanon Group (Spanish) – Provides support for
family and friends of alcoholics or addicts. Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday, 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, room 215, 1062
Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena. Call 281-487-8787, or drop in.
7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Vigilance Group of Narcotics
Anonymous, open meeting, 7 p.m., 2930 E. Broadway (FM 518) at
the First Presbyterian Church in the youth building on the Westminster
side. For information, call 713-856-1611.
Houston Space City Lions Club – Meets the second and fourth
Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., Golden Corral, 12500 Gulf Freeway.
For information, call George Malone at 281-438-7243.
8 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Thursdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., and
Sundays and Tuesdays, 8 to 9 p.m., St. Stephen Presbyterian Church,
2217 Theta Street. For information, call 713-204-2481.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
7 a.m.
AA Meeting – “Breakfast With Bill” each Tuesday through Friday at 7
a.m. at the First United Methodist Church Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont
Parkway, in the Cornell Conference Room. Call 281-487-8787 for
information, or just drop in.
Noon
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) – Imperfect Nooners Group of
Alcoholics Anonymous meets at noon, 2245 N. Main (building next to
pawn shop). For more information, call 713-856-1611.
6 p.m.
Un Dia a la Vez Alanon Group (Spanish) – Provides support for
family and friends of alcoholics or addicts. Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday, 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, room 215, 1062
Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena. Call 281-487-8787, or drop in.
7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Vigilance Group of Narcotics
Anonymous, open meeting, meets at 7 p.m., 2930 E. Broadway (FM
518) at the First Presbyterian Church in the youth building on the
Westminster side. For more information, call 713-856-1611.
Bay Area Turning Point Crisis Intervention Center – Confidential
domestic violence support group for women, 210 S. Walnut off NASA
Parkway between I-45 South and Highway 3. Call 281-338-7600 or
visit www.bayareaturningpoint.com for information. The 24-hour crisis
hotline is 281-286-2525.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
7 a.m.
AA Meeting – “Breakfast With Bill” each Tuesday through Friday,
7 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont Parkway,
Pasadena, in Cornell Conference room. Call 281-487-8787 for information, or just drop in.
Noon
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) – Imperfect Nooners Group of
Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, 2245 N. Main (building next to pawn
shop). For information, call 713-856-1611.
7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – Women’s Group of Narcotics
Anonymous, open meeting, 7 p.m., 2930 E. Broadway (FM 518) at
the First Presbyterian Church in the youth building on the Westminster
side. For information, call 713-856-1611.
Al-Anon (English Speaking) – Provides support for family and
friends of alcoholics and addicts. Thursday, 7 p.m., First United
Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, Room 215.
Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
Alateen – Provides support for teenage children, friends and family
members of alcoholics and addicts. Thursday, 7 p.m., First United
Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, Room 208.
Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
8:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Thursdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., and
Sundays and Tuesdays, 8 to 9 p.m., St. Stephen Presbyterian Church,
2217 Theta Street. For information, call 713-204-2481.
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Dittrich winds down record-setting career at UCA
Former Clear Brook High School and current University of Central Arkansas women’s volleyball star
Alicia Dittrich (center, with roses) was honored as
part of Senior Night during the Sugar Bears’ final
home match Nov. 13. UCA lost the opening set but
then rallied to win in four as Dittrich led the way
with 14 kills. Heading into her final postseason,
which begins Nov. 21 in the Southland Conference
Tournament, Dittrich has 805 career kills and began
the 2014 season with a hitting percentage of .328,
which is second all-time in program history. Those
with Dittrich on Senior Night included, left to right,
Brad Teague, (UCA athletic director), Natalie Shock
(UCA assistant athletic director for compliance),
David McFatrich (UCA head women’s volleyball
coach), Fayellen Russell (mother), Samantha Bentley (Clear Brook volleyball setter 2006-2010) and
Ken Dittrich (father). Photos courtesy UCA arthletics
At left, Alicia Dittrich,
a former Clear Brook
volleyball player and
current senior at the
University of Central
Arkansas, exults after pounding down a
kill earlier this season
against Sam Houston
State University. Currently, Dittrich ranks
second all-time in hitting percentage.
PISD cross-country opens
Continued from Page 2B
seventh-grade team placed
seventh with a total of 177.
The
seventh-grade
champion was Trevon
Washington of San Jacinto, whose time of 12:41
was tops by 22 seconds.
The Lions’ best finish
came from Jonathan Mendez, who was in at 14:19
for 16th place.
Next for Thompson
was Noah Gonzalez, who
delivered a time of 15:03
for the 28th overall spot.
Kendyll Hubert was
38th in a time of 15:19,
and Daniel Garza was at
15:28 for 42nd place.
The Lions’ fifth official
placer was Jalen Gonzalez, in at 15:49 for 53rd
place.
Thompson also received a great effort from
Jartis Solomon (15:59),
Lozano Millow (16:07),
Kelvin Gardner (16:08),
Jose Segovia (16:41), Jonathan Resendez (17:40),
Jordan Velasquez (18:14),
Jason Tao (18:26), Eloy
Sanchez (18:29) and Jacob
Efrid (20:17).
BHI fields two runners
The Beverly Hills seventh-grade team had a pair
of runners in the mix and
therefore did not register a
team score.
Eduardo
Benavides
posted a time of 15:14 for
33rd place, and Gabriel
Borrego (17:58) also competed for the Bears.
Bondy girls dominate
Much like San Jacinto
did in the boys’ divisions,
the Bondy girls’ dominated the field in the seventh- and eighth-grade divisions.
Bondy’s eighth-grade
team scored a meet low 27
points, compared with 100
for second-place South
Houston.
Beverly Hills was at
198 for sixth, with Thompson eighth at 232.
In the seventh-grade
race, Bondy’s girls debuted with a win, scoring
40 placement points.
San Jacinto was second at 101. Beverly Hills
was eighth with 208, and
Thompson followed with
253.
Just as her team was,
Bondy’s Karisma Martinez was equally dominant
in the eighth-grade girls’
race.
Martinez’s time of
13:33 was 1:10 better than
the second-place time of
her teammate, Julissa Rodriguez, who was second.
Beverly Hills was led
by Natalie Armenta, who
was fourth in a time of
14:54.
Mayte Zuniga came
through next for the Lady
Bears, 40th overall in a
time of 16:51.04. Alyssa
Trevino of Beverly Hills
was in at 16:51.36 for 41st
place.
The Lady Bears’ other
two official scorers were
Kennedy Nguyen, 54th at
17:20, and Alana Ortega,
59th at 17:27.
Others racing for Beverly Hills were Krystalyn
Garcia (17:56), Alondra
Acevedo (18:19.83), Maribel Garza (19:08), Daniela Lopez (20:32), Itzel
Casteneda (20:36) and
Valeria Ramos (20:41).
GAT 8th girls run well
The Thompson eighthgrade girls’ team also
challenged the competition to the very end.
Olivia Garza was the
lead runner for the Lady
Lions, taking 21st overall
at 15:44. Thompson’s second finisher was Melody
Le, 39th at 16:50.75.
Thompson’s Michaela
Munoz was 47th in a time
of 17:08, and Stephanie
Martinez (55th at 17:22)
and Alivia Gonzales (70th
at 17:50) rounded out the
scoring.
Tonya
Montgomery
(18:37), Celine Espinoza
(18:54), Kimberly Lara
(19:04), Monique Durham (19:37), Miah Muniz
(19:39) and Jullysa Herrera (20:22) also competed
for the Lady Lions.
In the seventh-grade
final individual scoring,
Bondy’s Jezebel Diaz won
a tight race to take top
overall medalist honors at
14:29.
As for Beverly Hills,
Ashley Martinez paced
the team as she was 15th
overall in a time of 16:11.
Zoe Hernandez came
up with a time of 17:06
for 34th place, and Michelle Aguilar was 42nd at
17:26.86.
The Lady Bears’ other
two scorers were Sadie
Capuchino (18:06) and
Charlize Tamayo (18:09).
Beverly Hills also got a
fine effort from Allie Parker (19:08), Vanessa Villarreal (19:54.23), and Elizabeth Mendoza (20.21).
Thompson’s Danielle
Colunga was her team’s
best finisher as she was
seventh at 15:42.
The
Lady
Lions’
other four scorers included Alexis Vela (38th
at 17:15), Carrie Cubos
(52nd at 17:51), Seleste
Martinez (68th at 18:26)
and Felicity Soto (88th at
19:13).
Thompson’s other competitors were Miranda
Serrano (19:47), Victoria
Nunez (20:19), Deja Carter (23:12.36) and Faith
Johnson (23:12.80).
Three meets remain in
the season.
Brook golfer Leslie headed to Schreiner University
Clear Brook High School varsity golfer Lauren Leslie (seated center) will continue her education and playing career
at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas, after signing a
letter of intent. Those with Leslie at the signing included,
left to right, (front row) Ramona Leslie (mother), Camryn Leslie (sister), Kurt Leslie (father), (standing) Darcy
Greenier (teammate), Jenna Foshee (teammate), Christy
Stewart (junior high school coach, Clear Lake Intermediate), Kalyn Leslie (twin sister), John Leslie (grandfather),
Todd Burrows (Clear Brook golf coach), Meredith Thompson (Clear Brook head volleyball coach), Taylor Butler
(teammate) and Michele Staley (Brook principal).
Carroll hall of fame welcomes Brook’s Sanders
Clear Brook High School
head track and field coach,
Ti’Andre Sanders, has been
inducted into the Carroll
High School athletic hall of
fame.
Sanders was enshrined
into the hall of fame for his
achievements as a member of
the school’s football team in
a ceremony held Oct. 31, in
Corpus Christi.
“This is something that
really means a lot to me because it’s amusing to me to
be recognized for something
that I really enjoyed doing,”
said Sanders.
Clear Brook High School
principal Michele Staley said
she’s proud of Sanders for
his accomplishments then
and for what he’s done for
the Clear Brook athletes.
“We are very proud of
coach Sanders,” said Staley. “He has done amazing
things for the students here at
Brook, and we’re even more
impressed that his alma mater is recognizing him for his
achievements and the positive impact he has had on students throughout his career.”
Sanders said his experience as a high school athlete
helps him better relate to his
students. “I had such a great
time in high school and was
very blessed to be coached by
some great coaches that all
influenced me in some way or
another, and that has helped
me be the coach I am today,”
said Sanders.