Thursday March 21, 2013 - South Belt

Voice of Community-Minded People since 1976
March 21, 2013
Easter holiday observed
South Belt Leader
The South Belt-Ellington Leader will be
closed Friday, March 29, in observance of the
Easter holiday.
Clear Brook City MUD
The office of Clear Brook City MUD will be
closed Friday, March 29, in observance of the
Easter holiday. It will re-open on Monday,
April 1, at 8 a.m. Payments may be left in the
drop box located on the drive-through window
side of the building.
Dobie dual credit meeting
The Dobie College Now dual credit program will hold an informational parent night
on Thursday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the
school cafeteria. Sophomores, juniors and
seniors for the 2013-2014 school year are eligible to apply.
A representative from San Jacinto College
will present information about the program.
Dobie staff will be available to answer Dobiespecific questions. For information, call Nancy
Carlton or Jennifer Johnson at 713-740-0370.
Pet vaccinations at San Jac
The San Jacinto College South campus will
host a LUV Your Pet Vaccine Clinic Saturday,
March 23, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Academic
Wing - North (Building 7) in Rooms S7.124
and S7.128, featuring low-cost pet vaccinations for community pets.
San Jac science faculty and Texas licensed
veterinarian Adam Eiler and Dr. Susan Pickle
of the Alvin-Friendswood Veterinary Clinic
will provide several vaccinations for dogs and
cats at a reduced rate.
Owners can check in their pets at the registration desk located in the P6 parking lot directly outside the vaccination rooms. All pets
should be in carriers or on a leash.
Vaccination prices are as follows: dogs – rabies, $10; distemper/parvo, $15; and bordetella, $15. Cats – rabies, $10; distemper, $15; and
leukemia, $15. Cash only accepted. All proceeds benefit Tails in Transition Animal Rescue
and other local animal rescue organizations.
Email: mynews@southbeltleader.com
Legion hosts fish fry
American Legion Post 490, 11702
Galveston Road will host its Fish Fry Fridays
through March 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. Dinners
are $8.50 each and consist of 12-oz. fish, hush
puppies, french fries and cole slaw.
Knights fish fry dates set
The Knights of Columbus Council 9201
will serve catfish dinners at St. Luke the
Evangelist Catholic Church on Friday, March
22, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the parish hall, 11011
Hall Road. Dinners include a breaded catfish
fillet, fries, hush puppies, cole slaw, corn-onthe-cob and iced tea. Soft drinks and desserts
will also be available. One-piece dinners are
$9; two-piece dinners are $13, dine in or take
out. For information, call 832-444-4958.
Free breakfast for seniors
Frank Burns VFW Post 5619 and American
Legion Post 490 will sponsor a free community breakfast to senior citizens on Sunday,
March 24, from 8 to 11 a.m. at 11702 Galveston Road. The menu will consist of scrambled
eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, “SOS” gravy,
fruit, doughnuts, kolaches, coffee, milk and
orange juice.
Gulf Meadows invitation
Pastors Joe and Becky Keenan of Gulf
Meadows Church, 8012 Fuqua, have extended
an invitation to the South Belt community to
attend an Easter celebration and special drama
presentation, Unveiled: Revealing the Power
of the Cross, on Sunday, March 31, at 8:30
and 10:30 a.m. in English, and noon in Spanish. Admission is free. There will be leaders in
every service available to pray for community
needs. See ad on Page 6A for more information or call 713-991-5683.
PW Library events set
The following events are set for the Parker
Williams Library, March 21 through March 27.
AARP Tax Preparation Assistance is available on Mondays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. Help is provided at no charge on a first
come, first served basis.
On Saturday, March 23, Vietnamese Storytime will include Reading Club at 11 a.m.,
followed by intermediate storytime at 1 p.m.
Preschool storytime is at 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, and toddler storytime is at 10:30
a.m. Thursday.
Vol. 38, No. 7
Sagemont’s Morgan honored by PISD
Dr. John Morgan,
a Pasadena High
School graduate who
transformed a once
miniscule Sagemont
ministry into one of
the largest and influential faith institutions in Texas, has
been named the Pasadena Independent
School
District’s
2013 Distinguished The Rev. John Morgan
Alumnus of the
Year.
Morgan, who graduated from Pasadena High
in 1959, formed what would become Sagemont
Church in 1966. His original congregation consisted of 16 members. Those ranks have grown
to more than 17,000 today.
Morgan will be formally honored as the dis-
trict’s Distinguished Alumnus at a reception to
be scheduled for later this spring. A plaque, to
be placed on permanent display outside the district’s administration building, will be unveiled at
that time.
Under Morgan’s direction, Sagemont Church
has been a frequent and faithful partner in PISD
activities. The church has served as a venue for
school and community events on countless occasions and has assisted schools in the South
Belt area by providing volunteers and resources
needed for projects ranging from the renovation of bleachers to the refurbishing of teachers’
lounges.
“At an early age, I could tell what great an impact that my teachers and principals were,” Morgan said. “This is a wonderful community that I
am proud to be a part of.”
Morgan’s “Financial Freedom” seminars –
along with his seminar recordings and his book
under the same title – have reached more than a
Morgan named Distinguished Alumnus
million people.
He has served on numerous boards ranging
from the chairman of trustees at Houston Baptist
University to president of the Texas Baptist Pastor’s Conference. In 2005, he was awarded the
Distinguished Alumnus Award from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Sagemont Church has also served as a headquarters for the American Red Cross during
storms and other emergencies and has provided
shelter for hundreds of families during times of
need.
Morgan said his goal has always been simple
– to pastor an effective church and not just a successful church.
“The students in our community have always
been a major focus,” he said. “We work with our
schools and open our doors for teacher meetings
and other events. We do whatever we can to help.
When we stand as one, it is a win-win situation.”
Morgan attended Kruse Elementary and Jackson Intermediate before enrolling at Pasadena
High. He continued his education at Baylor University and Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary. He earned his doctorate from Southwest Baptist University.
He is married to the former Beth Ann Barcel-
lo, a 1959 South Houston High School graduate
and the school’s first homecoming queen. The
couple have two sons, two daughters-in-law and
three grandchildren.
Son, Sean Hunter Morgan, is married to
Leslee Morgan, and son, Dean Fisher Morgan, is
married to Tara Morgan. Sean and Leslee’s children are Max, Miles and Maris Morgan.
Previous Distinguished Alumnus Award Receipients:
2012 – Frank Young, Pasadena, 1958
2011 – Mike McKinney, Sam Rayburn, 1969
2010 – Rick Schriever, Sam Rayburn, 1973
2009 – Byron Tapley, Pasadena, 1951
2008 – James R. Smith, South Houston, 1960
2007 – Carlton Horbelt, Pasadena, 1973
2006 – Mary Campbell-Fox, Dobie, 1976
2005 – J. Michael Solar, Sam Rayburn, 1971
2004 – Paul Zanowiak, South Houston, 1965
2003 – Martin Cominsky, Pasadena, 1976
2002 – Dr. Bill Allen, Pasadena, 1951
2001 – Bill Shock, Pasadena, 1954
2000 – Ben Meador, Pasadena, 1957
1999 – Bill McMillin, Pasadena, 1958
1998 – Robert Smith, Pasadena, 1971
1997 – Larry Forehand, Pasadena, 1962
1996 – Jonah Boyd, Pasadena, 1955
Multiple egg hunts scheduled
Cowboys, Cowgirls register
Sagemont Cowboys and Cowgirls will hold
early registration Saturday, March 23, from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Little League Baseball
fields in El Franco Lee Park. Early registration
is open to all returning football players and
their siblings, and all drill and mascot participants, returning or new. Contact information
will also be accepted from any new football
player. A $100 deposit is due at registration. For
questions on football, contact Club President
Denny Wranich at denny@sagemontcowboys.
com, and for questions concerning drill or mascots, contact the club drill director, Michelle
Castillo, at michelle@sagemontcowboys.com.
www.southbeltleader.com
The Rev. John D. Morgan (second from left), senior pastor at Sagemont Church, was
selected as the Pasadena Independent School District’s 2013 Distinguished Alumnus of
the Year. The above photo is from the 1958 Pasadenian (Pasadena High School yearbook)
and shows the year’s junior class officers. Morgan served as class president. Others pictured
are, left to right, Sherry Pope, Sarah Tucker and Jackie Harris.
Photo submitted
CCISD to hold bond meetings
The Clear Creek Independent School District
will hold a public hearing on its proposed $367
million bond Tuesday, March 26, at Weber Elementary, 11955 Blackhawk, beginning at 6:30
p.m.
The meeting is one of 40 to be held throughout the school district. For a complete list of locations, visit www.ccisd.net/2013bond.
The hearings are intended to inform the public of the elements of the proposed bond, the tax
impact the bond would have on property owners
and answer community questions.
The CCISD Board of Trustees called for the
bond referendum in order to address aging facilities, instructional technology and co-curricular
and extracurricular programs. Contents of the
bond package were prioritized by a 30-member
committee consisting of parents, local citizens,
business leaders and educators.
If approved, the bond would affect all district
campuses and eight support facilities in some capacity.
Of the proposed $367 million, roughly $87
million would be earmarked for priority repairs,
to improve student safety and to expand for proContinued on Page 4A
Martin to hold CIP meeting
Newly elected City of Houston Councilmember Dave Martin will host a local Capital
Improvement Plan (CIP) meeting Wednesday,
March 27, at the Bay Area Community Center,
5002 E. NASA Parkway in Seabrook, from 6:30
to 8:30 p.m.
The function will be the first of its kind in
the area since Martin replaced former District E
Councilmember Mike Sullivan this past November when the term-limited Sullivan was elected
to serve as Harris County tax assessor-collector.
CIP meetings are held every year to inform
citizens of upcoming projects scheduled in their
respective communities. The meetings afford
citizens an opportunity to learn, voice their concerns and address their respective city council-
members and City of Houston officials regarding
project planning and delivery.
An update on the city’s implementation of ReBuild Houston will also be provided at the event.
For more information and specific details
about the CIP projects in the area and to see a
draft of the ReBuild Houston 10-year plan visit
www.houstontx.gov/cip/index.html.
For additional information, contact Martin’s
office at 832-393-3008.
The City of Houston will provide reasonable
accommodations to citizens with disabilities/
special needs upon request in advance of the
meeting.
Affected citizens are encouraged to call 832393-0955 for arrangements.
HPD’s Derr to retire from force
Longtime Houston Police Officer
Randy Derr is retiring at the end of
March, after serving
nearly 34 years on
the force.
Many South Belt
residents know Derr
from his extensive
work with the Houston Police Department’s Positive InRandy Derr
teraction Program,
a monthly meeting held to bolster relations between area residents and local police.
Derr, 54, has been involved with the PIP meetings for the past 20 years, hosting his last one
Tuesday, March 19.
A 1977 graduate of South Houston High
School, Derr began his career with HPD on July
2, 1979. He initially worked out of the Park Place
station (now demolished) before transferring to
the Clear Lake station in 1984
The retiring officer has been married to his
wife, Lillian Derr, for 30 years. The couple have
resided in Pearland since 1983 and have two
adult daughters, Elyse and Courtney Derr. Elyse
Derr currently attends the University of Houston,
while Courtney Derr is a student at San Jacinto
College South.
Following retirement, Derr said he intends to
spend more time with his family and traveling.
His HPD colleagues plan to throw a private reception for him and fellow retiree, Mike Barrett,
Friday, March 29.
Derr is grateful for his time spent serving the
South Belt community.
“It has been my pleasure working with all of
you for all these years,” Derr said.
Easter will take place this year on Sunday,
March 31, and there are multiple egg hunts in
the South Belt community for area children to
participate in.
El Franco Lee Park
Harris County officials will hold their 23rd
annual Easter egg hunt Saturday, March 23, at
El Franco Lee Park, 9400 Hall Road, from 1 to 3
p.m.
The family event will be hosted by County
Commissioner El Franco Lee, Justice of the
Peace Jo Ann Delgado and newly elected Precinct 2 Constable Chris Diaz.
Children from ages 2 to 10 are eligible to participate. Children who find metallic eggs will be
awarded a custom Easter basket. Free hot dogs,
snow cones and drinks will be available while
supplies last.
American Legion
American Legion Post 490, 11702 Old
Galveston Road (across from Ellington Field),
will hold an Easter egg hunt Sunday, March 24,
beginning at 1 p.m.
Hunts will be divided in the following age
groups: 1 to 2 years, 3 to 4 years, 5 to 6 years,
and 7 to 10 years.
A golden egg will be hidden for each age
group, and Easter baskets will be given to the
child with the most eggs in each division. Free
hot dogs, chips and drinks will be available
while supplies last.
For more information, call 713-614-7102 or
281-481-5686.
Kirkwood South Christian Church
Kirkwood South Christian Church, 10811
Kirkfair, will host its annual Easter egg hunt on
Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. until noon.
The event is for children ages infant to 10
years old.
In addition to the egg hunt, there will be crafts
and refreshments.
The public is invited to attend.
For additional information, call 281-4810004.
2001 Daoust murder revisited
Publisher’s note:
This story continues the series in
which the Leader
will re-examine unsolved area crimes,
particularly homicides. It is hoped
by bringing light to
these incidents, new
information may be
gained to help solve
Maria Moreno Daoust
them.
By Barbara Gibson
Sometime between noon and 1 p.m. on July
23, 2001, 47-year-old Maria Moreno Daoust
was murdered at her Houston hair salon located
in the 8000 block of Almeda-Genoa. The salon
was Maria’s pride and joy. In 1994, she purchased the property and converted the cottage
style home into a full-service hair salon complete with skylights, marble countertops, piped
in music, double French doors and a towering
marquee sign that illuminated the wrap around
paved parking lot. The “M&M Hair Studio” sign
could be seen from blocks away, and walk-ins
were always welcomed.
Maria was also happy about her recent marriage to James Daoust, a project engineer for a
venture capital company. The Daousts had been
married three short months when the shooting
took place. “We were married in April, on Friday the 13th, said James Daoust with a chuckle.
We’d been together since 1994, and I was thrilled
when I finally got her to say yes. We had a small
ceremony near our home in Friendswood and
then hopped in her chili-pepper-red truck and
drove out to Villahermosa in Mexico to visit her
mother who hosted a huge celebration for us.”
According to her family and friends, Maria
Daoust was generous, outgoing and literally
didn’t know a stranger. Maybe being born on
Christmas Day played a role in her devotion to
family and friends. “She was the backbone of her
family and never turned down anyone that was
having a hard time,” said James Daoust. “In fact,
that morning when she left, she’d gathered a set
of sheets to take to her brother who was ill. She
was always thinking of others.”
With the bedsheets in hand Maria kissed her
husband goodbye and left their home at 10 a.m.
Continued on Page 3A
Li’l
rodeo
siblings
Owen Flowers (left) and
Kennedy Flowers recently
enjoyed spending time at the
Houston Livestock Show &
Rodeo. Parents are Stephen
Flowers and Stacey (Hayes)
Flowers of South Belt. Proud
grandparents are Robert
Scarberry and Leader staff
member Jannie Scarberry of
South Belt and Mike Flowers
and Karen Flowers of
Dickinson.
Photo submitted
Page 2 Section A, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Thursday, March 21, 2013
Readers’ Opinions
Responsibility
of the press Checks
and Balances
During the last decade, especially in the
last 6 years we as a republic have witnessed our media become a major part of
why this republic is in decline. The media
has a socialist/racial agenda as well. We
have just witnessed that with the fued
between Bob Woodward and BarrackHussein Obama and the ever so protective jay
Carney, Sock Puppet for Mr Obama and
others in Congress with a liberal and socialist agenda. I know thats his job, but its the
job of the press however thepress is more
like the limp wristed back slapping self
great jobber types that walk a red carpet in
Los Angeles ISSUING self praise on each
other that it too can almost make one
watching that gathering of liberal moonbat
type of hyporicy in motion that can make
one throw up in ones mouth. The crux of my
point is from a historical and truthful observation from the days of I”m not a crook”
white house to who certainley appears to
be just what tricky Dick said he wasnt.
When Bob Woodward did his investigating job Checks and Balances of the
NixonWhite House, he discovered there
was some facts that just didn’t check out or
balance with what was being reported,
stated by the Nixon people and Nixon himself, so Bob did his job, as his investigation
findings became public.The entire media
industry got behind him and supported him.
CBS led the charge against Nixon which
began back during the Vietnam War.
Specifically during the TET offensive OF
68. the rest is history. My question is could
have Bob Woodward brought Nixon down
on his own? And without the media as a
larger than life weapon or tool, I haven’t
forgotten about Bernstein.
Lets jump forward to today. Once again
BOB Woodward did his job, and the white
house reacted, Jay Carney mumbled
something as he usually does and the
white house press corp did what it does
best, asking tuff questions about playing
golf with tiger woods etc etc.
NBC /MSNBC has a Socialist and racial
agenda as well, Next thing we saw and
heard was the white house and it’s own tv
network NBC and MSNBC lead the charge
to smear and yes attack the same Bob
Woodward for doing his job providing the
checks and Balances. Gee, Imagine that,
funny how times have changed but if you
really think about and love this once great
republic, it’s scary as hell...
A.C. Volper
HCAD offers business personal
property rendition assistance
The Harris County
Appraisal District (HCAD)
has begun the process of
mailing personal property
rendition forms to businesses known to have been
operating in Harris County
during 2012.
To help business owners
complete the required personal property rendition
forms before the April 15
filing deadline, the appraisal district will offer four
free workshops that any
business owner needing
assistance with the forms
may attend.
Those who own tangible
personal property that is
used to produce income
must file a rendition with
the Harris County Appraisal
District by April 15.
A rendition is a report
that lists all the taxable personal property one owned
or controlled on Jan. 1 of
this year.
Personal
property
includes inventory and
equipment used by a business such as furniture and
fixtures, supplies, raw
materials, and business
vehicles, vessels and aircraft.
The rendition help sessions have been scheduled
as follows:
• Wednesday, March 27,
from 1 to 5 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 3,
from 1 to 5 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 10,
from 1 to 5 p.m.
• Saturday, April 13,
from 8 a.m. to noon
All four sessions will be
conducted in HCAD’s
training room on the sixth
floor of the appraisal district’s offices at 13013
Northwest Freeway in
Houston. There is no charge
to attend, and participants
Dobie unveils Hall of Honor
Hall of Honor inductee Bobby Burton (Class of 1987)
is shown to the left
with his wife, Jenny
Burton, and their
daughter, Abigail,
and son, Benjamin.
Hall of Honor inductee Gilbert Aguilar is shown to the
right with his wife,
Helen Aguilar. A
retired U.S. Coast
Guard lieutenant
commander, Aguilar was honored for
his volunteer work.
Dobie High School held a ceremony Friday, March 1, to honor its
inaugural class of Hall of Honor inductees. See additional photos
in the March 7 edition of the Leader.
Photos by Jacob Rogers
Former Dobie students Jeff Lane (left) and Mike
Knapp attended in support of classmates.
Pictured above are, left to right, siblings Janet (Williams) Ludwig, Greg
Williams with his son, Jack Williams, and Phillip Williams. The family was
there to support their fallen brother, Chris Williams.
typically will be able to
complete the process in
about an hour.
Those who attend will be
able to consult individually
with appraisal district staff
who will explain personal
property taxation and rendition requirements and will
answer questions about
completion of the rendition
forms.
“Under a state law that
took effect in 2004, businesses that fail to render, or
those that render late, are
subject to a 10 percent tax
penalty,” said HCAD Chief
Appraiser Jim Robinson.
“In the case of fraudulent
renditions, there is a 50 percent civil penalty plus possible criminal prosecution.
We hope these workshops
will help business owners
avoid a penalty this year.”
Robinson added that all
business
owners
are
required to file renditions
whether or not they have
received notification.
State law permits business owners to obtain an
automatic extension of the
filing requirement by submitting a request in writing
by the original April 15
deadline.
The extended deadline
for such businesses would
then be May 15.
A rendition form is available on the appraisal district’s website at www.
hcad.org under the “Forms”
tab along with information
on the rules of the process.
Business owners with
questions about the rendition requirements are
encouraged to attend any
one of the four workshop
sessions or call the appraisal district’s information
center at 713-957-7800.
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The Harris County
Appraisal District is a
political subdivision of the
State of Texas established
in 1980 for the purpose of
discovering and appraising
property for ad valorem tax
purposes for each taxing
unit within the boundaries
of the district.
The district has more
than 1.7 million parcels of
property to assess each
year with a total market
value of approximately
$386 billion.
The appraisal district in
Harris County is the largest
in Texas, serving approximately 500 taxing units,
and one of the largest
appraisal districts in the
United States.
For further information,
visit www.hcad.org.
Thompson names fourth 6-weeks honor rolls
Thompson Intermediate
recently released its honor
rolls for the fourth six-weeks
grading period of 2012-2013.
Students earning status are:
Honor roll
Seventh grade
Tyra Raejean Adams, Adela-Marie Alanis, Raymundo
Alba, Thomas Alberto Aleman, Rogelio Armenta, Clarissa Marie Arredondo, Leonardo Baez, Nicholas Aaron
Barrientes, Pedro Barrientos,
Felicia Michelle Barton, Hillary Veronica Bazaldua and
Trinity Myshell Blockmon.
Sydney Brieann Bonner,
Kaleb Wesley Brock, Daesha
Elise Bryson, Miranda Fabiola Calderon, Victor Xavier
Campuzano, Alyssa Maria
Cardenas, Alyssa Isabel Chapa, Nathan Rene Chapa, Rosbel Nicholas Chavez, Fabian
Ernesto Corrales and Jasiel
Eliab Cruz.
Mateo Manuel Cruz, Julissa Vanesa Davila, Camryn
Cole Davis, Andrea Del Villar
Martinez, Graciella Del Rosario Delgado, Vi Diem Diep,
Emily Faye Duren, Cassandra
Michelle Esquivel, April Jesstine Estrada, Bryce Matthew
Feagin, Alex Giovanny Fuentes and Alexis A. Gammon.
Adamaris Celeste Garcia,
Jacquelyne Andrea Garcia,
Analise Nicolle Garza, Daniel
Joseph Goforth, Maxine Gomez, Cyrus Rene Gonzales,
Alejandro Gonzalez, Elezar
Ezequiel Gonzalez, Monica
Irene Gonzalez, Mahogany
Shanté Green, Alena Hay and
Sage Angel Henderson.
Aiana Renee Hernandez,
Erick Hernandez, Maritza
Janeth Hernandez, David Vie
Hoang, Chelsey Jeanai Holman, Alejandro Raymundo
Ibarra, Muhammad Fahad
Iqbal, Sameria Makell Jackson, Devin David Dakota Jewell, Jasmine Eunice Jimenez
and Hannah Danielle Klugh.
Georgina Keeairra Labarrera, Alexis Brielle Law, Donisha Leeshae Lawson, Jason
Dang Le, Vina Le, Sebastian
Leal Rodriguez, Andrew Nigel Logan, Katelyn Elise Loxterman, Thomas John Lugo,
Kevin Dangkhoa Ly, Aran
Maldonado, Katherine Alexis
Montes and Brooke R. Nabi.
Reyna Nering, Dominic
Minh Nguyen, Sean Hung
Nguyen, Tommy Thai Nguyen, Daniel Oscar Ortega,
Joseph Christian Palacios,
Victoria Palos, Maria Jose
Pedroza Rodriguez, Danielle
Ilyn Perez, Jordan Reneeashley Perez, Luis Ivan Perez and
Lan My Phan.
Rosa Thao Phan, Melanie
Pineda, Christian Alex Ponce,
Kayla Sarai Promise, Ricardo
Ramos, Jackelyn Jade Rendon, German Abraham Reyes,
Jenna Cassandra Rodriguez,
Leslie Magaly Rodriguez,
Marcos Rodriguez, Mario
Alberto Rodriguez and Dominique Amber Sanchez.
Bryon Scott Schwausch,
Brian Steven Silguero, Emmerson Snyder, Kennedi
Paige Southall, Andy P. Hung
Ta, Jazmin Tabarez, Rachel
Lee Tabarez, Ivan Ariel Tagle,
Jeremy Rey Tajonera, John
Ambe Tambe, Jocelyn Desiree Thompson and Madison
Park Manor of South Belt
Park Manor
celebrates its
residents!
Clinical Services Covering:
◆
Skilled Nursing
Long Term Care
◆
Rehabilitation & much more
◆
11902 Resource Pkwy.
(near Memorial Hermann SE Hospital)
281-922-6802
We love our residents at Park Manor!
Shown here are Jessica Hernandez,
C.N.A., Bella Vita resident Sharon
Macha, and Jason Shi, P.T.
Fax: 281-922-6804
Gabrielle Tobias.
Hy Gia Tran, Luong Thien
Tran, Patrick Martin Tran,
Vnam Le Tran, David Trujillo, Ann Phung Truong, Jose
Salvador Varela, Cesar Rafael
Villarreal, Marvin Roberto
Villatoro, Andrew Ryan Vu,
Dien-Loong Kwan Wang,
Yvonne Anahi Whaley, Bryan
Anthony Wheatley and Jacob
Alan Young.
Eighth grade
Nathaly Melissa Alvarado,
Jennifer Adali Amaya Argueta, Ciriah Lashell Amerson,
Christiana Ugochi Anyanwu,
Saul Arenas, Elena Abigail
Armenta, Valencia Rae Barrientos, Destinie Vera Theresa
Bautista, Shawn Reneill Bennett, Jesse Catarino Bernal
and Jazmyn Deyvion Bolden.
Juleion Ray Bowers, Allison Marie Bravo, Joseph
Dayliion Broussard, Alayna
Noelle Cano, Raul Francisco
Carranza, Zachery Hunter
Carter, Kristy Giselle Castellon, Jordan Emmanuel Cervantes, Diana Sarahi Chapa,
Toneschara Clarke and Naya
Jamirra Cooper.
Emily Elizabeth Corona,
Alyssa Victoria Corpus,
Renee Elyse Coy, Alyssa
Arianna Cruz, Isaias Daniel Cruz, Miguel Fernando
Cruz, Brittney Desiree Cubos,
Chealse Allison
Cubos,
Landen Christopher Jarrell
Cunningham, Trinity Alexus
Curry and Amanda M. Davila.
Ajah
Desiree
Davis,
Parker Jamison Deem, Samantha Delgado, Brynn Erin
Dempsey, Alvin John Deveza,
Jay Do, Mary Mytam Doan,
Nathanael Philip Doss, Jordan Matthew Efird, Angelique
Gaberille Fernandez, Brandon Anthony Flores, Janneth
Flores and Karen Flores.
Cassandra Alysia Garcia,
Pedro Anthony Garcia, Kevin
Michael Gartner, Triston Allon Gibson, Brittany Gonzales, Leandra Gabriela Gonzales, Mathew Isiah Gonzales,
Esbeidy Aracely Gonzalez,
Joshua J. Gonzalez, Idania
Guzman, Beatriz Hernandez
and Emily Ann Hernandez.
Eric Vie Hoang, Emani
Mya Hollins, Devin Thanh
Hua, Joe Angel Huerta, Royce
Rishard Hunter, Thanh Cong
Huynh, Rebekah Rochelle
Rane Jagdeo, Cristina Jasso,
Joaquin Erik Jimenez, Esther Yoomi Kim, Alexa King,
Stanley R. Krivik and Marissa
Nichole Krustchinsky.
Robert Anthony Lazo,
Sean Dang Le, Steven Le,
Valeria Lomas, Nicole Rachel
Lopez, Alanis Lindsay Macias, Nikolas Vincent Maffei,
Marco Antonio Martinez, Marissa Martinez, Sara Noemi
Martinez, Brooke Elane McGrath, Christa Aliza Melchor
and Mark Anthony Millis.
Amy Miranda Montelongo, Viviana Montemayor,
Deandre Maurice Moore,
Mark Antony Moorman, Jesus Alberto Morales Esquivel,
Oren Frank Moreno, Gabriela
Nichole Munoz, Aimy Nguyen, Antony Anhkhoa Nguyen,
Catherine Ngoc Nguyen and
Derek Nguyen.
Jaclynn Tuyet Nhi Nguyen,
Johnathan Long Viet Nguyen,
Nathan Truong Nguyen,
Quyen Tranthuy Nguyen, Tin
Nguyen, Tyler Ngoc Nguyen,
Erinn Sidney Obrien, Donatus Chukwuka Oguamanam,
Saugat Pandit, Marc Anthony
Perez, Natali Elisse Perez and
Thanh-Nguyet Trinh Pham.
Steven Phi Phan, Brandon
Anthony Ponce, Erika Ogoy
Ragasa, Josue Ramirez, Noah
Sebastian Ridge, Eric Ryan
Rodriguez, Mario Alberto
Rodriguez, Hector Daniel Rojas, Jennifer Victoria Romero,
Tori Leighanna Roy, Anahi
Ruiz, Bryan Raul Salas and
Edwin Alan Saldivar.
Kaylan Desiree Salinas,
Devin Nicholas Sanchez, Vianney Hope Sanchez, Luis
Felipe Santa, Savanna Rae
Schmidt, Steven Serrano,
Yenifer Serrano, Rebecca
Lynn Shaffer, Brian William
Dewolf Sharpe, Jordan Greggory Shea, Astrid Ayana Silva
and Lillian Morgan Spigner.
David Richard Strout, Sara
Sundaewebb Sultan, Leanna
Loan Ta, Debora Tabarez,
Hailey Nicole Tapia, Nathanael Christopher Taylor, Joe Lee
Thomas, Patricia Saphire
Thompson, Katherin Damari
Torres, Paula A. Torres, Elizabeth Ngoc Tran, Johnny Tran,
Ni Thai Truong and Kaleigh
Morgan Vanhouten.
Destinee Irene Vargas,
Jorge Alberto Vazquez, Julio Enrique Vela, Lam D Vo,
Mykhanh Taylor Vuong, John
Patrick Walker, Zion Emmanuel Walker, Dustin Michael
Warden, Monica Idella Watson, Kiara Julia Wells, Grant
Alexander Wilhelm, Jamisson
Edwin Wilson and Samaria
Sasha Wilson.
Deaths
Marshall Jay
Garlington
Marshall Jay Garlington,
84, died early Tuesday morning, March 19, 2013. He was
a longtime South Belt area
resident.
He was preceded in death
by his mother, Ola Garlington, wife Diane Garlington,
as well as four of his brothers
and sisters.
Garlington is survived by
his daughter, Denice Smajstrla and husband Craig; son
Matthew Garlington and
wife Amanda; granddaughters Emily and Lyndsi Smajstrla and Audrey Garlington;
brothers John, Bobby and
Boyce Garlington; sister
Betty Bacot; brother-in-law
Gib Clark; and many nieces,
nephews and friends.
Garlington was born on
May 28, 1928, in Kinder,
La. For many years his dad
owned a prosperous logging
business.
However, at age 14, he
found himself to be the oldest
child living at home with his
single mother and younger
siblings.
The logging business was
gone and Garlington had to
work to support his family.
He graduated from Oberlin High School and served in
the U.S. Army as a sergeant
first class in Korea during the
Korean conflict.
After returning from Korea, he eventually left Louisiana and moved to Houston
to find work, and brought
his mother and family with
him.
He continued to help his
mother raise his younger siblings and helped and supported her throughout her life.
Alternative
certification
seminars
set at PISD
The Pasadena Independent
School District Alternative
Certification Program will offer career choice seminars for
those interested in becoming
teachers through an alternative certification program.
The seminars provide information about prerequisites,
training, certification requirements and also details about
life as a teacher.
Meetings are scheduled at
the Collaborative Learning
Center, 11111 Beamer Road
in Houston, also the location
of Beverly Hills Intermediate.
Meetings will be held in
Room 1920.
Call 713-740-0029 to register or for additional information.
Seminar dates are Saturday, March 23, from noon to
2 p.m.; Saturday, April 13,
from noon to 2 p.m.; and Friday, April 19, from 2 p.m. to
4 p.m.
Later, Garlington married
Diane, his wife of more than
47 years, and was blessed
with two children of his own.
He never left her side as she
struggled with Alzheimer’s.
The funeral service celebrating Garlington’s life
will be held Friday, March
22, 2013, at 11:30 a.m. at Niday Funeral Home – Beamer
Chapel, with visitation starting at 10:30 a.m., one hour
prior to the service. Interment
will follow at Forest Park
Lawndale Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the
Living Proof project at Sagemont Church.
be made in Grizzaffi’s name
to CRR, 2525 San Jacinto,
Houston, TX 77002, or
call 832-431-3785. Notate
“DDHS” on the memo line of
checks.
Whelo Coleman
Ashlock
Sharon Marie
Grizzaffi
Sharon Grizzaffi, 56, died
Saturday, March 9, 2013,
surrounded by family and
friends. She was born on Feb.
26, 1957, in Houston to David and Vita Jattar.
She is preceded in death
by her father, David; son Patrick; mother Vita; brother David; and sister Debra.
Grizzaffi graduated from
J. Frank Dobie High School,
attended Texas Woman’s University, and graduated with a
master’s degree in nursing.
When Grizzaffi became
hard of hearing, she set a new
goal of learning American
Sign Language. With the help
and support of her friend,
Robert Yost, this goal became
a reality. Because of her gift
to sign, she became a dedicated volunteer at Career &
Recovery Resources and T.H.
Rodgers Elementary School.
A memorial service, a celebration of the life of Sharon
Marie Grizzaffi, was held on
March 15, 2013, at the Niday Funeral Home – Beamer
Chapel.
In lieu of the usual remembrances, donations can
Whelo Coleman Ashlock,
86, died Tuesday, March 12,
2013. He was born on March
12, 1927, in Flora, Ill., to
Whelo Cleveland Ashlock
and Mary Elizabeth Thompson Ashlock.
Ashlock was the husband
of Shirley Jean Ashlock for
63 years.
Ashlock served in the
Navy during World War II,
including fighting in the battle of Iwo Jima. He was also
an employee of Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company and
AT&T for 43 years.
He and Shirley were members of Park Place Baptist
Church where he served as a
deacon. The couple taught in
the children’s division for 57
years.
Ashlock is survived by his
wife, Shirley; daughter Sharon Knox and husband Mike,
and his son, Larry, and wife
Shawna; five grandchildren:
Michael Knox and wife Maranda, Joshua Knox and wife
Laura, Travis Knox and wife
Brandie, Lauren Barksdale
and husband Ben, and Aaron
Ashlock and wife Diana;
and 10 great-grandchildren:
Blake, Hunter and Seth Knox,
Reaghan Hoffman, Mariah
Glover, Allison Knox, Anna
and Jacob Knox, and Evlyn
and Hudson Barksdale.
Visitation was held Friday, March 15, 2013, at Niday Funeral Home – Beamer
Chapel. The funeral service
was on Saturday, March 16,
at Park Place Baptist Church.
Interment followed at Forest
Park Lawndale Cemetery.
Scholarships offered
Several area elementary schools offer scholarships
to Dobie seniors.
Applications and requirement information are available through the counselor’s office at Dobie, and each
application must be returned by the deadline set by
each school (see below).
Frazier Elementary School
Frazier Elementary will offer scholarships to seven
Dobie graduating seniors who attended Frazier in third
and fourth grades.
Frazier applications are due at the Dobie counselor’s
office by Friday, March 22.
Moore Elementary School
The Moore Elementary PTO will offer scholarships
to four Dobie High graduating seniors who attended
Moore in fourth grade.
Moore applications must be returned by Monday,
March 25.
The scholarships will be awarded at the May PTO
meeting.
CCFA meets March 26
The Crohn & Colitis Foundation of America Bay
Area Support Group will meet Tuesday, March 26, from
7:30 to 9 p.m. at State Farm Insurance, 12941 Gulf
Freeway, Suite 101.
Meetings are free. Patients and caregivers are invited
to attend.
Stuchbery science fair winners
This year, Stuchbery Elementary School had 39
entries from third and fourth grades participate in
the school’s science fair in January. Six students
were the winners and advanced to represent the
school at the Pasadena Independent School District
Science Fair in February. The awards ceremony for
the district was held on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at South
Main Baptist Church in Pasadena. The six Stuchbery
award winners are, left to right, Ty Blankenship,
Elissa Lopez, Dazia Rios, Jordan Reed, Janelle
Mooney and David Gay. Gay’s silver medal project
was Does a Person’s Weight Change Throughout the
Day? Rios’ silver medal project was Store vs.
Bakery. Mooney’s gold medal project was Clean Em
Up. Blankenship’s gold medal project was The Coin
Drop. Lopez’s gold medal project was Easy Hardboiled Eggs. Rios also received a special graphic
award for her project.
Photo submitted
Thursday, March 21, 2013, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Section A, Page 3
2001 Maria Daoust murder revisited, 12 years later . . .
Continued from Page 1A
to go to work. Her assistant,
Gladys Moreno, had Mondays off since those were
the slowest days and Maria
could handle it on her own.
“We’d discussed her staying
closed on Mondays and she
might not have gone in that
day if she didn’t already
have an appointment to
meet with a friend at noon,”
Daoust said.
Maria had loaned the
friend $1,500 a few months
before and the two were
meeting to work out a payment arrangement. But according to James Daoust, the
police determined that the
friend was late for the appointment and decided not
to stop in when she saw the
police cars in the parking lot.
But at 12:50 p.m. Maria’s former mother-in-law
and sister-in-law did stop
by. Even though Maria
was remarried, she had remained friends with her exhusband and his family who
would pop in on occasion
to say hi. The two women
entered the salon and were
surprised that no one was
there. As they called out
Maria Daoust and husband James
Maria’s name and looked
around they noticed a trail
of blood on the floor, which
led them to the petite 5-foot
entrepreneur lying in a pool
of blood, and they called
911.
Detectives Motar and
Abbondandolo of the Houston Police Department soon
arrived and secured the area
while paramedics worked
to revive Maria who was
later pronounced dead at the
scene.
According to Maria’s
husband, one of the paramedics called him around
1 p.m. while he was working out of his house that
day. “He told me that Maria
wasn’t feeling well and that
I needed to come to the salon. I asked him what was
wrong, but all he would tell
me was that I needed to get
there.”
James Daoust arrived
about 30 minutes later and
became alarmed when he
saw the salon’s parking lot
filled with police cars and
two TV news station vans
parked in the median with
their booms already raised.
“I had to park next door at
the Vietnamese massage
parlor, and as I walked
over I saw some of Maria’s
friends there and asked
them what was going on,
but they didn’t know.”
Not knowing what to expect Daoust continued his
way to the front door where
he encountered a police officer guarding the door. “I
told him this was my wife’s
salon and that I wanted to
see her, but he wouldn’t let
me through. I knew then
something was really wrong
and I tried to force my way
in.”
The policeman calmed
Daoust and then broke the
news to him. “He said she’d
been shot and was unresponsive. I was in shock.
I couldn’t believe she was
gone,” said Daoust as he
tried to choke back the
tears. “It’s been 12 years,
but it feels like it was yesterday. I miss her so much.”
As part of standard operating procedures the police questioned Daoust and
her ex-husband at length.
“Maria had no children
but maintained a positive
friendship with her exhusband and his family, so
I had no concerns about
them.” To help the investigation along, both men took
and passed a polygraph.
On the morning after the
shooting, Daoust met the
detectives to go through
the shop to determine if
anything was missing. As
Daoust waited, he spoke
with a man working at a
tanker truck service across
the street and learned that
the man had seen a white
Chevrolet Suburban parked
perpendicular in front of the
salon taking up several rows
of parking around noon.
The man didn’t notice when
the vehicle left and never
saw the driver.
When the detectives arrived, Daoust provided them
with the new information as
they proceeded into the salon. They observed that her
purse and cell phone were
still there and the keys to
her truck parked in the back
were on the counter. “Maria always opened each day
with a certain amount of
money in the register, but
when we opened the register it was empty except for
some change. We checked
her purse and found the
bank envelope empty as
well,” said Daoust.
The only other incident
that Daoust could recall was
when a young Asian male
visited the salon on at least
two different occasions and
sat on the couch appearing
to wait his turn. When it became his turn, he got up and
left the salon.
Disturbed by the behavior, Maria had an alarm
system installed the week
before the shooting. The
system included a “panic
button” that Maria could
wear on a necklace, but
according to Daoust, the
paperwork required to activate the system hadn’t been
filed with the police department.
“My gut instinct tells me
that the person that did this
was there for another reason. Maria was wearing a
1.5-carat diamond engagement ring and other jewelry,
but those items weren’t stolen,” stated Daoust. “I want
justice for my wife and
hope her case gets reopened
and solved.”
Maria’s ashes were interred in a family cemetery
in Villahermosa.
The victim’s family
members and Houston Police Department investigators urge anyone with information about the suspect or
suspects to contact Crime
Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS
(8477).
Crime Stoppers will pay
up to $5,000 for any in-
formation submitted that
leads to the filing of felony
charges or arrest in this
case. All tipsters remain
anonymous.
Maria Daoust
Clear Creek CC of PTAs celebrate PTA Founders Day South Belt-Ellington Leader
The Clear Creek Community Council of PTAs
held the Annual PTA
Founders Day Dinner at
Weber Elementary School
recently. A red carpet welcomed 150 attendees to the
Lights, Camera, Action!
themed event.
Elizabeth Clemente-Nelson, CCCC of PTAs president, began the evening’s
program by introducing
Noah Karnath, fifth-grade
student from Weber Elementary, who played guitar and sang many familiar
songs to the delight of everyone.
Afterward, Clemente-Nelson welcomed guests and
spoke of the history of PTA
and the women who first
advocated for children and
education.
Kristi Wright, council
membership chairman, presented three awards during the evening’s program.
Gina Rico was honored
with Texas PTA Extended
Service Award; Elaina Polsen and Jim Guidry were
honored with a Texas PTA
Life Membership Award.
These individuals were cho-
sen for service to children the Life Membership ComProceeds from this an- grams that benefit children served by CCCC of PTAs
and their support of PTA by mittee.
nual fundraiser bring pro- and parents in the schools and help fund Council Scholarships for high
school seniors.
Weber Elementary Principal Teresa Snider and the
Weber PTA hosted the event
at their campus.
CCCC of PTAs (Clear
Creek Community Council of PTAs) is a 501(c) (3)
nonprofit organization; affiliated with Texas PTA and
National PTA. Texas PTA is
the largest and oldest child
advocacy association in the
state with more than half a
million members.
Texas PTA’s mission is to
make every child’s potential
a reality by engaging and
empowering families and
communities to advocate
for all children.
To learn more about the
National Parent Teacher Association, visit www.pta.
org. For more information
about CCCC of PTAs, visit
the website at www.ccccp2013 Founder’s Day council honorees pictured are, left Laura MacKay, Laura Varley, Sara Holder and Annette ta.org.
to right, (front row) CCISD Superintendent Greg Smith, Dwyer; (third row) Board of Trustee Page Rander;
Board of Trustee Dee Scott, Membership Honoree Elaina Council board members Kristi Wright, Svetlana Hanson,
Polsen, Membership Honoree Gina Rico; Board of Pam Moore and Elizabeth Clemente-Nelson; (back row)
Trustee Ann Hammond, Board of Trustee Charlie Pond; Board of Trustee Ken Baliker; and Council board mem(second row) Council board members Misty Harden, bers Amanda Mark, Reeneea Ennis and Linda Wood.
Friends of the Houston Public Library hold bargain book sale
Friends of the Houston
Public Library will hold their
35th annual bargain book
sale, Houston’s largest community book sale, on Friday,
March 22, through Sunday,
March 24, at the George R.
Brown Convention Center,
Exhibit Hall E, 1001 Avenida
de las Americas, 77010.
More than 60,000 books
will be available to the public
at bargain prices; most books
are $2 or less and some books
will be individually priced
higher.
All proceeds from the sale
will benefit the Houston Public Library. For more details
about the book sale or to be a
volunteer, call the Friends of
the Houston Public Library
at 832-393-1387 or send an
email to info@friendsofhpl.
org.
Members’ Preview Sale
On Friday, March 22,
from 4:30 to 9 p.m. memberships to the Friends of the
Houston Public Library will
be available online or at the
door starting at $25. For further information, visit www.
friendsofhpl.org.
On Saturday, March 23,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. admission is free and open to the
public.
Sunday, March 24, from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. is “Bag
Day” - $10 per bag (Fiesta
bags provided).
Bag Day is a tradition
at the book sale. It allows
customers to fill a bag with
books for just $10 (bags provided by Fiesta Mart, Inc.).
Admission is free and open
to the public.
From paperbacks to collectors’ finds, the 35th annual
bargain book sale has diverse
books for everyone. Children’s books, cookbooks,
gardening books, books on
history, art, and science are
but a few of the offerings.
This sale also features a
selection of adult and children’s books in foreign languages, African-American
studies, graphic novels, reference books including encyclopedias, and much more
will be available.
Regular adult books are
priced at $2 for hardcover
editions and $1 for paperbacks. Some books are individually priced higher.
Children’s books are
marked for sale from $1 to $2.
In response to customer requests, a new easy category for
picture books has been added
to the children’s section.
All easy books, including award books and recent
publications, will be priced at
$1. Cash, check, MasterCard
and Visa will be accepted for
purchases.
Sponsors
Sponsors of the Friends of
the Houston Public Library
35th annual bargain book sale
include: the Houston Public
Library, The Greensheet, and
Fiesta Mart, Inc.
Volunteers Needed
The Friends of the Houston Public Library also need
volunteers to help set up the
sale, tally books sold, guide
attendees to the books they
are looking for, and many
other tasks
Bring along friends, book
club members, and anyone
and everyone who can spend
a few hours at this traditional
annual event.
For more information on
the 35th annual sale or to fill
out an interactive volunteer
form, visit www.friendsof
hpl.org or call 832-393-1387.
About Friends of the
Houston Public Library
The Friends of the Houston Public Library is a notfor-profit corporation estab-
lished in 1953 and is part of
the Houston Public Library
Foundation. The Friends’
mission is to provide funding for library programs and
scholarships and to raise
the library’s visibility in the
Greater Houston community. Since the inception of
the annual bargain book sale,
the Friends have raised more
than $2 million for the Houston Public Library.
About the Houston
Public Library
The Houston Public Library operates 35 neighborhood libraries, four HPL
Express Libraries, a Central
Library, the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, the
Clayton Library Center for
Genealogical Research, The
African American Library at
the Gregory School, and the
Parent Resource Library located in the Children’s Museum of Houston.
Serving more than 7 million customers per year in person and online, HPL is committed to excellent customer
service and equitable access
to information and programs
by providing library customers with free use of a diverse
collection of printed materials and electronic resources,
Internet, laptop and computer
use, and a variety of database
and reference resources with
live assistance online 24/7.
For more information, visit the Houston Public Library
at www.houstonlibrary.org or
call 832-393-1313.
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The South Belt Olympiad Team is a group of fourthgraders who participated in the Olympiad, the districtwide Elementary PE Festival that was held on
March 7 at Pasadena High School. This group was
part of a western line dancing routine. Pictured
are, left to right, (front row) Marc Ramirez, Jacob
Perez, Megan Godeke, Karisa Hernandez, (back
row) Jose Martinez, Wesley Godwin, Elliott Spiller,
Coach Jonathan Kidwell, Valerie Gonzalez, Victoria
Lazo and Alise Williams.
Photo submitted
Page 4, Section A, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Thursday, March 21, 2013
LSA students
selected for Camp
Enterprise
Lutheran South
holds open house
Over The Back Fence
BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR B.J.
Longtime local optometrist Dr. B.J. Garner
celerates his birthday Saturday, March 23.
Best wishes are sent from wife Laura, family,
friends and the Leader staff.
SCHOOL DAZE
The following personnel and staff members
of the Pasadena Independent School District
celebrate birthdays March 21 through March
27.
Atkinson Elementary
Birthday greetings are sent to Kady Deaton
March 24.
Burnett Elementary
Maria Vargas enjoys a birthday March
22. Blow out the birthday candles for Linda
Resendez March 23. On March 25, Carmen
Norris marks a birthday. A birthday greeting is
sent on March 27 to Debbie Ramm.
Frazier Elementary
On March 21, Maria Campos celebrates a
birthday.
Moore Elementary
The day for a party for Shelby Willis is
March 22.
South Belt Elementary
A birthday greeting is sent to Natalie
Boynton March 27.
Stuchbery Elementary
Maria Flores is wished a happy birthday
March 26.
Melillo Middle School
The day for a cake for Elizabeth Williamson
is March 26.
Beverly Hills Intermediate
Blow out the birthday candles for Janis
McKinney March 26.
Thompson Intermediate
March 21 is the day for a triple party for
Hannah Arning, Ayana Swift and Patricia
Castillo. On March 24, Travis Meyer is
wished a happy birthday. The day for a double-layer cake for Deanne Davis and James
Sky-Eagle Smith is March 25.
Dobie High
On March 21, double birthday wishes are
sent to Carol Declercq and Damian Judge.
Amy Crowder enjoys a birthday March 22.
Birthday greetings are sent to Tyler Coker
March 24. Glenda Nicholson and Tracy
Whatley are wished a happy birthday March
26. Blow out the birthday candles on a doublelayer cake for Stephanie Albert and Cornelia
Oprea-Khalaf March 27.
FACEBOOK FRIENDS CELEBRATE
BIRTHDAYS
The Leader sends happy birthday wishes
to its Facebook friends who celebrate a birthday this week:
Thursday, March 21: Suni Ballard, Jamacia
Zabala-Gonzalez and Joseph Block; Friday,
March 22: Kristy Poole, Crystal Pettibone,
Maria Ybarra, Michael Hansen, Edwin
Watson and Gary Hooks; Saturday, March
23: Cindy Kiessling, Monica Garza, Michael
McKissick and James Lucadou; Sunday,
March 24: Junior Cedeno, Jaime Napoli,
Rainbow Montenegro, Jessica Faulkner,
Larry Bischof and Michelle Noble; Monday,
March 25: Joe Dominguez, LaMagnolia
TrattoriaItaliana, Iris Scentsy, Chris Williams
and Jeff Wright; Tuesday, March 26: Andrew
Crow, Pratik Bajpayee, Lori Johnson, Kevin
Waters, Victoria Michelle, Sunday Evans and
Brittany Waters; and Wednesday, March 27:
Chad Rivers, Erica Torres-Saenz, Eudosio
Salinas, Cheryl Woods, Donna Hanson, Joan
Zuñiga, Sharon Finney and Jimmy Massicott.
LEADER WANTS YOU IN THE NEWS
E-mail birthday, anniversary, vacation, congratulations, etc., to mynews@southbeltleader.
com with OTBF in the subject line. Items must
be submitted by Friday noon for the next
week’s publication.
Lariaettes excel at Crowdpleaser’s competition
Lutheran South Academy High School juniors Mckensie
Wren (left) and Wyatt Griffis have been selected to
attend the Rotary Club of Houston’s Camp Enterprise
on April 5-7 at Camp Allen in Navasota, Texas. Camp
Enterprise was initiated in 1986 by the Rotary Club of
Houston as a means of providing a first-hand, practical introduction to the business world for selected high
school juniors who have demonstrated leadership at
their individual schools. Wren and Griffis will attend
the intensive three-day program of instruction, competition and teamwork. Camp Enterprise provides
outstanding speakers from the fields of manufacturing,
engineering, health, communications, business services,
and more. The Rotary Club of Houston sponsors the
students' transportation, lodging, speakers and all
meals and amenities.
The J. Frank Dobie Lariaettes recently competed at
the Crowdpleaser’s South
Houston Showcase held at
Clear Springs High School.
Military officers placed
first in officer hip-hop, and
received super Sweepstakes
for scores of 90 or above in
all routines from all judges.
(The lowest they received
was actually 95s, with highs
of 97s and 98s.)
The Jazz Troupe was
named first runner-up Large
Ensemble, up one spot from
the previous week.
Social officers were
named second runner-up social officers.
Team results were the
most impressive. The team
always stresses team comes
first, and that is exactly what
they did. This was the strongest start to a contest season
the Lariaettes have ever had.
Awards include:
Super Sweepstakes (90
or above on all routines);
Winner - Team Jazz and
Team Modern; first runnerup team Pom and team Kick;
Outstanding
technique
award (very few schools
earn); Outstanding Choreography Team Jazz and
Team Kick; Crowdpleaser
(most entertaining routine)
Award - Team Jazz; Highest
Scoring Team Jazz across
all Divisions (scores 98, 98
and 99) even beating Clear
Lake’s Jazz team that won
the contest overall; highest scoring routine (team
Jazz) of the day (across all
divisions and styles); first
runner-up large Team Elite
Circle (Top six Teams of
the Day); and first runnerup Overall Team in which
the girls were less than twotenths of a point from winning the entire competition.
Lutheran South Academy welcomes all prospective students and their parents for an informative open
house and tour of the school
on Sunday, March 24 from
2 to 4 p.m.
It will be an opportunity
for families to tour the campus and meet some of the
teachers, coaches and administrators and to find out
about the things LSA has to
offer.
Lutheran South is a
comprehensive college preparatory Christian school
serving children in Pre-K
through 12th grade. The
campus is made up of four
major buildings which
house the lower school,
middle school, and upper
school, as well as gymnasiums and cafeteria.
To register for the open
house and tour of the LSA
facilities, call Director of
Admissions, Aaron Schneider at 281-617-5626.
Lutheran South Academy is located at 12555 Ryewater Drive off Dixie Farm
Road.
CCISD bond election . . .
Continued from Page 1A
jected growth.
Approximately $21 million of this would go to
Clear Brook High School
to secure entrance, repair
significant foundation failure and expand commons
and other areas for expected
growth.
Weber Elementary School
would also receive unspecified improvements.
Rebuilds and improvements of campuses that are
40 years old or more would
account for $182 million of
the bond proposal.
Instructional technology
improvements would account for $45 million of the
proposed bond.
The remaining $49 million of the funds would be
used to construct or expand
facilities to support co-curricular and extracurricular
programs, including a new
$39 million stadium, the
second for the district.
The estimated tax increase of this bond is
$0.1125.
If approved by voters,
a homeowner of a median
home would see an initial
$5.12 increase per month in
property taxes with a maximum annual payment of
$172.72.
A median home in
CCISD is $177,400. Homeowners 65 years and older
would not see a tax rate increase as their property tax
rates are frozen by law.
Election Day will be Saturday, May 11, 2013.
Early voting will begin
April 29, 2013 and end May
7, 2013. The last day to register to vote in this election
will be April 11, 2013.
For details of the bond
proposal, visit www.ccisd.
net/2013bond.
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students for their accomplishments.
30 years ago (1983)
Frazier Elementary’s principal, Gene Henson, was reassigned to Teague Elementary.
Sagemont Bicycle Shop
was burglarized of a Diamondback mini pro pit bike,
worth $340. The burglar
broke through the front door
to gain entry.
Dobie seniors Freeman
Tomlin and Steve Geissen
were chosen to the Coaches
All District 23-5A basketball
team.
25 years ago (1988)
The San Jacinto College
South Drama Department received an excellence award,
and two students won individual honors at the TJCSTA
Play Festival in Denison for
their performance in The Foreigner. Holly Bara received
a superior acting award for
her role as Ellard Simms, and
John Ivy received an excellence award for his role as
Charlie Baker.
The San Jacinto College
District Board of Regents
approved the addition of an
environmental
technology
program for San Jacinto College South.
20 years ago (1993)
The 668-home Southbend
subdivision was scheduled to
be demolished after all of the
homes were acquired by the
insurer of the developer.
Randomly selected parents and employees of PISD
received an eight-question
survey. District spending,
campus security, student
counseling and teacher/class
ratios were topics of the questions.
San Jacinto College South
history instructor Kearby
Lyde was nominated for the
Minnie Stevens Piper award.
15 years ago (1998)
The traffic and transportation, government affairs
and economic development
committees of the South
Belt-Ellington Chamber of
Commerce honored Maureen
Wakeland, a local engineer
for the Texas Department of
Transportation.
San
Jacinto
College
South’s softball team won
first place in the OkaloosaWalton College tournament
in Niceville, Fla.
10 years ago (2003)
Dustin Alan Jenkinson,
19, was in custody facing multiple charges after a
drive-by shooting in the 9800
block of Sagequeen. Charges
included aggravated robbery
with a deadly weapon, a firstdegree felony, and deadly
conduct, a third-degree felony.
Johnny Carmona, sales
supervisor and community
coordinator for Sam’s Club
on Fuqua, won two national
awards, the Literacy Hero
Award and a good works
and community involvement
award.
5 years ago (2008)
The Texas Air National
Guard took civilians on four
of its F-16 refueling missions. The flights were part
of TANG’s annual family
and employer appreciation
day. One participating family
member was longtime South
Belt resident Laura Garner,
wife of TANG Lt. Col. B.J.
Garner. Also invited to cover
the event were David and
Marie Flickinger, publisher
of the South Belt-Ellington
Leader.
A high-speed chase led
to a suspect being arrested
and charged with two felony
counts, thanks in part to the
efforts of a local resident.
Physics and journalism
students from Dobie and
South Houston high schools
were among only five groups
in the nation that were invited to participate in an international project to learn and
report about a new supercollider project in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Pasadena Independent School District continued to offer students the option of taking courses online
through its Virtual School.
The program allowed students to take classes on their
own time wherever Internet
access was available.
1 year ago (2012)
Servant-Savior Presbyterian Church held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site
of the proposed facility on
Hughes. The original building was destroyed by fire in
April 2010.
Southeast Area Ministries
(SeAM), a Christian-based
nonprofit comprising 22 covenant churches of various
denominations and more than
120 individual volunteers,
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Remember When
35 years ago (1978)
Texas Commerce Bancshares confirmed that it had
been granted a charter for
a new national bank to be
known as Texas Commerce
South Belt.
In a business meeting,
the Pasadena Independent
School District Board of
Trustees raised the summer
tuition, approved the evening
school schedule, approved
textbooks, made tax roll adjustments, approved personnel changes and recognized
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celebrated its 25th anniversary. Created in 1987, SeAM
provides emergency service
to those in crisis, including
single mothers and needy
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BHI releases 4th 6-weeks honor rolls Haneys celebrate 50th anniversary
Beverly Hills Intermediate
recently announced its honor
rolls for the fourth six-weeks
grading period of 2012-2013.
Students earning status are:
Honor roll
Seventh grade
Marvyn Acosta, Abraham
Alanis, Pedro Alba, Anthony
Ke’andre Dr’eshard Anderson-Johnson, Bailie Mckenna
Ankenbruck, Luis Omar Arellano, Denise Rose Avalos,
Korrin Nikole Ballin, Garrett
Raul Barrientos, Reena Leticia Benitez and Justin Bimel.
Daniel Giovanni Botello,
Kimberly Nhu Bui, Sarah
Jane Bustamante, Ramon Cahue, Caleb Chandler Campbell, Alexis Campos, Dominique Giana Cantu, Robert
Joseph Castillo, Kimberly
Ruby Chew, Jalen Morris
Clark, Cuauhtemoc Cornejo
and Zachary Paul Couchman.
Celeste Marie Covarrubias,
Jason Anthony Cruz, Alexander Gabriel Cuaping, Maia
Chardae Davenport, Daniel
Michael Delarosa, Allyson
Adriana Diaz, Clarissa Diaz,
Natalie Michelle Diosdado,
Thoi Gia Duong, Miguel
Anjel Elizarraras, Alex Jacob
Estala and Alfredo Estrada.
Maria Jose Figueroa, Eduardo Francisco Flores, Madeline Marie Flores, Melina
Lesette Flores, Robert Garcia
Flores, Karina Frias, Catherine Mia Fuentes, Michelle
Fuentes, Angeles Garcia,
Francisco Garcia, Gisselle
Garcia, Gustavo Arturo Garcia and Klarissa Heidy Garza.
Jasslyn Gomez Portillo,
Jasmin Sarai Gomez Velas-
quez, Gloria Marian Gomez,
Yicell Nohemy Gonzalez,
Ana Sofia Gracia, Lynda Marie Grantham, Diana Carolina Guerrero, Jazmin Alanna
Guerrero, Cassandra America
Guevara, Tina Kim-Thanh Ha
and Victoria Jenae Harris.
Tatelyn Elizabeth Hartwell, Amanda Nicole Hernandez, Tommy Hernandez, Ysabela Nicole Hinojosa, Alice
Gia Ho, Lynn Tuyet Ho, Travis Thien Ho, Carolyn Huerta,
Ja’lon Hunt, Kamsiyochukwu
Canice Ik-Ejiofor, Naureen Islam and Kimberli Izaguirre.
Elizabeth Brittney Jasso,
Douglas Joseph Jones, Jakob Brandon Jones, Lily Lan
Kieu, Josiah Michael Knight,
Giselle Lara, Britney Taylor
Lariviere, Edgar Lerma, Jasmine Azaria Lewis, Alexis
Liselda Lopez, John Frank
Lopez, Jordan N. Marcum and
Robert Anthony Mares.
Sophia V. Marin, Jorge
Cristian Martin, Juan D’Angelo Martinez, Kathleen Mackenzie Masterson, Brittney
Marisela Mejia, Samantha
Merrill, Emily Marie Mesa,
Hana Osama Mohamad, Rachel Elidem Mondragon, Darianne Montserrat Monreal and
Mallerim Morales.
Carlos Alejandro Moreno, Krystal Moreno, Angela
Quynh Tram-Anh Nguyen,
Emily Quynh Nguyen, Jenny
Kim Nguyen, Jenny Ngoc
Nguyen, Justin Hoang Nguyen, Nam The Nguyen, Pierce
Thinh Nguyen, Tan Nguyen,
Trinh Nguyen and Vincent
Thanh Trung Nguyen.
Ayanna Lysette Nguyen-
Geralynn Williams, Sami Lin
Yu, Monica Aidee Zabala,
Aleena Maher Zaid and Perla
Zuniga.
Eighth grade
Robin Emmanuel Acac,
Marilyn Athziry Acosta,
Denisse Elena Alanis, Janeth
Silvia Amador, Isaac Arango,
Antonio Armenta, Oscar Armenta, Jacob Tyler Arnesen,
Natalie Celline Balle, Jennifer
Banda, Chance Bittle, Kiara
Lynn Blandon, Eugene Bogany and Gissel Buenrostro.
Joseph Gabriel Bustamante, Nanci Carrera, Anthony
Laurence Carrico, Delana Nicole Carrillo, Miranda Marie
Carrizales, Ashali Rena Carter, Joseph Adam Castaneda,
Andrea Guerra Cavazos, Andrea Chapa, Isabel Mercedes
Chavez, Jarely Floreli Claros
and Andrew Javier Climer.
Ashley Denise Cordova,
Erick Omar Covarrubias,
Nathan Andrew Covarrubias,
Alia Nichelle Crawford, Elissa Garza Cruz, Yeline Cutting
Gonzalez, Jimmy Tuan Dang,
Lananh Thi Dang, Courtney
Hang-Nga Dao, Dominick
Leavie Davis and Jacoby Gerard Davis.
Jeremy Gerard Davis, Alexa Michell De Alejandro, Vu
Huy Dinh, Samantha Dominguez, Jazmyn Arisa Drumgo,
An Gia Duong, Courtney Allison Early, America Celeste
Eguia, Yovanna Verenise Elizondo, Lauren Taylor Escobar, David Anthony Espinal
and Javier Raul Flores.
Alexandria Victoria Garcia, Andres Garcia, Celenia
Michelle Garcia, Hayley Renee Garcia, Jasmyn Allysa
Garcia, Nadia Lynn Garcia,
Noe Garcia, Raquel Alicia
Garza, Crystal Renee Glover,
David Alexander Gonzalez,
Ezri Elaine Gonzalez and
Madison Evelyn Graham.
Courtney N. Grigar, Elisa
The $17.5 million repair
Marie Guevara, Christopher
contract for the Battleship
Anthony Gutierrez, Karina
Texas will accomplish about Lyzette Gutierrez, Nia Marcia
half of the structural repair
needs of the battleship and
is a first step in meeting the
long-term goal of placing the
USS Texas in a dry berth, acA contingent of 18 parcording to Scott Stover, TP- ents representing the Clear
WD’s Infrastructure Division
Creek Community Council
deputy director.
of PTAs board and local
During the repair work,
the ship will remain open PTA units traveled to Austin
to the public as conditions to attend Texas PTA’s Rally
allow, and visitors will see Day on Feb. 21. PTA memplenty of activity at the site, bers met with Rep. John
as well as construction equip- Davis, Rep. Greg Bonnen’s
ment and an access barge on staff members, and Sen.
Larry Davis’ office intern.
the north side of the ship.
As advocates for the
The repairs to the ship’s
structural foundation will oc- 40,000 students in the Clear
cur deep within the ship in areas rarely seen by the public.
When completed in the fall of
2014, the repaired hull will
not be evident to most visitors.
If a certain aspect of the
ship repair work requires
temporarily closing the ship
for the safety of visitors,
TPWD will post that information as it becomes available. However, Stover says
the public should be aware
that temporary closings may
occur on short notice for the
duration of the project.
Funding for the repairs
comes from General Obligation Bonds approved by
voters and specifically appropriated by the Texas Legislature for Battleship Texas
repairs.
Echeverry, Thanhlong Nguyenvo, Amy Elizabeth Nolen,
Natalie Elizabeth Orta, Alexis
Rae Oses, Relencia Neccole
Owens, Jazmin Rain Palm,
Kristen Dung Patton, Jacquelyn Pena, Andrea Carolina
Perez, Jasmine V. Pham and
John Tran Phan.
Long Hoang Phan, Ngoc
Thao Phan, Tam Thanh Phan,
Uyen Tran Phan, Lisette Pitty, Michelle Monique Pozo,
Kyrah Allise Prince, Brittany
Janell Puente, Pablo Jose Puente, Desiree Angelica Quijas,
Anthony Nelson Ramirez,
Maria Evelyn Rangel and
Bryan Alexander Reyes.
Mia Alexandra Reyna,
Jessica Whitney Richardson,
Beatriz Anne Rivera, Dwayne
Paul
Robinson,
Jazmin
Nicolle Rodriguez, Xochitl
Kimberly Romero, Malorie
Jolynn Rosas, Erika Rubio,
Jason Matthew Napoles Sabal
and Jose Ulises Salazar.
Stephanie Saldivar, Kazzandra Rico Sanchez, Montrai La Darryl Scott, Ana Leesa
Segovia, Amentanese Jashae
Simien, Victoria Ta, Adrian
Tamez, Samuel Feleke Taye,
Jamel Elliott Taylor and Juan
Manuel Temores Paz.
Amber Nicole Terrell,
Laquavious Demar Thomas,
Annie Ngoc Tran, Tony Duc
Tran, Vicente Trevino, Donald Trinh, Marcely Jean Tsikis, Veronica Aubrey Arcalas
Unica, Roxanne Valdez and
Leilani Isabel Vargas.
Fernando Vega, Annette
Vela, Ayline Vela, Holly Thao
Vu, Natasha Miranda Walters,
Earnest Lee Webb, Karyn
Major repairs to Battleship
Texas hull to begin in April
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has contracted with Taylor Marine Construction, Inc. to make the
first significant structural repairs to the Battleship Texas
in more than 20 years. March
12 marked the 99th anniversary of the battleship’s commissioning in 1912.
Based in Beaufort, N.C.,
Taylor Marine has recent experience with historic battleships, spending almost $2
million in 2011 to replace
a portion of the Battleship
North Carolina’s steel hull.
Repairs on the Battleship
Texas are scheduled to begin
in April.
Wedding, engagement policies
Wedding writeups must be run in the newspaper, not
submitted, in the time outlined:
From wedding date to six weeks – photo and full article;
Six weeks to three months – photo and limited informa
tion;
After three months from wedding date – will not be run.
Engagement and wedding announcements are published
free of charge on a first come, first served basis. Information must be submitted by Friday to be considered for the
next issue.
Herman, Edna Fernanda Herrera, Chelsea Christine Hickman, Kory Elijah Hubbard,
Grace Kelly Huckabay, Danny Lam, Ryan Mark Lanza
and Hellen Thu Le.
Paloma Leon, Mauro Lerma, Hector Rodolfo Lopez,
Steven Khang Ly, Patrick
Jonathan Marsh, Sebastian
Martinez, Hailey Michelle
McBride, Noah Anthony Mejia, Damaris Nataly Morales,
Xochitl Celeste Navarro, Bao
Triet Nguyen, Dat Tien Nguyen and Kim Phuong Nguyen.
Phuc Minh Nguyen, Phuong Quynh Diep Nguyen,
Steven Nguyen, Taylor Quang
Nguyen, Thao Thi-Phuong
Nguyen, Christiana Chikaodinaka Nnabuife, Gilberto Olivares, Jessica Marie Ortega,
Adam Antonio Padilla, Elena
Tien Pham, Rich Phamand
Tin Nhan Pham.
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Tovar, Iram Ramirez, Edwing
Yohalmo Reyes, Hur Mehdi
Rizvi, Yahby Gabriel Romero,
Alfredo Santoscoy, Jocelyn
Yvette Serrano, Kailah Kaia
Shaw, Camille Deon Singleton and Hector Brian Tinoco.
John Guillermo Torres,
Barbara Vy Tran, Danny Diep
Tran, Jacklyn Cattien Tran,
Kelly Mai-Tram Tran, Tracy
Truc-Mai Tran, Tyler D. Tran,
Alezaii Krystal Trevino, Ivonne Chino Trevino, Jennifer
Truong, Erica Nichole Tsui,
Meloney Nicole Tyler, Jocelyn Mariah Ulloa and Gabriel
Tristan Arcalas Unica.
Kimber Skye Vanek, Adrian Velasquez, Diamonndlee
Alexandra Velez, Diana Laura
Vidal, Kathrina Perez Villanueva, Abigail Villasenor, Justin W. Vu, Tam Vu, Audreycarelle Nkeiya Wandji, Daniel
Williams, Macy Kate Williams, Ledarius Keith Woodard, Jacob Dylan Worsham,
Natalie Michelle Zaragoza
and Dulce Abril Zavala.
Roy and Catherine “Cathy” Haney marked their
50th wedding anniversary on March 8, 2013. They
were married in Austin on March 8, 1963. They will
celebrate with a party on Saturday, March 23, hosted
by their children, Mike and Jayna Haney and Leigh
and Dayne Choate, and grandchildren Ryan, Erin,
Jessica, Sarah and Dave.
at Dobie High School. She
loved teaching, especially at
Dobie. She loved academic
competition as well, first
accompanying Mack Sawyer to Washington, D.C., as
the Houston-area champion
speller during his eighthgrade year.
At Dobie, Cathy and
Richard Golenko sponsored
many Prep Bowl teams that
competed in area matches.
When Academic Decathlon began, Principal Frank
Braden asked Richard and
Cathy to form a Dobie team.
Many years of hard work
followed, accompanied by
the pleasure of winning due
to determined, bright students pushed by the efforts
of Dobie teachers from all
departments, supportive administrators, helpful parents,
and many volunteers from
Roy Haney grew up in
Texas City; Cathy Dove
grew up in San Antonio.
They met and fell in love as
students at the University
of Texas in Austin in 1961.
Had there been any jobs in
Austin, they probably would
have stayed there permanently, but that’s how things
turned out. They lived in San
Antonio for a while, then
moved to Houston in 1965,
settling in permanently.
Roy’s first Houston job
was with General Electric
on Broad Street, leading to
the couple’s choice of neighborhoods. He eventually
started his own business in
construction. Cathy taught
for Pasadena Independent
School District for 38 years:
first at South Houston Intermediate, then Miller Intermediate, then 34 years
Members attend Texas PTA Rally Day
Creek Independent School
District, PTA members
spoke about the need to fund
public schools, to reduce
the number of high stakes
tests currently taken by
high school students, and to
provide multiple pathways
to graduation which would
allow students the opportunity to be prepared to enter
the workforce. These issues
are part of the 2013 Texas
PTA Legislative Priorities
and were discussed by the
200-plus attendees when
they met with their respective legislators during the
rally day.
To learn more about the
2013 Texas PTA Legislative
Priorities, visit the Texas
PTA website at www.txpta.
org.
Information about CCCC
of PTAs can be found on
their website located at
www.ccccpta.org.
the community who volunteered to judge speech and
interview practice sessions.
The highlight was the national championship victory
at Boise in 1992, with thrills
including meeting President
George H.W. Bush at the
White House as one result.
Cathy earned her MA in
U.S. History during the Decathlon years, but the birth
of her first grandchild made
her want more “grandparent” time.
She has enjoyed starting, with Ann Brannen, the
Dobie Trailmixers, a very
loosely formed organization of folks who now or
ever worked at Dobie. Cathy
puts out a monthly newsletter with news of Dobie
events and people to those
who send her their email addresses.
Cathy and Roy have two
children. Mike (Pasadena
High valedictorian; Rice and
UT degrees) and Jayna live
in Pearland with their four
children. Leigh (Pasadena
High newspaper editor and
band drumline member) and
Dayne live in Cedar Park,
where Leigh works for a
computer company.
Cathy and Roy have enjoyed many trips around the
United States, but their adventures have been limited
since Cathy’s diagnosis with
multiple myeloma (2006)
and then lung cancer (stage
4 in 2012).
The couple are proud to
have achieved 50 years of
marriage, and have been
thrilled to reconnect with
many friends, both old and
new, during this time of celebration.
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Contingent from CCISD PTAs on the steps of the state Capitol in Austin are,
left to right, (front row) Svetlana Hanson, Jennifer Ellison, Texas PTA Region
II Vice President Chris Reeder, (second row) Kristin Bohlman, Annette Dwyer,
Texas PTA Area 10 President Vicky Fransham, (third row) Sharon Potter,
Amanda Mark with Madeline Mark, CCCC of PTAs President Elizabeth
Clemente-Nelson, (fourth row) Emily Lindberg, Cathy Meilchen, (back row)
Elizabeth Arceneaux, Gina Rico and Darlene Selmarten.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
The Catholic Community of
ST. LUKE THE EVANGELIST
Rev. James Burkart, Pastor
Rev. Desmond Daniels, Parochial Vicar
11011 Hall Rd. Houston, TX 77089
(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.
This Sunday with Rev. Joni Sutton:
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Christian Church
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281-484-4230
Mark 11:1-11
Bill & Cheryl Hines, Pastors
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.
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Sunday School
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The Fountain (Contemporary) 5 p.m.
WEEKLY SERVICE TIMES
Sunday
Wednesday
Early Service • 7:45 a.m.
Prayer Meeting • 7:00 p.m.
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SECTION B
SPORTS & CLASSIFIED
For Dobie High School soccer programs, it’s double the fun
Tie gives boys 22-5A share,
yet team not thrilled in result
Girls’ squad has at least a share of crown;
outright ownership with win over Pearland
The Dobie Longhorns
have won a share of the
District 22-5A varsity boys’
soccer title, but that doesn’t
mean head coach Jesse Saavedra is a happy camper.
The Longhorns will have
little momentum heading
into the regular season finale March 22 at The Rig in
Pearland against the Oilers,
a non-playoff team.
In the final home game
of the season at Veterans
Stadium in Pasadena March
19, Saavedra watched his
Longhorns struggle through
a lackluster performance
against Sam Rayburn,
which, like Pearland, will
not make the playoffs.
The two teams played 80
minutes of scoreless soccer
for a tie, but the Texans won
the shootout four goals to
three to secure two points
as Dobie meandered off the
So close, yet so far away.
With its 6-0 win over
Sam Rayburn March 18,
the Lady Longhorns have
earned no worse than a
share of the District 22-5A
crown.
A Dobie varsity girls’
soccer team had not won
a league crown since the
1994-95 season. That year,
Dobie earned a first-round
bye, then won an arearound game before losing
(see Page 6B).
The catch? Visiting Pearland can ruin the potential
celebration with a victory
field with a second shootout
setback in district play.
Give credit where it is
due.
The Texans withstood an
early offensive push over
the first several minutes of
the game, adjusted and then
outplayed Dobie the rest of
the way.
The Longhorns fired a
handful of shots at the Texans’ net early on but then
were held in check.
“You just have to be able
to come out and handle your
opportunities when they are
there,” Saavedra added.
“Yes, we won a share of
the district championship
with the one point. But we
needed to come out and
play our brand of soccer
and earn the outright championship with a good victory. We just didn’t do that.”
Continued on Page 6B
over Dobie March 22 at Veterans Stadium.
Match time is 8 p.m. for
the biggest duel of the season to this point.
Dobie (12-1) won its
first matchup against Pearland and has now won 11
straight matches to get to 36
points (3 for a win, 1 for a
tie) in the standings.
Pearland is 11-2 for 33
points, with the team having suffered a second loss to
Alvin because of a forfeit.
Should Dobie and Pearland finish in a dead heat for
first place, District 22-5A
Dobie Lady Longhorns
host Pearland Lady Oilers
Friday, March 22
Veterans Stadium, 8 p.m.
bylaws call for a head-tohead contest to be played in
order to determine playoff
seedings.
With the bidistrict playoff round not scheduled to
be played until March 2830, there is a break in the
schedule to allow for a tiebreaking match to be played
should it be required.
Officials from both districts have unofficially set
up a scenario for the game
(see Page 6B).
That doesn’t mean Dobie
wants in on it, though.
“The plan is to go out
there (Friday) and win this
one,” McDonald said.
“The girls have worked
very hard and done a lot of
good things to get to this
point. Pearland can strike
quickly, but we’ve also been
able to handle the pressure
Continued on Page 6B
Dobie Longhorns
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Friday, March 22
The Rig, Pearland, 7 p.m.
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El Franco Lee Park.
Denny Wranich Jr., in his
first year as league president, his board of directors,
league coaches and players
have all been busily preparing for the start of the season.
Opening night is Friday,
March 22, at El Franco Lee
Park as the league’s teams
will be recognized, and
a banner contest will be
judged.
Some of yesterday’s stars
in SBHLL will also be there
to participate in the league’s
first-ever Legends game.
The following day,
March 23, will include a
parade and a festival at El
Franco Lee Park.
The parade, which will
include pizza party awards
for three overall winners,
will begin at Weber Elementary and proceed down
Blackhawk before arriving
at the field.
Teams from the South
Belt Girls Softball Association will also take part in the
parade.
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Teammates Malyn Nunez (left) and Kara Snyder celebrate a goal scored against the Sam Rayburn Lady
Texans March 18 at Veterans Stadium. The win earned
the team no worse than a share of the 22-5A title.
Gerardo Martinez of Dobie pushes the attack during
the Longhorns’ eventual shootout loss to Sam Rayburn
March 19 at Veterans Stadium. Despite the outcome,
Dobie still tops 22-5A.
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Lady Horns’ softball whacks Pasadena 19-0
There was plenty of offense as Dobie’s varsity
softball team handed Pasadena a 19-0 loss in play
March 19 at the Pasadena
ISD sports complex.
Dobie, looking to get
back on track after tough
back-to-back losses to Alvin and Manvel and then
spring break, scored 11 runs
in the first inning to put
things away quickly against
an overmatched Lady Eagles’ team.
The Lady Longhorns
will look to keep their momentum going as the next
eight games for the team
will be played at the PISD
complex.
Dobie will face Sam
Rayburn Friday, March 22,
at 6:30 p.m. before closing
out the first half of league
play against Pearland Tuesday, March 26, also at 6:30
p.m.
Pearland, state-ranked at
this point, leads the District
22-5A race at 5-0.
Dobie, having already
played non-Pasadena ISD
teams Manvel and Alvin
on the road, will not play
another regular season contest away from the Pasadena
ISD facility until traveling
to Pearland April 19. At 3-2,
Dobie is currently in third
place.
Clear Brook girls fall, now at 2-2
Just when the Clear
Brook varsity softball team
figured to be getting ahead
of the game, next came a
hiccup
Clear Falls scored 11
runs over the final three innings, turning a 4-2 deficit
into a 13-4 victory March
19 as the Lady Wolverines
saw their league record
evened at 2-2.
Prior to that, the team put
a tough loss to Brazoswood
quickly behind them, jumping into another gear in the
District 24-5A varsity softball race for two wins.
The team took down
Clear Springs 6-2 as Jackie
Molenaar and Taylor Nickell had two hits apiece.
Just prior to spring break
weekend, the Lady Wolverines took down Clear Lake
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had shown the ability to
throw strikes and limit damage in previous starts, struggled against the Mavericks.
Over 4 2/3 innings, Ansley walked six batters.
Dobie scored two runs in
the top of the seventh inning
to get within 7-4.
But Manvel’s Shane McCarley, a star quarterback
on the football field who
is headed to Old Dominion
University to play football,
closed out the win.
Despite walking a pair
and hitting another batter,
McCarley struck out six
Longhorns over two innings
as Manvel tied Dobie for
second place at 2-1.
Continued on Page 3B
District 22-5A Standings
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Local sports events Dobie graduate Collins leads Brook Hill girls to TAPPS Division III state title
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Golf tournament set
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Pearland. There is an 8 a.m. start, 18-hole, 4-player team
scramble, $85 per player, $340 per team. Prizes will be
given for closest to the pin and longest drive. Trophies,
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March 28, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Ashley Pointe pool.
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Sports calendar
TRACK AND FIELD
Thursday, March 21
PISD intermediate boys’ meet, Auxiliary, 4:30
Thursday, March 21 through Saturday, March 23
Dobie varsity boys at Bayou Classic, Rice Univ., TBA
Friday, March 22
Dobie varsity girls at C.E. King Relays, TBA
Tuesday, March 26
PISD intermediate girls’ meet, Auxiliary, 4:30
Wednesday, March 27
PISD intermediate boys’ meet, Auxiliary, 4:30
Thursday, March 28
Dobie varsity girls at Rockhold Relays, Baytown, TBA
Dobie varsity boys at Clear Springs Invit., TBA
SOCCER
Friday, March 22
Brook varsity girls at Friendswood, 7:30
Dobie varsity girls host Pearland, Veterans, 8:00
Dobie varsity boys at Pearland, The Rig, 7:00
Brook JV girls at Friendswood, 5:30
Monday, March 25
Brook varsity boys at Brazoswood, 7:00
Brook JV boys at Brazoswood, 5:30
Tuesday, March 26
Brook varsity girls host Brazoswood, 7:00
Brook JV girls host Brazoswood, 5:30
TENNIS
Friday and Saturday, March 22-23
Dobie varsity at Beachcomber Classic, Galv., TBA
Thursday, March 28
Dobie varsity at Sunseri Memorial tourn., Galv., TBA
Friday and Saturday, April 5-6
Dobie varsity at 22-5A champs., Strawberry, TBA
SOFTBALL
Friday, March 22
Brook varsity at Dickinson, 6:30
Dobie varsity vs. Rayburn, PISD complex, 6:30
Dobie JV vs. Rayburn, PISD complex 5:00
Brook JV at Dickinson, 5:00
Tuesday, March 26
Brook varsity hosts Clear Creek, 6:30
Dobie varsity hosts Pearland, PISD complex, 6:30
Dobie JV hosts Pearland, PISD complex, 5:00
Brook JV hosts Clear Creek, 5:00
Thursday, March 28
Brook varsity hosts Houston Lamar, 6:30
Dobie varsity vs. S. Houston, PISD complex, 6:30
Dobie JV vs. S. Houston, PISD complex, 5:00
Brook JV hosts Houston Lamar, 5:00
BASEBALL
Friday, March 22
Brook varsity at Clear Creek, 7:30
Dobie varsity at Alvin, 7:00
Dobie JV hosts Alvin, Dobie, 4:00
Brook JV hosts Clear Creek, 7:00
Brook sophomores host Clear Creek, 4:30
Dobie sophomores host Alvin, PISD complex, 4:30
Tuesday, March 26
Brook varsity at Kinkaid, 7:30
Dobie varsity vs. Pasadena, Maguire, 4:00
Brook JV hosts Kinkaid, 7:00
Dobie JV vs. Pasadena, PISD complex, 7:00
Brook sophomores host Kinkaid, 4:30
Dobie sophomores vs. Pasadena, PISD complex, 4:30
Thursday, March 28
Brook varsity hosts Brazoswood, 7:30
Dobie varsity vs. Rayburn, Maguire, 7:00
Dobie JV vs. Rayburn, Maguire, 4:00
Brook JV at Brazoswood, 7:00
Brook sophomores at Brazoswood, 4:30
Dobie sophomores host Rayburn, Dobie, 4:00
David Collins has fashioned quite a career of athletic achievements since
leaving the South Belt area
to chase his dreams more
than two decades ago.
And now he can add high
school state championship
coach to his list.
The 1990 Dobie High
School graduate was part
of a jubilant sideline celebration as the Brook Hill
School – a private Christian
boarding school located
roughly 15 minutes south
of Tyler, won a girls’ soccer
championship.
The Lady Guard avenged
two losses to Coffeyville
Covenant Christian earlier
in the regular season, this
time downing Coffeyville
3-0 for the Texas Association of Private and Paro-
chial Schools Division III
crown.
Collins said injuries to
both teams played a part
along the way in each of
the Brook Hill/Coffeyville
matchups.
He had key players missing during the regular season. Coffeyville took advantage to win a pair. In the
postseason, Coffeyville had
to deal with a key injury to a
top player, but Collins made
no excuses.
“The way we played in
the championship match,
I don’t think it would have
mattered,” Collins said.
“We played as a team,
stayed with the game plan
and executed the way we
know how to. It was just
great to see these girls have
that kind of success and for
Brook Hill to be able to
share in the excitement.”
The title match was
played at Houston’s Awty
International High School,
and it was a nice road trip
for Collins, who grew up in
the South Belt area.
Previously, Collins led
the Brook Hill boys’ team
to the state tournament Final Four three times in four
years. But the team lost
twice in semifinal games
and another time in the final.
This season, Collins
watched as his Brook Hill
boys’ team advanced to the
regional final before losing.
A player from the Brook
Hill team, Caleb Latson,
has signed with St. Edwards
University in Austin.
Collins said Latson is
SJC netters gain accolades
San Jacinto College
men’s basketball players Mohammad Lee
(right), Zach Lofton,
and Danny Lawhorn
earned all-Region XIV
honors after leading
San Jacinto College to
the quarterfinals of the
conference tournament.
Lee, a sophomore guard
from Bronx, N.Y., was
named the region’s Most
Valuable Player. The
sophomore averaged 19
points per game, a mark
that led the team and
ranks 25th in the nation.
He also posted a teambest 7.8 rebounds per
game. Lofton earned
all-Region second team
honors, while Lawhorn
was named to the third
team. Lofton, a freshman guard from St.
Paul, Minn., was second
on the team in scoring
at 16.6 points per game.
likely the most talented
player he’s ever coached.
Latson scored 72 goals over
three seasons at Brook Hill.
After having had so
much success and then
having built the Brook
Hill girls’ team from the
ground floor stages, Collins
coached the Lady Guard to
the state semifinals in 2012.
Starting from scratch or
reloading a program has
never bothered Collins. In
fact, he seems to prefer the
method.
An all-district soccer
player at Dobie during
coach Rhonda Foster’s time
in the program, Collins
headed to San Jacinto College South.
While at San Jacinto
College, he was part of a
Coyote men’s club team
that was founded by Judy
Harrison but had yet to begin competition in the National Junior College Athletic Association ranks.
Finishing his education
and playing career at East
Texas Baptist University,
Collins was a men’s assistant coach and then accepted an opportunity to debut
the university’s women’s
soccer program.
That women’s team
began play in 1999 and
bagged a playoff berth by
2001, the same year Collins
was named the American
Southwest
Conference’s
Coach of the Year.
Two years later, in 2003,
Collins and his family,
which includes wife Christi
and sons Caleb and Joshua,
headed for Bullard to join
the Brook Hill program.
Currently the Brook Hill
assistant athletic director,
Collins also serves as the
varsity football team’s defensive coordinator and the
boys’ soccer coach.
“It’s been a great run for
myself and my family so
far,” Collins said.
“I must say that I have
been put in some great
situations and been given a
chance to make a difference
at a lot of stops along the
way.
“I also feel like it’s what
you do with those chances
that makes a difference, too.
Things have to work out for
you.
“Brook Hill is just a
great place for my family. It’s perfect for our kids
and has just been terrific.
The bottom line is I love to
coach. It’s what I’m here to
do.”
As for the future, Collins
is ready for another go at
it. He’ll again coach within
the football program before
turning to the soccer field.
The boys’ team must reload after the loss of Latson,
but Collins thinks the girls’
team can have similar success.
“We’ve been fortunate
to get to state and now to
have some success there,”
Collins said of his first state
title as a coach.
“It’s easy for kids to be
selfish these days, but ours
have completely bought
into what we are doing and
believe in their teammates.
It’s been great to be a part
of.”
Break over, Longhorn netters return to action
At right, Dobie senior
Ivette Alba is one of
many Longhorn players
who are looking to finish
their season strong as
the spring season comes
to a close. Alba and her
teammates hope to play
well enough at the District 22-5A tournament
early next month and
therefore earn an invitation to the Region XIV
event.
Photo by Jeannie Peng-Armao
San Jac basketball notes tryouts
The San Jacinto College
women’s and men’s basketball teams will hold separate tryouts for the 2013-14
season.
Tryouts for the women’s
team will be held on Saturday, April 13, at 9 a.m., at
Nichols Gymnasium on the
San Jacinto College North
Campus.
There is a $15 processing
fee for the tryout. Questions
about the tryout should be
directed to the women’s
basketball office at 281998-6150, extension 7213.
Tryouts for the men’s
team will take place at Anders Gymnasium on the
San Jacinto College Central
Campus on Saturday, May 4
at 10 a.m.
There is a $20 processing
fee for the tryouts, and participants will be required to
sign a waiver of liability.
The tryout will be limited
to the first 80 participants
that show up for registration.
Questions about the tryout should be directed to
Scott Robert Gernander in
the men’s basketball office
at 281-476-1849.
The San Jacinto College
North campus is at 5800
Uvalde Road in Houston.
The Central campus is at
8060 Spencer Highway in
Pasadena.
Event honors Dobie graduate
Lajaunie tennis is April 27-28;
area netters invited to compete
The Darren Lajaunie
Tennis Scholarship Fund
along with the Bay Area
Racquet Club in Houston
will host the second annual
Darren Lajaunie Memorial
Tennis Tournament Saturday and Sunday, April 2728.
The Bay Area Racquet
Club is located on Kings
Park Lane, off NASA Road
1.
Board members and
volunteers are busy seeking sponsors for the tournament, which will award
members of the Bay Area
Racquet Club junior tennis
players camp and college
scholarships.
This year, college scholarships will be awarded to
two tennis-playing seniors
(one boy and one girl) at J.
Frank Dobie High School.
Lajaunie began his tennis
career playing tennis at Dobie High School and graduated as the co-valedictorian
in 1984.
The
Lajaunie
family have been members of
BARC since 2009. Lajaunie
lost his battle with melanoma on May 3, 2011.
This scholarship fund
and tournament is a way to
honor his memory by helping junior tennis players
enjoy tennis and assist with
their education in college.
Last year, 115 tennis
players braved the heat to
participate in the tournament as more than $12,000
was raised to help support
the scholarship fund.
Again this year, players
will receive a tournament Tshirt and goodie bag and enjoy refreshments and lunch.
The awards dinner will
include musical entertainment, and the silent auction
winners in addition to the
camp and scholarship winners from BARC will be announced.
The winners of the Dobie
college scholarships will be
awarded in May at Dobie
High School.
The Darren Lajaunie
Tennis Scholarship Fund
set up a website at www.
DLtennisscholarships.com
with pictures from last
year’s tournament and information on sponsorships,
scholarships and this year’s
tournament. Donations and
sponsors are welcome.
The fund is a nonprofit
corporation, and all donations are tax deductible.
Donors may send a
check or money order to:
Darren Lajaunie Tennis
Scholarship Fund, 3106
Mossy Elm Court, Houston,
TX 77059 or contact Camille Lajaunie, committee
chairperson, at cj lajaunie@
gmail.com with any questions about the events.
Local tennis players are encouraged to register for
the second annual Darren Lajaunie (above) Memorial
Tennis Tournament Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28.
Spring break in the rearview mirror, the Dobie High
School varsity tennis program will be busy over the
next couple of weeks as the District 22-5A tournament nears. First, though, the Longhorns will attend
the 26th annual Beachcomber Classic March 22-23
in Galveston. Some members will return to the is-
land March 28 for the Sunseri Memorial Team Tennis Classic leading up to the April 5-6 District 22-5A
postseason tournament at Strawberry Park in Pasadena. Some of the key players for the Longhorns, include, left to right, Theresa Tran, Kim Dinh, Austin
Tran and Dylan Nguyen.
Keep Kids in School golf tourney April 22
The Keep Kids in School Golf Tournament, set for
April 22 at Bay Oaks Country Club, will benefit the
Communities In Schools-Bay Area dropout prevention program serving Clear Creek and Dickinson
ISDs. For tournament sponsorship and registration
information, direct email to Angela Jenkins at angelaj@cisba.org. For more information about the Communities In Schools-Bay Area dropout prevention
program, visit www.cisba.org. Picking the right club
for the Keep Kids in School Golf Tournament are, left
to right, Rick Gornto, chairman of the golf tournament committee and president of the CIS-Bay Area
board of directors; CIS-Bay Area’s Janet Summers,
program director; Angela Jenkins, development director; and Peter Wuenschel, executive director. See
related story and photo on Page 6A.
Thursday, March 21, 2013, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Section B, Page 3
Horns hang tough in 22-5A mix
Continued from Page 1B
Dobie comeback nips PM
It’s a win the Longhorns
might remember if they end
up in a tight playoff race
later this season.
Senior starting pitcher
Aaron Gonzalez had the
epitome of an up-and-down
afternoon, throwing a ball
away for a three-base error in the fourth inning that
led to Memorial’s two runs
before atoning for the gaffe
with a two-run homer.
In the end, senior Tyler
Wolfe pitched the Longhorns out of a jam in the top
of the seventh inning before
his teammates delivered the
win in the bottom half of the
frame.
In between all of that was
a bunch of ho-hum baseball.
Gonzalez struck out the
side to open the game in the
top of the first inning and
was largely in control until
the top of the fourth inning
when his error allowed the
Mavs to strike first.
With one out, Gonzalez
hit Garrett Owens with a
pitch to give the Mavericks
just their third baserunner.
Cody Corbell was then
called upon to sacrifice bunt
Owens to second base, but
Gonzalez gave the Mavericks more than they bargained for.
After fielding Corbell’s
bunt, Gonzalez launched
a throw over first baseman
Ruben Guevara’s head at
first base.
Owens scored on the
play while Corbell raced all
the way to third base. Adam
Lopez followed with an
RBI single to center field as
Memorial led 2-0.
Gonzalez quickly corrected his mistake, slam-
ming a long home run over
the left field fence in the
bottom half of the inning to
tie the game at 2-2.
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Varsity Baseball
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(As of March 21)
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Alvin
Manvel
Dobie
Pearland
Pasadena
South Houston
Sam Rayburn
Memorial
Things were quiet in the
fifth and sixth inning as the
drama continued to build
for a fantastic finish.
Wolfe entered the game
after Gonzalez walked Lopez to open the seventh
inning. After Lopez stole
second base, Wolfe struck
out Angel Franco but then
loaded the bases with one
out – walking one and hitting another.
The senior right-hander
bounced back, fanning Jordan Wyatt for the second
out of the inning and retiring Kole Eaves on a pop up
to second base to keep the
Mavs off the scoreboard.
In the bottom of the seventh, Dobie’s Jose Reyes
walked on four pitches and
stole second with two outs.
Dobie varsity baseball head coach Miguel Torres (left)
As Marcos Martinez
greets Memorial head coach Terry Garza before their laced a single to left field,
respective teams went head-to-head March 14. Garza Reyes rounded the bag and
is a 1984 Dobie High School graduate.
headed for home.
Had Memorial catcher
Ethan Montes fielded the
ball cleanly, Reyes would
have been retired easily.
As it was, the Longhorns
caught one of those breaks
that just may be needed
down the line in the 22-5A
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“We had several guys
step up for us,” Torres said.
“It’s a long race, and you
need contributions from
everybody along the way.
Gonzalez pitched exceptionally well (10 strikeouts), and Wolfe got us out
of trouble.
“I like the way we hung
in there and kept battling.
I’ve said many times that
we have a good group of
guys who can compete with An easy 10-0 victory over South Houston in hand, sev- Jose Cabreja and Marcos Martinez congratulate one
anybody in the district. I al- eral members of the Dobie varsity baseball team, from another. The Longhorns are now 2-1 in District 22-5A
left, Travarus Ansley, Eric Ochoa, Ruben Guevara, action.
ways believe that.”
At left, Dobie third baseman Marcos Martinez
applied the tag too late
on Memorial’s Adam
Lopez as the Mavericks
pulled off a double steal
in the top of the seventh
inning. However, the
Longhorns’ Tyler Wolfe
pitched his team out of
the threat without allowing the go-ahead
run.
At right, Dobie’s Aaron
Gonzalez rounds third
base and is congratulated by head coach Miguel
Torres after banging a
two-run homer in the
bottom of the fourth
inning. The Longhorns
went on to defeat Memorial 3-2 in the game,
March 14 at Dobie High
School.
Photos by John Bechtle
Opening day – SBHLL to begin 2013 spring season San Jac baseball team shines off field, too
Continued from Page 1B
Wranich, who goes by
Denny Jr. in youth sports
circles, is in his first year
as president of the SBHLL,
and he has also been involved with the Bay Area
Football League, including
the Sagemont Cowboys organization, for a long time.
For him, it’s all about being part of a community effort.
“The board of directors
and the field maintenance
folks and everyone else who
have assisted have the fields
in great shape,” Wranich
said. “They look better than
I have seen them in five
years or so. It’s just been
a group effort to get ready.
This being my first year
as president, I’m just very
excited to get started. I’ve
been on the other side of it
as a coach, and now I get to
watch it from this side. It’s
going to be fun.”
In addition to the parade,
banner contest, Legends
softball game and festival
activities, Wranich said he
will be one of the many fans
looking on as the SBHLL’s
Challenger Baseball program gets started March 23.
Now in its second year,
the Challenger program is
open to participants with all
types of disabilities.
The Challenger team
plays its first game March
23 at El Franco Lee Park.
The game will begin at
10:30 a.m.
Opening weekend activities
Friday, March 22: SBHLL officials will host 2013 opening ceremonies beginning at 7 p.m. at El Franco Lee
Park on the major division field. Each of the league’s
teams will be led onto the field, and the evening will be
highlighted by a team banner contest and a Legends
softball game.
Saturday, March 23: The league will host a parade beginning at 9 a.m. at Weber Elementary and progressing
to El Franco Lee Park. A daylong festival will begin
around 10 a.m.
For San Jacinto College
baseball players, there’s
more to the game than
what happens “between
the lines.”
The coaching staff coordinates off-the-field activities to enrich the overall collegiate experience
for team members and to
provide opportunities for
the young men to serve as
positive role models.
The team hosted a free
baseball clinic for the
Sheldon Little League.
Twenty San Jacinto
College baseball players
and approximately 100
aspiring players participated in the clinic.
“Those little kids were
just in awe and very excited
about spending time and
learning from – as one kid
described them – the ‘awesome and cool’ college
Tom Arrington
players,” commented DJ
Wilson, San Jacinto College
assistant coach.
The team also volunteered at the Harvey Brown
Elementary School Healthy
Families Initiative, an event
similar to a health fair.
The program was established in 2006 by San
Jacinto College assistant
coach Kory Koehler while
he served as a coach at the
elementary school.
“After I became a faculty
member at San Jacinto College, the program continued
and we have sent volunteers each year to interact
with kids during the event,”
Koehler said.
Additionally,
North
Shore Little League’s
major league division
11-to-12-year-olds were
special guests at John Ray
Harrison Field, and Little
League players sang the
national anthem before the
beginning of the college’s
game.
“One of our core beliefs is to prepare these
young men for lifelong
success, not just baseball
success,” commented Tom
Arrington, who is now in
his 12th season as head
coach.
“We want them to have
a complete, well-rounded
experience at San Jacinto
College during their stay
here.”
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
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 281-4878787 for information, or just drop in.
Noon
Houston Area Parkinson Society – Free water exercise from
noon to 1 p.m. at Clear Lake Rehabilitation Hospital, 655 E.
Medical Center Blvd. in Webster. Visit www.hapsonline.org for a
complete list of services offered.
5:30 p.m.
Texas German Society, South Belt (Southeast) Chapter – A
social group interested in the culture, music, heritage and language of the immigrants in early German settlements in Texas.
Meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m.
in the Fellowship Hall of Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 10310
Scarsdale Blvd. Visitors are welcome. Call 281-481-1238 for more
information.
6:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Sunday, Thursday and Friday at 6:30
p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont Parkway,
Pasadena, Fellowship Hall 4. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
8:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Alcohol problems? AA meetings are
held Thursdays from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., and Sundays and Tuesdays
from 8 to 9 p.m. at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, 2217 Theta
Street. For information, call 713-204-2481.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22
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 281-4878787 for information, or just drop in.
Noon
Moving Forward Women’s Adult Children Anonymous – The
ACA group meets Fridays at noon at the Up The Street Club in
Webster, 508 Nasa Parkway, in room 4. ACA is a 12-step program
of hope, healing and recovery for people who grew up in alcoholic
or dysfunctional homes. For more information, call 281-286-1431.
6 p.m.
Un Dia a la Vez Alanon Group (Spanish speaking) – Provides
support for family and friends of alcoholics or addicts. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday at 6 p.m. at First United Methodist Church,
Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont Parkway, Room 232. Call 281-487-8787,
or just drop in.
6:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Sunday, Thursday and Friday at 6:30
p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont Parkway,
Pasadena, Fellowship Hall 4. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23
7:30 a.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Saturday at 7:30 a.m. at First United
Methodist Church, Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont Parkway, Cornell
Conference Room. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
9 a.m.
Un Dia a la Vez Alanon Group (Spanish speaking) – Provides
support for family and friends of alcoholics or addicts. Saturday at
9 a.m. at First United Methodist Church, Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont
Parkway, Room 232. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
11 a.m.
Al-Anon Meeting (Women Only, English) – For persons whose
lives are affected by someone who is addicted. Each Saturday
morning at 11 a.m. at First United Methodist Church, Pasadena,
1062 Fairmont Parkway, Cornell Conference Room. Call 281-4878787, or just drop in.
6 p.m.
Frontier Squares – Meets to square dance at the Westminster
Academy at 670 E. Medical Center Blvd. in Webster. Refreshments
provided. For more information, contact Gina Sherman at 281-554-
5675 or visit www.frontiersquares.com.
7:30 p.m.
Pearland Overeaters Anonymous HOW Meeting – Saturdays
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Open discussion. Memorial Hermann Prevention
and Recovery PARC, 2245 N. Main St., Suite 2, Pearland 77581.
(Located on Hwy 35, just north of Broadway). The group’s primary
purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and to carry the
message of recovery to those who still suffer. Call 713 865-1611
for information, or just drop in.
SUNDAY, MARCH 24
2 p.m.
Grief Support Group – For any adult who has lost a loved one.
Meets every Sunday, except Mother’s Day, Easter and Christmas
from 2 to 3:15 p.m. at First United Methodist Church Pasadena,
1062 Fairmont Parkway. For more information, call 281-487-8787.
5:30 p.m.
Celebrate Recovery – A faith-based 12-Step Program meets
every Sunday evening at 5:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Educational
Building at Life Church in Houston at 9900 Almeda Genoa. Call
713-419-2635 for more information or to RSVP for child care.
6:30 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) – For persons who are trying to overcome drug addiction. Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist
Church, Pasadena, 1062 Fairmont Parkway, Cornell Conference
Room. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Sunday, Thursday and Friday at 6:30
p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1062 Fairmont Parkway,
Pasadena, Fellowship Hall 4. Call 281-487-8787, or just drop in.
8 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous – Alcohol problems? AA meetings are
held Sundays and Tuesdays from 8 to 9 p.m. and Thursdays from
8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, 2217 Theta
Street. For information, call 713-204-2481.
MONDAY, MARCH 25
9 a.m.
Houston Area Parkinson Society – Free exercise and speech
therapy from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Clear Lake Rehabilitation Hospital,
655 E. Medical Center Blvd., Webster. Visit www.hapsonline.org for
a complete list of services offered.
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.
6 p.m.
Scrabble Club #511 – Meets every Monday at IHOP at 11222
Fuqua at 6 p.m. Come and improve crossword game playing skills.
Call 281-488-2923 for more information.
7 p.m.
Grief Support Group – “Friends Helping Friends” meets every
Monday from 7 to 8:15 p.m. at Kindred Rehabilitation Hospital, 655
E. Medical Center Blvd. in Webster. Those who have lost a spouse
or other loved one are invited to participate. For information, call
Betty Flynn at 281-474-3430 or Diana Kawalec at 281-334-1033.
TUESDAY, MARCH 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 281-4878787 for information, or just drop in.
10 a.m.
American Begonia Society – Meets the fourth Tuesday of each
month at Maxum Bank in League City. For more information, call
281-946-4237 or 281-471-5048.
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Page 6, Section B, South Belt-Ellington Leader, Thursday, March 21, 2013
Dobie girls near milestone achievement; playoffs next
Continued from Page 1B
and score on our end. It
should be a great game.”
Extra game at The Rig
If Dobie and Pearland
finish in a tie to necessitate
a tiebreaker rematch, that
game is likely to be played
Monday, March 25, at The
Rig in Pearland.
At press time, athletic
department officials from
Pasadena and Pearland had
discussed the basic parameters for the game, which
may be needed to decide
playoff seeding only.
Ongoing
construction
projects in and around Vet-
erans Stadium in Pasadena
will play a role in the game
being played in Pearland, if
necessary.
Williams shines
Junior Alyssa Williams
enjoyed a career night as
the Lady Longhorns earned
at least a share of the 22-5A
title with the 6-0 victory
over Sam Rayburn.
Williams scored four
goals in the game, lifting
her team to an easy victory.
“Alyssa has had a great
season for us the entire way
but just hasn’t been able to
find the net,” McDonald
said.
“She doesn’t have as
Dobie Lady Longhorns
host Pearland Lady Oilers
Friday, March 22
Veterans Stadium, 8 p.m.
many goals scored as last
season, but I can’t begin to
tell you what she has meant
to this team because of the
various things she does out
there.”
Special season in works
It remains to be seen just
how far Dobie will advance
in the playoffs.
Pending seeding in the
22-5A mix, the Lady Longhorns are in line to play either Beaumont West Brook
or Baytown Sterling in the
first round of the postseason. From there, the competition gets even tougher.
That aside, this will be a
season to remember. Literally every player on the roster has contributed something to the run.
Lady Longhorns’ goalkeeper Jackie Baade, in the
nets at the varsity level for
parts of four seasons, has
been terrific. Her save of
a penalty kick in the first
matchup against Pearland
allowed the team to eventually win 2-1.
Sophomore Mariah Escobar has arguably been
the league’s best defensive player, helping Baade
stave off scoring chances.
“We all see the goals
scored first, but we have
had a great year on the defensive end with players
Brook girls’ earn a first in 24-5A play
doing exactly what we have
asked them to do,” McDonald said.
“It’s been a total team
effort. We’re not ready for
it to be over anytime soon.
This team still has a lot of
soccer to play.”
And in just his second
year on the job, McDonald
has put himself in line to
earn Coach of the Year accolades in District 22-5A
following the season.
The Dobie High School
graduate, however, isn’t
concerned with any of those
things.
“It’s all about the girls
and the team,” McDonald
said. “They’ve all gone out
and played hard and put us
in this position. It’s been
good to watch.”
District 22-5A Standings
Varsity Girls’ Soccer
Teams
(As of March 21)
W
L
T
Points
Dobie
12
1
0
36
Pearland
11
2
0
33
Alvin
10
3
0
30
Memorial
9
4
0
27
Manvel
3
8
2
14
Pasadena
2
10
1
7
Sam Rayburn
1
11
1
4
South Houston
1
12
0
3
Note: Dobie, Pearland, Alvin and Memorial have qualified for
the playoffs. Dobie has secured at least a tie for the championship and can earn the No. 1 playoff seed with a win or a tie over
Pearland March 22.
Nedderman-led Lady Longhorns
last won district title in 1994-95
Dobie junior Alyssa Williams (2) slips one of her four goals past Sam Rayburn goalkeeper Inez Vasquez during the Lady Longhorns’ 6-0 victory March 18 at Veterans
Stadium in Pasadena.
Photo by Gary Williams
Clear Brook’s Brittney Gibbs (8) challenges Dickinson’s Valerie Sauceda
for ball possession during the Lady Wolverines’ 4-1 victory over the Lady
Gators March 8.
Photo by Jan Sokol
Believe it or not, none
of the members of the current Dobie varsity girls’
soccer team were born
prior to the program’s last
district title.
That Lady Longhorns’
team held off runnerup Deer Park and thirdplace Friendswood for the
championship, thus earning a first round bye.
That season, head
coach Martha Dossman
led the Lady Longhorns to
a 9-0-1 record in district
play. Leader archives do
not list an overall record.
As for individual ac-
complishments,
Carolyn
Nedderman had three goals
in the regular-season finale,
a 5-2 win over Angleton.
With the hat trick, Nedderman registered her 44th,
45th and 46th goals of the
season to go with 15 assists.
In the area championship
round, Dobie defeated Baytown Sterling 4-1 as Nedderman scored twice more.
Alysha Wygal also scored
her 21st goal of the season.
The team’s season came
to a close at sectionals,
where Nederland held off
the locals 2-1. Nederland,
entering the game lead-
ing the Houston area in
scoring at 6.5 per contest, played an aggressive
style of defense to win the
game.
In the game played at
Abshire Stadium in Deer
Park, Nedderman scored
her 49th goal of the season.
Nederland was beaten
in the following round,
the regional quarterfinals,
as Katy Taylor took a 4-2
win.
Kingwood eventually
went on to win the Class
5A state championship
that season.
Longhorn boys are District 22-5A champions; Brook holds ground in 24-5A
Continued from Page 1B
Sam Rayburn’s Arnoldo
Barrera played forward for
the Texans in regulation and
then took over in the nets
for the shootout.
Barrera stopped shots by
David Jaimes and Gerardo
Martinez in the shootout before teammate Huqo Duque
blasted a low shot just past
Dobie’s Rigoberto Fuentes
for the win.
The result goes as a tie in
the standings, leaving Dobie at 10-1-2 entering play
against Pearland.
Per District 22-5A bylaws, Sam Rayburn earned
two points for the tiebreaker win. Dobie, dropping its
second tiebreaker of the
season, got one point.
Saavedra praised Sam
Rayburn’s effort but could
not hide the disappointment
in his team’s.
Poised with a chance
to make a statement while
finishing off the championship, the Longhorns sputtered.
Two top players, Raul
Bustos and Carlos Ibarra,
did not play for the Longhorns. But that didn’t matter, said Saavedra.
“We have to get back on
track in a hurry,” he said.
“If we can’t close out a
district title at this point,
how are we going to beat
a very good playoff team
down the road?
“It’s disappointing right
now, so we just have to refocus.”
The regular season is yet
to be completed, so Dobie’s
first-round playoff foe out
of 21-5A isn’t known.
Right now, though, Dobie would face La Porte before taking on either a 245A or 23-5A school.
The Longhorns made
their way to the Region III
tournament in 2009 and
again in 2011 but suffered
second-round playoff defeats in 2010 and 2012.
Saavedra clearly hopes for
more this year.
Brook boys back in first
By virtue of a 3-0 win
over Clear Creek March
19, the Clear Brook varsity boys’ soccer team has
regained first place in the
District 24-5A standings.
But with just one game
remaining in the race, the
Wolverines could eventually be overtaken for the top
spot – possibly by secondplace Clear Lake.
Brook has a bye in the
schedule before finishing
the regular season March
25 at Brazoswood.
A win over Brazoswood
will give the Wolverines no
worse than second place.
At the moment, Lake Dobie’s Shelby Nunez got inside for an early scoring chance against Sam Rayburn
trails the Wolverines by but was thwarted moments later. The two teams played to a scoreless tie through
three points, with Clear regulation before the Texans won in a shootout.
Photo by Gary Williams
Falls and Brazoswood
down by six points. Lake
and Brazoswood have two
remaining games in an effort to make up ground in
the point standings.
Like Clear Brook, Clear
Falls has just one remaining
game. The key factor is the
Wolverines have qualified
for the playoffs.
“I am very excited to be
in this position, and even
more excited for the boys
because they have worked
so hard for this,” Clear
Brook head coach Chris
Stromeyer said.
Having watched his team
fight off injuries to key
players for the better part of
two seasons, the Wolverines
have bounced back strong
this season.
Pending the outcome of
the various district races
as well as bidistrict round
matchups, there remains
a chance the Wolverines
could meet Dobie in the
second round of the playoffs the first week of April.
Stromeyer said he has
talked to Dobie head coach
Jesse Saavedra about the
possibility of the two programs scheduling a nondistrict game in 2014, or at the
very least a scrimmage.
Right now, though, the
focus is on taking care of
business in 2013.
First time ever!
Pasadena ISD boys’ soccer sets mark;
four teams qualify as postseason nears
The Pasadena Independent School District has
reached a new milestone in
University Interscholastic
League varsity boys’ soccer
history.
With District 22-5A
champion Dobie leading the
way, PISD programs swept
up the four available playoff
slots for the first time.
The UIL, the state’s official governing body of public school extracurricular
activities, began allowing
four programs to qualify for
postseason play in each dis-
trict beginning in the 20062007 school year.
Up until this season,
programs from Deer Park,
Pearland and other nonPasadena ISD schools have
prevented the achievement.
But not this time around.
Dobie 10-1-2 has earned
at least a share of the District 22-5A crown after
playing Sam Rayburn to a
tie March 19.
Memorial, South Houston and Pasadena have secured the other three playoff spots even though the
final playoff seedings have
yet to be determined pending the outcome of March
22 play.
The Longhorns will
close the regular season
Friday, March 22, against
Pearland at The Rig in Pearland.
Head coach Jesse Saavedra’s team will then begin
preparation for the bidistrict
round of the playoffs, set to
be held March 28-30.
Dobie will go up against
the either the third or fourthplace team out of 21-5A.
H-Town Jokers 12U wins USSSA Super NIT baseball; Lopez smacks home run
Clear Brook’s Freddy Ramos (24) works his way
through the Dickinson defense during the Wolverines’ game as the team battled to stay atop the District 24-5A standings.
Photo by Jan Sokol
The 12U H-Town Jokers, a select baseball
team
composed
of
South Belt area players,
took first place at the
United States Specialty
Sports
Association’s
South Texas Super NIT
tournmanent.
Members of the team are,
left to right, (front row)
Theodore
Martinez,
Jake Richnow, Lorenzo
Mendez, Aaron Perea,
(middle row) Brandon
Valdez, Damien Lopez,
Caden Hunt, Armando Soto, Uli Quiroga,
Nic Ovalle, (back row)
coaches Mando Soto,
Uli Quiroga, Mike Mendez and manager Rudy
Mendez. Not pictured
is coach Oscar Perea.
At far right, Lopez
shows off his home run
ball after going deep to
help the Jokers win a
big game in the tournament.
Submitted photos