NIXON An old coun-try favorite comes back to Nixon this weekend as the Featherfest resumes after an absence of more than a decade.

When I retired from the service a few years ago and moved out here, I asked people What happened to Featherfest?, Nixon City Manager Manuel Zepeda said. I told the City Coun-cil when they appointed me, that was one of the first things I wanted to do, was to get Featherfest going

again.The local festival was last

held in 1998, but resumes with a bang this year. Re-gional country favorite Kyle Parks will be headlin-

ing Saturdays musical en-tertainment lineup.

A carnival will be staged on the grounds at the Nix-on Livestock Show facil-ity on Highway 87 all day Friday, and Saturday is set for a full schedule of events and entertainment.

The carnival kicks off Saturday at 10 a.m., and all food, drink, and craft booths will be open along with free game booths and various displays.

Registration for the vol-

Expansion of the Dreyer Airport and the process of re-licensing the citys hy-droelectric power genera-tion station earned prelimi-nary approval of Gonzales City Council during Tues-days meeting.

Council gave approval for City Manager Allen Barnes to enter into a grant agree-ment with the Texas De-partment of Transportation for funding for hangar ex-pansion at Dreyer Airport. The grant through TxDOT Aviation would require the city to furnish 10 percent of the funding for construc-tion of new hangers at the municipal airport, as well as a helipad.

The helipad would en-able Air Life could land without having to have the fire department on the scene, Barnes noted.

He said the TxDOT grant would fund some $823,500. The citys portion of the project would be $91,500, and Barnes noted that $100,000 had been set aside in the budget approved by Council on Tuesday.

The Council also gave the go-ahead to Barnes to

Gonzales City Council on Tues-day raised the citys overall revenue for the coming year to purchase some badly-needed equipment, but still sliced the tax rate by more than 10 percent.

Following the second of two

public hearings on the proposed 2014-15 city budget, Council opted to approve the city tax rate at the rollback level of $0.1628 per $100 valuation. The move prompts a final public hearing to be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 9 prior to formally adopting the rate.

The Council had the option of setting the tax rate at the calculated

effective rate of $0.1508, but opted for the rollback rate to specifically ensure funding for the purchase of a new pumper-tanker fire truck for the citys fire department and a front end loader and maintainer for the street department.

The rollback rate still represents a two-cent tax decrease for city property owners. Last years rate

was $0.1845.The tax rates were based on an

estimated increase in total proper-ty values in the city limits of nearly $98 million over last year.

Councilman Gary Schroeders motion to set the rollback rate specified that the $98,000 differ-ence between the effective and

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Todays edition marks the start of a new era for The Gonzales Cannon as the paper moves into the White House.

The Cannon staff will be distrib-uting this weeks paper from our new office at 901 St. Joseph St. in Gonzales.

Were really excited about this move, because for us its a much more visible location, Publisher Dave Mundy said. Weve enjoyed our first five years on St. Paul St., but people have often comp-lained

that we were hard to find. This is a much better location for us.

The new offices are right across St. Joseph St. from the Post Office and City Hall, and adjacent to Los Auto Sales.

Its the third change of venue for The Cannon, which debuted five years ago out of a one-room office at the Alcalde Hotel. The staff moved first to an apartment at 616 St. Paul, then into a redesigned office space next door at 614 St. Paul, where it has been located for nearly three

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is also a member of our Board of Directors and has been the iron backbone of this company since we started, and we cant begin to ex-press our appreciation for leasing this space to us all this time, Mun-dy said. But now its time for us to grow a little more.

Mundy said the staff will hold an Open House at the new office in the near future to show off for the com-munity and our business partners.

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Gonzales City Council welcomed three new police officers during Tuesdays meeting. Mayor Bobby Logan, left, administered the oaths of office to Eduardo Silvestre, Jonathan Lorton and Victor Izaguirre. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

There was plenty to whoop it up for Friday for the fans of the Nixon-Smiley Mustangs as they opened the season with a 28-7 win over Woodsboro. For a complete wrapup of opening weekend, see Section B. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

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The Nixon-Smiley Mus-tang Band will perform at 11 a.m., followed by the Mustang Gals and Twirl-ers.

Registration for Horse-shoe Tournament begins at 11:30 a.m. ($20 per team) and the tournament begins at noon.

The free musical enter-tainment runs from 2-6 p.m. Kicking things off will be DJ Trek (also known as Lonnie Erskine), followed at 2:30 by Zumba. The

Family Gospel Choir takes the stage at 3:30 p.m. with the Jeremy Alvarez Band taking over at 4:15.

Everyone will be re-quired to vacate the fes-tival grounds at 6 p.m. and gates will re-open at 7 for the evening enter-

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Billy Hanson and the Lone Strangers take the main stage at 8 p.m., with Kyle Park headlining the evening from 10:30-1 a.m.

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contract with Schneider Engineering to per-form a cost-benefit analysis on the re-licens-ing of the citys hydroelectric power genera-tion station on the San Marcos River dam.

Barnes said the federal license for the sta-tion expires in 2020 and the licensing process takes about five years. The city could auto-matically begin the license renewal process, but he suggested the analysis be performed to determine whether the power generated makes it worth spending $200,000 or more to renew the license.

In response to a question from Council-man Tommy Schurig, staff said the station generates about 2.5 million kilowatts a year, on average.

Council opted to delay for 30 days making appointments to various boards and com-missions in the city to allow members the opportunity to review applicants for the va-cancies. The city last year began appointing new members to the boards to coincide with the Oct. 1 start of the budget year.

Council members did, however, vote to appoint Tim Markham to replace Susan Berger on the citys newly-created Charter Review Commission.

Council also approved an ordinance en-abling property owners to contract with plumbers for sewer and water taps. Barnes said the city had rescinded that policy a couple of years ago, but in light of the cur-rent construction pace in the city it makes

sense. city personnel will still be required to be present during the tapping process.

In other action Tuesday, Council: Approved street closures for the upcom-

ing Dennis Richter Memorial Scholarship Cookoff this weekend in the 800 block of St. Paul St. and street closures and permission for beer sales for the Come and Take It Cel-ebration Oct. 4-6;

Approved five Small Business Incen-tive Grant awards of up to $15,000 each by the Gonzales Economic Development Corp. Three of the grants will help fund the installa-tion of fire sprinkler systems for the Hotel Al-calde, the Templin Saloon and LaBella Tavola Italian Grill & Pizza. Also gaining approval was a grant to Whites Service Co. for build-ing renovations and a grant to Laurel Ridge Pottery and Antiques for creation of a wine patio and cellar;

Approved the Gonzales Tourism Com-mittees recommendation to contract with Rockin S Marketing and Design, and ap-proved the committees recommendation to spend $5,000 in promotion for Come and Take It;

Designated The Gonzales Cannon as the citys official newspaper of record for 2014-15;

Approved the Planning & Zoning Com-missions action approving the re-plat of the 1835 Village subdivision;

Approved an update to the citys drought contingency plan and water conservation plan.

rollback rates would be used to fund the purchase of the new equipment.

The funds would be used to lease-pur-chase a custom-built pumper-tanker for the fire department and a front-end load-er/maintainer for the street department to replace equipment which is more than 40 years old.

Weve got a city to run, and we need the

equipment to do it, Mayor Bobby Logan commented.

Council also approved the citys budget of $24.5 million for the coming fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

Included in the budget was a fixed raise for the citys department supervisors. Council had voted Aug. 19 to revisit the annual review and extension of the con-tract of City Manager Allen Barnes in six months.

COUNCIL: Station study slatedContinued from page A1

BUDGET: Council cuts tax rateContinued from page A1

The Oil Patch Chaplains organization celebrated the first full year of their minis-try in the Gonzales region with a banquet and shared testimonials Friday at First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. The group is composed of clerical and lay lead-ers ministering to the oil field industry. (Photo by Dave Mundy)

Once again the Republican Establish-ment has shown its ignorance and fear of the immigration issue when Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently suggested that Re-publican candidates in this years midterm elections should run on granting a path-way to citizenship for all of the countrys illegal. These GOP leaders continue to fear emotional arguments rather stand on logical and legal principles. They fail to understand that if you ever want to stop illegal immigration, you must not reward it in any form or fashion.

The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was designed with a one-time only amnesty for illegal aliens. However, almost immediately, the law be-gan to be undermined and skirted by in-terests that rely on cheap labor, and those who want to play the Latino race card for political gain.

The U.S.-Mexico border has been open and uncontrolled since 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican War allowed for families to be reunified across the border and for

relative free movement between the two countries.

This freedom of entry and exit has given rise to a culture and mind-set that leads many to believe that they a right of free entry in the U.S. without any require-ments or responsibilities. People crossed the border, legally and illegally, with ease and few problems until recent times.

However, the world has changed dra-matically since 1848 and since 1986, and so has illegal immigration. The two most obvious changes are the 9/11 terrorist at-tacks, and the huge numbers of illegal aliens that have entered the U.S. Whereas illegal immigration was a mostly south-west regional issue, it is now a national issue.

In the meantime, liberals use illegal immigrants for their political purposes. Democrats make no excuses that they want to court Latino voters by support-ing illegal immigrants, and this scares some Republicans. Liberals and Demo-crats make emotional arguments in public about the plight of illegal aliens in their home lands, in their journey to America, and in their suffering in the shadows in our country.

However, the fact is that we live in a very dangerous world and we must con-trol our borders. We must know who en-ters our nation and for what purposes. We also cannot financially support the worlds poor nor accept its children to raise them. We simply cannot afford it.

Thus the questions of our time are how does America stop illegal immigration, and what do we do with the millions of illegal aliens that are already in the U.S?

For me, the answer is simple and to the point. To stop illegal immigration, we must punish all violators, including mi-nors, with no chance or hope of ever gain-ing citizenship or even permanent resi-dence in the U.S. As long as you reward illegal immigration directly with amnesty, or indirectly with an eventual pathway to citizenship, illegal immigration will con-tinue.

Rather than capitulate to political pres-sure and emotion, Republican leaders should not reward illegal immigration with amnesty or a pathway to citizenship. It should be punished with no chance or hope of ever gaining citizenship or even permanent residence in the U.S. That would be a good start to stopping illegal immigration because more needs to be done.

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Default Obama strategyfor ISIS: doing nothing

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.

Swedish proverb

Every so often Ill fall off into a self-cen-tered chasm.

And find myself in a thunking mode. Thunking is akin to thinking. Thinking is a tad more cerebral than thunking.

In my book, The Gospel According to Jim, thinkers put a lot of truck in what they think. Its their custom to start a sen-tence with a I think ... or ask Dont you think ...?

Whereas we seldom use the word whereas, we thunkers are more prone to just thunk about things. Mostly of an in-consequential nature. Since we appreciate the finer things in life. Such as stomping on the brakes when sighting a Cold Beer Sold Here sign, old-timey country music, cornbread from scratch, family get-togeth-ers, the smell of fresh cut hay, and a good dog for conversation.

Whereas, theres that whereas word cropping up again, thinkers consider themselves well versed in the art of the Louvre, wine tasting, aged cheese, German cuckoo clocks, and a liberal bent when it comes to reelecting a president that drinks

out of a sippy cup and frets more with a golf scorecard than national security.

Now Im no medical practitioner but I will diagnose those of that caliber as being infected with a high cerebral fecal count. Now it doesnt take any Einstein to figure out that theory.

And it was old Albert who once theo-rized that two things are infinite: the uni-verse and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the universe.

I digressed.Back to my morning of shallow thunk-

ing. While sipping on orange marmalade, I thunked:

About the the state of society today. How we have regressed to a prehistoric stage and

age. Decorum is non-existent. Respect out of the question. And there is no answer.

Role models are long gone. Your alleged artists (actors, singers, etc.) have degener-ated into what I consider contemporary white trash.

Parents pay big bucks for their offspring to attend concerts (Miley and Justin and Rihanna and Taylor). At times the so-called artists are adorned with tasteless tat-toos and clad in clothes of rags and thats considered chic. Wealth seems to make the homeless appear to be trendsetters.

Permanent tramp stamps are the new pseudo cheek moles of old.

Reality shows and You Tube create 15-minute celebrities of fame the public willingly accepts.

Gee, consider the headlines of the mo-ment. Libs embracing immigrant rights. And that foreign country, California, ban-ning water pistols and toy guns. Bacon is considered pornographic if allowed to be served in public view.

ISIS, Putin, Gaza, Ferguson, Ice Bucket Challenge, Jihadists.

Not exactly biblical terms that conjure up comfort. Are they?

I think Ill thunk out some new lyrics to an old Bobby Darin song, Things.

Well call it Thunkin.Thunkin bout the things we need to do

Thunks, like gasoline at a buck and a quarter

Thunks, securing our southern borderThunkin bout the things we need to doThunks, electing a president thatll sa-

lute the flagThunks, a demure first lady that doesnt

nag ... about school lunches.Thunkin bout the things we need to doForget about it. Im no songsmith.Not really a thunker, either. But I do

think that some people are not too savvy. Even if spelled out in CAPITAL LETTERS when it comes to whats transpiring before us today.

Back in the 19 and 60s Barry McGuire had a hit song called Eve of Destruction. A line in it went the Eastern world, it is exploding, violence flaring and bullets loading

Explosions, violence, bullets. Now a dai-ly occurrence. Over and over, again, my friend, were on the eve of destruction.

Inching closer and closer to an edge of destruction. A dead end to end all dead ends down the road.

Before it happens I would like to hear your President Obama tell his lib con-stituents at the start of a press conference: Dont follow in my footsteps, I tend to walk into walls.

ISIS is a force for evil that poses an imminent security threat to the United States, but please, let us get back to you on whether we are determined to defeat it.

That is the posture of the Obama administration toward the terror group that proudly demonstrated its malevolence by beheading American journalist James Foley in a propaganda video.

For the administration, ISIS isnt merely a dire enemy, it is a dilemma. President Barack Obama must respond to a group that -- with its resources, apocalyptic vision and Western recruits -- is clearly a threat to the homeland, at the same time he wants nothing to do with Iraq in particular or any new military intervention in general.

The default Obama strategy, then, will be to do the minimum necessary not to be accused of allowing ISIS to run riot. If he must launch a few airstrikes to arrest ISISs sweep toward Kurdistan, he will. If he must make a statement about the beheading of James Foley before hitting the links on his vacation, he will.

But he is loath to commit himself. In his Foley statement, the president sought to sound stalwart without saying anything in particular. He brought down the hammer of History with a capital H on ISIS. He said, People like this ultimately fail. He pronounced a global consensus around the proposition that a group like ISIS has no place in the 21st century.

All reasonable, forward-looking people agree that genocide has no place in the 21st century, either. Yet the prospective slaughter of Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar after fleeing ISIS wasnt stopped by the inevitable progress of international norms, but (to the administrations credit) by American bombs in conjunction with Kurdish fighters on the ground.

If the administration is too forthright about ISIS, it closes off escape hatches for the president, who is an anti-Iraq War purist.

He opposed the surge under George W. Bush that defeated al-Qaida in Iraq, the precursor to ISIS. He had no interest in keeping U.S. troops in Iraq that might have helped preserve those gains. When the Syrian civil war began to rage, he refused to robustly support the relatively moderate

opposition, thus ceding the ground to what became ISIS.

Iraq is now doubly reminiscent of the Vietnam War. First, the collapse of American political will to maintain forces in Iraq, even after we had defeated the insurgency, recalled the end of Vietnam.

Now, the administrations de facto policy of graduated escalation -- progressing from a strictly limited mission to protect the Yazidis and American personnel potentially threatened in Kurdistan to something more extensive, yet still amorphous -- recalls the beginning of the Vietnam War.

The administration must fear where the logic of a war against ISIS leads. If it is prosecuted in earnest, it means a bombing campaign against the group on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, and quite possibly American boots on the ground. In other words, the kind of escalation that would have brought howls of outrage from Democrats in the Bush years, and especially from then-Sen. Obama.

He must decide how badly he wants to win his Iraq War.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review. (c) 2014 by King Features Synd.,

We had just a little short shower of rain a bit ago. It was enough to wash off the vehicles and cool things off. Sure made the birds happy. We had one clap of thunder which woke

Skooter up from his nap. They are talking about two Lows meeting and stay-ing on top of us and be-ing a trigger. That is just fine with me. Whatever it takes to make it rain, a little Norther, a little Gulf distur-bance, shoot a pistol up in the air-----

I went to that Belmont Community Club meeting today and Kathy Collins is over there shuffling recipes around chomping at the bit trying to get this cookbook organized. She needs some more main dish recipes. Others are fine too, but that is the category she is short on. Our deadline is Sept. 1st and we are still trying to meet that as much as we can because we want this recipe book out by the first week in November so it can be bought for Christmas presents. So email to ckath-elean@ymail.com. Call her at 830-556-0821. You will be cutting it close but snail mail it to Kathy Collins, 475 Collins Lane, Kings-bury, 78638.

The Belmont Commu-nity Club is taking on the

project of collecting gently used coats and blankets to give to GCAM and per-haps the school nurses to give to those that they see are in need of them. You can bring them by the Bel-mont Community Center on Tuesday or Thursday mornings between 8 and 9:30 AM. Perhaps when we get our first Norther and we reach for our first jacket we will come across those items that dont fit or we dont want any more.

The Annual fundraiser for the Belmont Volunteer Fire Department will be held on September 22nd, with serving starting at 5PM. The location has been moved to the Belmont Social Club due to the fact the Oliver Pecan Company was burned worse than it was thought to have been inside and it will not be ready by the time of the BBQ. Our firemen will still be doing all the cooking as normal. There are raffle tickets on sale now for the

four wheeler and the rifles by any fireman. Items are needed for the auction. Contact Mia Schauer at 830-437-5266.

The Monthalia United Methodist Church is hav-ing a pot luck dinner after church on the fifth Sunday. The meat is being furnished and the members are sup-posed to bring the rest of the meal. The Moody Insti-tute people are coming on the fifth Sunday to present their mission.

A Thanksgiving or Pot-luck supper hosted by both the Church and the Bel-mont Community Club was decided to be held on November 8th at 6PM. There will be no charge and everyone is to bring a dish that will serve at least 8 people.

Hold the following peo-ple in prayer: Judy Wil-son, Rhonda Pruett; Linda Denker; Case Martin; Lan-dis Kern; Joe Kotwig, Gene Robinson; Aunt Georgie Gandre, Aunt Frances Gandre, Aunt Betty Gan-dre, Ben and Mabel Rich-ter; Laddie Studler, Sandi Gandre, Joyce and Danny Schellenberg; Nancy Gar-nand; Esther Lindemann, Teresa Wilke, Anna Linde-mann, Millie, Mr. Bill Lott, Marie Schauer, Bob Young, Marilyn Qualls, Lillie

Lay; Shirley Dozier;; Bob Brown; Marissa, Bubba, Mr. Cox, Sarge Dunkin; Pedro; Dorothy Svoboda; Rosie, Clay, Christine Wil-ke Nancy, Maynard; De-nise, Louise Jones; Margie Menking; Jimmy Kelley; Jesse Esparza; Caroline Chloer; Laura Walker, George Fink;The family of Patricia Heinemeyer; The Family of July Zella, The family of Bernice Ward; The family of Bobbie Pagel; pray for our troops, along with the total unrest in the Ukraine and over in Israel and now Iraq

Now let me tell you all folks. I cannot take much more of this with all of my beloved friends and rela-tives passing away. I know I am being selfish when I say this. Judy Zella and I worked together for many a year at that banking insti-tution that was first located across from Kotzebue Drug Store and it had just been named First National Bank. Then we made the great big decision to go from posting machines to that computer up in Austin. Then after we all got over that hurdle we moved down the street to where the Wells Fargo bank is now. You learn a lot about each other when you work in a close knit bunch of people like we

did. I truly loved working with Judy. We had to be a versatile bunch. We never knew whether we were going to be answering the switch board, be counting money in the back, or be-ing a teller. And to her fam-ily I know they will really miss her.

And then Mrs. Bobbie Pagel had to slip away too.

Mrs. Mabel Richter, I hope that you are out of the hospital. I have a hard time keeping up with you. I thought that you were supposed to slow down a little when you reached this point in your life. However, I think that you have speeded up. Well, no matter, wherever you are, I hope that you feel better. It is not wise to let Ben loose in the town by himself.

We thank those who gave donations to the school supplies. We got enough in monetary donations this

year to go get a gift certifi-cate from Wal Mart to give to school nurse/counselor to then take it and buy emergency supplies like underwear, a shirt, a pair of shoes, etc. or maybe some other item that a child re-ally needs at that moment.

I think that Skooter and Butter Bean had bet-ter watch it. If they dont quit packing Wills stuff off he might wring both of their necks. I just found Skooter with one of those high priced insulated tiny yellow screw drivers. Then they had gotten into his headphones because he had not put them up. But best of all was that Butter Bean put his head inside his size twelve tennis shoe and Skooter picked up the outside and away they went. Where is my camera when I need it?

Have a good week, watch out for school kids, and God Bless.

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This is an edited tran-scription of an interview with Colorado County Ground Water Conser-vation District Mgr. Jim Brasher heard on The News from the Camphouse on KULM 98.3 FM.

Brune: As promised, the next few weeks will be spent disseminating issues such as water, illegal im-migration, the escalating drug and crime problem, and societys laisse faire at-titude towards the crime and drug problem.

Today, were talking about water. Without water life does not exist and Tex-as population would not be growing by 1,000 new peo-ple daily. That also leads to the logic that without such population growth, maybe, our problems would be diminished. Nevertheless, Texas is growing in popula-tion, the economy is better than other parts of the U.S., and solving Texas prob-lems is in the hands of the voters. As always it is my belief that blaming politi-cians, bureaucrats, or state agencies is like blaming the neighbors dog for poop-ing on your lawn. Its up to those affected to solve problems dont blame the

dog. Jim, please explain one

aspect of what were facing with water, groundwater, and our part of the Gulf Coast Aquifer.

Brasher: Were looking at problems in the east part of our county, the aquifer, and what is happening in Wharton County. There are folks that have lost their domestic and livestock wells. It is a direct result of an increase in irrigation wells being drilled because farmers arent getting their water from the river. Be-tween Eagle Lake and Lis-sie weve seen 30 new irri-gation wells drilled. Those additional straws in the aquifer are taking a toll. The aquifer has been drop-ping from year to year, but

also, it drops seasonally. Now, it is dropping more.

The farmers are looking for alternate sources since they cant get their water from the LCRA.

Brune: What is the status on the law about the High-land Lakes? Was the trigger level raised?

Brasher: They are hav-ing Board meetings as we speak. There is certainly pressure from the people in the Highland Lakes area to hang on to that water. They want to see the level raised before they release water to irrigation districts and those of us downriver.

Brune: If there is no rain there is no water for any-one. And the rain we had this spring did little to re-plenish the lakes.

Brasher: That is correct. They had a stretch with good rain but its been dry for so long that the ground soaked up most of the rain. The lakes did not capture much of the rain.

Brune: Is it not true, that when the aquifer is in good shape the aquifer feeds the river once it flows onto the Gulf Coast Plains. The Brazos and Colorado Riv-ers both look significantly stronger closer to the

coast. And when the aqui-fer feeds freshwater into the river it helps to benefit the bays and estuaries.

So, the lack of freshwa-ter has a big negative effect on the Texas Gulf Coast economy. When it doesnt rain enough to feed fresh-water to the coast, and when our aquifer is getting drawn down and cant pro-vide freshwater into the river it is logical to sur-mise that the lack of fresh-water is having a negative impact on the bays, estu-aries, and economy of the Gulf Coast.

Brasher: That is abso-lutely correct. We depend on rain to feed the aqui-fer, rivers, and lakes. We always depended on rain to provide agriculture water from the lakes. We depended on rain for the Gulf Coast. The lack of rain is hurting us, putting more straws in the aquifer is pulling down the aqui-fer, and ultimately there is less freshwater getting to the Gulf Coast.

In the more local sense you see people losing their domestic and livestock water wells.

Brune: What is coming

down the pike for water conservation legislation? Obviously we cant have a city like Austin killing our Gulf Coast economy, agri-culture, and the environ-ment. It would seem that there would be some type of conservation mandated. We already have seen San Antonio implement vari-ous types of conservation and become one of the lowest users of water per capita in the state.

Brasher: Austin has an entity looking after their concerns. They do use at water re-use. They are also looking at emergency mea-sures and are cognizant of the situation. Whether con-servation can meet their growing needs is question-able. The Austin popula-tion continues to grow and the problem will continue to grow. Under the grow-ing trend it is questionable if there will ever be water available for agriculture in the future.

Likewise, we bring into question whether the off channel reservoir idea will provide a complete answer. Much of that theory re-quires the reservoirs to get enough river runoff to pro-vide for the farmers. To me

that is also questionable. The off channel reservoirs should help but it has to rain.

Brune: What is the over-all outlook for the Gulf Coast Aquifer?

Brasher: Weve been meeting with folks from the Wharton County Coast Bend Groundwater Con-servation District and the problem for them is more severe than us. But a per-son can outline where the heart of the problem lies.

It is in the lakeside irri-gation district. The farmers that got their water from the Colorado River are try-ing to supplant that with groundwater. It is a local problem but the nature of the problem is far reaching.

Now we really need to take a look at how far that aquifer is going to drop. It has been getting worse over the last few years. We have a monitor well nearby. Two years ago it dropped 20 feet during the pumping period. Last year it dropped 30 feet. This year it dropped 20 feet in one month and 40 feet overall. Were coming into an unprecedented situa-tion and there are more wells to be drilled.

Herman Brune

Herman Brune is a freelance writer, radio personality and author based in Colorado County.

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The annual Shiner Church Picnic again packed the house last week-end as folks showed up for the famous food, vendors and more. The event even attractedState Rep. Lois Kolkhorst (above right) who joined in the fun with Rita dancing to the Shiner Hobo Band.

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Trash fire blamed in deathof Fayette County man, 61

For The RecordGonzales Police Dept.

DeWitt Co. Sheriffs Office

Gonzales Police Department news release for the week of Oct. 1:

08/24/2014 Reported Assault At 2100 Blk St. Joseph St.

08/24/2014 Cedric Ray Iglehart 43 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Aggravated Assault, Resisting Arrest, And Assault By Threat At 1700 Blk Seydler St.

08/24/2014 Marissa Mae Hunt-Brooks 19 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Trespassing At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

08/25/2014 Wayland Scott Pelletier 40 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Drving While License Invalid At Lions Club Dr And St. Louis St.

08/25/2014 Joe Garza Jr 28 Of Gon-zales Arrested And Charged With Theft At 300 Blk St. Lawrence St.

08/25/2014 Gregory Alan Hunt 53 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Drving While License Invalid At 1000 Blk St. Lawrence St.

08/25/2014 Amanda Lynne Bonee 31 Of Cost, Chad Anthony Cook 35 Of Cost And James Dallas Colwell 20 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Controlled Substance In Penalty Group 2-A At 500 Blk St. Joseph St.

08/25/2014 Reported Hit And Run Accident At 100 Blk St. Joseph St.

08/25/2014 Henry Fonseca Jr 49 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Assault At 100 Blk College St.

08/26/2014 Luis Balderas Jr 28 Of Cost Tx Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 800 Blk St. Mi-chael St.

08/26/2014 Reported Criminal Mis-chief At 100 Blk South St.

08/26/2014 Reported Criminal Mis-chief And Theft At Independence Park.

08/27/2014 Al Warren Beltran 51 Of Brownsville Tx Arrested And Charged

With Public Intoxication At 100 Blk Middle Buster Rd.

08/27/2014 Tito Rosales 38 Of Gonzales And Stephanie Ann Gon-zalez 21 Of Seguin Tx Arrested And Charged With Possession Of Con-trolled Substance At 900 Blk St. An-drew St. Stephanie Ann Gonzalez Also Charged With Public Intoxica-tion And Assault On Public Servant. Tito Rosales Also Charged With Pub-lic Intoxication.

08/27/2014 Reported Burglary Building At 300 Blk Cone St.

08/27/2014 Reported Burglary Building At 300 Blk Thornton St.

08/29/2014 Manuel Alejandro Her-nandez 21 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Drving While License Invalid At 1800 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

08/29/2014 James Norris Howell 60 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Public Intoxication At 1200 Blk St. Paul St.

08/29/2014 Reported Theft At 1100 Blk Sarah Dewitt Dr.

08/29/2014 Daniel Arthuro Can-tu 72 Of Seguin Tx Arrested And Charged With Driving While Intoxi-cated At 400 Blk St. George St.

08/30/2014 Reported Hit And Run Accident At 200 Blk Rivercrest Dr.

08/30/2014 David Paul Casanova 56 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Driving While Intoxicated And Duty On Striking Unattended Vehicle At College And Railroad St.

08/31/2014 Jose Rodriguez 42 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Evading Arrest And Possession Of Marijuana At 300 Blk St. Andrew St.

08/31/2014 Reported Assault At 2600 Blk Harwood Rd.

09/01/2014 Frank Allen Craven 25 Of Gonzales Arrested And Charged With Evading At 1900 Blk Hickston St.

LA GRANGE A trash burn which got out of control is being blamed for the death of a 61-year-old man in Fayette County.

Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek re-ported that deputies responded to a grass fire on Golden Valley Road Aug. 30.

A resident burning trash on his property suffered life-threatening burns and was airlifted to a San Antonio hospital, where

the resident later succumbed to his injuries sustained in the fire. Officials were with-olding the name of the individual pending notification of kin at press time.

Sgt. Charles Jobb and Deputy Ben Wil-son responded to the fire and the investi-gation into the cause of the fire resulted from trash being burned that got out of control.

The La Grange Fire Department extin-guished the fire and Fayette County EMS treated and prepped the victim for flight.

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DeWitt County Sheriffs Office report for the week of Aug. 22-28:

Jail Average Daily Count- 117Inmates Housed for Other Agencies- 29August 22, 2014Alejandro Coonrod, 41, of Grande Sa-

line, Assault Family Violence (Van Zandt Co), Bond of $10,000, DPS

Lori Jimenez, 34, of Cuero, Burglary of Habitation, Bond of $50,000, Burglary of Habitation, Bond of $50,000, Cuero PD

Melissa Flores, 29, of Yorktown, Mo-tion to Revoke Probation/Assault on Pub-lic Servant, No Bond, Motion to Revoke Probation/Assault on Public Servant, No Bond, DCSO

Dwayne McNew, 46, of Gonzales, Pro-bation Violation/Possession of Controlled Substance, No Bond, Capias Pro Fine/Il-legal Dumping, Fine of $292, Capias Pro Fine/Fail to Appear, Fine of $392, DCSO

Sidney Henry, 28 of Yoakum, Theft Prop >=$20

Gonzales LivestockMarket ReportThe Gonzales Livestock

Market Report for Satur-

day, August 30, 2014 had on hand: 910 cattle.

Compared to our last sale: Calves and yearlings

sold steady. Packer cows sold steady.

Stocker-feeder steers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs., $310-$400; 300-400 lbs, $285-$325; 400-500 lbs, $240-$280; 500-600 lbs, $215-$235; 600-700 lbs., $203-$210; 700-800 lbs, $190-$200.

Bull yearlings: 700-900 lbs, $145-$185.

Stocker-feeder heif-ers: Medium and large frame No. 1: 150-300 lbs, $255-$350; 300-400 lbs, $235-$245; 400-500 lbs, $220-$240; 500-600 lbs., $185-$215; 600-700 lbs., $175-$185.

Packers cows: Good lean utility and commercial, $94-$115; Cutters, $115-$131; Canners, $75-$89; Low yielding fat cows, $98-$112.

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This week, the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) reported state-wide crude oil production of 2.16-million b/d in June, 2014. Thats less than a 1% increase from the previous month, but 29% from the same time in 2013.

Most of the states oil production in June came from the Eagle Ford Shale and West Texas Permian Basin. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts the Eagle Ford Shale will produce 1.51-million b/d crude oil in Sept., 2014. Thats an increase of ~31,000b/d over Augusts expected production (1.48-million b/d).

Five of the top ten oil producing counties were in the Eagle Ford, and four

of those led state-wide production by county for the month:

Karnes 204,500 b/dLa Salle 155,283 b/dDe Witt 140,323 b/dGonzales 110,598 b/dDrilling state-wide

continues to grow. The RRC issued 2,419 state-wide drilling permits in July, which was an 11% increase from the previous month. Approximately 91% of permits issued in June were for new oil and gas wells. The highest number of permits issued by RRC district was in the San Antonio area (377 permits).

Across the state, natural gas production was also on the rise in June. Texas produced 603 million Mcf of gas during the month, which represents a 9% increase from the same time last year.

The Texas average rig count as of August 15, was 899, representing about 49 percent of all active land rigs in the United States. In the last 12 months, total Texas reported production was 802 million barrels of oil and 7.9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

The Railroad Commission of Texas estimated final production for June 2014 is 76,953,161 barrels of crude oil and 523,906,040 Mcf (thousand cubic feet) of gas well gas.

The Commission derives final production numbers by multiplying the preliminary June 2014 production totals of 64,710,024 barrels of crude oil and 457,559,860 Mcf of gas well gas by a production adjustment factor of 1.1892 for crude oil and 1.1450 for gas well gas. (These production totals do not include casinghead gas or condensate.)

\Texas natural gas

storage reported to the Commission for July 2014 was 264,335,927 Mcf compared to 386,569,206 Mcf in July 2013. The August 2014 gas storage estimate is 266,423,509 Mcf.

The Commissions Oil and Gas Division set initial

September 2014 natural gas production allowables for prorated fields in the state to meet market demand of 8,472,823 Mcf (thousand cubic feet). In setting the initial September 2014 allowables, the Commission used historical production figures from previous months, producers demand forecasts for the coming month, and adjusted the figures based on well capability. These initial allowables will be adjusted after actual production for September 2014 is reported.

Published news reports this week also indicated the surge in oil production has helped increase household incomes in South Texas by about $1,200, according to an industry-funded report.

County Pvs Cur County Pvs Cur KARNES 33 34 LEE 3 3LA SALLE 31 30 LEON 3 3WEBB 27 27 ROBERTSON 2 3DE WITT 25 26 ZAVALA 5 3DIMMIT 22 23 DUVAL 2 2MCMULLEN 20 21 GRIMES 2 2ATASCOSA 13 12 WILSON 1 2MADISON 12 12 COLORADO 1 1BRAZOS 13 11 WASHINGTON 1 1GONZALES 12 11 AUSTIN 0 0LAVACA 10 10 BEE 0 0LIVE OAK 8 8 GOLIAD 0 0BURLESON 7 7 MAVERICK 0 0FRIO 3 6 MILAM 0 0FAYETTE 4 4 BASTROP 0 0

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New Life Assembly of GodCorner of Church St. & Jessie Smith St. Gonzales

Bahai FaithBahai Faith621 St. George St. Gonzales

BaptistClark Baptist ChurchF.M. 794, Gonzales

County Baptist Church Hwy. 87 Smiley

Eastside Baptist ChurchSeydler Street, Gonzales

Elm Grove Baptist Church4337 FM 1115Waelder, Texas 78959

First Baptist Church 422 St. Paul, Gonzales

First Baptist Church403 N Texas Nixon

First Baptist ChurchHwy 108 N Smiley

First Baptist Church406 N Ave E Waelder

Greater Palestine Baptist ChurchS of 90-A (sign on Hwy 80)

Greater Rising StarBaptist Church3rd Ave S of Hwy 87 Nixon

Harwood Baptist Church North of Post Office

Iglesia BautistaMacedonia201 S Congress Nixon

Iglesia Bautista MemorialHwy 97 Waelder

Leesville Baptist ChurchE. of Hwy 80 on CR 121

Memorial Heights Baptist Church1330 College Gonzales

Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church100 Capes Gonzales

Oak Valley Baptist ChurchHwy. 97 Bebe

Old Moulton Baptist Church2287 FM 1680, Moulton

Primitive Baptist Church1121 N. College Gonzales

Providence Missionary Baptist Church1020 St. Andrew Gonzales

San Marcos Primitive Baptist Church4 Miles west of Luling on Hwy. 90P.O. Box 186, Luling830-875-5305

Stratton Primitive BaptistFM 1447 9 miles east of Cuero

St. James Baptist ChurchHwy 80- North of Belmont

Saint Paul Baptist ChurchSE 2nd St. Waelder

Shiner Baptist ChurchAvenue F and 15th Street, Shiner

Union Lea Baptist ChurchSt. Andrew St. Gonzales

Union Valley Baptist ChurchFM 1681 NW of Nixon

CatholicSt. James Catholic Church417 N. College, Gonzales

Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchSt. John St. Gonzales

St. Joseph Catholic Church207 S. Washington, Nixon

St Patrick Catholic Church in Waelder613 Highway 90 East Waelder

St. Phillip Catholic Church Hwy 87 Smiley

ChristianFirst Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)712 Crockett, Luling

Churches of ChristChurch of Christ1323 Seydler St. Gonzales

Church of Christ (Iglesia de Cris-to)201 E. Second St. Nixon

Church of ChristE. 3rd & Texas, Nixon

Churches of GodCommunity Church of God1020 St. Louis, Gonzales

Gonzales Memorial Church of God in Christ1113 Hastings, Gonzales

New Way Church of God in Christ514 St. Andrew, Gonzales

EpiscopalEpiscopal Church of the Messiah721 S. Louis, Gonzales (830) 672-3407

EvangelicalLa Os del Evangelio Mission Ca-pilla del PuebloW. Central at 87 Nixon

Full GospelCamp Valley Full Gospel7 mi N of Nixon on Hwy 80

Full Gospel Church1426 Fisher, Gonzales

LutheranFirst Evangelical Lutheran1206 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Abiding Word Lutheran Church, LCMS1310 St. Louis

MethodistBelmont United MethodistHwy. 90-A

Dewville United MethodistWest of FM 1117 on CR 121

First United Methodist426 St. Paul, Gonzales

First United Methodist410 N. Franklin, Nixon

Flatonia United Methodist403 E North Main, Flatonia

Harris Chapel United MethodistS. Liberty St. Nixon

Harwood Methodist Church North 2nd and North Gonzales, Har-wood

Henson Chapel United Methodist1113 St. Andrew, Gonzales

Monthalia United MethodistCR 112 off 97

Smiley United Methodist1 blk S. of Hwy 87

Waelder United Methodist2 blks from Hwy 90 & 97

Webster Chapel A.M.E.1027 Church St. Gonzales

Non-DenominationalAgape Ministries512 St. James, Gonzales

Living Waters Fellowship Church605 Saint Joseph St. Gonzales

Bread of Life Ministries613 St. Joseph, Gonzales

Cowboy Church of Gonzales CountyJ.B. Wells Showbarn

El Centro Cristiano Agua Viva of WaelderSun. Worship 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m.

Emmanuel Fellowship1817 St. Lawrence St. Gonzales

Encouraging Word Christian Fel-lowshipHwy. 80 in Leesville

Jesus Holy Ghost Temple1906 Hickston, Gonzales

Lighthouse Church of Our Lord1805 Weimar, Gonzales

New Life Temple for Jesus ChristBelmont, Corner of Hwy 466 & Hwy 80

River of Life Christian Fellowship207 Steele St., Smiley 830-587-6500

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The Gonzales Book Club met on Thursday, Aug. 21, to discuss Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. The novel has two main charac-ters, Molly a rebel who is a ward of the court in 2011. She has a nose ring, a skunk streak in her hair, and sev-eral ear piercings and lives in a foster home. The novel moves between the 1920s, 30s & 40s and 2011. Or-phan Train follows Niamh, a girl from Ireland to New York with her family. They are immigrants who came to New York during the 1929 potato famine in Ireland. She ends up in an orphan-age and on the orphan train at the age of nine as it travels through the farmland states such as Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa. At each stop the children line up by size and are examined. The babies are chosen first. The boys are mostly wanted for labor on the farms, the girls for help-ers around the house. Nia-mh is not chosen at the first stop. But she is chosen at the next stop and is supposed to be sent to school, but isnt. Her name is changed to Dorothy and she is put to work in a sewing shop. When the Stock Market fails, she is sent back to the placement people who place her in a rundown, dilapi-dated home where they are looking for someone to care for an expectant mothers young children. Fortunately, she is sent to school. When the father tries to rape her

she runs away to the school, which is four miles away, on a freezing winter night. She stays outside on the doorstep until morning. The teachers boarding house owner lets her stay there for a week, and then she is placed with a couple who need help in their store. Her name is changed again to Vivian and she is allowed to live there to adulthood.

Molly has fifty hours of service work to do. She does it by cleaning the attic for an old woman who lives in a fourteen room mansion. The old woman, Vivian, has a hard time throwing things away and Molly mainly la-bels and organizes and re-views Vivians life with her.

She learns a lot about herself and we get a surprising end-ing.

Part of our discussion was the differences and similari-ties in Vivians and Mollys lives although they have very different personalities. We discussed how each change of Niamhs name was sig-nificant to a different part of her life. We also discussed the impact Molly and Vivian have on each others lives. When Vivian says, I believe in ghosts. She means she believes in the actions that dead relatives and friends have had on her life. We dis-cussed this idea. And with-out giving the ending away, we had a lengthy and lively discussion on the authors

choice of Vivians decision.This book is a must read.

The characters are real. The history is something we need to know and realize what orphanages did in the 1920s and 30s. The author does an excellent job of tying in the foster home of today and the placement of or-phans in the 1930s, though Niamh and Molly are totally different characters.

Our next meeting will be on Thurs. Sept. 18, from 10-11am at Lifords Books and Fine Art. We will discuss Gi-ant by Edna Ferber, a Texas classic covering three gen-erations of cattle barons and oil tycoons. Anyone inter-ested in a literary discussion is welcome. Please come.

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Boscamp-KistlerMr. and Mrs. Clay D. Boscamp would like to announce the engagement of their daughter Caitlyn Jeanine to Charles Ricky Kistler, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Kistler, Sr. Miss Boscamp, a graduate of The Art Institute of Austin, is self-employed as an interior designer and works as a real estate agent with the Lloyd Barnes Real Estate Team in Luling. Mr. Kistler graduated from Gonzales High School and is em-ployed as a derrickman with Ensign Energy Services Inc. An October wedding will be held at Arrowhead Ranch in Waelder.

The Gonzales Art Group is calling all artists, of all ages, to gather their artistic works. The group will be sponsoring their annual Come And Take It Art Show. The show is open to all ages from Pre-K to100+.

The show is organized by medium, such as, Oils, Acryl-ics, Pastels/Chalks, Watercolors, Pen/Pen and Ink, Sculpture, Pot-tery and Stained Glass, Fiber/Textiles/Weavings and Mixed Media. This year two additional categories have been added - Al-ternative Art and Workshop Art.

The students are divided by

age groups - Pre-K - K, Grades 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 and 9-12. There will be a judge from out of the area that will choose First Place, Second Place, Third Place and in some cases Honor-able Mention for each category in all of the Student and Adult categories. Students and adults will receive ribbons. Adults will be eligible for prize money. There will be a Best of Show picked for the student division and the adult division.

All artwork will be accepted at 1:00-4:15 P.M. on Thursday, October 2nd in the Fellowship

Hall at the First United Meth-odist Church and should be picked up on Sunday, October 5th between 4:30 and 5:30pm.

If you cannot come at that time please make every effort to have someone else pick it up then so that the work can be admired by all, as once people start picking up early in the day it snowballs and people coming in on Sunday afternoon have much less to see.

Entries are limited to eight per adult with a limit of three in any one category. Adult en-tries should be framed and stu-

dent work should be matted or backed to protect it. All work should be original and not from a kit, except for Workshop en-tries. There is an entry fee of $1.00 per piece for students.

The entry fee for adults is $5.00 per entry for non-members and $4.00 a piece for members.

Times for the Art Show are Friday, October 3rd - 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M (Reception Celebra-tion), Saturday Oct. 4th - 1:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Sunday Oct. 5th - 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. This year, for the first time their will be a reception and cel-

ebration of art on Friday from 5-7pm with refreshments, dem-onstrations and live auction. There will be a Silent Auction will run from opening Friday until 4:30pm Sunday.*

For more information you can contact the chamber or visit their website, go to the schools offices, Frames and Things or request it from Janice William-son at 830-857-5694 or from Sarah Bailey at 830-857-5695 or any art group member. We cant wait to show off your work, so plan now to bring in your works of art!

More than 30 artists from around Texas will compete in the 11th Annu-al Reflections of Texas & Beyond art competition to be held at the Luling Oil Museum, 421 E. Davis in Luling, from Sept. 14-23.

The show will begin with a recep-tion at the museum on Sunday, Sep-tember 14 from 2 to 6 p.m., and art will remain on display through Sep-tember 23rd.

Awards will be presented to the art-ists at the reception. The reception is open to the public, with foods and drinks provided by the museum asso-

ciation and art show sponsors. Dona-tions are appreciated.

Artists will be competing for six cash awards, four merit awards, and the Purchase Prize which results in one piece of artwork being added to the museums collection each year. Many works are available for sale, and a silent auction of donated works also is held throughout the entire show period.

Gonzales County is represented in this year show, with Brenda B. Shan-non of Cost, and Jenice Benedict of Harwood participating. Show hours

in the days following the reception are Monday Saturday, 10 am to 3 pm, and Sunday 1 to 4 pm. Individu-als or tour groups are welcome.

The Luling Oil Museum is oper-ated by the nonprofit Luling Area Oil Museum Association. It is housed in the historic Walker Brothers Build-ing in downtown Luling. For more information regarding the show, mu-seum hours, exhibits and tours, con-tact: Carol Voigt at 830-875-1922 or the Luling Chamber of Commerce at 830-875-3214, Ext. 1

Gonzales Book Club NewsBy CAROLYN MIKESH

Special to The Cannon

Gonzales Elks Lodge 2413 presented its 2014 outstanding awards at the lodge Aug. 28. This years recipients include (from left) John DuBose Jr., outstanding ELK officer of the year; Juan Gaytan, PER presenting the awards, citizen of the year Patty Stewart amd Dan Blakemore, named the outstanding ELK of the year. The award is given by the ELKs past exalted rulers to those who have made outstand-ing contributions to the community.

Sept. 6Woody Cox BenefitThere will be a special benefit to help de-

fray medical expenses for Woody Cox (Luling City Councilman who is battling cancer). The event is 5-7 p.m. Sept. 6 at the Luling Civic Center and will feature plates for $10, music by Megan Cox and Jimmy Butler as well as an auction at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at Luling City Hall, Riata Real Estate and Twin Palms.

Sept. 6Helping HandsIf you are in need of a meal, Helping Hands,

a non-profit, multi-church ministry would like to bless you with a free lunch. Meals will be distributed Saturday, September 6th, begin-ning at 11 a.m. at Emmanuel Christian School located at 1214 St. Louis Street. Volunteers and donations are welcome. Contact Linda at 361-275-1216.

Sept. 7Sunday Country DanceThe Countrymen Band will be playing all

your favorites at Geronimo VFW Post 8456, 6808 N Highway 123, Geronimo 78115, on Sunday, September 7, 3-6:30 pm; VFW kitchen opens at 2 pm. $8 donation benefits Auxiliary programs. Hall is smoke free and always open to all. Info 830-305-8829/830-379-1971.

Sept. 9Country Music USAThe Yoakum Rotary Club will host the 2nd

annual Jim Witte Memorial Country Music USA show at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Yoakum Community Center. Music will be provided by the Country Music Volunteers Band and a va-riety of popular vocalists will be performing. Admission is $5 per person, and donations will also be accepted to benefit the clubs Ro-tary Scholarship Program.

Sept. 9Master Gardeners TrainingThe Gonzales Master Gardeners will offer their

extensive Texas Master Gardener training class starting September 9th and concluding May 19th of 2015. Classes are held at 623 Fair Street in Gon-zales on Tuesday mornings from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm approximately every two weeks. The spacing between classes varies slightly to accommodate holidays, Christmas break and spring break.

Enrollment deadline is August 27, 2014 at 5 pm. Applications are available at the Gonzales Exten-sion Office at 1709 E Sara DeWitt, at the Extension website at www.gonzales.agrilife.org and at the Gonzales Master Gardner website at www.gon-zalesmastergardeners.org. The cost of the class is $165. For more information, call the Gonzales Ex-tension office at (830) 672-8531 or Gail Johnson at (830) 491-1996.

Sept. 13Caldwell Liberty DinnerCongressman Blake Farenthold will deliver

the keynote address for the Caldwell County Republicans annual Liberty Dinner fundraiser at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at the Luling Civic Center.

Tickets are $60 each; table sponsorships are Platinum/$1000; Gold/$750; Silver/$500. The meal will be ham and prime rib. Bernie Martini (The Music Man) will provide back-ground music and the Gilbert & David Kautz Orchestra will be providing dance music till

midnight.For tickets, send checks payable to Caldwell

County Republican Party/Dinner and mail to Lance Cameron, 127 Club Drive, Luling, TX 78648-3503 or call 830-875-2820. Sorry, cor-porate checks cannot be accepted.

Sept. 14Deacons DayUnion Lea Baptist Church invites all pastors

and churches to join them for deacon ordi-nation at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14. For details, contact Rev. Kenneth Green at the church, 931 St. Andrew St. in Gonzales.

Sept. 15Womens Bible Study Womens Bible Study in Flatonia, which

meets on Monday afternoons at 3:45, will be-gin their next Study September 15th, 2014, using the 9-week Video program by Beth Moore on the New Testament books of 1 & 2 Thessalonians, entitled Children of the DAY. Beth Moore asks, Do you know God has a purpose for your life, but you cant figure out what it is? In this study youll find that your circumstances are not coincidental. Gods timing is impeccable. The Womens Study, which meets at the Flatonia United Methodist Church, is open to all women and facilitated by Dianne Raef. For more information call 512-921-2792. (Please use the side door on N. Middle Street with ramp.)

Sept. 16Education RetireesEducation-related retirees will meet Sept. 16

at noon at Caf-on-The-Square. Meat will be provided. Please bring a dish to complete the meal and $1 for meal extras.

Superintendents from the three Gonzales County ISDs will update us on their schools. Mollye Long of TRTAs board will be a special guest.

Sept. 20Constitution Week LunchThe Gonzales County Chapter of the Daugh-

ters of the American Revolution will host their Constitution Week Luncheon at noon Saturday, Sept. 20 at First United Methodist Church of Gonzales.

The featured program will be German Chil-dren Stolen by Indians by Donna Bird.

OngOingGonzales County 4-H4-H enrollment for the 2014-2015 school

year has begun. The website for enrollment is: https://texas.4honline.com

For more information about 4-H and joining a club, please call the Extension Office 672-8531

nOv. 22Night in Old Pearl CityThe city of Yoakum Tourism Board will spon-

sor the 12th annual Night in Old Pearl City Saturday, Nov. 22 at Turner Hall in Yoakum. A Lutheran Polka Worship Service is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, fol-lowed by a tour of the Yoakum Heritage Mu-seum and the Christmas Tree Forest.

Doors open at Turner Hall at 5:30 p.m. fea-turing door prizes, bottle grab, silent auction, dinner and dance.

Proceeds will benefit the Yoakum Commu-nity Hospital and Yoakum Community Fire Dept. For ticket information contact Sharon Mueller at 512-341-9868 or 512-567-3365.

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Audrey Robinson, Bessy Robinson, and Margene Wilkey. He is survived by his children; Larry Wayne Baker and wife Char-lene, Eugene Robinson Jr. and wife Susan, Willie Leon Robinson and wife Brenda, Walter Andrew Robinson and wife Leann, Eddie Ray Robinson and wife Maria, and Chris Lee Robinson and wife Bren-da. Grandchildren: Inez Robinson, Jessica Smith, Kayla Robinson, Linda Robinson, Mark Baker, Matthew Baker, Pat Baker, Travis Robinson, Kelsey Robinson, Erin Robinson, Christopher Robinson, Dylan Robinson, Kyle Robinson, Allen Cagle, Justin Cagle, Charles Ca-gle, Kayla Trigo, Chelsea Cagle, and Logan Cox; 7 great-grandchildren, and brother Willie Booney Robinson.

The Funeral Service will be held Thursday, Septem-ber 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM at Finch Funeral Chapel in

Nixon with the Rev. Jack Shuford, Rev. Michael Cowey, and Rev. Jimmy Newman officiating. In-terment will follow at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Gonzales. A visita-tion was held Wednesday, September 3rd, at Finch Funeral Chapel from 5:00 PM 8:00 PM. Memo-rial contributions may be made to Leesville Baptist Church. All are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.finchfuneralcha-pels.com.

Arrangements by Finch Funeral Chapel LLC of Nixon (830) 582-1521.

Donald J. Brzozowski,1929-2014

BRZOZOWSKIDonald J. Brzozowski,

85, of Gonzales, passed away Saturday, August 30, 2014. Donald was born April 26, 1929 in Gonzales to Thado Jake Brzozows-ki and Floy Lee Kridler Brzozowski. He married Dolores Supak and Delo-res preceded him death in 1978. On February 8, 1979 he married Lorena Kay Brown in Gonzales. Donald was a member of St. James Catholic Church.

Donald served his country in the U.S. Army, enlisting at the age of 16 during WWII. Donald worked as a deputy sher-iff for around 4 years be-fore serving as Gonzales County Sheriff for twenty years. After retiring from

the Sheriff s department, Donald worked as the Criminal Investigator for the 2nd 25th Judicial Dis-trict. Donald will be re-membered as a fair man and a man willing to assist those that needed his help in getting on the right path.

Donald built Green Acres Nursery in 1987 and sold it to Patrick Hodges in 2007. Donald always had a project to keep him-self occupied. He built a wood shop to do his car-pentry work. Donalds passion was growing bou-gainvilleas and typically grew 300 of these plants a year along with many trees.

Donald loved little chil-dren, especially his own. He was a good provider and saw that his children received what they truly wanted. He enjoyed fish-ing the Guadalupe River, deer hunting and most of all, dancing with Kay. His quiet time included playing dominoes or soli-taire. He enjoyed read-ing detective novels and was a huge fan of St. Paul Cardinal Athletics where he enjoyed watching his grandchildren win State Championship after State Championship.

Donald J. Brzozowski

is survived by his lov-ing wife Kay Brzozowski of Gonzales, sons and daughter-in-laws, Don-ald Ray Brzozowski and Elaine, Ronnie Glen Brzo-zowski, all of Gonzales, Monty Hodges and Nancy of Shiner, Patrick Hodges and Michelle Hodges of Gonzales, brothers Bill Brzozowski and his wife Sue of Beeville, Charles Brzozowski and his wife Cathy of San Antonio, 11 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife Dolores Brzozowski, parents, and a sister Margie Guckian.

A rosary was recited at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Sep-tember 1, 2014 in St. James Catholic Church with a Mass of Christian Burial held at 10 a.m. in St. James Catholic Church with Fr. Paul Raaz offici-ating. Interment followed in Belmont Cemetery. Pallbearers: Donald R. Brzozowski, Jr., Matt Easely, Seth Brzozowski, Gil Hodges, Brett Hodges and David Kuntchik, Jr. The family will receive friends from 9 to 9:30 a.m. Monday prior to the rosa-ry. Services are under the care and direction of Sey-dler-Hill Funeral Home.

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Sept. 4Gonzales Writing GroupGonzales Writing Groups next meeting is Thursday September 4 at Lifords

Bookstore 10 am. Contact Granella Hendricks for info 437-2036.

Sept. 6Caraway CemeteryThere will be a business meeting of the Caraway Cemetery Association at

10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. For details contact Diane Ritchie at 830-582-1007.

Sept. 7Sundowners 4-H ClubSundowners 4-H Club will hold its first meeting on Sunday, September 7,

2014 at 5:00 p.m. The meeting will be at the Master Gardeners Building which is located by Gonzales Elementary on Fair Street. Programs will be held monthly. 4-H enrollment for the 2014-2015 year has begun online. There is an enrollment fee and can be found at https://texas.4honline.com.

For more information about 4-H, please call the Extension Office 830-672-8531. For more information regarding Sundowners 4-H Club, please call Me-lissa Clampit at 830-540-3326.

Lelia Faye MoranFortenberry,

1923-2014FORTENBERRY

Lelia Faye Moran Fortenberry, 91, passed away Sunday, August 24, 2014 at her home in Gon-zales. She was born June 8, 1923 to Guy Gerald and Lalon Holt Moran. She at-tended North Texas Uni-versity and The University of Texas, earning her de-

gree in elementary educa-tion. She was a dedicated teacher of both elemen-tary and special education for more than forty years in Progreso, Fort Stockton and Gonzales. She stayed in contact with many of her former students over the years and it delighted her to know that she had made a contribution to their lives and was fondly remembered.

In retirement, she en-joyed the company of friends and family, shar-ing her beautifully crafted crochet work and always looking for something new to make. She was an avid Spurs fan and rarely missed a televised game.

Her survivors include a daughter, Katherine Meisetschlaeger of Lib-erty Hill, son Kyle Forten-berry and his wife Julie of Seguin, grandchildren Mark Meisetschlaeger and his wife Stacy of Liberty

Hill, Faithe Weber of Gon-zales, Matthew Forten-berry of Cuero and Denise Fortenberry of Cuero. She also had one great-granddaughter Arianna Meisetschlaeger of Ce-dar Park, Abby and Liora Schwartz of Liberty Hill. In addition she is survived by her sister, Avis Hall of Denton and many be-loved nieces and nephews. Her husband, Herbert S. Fortenberry, preceded her in death as did two broth-ers and four sisters.

Private family servic-es will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to the Gonzales Se-nior Citizens Meals on Wheels Program, 604 St. Michael Street, Gonzales, TX. 78629 or Full Circle Equestrian Center, 1585 Highsmith Road, Luling, Texas 78629. Services are under the care and direc-tion of Seydler-Hill Fu-neral Home.

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CANNON KIDS CORNER

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, take the high road

when you find yourself in the midst of a disagreement with a friend. It may be tempting to stick to your guns, but the disagreement is nothing too significant.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Much is going on, Taurus,

and you have trouble zeroing in on a focal point. Unless you make a list of all you want to accomplish, you may get lost in the shuffle.

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moods on a whim, Gemini. But lately you have been more steadfast in your convictions. This behavior will continue for some time.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

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