The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 2007 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL 61 • NO. 17*8 PAGES
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2007
- Home of the Scrap pin' Owls -
briefs
WINGS registration,
Family Bingo Night is
tonight at school cafe
A Family Bingo night will be held
at the Odem Cafeteria on
Thursday, April 26 from 6:30-7:30
p.m., for family members who have
children in the WINGS Program.
Prizes will be awarded and a snack
bar is also available. During the
event registration will be held the
upcoming summer programs. For
more information call Bill
Hoelscher at 361-816-9405.
OEISD school board to
meet this Friday
The Odem-Edroy ISD board of
trustees has called a special meet-
ing for Friday, April 27 at 8 a.m. in
the administration building’s con-
ference room. Agenda items that
will be considered and may receive
a vote by the board, include: the
purchase a pick-up truck, the nam-
ing of a sole finalist for the position
of superintendent of schools and a
directive to the current superin-
tendent to prepare a report to the
board concerning the payment of
stipends or supplements to the dis-
trict’s employees.
Odem Owls Athletic
Banquet slated
The Odem Athletic Booster Club
in cooperation with the Odem High
School athletics department will
honor student-athletes at the
upcoming Annual Athletic Awards
Banquet on Tuesday, May 1 at 7
p.m. in the OEISD Cafetorium.
Student-athletes, their parents and
the community are invited to
attend. Tickets to the event, which
includes a steak dinner, are $10
each. For tickets, contact Booster
Club President Leonard Mejia at
368-2863 or Tonya Romero, 368-
2297.
OEISD to hold gifted
& talented testing
Odem-Edroy ISD will test for
entrance into the gifted & talented
program the week of May 7.
Parents are asked to refer a possi-
ble candidate to the respected
campus’ counselor.
YFW, Ladies Auxiliary
to serve catfish plates
The Sinton VFW Post 8625 and
Ladies Auxiliary will host a catfish
dinner on Saturday, May 5 from 11
a.m.-2 p.m. at the Post, 116 W.
Sinton St. Tickets are available
, from any VFW or Auxiliary mem-
ber. To-go and dine-in plates,
which are $6 each, include catfish,
hushpuppies, coleslaw, beans and
a dessert. The Ladies Auxiliary will
also be collecting donations of trav-
el-size toiletries to give to the VA
Hospitals in San Antonio war veter-
ans. Donations may be brought to
the Post on the day of the dinner.
For more information or tickets, call
Louis Hunt at 364-1567 or Dan and
Melba Pawlik at 364-1369.
Booster Club to meet
Odem Athletic Booster Club
members will meet on Monday,
May 7 at 7 p.m in the Odem High
School gymnasium. Anyone inter-
ested in becoming a member
should attend.
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$85K to help find a cure
Odem plays host to 49 teams during Relay for Life
Kurt R. Mogonye
Editor
Organizers of the Sinton-Taft-
Odem Relay for Life recently made
a big deposit.
As of Wednesday afternoon, more
than $85,000 has been raised for
local programs under the auspices
of the American Cancer Society.
Nancy Beyer, chairperson of
advocacy for Relay for Life, said
the local committee expects more to
roll in during the next few weeks.
“It worked beautifully and it was
definitely an improvement over last
year’s event and I’m saying that
even though I was in charge,” said
Beyer. ‘The people that were
involved made for a great atmos-
phere and the fact that we raised
more money than last year was fab-
ulous.”
Beyer said this year’s Relay was
a success, indeed, due in part to the
outstanding efforts of this year’s
committee, the devoted teams and
all the survivors who give this event
purpose.
Relay for Life, in its third year
among the Sinton, Taft and Odem
communities, was an all-night can-
cer research fund raiser for the
American Cancer Society. The
event, which ran Friday evening
through Saturday morning at
Odem’s football stadium, celebrated
cancer survivors and remembered
those lost to cancer during a lumi-
naria ceremony.
Relay organizers reported that a
total of 49 teams participated in the
event, a number that was slightly
higher than last year when Sinton
hosted the all-night affair.
Funds are raised by team mem-
bers who solicited donations from
family, friends and co-workers. The
See Relay, page 6
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Survivors stand strong...
This year’s Sinton-Taft-Odem Relay for Life began with dozens of area cancer survivors
taking to the Odem High School football stadium’s track. Dozens of cancer survivors
were greeted by other participants who lined the entire inner circle of the track provid-
ing applause while those who beat the disease completed the first lap.
Hoping for a cure...
Participants and those attending this year’s Sinton-Taft-Odem Relay for Life pause
momentarily to admire the hundreds of iuminarias that encircled the Odem High School
football stadium’s track. A special ceremony took place shortly after sunset when
“CURE” was spelled with Iuminarias in the stadium’s bleachers. kuhr. Mogonye photos
Teens, sex
and choices
OEISD to host meetings
to discuss schools' new
sexual abstinence program
A pair of meetings hosted by Odem-Edroy ISD will
be provided on Wednesday and Thursday, May 9 and
10, for both parents and students to preview the
upcoming sexual abstinence program, Aim for
Success.
OEISD administrators have announced that Aim for
Success will be presenting their Achieve Success pro-
gram to its students. Aim for Success is a nationally
acclaimed educational organization and the largest
provider of sexual abstinence programs in the nation.
These programs cover the risks of teenage pregnan-
cy, the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, the
pain of emotional scars and more.
Aim for Success presented more than 2,500 of
these health-based programs last year. Ninety per-
cent of those programs were in public schools across
the United States, reaching approximately 200,000
students and their parents.
The parent’s meeting includes a preview of the stu-
dent program so they may find our first-hand what the
students will be hearing. This program equips parents
with the tools and medical information needed to com-
municate effectively with their children without embar-
rassment. Parents will learn how, when and why to
talk to their children, from the age of toddlers to teens,
about sex. Aim for Success believes parents should
be their children’s primary sex educators, but they
have found that many parents don’t know how to
approach this critical subject.
The topic of this year’s program is “How to Live the
Abstinence Lifestyle”, which includes a discussion
about dreams and goals, problems of sexual activity,
and dealing with differences in guys and girl, peer
pressure and the pressure of romance.
Program organizers are encouraging family mem-
bers, youth workers, counselors, nurses, school
administrators and anyone who is concerned about
teenage sexual activity to attend. This year’s speaker
will be Lauren Lowery. The first meeting for parents
will be held at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 9 in the
Odem High School Cafetorium.
Four sessions separate by grade levels will hear the
program on Thursday, May 10 in the OHS Cafetorium.
Students in the 11th and 12th grades will attend from
8:20-9:20 a.m., followed by 9th and 10th grade stu-
dents from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Odem Junior High stu-
dents in the 7th and 8th grades will attend from 1:35-
2:35 p.m., followed by 6th graders from 2:40-3:25 p.m.
Permissions slips will go home with students early
next week for parents to sign. For those who opt to not
have their students attend, parents should submit the
form to the school office. For more information, con-
tact Liz Buckley, RN, 368-6411 x.238, or the respec-
tive campus principal. Parents may also visit
www.aimforsuccess.org for more information.
Youth set to ride
in weekend rodeo
Kurt R. Mogonye
Editor
A stampede of youngsters will pour into Sinton this
weekend as the San Patricio County Riding & Roping
Club, in conjunction with the Sinton Lions Club, host
the annual youth rodeo at Rob & Bessie Welder Park.
More than 150 youth from across the state will con-
verge on the park’s rodeo arena on Saturday, April 28
as they look to earn points to qualify for this summer’s
Texas Youth Rodeo Association (TYRA) State Finals in
Gonzales.
The public is invited to attend at no charge to watch
the fast-paced action as kids compete in roughstock,
speed and roping events. Youth ages 4- to 18-years-
old will try their luck aboard horses, bucking bulls and
steers among three age divisions. The rodeo kicks off
at 9 a.m. with the roughstock events and will last until
after dark, say organizers.
“We’re expecting 150 kids to compete from all over
South Texas, including San Patricio County, as far
See Rodeo, page 8
Voting begins Monday
for local, state elections
Voters in the city of Odem will have the opportu-
nity to cast their ballots beginning Monday, April 30,
to decide who will take their seat as Place 5 aider-
man. Currently the position is held by Joe G.
Martinez who will be challenged by newcomer
Nicolas Pizana. Mayor Jessie Rodriguez Sr. and
Place 4 Alderman Charles “Chuck” Smith are
unopposed for the May 12 election.
City elections will be held Saturday, May 12 from
7 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Odem Public Library’s
Community Room, 516 Voss Ave. Early voting will
begin on Monday, April 30, and will be held at the
same location from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Two 12-hour
days, April 30 and May 8, polls will be open from 7
a.m.-7 p.m. during the early voting period.
Odem-Edroy ISD, which is holding a joint elec-
tion with the city, has four candidates for the dis-
trict’s board of trustees. Long-time school board
member Gene McWhorter, who is currently serving
See Polls, page 8
Nearly 60 years later, groundwater
districts gain in number across Texas
Dr. Lynn Drawe Groundwater conservation districts about water conservation, and preventing
Specfai to The Times
Editor's Note: This article is the fifth in a
series that will continue weekly until the gen-
eral election on Saturday, May 12. These arti-
cles are being written in an attempt to inform
the public about groundwater districts and the
upcoming vote.
Texas water law dates back to a Texas
Supreme Court ruling in 1904 creating the
‘Rule of Capture’ giving every Texas
landowner the right to capture and use the
water under his/her property. This law has
been amended several times over the
years to provide fairness to neighboring
landowners.
Groundwater problems in Texas are
best known from media accounts of the
Edwards and Ogalalla aquifers in central
and northwest Texas. However, as our
population increases, no aquifer is
exempt from the increasing demand for
this valuable resource.
(GCDs) were initiated in Texas in 1949,
when the Legislature passed a law creat-
ing a process for designating groundwater
management areas and authorizing spe-
cial underground water conservation dis-
tricts. In 1951, the High Plains
Underground Water Conservation District
became the first local district.
In 1985, 1997 and 2001, the Texas
Legislature passed additional laws to
encourage establishment of more GCDs.
State law related to this legislation is in
Chapter 36 of the Texas Water Code,
which stresses the importance and
responsibility of GCDs in developing and
implementing comprehensive manage-
ment plans to conserve and protect
groundwater resources.
All groundwater conservation districts
try to maintain a balance between protect-
ing private landowner rights and protect-
ing the groundwater resource. Most dis-
tricts direct their efforts to protecting
waste, collecting data, educating people
irreparable damage to the aquifer.
Water in an underground aquifer is not
stationary and is not confined to the polit-
ical boundaries represented by the county
line. San Patricio County groundwater is a
part of the Gulf Coast Aquifer that extends
along the entire Texas Gulf Coast. Wells
in the county draw water from the
Evangeline zone and vary from 300 to 600
feet deep. The area’s recharge zone
includes parts of Bee, Goliad and Live
Oak Counties. Thus, no county GCD can
be independent in its water planning.
A groundwater district is required to pre-
pare a groundwater conservation plan
and submit it to the Texas Water
Development Board (TWDB) for approval
and incorporation into the State Water
Plan created by Senate Bill 1 in 1997. The
TWDB divided the state into 16 regions.
San Patricio County is in Region 16
extending from one tier of counties to the
See Water, page 6
Odem Public Library
celebrates being debt-free
Odem Public Library recognized National
Library Week on Wednesday, April 18 with a
Thanks-a-Bunch Lunch and Debt-Free
Celebration.
On December 5, 2006, the Odem City
Council approved the recommendation from the
Odem Economic Development Board to forgive
the library’s remaining $50,000 debt which
allowed Odem Public Library to be debt-free.
The library staff, board members and Friends
of the Library hosted the event to express grat-
itude to the City of Odem, the Odem Economic
Development Board and all the individuals,
businesses and foundations who contributed
significantly to the library’s building fund.
Gathered for the library’s debt-free celebration last week were (front, I-
r) Ruth Payne, Vicki Spiekerman, Diane Aleman, Karen Ivy, Dottie Adair,
Pat Voss; (back, l-r) Darline Green, Billie Jo Tennill, Esperanza Juarez,
Jean Gonzalez, Betty Wood, Frances Barlow, Janie Martinez, Noe
Guerra, Joan Halepeska, Roy E. Hranicky and Kay Janak. submitted photo
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