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VOLUME 90 • NO. 49
Dec. 8,2016 - Mathis, Texas 78368
12 Pages
Birthday girl ‘giving blessings to get blessings ’
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For Mathis native Ellena
De La Fuente’s 10th birthday,
though, she asked for some-
thing a little different this year
- and it was something that
wasn’t even for herself.
“My daughter’s an alter
server at the catholic church
and we have always talked
to her about ‘giving blessings
to get blessings,”’ her mother
Raylana Garcia Olivarez said.
“So this is just part of her idea.”
Olivarez said that her
daughter asked to have a birth-
day party, but was originally
against the idea.
“I said, ‘You don’t need a
birthday party, you don’t
need any more toys,” Olivarez
remembers. ‘“You have every-
thing you want. You have a cell
phone, you have a tablet, you
have a computer - what else do
you want?’
“And she said, ‘Instead of
getting toys for me, what if
we do something like Toys For
Tots?’
By Paul Gonzales
Mathis News editor
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Marines were on hand at Ellena De
La Fuente's 10th birthday party to
collect all the toys from her birth-
day Toys for Tots toy drive. From
left, Matthew Scott German, Dustin
James Hattenbach, De La Fuente
and Hector Felipe Vargas Jr. ended
the day with 75 gifts.
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The wrecked destroyers USS Downes (DD-375) and USS Cassin
(DD-372) in Drydock One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, soon
after the end of the Japanese air attack in 1941. Dec. 7 marks
the 75th anniversary for one of America's greatest tragedies,
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Deborah Buchanan, center, recounts her breast cancer survival story to the crowd during a press conference to announce the
launch of the Radiology Associate's 3D MammoMobile Thursday, Dec. 1. The mobile unit will service smaller community mem-
bers who are unable to travel to receive mammograms.
Sinton native
serves in Pearl
Harbor 75 years
after attack that
led U.S. into war
Mobile mammogram unit offers new 3-D
test to wage battle against breast cancer
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his December, facility on wheels will
Radiology visit area Coastal Bend
Associates
finding a unique Live Oak, Refugio and Villarreal spoke to the communities and help
way to reach out and care San Patricio, as well as news media the day our loved one because
for more patients than businesses and events, before the launch and some of them don’t have
ever before. The imaging and will offer 3-D mam- said, “It’s a unit that’s the transportation to go
company launched the mograms to insured going to be brought to the bigger cities, like
area’s first-ever mobile patients or patients over to the smaller com- Corpus Christi, and get
mammography unit Dec. that qualify for low cost munities and help the this treatment that they
1, which is dubbed the or free mammograms men and women detect need.”
through participating breast cancer at an ear-
lier stage.
“Radiology Associates
has put together this
program to be able to
come out to the smaller
By Paul Gonzales
is counties, including Bee,
West Coast of the United
States into the Indian
Contributed information
PEARL HARBOR
As the nation pauses to Ocean,
remember the attack on
Pearl Harbor — which
The U.S. Pacific Fleet
consists of approximate-
occurred 75 years ago iy 200 ships and sub-
Dec. 7, 1941 — the occa-
sion has special meaning aircraft and more than
for a Sinton native who is 140,000 sailors and civil-
serving in the U.S. Navy ians.
in the very location that
drew the United States
MammoMobile.
Radiology Associates
cites transportation
(See Buchanan, 11)
nearly 1,100
marines
The state-of-the- agencies-
art breast screening Mathis Mayor Ciri
’Twas the night before terror, when all through
the haunted house, only creatures were stirring
Schroeder is respon-
sible for communications
systems aboard the sub-
into World War II.
• • •
If s important for those of us serving
in Pearl Harbor today to remember
the sacrifice of those who served
before us/
By Paul Gonzales
Mathis News editor
MATHIS - The Hauntings of
Boogeyman Haunted House had a
dry opening Saturday of their holi-
day attraction, Frightmare before
Christmas, which will officially
open this Saturday at 7 p.m. for
area thrill seekers.
“We decided to open up dur-
ing the Christmas holiday because,
what’s better than a twisted North
Pole?” Kim Leverett McLaughlin,
one of the family members who
own and operate the haunted
attraction, said.
“There aren’t any Christmas-
themed haunted houses in Corpus.
In larger cities, they have all sorts
of holiday attractions like Bloody
Valentine’s Day, Christmas and
even St. Patrick’s Day.
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Petty Officer Second
Class Cody Schroeder, a
2011 Sinton High School opportunity to do
graduate, is assigned to pretty cool stuff,
the Navy’s U.S. Pacific Schroeder. “I get to work
Fleet Headquarters.
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in Pearl Harbor,” said
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Harbor, often
Schroeder.
uphold the tradition of Pearl
those who have came referred to as the gate-
before you. We are on the waY t° the Pacific in
defense circles
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means
that Schroeder is serv-
forefront of defense of the
nation.”
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The Frightmare Before Christmas haunted attraction will open Saturday, Dec. 10, at 7
p.m. and features a twisted North Pole and a Santa Claus you had better hope you are
“We wanted to bring something 0n the good list for. The attraction will be open Dec. 17 and Dec. 24 as well.
new and different to the haunted
ing in a part of the world
According to Navy thgb is taking on new
officials, the U.S. Pacific importance in America’s
Fleet is the world’s national defense strat-
largest fleet command,
encompassing 100 mil-
lion square miles, nearly
half the Earth’s surface.
house circuit for our surrounding
area.”
rounded by darkness. And - not trip?
to spoil anything - but you may or
may not alone in there.
egy-
Pearl Harbor itself
is home to more than
19,000 U.S. Navy Sailors
“We have warped and changed the
Halloween favorite Boogeyman’s
Closet into a twisted North Pole,”
The Frightmare before Christmas
features a blackout room, which is
basically a maze with obstacles,
inside a huge locked metal box sur- during their frightening holiday
So what should visitors expect
from Antarctica to the
Arctic circle and from the (See Pearl Harbor, 11)
(See Horror, 5)
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