The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 5, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 3, 2019 Page: 2 of 8
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got the order out.
Power was also interrupted at
Alvin Community College,
causing a mechanical issue at
the science building that led to
night classes being canceled in
the building, college spokesman
John Tompkins said. Classes
held in other buildings resumed
as normal.
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Frankly, the agencies were
not very good at telling us how
Liles thought he had the animal,
the Shop Vac was emptied. This
was fortunate because it was
discovered that the vacuum had
other materials from previous
vacuums.
With a clean Shop Vac, and a
second attempt, Liles heard a
clunk, followed by the turning
off of the vacuum and a fluttering
sound from inside the appliance.
The bat was brought outside
and placed in the wheel frame of
a nearby trailer to keep it warm
through the night before it could
hopefully find another colony to
join.
The most convenient (and
probably accurate) person to
blame for this whole fiasco is
my brother, Shamus, who,
though a Texan, has the heat
summer and spent a lot of time
open window studying the issue of long waits
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Game Warden Carter Rangel,
who responded because he was
already in the area.
But upon Rangel’s arrival, the
bat could not be found. It was
not seen again until the
afternoon. In a “Who you gonna
call?” situation, my mother
discovered that she did not have
the number to any local bat
busters, so Brazoria County was
contacted again. To our surprise,
animal control was not
dispatched. Sheriff’s Deputy
Eddie Morgan, who became a
deputy after we graduated
together as part of the Alvin
High School Class of 2010, and
Deputy Thomas Liles, arrived
with a fishing net. While asking
Morgan why he was placing
himself at the opposite side of
the room, Liles attempted to fish
the bat out of a small recess
behind an overhead cabinet,
where he had been trapped by
my father and brother, Avery, by
stuffing the opening with
cushions.
It became obvious that a
fishing net would not work, so
Liles asked if the house
contained anything else that
might work. It was quickly
decided that Avery’s Shop Vac
would be put to use. If you can
vacuum up bees into a Shop Vac
without killing them, Liles
thought, you should be able to
vacuum up a bat.
I should take a moment out
here to say that the bat survived,
very scared, but uninjured.
After one attempt in which
“This is one of the
few places where
everyone in Texas
of driver's license
age and above
interacts with their
state government.
When it's this
dysfunctional, it
doesn't look good
on the whole
state”
Student artists take center stage at Alvin ISD
School; Gold Medal; Shaofang
Xue, Shadow Creek High
School.
In addition to the 2D artwork,
we could fix this,” Austin Sen.
Kirk Watson said. “We talk
about how you can't just throw
money at a problem and fix it.”
Finance Chair Sen. Jane
Nelson said money will not
solve the issue.
“We have more than doubled
the amount of money since
2012,” she said. “So it's not just
a money problem. We better
figure out how ... I don't want to
study this anymore.”
After a lengthy discussion,
Nelson said one way or another
the issue would be dealt with in
2019.
“I think I can safely assure
you, just based on the comments
this morning, we will come up
with a solution to this,” she said.
helicopters through Iraq. He was
awarded The Air Medal two
times.
After leaving the Army, Walz
earned his commercial helicopter
pilot certificate and started a
business, managing feral pig
populations with a leased
helicopter. The company later
received a charter certificate and
flies daily air tours over Houston.
“We started this company
with $300 and a dream,” Walz
said. “We worked our tails off to
make it what it is today.”
Walz lives in Richmond with
his wife and three daughters.
For information, visit www.
JoeWalz.us.
It was a packed house for the
annual 2019 Alvin ISD Rodeo
Art Open House. On Jan. 18,
over 1,000 visitors strolled
through the Alvin ISD Eiberty
Alumni Hall to look at 650
pieces of western-themed art,
representing every campus in
Alvin ISD. The Eiberty Alumni
Hall was full of art, music and
food as parents, students and
staff members were amazed by
the artwork of the students.
“This year's open house
included live music by 4-Barrel
Ramblers, food hot off of the
Manvel FFA barbecue pit, a
western theme photo booth and
a coloring table for the little
ones,” said Lisa Savage, interim
director of fine arts. “The
evening was not only about the
rodeo art, but creating an
opportunity to host a family
event for people all across our
district to come together and
Austin Brown, who lives at
Huntington Oaks Apartments,
said he heard a loud banging
noise before his power went out.
“I just heard loud banging and
then the power went off,” Brown
said.
Paul said power was restored
to the area by approximately
2:50 p.m.
or Q&A sessions — he doesn’t
have the energy for this anymore,
in my honest opinion. I really
want to see more participation
from the constituents. Pete
hasn’t done anything from
TX-22 to get excited about. No
town halls. No Q&A. No debates
during election cycle. It’s time
for a new face, and I feel like
I’m that face.”
Walz was born and raised in
the 22nd District, growing up in
the Mission Bend area. After
graduating from high school, he
joined the Army where he served
for 11 years. During his career,
he spent more than 2,000 hours
crewing CH-47 Chinook
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celebrate the arts.”
The goal of the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo Art
competition is to preserve and
celebrate western heritage.
Throughout the art-making
process, AISD art students are
taught a wide variety of
techniques and industry
standards and are exposed to a
breadth of resources while
developing their western-
themed art.
The Alvin ISD fine arts
department sent 45 pieces of
artwork to NRG, which were
judged by the full committee of
Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo Art judges.
The following pieces were
chosen by the committee to
move on to the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo Art
Competition and will be on
display at the Hayloft Gallery at
NRG.
Alvin ISD Elementary
Winners: Best of Show, Robert
Weeks, Hasse Elementary; Gold
Medal,Abigail Isonguyo,Marek
Elementary
Alvin ISD Junior High
Winners: Best of Show, Althea
Nigos, Nolan Ryan Junior High;
Gold Medal, Isabella Corley,
Rodeo Palms Junior High
Alvin ISD High School
Winners: Best of Show, Madison
Moore, Shadow Creek High
School; Gold Medal, John
Linogao, Shadow Creek High
Shamus Truksa (left), the most likely responsible party for the bat’s entrance into the home, looks at his father James Truksa (right),
as the latter attempts to confirm that the bat is located in a small recess behind the two upraised cabinets. (Photo by Joshua Truksa)
County.
“We know that there have
been false stories like that one
circulating, particularly among
social media. Even when, I’ll
call it regular media has knocked
those down, it still kind of has a
life after death, if you will, on
social media and that continues
to impact our potential jury
pool,” Poehl said.
Poehl also said the fact media
coverage of the incident was
nationwide does not damage the
defense’s argument for a change
of venue.
“We’re not just talking about a
pervasive media coverage, we’re
also talking about a crime with a
lot of victims and the personal
connections that all of those
victims have to the rest of the
community,” Poehl said.
Neither the state nor the
defense have received all the
information for discovery held
by the federal government.
Poehl said the defense has yet to
receive information from federal
investigators regarding what
was found on Pagourtzis’ and his With one of his defense attorneys at his side, Dimitrios Pagourtzis listens from the Galveston County Jail during a court hearing last week. Pagourtzis watched the hearing
family’s computer. live via a video stream to the jail. (Courtesy photo)
tolerance of a Canadian from
Yellowknife, and therefore
insists on having a window open
— a window, mind you, that has
no screen. Therefore, based
upon the principle that a
would most likely enter a house
through the path of least
resistance, an
would most likely rank at the driver’s license offices,
somewhere between an open What the commission found was
door and an invitation printed on waits continue to increase. At
light blue paper with fancy one office, the Houston-Gessner
cursive font, promising free fruit mega-center, average wait times
and/or insects. have gone up from 33 minutes in
Liles and Morgan said it made 2009 to 77 minutes in 2017.
for an interesting night and was Things are just as bad on the
a welcome break from dealing phone. The Sunset Commission
with criminals. Just after report showed that in 2009, the
finishing with the bat, however, average hold time was 13.5
they got a call regarding two minutes and most callers just
loose cows. hung up; only 35 percent of calls
were answered. The problem
only got worse by 2017, adding
almost a full minute to the
average wait time and reducing
the percentage of calls answered
to 20 percent.
Sen. Larry Taylor, who
represents Alvin, said that was
not acceptable.
“This is one of the few places
where everyone in Texas of
driver's license age and above
interacts with their state
government,” Taylor said.
“When it's this dysfunctional, it
doesn't look good on the whole
state.”
In 2009, Texas lawmakers
created a Department of Motor
Vehicles for the first time, but
Alvin ISD submitted 25 pieces kept the responsibility of driver’s
of 3-dimensional work. Out of licenses with DPS. The Sunset
those 25, the following two Commission recommended
pieces were selected to represent changing that, transferring the
Alvin ISD in the Hayloft Gallery responsibility of issuing driver’s
at the Houston Livestock Show licenses to the DMV by 2021.
and Rodeo: Best of Show, The biggest problem is no one
Gabriel Cortez, Shadow Creek inside DPS seems to have an
High School; and Gold Medal, answer to the problem.
Patricio Martinez, Shadow
Creek High School.
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