The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 25, 2015 Page: 1 of 12
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you can. It can be cash, it can
be coins and then we go and
count it and see how much we
have.”
always had trouble finding an
adaptation that would work for
us. I read many versions this
year and couldn’t find anything
then ran across this relatively
new adaptation of The Snow
Queen,” Weaver said.
“It’s not as well known as
Snow White, but I figured the
popularity of Frozen would lure
the kids to come. Although I
have read that The Snow Queen
was the inspiration for Frozen, I
recently had the opportunity to
The Port Lavaca Main Street Theatre Children’s
Production of The Snow Queen
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have participated in previous
children’s shows to come
perform one or two of the 10
performances.”
Show dates are June 12-14
and 18-21 with show times to be
announced.
This is PLMST’s first time
to do The Snow Queen.
Weaver chose The Snow
Queen because it is a “girl
theme” year, she said.
“I have wanted to do Snow
White for many years, but
earlier this month, the board
chose to put existing plans
to build a new middle school
across from Calhoun High
School on hold and develop a
schematic design at the current
Travis Middle School location.
CCISD Superintendent James
Cowley said at that meeting that
estimates are approximately
$250 per square foot to build a
new school and that the original
number given to the board was
approximately $100 less than
that.
“I was on that committee and
I did push for the bond because
so many people did want to
see that new school,” Melissa
Lester said Monday, to a round
of applause from the audience.
Lester was on the Capital
Improvement Committee
The top prize was a pasta
party provided by Olive
Garden along with tickets to
see the San Antonio Spurs
and the San Antonio Rampage
hockey team.
Community
Palm Sunday
service slated
Bond items discussed
in open dialogue
meeting
J-R students raise money for those with
leukemia, lymphoma through Olive
Garden fundraiser
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Raising $349.56, Ashley
Barecky’s second grade class
took the top honors at J-R’s
Pasta for Pennies fundraiser.
Barecky took a unique
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“I am able to recognize both
as an educator and as a parent
when the priority is not on the
students,” Michelle Wehmeyer
said. “I have to say I have
had concerns from the very
inception of this bond proposal
about whether or not the
students were the first priority,
and I think a lot of people share
that.”
Attendees also questioned
why much of the athletic
facility renovations had begun
quickly after the bond was
approved, while the new middle
school project had not begun.
Typically, board members do
not have to respond to questions
or comments, but because
the meeting was held in an
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to set her plan into motion.
While cousins Gerda and Kay
play tag, Kay gets a shard of
the shattered mirror stuck in
his eye, and it turns him into
a rotten brat. The Snow Queen
kidnaps the boy and takes him
to her Ice Castle.
Timid Gerda is determined
to rescue her best friend, armed
only with a gypsy’s jar of warm
wishes and giggle-inducing
snickerdoodles. On her journey,
she encounters a cursed
gardener, talking flowers, a
mischievous fox, a know-it-all
crow, a generous princess and
rowdy robbers.
Once at the castle, Gerda
uses the jar of warm wishes
to melt the Flurries and the
magical cookies to warm Kay’s
Concerns about how the
Calhoun County Independent
School District board of trustees
and staff are spending the $65
million bond were expressed
during an open discussion held
Monday evening.
At a special called meeting,
approximately 11 people
addressed the board members,
CCISD staff and building
officials in attendance, with
several others from the audience
chiming in with the discussion.
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open discussion format, board
members and other officials did
address some of the attendees.
Board member Kevin Hill
acknowledged issues with the
previous architect that could
cost the district a “significant”
amount of money.
“They contend they were
100 percent complete with
detailed development and we
contend they’re somewhere
around a third of that. We are
no longer associated with these
folks,” Hill said. “We’ve taken
a hit, guys. There’s no way to
about it. We’re going to get the
numbers, and it’s going to be
somewhere around $2-300,000.
It’s significant. Nobody’s
pleased with it.”
actually watch Frozen and the
two stories are not the same,”
she said.
Weaver found Frozen to be
a cute movie and she loved the
score, but the only similarities
to it and Andersen’s The Snow
Queen are snow and ice.
“There is mention of a
frozen heart and there is a
queen. That’s it,” Weaver said.
“The playwright did an amazing
job with the adaptation and
there are many cute characters
in the play.”
The play, written by
Stacey Lane in 2014, is set in a
magical, wintry wonderland.
The Flurries, the icy imps of
the Snow Queen, conjure up a
cruel spell to make a magical
mirror that reflects the ugly
side of humanity. The Snow
Queen smashes the mirror
Auditions are done and
roles have been assigned for the
next Port Lavaca Main Street
Theatre children’s production
of an adaption of Hans
Christian Andersen’s The Snow
Queen slated for June.
Thirty-eight children
ranging in ages from 5 to 15
auditioned earlier this month
and director Jody Weaver cast
all 38, Weaver said.
“There will be 27 kids
each performance plus
young lady graduate
for a small monologue of a
new mother talking with her
newborn,” Weaver said. “This
is a small cameo type role so
I’m inviting young ladies from
high school and college who
Ashley Barecky’s second grade class at Jackson-Roosevelt Elementary raised the most money for
Olive Garden’s Pasta for Pennies fundraiser, bringing in $349.56. The entire school raised more
than $3,000, which will go toward the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. (Contributed photo)
Community members address CCISD board
More than 60 people attended
Monday’s meeting in the HJM
Elementary cafetorium.
Several audience members
expressed their frustration over
how the projects, particularly
the new middle school project,
have been handled.
“We just feel deceived,”
Darcie Henke told the board
Monday about the changes
regarding the new middle
school project. “We were told
in October 2013 that Travis was
too far gone, that it was beyond
repair and that the bond had
been increased from $47 million
to $65 million, and that’s why I
voted for the bond because we
were getting a new school and
then we find out, crud, there’s
not enough money”
During a special meeting
The community
invited to a community, cross-
denominational Palm Sunday
service this Sunday.
The event is slated for 7
p.m. at the First Presbyterian
Church in Port Lavaca. The
church’s address is 1111 N.
Virginia.
“Every Palm Sunday, the
Ministerial Alliance sponsors
a Palm Sunday service,” said
David Holford, president of the
Calhoun County Ministerial
Alliance and associate pastor
at Christ Community Church.
The sermon this year will
be given by Danielle Knapp
of Point Comfort United
Methodist Church and will
likely cover information
relevant to Lent and Holy
Week, Holford said. Holy Week
is the final week of the Lenten
season observed by many
Christian denominations.
“This is an opportunity
for all churches to come
together under one roof and
celebrate our common faith
in Jesus and our common
identity with the cross and
with Holy Week leading up
to the death of Jesus and his
resurrection,” Holford said.
Despite the occasional
differences, the final week of
Lent is an important time for
Christians, Holford said.
“This is the holiest week
for Christians. It’s a good and
important time for us together
in our united faith,” Holford
said.
Last year’s event was held
at the Our Lady of the Gulf
Catholic Church for the first
time, Holford said, adding that
the event has been around
for many years. Last year’s
service had one of the largest
attendances, and Holford
hopes for an even greater turn
out this year.
“I don’t know how long
we’ve been doing this, but it
has been quite a long time,
since before I came back
to Port Lavaca three and
a half years ago,” he said,
adding that he has seen
various newspaper clippings
mentioning the event in the
1970s. “It has been around for
a long, long time. It’s a long
standing thing that’s been
going on here in Port Lavaca
and Calhoun County for years
and years.”
The event typically lasts
about an hour and pastors
from various churches in the
community will participate in
the event this year, according
to Holford. The pastor at the
host church is Trish Tedrow,
he added.
“I’m not sure what special
music we will have this time.
We will have some scripture
readings, and different
pastors will participate in
the service. The host pastor
will close out the ceremony
and our treasurer at the
Ministerial Alliance will talk
about taking an offering,”
Holford said.
Through the Palm Sunday
service, Christian churches
are able to collaborate in
honor of their faith.
“The Ministerial Alliance
and the service on Sunday is
an emphasis of our church.
Christians from every
tradition come together and
participate,” Holford said.
“There’s an emphasis on our
Christian unity.”
staff
Jackson-
Elementary
recently held a fundraiser
called Pasta for Pennies.
The program, through Olive
Garden, is a fundraiser
is for the Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society, and in
an unprecedented amount of
$3,718.18, the school raised
more than it ever had.
“It was just amazing,”
said Ashley Silvas, the teacher
sponsor for the project. “All
the money collected goes to
the Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society. We donate everything.
We don’t keep anything.”
Each classroom was given
a large box with the students
getting smaller boxes in
which to put their coins.
“What it is, is they
send our school a bunch of
resources to collect coins,”
Silvas said. “All the kids get
a box and the classroom gets
a box and you collect as much
money as you can.”
“For our school, we have
about 1,000 kids and for us
to raise over $3,000 is a huge
amount of money. A lot of
schools don’t even raise
$1,000,” Silvas added. “What
I like about it is that we keep
nothing, not a single penny. It
all goes to them, and they were
coming in with loads of coins.
It was a neat experience for
the kids and for our school.”
The event was organized
through the Student Council
that would update the school
periodically about the amount
raised and about the types
of cancer the students were
helping.
“What we did, we put
our Student Council officers
in charge of it, reading
announcements everyday,
giving background on what
leukemia and blood cancers
are, helping out the kids to
raise money and then it’s
really up to the teachers if
they want to participate or
not. It’s not required,” Silvas
said. “It’s whether or not
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