The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 81, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 2005 Page: 2 of 16
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PAGE 2 ■ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2005
THE SEALY NEWS
Keeping an eye on the high cost of fuel
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Woodmen to meet
Woodmen of the World
Lodge #105 will meet Nov. 7
at 6:30 p.m. at Cazadores
Mexican Restaurant in Sealy.
For more information contact
Jean Peten at 885-2309.
HOA fundraiser set
HOA-Meals on Wheels will
hold their annual chicken bar-
becue fundraiser on Friday,
Oct. 28. Be sure and watch
the news for more details.
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The Austin County Rodeo
Committee will be taking
requests for reserved front
box seats at the Austin
County Fair and Rodeo. The
reserved seating will feature
10'seats in a box for all
three nights. You can con-
tact Troy Byler at 865-9311
or Cindy Kendrick at 865-
AA meets Sunday
Alcoholics Anonymous
meets at 8 p.m. every
Sunday at the JP Annex No.
3 at FM 1887 and 359.
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Harvest Festival
Sealy First United
Methodist Church will have
their annual fried chicken din-
ner and auction on Sunday,
Oct. 9, at the Knights of
Columbus Hall in Sealy.
Serving will be from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Also, take time to
visit the Country Store.
Hall, 4041 Hwy. 36 North,
from 1 p.m. till ?. Shotgun
only, shells provided. $1.50
per round.
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Gunlocks available
Free gunlocks are avail-
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Department and at The
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Hearts needs you
Our community is partici-
pating in the Hearts
Touching Hearts Ministry.
We will be visiting residents
at the nursing home. If you
would like to be a part of
this ministry, please contact
Regina Zapalac at 885-
2937.
at the Bernardo Fire Station.
Registration will begin at 2
p.m. All former students and
teachers of the Bernardo,
Mentz, Willow, Bachelor Hill
and Bretschneider schools
are invited. Please bring
sandwiches or a dessert.
Coffee and tea will be provid-
ed.
Variety Shoot
Bellville VFW Post #6522
will host a variety shoot on
Sunday, Oct. 30 at the VFW
Bible study held on
Wednesday
Every Wednesday at noon,
visitors are welcome to join
the Rev. Ida Baker for a
midday bible study at St.
Paul AME Church in San
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Concealed handgun
training
Concealed handgun train-
ing will be held Oct. 15 at
Bellville VFW Hall. For infor-
mation call 885-4250.
Cat Spring Fall
Festival slated
The Cat Spring Emergency
Medical Responders will hold
its fourth annual Fall Festival
on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the
Cat Spring Agriculture Hall.
A chicken fried steak meal
with all the trimmings will be
served from 5 to 7 p.m. Live
and silent auctions start at
7. A penny raffle is also
planned. •
All proceeds from the Fall
. Festival will go toward finish-
ing the construction of the
station to house the
Emergency Medical Services’
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Youth Fireside
speaker slated
Pat Gray, the morning host
of Talk Radio 950 KPRC, is
the guest speaker for the
Youth Fireside scheduled
Sunday Oct. 9. He will is
speaking on maintaining
Christian standards in the
workplace. All youth, ages 12
through 18, are invited to
attend the meeting at 2:30
p.m. at the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints,
corner of Eagle Lake Road
and West Street, Sealy. For
more information call Amy
Miller 885-4046.
Pecan sale slated
The Sealy High School
freshman class is selling
pecans which may purchased
in halves or pieces by the
pound. Cinnamon and sugar
free maple flavored pecans •
are also available. Sales will
continue through Tuesday,
Oct. 18. Pecans will be deliv-
ered in early November. To
purchase, please contact a
class member or a sponsor
at 885-3515. Ask for Wendy
Machala extension 7630 or
Carmen Anderson extension
7810.
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Class of ’75 to hold
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Sealy High School’s Class
of 1975 is planning to hold
their 30th reunion Saturday,
Oct. 15 from 3 until 7 at
the Cat Spring Ag. Society
Hall. For more information
please contact one of the
following classmates: Jamie
and Brian Zapalac 885-
7333, Kathy Baker (281)
463-9403 or
kbaker@ladco.net, Donna
Brandt 885-6996 or Ruby
Miller 885-2396 or
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Time to get your
booth for Fantasy of
Lights
Booth spaces for the
Fantasy of Lights event on
Dec. 3 are available through
the Sealy Rotary Club
through Nov. 15. Please call
885-4943 to reserve your
space.
Reunion set
The Bernardo School
Reunion will be held Oct. 15
Kolkhorst’s office to
visit
State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst’s
satellite office will visit three
Austin County communities
Tuesday, Oct. 11. Kolkhort
staff member Betty McCarty
will be at the Sealy Chamber
of Commerce from 9 to 10
a.m.; Premier Estates in
Wallis, 11 to noon; and the
Austin County Courthouse in
Bellville, 1 to 2 p.m.
Residents can receive assis-
tance in dealing with state
agencies and convey their
opinions or concerns on leg-
islative issues. For more
information, phone Mary
Embry at (979) 251-7888.
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price gouging. However, you
can be certain that my office
is diligently investigating
complaints of prices that
seem out of step with gener-
ally prevailing market
forces.
The Texas Deceptive Trade
Practices Act prohibits busi-
nesses from engaging in false
advertising of rates, prices or
services at any . time.
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gency - as Governor Perry ing and we are continuing to an oil and gas investment
did with Katrina and Rita - monitor gas prices. ' should contact the Board for
the Attorney General has Due to the high price of oil, available information about
increased authority to act we have also received com- the producer. The Board also
against businesses that sell plaints regarding oil and gas accepts complaints about oil
or lease fuel, food, medicine investments. Investors have and gas investments.
or other necessities at exorbi- been ripped off by phony In addition, the Texas
tant or excessive prices. companies that promise Railroad Commission can
In the wake of the storms, huge profits due to the high tell you if the company that
we received many com- cost of crude oil. Please solicited the investment is
plaints of possible gasoline understand that oil expIo- registered as a producer in
price gouging and promptly ration is a high-risk invest- Texas and about the leases it
issued warnings that we ment, not for the faint of has operated in the past,
would not hesitate to stop heart. If you believe you have
exorbitant price hikes that Be sure to properly encountered deceptive or
Established Patients ...
New Patients------------1
High gasoline prices have refining process, distribution
increasingly pinched Texas costs, taxes and the retail
consumers’ pocketbooks over station’s operating cost,
the past few months. Those Those factors, combined with
already high prices were the laws of supply and
compounded by Hurricane demand, led to the increase
Katrina and Hurricane Rita, that we saw over the first
which prompted complaints half of the year.
from Texas consumers about Then came the two storms,
possible price gouging and oil causing significant loss of
and gas investment scams. production and refining
A number of factors con- capacity along the Gulf
tribute to the high cost of Coast, which crimped the
gasoline. The cost of crude oil supply even more.
is the primary factor in how Fuel rates subsequently
much you will pay at the increased more sharply than
pump. That final price also before. In short, the high
includes how much it costs to prices we are experiencing at
deliver the oil to the pump are in most cases
refineries, the cost of the probably not the result of
TODD M. HOVIS, MD LORI J. LEARNED, MD ARUN G. NAYAR, MD
KEITH A. BOURGEOIS, MJ). JOHN W. MILLER, MD JULIE BETH YEI IN, MJ).
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Griffin, Joanie & Ermis, Jay. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 81, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 2005, newspaper, October 7, 2005; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1531536/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.