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Serving Sealy and Austin County since 1887 • Home of Benito Rodriguez
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SHS senior set for adventure with Rotary Youth Exchange
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Volume 118 Number 104
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2005
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★ Dedicated to Better Vision
Beauty
Affair
potential
far-reaching
Betty Garza
Owntr/StyUst
A communitywide effort played a big role in making the 19th
annual Fantasy of Lights Festival successful, including Sealy
High School art students and residents who showed their cre-
ativity. For more pictures from this year’s Fantasy see page 6.
then take a year abroad
studying in France,” she
said. “I will basically repeat
Wal-Mart Awards
Civic Grants
PAGE 3
Tue.-Fri 9-6
Gat. 9-2
County Honors
Retirees
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Sealy Stings
13U Select Baseball
Competitive Tournament
Team is having open try-
outs on Jan. 8 at the
Sealy baseball Fields
starting at 2 p.m. For
more information please
contact Mark Fitzhenry at
(979) 885-1226 or (713)
215-8191.
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NewsBits
Holiday
Celebration
planned
The Austin County
Democrats will host a hol-
iday celebration at the Hill
Center in Sealy from 8
p.m. to 1 a.m. on Dec.
30. Tickets may be pur-
chased for $10 per per-
son. You can purchase
then from any member.
Everyone is invited. For
more information call
JoBeth Hines at 877-
0311, Shirley Joiner at
(979) 627-0408, David
Greer at (979) 277-8159
or Evelyn Tyler at 885-
3442.
Project
Graduation to
meet
Project Graduation will
meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 3 in
the Tiger athletic room at
the new Sealy High
School. All seniors and
their parents are invited.
Chill dinner set
Project Graduation will
hold a chili dinner Jan. 13
m the Sealy High School p
cafeteria. The meal of
chill, corn bread or chips, •
tea and cookies costs $6.
It will be served from 5-
7:30 p.m. prior to the
Columbus-Sealy district
basketball game. Tickets
can be purchase from a
high school senior. A limit-
■ NEWSBITS, page 2
Weatherforecast
Memorandum of Understanding with
Texas Department of Public Safety for
county emergency responders to use cer-
tain radio frequencies
They also granted a variance to use the
road easement/right of way for On-Site
Sewage Facility system installation in the
town of San Felipe.
The easement is located at the back of
the property located at 15023 Farm-to-
Market Road 1458 north. The system will
be used as disposal area for the fire station
and park.
A one-time variance was granted for sub-
division platting and 45-foot lot width off
Lynn Road in Precinct 1.
Commissioners recognized Brazos FFA
member Tyler Raska of Wallis for winning
■ COUNTY, page 2
By LINDSEY VACULIN
Staff Writer
Today
Partly cloudy with a high
in the mid 70s. Partly
cloudy in the evening, then
mostly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of showers
or thunderstorms after mid-
night with a low in the mid
50s.
Wednesday
Partly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of showers
or thunderstorms and a
high in the lower 70s.
Thursday
Mostly clear with a low in
the mid 40s and a high in
the mid 60s.
Worthquoting
“I believe in getting into hot
water; it keeps you clean."
G. K. Chesterton
BibleVerse
Cazadores Mexican
Restaurant &
Cantina
210 Gebhardt Rd. • Sealy, TX
979-885-3211
“And whenever you stand
praying, if you have any-
thing against anyone, for-
give him, that your Father
in heaven may also forgive
you your trespasses.”
Mark 11:25
eve
Sealy High School senior
Sarah Phillips will soon be
off on an adventure.
An adventure in history
and culture in a land far, far
away.
Sarah has been accepted
as a foreign youth ambas-
sador by Rotary Youth
Exchange.
----- ★ Austin County ★-----
EYE ASSOCIATES
Dr. Paul R. Beckwith
Optometry • Ophthalmology • Optical
By JAY ERMI3
Managing Editor___________________
The Austin County Commissioners
Court approved the appointment of 10 peo-
ple to three groups during its final meeting
of 2005 on Thursday, Dec. 22.
Commissioners David Ottmer, Randy
Reichardt, David Hubenak and Wilbert
Frank Jr. appointed eight county residents
to serve two-year terms as commissioners
on three county emergency services dis-
tricts.
Selected to the districts were:
District 1 - Henry Micak, William C.
“Bill” Hill, Michael T. Bloom.
District 2 Schavrda, Stuart
Scarborough, James Toman.
District 3 - Joe Janicek, Mark Wlager.
Former county commissioner James
Duke was named as a county representa-
tive to the Combined Community Action.
Reichardt was appointed to a two-year
term as the county’s representative to the
By JAY ERMIS
Managing Editor
New concepts, creative imagination and
endless community enthusiasm are the key
ingredients required to elevate the annual
Fantasy of Lights Festival to statewide
recognition.
Gayle Huffman, who volunteered to chair
the 2005 festival, said the event has the
potential to achieve a status where every-
one marks the date on their calendars.
lb make the 20th annual festival even
more successful, the community needs to
start planning as soon as possible,
Huffman said.
New volunteers have stepped forward
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“I am very excited to be
chosen for this opportunity,”
Sarah said. “I am excited to
be able to represent Sealy
and Texas abroad.”
Sarah was selected as one
of 21 students from the
coastal region of Texas,
Rotary District 5890. There
are 8,000 total ambas-
sadors.
She will be living and
going to school in Alsace,
8 pages, 75$
Communications District.
The court also approved the final plat for
the 39-lot Gindorf Estates and the prelimi-
nary plat of Raccoon Bend Estates with the
condition of easement and Texas
Department of Transportation permits.
(879) 885-3554
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France, over the coming my senior year of high
school year. school over there.”
Sarah applied to be a Alsace is located in the
foriegn youth ambassador Strassburg area of France
after attending seveal years in the region where
of Interact conferences and Germany and France meet,
hearing former ambas- “The area where I will be
sadors speak on their expe- has been fought over by
riences. Germany and France a lot
“I will graduate in May during history,” she said. “It
Late night visitor brings Christmas joy
By JAY ERMIS the office of our small editori- I wasn’t anxious to see who
Managing Editor al department that allows us was there and I was even
--------------------------- to see who enters the news- tempted to phone the police
I happened to be working paper office. department.
Late at The Sealy News on From my desk, I could not I slowly walked to the door.
Thursday night, something see who was at the door. I saw a man who appeared to
thatis not outsofthe ordinary. I waited, hoping the indi- be in his 60s.,„
fs normally guiet and viduai would walk off, espe- He stood at least 6 feet tall,
offers a chance to get some .. 1m""e.t1 He had a neatly trimmed
work accomplished with cially at the time of night. white beard and his
everyone tucked away and I did not hear anyone drive rosy red cheeks glowed.
the hustle and bustle of every UP, even with the sound of This gentleman appeared
day life at a lull. the traffic on Highway 36 somewhat rotund in his red
I was working on a story and the roar of locomotives overalls. He wasn’t wearing a
for the following Tuesday within hearing distance. coat of any sort on this cold
when there was knock at the A few minutes later the December night,
door. knock on the glass front door
There is a large window in was louder. • SANTA. page 2
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