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Volume 119 Number 31
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2006
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The Sealy News • 193 Schmidt Road • P.O. Box 480 • Sealy, Texas 77474 • phone: (979) 885 3562 • fax: (979) 885-3564 • www.sealynews.com
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•Junior High Dance
The Sealy Youth Advisory
Commission will sponsor a
Junior High Dance on April
21 at the Hill Center from
8-11 p.m. Admission is $3
per person.
•Handgun training
Concealed Handgun train-
ing is rescheduled for April
22 at the Bellville VFW Hall.
For more information and
enrollment call 885-4250.
•Christian Concert
Elizabeth Dietsche
Montgomery, contemporary
Christian artist will appear
at the First Baptist Church
in Sealy for a Ladies
Worship Night on April 22.
The event will begin at 5:30
p.m. The church is located
at 707 8th Street. For more
information or to get tickets
for this event please con-
tact Kimberly Lamance at
(713) 480-1597. Tickets
cost $10 and include din-
ner by Johnny Corino’s.
Tickets must be purchased
by April 11.
• Kindergarten
Selman Elementary
School will hold
Kindergarten registration on
April 19-21 at the school.
For more information you
can contact the school at
885-6659.
RAP executive
director selected
Shelly Zaruba, second from left, has been selected the first
executive director of Raising Academic Performance Inc. -
a program designed to help at-risk students, plans to take it
to a higher level. Zaruba was one of three finalists inter-
viewed by RAP’s board of directors. Frank Vecera, left,
chairman of the board, said Zaruba will have direct liaison
with school superintendents, principals, assistant principals
and school counselors in Sealy and Bellville and direct the
recruitment of volunteer mentors, promote the expansion of
the tutoring program and assist with fund raising. Other
RAP directors are Gayle Huffman, Jeanette Klekar, F.O.
Tyler and Bill Moehl. Moehl said RAP, now in its 11th year,
has 26 mentors and 32 students enrolled in the program.
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RO. Box 480 • 193 Schmidt Rd.
Sealy, TX 77474
979-885-3562 • Fax 979-885-3564
Tracksters Headed To
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Members of Sealy High School's Tiger Stage Company preparing to present “The Mill on the Floss" to the public at 7 p.m. Friday, April 21, at
SHS are front row, left to right, Michael Blommer, Jeremy Burke, Annie Dickinson, Rachel Anderson, Hillary Till and William Minter. Middle row,
from left, are David Minter, Christine Catambay, Ron Foreman, Victoria Blommer, Remington Fenter and Shannon Brune. Back row, left to right,
are Jackie Jackson and Channing Chriss. Not pictured is Tammy Schmidt.
Bellville
The Austin County
American Cancer Society’s
Relay for Life gets under
way at 6 p.m. Friday, April
21, with opening cere-
monies at the Bellville
High School Stadium.
The survivors’ lap is first
on the schedule while the
luminary lap begins at 9
p.m.
The event ends at 6 a.m.
Saturday, April 22.
Co-chairperson Kathy
Ignasiak of Bellville said
42 teams are entered,
including 12 from Sealy."
T.J. Schulz and Eunite
Schulz
are co-
chairing
the ben-
efit.
For
more
informa-
t i o n ,
phone
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FIGHT CANCER The
• schedule
of activi-
ties include:
FRIDAY
7 p.m. - 42 Tournament;
7:30, buddy lap; 8, balloon
launch; 8:30, crazy hat
lap; 9 p.m. luminary cere-
mony; 10, fireworks;
10:30, cancer fact scav-
enger hunt; 11, crazy
shoes lap; 11:30, poker
lap; midnight, madness
pizza and sparklers.
SATURDAY
12:30 a.m. - black jack
lap; 1, cool down laps;
1:30, secret walker; 2,
sleep walker train; 2:30,
race for a cure; 3, biggest
balloon lap; 5, breakfast.
One-act group plans performance
The Sealy High School Tiger Stage at Blinn College in Brenham. Minter received honorable mention
Company will give a special perfor- Performances by Hempstead and all-star cast.
mance of its award-winning UIL one- Hutto high schools advance to region- Crew awards were not given at
act play at 7 p.m. Friday, April 21, in als. area.
the Golson Auditorium at SHS. Although the SHS performance “I was really pleased with that,”
Admission is $3 to see “The Mill on will not advance, five cast members theater arts director Erin Moore said
the Floss" which was one of two won acting awards at the area con- of the three selections to the all-star
District 20-3A plays advancing to test. cast. “I think we got the most all-star
area competition in early April at Tammy Schmidt, Annie Dickinson cast awards.
Cameron Yoe High School, and Remington Fenter were named “It just says a lot for the quality of
The play was selected as an alter- to the eight-member all-star cast acting. They are really good actors.
nate to regional competition April 22 while Rachel Anderson and David My kids are very, very talented.”
NEWSBITS
•Town Hall meeting
Fort Bend Center for
Independent Living (FBCIL)
will present a town hall
meeting to provide for
SSI/SSDI recipients infor-
mation that would allow to
start or return to work as
well as give an overview of
FBCIL services and avail-
able resources for access
to housing, transportation,
health, employment, social
security benefits, transition,
Medicare Part D, and edu-
cation on Wednesday, April
19 from 10 a.m. to noon at
the First National Bank of
Bellville Civic Center, 11
North Bell St. in Bellville.
ASL interpreters will be pro-
vided. Please R.S.V.P. at
281-980-2219 V/TTY or
email: fbcil@neosoft.com.
•Jesus Painter
Trinity Lutheran Church is
sponsoring “An Afternoon
with Mike Lewis, The Jesus
Painter, and Daystar Project
Band" at 2 p.m. Sunday,
April 23, at the Sealy Junior
High School Auditorium.
Tickets are $5. For more
information, phone Tinson
Rasbury or the church
office at 885-2211, or visit
www.ticsealy.org.
• Bluebonnet Guild
The Bluebonnet Area Quilt
Guild will hold its annual
■ NEWSBITS, page 2
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world's good, and seeth his
brother have need, and
shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in :
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Managing Editor LOSS COuid B0 as Digl as 2 ±111111011 “We should have been
me san , Tas planning for it from the
Sea SC.ODl $ Price said the state funding from the state this year,” since August (2005). It’s just beginning and it was only
linn ire in P . . problem heads the agenda Price said. “That will affect part of the formula. It’s a brought to my attention
which includes results of our planning for next year. redistribution of money and about two weeks ago,
Xr t Uh the parent/community sur- “What happens is that funds.” maybe three,” he said. “We
Cho S Y vey and possible elimina- whenever your local funds Price said the Sealy ISD have to look at all options.”
budget when they meet at tion of one assistant super- shoot up like they did last should have been made Price said the SISD will
3.30 m mor Anril intendent’s position. year for us, the next year aware of the situation last receive some extra time
20 at Pre sai v Tee, Hi ah "We have been told within they go down just about as August that “whenever our since the state Legislature
School Lib y 5 the past two weeks that equally from the state, values skyrocketed the way convened in special session
onrrs nets we’re probably going to be “It’s something we should they did there was going to Monday, April 17, to change
P S several million dollars short have been planning for be a corresponding drop in • SISD, page 8
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Griffin, Joanie & Ermis, Jay. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 18, 2006, newspaper, April 18, 2006; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1616712/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.