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Page 2A • The Monitor - Sunday,
Elected Officials
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U.S. President
Barack Obama
The White House
Washington, D.C.
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Vice President
Joe Biden
The White House
West Wing
Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Senator
John Cornyn
Room C5, Russell
Washington, D.C.
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202-224-2934
U.S. Senator
Kay Bailey
Hutchison
Room 283, Russell
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.
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202-224-5922
U.S. Congress
Ralph Hall
Room 2236, Rayburn
Washington, D.C.
20515
202-225-6673
U.S. Congress
Jeb Hensarling
132 Cannon H.O.B.
Washington, D.C.
20515
202-225-3484
STATE
Governor
Rick Perry
State Capitol
Room 2S.1
Austin, TX 78701
512-463-2000
Fax 512-463-1849
Lt. Governor
David Dewhurst
Capitol Station
PO Box 12068
Austin, TX 78711
512-463-0001
State Senator
Bob Deuell, Dist. 2
Kaufman, Van Zandt
Counties
PO Box 12068
Austin, TX 78711
512-463-0102
State Senator
Robert Nichols, Dist. 3
Henderson County
PO Box 12068
Austin, TX 78711
512-463-0103
Representative
Lance Gooden, Dist. 4
Kaufman and
Henderson Counties
Room E 1.324
PO Box 2910
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 463-0458
Representative
Jim Pitts, Dist. 10
Henderson and Ellis
Counties
Room 1W.02
PO Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768
COUNTY
Henderson
Countv Judge
Richard Sanders
100 E. Tyler
Courthouse St. 102
Athens, TX 75751
903-675-6120
Commissioners
Pet. 1: Joe Hall
903-489-1665
Pet. 2: Wade
McKinney
903-425-2611
Justices of Peace
Pet. 2: Dale Blaylock
903-432-4334
Pet. 5: Tommy Barnett
903-489-0474
District Attorney
Scott McKee
903-675-6100
Kaufman
Countv Judge
Bruce Wood
County Courthouse
Kaufman, TX 75142
972-524-2733
Commissioners
Pet. 1: Jerry Rowden
972-932-7665
Pet. 4: Tom Manning
903-887-8538
Justices of Peace
Pet. 1: Johnny Perry
972-932-9747
Pet. 4: Johnny Adams
903-498-8759
District Attorney
Mike McLelland
214-236-1616
November 4, 2012
_The Monitor_
Views & Opinions
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Letters to the Editor
A star
performance
Dear Editor,
How many teenagers (or
adults for that matter)
would make the decision
to have practice in the
morning at 5:30 a.m.
rather than after school so
they can donate blood dur-
ing the day at the student
council blood drive and
work the Women's Ban-
quet that evening (Oct.
29.) to help raise money
for the East Texas Crisis
Center?
Well the Mabank High
School Varsity Football
Team unanimously agreed
to do just that.
I am humbled, amazed
and awestruck by their
generosity and commit-
ment.
Felt the need to share
with you all!
Cris Cary
Mabank instructor
Students
demonstrate
what life is
all about
Dear Editor,
Hats off to the Mabank
and Eustace students who
raised money for the fami-
lies of the two Kemp stu-
dents killed in the car
crash.
Even though these
schools are rivals on the
football field, they have
shown what life is all about,
helping others.
A lot of adults could
learn a lesson from
them.
May the Lord bless
these students.
Sandra Mooney
Tool
Kiwanis
thanks
participants
in Project
School Bell
Dear Editor,
The Kiwanis Club of
Cedar Creek Lake
would like to thank Wal-
Mart Gun Barrel City and
its general manager Rob-
ert Hamlin, shift manager
Eric Curry and ZMS Lori
Wright, participating
Wal-Mart associates,
Eustace, Tool and
Trinidad elementary
school staff and all the
wonderful volunteers
who made Project School
Bell a great success.
Lisa Rhodes
2012-13 Kiwanis
president
Escapades of Emily
A novel idea...
With Halloween upon us whether we
like it or not, I need to correct a miscon-
ception without a clever solution. Fran-
kenstein is not the monster with the over-
sized head and
bolts extending
from his neck. This
hideously made
“man” of body
parts is owed to
the name of a sci-
entific student
named Victor
Frankenstein. As
far as I know, Vic-
tor did not name his creation or provide
him with a mate to alleviate the loneli-
ness of a creature whom people feared.
In the late 1700s and the early 1800s
a group of English poets, who traveled
extensively into Europe, were quite gifted
in their work. Lord George Byron,
Samuel Coleridge, Percy Shelley and his
wife Mary, John Keats and others knew
one another, all known as the Romantic
age of poets. Most had short lives but
their works live on in allusions of mov-
ies, plays, a few writings, etc.
One night at the home of the Shelleys
on Lake Geneva, Byron was the guest
of the Shelleys who may have had two
children. To while away a long night, a
contest was suggested for a novel to be
written before sunrise. Of these, Mary’s
enjoyed the most notoriety.
Mary called her semi-mystery Fran-
kenstein. Victor and probably a helper
put pieces of humanity together for a man.
The man came alive. But he was so hor-
rible in looks Victor did not want to look
upon him again. And thus came the moral
of the story.
Too many people are judged upon the
outside when inside there may exist a
good person who can in no way alter
his appearance and is doomed to hide
or move at night so no one can see him.
Most English teachers feel they should
read as many of the novels the students
choose to read as possible or especially
the ones to be studied. I had never read
this short novel, not a bad read, brief,
easily understood but also sad. Much
more difficult novels have I read, a few,
shamefully, I have not, but I think the
demise of my sharp vision began to leave
me at age 50 because of Heart of Dark-
ness, Return of the Native, Wuthering
Heights, in which movies omit a sub-
plot; The Awakening, modern novels
so bmtal I could not continue and many
more. John Steinbeck remains one of
my favorite novelists. The first book I
read in its entirety was Gone With The
Wind which made me cry for days. Once
I had to take a course called Novels of
the Southwest and thought I was in a
class by error. Edna Ferber, Willa
Cather, books known as Old Teller,
Giant, Death Comes For The Arch-
bishop,, so many more. I may have read
every novel on the syllabus because this
was one class I intended to ace. I think
I like British and Irish poetry best (Rob-
ert Burns reigns supreme) but Ameri-
can novels best. Of course, Walt
Whitman and Robert Frost and Emily
Dickenson walk tall on literary pages in
America in their unusual poetiry.
But remember Victor Frankenstein
who paid for his treatment of his mon-
ster was the mad scientist, not the over-
sized man himself. I suppose a good
name might be Frankie, but it will never
catch on.
(I have to repeat some thing I read: if
all the Bibles (especially the King James
Version) were destroyed, the works of
the American and British writers could
be pulled from to recreate the Holy
Bible.)
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The View from Here
Iguana afternoons...
Mazatlan-the afternoons here are sun-filled even
as moody October threatens with winds and occa-
sional rain storms. I came here to complete some
long needed dental work, with Mexican Dental Va-
cation. I guess there is nothing
so compelling as a combination
of Novocain, beaches, and
margaritas to get my attention.
Lots of other old hippie chicks
are here, and it is a great place
to relax. Forget the news you
read about Mexico, this is my
second trip this year, and I have
not even seen a car accident,
much less a drug cartel war.
But in my wanderings during
the time I am not upside down
in a dental chair, or in route to
and from the office, or sleeping
off a procedure, I have met some very interesting
people. There are lots of people here from Canada,
as well as the United States, and the people of
Mazatlan are very friendly, and so helpful. I am al-
ways asking for directions, or which bus to take to
get me where I need to go, and they are always try-
ing to assist me. This is not an easy task with a
woman from Texas with just enough Spanish to be
annoying, and people with little English, but some-
how we manage.
One of the most interesting people I have encoun-
tered is a man who has lived here for 34 years, and
feeds the Mexican Green Iguanas who gather near
the pool area at El Cid Marina. The bar and restau-
rant there is aptly called, The Iguana Bar.
He refers to himself as Mr. Iguana, and “Earl.”
Earl Rowley originally came to Mazatlan from Wash-
ington State, and he is a man with many stories, I try
to collect at least one iguana tale from him each af-
ternoon as the sun starts dropping down from noon
about three o’clock. This is when he refers to as
“Happy Hour.”
I first noticed him the end of my first week here.
At the pool one afternoon there were several igua-
nas near my chair about 2:30 p.m. Then I looked
and several had multiplied too many. The varying
sizes were simply fascinating to me, and they were
exceptionally quiet and sat in the shade out of the
reach of hands and feet, and seemed to be waiting
for someone or something to happen.
Watching them for about half an hour, and using
my camera, I enjoyed them, but they were nervous
around me, and a bit jumpy. Then all of a sudden all
their attention shifted from the new intruder with the
black box to a tall, slim, silver haired man in a t-shirt
emblazoned with pictures of iguanas.
He carried a plastic pail full of bread, carrots,
mangos, tomatoes, lettuce, bananas, watermelon,
cantaloupe, and oranges. Suddenly as he made his
way up the slight hill, the magnificent lizards began
gathering in anticipation. It was obvious they recog-
nized this man. To them he was somebody they not
only knew, but were waiting for. He was Mr. Iguana.
Soon there was a feeding frenzy as he perched on
a small low table and began hand feeding some of
the older lizards, and throwing out bits of bread to
the birds who also gathered. I saw one very large
iguana, lay across his shoe and close his or her eyes
as sun weathered fingers stroked bright green skin.
The relationship between the iguanas and the man
was fascinating to me.
He told me that over three decades ago he took
one back home, and when he lost it due to his own
lack of knowledge about the diet of this special her-
bivore, he began to educate himself He became their
defender and food source after he moved to
Mazatlan full time. Continuing to learn about them,
he also takes the time to teach others about these
marvelous creatures.
Not everybody is a big fan of the lizards that fre-
quent the Iguana Bar & Cafe. Anice couple checked
in today and got settled by the waterfall pool at the
Iguana hot spot, and ordered a nice big hamburger
with French fries. Well the potatoes are something
the iguanas just adore, and before they even noticed
they had guests for lunch, the largest one leaped onto
the blue lounge chair emptied by the husband for a
moment, followed by the wee smaller of the two-
plus footers, and dove right into the nicely arranged
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