Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 36, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 13, 2012 Page: 2 of 24
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LIVINGSTON- A charge
of second offense DWI has
been filed against the driver
involved in a one-vehicle
accident shortly before 8
a.m. May 5 on U.S. 59.
A 2007 Ford pickup truck
driven by Benjamin Martinez
Jr., 44, of Moscow was
southbound when the driver,
who was intoxicated, briefly
passed out, according to
Trooper Kevin Burman.
The pickup drifted off the
shoulder on the southbound
side and, when the driver
steered back to the left in an
attempt to regain control, the
vehicle went into a side skid.
It vaulted over a small creek,
struck a concrete retaining
wall and rolled several times
before coming to rest upright
on the southbound highway
shoulder, the investigation
showed.
Martinez, listed with
incapacitating injuries, was
transported by ambulance to
the Livingston hospital.
In addition to DWI, he was
also charged with driving
while license invalid with a
previous conviction.
HENRY
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arrest, he was in possession
of the stolen debit card, large
amounts of cash, firearms,
and the disguise used in his
photo taken by an ATM se-
curity camera in Shepherd,
Texas.
Corporal
Bryan Henry located Keyes
at a Quality Inn in Lufkin
on March 12, and stopped
Keyes’ rental vehicle follow-
ing surveillance. The arrest
was a group effort by au-
thorities in Alaska, the Texas
DPS, Texas Rangers, and the
FBI. Corporal Henry is a
1985 graduate of Livingston
High School, graduating
from the Department of
Public Safety Academy in
1989. He is stationed in
Lufkin. Corporal Henry is
the son of retired DPS
Sergeant Roy D.Henry, and
the brother of DPS Trooper-
5 Brent D. Henry, both of
Livingston.
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LIVINGSTON - Voters
can begin casting early
ballots Monday in the
Republican and Democratic
primaries at three sites in
Polk County.
County Qerk Schelana
Walker announced this week
that the Main Courthouse
Lobby in Livingston, the
Onalaska sub-courthouse
and the Sechrest Webster
Community Center in
Corrigan will be open
Monday through Friday
from 8 am. to 5 pm. from
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Monday, May 14 to Friday,
May 25. The sites will be
open throughout the lunch
hour, except for Thursday,
May 24. On that date, all
three sites will remain open
until 7 p.m. to
On Saturday, May 19,
voting centers will be open
from 10 a.m. to 2 pan.
Polk County voters can
cast a ballot at any of the
three sites.
Throughout early voting,
distance markers will be
strictly enforced at 100 feet
from each entrance of the
polling place. Electioneering
is not allowed within the
polling place.
Walker added that her of-
fice hqd received 1,408 ap-
plications for mail ballots for
the Republican Primary and
144 Democratic requests.
For those voters who
prefer to cast their ballot
on Election Day, Saturday,
May 29, a list of voting
boxes will be published in
an upcoming edition of the -
Enterprise.
The redrawing of
Commissioner’s Precinct
boundaries has resulted
in changes in some poll- ,
ing locations. To create an
equal number of residents
in each of the four com- ,
missioner precincts, the .
boundary between Pet. 2 and
Pet 3 was moved. It basi-
cally runs along the Loop
59 bypass. Pet. 3 also now
includes some neighbor-
hoods south of Church St.
{U.S. 190) within the City of
Livingston.
Game wardens stress boater education
AUSTIN-With many
Texas lakes holding more
water than they did this
time last year, Texas Parks
and Wildlife game wardens
are anticipating a busy boat-
ing season. And while they
will be doing everything
they can to make it a safe
one, wardens could use a
little help from boaters.
“Last year we had 32
boating fatalities across the
state,” said Jeff Parrish,
assistant chief for marine
law enforcement. “Tragic
as that number is, we can
learn something from sta-
tistics. Of those 32 deaths,
all but five were of people
not wearing a personal flo-
tation device. That really
underscores the vital im-
portance of wearing a life
jacket.”
State law requires that a
personal flotation device
be available for each oc-
cupant of a boat, but only
those under 13 years of age
are mandated by the law to
wear one while the boat or
paddle craft is underway or
drifting.
“The numbers speak
for themselves,” Parrish
continued. “Wear a life
jacket and your chances of
surviving a life threatening
event on the water increas-
es 10 fold.”
While the life jacket re-
quirement is not new, the
last session of the legisla-
ture did make it mandatory
that all persons bom on or
after Sept. 1,1993 obtain a
boater education certificate
before they can legally op-
erate a vessel with a rating
of more than 15 horsepow-
er. Anyone supervising the
operation of a vessel by an-
other must be exempt from
the boater ed requirement
(bom before 1993) or have
a boater ed certificate.
Six of the boating deaths
in 2011 were alcohol-re-
lated, underscoring the
importance of not drinking
while operating a boat.
“If you want to drink
when you’re out on the
water, do so responsibly or
have a designed operator,”
Parrish said. “Anyone our
wardens find operating a
boat while intoxicated will
be going to jail.”
In addition to the 32
boating fatalities in 2011
(up four from 2011), Texas
saw 229 boating accidents
that resulted in 121 inju-
ries. State game wardens
and other marine enforce-
ment officers made 259
BWI arrests and issued 305
citations for no life jacket.
“Anyone stumped on a
gift idea for a high school
graduate could see that
they get signed up for a
boater ed class,” Parrish
said. “That’s a gift that
could end up saving a life.”
Other than having the
required boater education
course, wearing a life jacket
and not boating while in-
toxicated, Parrish said it’s
a good idea to make sure ,
someone knows where you
plan on operating a boat
and when you expect to re-
turn as well as paying close
attention to weather reports.
“Getting caught on open
water in a storm is not a fun
experience,” Parrish said.
“If rough weather is antici-
pated, it’s best to stay off (
the water or close to shore.”
The online boaters’ safe-
ty course is offered through
www.boat-ed.com/tx/ for'
$20. Boaters with the on-
line course certificate may
receive a discounted rate *
from their boating insur-'
ance provider.
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Reddell, Valerie. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 36, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 13, 2012, newspaper, May 13, 2012; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth657689/m1/2/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.