Refugio County Press (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 2012 Page: 5 of 16
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Thursday, June 21,2012
Page 5A
Balderamas speaks
at Lions meeting
WOODSBORO —
Texas Game Warden,
Capt. Henry Balderamas
explained the duties of his
position at the Woodsboro
Lions Club Meeting on
Tuesday, June 12.
Balderamas, who was
the guest speaker at the
meeting, presented a
video of other game war-
dens and their positions
throughout Texas and
what their jobs entail in
the areas they serve.
In club matters, future
projects were discussed
including the mop
and broom sale set for
Nov. 10. Preparation
for the July 4th Parade
and Celebration on the
square are underway.
Participants for both the
parade and vendors have
started to make prepara-
tions to attend.
New local officers were
installed on Tuesday, ebration.
June 19, at a special din- The Club meets every
ner in the Refugio City sec0nd Tuesday of the
Hall clubroom. month. The next regu-
The Woodsboro Lions lar meeting will be July
Club will meet for a spe- 10, at 7 p.m. at the
cial meeting on June 26, Peace Lutheran Church,
at 7 p.m. to discuss last 809 Locke Street in
minute details for the Woodsboro.
July 4th parade and cel-
Parade to kick
off festivities
TIVOLI — The Austwell-Tivoli Lions Club and
the Tivoli Fire Department will kick of its annual
July 4th festivities with a parade at 10:30 a.m.
followed by activities at Lions Club Park. Anyone
who would like to be in the parade may contact
Josie at 652-6752 to sign up.
For booth space, call Fred Biery or Dwight
Mutschler before June 30.
Barbecue chicken and sausage plates with all
the trimmings will be sold for $7 at 11:30 a.m.
ANWR offers free Explorers Program
Summer fun for kids of all ages!
AUSTWELL - The
Aransas National Wildlife
Refuge will offer kids and
parents a chance to expe-
rience one hour of explo-
ration on the incredible
refuge every Thursday
from June 21 through
Aug. 9 from 1-2 p.m.
refuge and an opportu-
nity to learn something
fun about the outside
world.
The Refuge Explorers
program offers the oppor-
tunity to learn some-
thing fun about the out-
side world. Each week,
a different theme will be
adopted including learn-
ing about pollinators,
endangered species, and
fishing!
Schedule of events.
• June 21 - Pollinator
Partners
• June 28 - Fishing
Games and Fun
• July 5 - Junior Duck
Stamp Activities
• July 12 - Sea Turtles
and their Lives
• July 19 - Learn to
Birdwatch!
• July 26 - Identifying
Tracks and Skins
• Aug. 2 - Mythbusters:
Wildlife Style!
• Aug. 9 - Endangered
Species: What Can We Do
to Help Rare Wildlife
These programs are
free for the public. All pro-
grams will involve some
outside time, weather
permitting. Please dress
in comfortable clothing
some activities stand the
chance of getting clothes
dirty.
Parents and/or guard-
ians should stay with the
kids while at the refuge.
For more information,
please contact Aransas
NWR at 361-286-3559.
Directions
From the South: fol-
low Hwy. 35N to the FM
774 exit. Turn right on
FM 774 and drive on the
highway winding through
the farm fields till you get
to FM 2040. Do not get
off FM 774 until you get
to FM 2040! Go another
6 miles to the refuge gate.
Go to the Visitor Center
to register.
From the North: trav-
el south on Hwy. 35 to
Tivoli. Continue past
Tivoli for about one mile
to the FM 239 exit (on
left). Follow FM 239 to
Austwell. FM 239 turns
into FM 774 at the curve.
Follow 774 and take a
right at the stop sign. Go
to the end of the street.
Take a right again. This
takes you out of town for
about V2 mile to the FM
2040 turn. Go left on FM
2040 for about six miles
to the Refuge gate. Go
to the Visitor Center to
register.
Cornbread, hardtack and tortillas took the place of baked bread
No wheat bread was one
of the privations endured
by the early settlers in
Texas. A child born in
Texas in the 1830s might
grow into adulthood with-
out ever tasting a slice of
freshly-baked bread.
This was firstly because
milled wheat flour had to
be imported by the bar-
rel through New Orleans,
which made it scarce and
expensive. Secondly, there
were few cook stoves with
ovens in which to bake
bread. The immigrants
confronted the necessities
of frontier life by consum-
ing cornbread, hard bis-
cuits and tortillas.
Corn was the only
grain indigenous to the
Americas, apart from small
amounts of wild grains
used by the Indians, e.g.
quinoa, amaranth, barley,
and sunflower.
Acorns were even
ground into flour for use by
some Indian groups. Corn
or maize was domesticat-
ed in Mesoamerica in pre-
historic times. Com was
being densely cultivated
by the Maya and the Aztec
when the Spanish encoun-
tered them in Mexico in
the 1500s, but the use of
corn had already migrat-
ed throughout North and
South America.
Corn was one of the
“Three Sisters,” grown
with beans and squash,
that formed the agricul-
tural basis of the Native
American diet.
Wheat bread had been
the staff of life since
Neolithic times in Europe
and the Middle East. The
first bread was a mixture
of a wet grain paste that
was cooked on hot rocks on
an open fire.
Later the grain paste
became leavened by air-
borne yeast spores which
caused the bread to rise.
Any grain paste or dough
left out will become natu-
rally leavened. So leav-
ened wheat bread was a
Plans for July 4th
celebration underway
to enter in the parade
or to be a vendor at the
square.
Questions about the
parade, vendors or partic-
ipation should be directed
to Rosie Wysocki at 361
237-0408; parade, Nancy
Dierschke, 543-4095; ven-
dors, Karen Allen, 543-
6800; or to donate items
for auction, John Koliba
536-2424.
Members of the mili-
tary who would like to
volunteer to march are
asked to call Richard
Sanchez at 543-4857 or
Tony Avila at 543-0006.
City Wide Hurricane
Clean up
The Town of Woodsboro will have its annual
lumber and brush ONLY pick up
On June 25-29, 2012
All brush and lumber needs to be out and
ready for pick up beginning
Monday June 25, 2012
The City will only be making one pass
No appliances, metal, batteries, trash
bags or garbage will be picked up
WOODSBORO - Plans
are underway for the
Woodsboro Lions Club
Fourth of July Parade
and Celebration.
Various clubs, individu-
als, and organizations are
being asked to partici-
pate.
“The club is still hoping
and encouraging every-
one to participate,” said
Rosie Wysocki, organizer.
“To show our patriotism,
anyone having a flag is
welcome to bring it to the
parade and wave it.”
The public is welcome
Coastal
Bend
Chronicles
By C.
Herndon
Williams,
Ph.D.
cultural staple that the
first settlers into America
and Texas had to do with-
out.
Com was the first food
crop planted by the Texas
immigrants. Corn would
grow well almost any-
where while wheat did well
only inNorth Texas. Still
com had to be shucked
and milled into flour, often
at a distant mill. Baking
powder provided the leav-
ening for com bread, if you
had it. The com and water
mixture would be cooked
on a lard-coated skillet or
griddle or in a Dutch oven.
This gave rise to a variety
of names, shapes and tex-
tures for early cornbread:
skillet bread, com pone,
hoe cakes and johnnycake.
Cornbread was the staple
fare in Texas until after
the Civil War, as it was in
the South. Corn is lacking
in some nutrients, such as
the B-vitamin, niacin, and
two amino acids. A diet
based exclusively on corn
results in pellagra, which
reached epidemic rates in
parts of the Deep South
in the late 1800s. Beans
provided these nutrients.
The biscuit was invent-
ed as bread for travel.
Roman troops had a form
of biscuit. All early bis-
cuits were like hardtack:
small, dry, tough and very
durable. Early biscuits
in Texas were much the
same. Noah Smithwick in
Recollection of Old Texas
Days tells of a young boy
who encountered his first
wheat biscuit, hard as a
hockey puck. Surprisingly,
he quickly asked his moth-
er for a second one and
was then found to be using
them as wheels on a toy
ox cart he was making.
Early biscuit were made
in a skillet or Dutch oven.
With time, biscuits evolved
into the soft, flaky ones we
enjoy today.
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Tortillas are a very
ancient form of cornbread
dating back at least 5,000
years. In 1519, Hernan
Cortez described the indi-
genes ofMexico making
tortillas. These Indians
added a process that gives
tortillas their characteris-
tic shape and taste, and
also increased their nutri-
tional value.
This step was the soak-
ing of the corn kernels
in lime water made from
ashes, the process by
which hominy is made.
This step removed the
skin of the com and also
released some of the nutri-
ents. The treated com was
then ground into dough or
masa, patted into shape
by hand and cooked on
both sides on a griddle.
The lime water treatment
of corn and the combina-
tion of tortillas with beans
formed a balanced diet.
The making of tortillas
has not changed much
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over time and its place
in the cuisine of Mexico
and the U.S. is secure.
The historical record does
not indicate that early
Anglo-European settlers
widely adopted the tortilla
Wheat bread is back to
being the American staple,
with modern whole grain
products resembling early
breads. Hardtack is out.
Herndon Williams is
affiliated with the Bayside
Historical Society and the
Refugio County Historical
Commission.
Refugio County
Jamboree
Enjoy the Show
Every 4th Thursday
of Every Month
at 7:30pm
Admission $5
Refugio County
Community Center
Good Music, Friends,
Goodies, Cold Drinks,
Concession Stand,
Door Prize Drawings
SHOW DATES
Apr. 26“ • May 24“
June 28“ July 26“
Aug. 23rd, Sept. 27“
For more information call Refugio
Chamber of Commerce
(361)526-2835
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Now open for business
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NOTICE FROM
REFUGIO WATER WORKS
We are unable to print second notio
for the water bills this month due to tf
fact that our printer is broken. The usu
billing cycle is the same as always, excej
for the fact that no second notices wi
go out. You MUST pay your bill by Jun
25th, or services will be disconnected,
you have any questions, please call Cit
Hall at 361-526-5361. We are sorry fc
the inconvenience.
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Nelson, Kenda. Refugio County Press (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 2012, newspaper, June 21, 2012; Refugio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth740428/m1/5/?q=%22~1~1~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.