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10 YEARES AGO-2003
Navy reservist Chief Warrant Officer 4 Joe Garciareturned
to his job as clerk in the Palacios Post Office; among the first
reservists called upon after 9/11.
Seven Palacios youth qualify for AAU Track Regional
in 15 events: Sam Miller (high jump & 400 meter hurdles),
Terrell Lee (400 meter hurdles, long jump, & triple jump),
Stephanie Camp, Marina Perez, Kori Roy (all in shot put &
discus), Marisa Bumguardener and Angel Diaz (both in 1500
meter run & 3000 meter run).
15 YEARS AGO-1998
A $150,800 contract to dredge the South Bay Marina harbor
was awarded to Dredge America Company by Matagorda
County Navigation District #1 commissioners.
Seventy-five guests attended a party honoring the 80th
birthday of Lois Dismukes at the Palacios Eagles Hall.
Special Sharks competed in the Special Olympics Texas
1998 Summer Games. Medaling at the Summer Games were
Lam Tran, Karen Lightner, Allison Fields, Misti Meyers,
Thao Do, and Janice Rampmeier.
20 YEARS AGO-1993
Palacios High School student Mai T. Bui and teacher
Cheryl Sappington were among outstanding area science and
math students and their teachers being sponsored by Central
Power and Light Co. in the 33rd Annual Texas Energy Science
Symposium at the University of Texas in Austin.
Ann Herlin has graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale
University in New Haven, Ct. with a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Humanities.
25 YEARS AGO-1988
Special Sharks Janice Rampmeir, Lupe Ordonez and Jesse
Hernandez won medals when they participated in the State
Olympics in Austin.
30 YEARS AGO-1983
A fire, possibly caused by a clothes dryer, completely
gutted the home of Ike Isenberger and his family on north
12th Street.
Hortense Wyatt and Johnnie Rowton attended the 41st
Annual State Convention of Texas Association of Hospital
Auxiliaries.
35 YEARS AGO-1978
Shawn Janine Tanner, a veteran Jackson County 4-H
member, received a four-year, $6,000 college scholarship
from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Milam celebrated their 50th an-
niversary.
45 YEARS AGO-1968
Parents of the Class of 1968 honored the seniors and their
dates with an all-night party after graduation.
Palacios’ new disposal plant was 85.51 percent complete.
The projected date for completion was August 16.
50 YEARS AGO-1963
The Palacios ISD Trustees voted to integrate all grade
levels at the beginning of the 1963-64 school term.
Dedication services for the new Education Building of
the Second Presbyterian Church were held.
55 YEARS AGO-1958
Sherwood Barber was elected a director of the Palacios
Chamber of Commerce to fill the vacancy made when C.S.
Rowand moved from the city.
Rev. D.G. Vera was the new pastor of the Second Pres-
byterian Church.
60 YEARS AGO-1953
General Telephone Company of the Southwest applied
with District Engineers for a permit to place an armored
submarine cable across Tres Palacios Bay, opening the way
for Collegeport residents to receive long awaited telephone
service.
65 YEARS AGO-1948
L.G. Brown was having a basin for pleasure boats con-
structed at Grassy Point, including stalls and gasoline .The
Council of Church Women voted to purchase playground
equipment for East Bay.
70 YEARS AGO-1943
Mrs. Lena Duller and Howard Campbell were installed
as Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron of the Eastern Star.
75 YEARS AGO-1938
Pete Graff and Jack Sisson took over the management of
the Palacios Pavilion.
The PH.S. Alumni Banquet was attended by over 90.
Athletic achievement medals were presented to Winifred
Barrett and Leonard Runkle.
Mr. and Mrs. Ney Oldham purchased a food market in San
Marcos. They had sold their variety store here to W. P. Regan.
80 YEARS AGO-1933
Mr. and Mrs. B.E. Sailor moved to Bay City as he was a
deputy sheriff.
Miss Florene Menefee, a member of the class just gradu-
ated from high school, left for Houston to enter Memorial
Hospital for nurses training course.
85 YEARS AGO-1928
C.L. Gass was selling 10 pounds of sugar for 69 cents.
95 YEARS AGO-1918
Mrs. C.W. Nester was installed Worthy Matron of the
local O.E. Chapter and G.A. Harrison was Worthy Patron.
AC Machemehl Memorial: Lani
Kaspar , $1,200
Association of Texas Professional
Educators: Lani Kaspar, Meaghan
Ledwig, Skylar Mitchell, Makenna
Solomon, $250
Bay City Ebony Club: Kenadi Jackson,
$500
Bay City Kiwanis Club: Kerissa
Wiley, $500
Bay City Lion’s Club: Kerissa Wiley,
$4,000
Bay City Order of the Eastern Star:
Kenadi Jackson, $200
Blessing American Legion-Auxiliary
Girls’ State: Courtney Byrd, $500
Blessing Community Center: Danielle
Galvan, Skylar Mitchell, Johnny
Piwonka, Kristin West, $500
Blessing Elementary PTC: Danielle
Galvan & Jared Zbranek, $250
Blessing Masonic Lodge-Jimmy King
Memorial: Frank Brewer, $1,500
Blessing Masonic Lodge-Mirabeau B
Lamar: Kristin West, $1,500
Blessing Masonic Lodge-Blessing
Lodge: Danielle Galvan & Gabriel
Ramirez, $1,500
Capital Farm Credit: Meaghan Ledwig
& Danielle Galvan, $500
Carl Trull Memorial Foundation:
Jessica Harvey, Lani Kaspar, Meaghan
Ledwig, Jared Zbranek, $1,500 and
Kerstine Bell, Frank Brewer, Danielle
Galvan, Daena Parks, Gregory Piwonka,
Makenna Solomon, Eternity Tyree,
Kristin West, $1,000
Catholic Daughters of the Americas-
“Our Lady of the Blessings”:
Jessica Harvey & Lani Kaspar, $300
Cattlewomen’s Association: Meaghan
Ledwig & Makenna Solomon, $750
Cecil Lee Post #649-American
Legion: Danny Fitzgerald & Skylar
Mitchell, $500
Daughters in Progress: Kenadi
Jackson & Kerissa Wiley, $500
Sigma Theta, Inc.: Kerissa Wiley
DelvinTaska & Jesse Baker & William
King Memorial: Jared Zbranek, $500
First State Bank of Louise-Blessing
Branch: Gabriel Ramirez, $500
George K&AletaB Nelson Memorial:
Eternity Tyree, $200
Lani Kaspar, $1,000
Hilliard High Alumni Association,
Inc.: Kenadi Jackson, $300
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo-
Area Go Texan: Lani Kaspar, $18,000
IBC Bank-Antonio R. Sanchez, Sr.
Memorial: Kerissa Wiley, $1,000
Jackson Electric Coop.: Makenna
Solomon, $1,000
James E “Budger” Cornett Memorial:
Skylar Mitchell, $500
James Miller Price Memorial: Kerissa
Wiley, $500.00 and Frank Brewer,
Danielle Galvan, Lani Kaspar, Meaghan
Ledwig, Skylar Mitchell,
Makenna Solomon, $200
Jason Anderson Memorial Golf
Tournament 2012: Danielle Galvan,
Skylar Mitchell, Makenna Solomon,
Jared Zbranek, $1,000
Jessie Lee Revis Memorial: Kenadi
Jackson, $500 and Lani Kaspar &
Kerissa Wiley, $150
Joe & Pat Nance Family Scholarship:
Skylar Mitchell, $2,000
KC Lease Service: Makenna Solomon,
$500
Kevin Yoxtheimer Memorial: Jared
Zbranek, $500
Knights of Columbus Council #4307:
Jessica Harvey, Lani Kaspar, Daniel
Sustaita, $1,000
Markham Industrial Group: Kenadi
Jackson, $1,500
Markham Volunteer Fire Department:
Kenadi Jackson, Daena Parks, Makenna
Solomon, Kerissa Wiley, $500
Matagorda Area Go Texan: Meaghan
Ledwig, $2,500
Matagorda County Farm Bureau: Lani
Kaspar, $1,000
Matagorda County Texas A&M: Lani
Kaspar, $1,000
Matagorda County United Way:
Kerissa Wiley, $500
Matagorda Ducks Unlimited: Frank
Brewer, $500
National FFA-Tractor Supply-
Growing Scholars: Lani Kaspar, $1,000
Palacios Trail Riders: Skylar Mitchell
& Kerissa Wiley, $500
Pierce Family Memorial: Skylar
Mitchell, $300
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church: Kenadi
Jackson, $500
Rickaway Energy Corp: Kerstine Bell
& Frank Brewer, $500
Rose Marie “Jay” Zemanek-Snyder:
Kristin West, $1,000
St. Peter’s and St. Robert’s Altar
Society: Jessica Harvey & Lani
Kaspar, $500
STPNOC-Women in Nuclear:
Makenna Solomon, $1,000
Sons of the American Legion-
Blessing: Danielle Galvan, Meaghan
Ledwig, Skylar Mitchell, $1,000, and
Gregory Piwonka, $600; and Frank
Brewer, Jessica Harvey, Lani Kaspar,
Makenna Solomon, Kerissa Wiley, Jared
Zbranek, $500
State of Texas Highest Ranking
Scholarship: Lani Kaspar, (Tuition/fees)
Texas A&M High Honors: Lani
Kaspar,(Tuition/fees)
Texas A&M Corpus Christi: Kerissa
Wiley, $60,000.00-(Tuition/Fees)
Texas Farm Bureau Young Farmer &
Rancher: Lani Kaspar, $1,000
Tidehaven Administrators’
Scholarship: Danielle Galvan & Kristin
West, $150
Tidehaven Athletic Booster Club:
Danielle Galvan, Meaghan Ledwig,
Skylar Mitchell, Kerissa Wiley, $500
Tidehaven Band Boosters: Kerstine
Bell, Carmen Carrillo, Jessica Harvey,
Daena Parks, Eternity Tyree, Jared
Zbranek, $300
Tidehaven Class of 1960-1969:
Kenadi Jackson, Meaghan Ledwig,
Makenna Solomon, $1,000
Tidehaven Class of 1994-Jason
Anderson Memorial: Frank Brewer,
$500
Tidehaven Class of 2017-Rudy
Ramirez Memorial: Danielle Galvan,
$200
Tidehaven ISD Alumni: Lani Kaspar
& Skylar Mitchell, $250
Tres Palacios Gas Storage: Danielle
Galvan & Gregory Piwonka, $2,000
UnitedAg: Meaghan Ledwig & Skylar
Mitchell, $250
Wharton County Junior College High
Honor Scholarship: Lani Kaspar &
Meaghan Ledwig, (Tuition/fees)
Young Family Foundation: Eternity
Tyree, $12,000
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Last fall, coastal property owners who are insured by the
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association under the waiver
program received a notice detailing the structural modifi-
cations that must be done to their homes within one year
in order to continue their coverage. Understandably, this
created a widespread panic not only within our area, but
along the entire Gulf coast.
I heard the concerns of District 25’s citizens and re-
sponded by authoring HB 3007, along with Senator Larry
Taylor’s companion bill, SB 1702. We successfully passed
our legislation during the final days of session after en-
countering several hurdles associated with the ever-con-
tentious issue of TWIA.
The TWIA waiver program allows coverage on residen-
tial structures for which owners are unable to produce a
certificate of building code compliance. While the overall
intent of the program is to help coastal property owners,
the waiver rules and requirements have become increas-
ingly confusing and burdensome.
The far-reaching impact of TWIA’s notice requiring a
WPI-12 under the Alternative Eligibility Certification Pro-
gram not only brought great concern to homeowners, but
also created negative consequences for mortgages and the
real estate market. The structural modifications under the
WPI-12 Program were expensive and invasive, especially
for homeowners of limited financial means. The required
changes — including an entire re-roof or exterior wall cov-
erings for the entire structure — were also not a cost-effec-
tive investment for older and lower valued properties.
The passage of my legislation abolishes the Alternative
Eligibility Certification program and the WPI-12 require-
ments. In effect, this means it eliminates the requirement
for expensive and burdensome modifications to continue
TWIA coverage.
Since 2009, the Texas Legislature has amended and ex-
panded the TWIA waiver program each legislative session
to make it easier for the coastal population to obtain TWIA
coverage. In order to pass SB 1702 this session, I had to
concede to my colleague’s wishes to terminate the waiver
programs after December 31, 2015. After this date, struc-
tures must be inspected for compliance with the building
code in TWIA’s plan of operation that was in effect on the
date the structure was built, repaired, remodeled, altered,
enlarged, or added to in order to get or renew coverage
through TWIA. The bill has an exemption for structures
built prior to January 1, 1988.
While the termination of the waiver program after De-
cember 31, 2015 may cause lingering concerns regarding
the need for future structural modifications, it is important
to note that the Texas Legislature will convene in another
regular session in January 2015. Just as we have histori-
cally addressed this issue every two years since 2009, we
will have the opportunity to once again make changes with
the goal of long-term, comprehensive revisions to TWIA
laws that would take effect well before the waiver program
terminates.
In the meantime, I also continue my ongoing efforts to
address continued problems that plague the overall future
stability of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.
While several of my bills to overhaul the funding and
claims management mechanisms of TWIA were unsuc-
cessful during the regular session, I am encouraged by the
heightened recognition and desire to find a solution that
protects coastal homeowners as the Legislature moves for-
ward.
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