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East Bernard
Thursday,
April 17,2014
Volume 71, No. 16 • 12 Pages
75 cents
INSIDE
UIL OAP team places
third in Area contest
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Classified......................8
Editorial..........................4
Living................................5
Obituaries.....................2
Puzzle...............................8
Sports...............................7
What’s Next.................2
Worship Directory......6
TODAY’S
FORECAST
Today a 20 per-
cent chance of showers.
Partly sunny, with a
high near 74. South-
east wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight a 20 percent
chance of showers.
Mostly cloudy, with a
low around 60. East
wind 5 to 15 mph.
Friday mostly sun-
ny, with a high near 80.
Northeast wind around
5 mph. Friday night
partly cloudy, with a
low around 61.
Saturday a 20 per-
cent chance of showers
and thunderstorms.
Partly sunny, with a
high near 80.
FROM
THE BIBLE
In this new life, it
doesn’t matter if you
are a Jew or a Gentile,
circumcised or uncir-
cumcised, barbarid, un-
civilized, slave, or free.
Christ is all that mat-
ters, and he lives in all
of us.
Colossians 3:11
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Remembering And Running
East Bernard
resident is back at
Boston Marathon
By NATALIE FRELS
nfrels@journal-spectator.com
It was Terry Hlavinka’s
first year in Boston for the
marathon. He crossed the
finish line quickly and heard
the explosions from his hotel
room’s shower.
The Boston Marathon was
supposed to be just a one-time
event for Hlavinka — “a been-
there-done-that” something to
cross off his bucket list. But
he knows that this year’s race
will be bigger and better than
it has ever been.
And he’s going back.
“I immediately booked my
room even before I left Boston
last year,” said Hlavinka, an
East Bernard resident.
He’s been training for
months for next Monday’s
race, running more than eight
miles most days (and one long
run of 10 to 20 miles) for what
he calls the pennacle of mara-
thons.
‘When I started training,
I had no idea that I would
be able to run a marathon in
the time it takes to qualify for
Boston,” he said, “I was hon-
ored, fortunate and lucky —
or whatever you call it — to
run fast enough.”
Although he’s always try-
ing to set a new best and beat
his time from last year’s race
(3 hours, 21 minutes and 21
seconds), he admits that he’s
“a realist.”
‘When you start a race, you
have aspirations that it’s go-
ing to be your personal record,
but I’m a realist and I know
that every year I run, I’m an-
other year older.”
Also on April 21 is the of-
ficial celebration of Patriots’
Day, which seems fitting for
the anniversary of the bomb-
ings. The holiday, celebrated
on the third Monday in April
in Massachusetts, commemo-
rates the anniversary of the
Battles of Lexington and Con-
cord on April 19,1775.
“Of course, there is respect
for the victims,” Hlavinka
said. “But there is a certain
celebration in defiance of any-
one that would try to interfere
with our rights.”
“We’re going to celebrate a
long-honored tradition in Bos-
ton.”
Courtesy photo
Terry Hlavinka is shown running the Boston marathon last year. He had already crossed the finish line by
the time the explosions went off. Before he left Boston, he had booked a room to come back this year.
WHARTON COUNTY YOUTH FAIR
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Lawrence Levy, a Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo director, checks out a pot of beans at the L3P Cooking Team's campsite
during the most colorful category judging at the Wharton County Youth Fairgrounds. Levy volunteers each year to help judge
the Wharton County Youth Fair Barbecue Cook-off, which was held Saturday.
Valigura pleased with cook-off,
but she wants it to grow again
By KEITH MAGEE
kmagee@journal-spectator.com
CRESCENT — While Sandy
Valigura has just completed her first
year as heading up the Wharton
County Youth Fair’s Barbecue Cook-
off, she’s already thinking about next
year.
“Next year I’m gong to get a list
of barbecue cookoffs in the area, and
we’re going to go to them and adver-
tise our cookoff to boost our num-
bers,” Valigura said. ‘We’re going
to do a little marketing. The more
teams we have, the more money
for our kids, and that’s what it’s all
about.”
Valigura said she and her hus-
band, Greg Valigura, will make the
rounds to the area cook-offs. One of
her first acts during last weekend’s
cook-off was to officially name her
husband as her co-chair.
They were greeted by 102 teams
for the cookoff, as two of the 104
who signed up were no shows. Other
than that, it was a good time with
good weather. The weekend kicked
off with Party Night on Friday as
cookers invited their friends and
guests to visit, sample their food and
listen to some music.
‘We had a pretty good crowd; the
See VALIGURA, Page 11
Effect
WCJC current, former
students asked to share
inspirational stories of
their favorite instructors
Special to the East Bernard Express
If you ever had a Wharton County Ju-
nior College instructor who made a differ-
ence in your life, now’s the time to publicly
say thanks.
A new program — entitled “The Teacher
Effect” — will provide alumni and current
students with the opportunity to highlight
the role a particular instructor played in
their life. The purpose is to draw attention
to those dedicated educators who often-
times get overlooked, said Amanda Heard,
the college’s Internet Marketing Coordina-
tor and overseer of the project.
“Everybody had at least one teacher
that had some kind of impact on them and
we want to hear those stories,” Heard said.
“There are so many unsung heroes out
there. This is the acknowledgment teach-
ers deserve but so seldom get.”
Students will share their stories by fill-
ing out an online form.
The forms are currently posted on the
college’s website — www.wcjc.edu — and
a link is also provided on the WCJC Face-
book page. Stories can also be emailed to
Heard at hearda@wcjc.edu.
The stories must focus on a past or pres-
ent WCJC instructor who taught at one of
the college’s four campuses: Wharton, Bay
City, Sugar Land or Richmond. The Office
of Marketing and Communications will
review submissions and determine which
instructors will be featured.
The program began on March 31 and
will run for the next few weeks. Heard is
hoping for great participation. She believes
it’s important to recognize the life-chang-
ing impact teachers can have.
Her personal experience with an in-
structor who was particularly encouraging
was the driving force behind “The Teacher
Effect” concept.
“There’s some gems out there who de-
serve recognition,” she said. “It’s time for
us to highlight those heroes among us.”
She further noted that WCJC instruc-
tors continue to garner a positive impact
on the surrounding community The col-
lege held its first classes in 1946.
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