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North Shore Fish Fry, p.8Voting Information, p.8

Candidates Forum presents informationto Galena Park voters for May 10 election

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Deputies capture twoinvolved in robbery rampage

R e l a yfor Life forthe f i gh ta g a i n s tcancer a tthe NorthChannel Area isthis Friday, May 2, 2014.

The fun-filled event will startat 6 p.m. at the track of theNorth Shore High School NinthGrade Campus on Woodforestnear Uvalde. Local companies,area schools and other groupswill set up tents for the all-nightevent. At the event, there willbe food, special games and mu-sic as part of the lively atmo-sphere.

The event will begin withspecial introductions and pre-sentations, followed by theopening lap of the evening - theSurvivor's Lap.

North ChannelSenior OlympicsAward ceremonyAfter a full week of activities, the2014 North Channel SeniorOlympics award ceremony willtake place Friday, May 2 at 9a.m. at North Shore Rotary Pa-vilion, 14350 Wallisville Rd.

North Channel AreaChamber LuncheonMonthly luncheon, Friday, May2, 11:30 am - 1 pm. At San Ja-cinto College North, 5800 Uval-de Rd. 77049. Contact BlancaLerma 713-450-3600.

North Channelannual Relay forLife, May 2

Harris County Sheriff's Of-fice deputies have arrestedtwo of three aggravated rob-bery suspects who led them ona chase that culminated in adeputy involved shooting last,Wednesday morning, April 23,2014, in east Harris County.

Deputies charged JeffreyBritten, 20, and Javon Price,19, with aggravated robbery,evading arrest and aggravat-ed assault on a peace officer.

The trio attempted to robthe Texaco gas station at15600 East Freeway around12:15 am. The store managerhad locked the doors as two ofthe suspects wearing bandan-nas over their faces tried toenter.

They fled the scene in ablack Saturn after not beingable to gain entry.

At 1:10 am, the suspectsrobbed at gunpoint the Exxongas station at the 200 block ofDell Dale and the East Free-way, fleeing with $130.

The description of the rob-bers and vehicle matched thatof the earlier attempted rob-bery.

Jacinto City’s AnnualTire Round Up

On Saturday, May 10 from 8am until 3 pm, City crews willpick up tires from residences.This is the only time during theyear when tires will be pickedup. There is a limit of 4 tires peraddress, no large truck tires andno rimes may be on wheels orrims of any sort. To insure pick-up, tires must be curbside by 8am.

Jeffrey BrittenJavon Price

While deputies weresearching the area, they ob-served a black Saturn parkedacross from the Valero gas sta-tion at Dell Dale and Wallis-ville Road.

Price, Britten and an uni-dentified third suspect wereordered to exit the vehicle.

As Deputy S. Herrmann, a14 year veteran assigned toEast District patrol was order-ing the driver Britten to exit

the vehicle, Britten accelerat-ed the vehicle and the driverside door struck Herrmann onthe arm, causing a cut.

Deputies pursued the sus-pects in the Sonoma Ranchsubdivision until they crashedtheir vehicle at Fallow Laneand Rock Ridge Drive.

See ROBBERY RAMPAGE,page 8

NORTH SHORE

Rotary hears of Greater HoustonSenior Football Showcase

GALENA PARK, TEXAS–Students and staff at GalenaPark High School were evacut-ed last Monday morning aftera bomb scare.

According to Galena ParkISD, a suspicious package wasfound hanging in a tree nearthe high school around 9 a.m.

All students and personnel,approximately 1,000, wereevacuated from the building toa soccer field, then to nearbymiddle and elementaryschools. “We moved them intoour schools, and elementaryschool and a middle school, sothey could have air condition-

ing and easier access to water,”said Jonathan Frey, GalenaPark ISD Director of Commu-nications and spokesman.

Galena Park ISD law en-forcement, Galena Park Policeand other emergency teamswere on the scene to investi-gate. They said the box foundon the tree did not have any-thing dangerous inside. Thebomb scare was cleared at 1pm.

Some parents took studentshome and other studentswalked back to the high schoolto resume classes for the restof the day.

Galena Park High School

BOMB THREAT

Bomb scare emptiesGalena Park High

By GILBERT HOFFMANNorth Channel Star

GALENA PARK – Last Fri-day evening, April 25, candi-dates for the upcomingelection of a Mayor and Coun-cil members in Galena Parkparticipated in a CandidatesForum at Baggett Center.

The Forum was hosted bythis newspaper, the NorthChannel Star, and the RotaryClub of Galena Park-JacintoCity.

Four candidates for Mayorwere present: EsmeraldaMoya, Robert Clowers, JosephThibodeaux, and Cruz Hono-josa.

There are nine candidatesfor city council’s four positions,and most of the candidateswere present. That includedPosition #1 Water & Sewer:Joe DeLaTorre, Position #2

Chris Vaughan of the Houston Touchdown Club, Coach Phil Camp ofMilby High School and the Senior Football Showcase, North ShoreRotary President Matt Davis, and Rotarian Scott Stephens and headof the Cody Stephens Foundation, learned about the opportunitiesfor scholarships to small colleges for senior football players that werenot drafted and signed in the first round of athletic scholarshipsfrom the larger colleges. Stephens also won the endorsement of theShowcase for his program of screening athletes for serious heartdefects.

North Shore Rotariansheard two speakers at theirluncheon last Thursday, ex-plain how the five year old pro-gram known as the GreaterHouston Senior FootballShowcase, gave graduatingathletes a second chance towin a college scholarship,based on their academicstanding first and their athlet-ic abilties.

The annual trials took placein February, and over 300players showed up at the Tex-ans/Methodist training field toget the attention and approv-al of at least 43 coaches fromsmaller colleges.

Since the program wasstarted by Milby Coach PhilCamp in 2009, over 500 kidshave won another chance,with over $50 million given tothem for college expenses.

MAYORAL CANDIDATESL to R, Esmeralda Moya, Robert Clowers, Joseph Thibodeaux, and Cruz Hinojosa presented their ideas,qualifications, and experience record to the audience for evaluation and consideration at the Candi-dates Forum last Friday night at Baggett Center.

Police & Fire: Lois Killough,Position #3 Parks & Recre-ation: Maricela Serna andVeronica Garcia, and Position#4 Street & Bridge: Mark Gro-ba, Juan Flores, and Martha

Flores. Due to prior commit-ments, Danny Simms for Po-sition #1 and ZenaidaGranado for Position #2 didnot attend.

The format of the eveningwas an open 5 minute presen-

tation by the candidates, fol-lowed by questions from a pan-el, and the audience.

The panel consisted of Ro-tary President Ernesto Pa-rades, Journalist Bob Bartel ofthe North Shore News web-

site, and publisher GilbertHoffman of the North Chan-nel Star newspaper.

First, candidates wereasked to tell of themselves,and their qualifications. Brief-ly, these were the responses:

Esmeralda Moya, a mas-ter’s degree in Clinical Psy-chology, employed previouslyby the Port of Houston, nowthe Harris County Dept. ofEducation.

Bob Clowers, current citycouncilman, retired steelwork-er, advisory committee to thePort. Instrumental in acquir-ing federal and county fundsfor improvements to parks, atleast $400,000.

Joe Thibodeaux, currentcity councilman, studied atSan Jacinto college, electron-ics background, 38 years with

See Candidates, page 3

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Goose Creek MemorialHigh School and Robert E. LeeHigh School brought homeawards from the recent 4AUIL Academic competition.Several students will advanceto the Regional Meet on May3 at Sam Houston University.

From Goose Creek Memori-al High School, the team ofPooja Bhula, Hiral Waghela,Dominic Borbon and UtkarshSharma received 1st place InCalculator Applications, ad-vancing to Regionals. Bhulawill also compete in Regionalsfor winning 1st place individu-

Goose Creek Memorial High School students competed in the recent 4A UIL Academic competition.Pictured are (front, left to right) Michelle Fresnedo, Brittany Smith and� Joshua Sherden, (middle, lto r) Utkarsh Sharma, Nikki Middleton, Pooja Bhula, and Chinmayee Kulkarni and (top, l to r)Kyrie Yong, Christian Gonzalez, Dominic Borbon, Angelica Contreras, Shyloh Ferlance , AlondraGarcia, Kevin Trejo, and Nairobi Wright.

Students go to academic competition

ally. In Number Sense, KyrieYong, Chinmayee Kulkarni ,Bhula and Sharma will com-pete at Regionals. For Com-puter Applications, Bhula tookhome the 2nd place award, ad-vancing to Regionals, and SueWilson won 4th place.

In Spelling, Kulkarni won1st place. Rachel King, MichelleDavila and Sharma alsoearned the right to compete atRegionals. Alondra Garcia willadvance to Regionals for her3rd place award in Ready Writ-ing, and Nikki Middleton willcompete in Feature Writing

after receiving 2nd place.GCM’s Yong won the Math-

ematics competition, advanc-ing to Regionals along withBhula, Sharma and Kulkarni.In Social Studies, DominicBorbon picked up a 5th placeaward. GCM’s UIL coordina-tors are Angie Johnson andStephanie Schrull.

From Robert E. Lee HighSchool, Makenna Leather-wood won 5th place in ProseInterpretation, and Shivam-kumar (Shiv) Patel placed 4th

in News Writing. REL’s UILcoordinator is Kurt Bouillion.

Touring site of new schoolStuart Career Center teacher Jeff Strobl’s Advanced Construction class recently toured the construction siteof Dr. Antonio Bañuelos Elementary School. Pictured are (l to r) Aaron Kizer (left), Bañuelos ElementarySchool jobsite superintendent; Larry Jackson; Steven Contreras from Goose Creek Memorial High School(GCM); �Rufina LaFernier from Stuart Career Center; �Ricardo Vargas, GCM; Adrian Manzano, GCM; �andArthur Arclies from Robert E. Lee High School.

Denise Smith chats with Scott and Melody Stephens at the Fish and ShrimpDinner last Monday evening. Standing at the serving tables.

The guys from Baytown Buick GMC are on hand to bid on auction items. Theyclaim they may not have had the best scores in golf but they had the most funon the course. This year some of the specialists that work the Crosby Fair &Rodeo, Bill Busby and Dixon Davis did a great job of describing the many itemslike the guitar from ZZTop’s J.D. Hill.

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ChannelviewInformation SessionTexas Connections Academy, avirtual public school, will havean information session on howvirtual public school offered tu-ition-free on Thursday, May 1,6:30pm-8:00pm at Holiday InnHouston East- Channelview,16311 E. FreewayChannelview, TX 77530.

MAY 1, THURSDAY

GP-Jacinto City(CIP) MeetingGalena Park-Jacinto City Com-munity-Industry Partnership (CIP)will hold a meeting on Thurs.May 1, 2014 from 5:45 - 8:15p.m., Alvin Baggett CommunityCenter, 1302 Keene, GalenaPark. Topic: Update from Kind-er Morgan on Expansion ProjectCall 281-326-5253 for more in-formation

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Church BazaarRalston Memorial PresbyterianChurch invites you to their an-nal bazaar on Saturday, May 3,2014 from 9 am - 3 pm.12026 Beaumont Hwy., Hous-ton, TX 77049. There will beGARAGE SALE! PLANTS & OUT-DOO CRAFTS!! County Store(Baked Goods). RAFFLE DRAW-ING (6 Prizes) BRISKET - CHICK-EN - SAUSAGE.

MAY 17, SATURDAY

North Shore RotaryFish Fry, RaffleNorth Shore Rotary 38th Annu-al Catfish & Crawfish Fry, Satur-day, May 17th at North ShoreRotary Pavilion, 14350 WallisvilleRd. Purchase your raffle and din-ner tickets at Pineforest Jewel-ry. You don't need to be presentto win your truck or car. SEE AD,page 8 for more details.

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North ChannelLibrary events-Friday & Saturday, May 2&3book sale.-Monday, May 5, 4:30 pm Boardgame day.-Tuesday, May 6, 10:30 am, Tod-dler time; 1:30 pm Preschoolstory time.-Wednesday, May 7, 4:30 pmAsian Pacific Heritage month.-Thursday, May 8, 10:30 am BabyTime.15741 Wallisville Rd., Houston,TX. 77049. Call 281-457-1631for more information on otherprograms/classes.

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Galena ParkLibrary events-Tuesday, May 6, 1 pm ComputerBasics; 4 pm Computacion Basica.-Wednesday, May 7, 11 am Chil-dren’s Story Time.-Thursday, May 8, 11 am Baby Time;4 pm Mother’s Day Craft.The library is located at 1500 KeeneSt. Galena Park, TX. 77547. You maycall 713-450-0982 for more infor-mation on other programs.

The time, talent and artworkof three Channelview High Schoolstudents are being rewarded asthey are advancing to the TexasArt Educators Association's Visu-al Art Scholastic Event (VASE)state competition.

Brittney Summers, MacielPerez and Luis Ovalle all earnedgold medals at the VASE Region-al Competition and will see theirwork displayed among other en-tries at the State VASE Event inBryan in April. Perez and Sum-mers are students in Tamara Fos-ter's art class, while Ovalle is astudent in Abraham Quintanilla'sclass.

More than 100 art students atChannelview High School sub-mitted artwork for judging in theVASE competition.

During the competition, thestudents' artwork was not onlydisplayed, but judges asked thestudents questions about theircompositions, uses of the ele-ments and principles of art.

The artworks are judged by ateam of certified adjudicatorscomprised of art educators, uni-versity instructors and area art-ists.

Jurors looked for originality ofconcept, technical expertise, un-derstanding of the Texas Essen-tial Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)for visual art, and the interpre-

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Channelview High School students Luis Ovalle, left, Brittany Sum-mers and Maciel Perez advanced to the TAEA Visual Arts ScholasticEvent (VASE) in Bryan in April.

tation of the student's stated in-tent.

The Texas Art Education As-sociation (TAEA) has sponsoredVASE since 1994. VASE is theonly art event of its kind in thenation. Students are provided theopportunity to bring artworks cre-ated in their art classes to theirregional event where they are in-terviewed by a certified juror who

evaluates their work based on astandard based rubric and theirunderstanding of the art process-es involved in the development oftheir artwork.

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6. Only 7% of the populationare lefties.

7. 40-people are sent to thehospital for dog bites everyminute.

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10. The toothbrush was invent-ed in 1498.

11. The average housefly livesfor one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are in-jured by toilets each year.

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This past Saturday, stu-dents from North Shore Mid-dle ('Stang Express newsstaffers and video students)and North Shore HS (MustangMedia) traveled to the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin for theannual Interscholastic LeaguePress convention/state jour-nalism competition. This wasthe first time that NSMS andNSHS journalism studentsjoined forces in UIL competi-tion.

The 'Stang Express news-paper of NSMS was honoredwith an Award of Distin-guished Merit (1st place instate - 4th year in a row) andwas awarded a Silver StarAward by the ILPC (3rd con-secutive Star Award). Individ-ual students also placed in 23categories (newspaper IAAsstart on page 12) and walkedhome with 34 medals.

Juan Pena, one of NSMS'svideo students, also placed 2ndin the Promotion/Commericalcategory.

The Mustang Media video

Eighth graders Joanne Cobos, Hailie Russell, Daniel Davila, PatrickMartin, Victor Davila, Leonardo Reyes, and former Editor Cindy Maiand former Features Editor Christine Cabang (front) represent NorthShore Saturday, April 26, at the University of Texas at Austin duringstate journalism competition.

GALENA PARK

North Shore newspaperstudents dominate stateJournalism competition

program at North Shore HSwas honored with an Award ofAchievement (2nd place instate) and placed in severalcategories, walking away with7 medals.

We also had a very specialthing happen: Melanie Gomez,the 2nd year photographer forthe 'Stang Express newspaper,was honored as a Tops in Tex-as recipient for one of herSports Feature Photos. Thatmeans her photo was selectedover ALL the other sports fea-ture photos from all the highschools and middle schools inthe entire state!

Personally, I've NEVERseen a middle school studentwin a Tops in Texas award andI've taught journalism for over10 years. She's in amazingcompany on that list (verystrong HS journalism pro-grams). Outstanding achieve-ment!

Congratulations to allNorth Shore students! Theyrepresented Galena Park ISDwell!

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At the “Girls Impact TheWorld” Film Festival, held atHarvard University, AdriianaJackson was presented withthe People's Choice Award anda scholarship for her film“What's L.O.V.E.” As a top 15finalist, Jackson was invited toattend the festival in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts.

The “Girls Impact TheWorld” competition was basedon the premise that, in anygiven culture, women and girlsare best suited to address theissues directly facing them.With this in mind, Connectherand the Harvard College So-cial Innovation Collaborativeinvited high school and under-graduate students fromaround the world to submit athree to five minute video ad-dressing a variety of issueswith which women are faced.Many topics were covered, in-cluding poverty, health care,teen marriage, and other per-sistent problems.

Jackson, a junior at NorthShore Senior High, saw the in-vitation to enter the contest

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Adriiana Jackson inspiredto impact the world

while searching for scholar-ship information. She enjoysfilming and acting, and be-lieved the opportunity to em-power other young womenaround the world would be ameaningful experience. Whenshe received the People'sChoice Award, her efforts wererewarded. “It made me feelgood that my work was themost viewed… the most liked,”Jackson said. More important,however, is the inspiration shegained through the process. “Alot of girls don't realize howmuch we can impact the world.I learned if women and girlscan come together like we didat Harvard, then the worldcould become a better place. Iwant to move that notion for-ward,” she commented.

Jackson aims to continueher education at Harvard,Rice, or Baylor, where shehopes to play basketball andmajor in physical therapy. Hercareer plan is to become aphysical therapist.

Houston, TX, April 28, 2014- HCA Affiliated East HoustonRegional Medical Center(EHRMC), in conjunction withthe Houston DermatologicalSociety and the AmericanCancer Society, will be hostingan annual Free Skin CancerScreening Event on Saturday,May 10th from 10:00 am - 1:00pm in the Wound Care Centerat 13111 East Freeway, Hous-ton. The event will providepeople of all ages the opportu-

nity to receive free skin can-cer screenings.

“Based on current statisticsfrom the American CancerSociety, more than 3.5 millioncases of skin cancer are diag-nosed yearly in the UnitedStates, but if detected early,most skin cancers can be suc-cessfully treated,” says AliceAdams, CEO of East HoustonRegional Medical Center.

While full body screens arerecommended, participants

may elect to have only specificareas of concern examined. Allcommunity members are en-couraged to participate, andany family members are wel-come. The skin cancer screen-ings are a part of EastHouston Regional's ongoingeffort to increase the focus onpreventative healthcare mea-sures for all residentsthroughout the North Chan-nel area and surrounding com-munities

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Believe it or not, nearly100 years after earningthe right to vote, womenare still struggling toachieve equality in Ameri-can society. From thefactory floor to the board-room, women here inTexas face wage discrimi-nation at every level ofemployment in everyindustry, making only 79cents for every dollar aman earns. For women ofcolor the situation is evenmore disheartening, withAfrican American womenmaking 78 cents, andLatinas making 59 centsfor every dollar their malecounterparts earn. This isdespite the fact thatwomen are now theprimary breadwinners, orjoint breadwinners in two-thirds of American house-holds.

On the more extremeend of this problem,women make up two-thirds of those earning theminimum wage in Ameri-ca and are more likelythan men to live in pover-ty. Despite the misconcep-tions that some peoplemay have, your averageminimum wage earner isnot a high school studentworking to save up fortheir first car. Youraverage minimum wageearner is an adult womanwith a high school diplomastruggling to keep food onthe table and livingpaycheck to paycheck.

Industries that tradi-tionally employ highconcentrations of womensuch as food service,retail, home health care,and child care, make upthe lion’s share of mini-mum wage jobs. Theseare tough, labor intensivejobs that aside frompaying the minimum wagegenerally have no bene-fits, lack a steady scheduleand have little room forupward mobility.

After a year of workingfull time at the minimumwage, a woman can earn alittle over $15,000. If sheis the head of a householdwith just one child, shefalls below the federalpoverty line. And onceyou are trapped in pover-ty, it can be very difficultto escape.

For women who work in

the service industry andrely on tips such asrestaurant servers, theminimum wage is current-ly $2.13 per hour, a ratewhich has remainedunchanged for over thirtyyears. Restaurant serv-ers, of which 70 percentare women, experiencepoverty at nearly threetimes the rate of theworkforce as a whole.

In Texas, we have morepeople earning minimumwage than any other statein the country, and wewould be the greatestbenefactors of an increase.With higher salaries,minimum wage earningwomen would have moreexpendable income forhealthy foods, clothes fortheir children, a vehicleand gasoline that waspreviously unaffordable.All of this would meanmore money beingpumped into the Texaseconomy and less depen-dency on welfare pro-grams; all at no cost to thetax-payer.

Texas can afford to raisethe minimum wage.Texas weathered the pastrecession much betterthan other states and hasfar outpaced the rest ofthe country in terms of jobgrowth. Yet most of ourgrowth has come from theenergy, manufacturingand technology industrieswhich employ very fewminimum wage workers.

For all of these reasons,I am happy that PresidentObama continues to urgeCongress to raise theminimum wage, and I amhappy to see some move-ment of this in the USSenate. Congress hasraised the minimum wageonly three times in 30years, and it is now just$7.25 per hour. If theminimum wage had keptpace with inflation since1968, it would be nearly$10.80 per hour today.

It is high time that wehave equal pay for equalwork in Texas, and raisingthe minimum wage wouldbe a big step towardsachieving that goal. Buteven more importantly, weneed to ensure that no onewho is willing to put in anhonest day’s work has tolive in poverty in America,especially in Texas.

I’ve been home a month to-day and I’m right back whereI am every year at this time—behind. At least the grass hasbeen cut twice since returningand trimmed almost all theway around the house at leastonce, mostly twice.

Every year I think I’m re-turning earlier so I will be instep with my neighbors on out-side house and lawn care butit never happens. I think ofthe colder temperatures herein March and decide the Hous-ton area is more appealing tome. Now, everything is niceand warm here and Dave tellsme you have had some reallyhot and humid weather therealready.

Saw in the paper where thetemp. hit 106 in Brownsvillea few days ago. Hottest Aprilday in history I read. I’mready to submit to the godswhen it gets that hot and hu-mid. Experienced a lot ofthose hot temperatures thetwo years we were in Saudi,but never the humidity.

Walked outside yesterdaywith Maggie and my daugh-ter’s dog Harvey, There werethree big bunny rabbits in thegrass several yards away.They didn’t move until westarted walking out the drive.Maggie isn’t interested in thechase and little Harvey; a Shi-atsu didn’t know quite what tothink. The rabbits were atleast as big as he is and one ofthem much larger.

We have had a couple ofdeer killed on the semi-ruralroad that least too our subdi-vision already this year. Bothhappened the same day I be-lieve. Our access road is be-tween the forested hill and theriver. All sorts of animalscome out of those trees andhead for the river with the re-sult of some collision. The an-imals always get the worst ofit.

Not only am I behind onoutside work but after beingaway for over three monthsthe inside of the house isn’t thecleanest thing around. Any-one want to buy some dustballs? I got lots of them.

Shortly after coming homehad to make a serious trip tothe grocery store. I made a listas long as my arm before leav-ing to stock-up. As I wentthrough the check-out I felt asthough I was being separatedfrom my life savings. I hateto grocery shop and usuallyspend as little time as I can atit. Linda did all of groceryshopping while we were to-gether with my contributionwas an occasion loaf of bread,milk, as I drove by a store onmy way home. I was spoiledfor 56 years.

One of the big problems Ihave in a large Wal-Mart orKroger’s is remembering whatisle holds what items. Signsdon’t always help me. Lindahas been gone for 4 12 yearsnow and I should be used togrocery shopping now, but ithasn’t happened.

Such are the people, placesand things that have touchedmy life in my home!

AUSTIN — When a temper-amental river with mud banksand sand bars defines the bor-der between two states or twocountries, there’s a naturalpotential for conflict betweenhumans on both sides of it.

And so, a 140-acre plot ofland along the Red River bor-der between Texas and Okla-homa became a growing newstopic last week. That particu-lar plot is within some 90,000acres of land along a 116-milestretch of the river that hassome people worried aboutfederal tinkering with border.

While the U.S. Bureau ofLand Management stated it isnot expanding federal hold-ings along the river and is notinvolved in litigation betweentwo landowners vying for the140 acres, a lineup of lawmak-ers floated statements on theissue.

Gov. Rick Perry called whatwas going on a federal landgrab. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurstsaid what the BLM is doingmakes his blood boil. AttorneyGeneral Greg Abbott blastedwhat he termed a “potentialseizure of land that rightfullybelongs to Texas landowners.”Agriculture CommissionerTodd Staples urged the BLM“to immediately cease any at-tempt to seize private landsfrom Texas citizens.”

U.S. Congressional District13 Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Amarillo, whose sprawling dis-trict includes those 116 miles,wrote to the BLM in Januaryto head off the threat of poten-tial losses to Texas landown-ers. In a reply to Thornberrydated March 17, a BLM offi-cial wrote “… there are noclaims to Federal land southof the gradient bank of the riv-er, and no claims to Federalland in the State of Texas asdefined by multiple rulings ofthe U.S. Supreme Court.”

The letter to Thornberry,signed by Steven G. Tryon ofthe BLM’s Tulsa, Okla., fieldoffice, went on to state that theagency’s short-term goals in-volve installing signs in a cer-tain previously surveyed area,cleaning up federal land thatis already charted, checkingthe land to see that the signsremain in place and to work

OPINIONBy Sen. Sylvia Garcia

Working womendeserve a raise

Officials jump intoriver boundary case

with an Oklahoma state agen-cy to plan the cleanup of oilfield equipment “dated back tothe 1910s and 1920s” on fed-eral land in Oklahoma that isnorth of Burkburnett, Texas.

Also on the subject of landand water, U.S. Drought Mon-itor statistics released April 24show Hardeman, Wilbargerand Wichita counties, and partof Clay County, all of whichborder the Red River along the116 miles mentioned previous-ly are in exceptional drought.Also in exception drought arethe across-the-river Oklahomacounties of Harmon, Jackson,Tillman and part of CottonCounty.

Panel to study coastalbarriers

House Speaker Joe Strauson April 25 named 11 legisla-tors to the Joint Interim Com-mittee to Study a CoastalBarrier System.

Straus said the committeewill study the effects of recentchanges made to the TexasOpen Beaches Act, a law thatgrants the public a free andunrestricted right to accessstate-owned beaches and aright to use any public beachextending from the line of

mean low tide to the line ofvegetation bordering the Gulfof Mexico.

House Bill 3459, signed intolaw last year, created a processallowing the land commission-er to suspend the designationof a new line of vegetation forthree years. The committeealso will examine the feasibil-ity and desirability of main-taining a coastal barriersystem in Texas and of autho-rizing coastal property ownersto grant easements to govern-mental entities to build andmaintain stabilized dunes, ac-cording to the Speaker’s state-ment.

Unemployment ratedrops

Texas’ seasonally adjustedunemployment rate fell to 5.5percent in March, down two-tenths of a percentage pointfrom February’s rate of 5.7percent, Texas WorkforceCommission announced April18.

Employers added 9,100 jobsin March for a total of 310,000jobs added over the year andthe annual growth rate for to-tal nonagricultural employ-ment has remained at or above2.6 percent since January2012, the agency said.

Runoffs set for May 27April 28 was the last day to

register to voice in the May 27primary runoff elections. Ac-cording to the Secretary ofState’s Elections Division, “Ifa voter voted in the primaryelection, the voter must votein the same political partyrunoff election. If a voter didnot vote in the primary elec-tion, the voter may still votein the runoff election and forthe party of their choice. Ear-ly Voting begins May 19 andends on May 23. During earlyvoting, you may vote at anypolling location in your coun-ty.”

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OBITUARIES✯

Roy L. Tidwell, 66, of Chan-nelview, passed from this lifeApril 26, 2014. Roy was bornMay 23, 1947 in Carmona,Texas to parents, Horace R. &Elvira Tidwell.

He served his country in theU.S. Navy during Vietnam,worked for HL&P as an insu-lator for 27 years and was amember of the C.A.FortnerMasonic Lodge 1304 in Chan-nelview, Texas.

He is preceded in death byhis parents and is survived byhis wife of 41 years, PatriciaDianne (Brown) Tidwell; byson, Jerry Tidwell; daughters,Tonya Hazel & husband, Th-omas; and Tina Tidwell; by sis-ter, Gwenlyn Garza &husband, Homer; by brothers,Erick Tidwell, Larry Tidwell &wife, Debbie; and Remus Tid-well & friend, Gwen Thayer; aswell as by grandchildren,Ryan Morris, Kathryn Chil-dress, Teslyn Tidwell, TaylorKibodeaux, Aaron Tidwell andPaxton Tidwell; and great-grandchildren, Amberleigh,Ariel, Carley and D.J.; along

with several nieces, nephews,other family and dear friends. A Visitation and Services will

be held Monday, April 28,2014, with visitation startingat 12:00 Noon and Servicesstarting at 3:00 p.m. in theCarter Funeral Home Chapel.

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Roy L. TidwellJesus and HisHorse

Five churches were repre-sented in our first annual“Resurrection Trail Ride” onEaster Sunday afternoon. Partof the ride was along the feed-er road of Interstate 10. Whenthe drivers of the cars, trucks,and 18-wheelers saw our twoChristian flags, they honkedtheir horns, one after anoth-er. They seemed to recognizethis trail ride had specialmeaning.

As I rode along thinkingabout the Resurrection, some-thing else came to mind: theReturn of Jesus. “Then Iheard what sounded like agreat multitude, like the roarof rushing waters... I sawheaven standing open andthere before me was a whitehorse, whose rider is calledFaithful and True.. . Thearmies of heaven were follow-ing him, riding on white hors-es and dressed in fine linen,white and clean.” (Revelation19:6,11,14)

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Brethren have Spring Fling

Walter Boullion is auctioneer as numerous items go up for bids as a fundraiserfor the Spring Fling of the Crosby Brethren Church. There was a delightful bakesale and a raffle of a television, a shotgun and a lawn mower.

Church of the Resurrection becomes ParishChurch of the Resurrection, in its fourth year, has reached the milestones to become a full parish.� ThisSunday, May 4, Bishop Royal Grote of the Anglican Church of North America will preside at a serviceof Holy Communion in recognition of this celebration.� The church meets in the Crosby BrethrenChurch at 5202 1st Street in Crosby at 11:00 am and invites the community for the service with alunch fellowship to follow.�

Highlands United Method-ist Church is excited to an-nounce Rachel Leon is the newYouth Director.

Rachel, a mother of sevenand a resident of Highlands,stated, “I look forward to mak-ing a difference in our churchand in our community. Be-tween me and our awesometeam of volunteers we will beworking hard to build relation-ships with youth.”

Pastor Susan Grittmanstated, “Rachel is going to bea huge asset to our church andcommunity youth and theirparents.” All families with

CHURCH LISTINGSANGLICAN CHURCH• Church of the Resurrection, meet-ing at Crosby Brethren Church,5202 1st Street, Crosby. 832-661-9693.APOSTOLIC CHURCH• First Apostolic Church of High-lands, 1211 S. Main St. Highlands.281-426-4133ASSEMBLY OF GOD• Crosby Gospel Assembly, 633Kenning Rd., Crosby, 281-328-2516• First Assembly of God, 406 N.Magnolia St., Highlands, 281-426-3170• Gospel Lighthouse, 8218 JohnMartin Rd., Baytown, 281-421-1168BAPTIST•South Drive Baptist Church, 15229South Drive, Channelview, TX.77530. 281-452-4500.• Calvary Baptist, 2217 HuffmanEastgate Rd., Huffman, 281-324-3409• Highlands Baptist, 111 E. CanalRd., Highlands, 281-426-2470• Northeast Freeway Baptist, 1635Runneberg Rd., Crosby, 281-328-2723• Unity Baptist, 2625 Broad Dr.,Highlands, 281-426-4223• Iglesia Bautista Comunidad, 5323Highway 90, Crosby, 281-421-9810. “Venid y te Haremos Bien”BAPTIST-Missionary• Antioch Missionary Baptist, 2500Harris St., Highlands, 281-426-6565.• First Missionary Baptist Church,301 Cypress Avenue, Crosby, 281-462-7634.

• Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist, 315Nod, Crosby, 281-328-4650• True Vine Missionary Baptist, 404Oak Ave., Crosby, 281-328-7637• Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church,12418 Crosby Rd., Crosby, 281-328-1851

BAPTIST-Southern• First Baptist- Crosby, 615 Run-neberg Rd.,Crosby, 281-328-2564• First Baptist- Highlands, N. Mag-nolia at Wallisville, Highlands, 281-426-4551• First Baptist- Huffman, 25503 FM2100, Huffman, 281-324-1888• Northside Baptist, 317 Barbers HillRd., Highlands, 281-426-5415• Second Baptist, 400 E. WallisvilleRd., Highlands, 281-426-5557• Crosby New Hope Baptist Church,18319 FM 2100, Crosby, 281-328-6086BRETHREN• Crosby Brethren, 5202 1st St.,Crosby, 281-328-2442CATHOLIC•St. Andrew Roman CatholicChurch, 827 Sheldon Rd., Channel-view, TX. 281-452-9865.• Holy Family, 7122 Whiting Rock,Baytown, 281-426-8448• Sacred Heart, 915 RunnebergRd., Crosby, 281-328-4871• St. Martin De Porres, 12606 FM2100, Crosby, 281-328-4451• St. Jude Thaddeus, 800 S. MainSt. , Highlands, 281-843-2422• St. Phillip the Apostle, 2308 3rdSt.,Huffman, 281-324-1478CHURCH OF CHRIST• Church of Christ at Wallisville Rd.,1500 E. Wallisville Rd., 281-426-7557.

• Crosby Church of Christ, 3737Hwy 90, Crosby, 281-328-3496• Highlands Church of Christ, 214Clear Lake Rd., Highlands, 281-426-2742• Barrett Station Church of Christ,281-328-7882CHURCH OF GOD• First Pentecostal Church of God,1328 Old Atascocita, Huffman,281-324-1518• Harvest Time Church of God, 495S. Diamondhead Blvd., Crosby,281-462-8060CHURCH OF GODIN CHRIST•�Mt. Rose Church of God in Christ,13000 FM 2100, Crosby, 281-328-1314EPISCOPAL•St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church,13125 Indianapolis St., Houston,713-451-2909INDEPENDENT• Crosby Church, 5725 Hwy 90,Crosby and 30673 Huffman Cleve-land Rd., Huffman, 281-328-1310• Huffman Church, 1707 HuffmanEastgate Rd., Huffman, 281-324-3705• New Covenant of Faith, 12217Holly Rd., Crosby, 281-328-1315• Restoration House, 1609 JonesRd., Highlands, 281-843-4000• Son Harvest, 2027 FM 1942,Crosby, 281-543-2860.LUTHERAN• Our Shepherd, 19704 FM 2100,Huffman, 281-324-2422METHODIST•Old River Terrace United Method-ist Church, 16102 East Freeway,Channelview, TX. 281-452-2861.• Crosby United Methodist, 1334Runneberg Rd., Crosby, 281-328-2616• Highlands United Methodist, 107W. Houston St., Highands, 281-426-3614• Lake Houston United Methodist,23606 FM 2100, Huffman, 281-324-1541UNITED PENTECOSTALCHURCH

• Pentecostals of Crosby502 Pineat Hwy 90Crosby, TX �77532(281)328-5054. Sunday 10 AM.Wednesday 7 PM. Pastor Kerry D.Lee

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Highlands Methodistannounces new youth director

junior and senior high stu-dents who are looking for asupportive group to nurturetheir students through theteen years are invited to a“Youth United” Kickoff Dinner,to meet Rachel and her teamand to hear the plans forWednesday nights, the youthband, and summer activities.The Kickoff Dinner will be onWednesday, May 14 at 6 pm.Highlands United Methodistis located at Main Street andWest Houston Street in High-lands. For more informationor to reserve childcare foryounger children, contact thechurch office at 281-426-3614.

Rachel Leon, new Youth Director

Library friends host gardener

Friends of the Crosby Library hosted a Master Gardener at their annual meetinglast week principles of gardening and plant display were debated and exchangedin a lively topical discussion. During the organizational meeting the preceededthe guest speaker officers were elected. The new President of the Friends of theCrosby Library is Sarah Davis. Elected Vice President is Carol Thompson. Secretaryis Anita Evans. Head of the treasury is Irene Cook. Publicity is headed by SherryBailey. Communications will be done by Aida Dyer.

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HOUSTON - The San Ja-cinto College baseball teamraised $4,210 at the recentPlay Pink game, an event thatsupports Angel Flight SouthCentral and raises breast can-cer awareness.

The Play Pink event raisedfunds through a silent auctionand donations. Since 2010, theSan Jacinto College baseballteam has raised nearly$21,000 for Angel Flight SouthCentral through Play Pink ac-tivities. Angel Flight SouthCentral encourages pilots tovolunteer their skills to pro-vide free transportation forpeople in need of critical med-ical treatment not available tothem locally.

For the San Jacinto Collegebaseball team, the cause hasa personal connection. Assis-tant coach Jimmy Durhamlost his wife, Michele, to breastcancer 10 years ago. At thetime, Durham was on thecoaching staff at New MexicoJunior College in Hobbs, NewMexico. While Michele wasbeing treated in Houston, thecouple used the services of

Baseball team raises $4,210 for Angel Flight South Central

At the recent Play Pink fundraiser, David Lavine, board chairman ofAngel Flight South Central (center), is shown flanked by San JacintoCollege baseball coaches (from left) Kory Koehler, Tom Arrington(head coach), Jimmy Durham, and DJ Wilson. Photo credit: Rob Van-ya, San Jacinto College marketing, public relations, and governmentaffairs department.

Angel Flight South Central(then Grace Flight of Ameri-ca) to fly Michele and theDurham family to and fromNew Mexico and Houston freeof charge.

The team and coaching staffwere touched by the supportshown by fans and the commu-nity.

“Once again, the Gator com-munity was very gracious insupporting Angel Flight SouthCentral at our Play Pinkgames in helping us raisemore than $4,000,” comment-ed assistant coach DJ Wilson.“It is such a special event tous, as it is a way for the base-ball program to give some-thing back to Angel Flight forall they did for Coach Durhamand his family. The familymembers of our players,former San Jac players andfamilies, the faculty and staffhere at San Jac from all cam-puses, were all so generousand gracious with both theirmonetary donations and thevolunteer work for the event.”

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Channelviewto face

Dobie in Bi-Districtplayoff

The Channelview Fal-cons will face PasadenaDobie in the Bi-Districtround of the Class 5A play-offs at 7:30 p.m. Friday,May 2 at Dawson HighSchool in Pearland.

Channelview clinchedthe fourth playoff spot inDistrict 21-5A with a 7-6record. The Falcons carrya 16-11 standing overall.

Dawson High School islocated at 2050 CullenBlvd. in Pearland.

Happy FalconsChannelview High School coaches and family are all smiles as Falcon football player and graduatingsenior Alex Neiderhofer, bottom row, center, signed an academic scholarship and committed toplay football for Howard Payne University in Brownwood this fall. Celebrating the occasion are, toprow, left Falcon offensive line coach Randall Tanner and Head Coach Averion Hurts, along with Alex'sparents Denise and David Neiderhofer.

rently 20-17 overall and 11-13in conference play. The RegionXIV tournament is May 10through May 14 at AngelinaCollege in Lufkin. The winner

of the regional tournamentadvances to the National Jun-ior College Athletic Associa-tion World Series, May 23through May 31 in GrandJunction, Colo.

CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES: (L to R): Position #1 Water & Sewer: Joe DeLaTorre; Position #2 Police & Fire: Lois Killough; Position #3Parks & Recreation: Maricela Serna, Veronica Garcia; Position #4 Street & Bridge: Mark Groba, Juan Flores, Martha Flores.

CandidatesForum,Continued from page 1

Bell Telephone. Acquired 2police cars, 1 ambulancefor the city, increased re-serves.

Cruz Hinojosa, 23 yearswith the Houston waterdepartment, helped startLULAC hispanic organi-zation, Houston Police su-pervisory position,awarded $86,000 in schol-arships from LULAC.

Candidates were askedabout their ideas for Eco-nomic Development. Brief

answers included:Moya: bring in new busi-

nesses, work more closely withGreater Houston Partnership.

Clowers: tear down old nui-sance buildings, get coopera-tion from Port and businessesto clean up and build new.

Thibodeaux: partner withbusinesses, plan beautificationof Clinton Drive, add clinicalhealth services and transpor-tation for seniors, get chemi-cal plants to control morepollution.

Hinojosa: work on getting anew grocery store, use Rotaryto make partners with indus-try, take advantage of the CIPgroup, including getting moreindustry jobs for GP people.

Comments on financial con-dition of the city:

Moya: taxes and water ratestoo high, city departmentsneed to cut budgets.

Clowers: $10 mil. in debtwith interest, need plan to re-pay without more taxes.

Thibodeaux: Only $6 mil.owed, can pay off in 20 yearseasily, water rates fixed be-cause we buy from city.

Hinojosa: collect back tax-es, give seniors a fixed rate.

Comments on city depart-ments:

Moya: need more police, andmore volunteer firemen.

Clowers: old water and sew-er lines need replaced, engi-neering plan first to get

grants, pay police more tokeep them from leaving.

Thibodeaux: police num-bers okay, crime rate low,water lines now being re-placed.

Hinojosa: city hall needsto listen to citizens, streetsneed repaired, code en-forcement lacking.

In questions from theaudience, all the candi-dates in some way said thatGP needs cleaned up, andthat the public’s perceptionof the city needs improved.

Council questions andanswers will be covered innext week’s edition of theNorth Channel Star.

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Crosby Independent School District is requesting proposals for CSP # 14-001 Crosby HighSchool Serving Line Renovations for renovations to existing serving lines in Crosby, TX.

Responses must be received by: 2:00 PM Central Time, 5/21/14.

Crosby ISD reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Proposals and to waive any formali-ties or technical inconsistencies, or delete any item/requirements from this Request for Propos-

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No pre-proposal conference will be held.

Channelview I.S.D. will accept Sealed Bids for the following:

Athletic Equipment, Apparel & SuppliesInstructional Supplies

Maintenance / Transportation SuppliesOffice Supplies

General / Over-the-Counter SuppliesLibrary Books

Musical Instruments / Supplies

Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at the Channelview I.S.D.Educational Support Center, 828 Sheldon Road, Channelview, TX 77530. All necessaryinformation may be obtained by calling the Business Office at (281) 452-8003, or the districtwebsite www.cvisd.org, under Departments -> Business Office -> Purchasing. The Board of

Trustees reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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Man dies inhouse fire

One man died last Wednes-day n ight a f t e r ge t t ingtrapped inside his mobilehome as it burned to theground, investigators said.

Firefighters from the Shel-don Fire Department weresent to the scene of a fire onGreen River at Wanda around8:45 p.m. They arrived to finda small mobile home fully en-gulfed in flames.

After extinguishing theblaze and sifting through thedebris, they found a man dead.He was the only person wholived in the home.

The Harris County FireMarshal is investigating, butsays the initial cause appearsto be accidental.

YMCA hosts Healthy Kids Day

VOTING INFORMATION

Early voting underway,Election Day May 10

GALENA PARKEARLY VOTINGLocation: City Hall, 2000 Clin-ton Drive

May 1,2, 5,6 - 8 am to 5 pm

GENERAL ELECTIONMay 10 - 7 am to 7 pm

Location:Pct. 081 - Baggett Comm.

Ctr., 1302 Keene StreetPct. 208, 857, 860 - City

Hall, 2000 Clinton Drive

JACINTO CITYEARLY VOTINGLocation: City Hall, 1301 Mer-cury Drive

May 1, 2 - 8 am to 5 pmMay 5, 6 - 7 am to 7 pm

GENERAL ELECTIONMay 10 - 7 am to 7 pm

Location:Pct. 163, 229 - Jacinto

City Town Center, 1025Oates Road

All three suspects then fledon foot.

Herrmann was chasing theunidentified suspect when thesuspect began climbing a fenceto jump onto a home's roof. Thesuspect was on the roof whenhe pointed a weapon at Her-rmann.

Fearing for his life he dis-charged his weapon at the sus-pect. The suspect was not hitand fled from him. An inten-sive search of the area wasconducted by HCSO person-nel.

They did locate Britten andPrice hiding in backyards ofthe subdivision. The suspectwho pointed his weapon atdeputy Herrmann was not lo-cated.

He is only described as ablack male, stocky build wear-ing dark colored clothing.

HCSO Robbery Investiga-tors are interviewing Brittenand Price, with pending addi-tional charges to be filed.

Anyone with informationabout the suspects' identity inthis case and/or location isasked to call Crime Stoppersof Houston at 713-222-TIPS orto submit a tip via the iWatch-HarrisCounty phone app.

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Wendel D. Ley FamilyYMCA hosted a day full offunand healthy activities for kidslast Saturday, April 26, 2014.

The Healthy Kids Day pro-vided free immunizations andactivities included fitness fun,kid friendly games and manymore. Parents also could reg-ister their kids for the summerprogram.

Kids enjoy to learn aboutbike safety and kids withscooters, bikes or skaboardsreceived a free helmet courte-sy of San Jacinto Pilot Club.

YMCA Healthy Kids Day isa celebration where they makefitness fun through programsthat teach ways to play and tostay active, connected andhealthy.

Pictured to the left, kids at theBicycle course last Saturday atYMCA Healthy Kids Day.Theywere given the red helmets fortheir participation in the course.

Photo by Richard Hernandez