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VOLUME 8, NO. 49 • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2017 • COMMUNITY NEWS FOR LA PORTE, MORGAN’S POINT, SHOREACRES, SEABROOK & THE GALVESTON BAY AREA
Texas, Florida members of Congress team up to secure more hurricane relief
As Texans in Congress grow increasingly anxious about Hurricane Harvey relief funding, some joined a bipartisan group of U.S. House members from Florida Friday, threatening to oppose a relief bill unless funding is “significantly improved.” By Abby Livingston Texas Tribune WASHINGTON - Some members of Congress from Texas and Florida are combining forces to strengthen their hand in coming negotiations over hurricane relief for their states. Republicans and Democrats from both delegations have privately expressed frustration with party leadership and Trump administration officials for what they describe as insufficient hurricane relief for Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Hurricane Irma in Florida and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. A bipartisan group of members from both states met Friday morning to strategize how to best position their states in coming negotiations over the next week.
Flooding in a Clear Lake neighborhood from heavy rains after Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 27, 2017. Courtesy Mia Mullins
The government faces a Dec. 8 deadline to agree on a spending plan and avoid a shutdown. The objective for the Florida and Texas group is to bring as much leverage as possible to those negotiations to
secure what these members determine to be sufficient relief funding. Increasingly, the word “shutdown” is creeping into the lexicon of Democratic members from
Local business man hosts house party for TX-36 Candidate Jon Powell
these two states. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat who attended the meeting, said it outright Thursday at a U.S. Homeland Security Committee hearing.
“We do not have the adequate resources, and this is going to be on the verge of a government shutdown if Texas and all of the other victims of these hurricanes do not have a compromise where we can work together,” she said. “I would encourage you to tell the president that it is not enough. It simply is not enough.” The representatives attending Friday’s meeting were mostly members of the U.S. House Appropriations and Ways and Means committees as well as other Houston-area members. Even without unanimous support, just a fraction of the combined 63 members in the two delegations could create a formidable voting bloc on the U.S. House floor. There were rumblings earlier in the fall of such an alliance. Last month, the Trump administration announced it was requesting $44 billion from Congress to assist with the Harvey aftermath as well as the recoveries from other recent hurricanes in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The figure was criticized as See “Hurricane Relief” on page 2
Deceased body discovered on SH 146 in Seabrook At approximately 1:45 p.m. on Monday, December 4, 2017, the Seabrook Police Department received a call regarding a deceased body located at the 3300 block of State Highway 146. A crew working in the area discovered the body lying in thick brush approximately 25 feet west of the highway. The body was not visible from the highway. When Seabrook officers and investigators
arrived on scene they found an unidentified white male. The deceased was wearing pants with a light colored t-shirt and had no identification or property on him. The Harris County Medical Examiner has removed the body and estimates that the body has been deceased in that location for approximately seven days. At this time, investigators do not suspect criminal wrongdoing. The case is under investigation.
Theodore Gossman’s Bait Camp And Gambling House at Kemah, next to The Oyster Shack Al Soto, owner of Elegant Remodeling and Michelle with Cindy Evans and Jon Powell. Photo by Rebecca Collins
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On Saturday night, Al Soto local businessman and owner of Elegant Remodeling & Construction hosted a successful “Meet the Candiate” house party for Jon Powell, democratic candidate for TX-36. Powell spoke to a crowded house filled with supporters and told everyone why he’s is running for office. “The reason I’m running is because I believe in public service. I stand for a government of the people by the people and for the people. And not for the special interest, not for the 1%, not for the people who have more money than all of us put together. But rather for the average citizen, for the working class person who relies on Government to provide the necessary infrastructure and services to make life what it is here in this country,” said Powell. Jon Powell is a candidate for the U.S.
House of Representatives in Texas Congressional District 36 in Southeast Texas. Jon and his wife, Cindy Evans, live in Taylor Lake Village in the Clear Lake area. Jon is a geologist, and has devoted his career to working with industry on environmental, safety, and management issues. He and his wife Cindy are committed to public service and have worked in the community in many roles. Jon was an elected official in Taylor Lake Village for a decade, first a City Councilman, then Mayor. He participated in the community advisory panel that serves as a forum for residents and local industry. Cindy, a NASA scientist, served as Police Commissioner in their community. For more information on Jon Powell visit his website at jonpowellforcongress.us. For more information about Elegant Remodeling & Construction visit their website at elegantremodelingbayarea.com.
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Candidate Jon Powell and wife Cindy Evans enjoy the company of many supporters. Photo by Rebecca Collins
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I was a very lucky little boy. In 1938 my dad and I started going down to Kemah to visit one of the old friends from over on Old Middle Bayou, Theodore Gossman, at the time he had a Bait Camp next door to the Oyster Shack that was on the location of the later Jimmy Walkers Restaurant. The Bait Camp was next door to the West. It had as white picket fence, with a white wild rose bush in the front yard. A honey bee hive across the yard out front. The house was a little white frame house with a big screened in back room all across the back of the house. On the West side of the house there was a water well with a pump that gave the place fresh clean water. It was piped to the house and down to the shower and on the pier. The pier was a T pier with rooms on the right. There was a cold-water shower and next door was the bait room where he had ice, dead shrimp and small mullet for cut bait. In that room the fisherman could clean their fish on a counter and there was a sink with run-
ning water, he had an old ice chest with iced beer and sodas and another full of blocks of ice. Then the next room was the toilet (outhouse) All of the buildings along Clear Creek during that time had them out over the creek. The waste would be washed away with the tides. The last room to the East was the tac room where he kept oars for the rental skiffs, life jackets and cushions for the seat that doubled as life jackets. There were three little outboard motors for those who would fish out further in the bay. Straight out on the pier was a gate that let boats dock when they were having gambling on Friday and Saturday nights. The yachts came from all over the Bay area. The Bait camp was a gambling pad for some weekends, private poker and crap games. Inside of the house in the West bed room there was a big box of cards that were sealed and a big bucket of dice that were unopened. Next to the gambling paraphernalia were three cases of whiskey. During those game nights the camp was closed to fishermen. Theodore’s dog was brought into the screened in room See “Bait Camp” on page 2
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Clear Creek Association of Retired Teachers (CCART) Notice of January Meeting
The Clear Creek Association of Retired Teachers (CCART) will hold its January meeting on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. The meetings are held at the Bay Area Community Center, 5002 NASA Parkway in Seabrook. Our featured speaker will be Gina Evans, founder and director of The Mercy Tree. The meeting will start at 9:30 am with a social gathering for coffee and cookies. The business meeting will begin at 10:00 am. All Texas retired school employees from the area are invited. Annual dues is $45. Contact Information: Julia Bodenhamer 281-538-4056 or email juliabodenhamer@ gmail.com.
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too small by elected officials from Texas and Florida. Later Friday, 32 members from the two delegations officially expressed their opposition to the current aid proposal from Muvlaney’s budget office in a letter. As Members of the Congressional delegations of Texas and Florida, two states that sustained extensive damage in the recent devastating hurricane season, we write to express our strong dissatisfaction with the utterly inadequate disaster supplemental appropriations request from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),” they wrote. “The severely underfunded request neglects the fundamental needs of our states and will not provide the bare minimum necessary for our states to continue recovering from the storms,” they added. “Moreover, the funding currently proposed is not allocated to provide for an effective recovery. Unless the disaster supplemental appropriations bill is significantly improved before it is brought to a vote on the House floor, we will be unable to support this legislation.” Texas signees included: U.S. Reps. Brian Babin, R-Woodville; Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands; Joaquin Castro, DSan Antonio; Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo; John Culberson, R-Houston; Ted Poe, R-Humble; Sheila Jackson Lee, DHouston; Al Green, D-Houston; Gene Green, D-Houston; Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen; Michael McCaul, R-Austin; Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land; Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi; Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth; Filemon Vela, DBrownsville; and Randy Weber, R-Friendswood. The Florida signees included Republican U.S. Reps. Vern Buchanan, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Francis Rooney, Thomas Rooney, Dennis Ross; and Democratic U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor, Charlie Crist, Val Demings, Ted Deutch, Lois Frankel, Alcee Hastings, Al Lawson, Stephanie Murphy, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Darren Soto.
and Theodore would go to the front room where he was out of the way. My dad asked what about the danger of robbery during the games. Theodore laughed and said “we have the front door bolted and my old “butch” the dog is right there by the back door”. I go into my room with the door open and in my easy chair and listen to the radio. I had an open view to the back door. He then reached over and standing by his chair was his old 12 gauge double barrel, and said “this is loaded with buck shot”. The word was out and there was never an attempt to rob the game. Those games were always set up by a little old lady in Houston whose husband had won the place at a poker game right there. My dad could have bought the place for $2,400.00 in 1940. Out on the pier in early morning I caught sand trout, croaker, specs and little cat fish now and then a red fish. Once in a while I caught a sheep head or red drum but not the big ones like Willie Henry caught. The fish that size would have taken my fishing pole. Theodore always had crabs for sale and live shrimp for the fishermen. With the fish I caught we always had a great supper of fried fish and potatoes. One meal every weekend we were there he would have a big pot of his gumbo. Being from the French Settlement over on Middle Bayou he learned to make it the Henry way. The Henrys were from Thibodaux Louisiana. Everyone living over in the Settlement learned to cook it right. My mom made the best Shrimp Creole and her red gumbo was it. Her friends taught her the French way of cooking. Down there is where she learned to season the sausage when hog killing time came every year. The gumbo we had on those weekends was like going back to the Bayou. In 1937 we went down to my uncles for a crab boil on the wood stove and that day mom and uncle Jim were together cooking the best red crab pot on the Bayou. They cooked at least 3 dozen crabs with the fresh okra and celery and onion and special spices. My family added a lot of fresh tomatoes and by the time it was cooked there was red gumbo. A big pot of rice was on the stove ready for the feast. I was only six then and was the first to the table and the last to leave. The same as it would be today. In the 1930’s the tall ships came to Clear Creek and 3-4 would be moored on the south side of the creek between Theodore Gossman ‘s Bait camp and the Kemah Seabrook bridge. They had come in from the open sea for repairs at the Platzer ship yard. The tall ships came in and out of the creek year-round. To see the sunrise out on the bay only a few of us are around that were witness to see this back then. The sacred Burial Mounds of the Karankawa Indians at sunrise. The people who lived in the Seabrook Bay Area for over a thousand years. Fishing on the pier only ended at sundown when a call from the house that supper was ready. That call made it easier to put up the fishing gear and come in to some of the best food along the waterfront. As the sun set in the West it was quiet on the creek, the gulls had gone to roost, only the ring of the Buoy bell out in the channel and on windy dark nights an occasional blast of the Fog horn out in the channel. I always slept on the back screened in porch with Butch on his blanket by the door. Wish you could have been with me to put a hook in the water on Theodore Gossman’s pier at his Bait Camp on Clear Creek in Kemah in the 1930’s.
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La Porte Police Department accepting donations for annual Blue Santa Program The La Porte Police Department is now accepting donations for the annual Blue Santa Program. If you would like to join us in making this season a merry one for local families in need, please consider donating a new, unwrapped toy at one of the many City facilities.
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A Little Christmas Spirit by Pat Cook
J.D. Morse (Bruce Blifford), Officer Niven (Jeff Luchsinger) and Mona (Janet Elayne) are featured in Pasadena Little Theatre’s production of A Little Christmas Spirit by Pat Cook.
Pasadena Little Theatre, Houston’s oldest community theatre in continuous operation, begins its 63rd season with A Little Christmas Spirit by Pat Cook J D Morse is looking for a Christmas present but with no luck. In desperation he goes into Nick’s Emporium. What would YOU do with the chance to step back in time? Would you make different decisions the second time around? These are the questions J.D. Morse finds himself facing when he steps over the threshold of Nick’s Emporium and back into his early 20s. PLT’s presentation of A Little Christmas Spirit by Pat Cook features as directors Julie Owen & Carolyn McLeod along with an outstanding cast. This production opens on December 1st and continues weekends through December 17th. Friday and Saturday show times are 8:00 P.M. and Sunday matinees are
at 2:30 P.M. Ticket prices are $18.00 ($15.00 for advance purchases online) for adults and $12.00 for students and seniors. There is one (1) Thursday evening show on December 14th, which is our 2-for-$20 show. To purchase tickets, make reservations or for more information call our friendly box office at 713-941-1758, or log onto www.pasadenalittletheatre.org.
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A Christmas Story Written by Based on an original story by Jean Shepherd Script updated by Philip Grecian Directed by Patti Meiners
MADD Jingle Bell Run - 5K & 1K Glow Run Join us for a fun filled evening! We will have several children’s games, photo opportunities and a special appearance by Santa! When: Friday, December 8th 2017 Check-In: 5:30pm 1K Run: 6:45pm 5K Run: 7:00pm Lighted Christmas Parade: 8:00pm Where: Five Points Town Plaza Fee: $35 / Adults, $20 / Children 12 and under Athlinks Landing Page (Recommended Link): www.athlinks.com/event/jingle-bell-run-158234 Direct Registration: https://register.chronotrack.com/r/33779 For more information, please go to the website or contact Heather Smith or Kendall Collette at 281-590-2222. Email: heather.smith@madd.org / kendall.collette@madd.org Sponsored by City Of La Porte
A young boy named Ralphie Parker only wants one thing for Christmas: a Red Ryder BB gun. However, he is not sure he will ever make it to Christmas, between his brother Randy and the school bully Scut Farkus. Whenever he tells someone how much he wants it, he/she tells him that he will shoot his eye out and refuses to get it for him. Even a department store Santa Claus tells him the same thing. After Ralphie gets a C+, he gets teased again by Scut. In response, Ralphie beats him very badly while cursing loudly. However, his parents do not get mad at him, and on Christmas morning, he gets the BB gun, since his father had one at that age. When he goes to try it out, the bullet ricochets and knocks off his glasses, which he accidentally steps upon while looking for them. He makes up a story about an icicle, and his parents believe him. In the end, a horde of dogs come in and steal the Christmas turkey, so his family goes out for Chinese turkey which is really duck. PRODUCTION DATES December 8, 9, 10, 15, 16 & 17 December 16 (2 shows - matinee and nighttime show) Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm Matinees at 2:30 pm
CAST Ralphie Parker Parker Files Ralph Parker Bob Townsend Esther Jane Alberry Lexxy Cooper
Flick/Desperado One Parker Jackson
Announcer John Meiners, Jr.
Helen Weathers Haylee Yeager
Higbee’s Store Announcer Mark Fleming
Miss Shields Tammy Calaway
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Mother Jessica Cianciotto Schwartz/Desperado Two Caleb Castleberry The Old Man Jeff Coletta Randy Noah Costlow Farkas/Black Bart Alison Jannise Classmate Addison Yeager Classmate Desirae Garcia Santa Jeff Coletta
Director Patti Meiners Lighting Gary Smith Sound Joanna Gold-Baker Production Manager Jan Herring-Seeley Stage Manager Becca Thornton Props Manager Leslie Williams Set Patrick Murray Assistant Director Dawn Daily