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Rice Fe s t i v al Huge Success De spit e Rain and Mud

Texas Rice Festival Queen Ellie Miller rides atop a combine during the parade Saturday at the festival.

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By Wade Thibodeaux The Texas Rice Festival had a good run with great crowds for the weekend even though the rain was intermittent and the parking lot was muddy. Some schedules had to be changed to accommodate the younger participants on Friday morning when the skies opened up and water poured out, but everyone was safe and dry inside the community building where the contests had been relocated. Wednesday evening was a little slow getting started as far as the crowd went, but attendance grew steadily until the park was brimming full on Saturday night. For the most part, everyone behaved themselves and law enforcement reported very few incidences of poor behavior from the crowd. The one variation from that was Friday evening when

somebody evidently stole normalcy after two years of the carnival was back in a baseball from one of the being without a festival due town, contests were held, carnival attractions and to Hurricane Imelda(2019 and people seemed to just hurled it at a band member and Covid-19(2020). Many be in a good mood to be on stage. The baseball struck of the vendors sold out of celebrating the rice harvest. the singer on the side of his food, kids were happy that head and shattered a very expensive earpiece as well as inflicted some significant pain to the singer's ear. The band vacated the stage and did not return, basically ending everyone's night at the festival. The only other major incident was after the Saturday parade, a vintage airplane that was towed with a tractor during the parade, tried to use Highway 124 as a runway and something went wrong on takeoff and the plane ended upside down on the highway and in the ditch. Miraculously, nobody was seriously injured in the plane or on the ground. The incident is under investigation. All in all, a good festival TRF Queen Ellie Miller enjoys a little Cajun music with and a nice return to Thursday night headliner Wayne Toups on stage.

Josh Wischnewsky, kneeling left, was part of many ambassadors who participated in the American Cancer Society's "Real MEN wear PINK" event last Thursday in Beaumont.

By Wade Thibodeaux Josh Wischnewsky wore pink last Thursday during an American Cancer Society fundraiser held at 5 Under Golf Center in Beaumont. Josh was an ambassador for the event and he and his team were the leading donors out of

a group of about 15 other ambassadors. The event was titled "Real MEN wear PINK" and was dedicated to raising awareness for breast cancer. The money raised will be funneled into research prevention for the deadly disease.

A Special Shoutout

A vintage plane crashed on takeoff after the parade. The pilot was using Highway 124 as a runway when it clipped a light pole and took out a set of traffic signals before landing upside down on the roadway.

East Chambers Celebrates Homecoming

These guys were happy to be participating in the Homecoming Parade. Photo by Roxanne Chandler.

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East Chambers 2021 Homecoming Queen Emily Lopez and King Hector Martinez were crowned during halftime of the EC-Hardin game on Friday, September 24, 2021.

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East Chambers High School celebrated their Homecoming activities last Friday, September 24, 2021 with a parade, the crowning of a King and Queen, and other activities. The parade was Friday afternoon and then the crowning was during the football game which

EC easily won 47-10 over Hardin. The Homecoming Queen is Emily Lopez. She is the daughter of Virginia Lopez and the late Jesus Lopez. She was escorted by her mom and Senior Prince, Hector Martinez. Emily has been (contd on page 8)

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Opinion & Entertainment

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 Disclaimer: This column is the opinion of Publisher Wade A. Thibodeaux and may contain subject matter on a variety of topics, but usually contains humor of some description. An occasional serious thought may be thrown in to entice the reader to think.

Wade In the Shade by Wade Thibodeaux Okay folks, I’m going to jump on my soapbox for a little while and please bear with me as I’m explaining this situation because multiple newspapers in multiple areas receive this column and maybe not everyone is familiar with all of the details. This week’s column deals with the Texas Rice Festival in Winnie, Texas. The Texas Rice Festival celebrated their 52nd year this past weekend and it was the first festival since 2018 as 2019 was cancelled due to Hurricane Imelda and Covid got the 2020 festival. The Rice Festival is a celebration of the harvest of the rice crops in the Southeast Texas region and while the area has diversified over the last several years, farming is still a very important part of the area. The festival covers two weekends and draws 30,00040,000 people to the area on the first weekend of October every year. It’s kind of a big deal. Saturday is the final day of the festival and a large parade is held every year. This parade is really not

your typical parade because it’s very common for very large pieces of farm machinery to participate in the route and some of this equipment is large enough that it takes two 18 wheelers to transport the thing. I’m talking about combines that have 30-35 foot headers on them and they take up the entire width of the road, very large 4 wheel drive tractors, and then of course you have all of your ordinary decorated trucks and other vehicles. This year’s parade featured an old biplane(two wings, one above the other) crop duster and it was because this year’s Festival President is in the crop dusting business. The President rode in the plane as it was being towed through the parade route with a tractor. The plane had been towed from the airport to the parade route and after the parade the decision was made to fly the plane back to the airport instead of having to shut down all of the roadways from the festival to the airport again. The main roadway was already closed for

the parade route and the pilot could use the highway as his runway and no other roads would have to be closed again. Great plan......as long as it works, but it didn’t..... something happened during takeoff and the plane clipped a light pole and caught the wiring on a traffic light and ended upside down on the roadway and in the ditch. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured including the pilot or people on the ground. Now that you know the basics, here’s my soapbox issue. Within minutes, maybe seconds, a video was posted to Facebook and people started commenting and complaining. Nobody knew the facts, but that didn’t stop people from making comments that just were false. My phone began ringing immediately and I was pretty much helpless because I had spent a couple of days in Winnie at the festival, but I had travelled back to my Huntsville office on Friday and I was at the mercy of gathering information via phone. People posted comments with a picture stating that the pilot was unhurt and standing next to the plane when in reality it was the Festival President standing next to the plane and he was not the pilot. He had been seen riding in the plane when it was being towed, but he was not the pilot. People posted comments that the

plane couldn’t be moved until the FAA had completed their investigation and the local authorities had no right to move the plane. Sometimes, I think people watch too much TV and think that everything they see on TV and everything that they read on the internet is true. I can promise you that the local authorities went by the book and did everything correctly. Here’s another issue, when people post that they know who the pilot was and there are people out there in the airplane business and they can’t get in touch with that person because they don’t answer their phone......hearts start racing and minds start going crazy when in reality their people are safe. Misinformation causes all

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kinds of problems. Please people, leave the reporting to the professionals. Just because you have the latest and greatest Iphone in your pocket does not make you a Hollywood producer. And, just because you watched a movie on a plane crash does not make you an authority on the laws governing the scene. Your comments on Facebook did not do one thing to help the first responders who were caring for the pilot, the law enforcement who was dealing with the traffic congestion and the wreckage, or anyone else who was involved with the situation. Our organization will do our research, we will report the facts and we will have an article on this event. I’m writing this column with

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just a few basic details that I gathered from trusted sources and I am very cautious about putting too much out there because even I haven’t gathered all that I need to produce an article because I’m fired up about all of this bad stuff on Facebook and I sat down to bang out this column. Okay, off of the soapbox. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured in this event, we were able to have a festival even though it was a muddy mess thanks to several days of rain, and all of the local charities that depend on this festival for their major fundraiser were able to put a little money back in the kitty. Stay safe out there, enjoy life, and stay off of Facebook. Till next time, I’m..... Wade in the Shade.

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FUGLER’S IS A TEXAS LANDMARK By Tumbleweed Smith

Fugler’s (sounds like buglers) in Marshall is many things to many people. “It’s a grocery store, meat market, washateria and café,” says Bubba Fugler. “My friends down the road call it the Fugler Mall. My family has a little shop next door where we process deer and wild hogs and everything like that.” Five generations of Fuglers have had the business. “My great granddad had some farmland and lots of people worked it so he opened the store in 1940 for my grandfather to run. It was mainly for the people who worked on the farm. They’d eat out of the store then at the end of the year when the crops came in they’d pay the store back.” The business today is mostly café. The most popular menu item is a Bubba Burger. “A couple of girls from down the road here they were in here wanting to get a hamburger and they looked around and said, ‘where’s Bubba? We want him to fix our burger.’ I was out on the tractor plowing and my brother comes out there and gets me off the tractor so I

can come in here to fix the burgers. So that’s where the Bubba Burger come in.” Bubba’s son is cooking the burgers now. They have three-quarters of a pound of meat in them. They became famous because of a wellknown Marshall resident, prizefighter George Foreman. “He was on Jay Leno one night and they got to talking about hamburgers and George said the best hamburger he ever had was the Bubba Burger at Fuglers. We still have people coming in because they heard George that night.” A few other menu items include fried green tomatoes, fried squash, fried pickles, Texas Toothpicks (thin slices of jalapeno peppers) and alligator balls. “You know every alligator has a pair. They’re just ground up alligator meat with peppered cheese in them. They’re about the size of a golf ball. We’ve also got lizard lips. That’s zucchini that’s been split up, battered and deep fried.” Mailman’s Special is another popular item at Fugler’s. “It’s a chicken fried steak. That’s all my mailman of 15 years ever

got. He’d drop the mail off and order a chicken fried steak sandwich and then go make his rounds. He’d pick it up on his way back. He kids me all the time about not getting any royalties from using his name on the menu. I tell him the check’s in the mail.” Bubba has had customers from Europe and all over the US. “I have a group from Montana and Wyoming that comes down to the Lake of the Pines ever year. They‘ll end up eating here 4 or 5 times a week.” Bubba has worked in the business 40 years. He bought it from his dad 12 years ago. The store is decorated with old farm and home items that are museum quality. Because of the cutbacks due to Covid it’s just Bubba and his son now and the place is open from 7 AM to 2 PM. It used to stay open til 9 PM and had musical entertainment. www.tumbleweesmith.com Tumbleweed Smith’s column in the Hometown Press is presented by

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Local News

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 PUNISHMENT RANGE

Thirty individuals were arrested and booked into the Chambers County Jail between Sunday, September 26 and Saturday, October 2 . Warrants from last week are also as followed. The individuals have been

magistrated and formally informed of the charges against them. However, just because these individuals were arrested and magistrated does not mean they are guilty of the crimes they are charged with committing. Also, not

everyone charged with a crime is alleged to have committed the crime in Chambers County, but perhaps was simply arrested in Chambers County on outstanding warrant(s) while in Chambers County. Instances in which individuals

were arrested on outstanding warrants, their original conviction and the reason they are on probation or parole, if available, is included in parenthesis set.

• First degree felony: punishable by up to 99 years or life in prison and a $10,000 fine. • Second degree felony: punishable by up to 20 years and a $10,000 fine. • Third degree felony: punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. • State jail felony: punishable by up to two years in prison. • Deferred adjudication probation: typically offered to the first time offenders. Defendants’ judgement is deferred until later, if ever. If they successfully complete the terms of their probation, they are not judge and thus have no criminal conviction in connection to the offense. However, if they accept deferred adjudication probation but fail to abide by the terms of their probation, they could be sentenced to the maximum time in prison allowable under the law without the benefit of a trail by jury. • Class A misdemeanor: punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $4,000. • Class B misdemeanor: punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.

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Be Mindful of Chronic Wasting Disease Ahead of Deer Season With the opening of deer season on the horizon, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists are asking that hunters and landowners throughout the state be mindful of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) as new cases of the disease have been discovered in individual locations within multiple counties throughout Texas. The new positive cases were found in a free-ranging mule deer in Lubbock County, as well as within

seven captive deer breeding facilities in Hunt, Uvalde, Matagorda, Mason, and Duval counties. TPWD is concerned that CWD could have been introduced into free-ranging deer herds on properties that received deer from these deer breeding facilities where CWD positive animals were discovered. More than 1,700 deer were released to high fence pastures in 119 properties scattered across the state. These maps depict counties that contain properties

where those deer were released and the number of potentially CWD exposed deer that were released by county. The level of suspected risk for these properties that received released deer exposed to CWD is of significant concern to TPWD. The movement of live deer is readily accepted as the greatest risk of spreading CWD across the state. Eradication of CWD is very difficult if not impossible when established in free-ranging

deer populations and in the environment. TPWD and the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) have been working diligently to conduct epidemiological investigations and establish testing plans for those release sites in hopes of preventing CWD from becoming established in the free-ranging deer populations. These recent discoveries of new cases bring the total number of CWD positive deer to 261 in 14 counties. To date, 168 of those pos-

itives are associated with captive breeding facilities, 25 from release sites associated with those positive captive breeding facilities, and 68 in free-ranging deer populations. Fifty-seven of the free-range positives are in the Trans Pecos and Texas panhandle, with the remaining 11 in Medina and Val Verde counties. CWD surveillance of hunter-harvested deer, roadkills, and sick deer is critical for early detection and containment of the disease. Landowners and

hunters play a critical role in managing CWD and are encouraged to report any tagged deer, or deer that appear to be sick or behaving strangely, to a TPWD biologist. Anyone hunting deer this season is encouraged to voluntarily provide samples for testing by taking deer to the nearest check station or by contacting a biologist in their area. Learn more about CWD on the TPWD web site or the TAHC web site

Religion & Lifestyle

Wednesday,October 6, 2021

Sunday Observations from Christy

We were sitting around the fireplace at a hunting retreat sponsored by Christian Outdoor Fellowship and Christian Outdoor Alliance. Many of the hunters were talking about their children when a man in his fifties starting telling about his two and a half year old. We all looked puzzled when he explained. He said, “We were never able to have children. However, when I was fifty and my wife was forty-eight, she came home from the doctor and announced she was pregnant! When our daughter was born, we decided to name her Flo, for first, last, and only!” “Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from Him. Blessed the man whose quiver is full of them.” (Psalm 127: 3, 5) Danny R. Biddy, Chaplain: Chambers County Sheriff’s Office & Fellowship of Christian Cowboys OBITUARY

94, of Fannett, died Sunday, September 26, 2021. She was born March 27, 1927, in Holdenville, Oklahoma, to Ethel Mae Wheeler Baker and and John Floyd Baker. Mrs. Campbell loved dancing, playing cards, sewing, quilting, and bird watching. She was a retired teacher who Norma John Campbell, taught at Hamshire-

Cornerstone Church 3810 Hwy. 124 • Stowell 409-296-2481 Sunday Worship Service.........10:00 am Wednesday Family Night......6:30 pm Cornerstone Church 1100 Oak Street • Anahuac 409-296-2481 Sunday Worship Service.....10:30 am

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First Baptist Church of Anahuac 405 South Magnolia • Anahuac 409-267-3262 Sunday School..............9:00 am SundayMorningWorship.....11:00 am Evening Worship..........6:00 pm Wednesday Prayer Meeting.....6:30 pm First Baptist of Fannett Highway 124 • Fannett Sunday School.................9:30 am Sunday Morning Worship...10:45 am Sunday Discipleship Training.......5:00 pm Sunday Evening Worship.............6:00 pm Wednesday Prayer Meeting......7:00 pm First Baptist Church of Hamshire Highway 124 • Hamshire 409-243-2163 Sunday School.................9:15 am Morning Worship.........10:30 am Evening Worship............6:00 pm Wednesday Discipleship....6:15 pm First Baptist Church of Stowell W. Main &VanOstrand • Stowell 409-296-4510 Sunday School.........................9:30 am Sunday Morning Worship......11:00 am Sunday Evening Worship........6:00 pm Wednesday Bible Study............7:00 pm OutdoorsMen Church of Winnie Hwy 124 in Winnie Saturday.......6:00pm (covered dish meal at service)

First Baptist Church of Winnie Winnie 409-296-4072 Brian Johnson, Pastor Sunday School.................9:15 am Sunday Morning Worship..10:30 am SundayEvening Worship...........6:00 pm Wednesday: Kids for Christ.................4:00 pm Youth (Grades 7-12)........4:00 pm Adult Bible Study/Prayer Meeting.6:00 pm Sweet Home Baptist Church Hankamer 409-374-2208 Pastor: Ronald Smith Sunday School.................9:30 am SundayMorningWorship.........10:30am Wednesday Dinner......................6:00 pm Wednesday Bible Study Adult, Youth and Children’s.....6:30 pm Mt. Horeb Baptist Church Campbell Rd &Ave G • Stowell 409-296-2938 Sunday School.........................8:00 am Sunday Morning Worship.........9:00 am Monday Mission & Teachers.......6:00 pm Wednesday Prayer Meeting & Choir St. Paul Baptist Church First Street • Stowell 409-296-2750 Sunday School.........................9:45 am Sunday Worship....................11:00 am Monday Brotherhood............7:00 pm Tuesday Mission.....................6:30 pm WednesdayPrayerMeeting...........7:00pm

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The last few months have seen every single household in my family cleaning things out. New houses, down sizes, remodels, moves, discard, send elsewhere, sell, let me check if so and so wants this. All of us. I have been no different. Last weekend my daughter and her boyfriend come out, and it’s time to tackle HER OLD CLOSET. Y’all, this kid hasn’t lived at home in 9 1/2 years. Not like she just left yesterday. But there are these three huge boxes of childhood items. That momma kept. That mean a whole lot of

NOTHING to her. So they, and a friend that joined them, started dragging stuff out. Let me explain. I am sentimental to a fault. I have a crazy good memory, and I remember her wearing every outfit, drawing every picture, winning every trophy. She on the other hand, has the sentimentality of a slug. I’m not being ugly, she knows this and happily admits it. But alas, as we went through ridiculous things I kept, there was a lot in that closet she took. Her letterman. Her old Jenny Finch softball jersey. Her last Batbreaker jersey. Some blankets. A set of stairs for their dog. Her stuffed Simba, Barney, & Baby Bop. Her Barney duffel bag…. Some of it. We laughed, the boyfriend got a kick out of seeing 13 year old Tiff, they made fun of me, we laughed some more. I threw away some old stuff, I

sold some more, they left. With a full car. But those three boxes, are still right here. They were looked at, don’t get me wrong. But no decisions could be made. She wondered about my sanity. I mean who has a three ring binder filled with scribble sheets of crayon colors? Did I mention she worries about my sanity??? So what do I do? I get three more boxes, that will slide under my bed. We will go through the existing boxes, and discard some stuff. What won’t fit in the three flatter and smaller boxes will have to find a home, either in the dump or her apartment. The dump looks more likely. Happy Sunday peeps….. I thought of many of you as I went through this, because I know so many who lost all of those childhood items to our various floods. I know I’m blessed

that I still have them. I also know, time marches on. Things must be ridded. The only thing that never changes, is change. Blah blah blah. But damnit that Barney Halloween costume is staying, and the Barney pajamas, and wait my grandmother made that Christmas dress, and remember she wore that dress her first Easter…. The day she took her first steps. As I hear her say, MOM….. you kept 20 baby rattles….. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???? MOMMMMM!!! Are those WEE-BOKS? Yes kid, your first pair of Reebok tennis shoes, that my best friends bought you, as a newborn. Have I mentioned we are polar opposites….. yet so alike. Embracing the changes that living life has afforded us…… and wondering, where the hell did the last 30 years go????

Fannett for twenty-one years. She is survived by her children, Lee Campbell and his wife, Joyce; Beth McGown and her husband, Bobby; and John Campbell and his wife, Ann; grandchildren, Christopher Burns and his wife, Rebecca; John Ryan Campbell; Marlee Trahan and her husband, Kennie; Caylee Evans

and her husband, Curtis; great-grandchildren, Kaley, Merrick, Aidan, Kenlee, Caleb, Cora; caregivers, Jessett Castro, Joyce Mannon, and Flavia Muller, and the family would like to thank the Heart of Texas Hospice for their care of Mrs. Campbell. She is preceded in death by her parents, John and Ethel Baker; husband,

W.L. Campbell, Jr.; sister, Jackie Hunt and nephew, Buddy Hunt. Memorial contributions may be made to Methodist Children’s Home, 1111 Herring Avenue, Waco, Texas 76708 or Faith United Methodist Church, 18895 FM 365 Beaumont, Texas 77705. A gathering of Mrs. Campbell’s family and friends was held

Thursday, September 30, 2021, at Faith United Methodist Church, 18895 FM 365, Beaumont, under the direction of Broussard’s, 134 West Buccaneer Drive, Winnie. Her interment followed at Fairview Cemetery, Winnie. Complete and updated information can be found at: broussards1889.com

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St. Mary Baptist Church Hwy 61 &Albritton •Hankamer 409-374-2182 Sunday School.........................9:30 am Morning Worship..................11:00 am Wednesday Bible Study.........7:00 pm SunlightMissionaryBaptistChurch Spikes Rd • Hankamer Sunday School.........................9:45 am Sunday Morning Worship......11:00 am Wednesday Evening..................7:00 pm LaBelle Baptist Church 9400 Hwy 365 • LaBelle 409-796-1240 Sunday School.......................10:00 am Sunday Adult Worship............11:00 am Sunday Children’s Church......11:00 am Sunday Evening......................6:00 pm Wednesday Bible Study.............7:00 pm First Baptist Church High Island Sunday School.........................9:30 am Sunday Worship....................10:30 am Sunday Evening Worship..........6:00 pm Wednesday Prayer & Bible......7:00 pm

Catholic St. Louis Catholic Church 315 W Buccaneer Dr • Winnie 409-296-4200 Weekday Mass Wednesday..................8:30 am Spanish Friday....9:45 am English at Arboretum Saturday...Reconciliation 3:00-3:45 pm Mass in English...............4:00 pm Sunday Mass in English.....7 am & 10:30 am Spanish Mass........................noon Holy days......8:30 am & 6:30 pm Our Lady of Light Catholic Church S. Main St • Anahuac 409-267-3158 Confession:Saturday...............5:00 pm English: Sunday.......................8:30 am Spanish: Saturday...................6:00 pm Thursday...................................6:00 pm

St. Mary’s Catholic Church Hwy. 365 & IH-10 • Fannett 794-2548 Saturday Mass.........................5:00 pm Sunday Mass............7:00 & 11:00 am St. Martin DePorres Mission Boyt & Kidd • Cheek 409-794-2548 Sunday Mass............................9:00 am

Church of Christ Winnie Church of Christ 2559 Hwy 124 • Stowell 409-899-1737 • 409-363-9898 Sunday Bible Class.................9:45 am Sunday Morning Worship.......10:45 am Sunday Evening Worship......5:00 pm Wednesday Service................7:00 pm Church of Christ Oak Street • Anahuac 267-6445 Sunday Bible Class.................9:30 am SundayWorship Service......10:30 am SundayEvening Worship.......6:00 pm Wednesday Service................6:00 pm

Episcopal Trinity Episcopal Church Washington & Light St • Anahuac 409-267-6582 Sunday Holy Communion.......9:00 am

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Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints Menely Road • Winnie Sunday Morning.....................9:00 am Wednesday Youth Activities.....7:00 pm

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Hope Lutheran Church 9th & LeBlanc - Winnie 409-296-2377 Sunday Worship............9:30 am Sunday School............10:45 am

First United Methodist 204 Trinity St • Anahuac 409-267-3242 Sunday School.......................10:45 am Sunday Worship....................11:00 am St. James Methodist Ed Hopkins @ Texas St • Anahuac Sunday School.........................9:30 am Sunday Worship 1st & 4th Sunday.....................................11:00 am Wednesday Bible Studies......6:00 pm Faith United Methodist Highway 365 • Fannett 409-794-1121 Sunday School......................10:00 am Sunday Worship....................11:00 am UMYF 2nd and 4th Sunday.....5:00 pm Middleton Memorial Methodist Wallisville Rd • Wallisville 409-389-2218 Sunday Worship......................9:00 am St.PaulUnitedMethodistDoubleBayou www.stpauldoublebayou.com Sunday School........................10:45am Sunday Worship .................... 9:00 am Wednesday Bible Studies.........6:30 pm St. Mathew’s United Methodist 1312 Weeks Ave • High Island Sunday School.........................9:00 am Sunday Worship Service.........10:00 am UMYF.............................................3:00 pm First United Methodist Highway 124 @ Freeman • Winnie 296-4382 Sunday School.........................9:30 am Sunday Worship....................10:45 am UMYF.......................................6:00 pm Sunday Worship......................9:30 am Sunday School.......................10:45 am

SmithPoint Community Church Smith Point Sunday School.......................10:00 am Sunday Morning Worship......11:00 am Trinity Church 1324 Hwy. 124 • Winnie Sunday Happy Hour...............9:00 am Morning Worship.................10:00 am WednesdayEveningWorship....7:30pm House of Prayer Fannett Elementary School 409-794-9470 Sunday Services.............2:00-5:00 pm HankamerCommunity Fellowship FM 1663 @ FM 1724 • Hankamer Sunday School.....................10:00 am Sunday Praise & Worship..11:00 am Wednesday Bible Study........7:00 pm Lighthouse of Hope Church 507 6th St. Winnie, Texas (at the corner of 6th St. and Oak St.) 409-782-5354 Sunday Worship....................10:00 am Wednesday Worship..............6:30 pm Word of Life Church Please call (351) 999-4923 to participate in our phone church services: Adult Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Church services 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 pm

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Calvary Tabernacle 1210 FM 1406 • Winnie 296-2020 Sunday School........................2:00 pm Sunday Worship.....................2:45 pm Thursday Evening...................7:00 pm (Children’s Church, Youth Service & Bible Study) - Pastor Carl A. Vickery Calvary Tabernacle UPC 11185 Mahon Rd, Fannet Pastor Steve Adams 409-201-8033 Sunday 1pm, Thursday 7pm First UnitedPentecostal Church 1352 Walter Street • High Island 286-5444 Sunday Worship....................10:00 am Tuesday.....................................7:30 pm

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Palms RV Park 721 9th Street, Winnie. Showers, laundry room, wifi, propane bottle exhange, privacy fence, security cameras. 409.673.5927 For Lease 4 BR 2 bath 1 car garage. 936 Van Ostrand, Winnie. $1550.00/ month. Call 409-363-4570

House for rent: brick house, 3 bed 2.5 bath, inside has washer, dryer & refrigerator. very nice house. one month $1,200. One year contract please call 832-298-8159 House for Rent 3 BR 1 1/2 bath $1100.00/month and $1100.00 deposit. No utilities. Call Reenay 409-201-0399 2 bedroom, 1 bath, Fema trailer for rent. $600.00 monthly with $300.00 deposit. Will not be available until first week of September. Please call 409-296-6980, we will need some additional information before approved. For Rent 3BR House Kitchen Appliances, Central Heat/Air $1250.00/mo 409-651-0578 1600 sq. ft. for rent. Window display, Highway frontage 409-781-0918 1000 sq. ft. office space for rent. 409-781-0918. Small house, 2BR, 1B, kitchen with built-ins, Franzen Rd, 725/mo; 4096799773

Handyman needed for only a few hours work around the house and yard. 409-296-6224 General Labor crew needed. Duties include: shoveling, weed-eating/mowing, pouring concrete, laying pipes and clearing land. Background check and drug screen required. Tempto-hire - $12.00 per hour. Call us at 835-5566.

Cub SI40 farm tractors 14’50’ mobile home - large dog house metal - garden tiller - 3 drilling rigs want to buy disk - brush hog - tractor w/ front loader. 281-788-7838 7 1/4 acres furnished house lots of outside equipment. 409-284-5543 2005 Crown Vic Intercepter: Clean, dependable, new tires, brakes, great ac, etc., $3, 800.00. 281-414-6353 Garage Sale Saturday, Oct 09, 1237 Cook Road Winnie Trailer axles $40.00 - $100.00 each, PVC pipe 1 1/2 to 4" $50.00, Call 409-457-5204

Canal City lot for sale by owner on the middle canal undeveloped Lot #302, 1468 Van Sant Gilchrist TX call Alan 409-9393240 no texts $30,000 2004 40' Mountain Air motorhome, made by Newmar. 250 Cummings diesel, 6 speed Allison transmission $25000.00 Call 409-277-0883 or 409-277-9872 Trailer axles $40 - 100 each Located in Stowell 4 0 9 - 4 5 7 - 5 2 0 4 4x5 Round bales stored outside for cows. $35.00 each. Call 409-781-2236 For Sale 28' Triple Axle Gooseneck Trailer $6500.00. Call 409-267-3063

Garry BrattenExperienced Handyman. No job too small or large. 409-354-8280.

FOR SALE Property For Sale Contact Glenn Guillory at 832-4332115. If no answer please leave message. Property Legal Description: Bk 15 LT6 Stowell T/S .1610 acres. Bk 15 LT5 Stowell/TS .1610 acres. 651 TR 1C-O WW Gregory .1600 acres

Hatfield Garage Mechanic Needed Call 409-296-3333

Part time maintenance man needed. Apply at Winnie Square Apartments 218 W Magnolia Ave #33 Winnie TX 409-296-2100 FOR RENT One BR apartment $600.00/per month, $600.00 deposit. No utilities Call Reenay 409-201-0399 2 bedroom, 1 bath Fema trailer, $600.00 month with $300.00 deposit. If interested please call 409-296-6980.

FOR LEASE Horse and cow pasture for lease. One mile from Winnie. 20 acres and 2 barns. $100/month. 409-466-6417, 409-296-9267 Land and fully furnished house 7 and 3/4 acres 409-284-5543 Cat 3406, new rods &main bearings, marine gear includes PTO & hydraulic pump. Shaft is 2 1/2" x 12'3" w/4 blade prom 3 drum winch & stainless cables. Engine on stand to hear run in Oak Island. 9 3 6 - 5 4 6 - 4 4 0 1

For Sale 2 Mobile Homes each on a 50X150 lot. Located at 111 Highland St and 121 Highland St. Each $25000.00, cash only. Call 409-2964303 or 409-656-8938 Commercial gas tank for sale $700. refrigerator for sale $80. please call 832-298-8159

2012 Jeep Compass runs good. A/C works but does not cool well. Work vehicle $5000.00 Call 409-277-1065 4x5 Round bales Horse quality in barn $50.00 Call 409-781-2236 2000 Ford gas tractor parts. Call for prices Located in Stowell 4 0 9 - 4 5 7 - 5 2 0 4 Window air conditioner $50 Located in Stowell 4 0 9 - 4 5 7 - 5 2 0 4 4 tires size 33x12.50 R18LT $100 Located in Stowell 4 0 9 - 4 5 7 - 5 2 0 4

Horse hay 4x5 fertilized Jiggs Bermuda in barn $50.00/ roll. Call 409-781-2236 For sale: Bradford, Brangus, and Hereford bulls. Call 713.875.5703 Part-time shop help needed for weekends and some weekdays. If interested please call 409-296-6980.

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TABLE FARE FISH

By John Jefferson

This column is about crappie – the fish. The proper pronunciation of that species rhymes with “poppy;” not “pappy.” But I can’t write about crappie without thinking of my friend and frequent fishing partner, Duke Kinley. He has broken and rebroken both black and white crappie records so often that he has quit entering his catches as records. He even broke MY Lake Austin white crappie record. One he caught on Walter E. Long Reservoir (AKA Decker Lake) was so big he had to cut its tail off to fit it in his skillet. He’s caught so many 15-inch crappie that I’ve lost count. But before some reader nominates him for “Crappie King,” let me tell you he’s

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more likely the “Compleat Angler” that Izaak Walton wrote about. Several years ago, Kinley cast his way into that charmed circle of bass anglers who have caught a 13-pound or larger largemouth bass. He’s also fed his family with big catfish he’s caught, white bass he and I filled a livewell with one afternoon, and he’s even landed big mouth buffalo and gaspergou – in addition to his crappie success. He fishes for what he wants that day. And usually catches it. But he seems to prefer crappies. There are two main sub-species of crappie in Texas: White and black crappie. Both are members of the sunfish family. White crappies are said to have irregular dark bars on their sides. They turn darker when spawning, making identification harder. Their dorsal fin has up to six spines, while the black crappies have seven or eight. Black crappies have irregular black splotches on their sides instead of the vertical bars. They’re more strikingly attractive. They also have deeper chests than the whites. Though there is some argument, both are everywhere. And both are DELICIOUS! Growing up in East Texas, I never heard the word “crap-

pie”, nor ever saw one. Only later did I learn it was what we called “white perch”. I came upon a man fishing in Cypress Creek, north of Austin, one afternoon and asked him what he had caught. He proudly answered, “Five white perch”. Having not heard that since leaving the Pineywoods, I asked where he was from. He answered, “Beaumont.” East Texans usually fished for them with minnows. People elsewhere do, too. A classmate mentioned having fished for crappie and I asked how he did that. He answered, “Use little bitty jigs.” Someone referred me to Tommy Tidwell, a crappie guide on Granger Lake, north of Taylor. He teaches school in Georgetown and guides crappie anglers after school. His brother and I began fishing with live minnows, while Tommy fished with a 1/16thounce red, yellow, and black jig. He outfished both of us two-to-one! I switched to the same jig and doubled my catch. In a couple of hours, we had a boat load of crappies. The daily bag limit is 25 crappies/angler, at least ten inches long. My stringer picture showed 53 crappies. And we released that many undersized ones!

Tommy Tidwell, a Granger Lake crappie and white bass guide (on left) helps his brother, Terry, hold a short afternoon’s catch of crappies. Many consider crappies the best eating freshwater fish in America. They usually occur in water about 12-feet deep around brush piles except in spring when they move into shallower water near shore to spawn. Photo by John Jefferson.

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East Chambers Homecoming (contd) on the yearbook staff for one year, a member of the athletic trainer program for 3 years and a member of the soccer team for 3 years. She was selected as most photogenic her Junior year. Emily plans to attend Lamar University after graduation. The Homecoming King is Hector Martinez. He is the

son of Hector and Gricelda Martinez. Hector has been a member of the National Honor Society for 2 years and he has been in the band for 5 years where he is currently the drumline captain. He has been on the varsity football team for 3 years and has been a team captain for 1 year. Hector has been on the

varsity baseball team for 2 years and has competed in powerlifting for one year. Hector was on the A/B honor roll his Freshman and Sophomore year, and he was on the A honor roll his Junior year. Hector plans on attending Lamar University after graduation to study engineering.

NFR Race Leads Zach Hibler to Pasadena, Texas

Zach Hibler scooped up every dollar he could find when the PRCA regular season ended Sept. 30. That journey led the Wheeler, Texas, bareback rider, to a handful of rodeos in the waning days of the PRCA season. One of those rodeos was the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo, and he made it count and then some. Hibler took home the title with an 85.5-point ride on Frontier Rodeo’s High Heels. He said it’s a rodeo he wasn’t even

entered in until the night of the performance. “I walked up and replaced at that rodeo because Wyatt Denny and I were in a tight race for the No. 15 spot to qualify for the Finals,” said Hibler, 24. “He and I both walked up at the rodeo, and they drew those horses for us. I didn’t know a whole lot about that horse but after the ride I was sure glad I had that one.” The win in Pasadena earned him $1,610 towards the PRCA | RAM World Standings. He

said while the last few weeks have been stressful it was advice from his wife that lifted a little weight off his shoulders. “My wife talked to me, and she said, ‘just have fun and remember why you ride bareback horses,’” Zach said. “After I started doing that it just seemed like everything was a lot easier. Not worrying about all the standings and just getting on each horse and having fun. If it works out it works out and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”

Roscoe Jarboe was picking up every ride he could before the PRCA regular season ended Sept. 30. It’s coming down to the wire for the 25-year-old bull rider, who was sitting right on the bubble for a Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualification. Being the only bull rider to make the eight-second whistle at the Cowboy Capital of the World PRCA Rodeo in Stephenville, Texas, might have given Jarboe the boost he needed to stay in the Top 15. “We all showed up to do our job that night and ev-

ery night before that. So, just to get my bull rode and be the only one, that doesn’t happen very often I’d say,” Jarboe said. “So, I was excited about it, made me happy.” Jarboe also took a victory at Young Living’s Last Chance Rodeo, in Mona, Utah, with 89.5 points on Bar T Rodeo’s Goofy. Living up to the rodeo’s name, he’s making his last chance to qualify count by adding nearly $10,000 to his total with the two wins. With such a successful week, it’s hard to believe the season has been any-

thing but picture perfect for Jarboe. In just the month of September, he’s battled multiple injuries. On top of that, he didn’t have the opportunity to compete at the Tour Finale in Salinas, Calif. While some cowboys may have called it quits, Jarboe said that’s just not his style. “I just don’t think it’s in me to throw in the towel. I’m not one to give up when your ship’s starting to sink,” Jarboe said. “I’m obviously pretty glad I didn’t, even though I don’t think I would’ve, ever.”

Bull Rider Roscoe Jarboe Late Season Victories

Brad & Big Rich’s Cajun Chef’s Cookoff” was started as a way to give to someone in need or to donate to an organization/ group that helps those in need. This event of Cajun Cooking, Auction, Tasting Great Cooking, Arts and Crafts and LIVE Music, started out at Stingaree Restaurant, Its growth has moved it to Festival Park, Home of the Texas Crab Festival in Crystal Beach

on the Bolivar Peninsula. Started by Brad Vratis of Stingaree Restaurant, Rich Courville’s Catering and David Harris of Bolivar LIVE, this event over the years has accomplished great rewards with funds being donated to non-profits or an individual in need. For 2021, all Cook-off Proceeds, Auction items, T-Shirt Sales and more, will go to The Organ Donor Network in Memory

of Rayna Reagan, a friend to all. The proceeds from the Washer Tournament will benefit the Texas Crab Fest Charities. This yearly October event is one not to miss on the Bolivar Peninsula at Festival Park, 1605 Hwy 87, Crystal Beach, Texas. Please visit our website for a complete overview of this fun charitable event. www.CajunCookoff.com

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