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This mixed
bag of trout,
reds and
flounder were
caught by
these anglers
fishing with
Sabine Lake
guide Jerry
Norris. They
were caught
on soft plastics and
Super Spook
Jr. lures.
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CCA STAR tourney starts May 25
Fishing on Sabine Lake is red hot
The very popular Coastal 100 prizes including trucks,
Conservation
Association boats, motors, trailers and colSTAR tournament starts Satur- lege scholarships,” says Bill
day, May 25, and runs through Kinney, tourney director. “The
Sept. 2. If you’ll be fishing this STAR tournament entry fee is
tournament like thousands of still an awesome bargain at
other anglers across Texas, now only $20 for ages 18 and up.
is the time hit Sabine
Membership fee is $25
Lake and maybe catch a
annually, plus $20 (for
tagged red — or better
the) STAR Tournament
yet, a double-digit trout.
for a total of $45.
In order to win one
Fishing on Sabine
of the $1 million in
Lake has been red hot
prizes being offered in
the past couple of
Texas’ largest, richest,
weeks, and it’s prime
summer-long saltwater Robert Sloan time to hit the water
fishing event, an angler Outdoors and make a prize-winmust be a current memning catch. The jetties
ber of CCA, in addition
are on, flounder are
to being registered as a 2013 good in the pass, and trout and
Texas STAR entrant.
reds are excellent all over the
“This year’s contestants lake. During the past four
have a chance at winning over weeks, several trout weighing
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from 7 to just over 10 pounds
have been caught. Most have
been on topwater plugs. Many
of the heaviest trout have been
fooled with bone-colored, one
knocker Super Spooks. The
No. 1 lure for both flounder
and reds is a soft plastic swim
bait with a paddle tail. The
4-inch Yum Mud Minnows
have been very good at the jetties for both reds and trout.
Top colors are Houdini and
pearl/silver flake.
Big trout are also being caught
on East Galveston Bay and along
the west shoreline of Trinity Bay
by waders fishing Super Spook
Jr. lures in chrome/blue, and
slow sinking MirrOlures in pink/
yellow and red/white.
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2013 STATE OF TEXAS ANGLER’S RODEO
MAY 25 – SEPT 2
12 DIVISIONS
20 BOATS
5 TRUCKS
$1,000,000
In Prizes &
Scholarships
Including
STARKID and
STARTEEN
Divisions!
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Mem A
Ages bers
6-17
Fis
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FREEAR
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The one thing you don’t
want to do is go fishing before
signing up for the STAR. This
is the 24th year of the STAR,
and each year there are many
anglers who catch tagged reds
and big trout that aren’t entered
in the tourney. You never know
when you’re going to reel in
something like a tagged red
that’s worth a truck/boat/motor
and trailer.
“The Texas Ford Dealers
Redfish Division is very popular,” says Gina Rice, director
of operations. “Texas Ford
dealers will again give each of
the first five registered STAR
participants who catch tagged
redfish a new truck. Haynie
Boats returns with the Haynie
23 Bigfoot rigged with a Mercury 150. A Coastline Trailer
completes the package. The
next five weighed in will
receive the same boat, motor
and trailer packages.”
For young anglers ages 6-17,
the “New Tide” membership
fee remains $10 annually, and
the STAR entry fee is free.
CCA “New Tide” members
will continue to have the opportunity to win huge scholarships
to fund their college education
for just the price of a $10 CCA
“New Tide” membership.
“In the past 18 years,
$4,635,000 in college scholarships has been awarded to
fisher-kids across the state,”
says Kinney. “And 2012 continues to offer plenty of reason
for everyone to round up their
kids, a rod and reel, and head
for the water.”
In the heaviest trout division, winners in the upper,
middle and lower coast regions
will take home the Shoalwater
22-foot Legend, powered with
a Mercury 150, and McClain
trailer.
“If you’re not sure a trout is
heavy enough to qualify, consider this easy rule-of-thumb,”
says Kinney. “If the length is
less than 27 inches, chances
are it won’t meet the 8-pound
minimum weight requirement.
Unless you intend to mount
your fish as a personal best,
why not think about releasing
anything that might not make
the cut so she can re-seed the
bays?”
In the offshore division,
anglers who catch the heaviest
kingfish, dorado or ling will
each win an Explorer boat
with a Mercury 200 outboard
and McClain trailer.
Each winner that reels in
the heaviest flounder, gafftop
and sheepshead will win a
Blue Wave 180 V Bay boat
rigged with a Mercury 115
outboard and McClain trailer.
For more information,
including a list of weigh-in stations, instant-entry registration
locations in your area and
weekly leader board updates,
go to www.startournament.org.
CCA Texas is a nonprofit
organization of sportfishing
enthusiasts and conservationist working to save the natural
resources of Texas coastal
waters. The CCA Texas webpage can be found at www.
ccatexas.org.
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Sign up for STAR no later than May 24, 2013 to be automatically entered in the STAR “EARLY BIRD”
drawing for fabulous prizes including a Dargel 210 Skout, Evinrude 150 E-TEC and McClain
trailer – a prize package valued at around $35,000!
Everyone ages 21 and over that signs up now through
May 24 will automatically be entered into this special
drawing courtesy of Coors Light.
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Charming
Entry Forms Available at: Texas Ford Dealers
Instant Entry Available at: Academy Sports & Outdoors, Peggy on the Bayou,
SGS Causeway, Sportsmans Supply, Stingaree Marina
713.626.4222
ccatexas.org startournament.org
for a baby to touch, then
helped hold, measure, milk
and skin a buzzing, slithery
serpent. A Los Angeles Times
dispatch noted that Vaught
hoped to be on her way soon to
the Berklee College of Music
in Boston.
The beauty pageant each
April at the Rattlesnake
Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas, requires traditional skills
like interview poise, eveninggown fashion and talent, but
also some ability and inclination to milk and skin rattlers. The Continuing Crisis
High school senior Kyndra
• That there are flea “cirVaught won this
cuses” is bizarre
year’s Miss Snake
enough, but in
Charmer, wearing
March a cold spell
jeweled boots one
in Germany wiped
night for her counout an entire troupe
try-western ballad,
of “performing”
then Kevlar boots
fleas, requiring the
and camouflage
flea whisperer to
chaps the next as
secure
replaceshe took on dozens
ments (because, of
of rattlers in the
course, the show
wooden snake pit.
must go on). TrainVaught expertly
er Robert Birk
held up one serreached out to a
pent, offered its tail-end rattles university near Mechernich-
Kommern for 50 substitutes,
which he apparently worked
into the act over one weekend.
(Fleas, with or without training, can pull up to 160,000
times their own weight and
leap to 100 times their own
height.)
• The owner of a restaurant
in southern Sweden told
authorities in March that the
former owner had assured him
that “everything had been
approved,” apparently including the appliance the restaurant used for mixing salad
dressings and sauces — which
was a table-model cement
mixer. When health officials
told the owner that it certainly
was not “approved,” he immediately bought another, “rustfree,” mixer. (Health authorities had come to the restaurant
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on a complaint that a screw
had turned up in a customer’s
kabob.)
Modern Anglers
• Chad Pregracke, 38, a
Mississippi River legend,
spends nine months a year
hauling heavy-duty litter out
of waterways with his crew of
12. He told CNN in March that
he has yanked up 218 washing
machines, 19 tractors, four
pianos and nearly 1,000 refrigerators — totaling over 3,500
tons of trash — and has collected the world’s largest array
of bottles with messages inside
(63).
• Eliel Santos fishes the
grates of New York City seven
days a week, reeling in enough
bounty to sustain him for the
last eight years, he told the
New York Post in April. The
“fishing line” Santos, 38, uses
is dental floss, with electrician’s tape and Blue-Touch
mouse glue — equipment that
“he controls with the precision
of an archer,” the Post reported. His biggest catch ever was
a $1,800 (pawned value) gold
and diamond bracelet, but the
most popular current items are
iPhones, which texting-onthe-move pedestrians apparently have trouble hanging
onto.
Oops!
• Tyshekka Collier, 36, was
arrested in Spartanburg, S.C.,
in March after she had rushed
to her son’s elementary school
after a call that he was suspended. As she burst into the
office, angry at her son for getting into trouble, she saw a
pouting boy with his head
down and slapped him, thinking he was hers. He wasn’t.
(After apologizing, she then
managed to locate her son and
promptly slapped him around).
• When Evan Ebel was
killed in a roadside shootout in
March, it was clear that he was
the man who had days earlier
gunned down the head of the
Colorado prison system (and
his wife) at the front door of
their home and then fled (and
killed another man while on
the lam). Ebel should not even
have been free at the time,
having been accidentally
released from prison in January only because a judge’s
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THE EXAMINER • May 23-29, 2013
Legacy graduate elected
Dallas Baptist SGA president
Reagan Rothenberger, a Beaumont possesses the ambition to pursue the
native and 20-year-old junior at Dallas highest elected office in the state.
Baptist University (DBU), was elected
“I would love to one day be Texas
president of the Student Govgovernor,” he said. “I’m a
ernment Association (SGA) on
seventh generation Texan.
April 17 for the 2013-14 school
Being governor would be a
year, and will take office in
wonderful opportunity to
August. Rothenberger is the
serve the people of Texas.”
first junior to be elected presiRothenberger, a 2011 graddent of SGA in ten years at
uate of Legacy Christian
DBU, he said.
Academy, said he is a proud
“Everybody is so amazed
Beaumonter who hopes to
that a junior is president,”
one day serve in a local politiRothenberger said. “My entire
cal entity such as Beaumont
cabinet — my secretary, my Rothenberger City Council as well. He said
chaplain, my treasurer, my vice presi- he learned from the best.
dent — they’re all seniors. It’s going to
“I get my political side from my
be a great opportunity to represent the grandfather,” he said. “I enjoy the
students at DBU. It’s a great school, political realm, helping people and
and there’s a lot that student govern- serving them. And also, from my dad,
ment can do to help the students have I get the business side — helping peoa better experience.”
ple with their finances and being a
The Student Government Associa- good Christian businessman.”
tion is a long-held tradition at DBU,
Rothenberger’s grandfather, Al Gerfounded in 1958, Rothenberger said.
son, was a judge at County Court of
Rothenberger, a political science Law No. 1 for 27 years and retired in
major, works as a student assistant to 2011. Rothenberger’s father, Gary, is a
the vice president of University CPA and serves as executive pastor at
Advancement at DBU. He said he plans Calvary Baptist Church in Beaumont.
to pursue an MBA after graduating and
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Throughout the school year, 7th through 10th grade members of Community Christian School’s Robotics Club met weekly to design and build robots
to perform various activities. The club members ended the year by dividing
into two teams for a friendly competition at school. The competition included having the robots play soccer and golf, and complete an obstacle course.
Members of the CCS Robotics Club are: (kneeling) Josh Howard, Marcus
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Vidor church to
help out victims
of Moore tornado
First Pentecostal Church in
Vidor is accepting donations
to aid the victims of an EF4
tornado that devastated Moore,
Okla. on Monday, May 20. A
May 21 press release from
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin
states that three days of tornadoes, straight-line winds and
flooding have killed more than
50 people and injured more
than 120 in Cleveland (where
Moore is located), Lincoln,
McClain, Oklahoma and Pottawatomie counties.
Bruce Lockett, senior minister at First Pentecostal
Church, said church members
contacted him on Monday
night asking if the church
planned to help out the citizens of Moore. He told them
that he would pray about it.
“About 5:30 this morning
(May 21), I was up praying and
felt heavy in my heart,” Lockett
said. “The good Lord told me
this morning to go on over to
Oklahoma. I felt like we needed
to be up there, if anything else,
to give them a hug and give
Photo by Sharon Brooks
Barbara Campbell, member of First Pentecostal Church in
Vidor, collects goods donated for victims of a tornado that
devastated the city of Moore, Okla., on May 20.
them some hope. We’ve been
helped out during storms like
Rita and Ike, and now it’s time
for us to make a difference.”
Lockett, who has pastored
at First Pentecostal for 22
years, said that the church
would be taking the supplies
to Moore on June 3.
The church will be accepting the following items:
Five-gallon buckets with
lids, baby food, baby formula,
diapers, baby wipes, batteries,
shaving cream, razors, sanitary items for men and wom-
en, canned food, toothbrushes,
toothpaste, medical supplies
(peroxide, antibiotic cream,
bandage, rubbing alcohol),
shampoo, deodorant, and toilet
paper and medical equipment.
The items can be dropped
off from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The church
asks that donors do not bring
clothing, shoes or furniture.
First Pentecostal Church is at
185 Camp Street in Vidor. For
more information, call (409)
769-9055 or (409) 769-3069.
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• Apparently feeling feisty
after a successful stint in February hosting the Bassmaster
Classic, local officials in Tulsa, Okla., announced in April
that they were considering
preparing a bid for the 2024
Summer Olympics. (The Winter Games sometimes get
awarded to small venues, but
never the Summer Games.)
• The Discovery Channel
announced a new survival
show to debut this summer,
“Naked and Afraid,” dropping
off a man and a woman
(strangers), without tools or
clothes, to fend for themselves
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Greater Houston Healthconnect Health
Information Exchange comes to Beaumont
For physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants,
nurses, indeed for all health
care workers, and for all public leaders, employers, and
residents of SE Texas, this is a
memorable day. It will forever
be known as the day when the
public laying of the cornerstone for the transformation of
healthcare in Southeast Texas
took place.
Fifteen years ago, on March
31, 1998, when Southeast Texas Medical Associates signed a
$650,000 check to purchase an
electronic medical record and
subsequently on Jan. 26, 1999,
when SETMA completed our
first patient encounter with an
EMR, it was obvious that our
challenge was to bring all of a
patient’s healthcare information to all providers at all
office, hospital, emergency
department, nursing home,
hospice, home health, pharmacy, physical therapy, primary care, and specialty visits.
In 2008, SETMA obtained
the software with which to create a regional health information exchange in pursuit of this
goal. After investing almost
$1,000,000, which was to be
SETMA’s gift to Southeast
Texans, it became obvious to
us that the barriers to our success were insurmountable. Yet,
because the HIE is critical to
the promise of electronic
patient management, we are
delighted today to join with the
Greater Houston Healthconnect Health Information
James
Holly,
M.D.
Your Life, Your Health
Exchange. Of course, we look
forward to the upgrading of the
name to acknowledge that the
Healthconnect HIE has now
outgrown the geographic designation “Great Houston.”
However, whether or until that
identification is upgraded,
SETMA is delighted to embrace
this last step toward the connecting of all participants in
healthcare delivery in the counties of Jefferson, Orange, Hardin, Liberty, Chambers, Tyler,
Newton and Jasper and others.
Jan. 26, 1999, the first day
SETMA saw patients “electronically,” it was slow, awkward and hard. In fact, three of
the patients I personally saw
that day thought that I cared
more about the computer than
about their health. Yet, those
early missteps were the foundation to the powerful tools
we now use for the continued
improvement of our patients’
care. The fact that we publicly
report our providers’ performances by provider name on
over 300 quality metrics at
www.setma.com is demonstrative that the early price we
paid in cost, effort and energy,
has resulted in a return on
“The foundation of excellent
patient-centered care is access to all
of a patient’s healthcare information
at the point of care. This is only possible with a community-wide health
information exchange (HIE). Southeast Texas patients’ ‘safety, satisfaction and successful care will all be
enhanced by all providers, hospitals,
nursing homes, home health and
other health care organizations
belonging to the same HIE.”
— James L. Holly, MD, Quote for HIE Brochure)
investment in quality medicine
which would have been impossible without those birth pains.
No doubt, like EMR, the HIE
will involve missteps and pain,
but the result will be worth it
all.
Today is both a conclusion,
as it initiates the final critical
step in electronic health management, and it is a beginning,
as it initiates all healthcare
providers in Southeast Texas
being able to contribute their
care of and knowledge about
all patients to a powerful data
base for the welfare of all
patients. And, the fact that
their contribution can be done
in a secure, confidential and
dependable manner is an
assurance to all patients that
their private healthcare information will continue to be private and confidential. Patient
confidence is also enhanced
by their knowing each patient
will control which providers
and agencies will have access
to their information
This is a great day; it is the
first day of a great future. It is
the day of fulfillment for all of
us of our truly entering the
21st century of healthcare
delivery. Today, we cease to be
a gaggle of independent practitioners struggling to have
Free medical alert means new Medicare scam
Seniors all over Texas are
receiving phone calls from
individuals who want to make
an appointment to come to
your home and deliver a new
Medical Alert that is all paid
for by Medicare. But the truth
is, Medicare does not pay for
medical alert systems and this
item is not free! This is merely a trick for you to give out
personal information over the
phone to strangers.
Once these scammers get
your Medicare number, which
is also your Social Security
number, they will bill Medicare for items and services
you never receive. Protect
yourself from potential identity theft and protect the
Medicare system from crooks
stealing taxpayer dollars by
hanging up!
You should never give out
your Medicare number to anyone who calls on the telephone. No one from Medicare
or Social Security will ever
call you on the phone to verify
personal information such as a
bank account or your Social
Security number. And never
give out your Medicare number in exchange for free items.
If you are get a phone call
or an offer for “free” items or
services paid for by Medicare,
get the name and number of
the company then hang up.
Then call the Texas Senior
Medicare Patrol and report
the information. Protect,
detect and report Medicare
fraud to (888) 341-6187.
THE EXAMINER • May 23-29, 2013
some and hopefully most of a
patient’s record available for
care, and we become an active
part of a great team where all
of a patient’s healthcare information can be used for their
safety and health.
Imagine, an unconscious
patient being brought to the
emergency room with only a
wallet to identify them. No
family, no friends, no history
to help with the patient’s care!
With the HIE in place, the
treating physician opens the
patient’s record, finds that the
patient has diabetes and seizures and immediately initiates the correct and life-saving
care. Another patient sees her
personal physician and reports
that she has seen a specialist.
What did he say? I don’t
remember. What did he do? I
don’t remember. An hour is
spent trying t get the information. In another clinic, which
is participating in the HIE, the
physician accesses the specialist’s consultation note and
moves on to give excellent
care to the patient. Time is
saved. Quality of care is
improved and the safety of the
patient’s care is increased.
All of Southeast Texas
should rejoice today. I assure
you that SETMA does. It will
be our purpose to contribute
all that we can to the success
of the “Greater Houston
Healthconnect HIE.” The beneficiary will be the health of
our community and the health
of our friends and neighbors.
No. 0519
May 23-29, 2013 • THE EXAMINER
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erable. This teacher runs the
show. My daughter quit going to
the teachers lounge, because it
was a place for gossiping about
other teachers and parents and
speaking negatively about the
children. She was pulled into
the principal’s office and
informed that the other teachers
found her “cold” and unsociable
because she wasn’t going to the
teachers lounge. She tried again,
but her colleagues shunned her.
She sometimes would walk into
the lounge and catch them talking about her.
For all other teachers’ birthdays, they would bring desserts
and food, but nothing was done
for hers. She brought in snacks
on her birthday to share, and
not a single teacher ate any of
them. She has tried asking other teachers for advice and has
inquired about their families,
but they act disinterested and
make snide comments.
My daughter is intelligent
and has excellent social skills.
She can see the oldest teacher
is the ringleader of a group of
bullies. What kind of example
is this for teachers to set for the
children? They should be mentoring a new teacher, not ostracizing her. Any advice on how
to deal with this situation?
— Can’t Believe Adults
Act This Way
Dear Can’t:
Adult bullies are often insecure, particularly if they crave
power and control and think
you are a threat. While you can
be a source of emotional support, this is your daughter’s
battle. She can document
instances of bullying and present it to the principal, but that
may not be effective. She can
avoid the bullies altogether or
try to cozy up to the main bully,
flattering her and telling her
how important she is. She can
attempt to make friends with
one other teacher and have an
ally. And, if necessary, she can
apply for a job with another
school where they take such
behavior more seriously.
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By Darby Conley
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represent the number of letters in each solution. Each letter combinaion
can be used only once, but all the letter combinations will be necessary
to complete the puzzle.
For solutions, see page 15 C
May 23-29, 2013 • THE EXAMINER
Suburban TV
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Custom installation combines
first-rate service, Sony products
“Shh! It’s our little
secret. No one will ever
know where we hid the
wires. Come by and we
will talk about how we are
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It almost sounds as if
Suburban TV is committing a criminal act in the
company’s latest advertisement. But the “anything and everything at
your service” attitude that
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business that offers any“We’ve got live people
thing other than automated
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sonal installers.
is there with you at every
Suburban TV offers
phase of the project.”
first-name basis relationSuburban isn’t afraid to
ships to its customers, and
take on custom projects,
the technicians who sereither; in fact, 80 percent
vice and install their Sony
of their business is based
LCD, LED, or home theon brainstorms — from
ater systems are top notch
customers like you.
and certified by the CusYour Sony TV can be
tom Electronics Design
mounted on a wall, above
and Installation Associaa fireplace or even outTV descends
tion (CEDIA).
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Take Danny Ramsey,
the end of the bed on a
lead installer at Suburban.
pedestal. It can be incorDanny is an expert at conporated into an antique.
cealing wires, receivers,
They’ll study your blueDVD players and more,
prints, consult the carpenaccording to Charlotte
ters, cabinetmakers and
Fontenot, co-owner of the
electricians, and do whatstore. “Danny has been
ever it takes to make your
with us for more than 25
idea a reality.
years,” Charlotte says.
“Everything is custom.
“Danny is there from A to
Our clients look for cusZ. He is the head installer
tom. They’re looking for
on the job and is working
someone who is willing to
the job — he’s the one you
network with all the other
meet initially and the one
experts they’ve brought
that when the job is finon stage for their producTV appears
ished, is there to help you
tion. After you come in
learn how to use your Sony product. and we listen to what you want, the next
He’s available for you to call anytime step is usually a trip to your house or a
you have a problem.” In fact, Danny’s sit-down with these experts.”
personal cell phone number is not the
Suburban also understands the
only number readily available. The importance of the WAF or Wife Acceppersonal cell phone numbers of own- tance Factor.
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Charlotte says that when Suburban
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hiding all the wires, the job will leave
you asking, “How’d they do that?”
Tired of all those confusing individual remotes for each electronic
component?
“Instead of having seven remote
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Oh, and if you have any problems,
call Danny. His number appears on the
help button of the universal, all-inclusive remote that Suburban TV offers
its customers.
“If you buy something from us, you
go to us,” she says. “You start with us
and typically end with us. With a
phone call, things can easily be fixed.”
Suburban TV has been a part of the
Beaumont community for 61 years and
has always been known for servicing
what they sell, Charlotte says.
“When I took over the business in
’71 when my parents retired, there
were 25 plus mom-and-pop stores
where you could go and buy your TV,
and nowadays, we’re just about it.”
The store at one time had eight different brands to look at as well, but that
is no longer necessary, Charlotte says.
“As the years have gone by, Sony
has continued to be the top brand,” she
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Suburban TV also sells, installs and
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“Same folks ... same location … just
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The hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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At Suburban TV, everything is custom.
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THE EXAMINER • May 23-29, 2013
• Fill the cells in such a way that each row,
column and 3x3 subsquare has digits 1-9.
• Some digits are already given as clues.
Easy — Puzzle No. 1
Medium — Puzzle No. 2
Press reporter found one tenant paying the equivalent of
about $167 a month for his
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described “ultimate survival- mesh digs.
ist,” finally thought after two People With Issues
weeks of nearly starving that
Finally, Herson Torres was
she could attract fish close
enough to be snatched up (as freed. As Bloomberg Busia New York Daily News ness Week reported step-byreporter put it) “us(ing) her step in April, Torres was
ladyparts as bait to catch fish recruited by a “Defense Intelbetween her legs.” Said a Dis- ligence Agency operative” to
covery Channel executive: rob a Virginia bank in order
“Survival shows are so com- to test first-responder reaction times. If caught, Torres’s
mon now that it’s gotten more arrest would be removed,
and more difficult to convince said “Theo,” the operative.
the audience that what they’re The skeptical Torres asked
watching
is
something advice of various authority
extreme.”
figures,
including
two
bemused
lawyers,
but
“Theo”
Perspective
was able to calm them all
Location, Location, Loca- with a dazzling display of
tion: The New Delhi, India, CIA jargon and procedures.
neighborhood of Lutyens’ Torres was indeed arrested,
Delhi houses some of the and “Theo” indeed sprang
richest people in the country him (but with a judicial order
in comparatively modest that was forged). Ultimately,
mansions, with the city’s real “Theo” was revealed to be
estate bubble inflating prices frustrated computer-techie
into nine figures, though Matthew Brady, 26, who
home sales are rare, according lives with his mother and
to a March New York Times grandmother in Matoaca,
dispatch. In the similarly Va., and despite his obviouswealthy city of Hong Kong, ly world-class bluffing skill,
in the “gritty, working-class he pleaded guilty in May and
West Kowloon neighbor- was ordered treated for his
hood” where the laborers paranoid schizophrenia and
serving the rich live, about delusional disorder.
100,000 dwell in pitiable
housing,
including
the No Longer Weird
increasing number who rent
Even the editor of News
what are basically stacks of of the Weird gets bored: (1)
wire sleep cages, measuring A man in his 70s in Burnaby,
about 16 square feet each (and British Columbia, was resoffering no protection against cued in January after being
bedbugs). An Associated pinned for three days under
WEIRD
fallen debris inside his seriously cluttered home (with
“ceiling-high mounds of
garbage,” wrote the Canadian Press). (Ho-hum.) (2) In
Lianjiang City, China, in
January, Peng Xinhua, 101,
joined a long line of returnsfrom-the-dead. Following a
fall, she had become stiff
and without a heartbeat, her
two daughters said, and
burial was scheduled. Just
before the funeral, as relatives and friends were washing her body, Peng opened
her eyes and calmly greeted
them.
Readers’ Choice
(1) A 5-year-old boy in
rural Cumberland County,
Ky., accidentally shot and
killed his 2-year-old sister in
April, firing his own .22-caliber rifle. The weapon (a
“Crickett”) is marketed as
“My First Rifle” by the Keystone Sporting Arms company. (2) Henry Gribbohm, 30,
admitted in April that he had
blown his $2,600 life savings
trying to win an Xbox at a
rigged ball-toss game at a
Manchester, N.H., carnival,
lamenting to WBZ-TV, “For
once in my life, I happened
to become that sucker.”
(Gribbohm complained to the
operator, but was given only
a large stuffed banana as consolation. However, when
news broke, an Internet Web
site took up a collection and
purchased the banana from
him for $2,600.)
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May 23-29, 2013 • THE EXAMINER
Plants can keep mosquitos at bay
Well … most everyone has bugs, it can be used to make
them but no one likes them. tea and flavor lots of dishes.
Mosquitoes have been around Horsemint, neem and lemon
forever, and will probably be balm will also be effective in
here for a while longer. What keeping the mosquitoes away.
can you do to cut down on
Citronella is available in a
your mosquito population? In candle form from your local
addition to tips to keep areas discount store. The citronella
dry, certain plants can be add- or “mosquito plants” are also
ed to our yard that those pesky available at good nurseries, if
mosquitoes don’t like. They you look around. Why not use
don’t like them at all.
this natural deterrent
Look for and empty
instead of a spray or
any standing containers
candle? Tansies are a
of water. Don’t forget
type of “mum” that will
to look for hidden
spread
beautifully
water areas like old
around your patio or
tires, old buckets and
backyard. Ageratum is
wheelbarrows. You can
another mosquito repeladd a few teaspoons of
lent plant. It generates
vinegar to watery areas Garden coumarin, which is an
to attack existing mossmell that
Gate offensive
quitoes. Clean out rain
will keep those pesky
with
gutters. Keep grass
biters away.
mowed and overgrown Joette Reger
Catnip isn’t just for
areas clipped.
cat toys. Catnip is conBasil is available in
sidered to be more powseveral different colors and erful at repelling mosquitoes
types. It is wonderful in your than DEET. Be sure to plant
pasta dish, but it is also a mos- some in your patio area to keep
quito repellant. Several plant- these aggravating pests away.
ers of basil on your patio Marigolds have a smell that will
would be decorative, and you chase away bugs. You can enjoy
can clip those big anti-mos- their blooms while they protect
quito leaves to use in the
kitchen. Add scented geraniums to the pot as it repels
mosquitoes, too.
Lemongrass is cheap and
another great deterrent for
mosquitoes. It is a good-looking plant and in addition to
keeping away these pesky
you. Garlic has been used to
repel pests for years. It’s another
plant that you can clip and use
in the kitchen.
So go round up catnip, tansies, citronella, lemongrass,
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place a little less welcoming to
visiting mosquitoes.
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THE EXAMINER • May 23-29, 2013
How important is reading and remembering?
While talking to a young man the
other day about the Lord and His
work, we each spoke about reading
the Bible. I was interested to hear the
very well educated fellow say, “It
doesn’t really do me
any good to read the
Bible or go to church. I
just can’t seem to
remember very much
of it any time later.”
He’s in good company.
Well, perhaps not good
company, but joined by
Brenda
big numbers.
Cannon
A study conducted
Henley
by the United States
Senior
Air Force said that Correspondent
to
The
Examiner
psychologists tell us
that after 72 hours
have passed, only about 10 percent of
what we hear is remembered. The
same survey said that we tend to
remember about 30 percent of what
we read. And we can retain about 50
percent of what we both hear and
read. And here’s the surprising figure
— average human beings can retain
about 90 percent of what we hear,
read, and do.
Many wives, and I’m sure some
husbands, too, will attest to this survey as being truth. I know I have told
my husband an exact date, place or
cost, and three days later, he will say,
“You didn’t mention that to me.” I
jokingly say he has very selective
hearing (and remembering). If it is
about going fishing or going to look at
a new boat, he can likely remember
every detail clearly. But if it is about a
new project for the house, he will not
hear that information clearly.
When I was a very young, new
Christian with little Bible training, I
had the joy of being around my paternal grandmother who read her Bible
every morning in her big chair next to
her birdcage. I can see her now in my
mind’s eye, sitting there with her cup
of coffee, her big Bible, a pen, and a
note pad. Every once in a while, she
would stop and jot something down.
After she finished her Bible reading
each morning, she then turned to Our
Daily Bread, a great little devotional
book that has been around for ages.
She loved reading the stories she
found there, and we could always find
several months of this little publication on her end table.
One day my curiosity got the better
of me and I sat down on the stool in
front of her chair and asked her what
she wrote down either on the flyleaf
of her Bible or the pad. “Well,” she
said ever so seriously, “there are some
things I read that I want to know more
idea. One pastor wrote, “You can see
from the U.S. Air Force statistics how
taking notes will greatly increase your
retention level. You will be able to
grow spiritually more quickly if you
retain the insights you receive from
pastors and teachers as you hear them
speak and from your own private
Bible study.”
I later learned to jot down questions that I wanted answers to when I
heard a speaker in the pulpit. And
when a verse jumped out at me as I
read, I underlined that verse or made
a symbol beside it that I would later
recognize. The notes I took through
the years are like old friends to me
now, and I get great joy out of going
back and reading them over and over.
As I have grown in the Lord, I have
added new notes and references, and
it helps me when I am called on to
teach or to write.
“And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking
of bread and to prayer” (Acts 2:42).
“A Bible that is falling apart from
constant use usually belongs to a life
that isn’t.”
about, so I jot the thought down so I
can look it up in other places later. If
a Bible verse means something really
special to me, I might jot a quick note
down, or even the date, to help me
remember it better.”
My grandmother laughed and said
something like, “At my age, I need all
of the help I can get,” but truthfully,
she was a wonderful Bible scholar
and could quote many Scriptures from
memory and always seemed to have a
verse at the ready for the need of the
Brenda Cannon Henley can be reached
hour. I later learned that taking notes at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonduring Bible study is an oft-suggested [email protected].
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name
We have looked at some God, that by doing good you
prayers of confession in our may put to silence the ignostudies, but today we will rance of foolish men — as
deal with a prayer of petition. free, yet not using your liberI am reading from 1 Peter ty as a cloak for vice, but as
2:11-17: “Beloved, I
servants of God. Honbeg you as sojourners
or all people. Love the
and pilgrims, abstain
brotherhood.
Fear
from fleshly lusts
God. Honor the king.”
which war against the
And then from
soul, having your conMatthew 6:9: “Our
duct honorable among
Father in heaven, halthe Gentiles, that when
lowed be Thy name.”
Pastor
they speak against you
We turn now from
Delmar
as evildoers, they may,
prayers of confession
Dabney
by your good works
to prayers of petition.
which they observe,
A petition is a solemn
1925-1994
glorify God in the day
request made of a
of visitation. Theresuperior. People often
fore, submit yourselves to make a petition together. In
every ordinance of man for fact, here in our Golden Trithe Lord’s sake, whether to angle we are very familiar
the king as supreme, or to with petitions. Someone gets
governors, as to those who up a petition, passes it around
are sent by him for the pun- for signatures and then hands
ishment of evildoers and for it up to the people in charge.
the praise of those who do Then, everyone waits to see if
good. For this is the will of anything changes.
Well, our prayers have
petitions. We make solemn
requests of God. Sometimes
we do it together, all of us
praying for the same thing.
Then, we wait to see what
might happen.
The truth is God does not
want us merely to wait. He also
wants us to act. Take this first
petition of our Lord’s prayer,
“Hallowed be Thy name.” We
are to pray for this at once. This
is to be our first concern, that
God’s name be hallowed. We
can worry about our daily
bread and our being forgiven
for our debts later. The immediate petition is that “God’s
name be hallowed.” And we
are not praying that God will
do something about the way
His name is used, but rather
that He will help us change our
attitudes and our ways. He
doesn’t need to change. We do.
It is as if we sent a petition to
our local government asking
that it help us become more
faithful taxpayers.
To “hallow” means to set
apart as holy, to hold in reverence, to treat as special. By
praying “Hallowed be Thy
name,” we are asking that our
heavenly Father help us to
honor His name with lives
which are so committed to
Him that even unbelievers
will see some of His reflected
glory. If I truly pray that petition this morning, then every
action today is going to come
under close scrutiny before I
commit it. Will this thought,
will this act, will this deed
hallow the name of my God
and make His person known
to men today? And if the
thought, or deed or action
will not accomplish that purpose, then I am to avoid it.
Father in heaven, help us
to direct all our living, what
we think, what we say and
what we do, so that Your
name will never be blasphemed because of us, but
always be honored and
praised.
Through Jesus Christ, our
Lord, amen and amen.
The Rev. Delmar Dabney was
a spiritual inspiration in Southeast
Texas for many years before his
death in 1994. This and other
messages from his daily television show, “Coffee with Pastor
Dabney,” are featured here regularly.
Sunday • 10:30 AM
Tuesday Family Prayer 7:00 PM
Wed. Night • 7:30 Bible Study
Everyone Welcome!
Pastor Michael LaBrie
Gospel Tabernacle
1225 Glendale • Beaumont
409-866-2000
www.GospelTabernacleBeaumont.com
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4. CRANES 5. SYZYGY 6. AGRA 7. WOKE
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1. GMAIL 2. INHERITING 3. PIQUED 4. CASUAL
5. MYSTERY 6. NICKS 7. SKYTEAM
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Humane Society of
Southeast Texas
Pet of the week
If you enjoy sitting around
with a quiet, demure and delicate girl by your side (or in
your lap), then Sweet Annie is
the girl for you. She is a 3 to 4
year old Chihuahua and was
turned in as a stray. She is very
small, weighing barely 8
pounds. She is very shy, a bit
scared and timid. She is almost
too scared to move when you
put her on the ground, but
seems to enjoy spending as
much quiet lap time as you will allow. She will be a wonderful
companion for an older person or couple but is too timid to be
around children unless they are past the boisterous years. Once
she begins to trust her person, she will be a treasure!
The adoption fee is $115 for mixed breed dogs over 20 pounds,
and $175 for pure breeds and dogs under 20 pounds. Pure breeds
under 20 pounds are $225. This includes first round of vaccinations,
bordetella vaccination, worming, flea treatment, spay or neutering and
a veterinary wellness exam. All animals will be spayed or neutered
before going to their new home. Adoption is a 15-year commitment.
Please adopt responsibly. For more information, call the Humane
Society of Southeast Texas at (409) 833-0504 or visit at 2050 Spindletop Ave., Beaumont.
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Your puppy comes with a guarantee
Q. I purchased a new puppy. I was told it was a pedigree and in good health. As
soon as I got it home, it
became very ill. I brought it
to the veterinarian, but after
two days and $1,000 in
expenses, the puppy died.
The vet said that the dog was
extremely ill the day I bought
it. The seller refuses to help
pay the vet bills or even give
me my money back. What
are my legal rights?
A. Under Texas law, you
may have substantial legal
rights. First, unless you
bought the dog “as is,” you
get what is called a warranty
of “merchantability.” This is
a warranty that the law
implies in any contract for
the sale of “goods.” A dog is
considered a “good,” just I suggest you let the seller
like any other product you know you know your rights,
purchase. Under this warran- and you expect your money
ty, any merchant who sells a back or a new puppy, and
product warrants that it is “fit that you expect to be comfor its ordinary purpose” and pensated for some or all of
will “pass without objection your vet bills. If you cannot
in the trade.” In my opinion, settle the matter, consider a
this basically means that you claim in small claims court.
have a guarantee that
You also may want to
the dog is healthy at
contact the Texas
the time of the sale. If
Consumer Complaint
you can show that the
Center to see if we can
dog had the medical
assist you. You can
problem at the time
file a claim at www.
you purchased it, my
texasccc.com.
opinion is that the seller has breached the
Know
Q. I just moved into
warranty of merchanta
new apartment.
Your
ability, and should be
When I asked the
liable for damages.
Rights landlord if the door
If there is a breach
of warranty, you are with Richard had a new lock, he
entitled to all of the Alderman told me it was the
same lock the previdamages you suffered
ous tenant had, but he
as a result of the breach. That
was
sure
there were no outwould include the cost of the
standing
keys.
I told him I
puppy, as well as your mediwanted
a
new
lock and he
cal bills. You also would
have a claim under the said I could change it but to
Deceptive Trade Practices give him a key. Am I entitled
Act, which entitles you to to a new lock?
A. Under the law, a tenant
attorney’s fees, and up to
three times your damage if who moves into an apartment
the seller knew the puppy is entitled to have the lock
was sick when it was sold. changed or re-keyed as often
This law also protects you if as the tenant wants. The first
the seller makes any misrep- time a lock is changed or reresentation. You say that the keyed, the landlord must bear
seller told you the dog was in the cost of the change. After
“good health,” which was that, the landlord must make
untrue. This misrepresenta- the change; however, he or
tion violates the Deceptive she has the right to charge the
Trade Practices Act, giving tenant for any costs incurred.
Based on what you say,
you an additional claim.
As I said, I believe you your landlord must change
have substantial legal rights. the lock or re-key it and can-
not charge you. I suggest you
speak with the landlord and
let him know you expect him
to do what the law requires.
Q. One of my brothers has
lived with our mother for
about a year. He pays her a
small amount each month to
help with expenses. Things
are not working out, and my
mother wants him out. Can
she just throw him out?
A. In my opinion, your
brother has become a “tenant,” and your mother is his
“landlord.” This means that
she must give him proper
notice to vacate and has no
legal right to just throw him
out. I suggest she give him 30
days written notice to leave.
If he still does not leave, she
can file a forcible entry and
detainer action in justice court
to have him evicted.
Q. I am the executor of my
mother’s will. In the will, she
left $7,000 to her grandchild.
There is no money in her
estate. Do I have to pay the
$7,000?
A. No, you do not have to
pay. The executor merely
puts the will into effect and
distributes the assets of the
deceased. If there are no
assets, the executor is not
responsible for fulfilling the
terms of the will.
Do you want to know more
about your legal rights? Check
out my website, www.peopleslawyer.net.
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