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Memorial Day Weekend
For most of us, Memorial Day means that we get a paid holiday from work, the beginning of Summer, the end of school, maybe a family BarBQ or going to the lake.. but then most of us don't risk our lives everyday for our country. There is still a war going on and as I see the trains loads of tanks beginning to move again I can't help but wonder if we are fixing to "really" go to war.
We must not forget those that are serving our country, served our country, and especially on this Memorial Day weekend, those that have given their lives for it.
2463 American soldiers or sailors have died in Operation Enduring Freedom as reported by the Department of Defense and the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. Pray for our country, its' leaders, and our soldiers and sailors on this Memorial Day.
Order of the Rose and Senior Awards
The 2006 Order of the Rose and SAHS Senior Class Awards Ceremony will be held Friday May the 26th at the High School Auditorium beginning at 10:30 AM. All family and friends are invited to attend.
More After Funtier Day
I finally got around to sorting all the bad photos out of the 170 or so Funtier Day photos that I took. I started to divide out all the family photos or those that had my family in them, but decided to leave them in for the most part. While I try to avoid making SantaAnnaNews.com too much about me and my family, the fact is that my family, including all the outlaws and inlaws, is just as much what Santa Anna and SantaAnnaNews.com is all about as anything else and some of my family members are the most loyal readers and contributors. What the hey, it's my free gift to you and I have a lot of fun doing it just the same.
Friends, and even family, will sometimes say, "I went to the "News" to see how the baby was.." or ".. how so and so was...". Not to be mean or ugly about it but for the most part you aren't gonna find it here either... I just don't think that Aunt Margaret is gonna want everyone to know about her gall bladder surgery or Uncle Fred's kidney stones...
It's not that I don't appreciate your concern but this is not the time or the place for such. Send me an e-mail anytime and I will be happy to fill you in on a personal, one-to-one, basis... just please don't forward it to a hundred of your e-mail buddies unless you ask me first... Better yet give me a phone call or come by the house.
Not sure how all this got started but I think I was going to share the Special Funtier Day 2006 Photo Album with you including a few family members...
Josh and Ronnie Daniel
Rusty Wells, Danny and Jana
Last year's World Champion Bison Cooker - Danny Helms
Longhorn Riders ride into town.. don't tell'em this is a brisket cook off!
My Grandson Dawson rode a real pony into town
Some of the Guthrie young'uns rode their folks into town
Some danced into town
Steady aim on that fire hose!
Let's go!
Bobby Wayne throws a shoe
Amanda does too!
Chris "Air" Cheaney
Clay takes aim in the washer pitchin'
POND MANAGEMENT SEMINAR
3 CEU’s Offered
By: Lance Rasch, CEA-Agriculture
Coleman County
The Annual Pond Management Seminar will be held on THURSDAY, May 25 at the City Park in Coleman. Registration will be at 8:30 a.m. and the program begins at 9:00 a.m. Three (3) hours of Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) will be awarded to private applicator license holders with 1 hour being in Integrated Pest Management and 1 hour in Laws & Regulations, and one hour in General.
Mukhtar Faroqui, Texas Parks and Wildlife, will begin the program with Parks and Wildlife Management and Services. Lance Benson, also with Texas Parks and Wildlife, will follow with Grass Carp Permitting. Once again, Harrell Arms will be on hand to give his presentation of Everything You Wanted to Know About Fish. Sammy Branch, FSA in Coleman, will discuss Farm Service Updates. Mark Bills, Inspector with Texas Department of Agriculture, will present Laws and Regulations. A noon fish fry will conclude the program.
This year’s Seminar could not be possible without the cooperation and sponsorship of area businesses and organizations. Sponsors include: Central Colorado Soil and Water Conservation District, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Federal Land Bank, Johnson’s Feed Barn, Purina, First Coleman National Bank, Santa Anna National Bank, Coleman County State Bank, and Texas Cooperative Extension.
Please R.S.V.P. the County Extension Office (325-625-4519) by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 23rd so an accurate head count can be made for the meal.
TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL GREG ABBOTT’S CYBER CRIMES UNIT MARKS 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH 80TH ARREST
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| AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Cyber Crimes Unit commemorated its third anniversary today following a highly successful sweep in Sugar Land that landed three alleged cyber predators in jail. The arrests of the men for using the Internet to solicit minors for sex brings to 80 the total number of cyber predators who have been arrested by the Unit and prompted Abbott to press the operators of social networking sites such as MySpace.com and Xanga to strengthen safeguards to protect children from pornography and sexual predators. At a Cyber Crimes Summit today, Attorney General Abbott hosted local, state and federal officials, law enforcement, technology industries, and consumers to further the dialogue about the proliferation of online criminal activity and discuss technological advances that can help slow the growing threat of cyber predators and cyber crimes.
“Computers have revolutionized the way we live, but Internet-related crimes subject Texans to identity theft, privacy breaches and the exploitation of children,” said Attorney General Abbott. “Since the Cyber Crimes Unit was launched in 2003, my investigators have seen firsthand the dangerous criminals that lurk online, from those who prey on innocent children to those who spread viruses and spyware. All cyber crimes are despicable, and today’s Cyber Crimes Summit shows that public officials, law enforcement, industry leaders and consumers in Texas have a shared commitment to make the Internet a safer place.” Attorney General Abbott called on operators of wildly popular social networking sites like MySpace.com, Xanga, Friendster and Facebook to step up their efforts to protect children and teenagers from sexually explicit images and solicitations. He pressed for more stringent age verification measures, noting that his investigators find it uncomfortably easy to locate underage profiles on some hosting sites. He also called on operators to utilize software which automatically scans all uploaded photographic images before they are posted on user accounts. If the image is found to be pornographic in nature, it could be blocked and the incident reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “Social networking site operators have made several adjustments to their safety protocols in the last few months, but site content should be monitored more carefully to keep sexual predators on the prowl from gaining access to our children online,” added Attorney General Abbott. Results from the recent sting in Sugar Land emphasized the need for greater online security with the arrests of three men who allegedly used MySpace.com and other online chat rooms to find young girls, initiate sexual conversations with them and arrange meetings for sex. Cyber Crimes Unit investigators arrested John David Payne, 27, of Brenham, for the second time since last December for using the Internet to sexually solicit a minor. Chatting online with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace.com, Payne allegedly engaged in graphic sexual conversation with an undercover Cyber Crimes investigator. On May 10, he was arrested at his Brenham home after he allegedly entered another chat room and propositioned an undercover investigator, who was posing as an underage girl, to meet him for sex. Payne was first arrested on Dec. 29, 2005 after he arrived at a Bastrop location for an alleged sexual rendezvous with an underage teen. He was indicted by a Bastrop grand jury on April 18, 2006 on charges of attempted sexual performance by a child and attempted aggravated sexual assault of a child. A Washington County grand jury indicted him May 10 on two counts of online solicitation of a minor and criminal solicitation of a minor. Prosecutors with the Attorney General’s office and Washington County District Attorney Renee Mueller’s office are handling the case.
Benjamin Alexander David, 20, of Katy, was arrested May 3 after he traveled over 20 miles from Katy to Sugar Land, allegedly to meet a child for sex. David, who worked for a swimming pool company at the time of his arrest, was chatting online with an undercover investigator he believed to be a 13-year-old girl and allegedly arranged the meeting. Weston Lee Starks, 24, of Houston, was also surprised to find Cyber Crimes Unit investigators waiting for him on May 11 when he showed up at a Sugar Land apartment for a meeting he had allegedly arranged for sex with a young teen. The Houston laborer was charged with online solicitation of a minor. Attorney General Abbott’s Cyber Crimes Summit assembled two panels of experts, including Jim Predergast, Executive Director of Americans for Technology Leadership; Bill Walsh, Retired Lieutenant of the Dallas Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force; and Michelle Collins and Traci Carrier of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The panelists discussed law enforcement efforts and technological advances that are being pursued to stop the growing threat of Internet crimes against children and consumers. Attorney General Abbott has made pursuing sexual predators a top priority of his administration. On March 17, the Cyber Crimes Unit was awarded a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention to establish an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The grant will help the Unit expand its efforts to protect children and partner with law enforcement agencies across Texas to fight against online child exploitation. In addition to the Cyber Crimes Unit, the Fugitive Unit, which locates convicted child sex offenders who have violated the terms of their parole and could be stalking children, has arrested more than 270 such offenders. His office also has obtained convictions against 39 men on child pornography charges. To find out more about Attorney General Abbott's efforts to crack down on sexual predators, visit the Attorney General's Web site at www.oag.state.tx.us or call (800) 252-8011. |
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Funtier Days
One more Funtier Days has come and gone. There was a lot of stuff going on this year and I tried to make it around to most of it for some pictures. I will try to get those posted a little later this week as I get them all sorted out.
There were a bunch of cookers in this years Bison Cookoff but not as many as we have had in the past. I guess the price of gasoline probably kept some at home. The price of gas didn't seem to bother some of the local cookers. This year there were once again several from Coleman County. The Coleman County Cattlewomen presented their traveling trophy and braggin' rights for the Coleman County Highest place Beef Brisket winner to the Young Guns made up of several local, used to be, young folks.
This year's Coleman County Cattlewomen's Coleman County Beef Winners - Santa Anna's Young Guns
The competition was still fierce and the prize money was still pretty attractive thanks in part to major sponsor, Randolph Chrylser.
The smoke cleared and when all was said and done these were the winners...(special thanks to Sandra Guthrie for sharing these results):
2006 World Champion Bison Cooker - Colby Caton, No Butts, Abilene TX
2006 Funtier Day World Championship Bison
Cook Off
BRISKET
- Robert Breedemeyer,
We Don’t Cook Sheep,
- Colby Caton,
No Butts,
- John Naumann,
Little Big John,
- Bobby Ragland,
Double Barrel,
- Tonya Avants,
Our House Texas,
- Steve Smart,
Git Ya Some of This,
- Ronnie McGlothlin,
Silver Knights,
- Johnny Murray,
Murray’s Smokingrill,
- Dickie Cooper,
Cooper and Company,
- Dewayne Saverance,
CHICKEN
- Danny Helms,
BBQ Xtreme,
- Kemper Croft,
Lucky Penny,
- Dickie Cooper,
Cooper and Company,
- Donnie Smith,
- Ronnie
McGloghlin, Silver Knights, Tolar
- Steve Smart.
Git Ya Some of This, Brady
- Gary Shook,
Big Daddy’s Grill, Lamesa
- Ronny Daniel,
- Robby Ragland
Double Barrel, Lubbock
- Colby Caton, No
Butts,
RIBS
- Ronnie
McGlothin, Silver Knights, Tolar
- Tim Perry,
Young Guns, Santa Anna
- Steve Smart,
Git Ya Some of This, Brady
- Johnny Murray,
Murray’s Smokingrill, Odessa
- Danny Helms,
BBQ Xtreme,
- Chris Hall, Almost Cooked, Brady
- Jerry Copic,
- Donnie Smith,
- Ronnie Daniel,
- Gary Shook,
Big Daddy’s Grill, Lamesa
BISON
- Colby Caton,
No Butts,
- John Naumann, Little
Big John, Bruceville
- Gary Shook,
Big Daddy’s Grill, Lamesa
- Bobby Ragland
Double Barrel, Lubbock
- Steve Smart,
Git Ya Some of This, Brady
- Robert
Breedemeyer, We Don’t Cook Sheep, Sweetwater
- Danny Helms,
BBQ Xtreme,
- Kemper Croft,
Lucky Penny,
- Albert Canon,
Circle Cooking Team, Snyder
- Dewayne
Saverance, Coleman
Overall Champion: Steve Smart, Git Ya Some of This, Brady
Clay Stewardson & Daena Castillo Announce Engagement
Clay Stewardson and Daena Castillo, both from Santa Anna, will be married July 22, 2006 in Santa Anna's First Baptist Church at three o'clock in he afternoon.
Clay and Daena
The bride-elect is the daughter of Fernando and Maria Castillo of
Santa Anna. Daena is the granddaughter of the late Ramon Castillo, Sr. and Maria
Luisa Castillo of Santa Anna, and the late Dionicio and Maria Narsisa
Contreras of Charcas S.L.P, Mexico.
Daena is currently a senior at Tarleton State University and will be receiving her Bachelor's of Science degree in Psychology in December. She will then enter Tarleton's Master's of Science degree program in Counseling Psychology following graduation. Daena plans to further her education after getting her Master's degree and attend the University of North Texas and enter the Doctorate program of Clinical Psychology. Daena will be working for the Company of Rock House in Stephenville.
The groom-elect is the son of Kim Stewardson of Santa Anna and Gary Hubbard of Coleman. Clay is the grandson of Burgess and Gayle Stewardson of Santa Anna and the late Billy and Juanita Hubbard of Coleman.
Clay is serving aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, currently at sea, as an Aviation Administrator. Clay will be released of his naval duties the last days of May. Clay will be attending Cisco Junior College in August, and then transfer to Tarleton State University in pursuit of a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.
The newlyweds will honeymoon to Las Vegas and reside in Stephenville following the wedding. Clay and Daena would like to invite all family and friends to join them in this joyous celebration.
Santa Anna Mountaineer Band Concert
Who:
You! Friends and Family of the
Santa Anna Mountaineer Band Members
What:
The End of Year Spring Concert
Where:
The
When:
Why:
Our band
members have been working very hard all year long to prepare this music for
your entertainment and enjoyment. I know
the students will give their best efforts as performers and hope that you, as
audience members, will help provide the students with a true concert atmosphere
by filling the auditorium to show your support and encourage these students in
their pursuit of excellence.
The concert will feature a variety of
musical selections including familiar
and fun tunes for the 6th grade band, America the Beautiful in the 7th grade section, and Friend Like Me
from Aladdin for the High School
band. There will also be a special
performance by the graduating Senior Band Members. Also included on the High School Concert List
are the band’s contest pieces they performed at the Ballinger Music Festival
earlier this year. The Mountaineer Band
earned straight ‘1’s in Concert and Sightreading.
Admission for
the concert is FREE!!!
Thank
you in advance for helping make this concert the best experience possible. I
know that you will be proud of your students’ work. For further information,
you may contact Band Director Michelle Stallsworth at
325 348 3137.
District 4-H Horse Show Entries Due
Entries for the District 7 4-H Horse Show are due in the Coleman County Extension Office no later than 5:00 p.m. May 24, 2006 The district horse show will be held on Monday, June 19, 2006 in the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater beginning at 8:00 a.m. State entries are also due in the office on May 24th, but payments will not need to be made until after your events on June 19th.
Entry Fees:
Regular Qualifying Show $25.00 ( No limit on number of classes to enter )
Open / Invitational Events $7.50 per event
Roping Events : $5.00 per event / $5.00 one time cattle charge.
Stall Fee: If you use a stall for any length of time, you must pay a $12.00 stall fee.
State 4-H Horse Show - July 22-29 in Abilene. There are significant rules changes in the horse shows this year. If you would like a copy of the 2006 State 4-H Horse Show Rules & Regulations, please let us know. You may access this information on the web at http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/projects/2005_Rulebook.pdf or we will print one for you. Please call the office in advance for your request for a booklet.
If you have any questions, please contact the Coleman County Extension office at 625-4519.
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