This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office that list the reports from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
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April 13: Sheriff Office Daily Activity Log
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April 13: SFA Crime Log
On 4-13-2011 an Officer was dispatched to Griffith Hall in reference to Assault. Upon arrival the Officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-13-2011 she was pushed by an unknown subject at Griffith Hall. There are no suspects.
On 4-12-2011 an Officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to Harassment. Upon arrival the Officer made contact with the complainant, who advised on 4-12-2011 she received numerous unwanted phone calls from a known person. There is one suspect.
On 4-12-2011 an Officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to Identity Theft. Upon arrival the Officer made contact with the complainant, who advised that an unknown person used his personal information to file a fraudulent tax return. There are no suspects.
On 4-12-2011 an Officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to Theft. Upon arrival the Officer made contact with the complainant, who advised between 4-7-2011 and 4-11-2011 her secure bicycle was stolen from the bicycle rack at Lumberjack Village. There are no suspects.
Marc Cossich
Chief of Police
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April 13: NPD Crime Report
This is a complete list of reports responded to by the Nacogdoches Police Department
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Wright (Democratic): April Calendar
Fellow Nacogdoches County Democrats,
Happy April! We encourage each of you to attend this Thursday’s meeting at the County Courthouse Annex. Each of the three candidates running for the office of Nacogdoches Mayor (Pam Fitch, Roger Van Horn, and Walter McCrimmon) will be there to speak and take questions from the group. We’d like a good turnout, so invite all of the Democrats that you know and let’s pack the place. Additionally, an NISD School Board Forum will be held on April 28th at Liberty Hall from 6-8 PM. This forum will feature candidates for each of the three contested seats and the entire community is invited.
Also, join us this Saturday for an Earth Day celebration themed “Growing Seeds of Sustainability” from10-2 at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center on Raguet St. Music, speakers, food, exhibitors, and kid’s activities will all be available. We will be hosting a table. If you’re interested in helping us cover an hour shift, email me.
Finally, join us at Szechuan (3308 North St.)for our monthly luncheon on April 21. We always have a great time and of course, enjoy some good food and conversation, Call Elaine Sanders at 560-6436 to RSVP.
Check out the news links below, particularly the local section dealing with our upcoming election. Our County Party doesn’t endorse candidates in non-partisan local elections, but we encourage you to educate yourself for each race, beginning with our mayor candidate forum Thursday night. Of course, we are preparing for the partisan 2012 elections and we need more of our Democrats involved. Come out to our meetings, make a financial donation (P.O. Box 633961, Nacogdoches, TX 75963), or consider running for office for next year (the major races we are focusing on are State Rep, Dist, 9 and County Commissioner, Pct. 1 and Pct. 3). We’ve seen the damage done to our state by Republicans over the last several years and need to continue working to turn Texas Democratic Blue!
Progressively Yours,
Stephen Wright, Chairman
Nacogdoches County Democratic Party
(936) 560-0781
stephen.wright15@gmail.com
Calendar
4/14 (Thurs) — April meeting at 5:30 at the County Courthouse Annex. All three candidates for Nacogdoches Mayor will be attending (Pam Fitch, Roger Van Horn, Walter McCrimmon). Pizza will be provided.
4/16 (Sat) — Earth Day Celebration from 10-2 at the Native Plant Center (off of Raguet). The Nac County Dems will have a table.
4/21 (Thurs) — April luncheon at Szechuan (3308 North St.) beginning at Noon. Call Elaine Sanders at 560-6436 to RSVP.
4/28 (Thurs) — NISD School Board Candidates forum sponsored by Texas AFT beginning at 6:00 PM at Liberty Hall (805 E. Main). Candidates from all three contested seats will be present. The entire community is invited.
LOCAL — Candidate Info and Voting Schedules
Nacogdoches County
Emergency Services District No. 6 Election
Ballot Language
(Vote for none or one)
The confirmation of the creation and establishment of the Nacogdoches County Emergency Services District Number 6 and authorization to levy a tax not to exceed 3 cents ($0.03) on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) valuation of taxable property by the said District.
For
Against
City Of Nacogdoches General Election
Mayor
(Vote for none or one)
1. Pam Fitch
2. Roger Van Horn
3. Walter McCrimmon
Council Council – Northeast Ward
(Vote for none or one)
1. Shelley Brophy
2. Billy Huddleston, Jr.
Council Council – Northwest Ward
(Vote for none or one)
1. Bob Dunn
2. Brandon E. McKinney
Nacogdoches Independent School District General Election
Trustee – At Large
(Vote for none or one)
1. Bobby Reyes
2. Alan B. Sowards
Single Member District 2
(Vote for none or one)
1. Esiquio (Zeke) Martinez
2. Lisa Mize
Single Member District 3
(Vote for none or one)
1. Teresa Castetter
2. T.D. Howarth
City Of Garrison General Election
Council
(Vote for none, one, two or three)
1. Robert Cook
2. Kelley Wright
3. Russell Wright
4. Nichole Todd
5. Melanie O’Dell
6. T. R. Dugger
7. Lowell “Bud” Phillips
Garrison Independent School District General Election
Trustee
(Vote for none, one, two, or three)
1. Billy R. Cooper
2. Olan Woodard, Jr.
3. Allen Russell
4. Russell O’Dell
5. Rodney Robison
6. Joe Garcia
7. Ricky Colle
Chireno Independent School District General Election
Trustee
(Vote for none, one, or two)
1. Linda Mettauer Muse
2. James W. Ricks
3. Micky Allen
4. Jerry Hedge
5. Gerald Murray
May 14, 2011 Voting Schedules for
School Board, City Council & Emergency Service District Elections
Emergency Services District No. 6 Election
Early Voting Information
Location: Garrison City Office – 129 W. Greenwood St. – Garrison, TX 75946
May 2, 2011 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
May 3, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 4, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 5, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 6, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 9, 2011 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
May 10, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Election Day Information
Location: Garrison City Office – 129 W. Greenwood St. – Garrison, TX 75946
May 14, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
City Of Nacogdoches General Election
Early Voting Information
Location: C.L. Simon Recreation Center – 1112 North St. – Nacogdoches, TX 75961
May 2, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 3, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 4, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 5, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 6, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 9, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
May 10, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Election Day Information
Location: TJR Elementary – 411 N. Mound St. – Nacogdoches, TX 75965
May 14, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Nacogdoches Independent School District General Election
Early Voting Information
Location: C. L. Simon Recreation Center – 1112 North St. – Nacogdoches, TX 75961
May 2, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 3, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 4, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 5, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 6, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 9, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 10, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Election Day Information
Location: T.J.R. Elementary School – 411 N. Mound St. – Nacogdoches, TX 75961
May 14, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
City Of Garrison General Election
Early Voting Information
Location: Garrison City Office – 129 W. Greenwood St. – Garrison, TX 75946
May 2, 2011 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
May 3, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 4, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 5, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 6, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 9, 2011 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
May 10, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Election Day Information
Location: Garrison City Office – 129 W. Greenwood St. – Garrison, TX 75946
May 14, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Garrison Independent School District
General Election
Early Voting Information
Location: Garrison High School Foyer – 459 N. US Hwy 59 – Garrison, TX 75946
May 2, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 3, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 4, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 5, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 6, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 9, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
May 10, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Election Day Information
Location: Garrison City Office – 129 W. Greenwood St. – Garrison, TX 75946
May 14, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Chireno Independent School District
General Election
Early Voting Information
Location: Chireno City Office – 664 Main St. – Chireno, TX 75937
May 2, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 3, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 4, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 5, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 6, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 9, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 10, 2011 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Election Day Information
Location: Chireno City Office – 664 Main St. – Chireno, TX 75937
May 14, 2011 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
STATE
Texas House passes budget bill that would gut public programs:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislative-session/its-senate-vs-austerity-in-fight-over-budget/
Texas passes unnecessary “Voter ID” bill:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/23/2945555/texas-house-passes-voter-id-bill.html
NATIONAL
Federal Government reaches deal to avoid government shutdown:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52836.html
http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-republican-shutdown
President Obama files to run for reelection in 2012:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/04/04/135109618/obama-re-election-video-covers-key-states-demographics
http://www.barackobama.com/obama-for-america-2012-campaign?source=OM2012_LB_G_obama2012-search_barack-obama-broad&gclid=COqT9sTFkagCFZcC2godkgzjDQ
INTERNATIONAL
Libyan conflict continues:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/
Japan still recovering from earthquake/tsunami:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2061803,00.html
TEXAS DEMOCRATIC WOMEN
TDW recently conducted a Voter Registration drive at Arbor Apartments and Spring Hill apartments and began collecting $10.00 from each member to give to Habitat for Humanity. We are also planning a day to help work or donate food to Habitat. We will be collecting plastic eggs to give to the Nacogdoches Easter Egg Hunt and Mrs. Elizabeth Buchanan will be the contact person. Her phone number is 569-7139 and her address is at 3106 Center Road. TDW continues to work hard to be contribute to the community and to assist the County Democratic Party in electing Democrats to office in 2012!
Doris Perkins, TDW President
SFA DEMS
The SFA Dems will be participating in Denim Day. (This day is a protest of a 1999 Italian High Court ruling that overturned a rape conviction because the victim was wearing jeans. Enraged by the verdict, women of the Italian Legislature protested the decision by wearing jeans to work). Our chapter will be selling shirts on campus but we wanted to get the word out to the county party as well. Both shirts say Denim Day, April 28th, 2011 on the front and on the back, the guys shirt says, “Ask Listen & Respect your women or she will spit on your sandwich” and the girls says, “Ask Listen & Respect me or I will spit on your sandwich.” We are selling them for $15 and all of the proceeds will go directly to the local women’s shelter.
Here’s a link to info on Denim Day as well as a link to the facebook event.
http://health.mo.gov/living/families/womenshealth/denimday/index.php
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162693013786953
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Herrington: The Impossible
Chris Herrington decided years ago that his reality was much more fun…
and he’s ready to tell you why.
Sit back and relax.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
My mom always used to say that, “If you have chicken soup, either you were sick or the chicken was sick.” It made a lot more sense when I was six. All I know is that when Mom was sick, all of us were in a panic because mom was the center of the known universe. She was the hub of what made things spin, tick, groove and move. She was MOM. It was her duty to take care of us all, including herself, so that everything worked, and when she did not do what she needed to do to keep herself in prime working order, the entire household hit the skids. The point is that in our universe we have the duty, the ultimate responsibility, to take care of ourselves so that those who depend on us get the care they need coming from us. We are all a part of “the machine in the starry dynamo of night,” as Ginsberg put it.
One of the ways I have to keep helping myself, besides abstaining from coffee, chocolate, and assorted things like monosodium glutamate, nitrates, and BHT, is to constantly look over my shoulder to try and see how I get caught up in stuff that can be emotionally overwhelming. I love footnotes in books, and marginalia. One book by the German critic, Walter Benjamin, describes what history looks like in a very graphic way: Imagine an angel that has been involved in an explosion, and as he is hurled backwards, he faces the debris of the past, and, over his shoulder, is the ever and increasingly closer future unfurls; he can only surmise what will come next and the past looks like a pile of shattered incidentals. Pretty good, eh? All of that in a side note at the bottom of an otherwise densely packed page of hypertextual nuances hardly mattering at all to the outside world, and only of use to a few stack rat bibliophiles and squinty-eyed philologist nerds. The point though is that history is all we’ve got to go on, except for the occasional revelation or mysterious psychohistorical clues analytically projected down the long sleek lattice of superconducting inductivity. Okay, we make an educated guess that works. Sheesh!
I am sure that you’ve heard characters in movies say, “I hate it when I’m right.” Not far behind the wonderful advice that you’ve been given is the admonishment, “If that’s such great advice, you take it.” My mom always said, “By the time you get it together it will be too heavy to lift.” For a woman who only finished high school, she seemed to have an uncanny sense of the melodramatic love child of Apocalypse and Irony. “If you’re going to bring it,” she would say, “don’t leave it at the house.” For myself, I am working on my own post-humus body of quotes. “Learning how to think is more important than learning what to think,” is kind of catchy. In any case, we have to have gained wisdom to be able to pass wisdom, and it seems to me that keeping up with our own destiny by understanding its workings within the field of play is essential to the task of learning to be wise. I have to understand why I think and feel as I do. Then I have to learn how communicate those ideas collectively in thematic units so that I can transfer what I have learned to my nephews and nieces. Somehow, I have probably come to appear, in their minds, as some old loose-screwed inventor, darkly tinkering away on some multi-functioned perpetual motion machine, Rube Goldberg on Maalox.
One of the gems I have been working on in my little shop of horrors is the reverse engineering of what it is that sends me into a spinning panic attack. I am reminded of this poem:
In Bertram’s Garden
Jane looks down at her organdy skirt
As if it somehow were the thing disgraced,
For being there, on the floor, in the dirt,
And she catches it up about her waist,
Smooths it out along one hip,
And pulls it over the crumpled slip.
On the porch, green-shuttered, cool,
Asleep is Bertram that bronze boy,
Who, having wound her around a spool,
Sends her spinning like a toy
Out to the garden, all alone,
To sit and weep on a bench of stone.
Soon the purple dark must bruise
Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
And the little cupid lose
Eyes and ears and chin and nose,
And Jane lie down with others soon,
Naked to the naked moon.
Donald Justice
Now what in the world does this poem have to do with my panic attacks? Hmmmm. Notice how the beat of the poem stays along with the emotional content? This is exactly what happens to me. If I wait to reverse engineer the exact moment at which I actually notice that I am cascading into a full blown panic attack, it is too late to save me. I have to start earlier. Way earlier. I have to begin at the beginning, when the beat begins. The tempo picks up, but the beast is awakened in the first moment, the point of origin. For me, it begins with being asked to do the impossible. Not the nearly impossible. Not like Richard Thurman’s “The Countess and the Impossible.” I mean the really impossible. Hal the computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey” impossible. Melt down impossible. Shaming, debilitating, heart and soul wrenching impossible. And then making-every-effort-to-force-it-to-work-out impossible. Struggling against hope impossible. Things falling apart in your hands impossible. Utterly without hope impossible. But trying nevertheless impossible. Way too late impossible. Deadly silence and broken heart impossible. That’s what breaks me down. Now, read the poem again. See what I mean?
I have to start before it begins by having a mindset that frees me from having to engage the thought that that which I have no control over is beyond my reach. Now, interestingly enough, those who do not have this problem, although they may have other problems that I don’t have, may look at this emotional malady as an emotional weakness that could be cured with a set of hang-me-downies and a stiff drink. I’ll remind you that heart disease, strokes, over-eating, diabetes, and high blood pressure are all signs that people should have zigged instead of zagged, but these maladies still kill more Americans than everything else combined. You can say, “It’s all in your head,” but “just because you are paranoid does not mean that they are not out to get you.”
I want to revisit my mom’s words for a minute longer, “When you lose something, just clean up until you find it.” In the movie, “Altered States,” the main character is seeking the beginnings of human consciousness. I am not going back that far. I’m not ready for prime time, and I may not be able to handle the truth. I just want a look at the monster under the bed.
My mom had been watching my brother and me playing with bottle rockets, and I was playing dodge the bottle rocket so well that when my last one, “It’s always in the last place you look,” was thrown at my brother, I could tell it was going to be close to him. It hit him in the pocket of the new down vest he had just gotten for Christmas. The same pocket that held the other about 100 bottle rockets. The explosion was magnificent! The entire side of his coat lit up like…well, it was New Years day! He ran down the beach holding the smoldering vest like it was a child needing CPR. At the last second he pulled open a drawer on a cabinet on the porch and slipped it in, hiding it from anyone…and especially you–know–who. Within a few seconds, Mom came outside on the porch, apparently -looking for something. She went right over, opened the accusatory drawer and asked, “How did this get here?” Wrapped up in that question were the answers to all of the quantum problems of thermal dynamics, the missing sub-atomic particles, and the number of the angels that can dance on the head of a pin. The woman could read minds, predict the future, and knew the lottery numbers on your next birthday, but she did not reveal them to us so that we would learn the value of working.
April 24th, she would have been 77. She lived through the Depression. She birthed 7 children. She was the 7th child. I am the oldest of 7. I was born on Saturday. I was 7 pounds and 11 ounces. I was born on 11/7. I was born at 11:07. 11 X 7 = 77. I am finally beginning to see the connections. Thanks, Mom.
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Having completed 32 years of public school service, Chris Herrington lives, with his wife, in Appleby, Texas, and his writing consists of blogging and essay writing concerning an array of topics including education, mediation, self-development, and human interests. He teaches at the Martin School of Choice, plays racquetball, and enjoys his job.
Chris Herrington can be reached at herrington@everythingnac.com
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Obituary: Barbara Phillips
A memorial service for Barbara Ann Mills Phillips, 66, of Nacogdoches, Texas will be held at a later date.
Ms. Phillips was born on January 5, 1945, in Nacogdoches, Texas to Wamon S. Mills and Mildred E. White.
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Obituary: Jerry A. Mason
Jerry A. Mason, 68, of Woden, Texas passed away on Saturday, April 9, 2011 in Nacogdoches, Texas. He was born on September 19, 1942 in Evansville, Indiana, to parents James Louis and Virginia Frances Mason. Funeral services have been scheduled for Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at Cason Monk-Metcalf Sunset Chapel located at 5400 North Street in Nacogdoches, Texas with Bro. Billy Tubbe officiating with assistance from Bro. Barry Rankin. Interment will follow at Saints Rest Cemetery in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Jerry A. Mason
Jerry was a graduate of Smiley High School Class of 1962. He was a retired Southwestern Bell employee of 33 years. He also worked for the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office as a Reserve Deputy since 1989 and held the rank of Captain. He was associated with the United Pentecostal Church and affectionately known as “Paw-Paw”. Jerry found time to enjoy guns, “grand-babies”, the Sherriff’s Department and professional wrestling. He made friends everywhere he went and will be greatly missed by all of those who knew him.
Jerry is survived by his wife of 47 years, Judy; sons, James Anthony Mason of Rockwall, Texas and Jeffery Allen Mason of Little Elm, Texas; daughter, Jeanna Ann Mason of Woden, Texas; granddaughter, Brittany Ann Alexander of Woden, Texas and fiancé, Caleb Ferguson of Chireno, Texas; grandsons, Clayton Cody Alexander of Woden, Texas, Hunter Allen Mason and Blake Matthew Mason, both of Little Elm, Texas; and Mother-in-law, Ruby L. Castleberry of Nacogdoches, Texas. He is preceded in death by his parents, and sisters, Brenda Joyce Mitchell and Janice Marie Mason.
The family would like to acknowledge all of the care given to Jerry by Dr. Vinther and Dr. Pokala, and to especially thank Jerry’s caregivers; Kristi Mewborn, Gina Heard, Erin Holt, Courtney Brown, Tonya Mims, and Cindy Battering for the support they have offered their family during these difficult days.
Friends are invited to a visitation at Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors in Nacogdoches on Tuesday evening from 6-8 p.m. Online condolences may be offered at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com. Funeral arrangements are under the direction and care of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors.
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April 12: Nacogdoches County Booking/Arrest Report
This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Jail that lists the arrests made from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
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April 12: Sheriff Office Daily Activity Log
This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office that list the reports from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
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