BY LYNDEL MOODY Staff Writer
The Big Spring High School theater department will present its last produc-tion of the school year when “Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play,” takes center stage this weekend at the high school auditorium.
The setting of the 40-minute play by Lauren Wilson is in a Victorian Eng-land of the imagination. It’s a comedic spoof on the very serious novella, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by 19th-Century Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
“I have always enjoyed farce, and I felt like we had the students that could pull of the zany characters in this play,” said Tabatha Wright, high school the-ater teacher and director of the play.
The production features three first-year acting students — Dakota Jones, Cameron Mikels and Joey Valle — who earned acting honors at the recent UIL One Act Play competition held in Sny-der.
Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Fri-day and SaturFri-day in the high school au-ditorium, 707 E. 11th Place. Admission is free to the public.
Cast members are: Euphronia Jekyll, Joey Valle; Ambrosia Jekyll, Tylar Hale; Henry Jekyll/Hyde, Dakota Jones; Lady Throckmortonshire, Ryan Armstrong; Calliope/Penelope,Taylor Jones; Ro-samunda Dewthistle, Amanda Kirk; Xavier Utterson, Cameron Mikels; Ivy,
Amy Winters; Plodgett, Erin Hunter; Constable, Micaiah Rodgers; and Police Lieutenant, Dillon Lloyd.
Crew members are stage manage, Corbin Stevens; sound, Mikaela Bid-dison; lights, Matthew Wood; Richard Martinez; and Nancy Galvan.
Serving as alternates are: Rikki Sal-gado, Micheal Mathews and Michelle Phipps.
Contact Lyndel Moody at citydesk@ bigspringherald.com or 263-7331, ext. 234.
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A blank look, then bloodshed
By JESSE WASHINGTONAssociated Press
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — It was just before the start of class and the hallways were packed with students at their lockers or chatting with friends.
Nate Moore was walking to homeroom, book in hand, when a classmate he knew
to be quiet and unassuming tackled a freshman boy a few feet in front of him. Moore thought it was the start of a fistfight and went to break it up.
But 16-year-old Alex Hribal wasn’t throwing punches — he was stabbing his victim in the belly, Moore said. The suspect got up and slashed Moore’s face, then took off
down the hall, where au-thorities said he stabbed and slashed other students in an attack that injured 21 stu-dents and a security guard — and might have been even worse but for the “heroes” who Pennsylvania’s governor said helped prevent further injury or loss of life.
An assistant principal tack-led and subdued Hribal, who
was charged Wednesday night with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of ag-gravated assault and jailed without bail. Authorities said he would be prosecuted as an adult.
The suspect’s motive re-mained a mystery.
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David W. Dunckel
David W. Dunckel, 74, of Big Spring, died Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in a Midland hospital. Me-morial services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 11, 2014, at St. Paul Lutheran Church with Pas-tor Don Rosentreter officiating.
The family will receive friends from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 2014, at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home.
He was born Aug. 27, 1939, in Battle Creek, Mich. and married Irma Gobrogge April 29, 1961, in Pinconning, Mich.
He worked as a personnel specialist at the Vet-erans Administration Medical Center in Battle Creek, Mich. for 25 years. He was a member of St. Paul Luthern Church, enjoyed cooking, baking and photography.
Survivors include his wife, Irma Dunckel of Big Spring; one son, Bruce Dunckel and wife, Amy, of Pace, Fla.; one daughter, Diane Livengood of Peru, Ind.; one sister, Cheryl Ann Rosch of Bronson, Mich.; three grandchildren, Douglas Livengood and wife, Bethani of Abilene, and Haley Dunckel and Kenzie Dunckel, both of Pace, Fla.; and three great-grandchildren, Darron Livengood, Anna Liv-engood and Robert LivLiv-engood, all of Abilene.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Sher-man and Monabelle Dunckel; and a brother, Dale Dunckel.
The family suggests memorials to St. Paul Luther-an Church, 810 Scurry, Big Spring, Texas 79720 or to the American Diabetes Association, 3001 North Big Spring St., Suite 104, Midland, Texas 79705.
Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences may be made at: www. npwelch.com
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Vera Robertson
Vera Robertson, 81, of Big Spring died Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in a local hospital. Graveside funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2014, at the Peace Chapel at Trinity Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from to 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Fu-neral Home.
Vera was born July 22, 1932, in Spur, Texas and married “Buddy” Robertson Jan. 1, 1951, in Girard, Texas. He preceded her in death March 4, 2003.
She was the owner of the Pretty Things Boutique in Big Spring for 14 years and later worked for the Tom Boy Shop. She loved doing for others and was a great cook.
She is survived by one son, Mike Robertson and wife, Sue, of Midland; one daughter, Vicki Martin of Lubbock; one brother, L.J. Williams and wife, Marie, of Lubbock; four sisters, Edith Simmons of New Braunfels, Melba Putman of Seminole, Willie Gallagher and husband, Bobby, of Clyde and Joann Slaughter of Turpin, Okla.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lonnie and Pauline Hardy Williams; one son, Scott Robert-son; one daughter, Patti RobertRobert-son; and one sister.
The family suggests memorials be made to the do-nor’s favorite charity.
Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences may be made at: www. npwelch.com
Raymond F. Stukel
Raymond F. Stukel, 85, of Big Spring, died Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in a local hospital. Memo-rial services will be 2 p.m. Friday, April 11, 2014, at St. Paul Lutheran Church with Pastor Don Rosen-treter officiating.
Ray was born March 21, 1929, in Kenosha, Wis. and married Rose Fiebrantz Oct. 20, 1956, in Mil-waukee, Wis.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953, then served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959 to 1977, retiring from Webb Air Force Base as a master sergeant. He then worked for Adobe Oil Company for 15 years before retiring to a life of church and community service.
Ray was a long-time member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, where he served as an elder. He also volun-teered to drive residents of Big Spring to Midland/ Odessa to receive scheduled cancer treatments. Ray and Rose also volunteered with the citizens police academy. Among his most recent commit-ments to community service, Ray was a member of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), he volunteered with the chaplains office at the Big Spring Veterans Administration Medical Center and at Isaiah 58 Food Pantry.
Ray was a loving husband, a great dad and a car-ing friend. He was incredibly faithful to the church and his belief in Jesus Christ was steadfast. His expression of his faith was evident through his ef-forts to serve those around him. He thoroughly en-joyed his Walk to Emmaus and the friendships he established through that experience. He was per-petually working with his hands and was willing to try to fix anything that may have needed work, or to go behind the scenes to help others. It would not shock those who knew Ray that upon his ar-rival to the gates of Heaven, he likely questioned God as to whether He would like the gates to swing more freely, without squeaking.
He is survived by his wife, Rose Stukel of Big Spring; son, Randy Stukel and wife, Del, of Grang-er, Ind.; two grandchildren, Amanda and Devin Stukel, both of Granger, Ind.; son, Russ Stukel and wife Laura, of Denton, Texas; and sister, Ruth He-abler of Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Matilda Stukel.
Memorials may be directed to St. Paul Lutheran Church, 810 Scurry St., Big Spring, Texas 79720.
Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences may be made at: www. npwelch.com Paid obituary
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The Big Spring Police Department reported the following activity:
• FIDEL MARTINEZ JR., 38, of 603 NE Eighth St., was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated.
• RICKY WAYNE WASHBURN, 55, of 1100 Richie Road was arrested on a charge of hindering offi-cers discharging official duties.
• LESLIE JIMINEZ, 21, address unknown, Mexi-co, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.
• MELINDA ANN GONZALEZ, 27, of 4201 W Highway 80 10, was arrested on a warrant for div-ing while license invalid.
• PAUL RAY FLANNELL, 56, of 209 Galveston St., was arrested on a charge of public intoxica-tion.
• LAWRENCE FREDRICK RADEK, 54, address unknown, Big Spring, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.
• MARIA ESTER VIERA, 41, of 809 Father Dela-ney St., was arrested on a warrant from other agency.
• MAJOR ACCIDENT was reported in the 1100 block of Gregg St and on Whipkey Drive at Coman-che Trail Park.
• MINOR ACCIDENT was reported in the area of Birdwell and 15th St.
• THEFT was reported in the 500 block of South Birdwell, and 1600 block of S. Gregg St.
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Note — Officials with the Howard County Jail reported having 68 inmates at the time of this report.
• MICHAEL DEAN NALL, 35, was booked by HCSO on warrants for theft of property and bur-glary of a building (seven charges.)
• RICKY WAYNE WASHBURN, 55, was booked by BSPD on a charge of hindering officers dis-charging official duties.
• MARIA ESTER VIERA, 41, was booked by HCSO on warrants for non-attendance, parent con-tributing to non-attendance (two charges), theft, and failure to appear.
• VICTOR VELLEJOS-ROJAS, 24, was booked by HCSO on a warrant for sexual assault of a child.
• PAUL RAY FLANNELL, 56, was booked by BSPD on a charge of public intoxication.
• MELINDA ANN GONZALEZ, 27, was booked on a warrant for diving while license invalid and on a charge of public intoxication.
• LESLIE NIKOLE JIMENEZ, 21, was booked by the BSPD on a charge of public intoxication.
The Big Spring Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services reported the following activity:
• TRAUMA CALL was reported in the 2000 block of S. Scurry. No transport.
• TRAFFIC ACCIDENT was reported in the 1100 block of S. Highway 87. One person was transport-ed to Scenic Mountain Mtransport-edical Center.
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At a brief hearing Wednesday night, Dis-trict Attorney John Peck said that after he was taken into custody, Hribal made comments suggesting he wanted to die. Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey de-scribed him as a good student who got along with others, and asked for a psychiatric exami-nation.
Thomassey told ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday that any defense he offers would likely be based on Hrib-al’s mental health. He said he hoped to move the charges against the teenager to juvenile court, where he could be rehabilitated. If convict-ed as an adult, Hribal faces likely decades in prison.
Thomassey told sev-eral media outlets that Hribal is remorseful, though he acknowl-edged his client didn’t appear to appreciate the gravity of his actions.
“At this point, he’s confused, scared and de-pressed. Over the next few days we’ll try to
fig-ure out what the heck happened here,” Thom-assey told ABC. “I think he understands what he did. ... I don’t think he realizes how severely injured some of these people are.”
At least five students were critically wound-ed in the attack, includ-ing a boy who was on a ventilator after a knife pierced his liver, miss-ing his heart and aorta by only millimeters, doctors said. He had ad-ditional surgery over-night, they said.
The rampage comes after decades in which U.S. schools have fo-cused their emergency preparedness on mass shootings, not stab-bings.
While knife attacks at schools are not unusual, they’re most often lim-ited to a single victim, said Mo Canady, ex-ecutive director of the National Association of School Resource Of-ficers.
Nevertheless, there have been at least two major stabbing attacks at U.S. schools over the past year, the first at a community college in Texas last April that wounded at least 14 peo-ple, and another, also in Texas, that killed a 17-year-old student and injured three others at a high school last Septem-ber.
The attack in Pitts-burgh unfolded shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday, a few minutes before the start of classes at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an upper-middle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. By Thurs-day morning, the school was no longer being treated as a crime scene, according to police and school officials, who said they expected it to reopen Monday.
Mia Meixner, 16, said the freshman boy who was tackled tried to fight back, then, when his as-sailant got off him, stood up and lifted his shirt to reveal a midsection cov-ered in blood.
“He had his shirt pulled up and he was
screaming, ‘Help!
Help!’” said another wit-ness, Michael Float, 18. “He had a stab wound right at the top right of his stomach, blood pour-ing down.”
As students rushed to the boy’s aid, the
at-tacker slashed Moore before taking off around a bend.
“It was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I felt the blood splash on my face. It spurted up on my forehead,” said Moore, whose gashed right cheek required 11 stitches.
The boy ran down about 200 feet of hall-way, slashing and stab-bing other students with kitchen knives about 8 to 10 inches long, police said.
The assault touched off a “stampede of kids” yelling, “Run! Get out of here! Someone has a knife!” according to Meixner.
Assistant Principal Sam King heard the commotion and found a chaotic scene in the blood-soaked hall.
“I’ve been stabbed,” he heard a student say, according to a police af-fidavit.
King then saw Hribal stab a security guard, who leaned against the
wall, bleeding from his stomach, the affidavit said. King tackled Hrib-al and kept him on the floor until a school po-lice officer handcuffed him.
The rampage lasted about five minutes.
“There are a num-ber of heroes in this day. Many of them are students,” Gov. Tom Corbett said in a visit to the town. “Students who stayed with their friends and didn’t leave their friends.”
He also commended cafeteria workers, teach-ers and teacher’s aides who put themselves at risk to help others.
Looking for a mo-tive, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said investigators were checking reports of a threatening phone call between Hribal and an-other student the night
before. He didn’t say whether the suspect re-ceived or made the call.
The FBI went to the boy’s house, and lo-cal media reports said agents removed at least one computer along with other items.
Meixner and Moore called the attacker a shy and quiet boy who largely kept to himself, but they said he was not an outcast and they saw no indication before the attack that he might be violent.
“He was never mean to anyone, and I never saw people be mean to him,” Meixner said. “I never saw him with a particu-lar group of friends.”
During the attack, the boy had a “blank look,” she said. “He was just kind of looking like he always does, not smil-ing, not scowling or frowning.”
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The U.S. Marshals Service has placed into custody a woman wanted in Snyder, Texas, in connection with a homicide.
Nineteen-year-old Casandra Lopez was arrested Sunday in Toledo, Ohio, on a warrant for murder out of Scurry County, said Snyder Police Chief Ter-ry Luecke.She is charged with participating in the death of 21-year-old Omar Diaz, who was found dead at his resi-dence March 22 in Snyder.
On Wednesday, Texas Rang-ers and a Snyder police
in-vestigator traveled to Toledo where they made contact with Lopez, said Luecke.
“(She) was interviewed and is cooperating with investi-gators,” Luecke said in a pre-pared statement. “Investiga-tors will transport Lopez back to Snyder (today) where she will be booked into the Scurry County Jail for the murder of Omar Diaz.”
Police said Diaz’ 2004 Ponti-ac Grand Am was found in the Lubbock area on the weekend of March 29-30.
Lopez and Diaz were last seen together March 14 in Lorenzo, Texas.
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• Howard County Republican Club will meet on Monday, April 14 at 5:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Howard County Li-brary (located in the basement) for its regu-lar monthly meeting. Please join us as we “talk politics.”
• Holy Trinity Catholic Parish is raising funds to benefit the Diane Herrera family, which lost three members in a recent traffic accident. Send checks to the parish, P.O. Box 951, Big Spring, TX 79721 and write “for Di-ane Herrera family) on the check. For more information, contact Richard Light, parish administrator, at 432-466-9703.
• Scenic Mountain Medical Center Healthy Woman and American Cancer Society pres-ent “Be a Superhero” on April 16.
A Lunch n Learn will take place at 11:30 a.m. and the Healthy Woman event — snacks provided — will be at 5:30 p.m.
Both events will be held in the Senior Circle Room at Scenic Mountain Medical Center. ACS Relay For Life Specialist Manny Negron will be delivering information about the 20th anniversary Howard and Glasscock Counties Relay For Life.
The free event is open to the public. To RSVP call, Amanda Duforat at 432-268-4699 or Anita Cline at 432-268-472. 1.
• A fund has been set up to help the Renteria family who lost their house from a fire. Do-nations can be made at State National Bank, Renteria Fire Fund, No. 9012478.
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ast Thursday, Mozilla,the company that’s home to the web browser Firefox, forced the res-ignation of CEO Brendan Eich. What, precisely, had Eich done wrong? Back in
2008, Eich had donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 effort backing tra-ditional marriage in California. Dat-ing website OKCu-pid posted a ban on Firefox traffic, issuing a message to Firefox users instead: “Those who seek to deny
love and instead enforce mis-ery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.” That ban reportedly prompted the action at Mozilla.
Of course, it was the people pushing for Eich’s ouster who were enforcing “misery, shame, and frustration.” Eich had never brought his politics into the workplace. Mozilla had no history of treating homosexu-als differently, and no single instance of Eich doing so could be documented. Nonetheless, he had violated the dictates of the Thought Police. And thus he was ousted.
It’s a disturbing story, to be sure. But it’s also just the tip of the iceberg: Unfortunately, the same folks administering the
private Thought Police would love to extend their control into the realm of government. These are not libertarians arguing for the right to hire and fire as you see fit in the private market. These are power brokers seeking to use whatever means neces-sary to quash opposition.
That’s why gay couples have sued photographers, bakeries and florist shops, attempting to shut them down if they refuse to cater to same-sex weddings. That’s why the Obama admin-istration has attempted to fine businesses that do not wish to pay for health coverage they deem sinful. The underlying idea: If the left dislikes what you do, the left can compel you not to do it. As Kevin Williamson of National Review writes, Ameri-can society is quickly morphing into a system governed by T.H.
White’s totalitarian principle: “Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”
Freedom is secondary to the yays and nays of the governing few in this vision. Freedom is merely that which the ment allows — and the govern-ment should only allow you to do the bidding of the left. If you, recognizing that sometimes people will take action with which you disagree, believe that government should stay out of people’s business, you must therefore be an advocate for discrimination and brutal-ity. To allow Eich to work is to
discriminate against gays. To allow religious businesses to reject contraceptive mandates is to push women into back alley abortions. Forget the notion of disagreeing with your opinion, but defending your right to say it — in the view of the leftist totalitarians, such a notion is inherently unworkable.
When fascism comes, it will come not with jackboots but with promises of a better world. The jackboots come later, when we’ve all been shamed into si-lence — when we’ve been taught that to allow that with which we disagree is to agree with it, and when we’ve accepted that the best method of preventing such disagreement is govern-ment power. We’re on the verge. All it will take is the silence of good people — people on all sides of the political aisle — who fall prey to the ultimate temptation in a republic: the temptation to force their values on others uti-lizing the machinery of govern-ment. We’re already more than halfway there.
Ben Shapiro, 30, is a gradu-ate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, a radio host on KTTH 770 Seattle and KRLA 870 Los Ange-les, Editor-in-Chief of TruthRe-volt.org, and Senior Editor-at-Large of Breitbart News. To find out more about Ben Shapiro, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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oris Kearns Goodwinis a petite person who writes about tower-ing figures — Lyndon Johnson, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, the Kennedys.
She sat in a hushed meet-ing room at the University of Chicago’s hushed Alumni House, where David Axelrod asked her unhushed ques-tions.
“People ask, ‘Why can’t Obama be more like Lyn-don Johnson?’” Axelrod, director
of the Institute of Politics at the university, said. “Why can’t he command the bully pulpit the way Teddy Roosevelt did?”
“The bully pulpit, the platform a politician has to mobilize citizens, has changed,” Goodwin replied. “Lincoln would write a letter to a newspaper, and it would be reprinted word for word and then pamphletized. Things changed at the turn of the 20th century.”
Presidents could be heard on phonograph records — quite good copies exist of Teddy Roosevelt speaking in a clear and precise voice — and then came radio.
Listening to Franklin
Roosevelt’s fireside chats — he made only 30 in 12 years — be-came a national pastime. “Saul Bellow used to tell the story of walking down the streets of Chicago and hearing Roosevelt speak from radio after radio, in house after house, all tuned to the same station,” Goodwin said.
But today? Today you see mo-ments, glimpses, summaries, roundups and, of course, the
talking heads. “Now you just see parts of speeches,” Goodwin said and added ruefully, “And then you see commentators like David and me.”
Goodwin described a Wash-ington of a bygone era in which Democrat LBJ spent weekends with Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen. “They didn’t run home every weekend to raise money,” Goodwin said. “It was a club; there was a comity to it.”
Then Goodwin homed in on the real evil in our current po-litical system. “Money is the poi-son in our system, and we know it,” she said and then turned to the students in the audience. “If I were you, I would be working on a constitutional amendment to change the effect of money on politics. I would be like Susan B. Anthony on this.”
A constitutional amendment — a purposely difficult undertak-ing to achieve — would almost certainly be necessary because our high court believes that money is a form of free speech and that the more money you have the more free speech you ought to be able to buy.
Whenever Goodwin speaks, the issue of whether Abraham Lincoln could get elected today comes up. Steven Spielberg’s 2012 movie, “Lincoln,” was based in part on Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” and it made Lincoln hot once again.
“If I didn’t believe Abraham Lincoln could win today, I might as well give up,” Goodwin said and then added: “OK, shave the beard, and get rid of the stove-pipe hat. But I think he was actu-ally sexy.”
Goodwin then gave an example of the kind of humor that gave Lincoln such public appeal: “People say I am two-faced,”
Lincoln once said. “But if I had two faces, would I be using this one?”
Goodwin said that in the 1960s, some 90 percent of Americans thought the government would do the right thing most of the time. “We must return to the belief that our collective energy can restore faith in our daily lives,” she said.
Axelrod said that “voters have to be willing to handle the truth. As Robert Kennedy said, ‘the future isn’t a gift; it’s an achieve-ment.’”
Goodwin is one of America’s greatest living historians, a per-son who has managed to achieve commercial success — six New York Times best-sellers — while still maintaining her academic credentials. She won the Pulit-zer Prize in 1995 for “No Ordi-nary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.”
She was also the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox’s locker room.
But one thing has eluded her. Instead of her writing about famous public servants, why didn’t she become a famous pub-lic servant?
“Take the risk of helping somebody with a campaign or working in a neighborhood,” she told the students. “If I hadn’t got-ten married and had a bunch of kids, maybe I would have gotten involved in politics.”
Roger Simon is Politico’s chief political columnist. His new e-book, “Reckoning: Campaign 2012 and the Fight for the Soul of America,” can be found on Ama-zon.com, BN.com and iTunes. To find out more about Roger Simon and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Web page at www.creators.com.
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oliad Elementary isencouraging their stu-dents to get lost in a book.
In the Goliad library, Mrs. Castillo has deco-rated the walls with two beautiful murals, Rainforest and African plains. She wanted to engage the students as they came into the library and get them excited about reading. Parents are encour-aged to come view the murals and spend time with your child reading.
In the Goliad foyer, they have dis-played our Students of the Month, who are nominated by the classroom teachers. The program is called B.U.G., Being Unsually Good, for
students who go above and beyond by doing good for others, and our daily average attendance for each school day.
Big Spring Eigth Graders
Big Spring High School Counselors have been busy this week pre-regis-tering current 8th graders for high school. If you have an 8th grade stu-dent and have not met with a coun-selor and your child to complete their schedule and sign off on the endorsement plan of the student’s choice. You have one final opportu-nity to complete that on Friday. Please come to the junior high library and ensure that your child is ready to begin high school in the fall.
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Herald Staff Report FORSAN — Ten Forsan High School students will advance to UIL Region Speech & Academic meet which will be held on May 2 at South Plains College in Levelland.
The students qualified after faring well in the Conference 1A, District 5 competition held at Sundown High School in Sundown on March 25 and March 27. FHS students earned a com-bined total of 159 points placing the school fifth over all out of 12 school districts. Sundown High School was the district champion with Plains High School coming in second in over all teams stand-ings.
The following Forsan students qualified to compete at the regional meet are: Serena Reese, Jayton Schreiner, Alisa Munoz, Jammie Arm-stead, Amanda Schafer, Elizabeth Rhodes, Zach-ary Long, Kendall
Phil-lips, Sloan Miller, and Chandler Freeman.
Individual results are as follows: Zachary Long, 5th, calculator applications; Chandler Freeman, 1st, editorial writing; Zachary Long, 3rd editorial writing; Zachary Long, 2nd headline writing; Ser-ena Reese, 1st, literary criticism; Kade Fannin, 4th, number sense; Han-nah Thompson, 6th, and news writing; Yanci Yeater, 5th, prose inter-pretation; and Jennie Steel, 4th, ready writing.
Sloan Miller , 1st, biology; Sloan Miller, 2nd, science; Hannah Thompson, 4th, social studies; Amanda Schafer, 2nd; spelling; Elizabeth Rhodes, 3rd, spelling; first place lit-erary criticism team — Serena Reese, Jay-ton Schreiner, Alisa Munoz, and Jammie Armstead; first place spelling team — Aman-da Schafer, Elizabeth Rhodes, Zachary Long and Kendall Phillips
Additional students competing at the dis-trict meet were: Kelsey Allen, Ashton Beach, Ali Knight, Sterling Freeman, Brycen Gart-man, Ryan Pearson, Trevor Williams, Logan Zachary, Bryce Gart-man, Mackenzi Lain, Cayla Rosenbaum, Darby Depauw, Blaze Yeater, Nina Ortiz, Julia Box, Brent Glasco, Hunter Seymore, Han-nah Minchew and Mad-die Munsell.
Speech and academic coaches are: Jim Rho-des, Misty Moellendorf, Pam Steel, Suzanne Kirkland, Erin Stone, Kristi Couch and Shaun McVickers.
Herald Staff Report FORSAN — The tro-phy case for the Forsan High School band is getting a little crowded lately but there is still enough room to add one more.
That’s just what the band just did.
The FHS band earned its 16 consecutive Uni-versity Interscholastic League Sweepstakes award after receiving a Division I rating for its Concert & Sight-reading
program at Region 6 competition held March 26. The contest was held at the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center between Midland and Odessa.
Forsan received a Division 1 in both Con-cert and Sight-reading from all six contest judges, according to long-time band director Jim Rhodes.
With the rating, the band wrapped up its contest season with the
sweepstakes, which is earned by receiving a Division 1 in both Marching and Concert/ Sight-reading competi-tions.
The band’s contest program consisted of “Coast Guard March,” “Salvation is Created,” and “Overture on a Minstrel Tune”
The Forsan High School Band is directed by Rhodes and Misty Moellendorf.
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HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A small dog that escaped its fenced-in yard in Texas was found out-side a southwest Ohio animal shelter, and its own-ers have no idea how he traveled more than 1,000 miles in a few days.
The 3-year-old Chihuahua-Dachshund mix named Corbin dug a hole under a fence in his backyard in Killeen, Texas, on March 25. He was found Saturday tied to a bench outside the animal shelter in Hamilton, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati.
“It sounds like one of those too-good-to-be-true stories,” Corbin’s owner, Mike Saiz, told The Cincinnati Enquirer. “This isn’t the first time he dug a hole under the fence. One time he was wait-ing for us on our front porch and the other two times we had to pick him up from the local pound.”
A surveillance camera at the Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton recorded a woman leaving Corbin at the shelter late Friday night. Staff found him the next day.
Corbin was in good shape, just soaking wet from rain and a little scared, said Kurt Merbs, supervi-sor of Butler County’s dog warden’s division. Authorities are hoping to identify the woman and see if they can get answers about how Corbin ended up in Ohio and at the shelter, Merbs said Wednesday.
The staff located Saiz after finding a microchip on him that contained his owners’ information.
“They called my wife and she told me that they found our dog, but she didn’t sound happy about it,” Saiz said. “I asked if he was OK and she told me he was fine. I then asked where the shelter was and she said, ‘Hamilton — not Hamilton, Texas, but Hamilton, Ohio.’”
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By Tommy WellS
Sports Editor
Big Spring High School Steers head coach John R. Sparks isn’t one to su-garcoat his team’s post-season situation.
They need to win. End of story.
The Lady Steers find themselves in a tough situation as they head into their final three regular season games. In order to claim the Dis-trict 4-3A No. 4 playoff seed, Big Spring must rebound from a 14-1 set-back against Snyder on Tuesday. And they have to do it quickly.
Heading into Friday’s showdown with Sweet-water, the BSHS girls are tied with Monahans for fourth in the district standings.
“We have three very important games re-maining and the girls understand what needs to be done to make it in the playoffs,” said Sparks.
Following its game against Sweetwater, Big Spring will close out its regular season schedule at home against Green-wood on April 15 and in Monahans on April 17.
“I am confident they
are capable of playing the style of softball that will get us there (the playoffs),” said Sparks.
The Big Spring defense struggled on Tuesday in their setback to Snyder, The Lady Steers com-mitted 10 errors in the contest.
“We started off the first inning playing sol-id,” said Sparks. “The lead-off hitter in the bot-tom of the second sent one over the fence in left center field. After that we could not seem to make a play.
Sparks said the loss wasn’t as bad as the final score appeared. Big Spring had several chances to fight its way back into the bout.
“We had our opportu-nities, we just did not
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Forsan’s Clayton Galloway prepares to deliver a pitch to the plate during the Buffaloes’ 12-2 win over Winters on Tuesday. With the win, Forsan remained in a tie for first place in the District 2-A standings with miles.
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High expectations ...
Faith Roberson is one of several Big Spring lady Steers that are expected to do well at the District 4-3A Track and Field Championships today at Blankenship Field. A freshman, Roberson breezes to an easy win in the 800-meter prelims on monday.
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The Chicano Golf As-sociation will be hold-ing a four-person golf scramble Monday at the Comanche Trails Golf Course.
Registration for the event will begin at 8:30 a.m. on the day of the tournament, and will run through 9:30 a.m. A shot gun start will be held starting at 10 a.m.
The entry fee is $25 per player. Mulligans are available at $5 each.
Devin Ruiz, Caige Miller and Rylie Ja-cobs capped a stellar 2014 high school tennis season for the Coaho-ma High School tennis team on Wednesday with a solid showing at the District 4-2A Ten-nis Championships in Brownfield.
Ruiz and Miller fin-ished third in the boys’
doubles standings,
while Jacobs was the bronze medalist in the girls’ singles division.
Ruiz and Miller kicked off the tournament on Tuesday with a 7-6, 6-4 victory over a Denver City duo. Following a second-round loss to Stanton, the two rallied back to claim third with a thrilling 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
win over Brownfield. Austin Sosa and Tyler Martin also competed in the boys’ doubles di-vision.
Jacobs was just as impressive in the girls’ singles division, going 2-1 at the meet. After claiming a 6-0, 6-1 win over a Denver City play-er in the first round, she By Tommy WellS
Sports Editor
The Big Spring High School boys’ golf team is the best in the dis-trict. And they have the hardware to prove it.
The Steers, behind a strong performance from Tate Kennedy, Devin Roberson and Ty-ler Bryan, rolled to the District 4-3A golf title on Tuesday in Sweet-water. Big Spring fired a final round of 311 and won the overall team crown by 27 strokes over Wylie.
The BSHS No. 2 team
finished 10th in the fi-nal team standings.
Bryan dominated the field on the Sweetwater Country Club course. He posted a final round
of 76 and cruised to the individual medal-ist honors. He finished the tournament with a three-round total of 222.
Monahans’ Jacob Lair finished second in the individual standings with a mark of 226.
Kennedy and Rob-erson also did well on Tuesday. Kennedy shot a 74 over the final 18 holes of lay and finished third in the individual medalist standings at 227. Roberson, who was sixth overall, turned in a 75 on Tuesday and
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BSHS golfers capture 4-3A
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By Tommy WellS
Sports Editor
Braden East drove in three runs and Clayton Galloway allowed just six hits over six innings and powered the For-san Buffaloes to a 12-2 rout of the Winters Blizzards in a key District 6-2A showdown in Forsan on Tuesday.
With the win, the Buffaloes remained tied with Miles atop the District 6-2A stand-ings. Both teams head into Friday’s matchups with 5-1
records in district play. Forsan didn’t waste any time in roughing up Winters’ starting pitcher, Chris
Ger-hart. The Buffaloes pushed across three runs in their first at-bat.
Winters managed to creep back to within two runs in the second before the FHS bats blew the game wide open. Forsan scored three runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings and enforced the district’s 10-run rule in the sixth.
Kaleb Stanley helped power the Buffs’ offense. He finished
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JV district softball
tourney set for Saturday
The 2014 District 4-3A junior varsity softball tournament will get un-der way this Saturday in Snyder. Each team com-peting in the event will play three games.
The Big Spring Lady Steers will begin their tournament outing at 10 a.m. when they face Midland Greenwood on the East Field at Snyder High School. The team will play Monahans at 11:45 on the West Field
and then close out their appearance at 1:30 p.m.
against Wylie. See FoRSAN, Page 13
District 2-1A
Baseball Standings
Team District Forsan ... 5-1 Miles ... 5-1 Winters ... 1-5 TLC Academy ... 1-5 Friday’s Games Forsan at TLC Academy, 5 p.m. Miles at Winters, 5 p.m.District 4-3A
Softball Standings
Team Conf. Overall Wylie ...5-1 18-3 Snyder ...5-1 15-6 Sweetwater ...3-3 15-7 Big Spring ...3-3 11-11 Monahans ...2-4 12-9 Greenwood ...1-5 15-11 Friday’s Games Sweetwater at Big Spring, 7 p.m. Wylie at Greenwood, 7 p.m. Snyder at Monahans, 7 p.m.District 4-3A JV Softball Tournament
Saturday, April 11, in Snyder
West Field 10 a.m. - Snyder vs. Wylie 11:45 a.m. - Monahans vs. BSHS 1:30 p.m. - BSHS vs. Wylie 3:15 p.m. - Snyder vs. Monahans
East Field 10 a.m. - Greenwood vs. BSHS 11:45 a.m. - Wylie vs. G’wood 1:30 p.m. - Monahans vs G’wood See BSHS, Page 13
See TeNNIS, Page 13 See DISTRICT, Page 13
Players
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Men’s softball could be players from the Mid-land and Odessa area looking to restart the men’s fastpitch league. Players and pitchers are being sought.
