Saturday's Internet Edition, July 31, 2010.
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| Allen Herbort proudly shows off his big buck which scored 165 4/8 on the Boone and Crockett scale. The buck was 15 points shy of making the B & C Award Record Book minimum of 180. He won $2000 for winning the Typical Division and Best Overall Buck in the Trans-Pecos Big Buck Tournament held last month. (TPBBT photograph) |
- Lainie Koch, coordinator of last November and December’s Trans-Pecos Big Buck Tournament, announced the results of the event this week.
Koch noted that entries were up over the past several years and they scored a good number of bucks, some of which had not entered the tournament.
Koch said, “This year’s winner is Allen Herbort of Fredericksburg. He brought in a buck that measured a net 165 4/8 on the Boone and Crockett scale. That buck was just 15 points shy of making the B & C Award Record Book minimum of 180.”
Koch said that, “As a result, he is the Typical Division winner and Best Overall Buck winner.” He was awarded a $2,000 cash prize for both of these feats.
Other winners in the tournament were also announced. They are shown below by category:
North I-10: 1st Place went to Brian Schmidl of Uva, California; 2nd Place went to George Brantley of Carlsbad, New Mexico.
South I-10: 1st Place went to Heath Radley of El Campo, Texas; 2nd Place went to Mark Phillips of Nacogdoches, Texas.
Womens Division: Winner was Betsy Brantley of Godley, Texas.
Youth Division: 1st Place went to Carson Sims of Boerne, Texas; 2nd Place went to Jake DeAnda, also of Boerne, Texas; and 3rd Place went to Thomas West of Sierra Blanca, Texas.
Typical Division: 1st Place went to Allen Herbort of Fredericksburg, Texas; 2nd Place went to Steven Struhall of Austin, Texas.
Koch said, “This year’s event was deemed a big success and she thanked all those who had a hand in the tourament this year.” And Koch concluded, “A total of $6,650 in prize money was handed out.”
Column One
By Dawn Simpson
Thanks to all those involved in the Health Fair last Saturday. In spite of the extremely cold temperature at 9:00 when the doors opened, there was a crowd there at 9:30 when we went. The efforts put into this each year are very much appreciated – as are all those who are involved in the health care of this community on a day-to-day basis. We are very fortunate to have you all.
There were some really nice door prizes. Thanks to Easley Trucking for the one I won. Our local businesses are very good to contribute to things like this. Another example of our small town’s generosity.
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I hope you read the Letter to the Editor in last week’s Advocate from Stephanie Glaholm-Baxter. What a delightful and different explanation of our beautiful area. Oh, if only I could write in such a fun way and still paint a perfect picture. Some might not feel it a compliment to be put into the period setting she likened us to, but I somehow feel she was meaning it in a very positive sense. How else could you take “this desert wilderness flower of a place”. And yes, our Sierra Diablo Mountains, as well as all the others surrounding us, are our treasures. And like a lot of life’s treasures, we take them for granted sometimes.
I asked Larry to include the letter on the web page again if he could, for those who might have missed it. We could never afford to pay the price for that kind of publicity for our area, yet she gave it to us through a Letter to the Editor.
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I need to reply to another Letter to the Editor – the one on Health Care Reform by John Clark. Now I’m not going to argue the facts with you, John. You are a friend, and probably much smarter. It’s pretty obvious that your mind is made up, and I know for sure that mine is. But you made reference to the fact that we (Americans) spend more money than any other developed country in the world on health care, and also that we rank 50th in the world for life expectancy. Could it be there are good reasons for that other than what you consider to be a lack of adequate or affordable health care? Consider these reasons:
Reason #1 – We are a nation of fat people. We love our food that is high in fat. We love our huge portions. We love our junk food. However, we aren’t so crazy about those fruits, vegetables and whole grains. We’ll pass on most of the five or more servings a day that we need.
Reason #2 – We like our cigarettes, our booze and our drugs. No matter that they destroy our health.
Reason #3 – We are lazy. Unlike our fore fathers who toiled the land for their food, we just look for the closest parking place at the grocery store so we don’t have to walk very far. Many won’t even consider walking around the block once a week, much less a mile a day that we should walk. And work in our yards – forget it, that’s way too much work. We even email our fellow workers instead of walking down the hall to talk to them.
Reason #4 – We make poor choices when it comes to what we spend our money on. We could afford health insurance, but we really prefer to drive a brand new vehicle instead. There isn’t enough left of our pay checks because we really don’t want to tell our children that they can’t have the latest video games, or a new cell phone like all their friends have. And football would be so much more fun to watch on a new 52" HD TV. And it is much more fun to eat out several times a week than to pay for health insurance.
Reason #5 – We live our lives with huge amounts of stress. We stay in jobs we hate because the pay is good. We live above our means with credit cards that are maxed out. And many live without knowing the Prince of Peace.
And after the aforementioned reasons, we lose our health in record numbers, what can we do but look to the government to take care of us. Which leads to more control over us, hence the loss of more and more of our personal freedoms and liberties. And yes, John, that is called Socialism. Not a scare tactic, just a fact.
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Thought for the Week…… “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1
COMMUNNITY CALENDAR
January 14th - Directors of the Clark Hotel Historical Museum Association are slated to meet this evening at 6 p.m. at the Clark Hotel Museum.
January 15th - 61th Annual Culberson County Livestock Show begins tonight at 6 p.m. at the 4-H Show Barn. The Van Horn Eagle varsity girls and boys basketball teams are slated to play the Dell City Cougars here tonight beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Van Horn Eagle JV girls basketball team plays Ft. Stockton tonight at Ft. Stockton.
January 16th - 61th Annual Culberson County Livestock Show, barbecue, auction, and dance all day at the 4-H Show Barn and Van Horn Community Center.
January 17th - Attend the church of your choice today.
January 18th - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Trustees of the Culberson County-Allamoore ISD are scheduled to meet this evening at 6 p.m. in the District Administration Building.
January 19th - The Van Horn Rotary Club will meet today at noon at Chuy’s Restaurant. The Van Horn Eagle JV and varsity, girls and boys basketball teams are slated to play Tornillo tonight in Tornillo beginning at 5 p.m. The Van Horn City Council is slated to meet this evening at 7 p.m. at City Hall.
January 20th - Nothing scheduled at press time.