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Articles from the May 23, 2017 edition


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  • CAMP DATES - SUMMER 2017

    Updated May 23, 2017

    May 30- June 2 Girls basketball camp for incoming 1st - 5th grade 1:00pm-2:30pm, for incoming 6th - 9th grade 3:00pm-5:00pm. May 30-May 31 Boys Baseball Camp for incoming 2nd-9th graders 9am-Noon. June 12- June 14 Softball Camp for incoming 1st-9th graders 8:30am-11:30am. July 24-July 27 Volleyball camp for incoming 1st – 5th 8:30am-10:00am, incoming 6th – 9th, 11:00am – 1:00pm July 31-Aug 2 Bobcat Football Camp for incoming 2nd – 9th, 9:00am – 11:30am Registration will begin 30 minutes before camp session....

  • Entertainment for the week of May 24th

    Updated May 23, 2017

    Photo by Tommy Mann Jr. Wynonna and the Big Noise, featuring country star Wynonna Judd, will kick-off the Memorial Day weekend concert events at Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles, La., on Friday, May 26. Other performances include Three Dog Night on Saturday night, May 27, and Huey Lewis and the News on Sunday, May 28. Entertainment for the week By Tommy Mann Jr. The Record A busy weekend awaits with tons of activities on tap including local high school graduations, live...

  • Lions Hall of Fame welcomes Weatherford

    Dave Rogers|Updated May 23, 2017

    For The Record L.E. “Stump” Weatherford said he “was very humbled and very honored,” when he found out he had been selected to the Texas Lions Hall of Fame. Weatherford, a member and two-time past president of the Orange Lions Club, received the award at last weekend’s Lions of Texas Centennial State Convention at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. He is the first Lions member from Orange County to receive the honor since it was first awarded in 1972. Being chosen “bestows...

  • Cornel Thompson wins 2016 Class 4A Coach of the Year

    Updated May 23, 2017

    Cornel Thompson led West Orange-Stark to the Class 4A Championship in 2016. This was the Mustang's second consecutive championship win and third consecutive championship game appearance. The Mustangs finished the year with a 16-0 overall record. They had an impressive win over our pre-season favorite Kennedale in the regular season and had maybe their best game of the year when they beat powerhouse Geronimo Navarro in the Semifinals. Coach Thompson has gone 78-11 since taking over the Mustangs in 2011. Thompson's tenure with...

  • Region V Participates in State VASE in San Antonio

    Updated May 23, 2017

    (ORANGE, TX) The Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE) took place in San Antonio with participants from Region 5 present for the first time in recent memory. After competing at the Regional Event held at the Stark Museum of Art in February, art teacher Terri Thompson and her student Silvana Ochoa of Sabine Pass High School joined 2,110 other art students at State VASE held at James Madison High School in San Antonio on Saturday, April 29th. "My students and I were extremely...

  • LSC-O graduate Lisa Richards Nominated to All-Texas Academic Team

    Updated May 23, 2017

    Lisa Richards was named as a member the All-Texas Academic Team for spring 2017, at the recommendation of LSC-O faculty members. Texas is one of 38 states that recognizes students with this honor. The Texas All-State Academic Team is sponsored by the Texas Association of Community Colleges and Phi Theta Kappa International, a worldwide honor society. All-Texas Academic Team awards are presented annually to two-year college students nominated by their institutions to compete...

  • Vera L. Gords San Antonio, TX

    Updated May 23, 2017

    Vera L. Gords of San Antonio, TX, passed away Thursday, May 18, 2017. Vera was born in Orange, TX on September 29, 1950 to Rosa Stewart Watson and the late Ike Watson. She graduated from Lutcher Stark High School and Stephen F. Austin University. Vera married Robert Gords in July 1974 and they have two children. Vera was a dedicated teacher having taught at West Orange Jr. High, an elementary school in Barcelona, Spain, and Leon Springs Elementary school in San Antonio. She...

  • GOLDSMITH AND LAIRD WIN CCA EVENT

    Updated May 23, 2017

    When I arrived, Brookland Goldsmith and her team mate, Chaz Laird, were nervously pacing the floor of the Orange Boat Club.Neither of them paused long enough to talk as they occasionally checked their watches while counting down the final minutes before the weigh-in would conclude. Winning the tournament would just be icing on the cake for what has been a memorable May for Goldsmith, an Orangefield High School senior.It started with yet another trip to state in the pole vault immediately followed by a very rewarding...

  • After 70 years, brothers to graduate

    Dave Rogers|Updated May 23, 2017

    For The Record A former student’s trip down Memory Lane has set up an interesting Saturday graduation ceremony for Orangefield High School. A pair of 90-year-old brothers will be among those “crossing the stage” for their diplomas at the 11 a.m. commencement at the Beaumont Civic Center. “Oh, I tell you, I’m just blown out of the water, I’m so amazed,” Abe Simon said. “I’ll be getting my high school diploma. It’s about time at 90 years old!” In tough times made worse by t...

  • Judge Powell to keynote Orange County’s 14th Memorial Day program

    Updated May 23, 2017

    The public is invited to the 14th annual tribute to Orange County veterans 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 28 at the Heritage Veterans Memorial Plaza, 3810 M.L. King Drive in Orange. The event is free. Held annually on the plaza on the campus of Orange First Church of the Nazarene, the program includes special speakers, patriotic music and more. The event will feature greetings from District Court Judge Dennis Powell. Judge Powell was born in Hope, Arkansas; he moved to Orange Texas in...

  • MEMORIAL DAY - SE Texas sailors swap memories

    Dave Rogers|Updated May 23, 2017

    For The Record Orange’s Eugene Goudeau dodged direct hits when it counted most but the old “tin can” sailor was broadsided last week in Baton Rouge. He met Garrett Lynch, a Port Arthur native, during a tour of the USS Kidd, a Navy destroyer turned into a museum, and it turns out they have a lot in common. Like having served in the Navy at the same time in World War II and having fought in the same sea battles. “I don’t get to meet guys like that very often,” Goudeau tol...

  • Cardinals, Mustangs move on in playoffs

    Dave Rogers|Updated May 23, 2017

    For The Record West Orange-Stark moved a step closer to its second state tournament appearance in three years while Bridge City’s baseball team is looking for its most successful season in a decade. Wins by both teams in matchup of District 22-4A teams – No. 5-ranked West Orange-Stark, the district champ, knocked off fourth-place Orangefield and Bridge City, the third-place finisher, knocked off district runnerup Silsbee – puts them both in Class 4A Region III semifinal serie...

  • OC puts constables back on streets

    Dave Rogers|Updated May 23, 2017

    For The Record After Orange County commissioners’ court approved new rides Tuesday, Orange County constables are set to get back on the road. For the past two weeks they had been grounded, after it was discovered that there was no county insurance that applied to elected officials using personal vehicles for work. “The only auto insurance we have from the county covers damage I do to other cars, not damage done to mine,” David Cagle, Precinct 2 constable summed up the probl...