Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Lamar State College-Port Arthur will host free Fourth of July celebration Lamar State College-Port Arthur will host its 10th annual Independence Day celebration on Friday, July 4, featuring entertainment and a spectacular fireworks display over the Sabine-Neches Waterway. The event, sponsored in conjunction with the City of Port Arthur,KBTV Channel 4 and the Motiva Expansion Project, begins at 7 p.m. with the Port Neches Veteran of Foreign Wars posting the U.S. and Texas flags inside the Carl Parker Multipurpose Center, 1800...
Trudy Roblow Duhon, 70, Orange, passed away on Sunday, June 29, 2008 after a five year battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 3 at St. Helen’s Catholic Church in Orangefield. Officiating will be Reverend Tom Phelan. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Beaumont, Texas. Visitation will be at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, with a rosary immediately following. Trudy was born in Neighborton, L...
Joyce Hoffpauir Viator, 78, of Bridge City, passed away, Sunday, June 29, 2008, at Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur. Service will be 3 p.m., Wednesday, July 2, 2008, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. The Rev. Paul Zoch will officiate. Entombment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Mausoleum in Orange. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, at the funeral home. Born June 20, 1930, in Sulphur, La., to J.V. and Zilda (Smith) Hoffpauir, she was a...
Burgis J. “B.J.” Bryan, 93, of Orange, formerly of Badger, California passed away Saturday, June 28, 2008 at the Harbor Hospice House in Beaumont. A memorial service to remember B.J.’s life will be held at 10:00 A.M. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in the Chapel of Dorman Funeral Home in Orange . Officiating will be Reverend Rob Fisher, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Orange . Born on May 6, 1915 in Boynton , Oklahoma to James Edwin and Bessie Pearle (Burgis) Bryan, he worked as a sales representative in the liqui...
The bench will soon move in Orange County Commissioners’ Court, but not far. The platform, which now sits on the north wall of the courtroom, will be replaced with a new bench along the east wall, said operations and maintenance Supervisor Mark Wimberley. Chairs for observers will move near the west wall and a small annexing wall will be knocked down, he said. “This won’t cost a bunch of money as far as material goes,” Wimberley told commissioners in regular session Monday. “But it will cost us some labor, no doubt ......
From Staff Reports Her life was brief. Her brutal murder remains unsolved. But Dannarriah Finley isn’t forgotten. Even though it’s now been sixyears since her death - another year passes this week without an identified suspect or arrest - every piece of tangible evidence remains on display for investigators at the Orange Police Department. They cannot and will not forget, either the case, or the memory of little Dannarriah, who rests in a small, slightly marked grave, a sho...
The City of Orange Swim Team (C.O.S.T.) started summer league competition June 28, hosting the Moss Bluff Marlins and Country Club Acres team from Lake Charles. C.O.S.T., participating in the Lake Charles Parks and Recreation League for the second summer, is preparing for its first meet of the 2008 summer league season. Head coach is Greg Gravett and assistant coach is Megan Phares. The next team meet is July 12 at University Park in Lake Charles. In the Boys 7-8 Division,...
Monday barricades were placed across Ferry Drive at both the north and south ends. The barricades will block Ferry Drive for 18 - 24 months as road work to widen the street adding a turning lane proceeds. Present were, State Representative Mike Hamilton, Precinct 3 Commissioner John DuBose, former Mayor Bobbie Burgess, Mayor Kirk Roccaforte, City Manage Jerry Jones, Public Works Director Jim Lancaster, City Secretary Sherry Tisdale, Finance Director Karen Morgan, Municipal...
‘Fate is the name God uses when He plays tricks on you’. I’ve forgotten where I read this quip, but I like it. That’s the only explanation for the turn of events Gayle and I experienced on our recent trip to New Orleans. Usually, we try to make it over there every year, but last summer, we were busy babysitting Keegan and couldn’t seem to find either the time or the energy, especially the latter. We always enjoy the ambiance and laid-back mood of the city, a mood that always seems as if the City-That-Care-Forgot were bala...
Caught in the crossfire of annexation a community conscious group of citizens in 1970 initiated a movement to incorporate the town of Bridge City. Thirty-eight years ago on July 7, marks the anniversary of their success. By the late 1960’s the town of Bridge City’s young infrastructure had taken root. In a healthy economic environment the thriving community boasted a Class 3A State Football Championship, a Chamber of Commerce, a Little League, a hometown newspaper cal...
The Bridge City Lions Club moved its den to Robert’s Restaurant for the annual installation of officers for terms starting in July. Lions international district governor Fred Renkema was installing officer. “This is one of the hardest-working clubs in the district,” he said. “The Bridge City club gained Model Club designation for participation in the ‘Sight for Us Too’ campaign. There was only one other club in the district that gained that distinction and that club was Ne...
A pair of 10-pound redfish slid down the shoreline of a grassy bank with their backs and tails exposed for all to see, shrimp and little baitfish showered across the surface hoping not to be the last one in line or the first one on the menu. As I stood on the poling platform and watched these fish going about the business of finding something to eat it was easy to tell they were almost oblivious to anything else but their next meal. My fishing partner for the day, Ray...
We returned to our usual Perdido Key condo for the second straight year after a two-year hiatus because of Hurricane Ivan, which decimated the Emerald Coast of eastern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle in the fall of 2004. The threat of persistent hurricanes to this region did nothing to discourage the continued development of this haven to tourists from as far away as Tennessee, Kentucky and even Texas, to view the harmonic contrast of the blue-green ocean with the lily-white beaches that adorn this region of the Gulf. Even...
At least portions of the past eight to ten days have presented area anglers with ideal fishing conditions on Sabine Lake. With the exception of the weekend, the wind has not been a factor, the tides have been favorable, and the fishing has been very good. The only inconvenience has been the occasional unscheduled dash for cover due to the lightning accompanying these storms. No lightning should be ignored when outdoors, but even the most hard-core anglers were quick to seek...
“I could not be more excited about the opportunity to coach one of the stronger 3-A baseball programs in the state of Texas,” said Chad Landry via our long distance conversation Friday night. At that point, the board still had not convened to finalize his hiring and Landry was taking nothing for granted. (Editor’s note: Landry was hired at the Bridge City School Board Meeting Monday night.) Following a short pause after his opening statement, he quickly added, “There is one mo...
Dan Mohon, past president of the Orange Lions Club installed their 2008-2009 officers at a banquet held June 23 at the Brown Center. Leading the Lions in Orange this year will be: Bill Smith-president, Joel Ardion-1st vice president, Ed Freiberg-2nd vice president, Angela Reeves, 3rd vice president, Carlene Ortolon-secretary, Jim Dwight-financial secretary, Lois Hughes-membership secretary, Randall Morris-Treasurer, Stump Weatherford-tail-twister, Harold Welsh-asst....
Last summer daughter and son-in-law, Pat and Bob Kuehn, rented a large three bedroom, two bathroom house on Lake Placid in Seguin . It is a tradition for them to rent a different place for their children, grandchildren and their selves to enjoy one week each summer. We joined them for a couple of days and nights. Outside, the house had a large yard with a boat house and dock. In the yard, there was a gym swing set for the children to play on and a chair swing for the adults. The interior of the house had two large...
Last week when I saw one of my male readers in Walley World, he told me how much he enjoyed my cake recipes that his wife baked. Smart man, he complimented my recipes and then his wife’s cooking. I immediately thought of my niece, Shirley, and her chocolate cake. I guess it was because of the Hershey’s chocolate bar we eat every day. To top it all off, Shirley called me this week to give me an update on my 96 year old sister, Ila. She fell last year and broke her wrist. She had one of those walkers that looks like a chi...
When Sharon Steglich told her parents she wanted to be a nun, she got a lukewarm reception. Her father, who wasn’t Catholic, said it would happen only “over his dead body.” “Even my mother, who was Catholic, didn’t understand why,” she says. “To help decide what I wanted to be, I went to a novena and felt God calling me to become a nun. After the novena, my father said he would let me enter because he wanted me to be happy. It was the right decision for everyone.” So...
At the ripe old age of 3, Kylie Elizabeth Olive should have her “queen’s wave” perfected along with her pageant smile. Taking part in 24 pageants in her lifetime, she is the newly-crowned “Texas State Tiny Tot Cover Girl.” This is her first state title, but she also has held three local titles, nine photogenic titles and numerous runner-up positions. Besides pageants, Kylie has appeared in parades and fashion shows, and within the last year was cast in a commercial for Game...
The Orange Shetland 2008 All Star team participated in the Pony Shetland Golden Triangle All Star Tournament recently in Port Arthur. 2008 Orange Shetland All Stars A Team: (L to R) Top Row: Coaches Murray Moreland, Aaron Burke, Stephen Gilbert, and (not pictured) Kyle Foreman. Standing: Jordan Alexander, Taylor Gilbert, Zack Whiddon, Jack Burke, Kyler Hebert, and Dillon Fears. Kneeling: Justin Veitch, Slade Foreman, Ty Moreland, Brendon Wissing, Jackson Tims, and...
The Phillies won the Minor League Championship at Bridge City Little League. Their record for the season was 14-1-1. Pictured left to right, front to back: front row- Tyler Collins, Martin Sanchez, Derick Dearing, Jose Sanchez; middle- Jared Greer, Jason Morris, Blake Lane, Blaine Slaughter, Ryan Mirabella; back- Jeff Lane (asst. coach) and Rick Dearing (coach)....
STRANGE WAY TO START THE DAY At 9:30 a.m. the steeple bells at First Baptist Church were playing beautiful church hymns. I pulled up a seat at the spool table under the Hackberry tree as the music rang out around the community. Even at this late hour, late for me, the traffic is slow and the music came to Mr. Cox’s Neighborhood loud and clear. I reflected on the great day the Lord had sent. My mind drifted to what it might bring. I try to find, in every day something special. Despite all the rain around us the past week e...
