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Community
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Issue 41 Page 3
Obituaries
Domingo Hernandez
Domingo Hernandez, 69, died Oct. 6, 2007 after a
short illness.
He was born Feb. 20, 1938 and had lived in Edroy
until moving to Corpus Christi. He is preceded in death
by his wife, Amelia, his parents, Francisco and Eugenia
Hernandez and his brother, Ramon Hernandez.
A rosary was recited Monday at Ritchea Gonzales
Funeral Home Chapel in Sinton. Funeral mass was cel-
ebrated Tuesday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic
Church in Edroy with Father Banda as celebrant.
Interment was in Edroy Cemetery.
Mr. Hernandez is survived by his son Antonio
(Marivel) Hernandez of Edroy; his daughter, Isabel C.
Hernandez of Corpus Christi; his twin brother, Juan
(Maria) Hernandez of Corpus Christi, Esteban (Maria)
Hernandez of Houston and Francisco (Eva) Hernandez
of Edroy; his sisters, Mary Jane (Rene) Dominguez of
Pasadena, Lupe (Ramon) Fuentes and Ester Morin of
Edroy, and six grandchildren.
Ramiro Beltran
Ramiro (Ram) Beltran, 50, of San Antonio, died
August 12, 2007 .
He was born Aug. 25,1957, in Odem and was a grad-
uate of Odem High School. He had lived in San Antonio
for 23 years.
His father, Angel Beltran preceded him in death.
Services were held Oct. 6, 2007, at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church in Odem with burial in the Odem
Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Beltran is survived by his mother, Altagrace
Beltran of Odem; three sisters, Olivia Hernandez of Lake
Jackson, Sylvia Nunez (Homero) of Richwood and Pam
Garcia (Robert) of Kingsville; four brothers, Angel
Beltran (Rosa) of Kingsville and Jose Beltran (Margie)
and David Beltran of Odem and Rudy Beltran (Becky) of
Corpus Christi.
Michael C. Roblez
Michael C. Roblez, 40, of Lubbock died Sept. 24,
2007.
He was born Oct. 13, 1966, in Denver City to Pete
and Viviana Roblez. He worked for Cash Register
Services in Lubbock.
Rosary was recited Sept. 25, at Ratliff Funeral Home
Chapel.Services were held Sept. 27, in St. Williams
Catholic Church with Father Joseph Thanavelil officiat-
ing. Pallbearers were Jonathan Gonzalez, Timothy
Roblez, Ruben Gonzalez, Gilbert Roblez, Jr, Cody
Ancira,, Pablo Ortiz III, Paul Martinez and Steven
Waters. Evan Rblez was honorary pallbearer. Interment
was in the Denver City Memorial Park.
Mr. Roblez is survived by his parents Pete and
Viviana Roblez of Denver City; three sisters, Norma
Ortiz and husband Pablo of Odem, Irma Gonzales and
Lionel of Sylvia Anciara and husband Ruben, all of
Denver City; two brothers, Gilbert Roblez and wife
Sylvia and Pete Roblez Jr. and wife, Sandra all of
Denver City; and five nieces and six nephews.
Bridge
club
makes a
move
The Rockport Duplicate Bridge
Club moved to the Rockport Yacht
Club located behind the new aquar-
ium on Rockport Harbor. Bridge is
played every Tuesday and the first
and third Thursday of each month at
12:45 p.m.
For reservations call Millie Vollick
at 361-729-1866 and for information
call Bobbie Walker, director, at 361-
727-98945.
There's only one thing better
than reading about food and that is
of course, eating it.
I like to read
recipes and stories
about food prepara-
tion with topics such
as how veggies and
fruits are grown, how
they're cooked and
how they taste. I love
to read about how
someone's grandmother cooked cer-
tain foods and how they were
served.
It's heartwarming to read about
family gatherings and what is
served. Do you like sandwiches?
Soup? Casseroles? When my hus-
band and I married in 1958, I asked
him if he liked tuna and he said sure,
just not well enough to eat it. And
sure enough, it was about 20 years
before I could get him to even taste
a tuna and macaroni casserole.
When the kids were small we ate in
every single day. Breakfast lunch
and supper. It was a treat that the
kids got a hamburger or hot dog.
They all have memories of nights
at the Red Barn near Mathis when
they were allowed to sit at their own
table in the tap room and eat steak
to their hearts content. My daughter
still sighs with nostalgia when she
thinks of the food I allowed her to eat
once a week at Moore's Pharmacy.
This was when the store was located
on Sinton Street and there was a
lunch counter in the rear. We went
there every Saturday after grocery
shopping. The chili cheeseburgers
were worth a trip. The donuts
weren't bad either.
I got a copy of Newsweek from
the library Monday and read a story
written by Raina Kelley in the envi-
ronment section. She said she spent
a month living as a Freegan, (free +
vegan) in a decision to" boycott cap-
italistic society by severely curtailing
consumption of resources through
reusing, recycling and Dumpster div-
ing.” She said that taking “waste
not, want not” to extremes, Freegans
try not to buy anything, including
food, preferring to barter and use
things most of us leave in the
garbage. She tried it, but failed. She
did learn a few things: she can now
recycle, reuse and renew more
thoughtfully than she did before her
experiment and she now tries to
keep her consumerism in check.
She buys one pair of shoes a sea-
son instead of 10 or 12.
While doing research, she
learned that the USDA estimates
that more than 90 billion pounds of
food is wasted in America every
year, much from inefficient ordering
and inventory systems. Yes, that’s
billion, with a B.
Through her experiment, she dis-
covered America's Second Harvest,
a nonprofit that takes "distressed
food" and other groceries and dis-
tributes to food banks, feeding about
2 million hungry people a year.
Such articles tend to leave the
reader feeling wasteful and ungrate-
ful, guilty and ineffectual. We then
decide to give more and help more
and not waste and be more thought-
ful with all our resources.
When I got my first computer in
1999, I discovered The Hunger Site.
One click a day helps feed people
worldwide. Sponsors of the site
match the cups contributed and it
claims 100 percent of the sponsors
money goes to charity.
An ad on their site reveals that 30
million people go to bed hungry
every night.
Odem Library News
By Donna Hutchins
LIBRARY HOURS: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Phone/Fax: 361-368-7388.
THE BOOKTIQUE COMING SOON: OCT. 29. STAY TUNED!!
A Librarian’s “Food for Thoughts”
Today’s popular diet gurus all chant the mantra "get your mind off food and
eating; find a hobby".
Okay, I’ll read.
Have you noticed how many writers go on at length about the things their
characters are eating, or about to eat? Cooking and eating is to today’s lit-
erature what the love scene was to the writing of the 60s and 70s; the thing
worth stopping the story for to share, so to speak, with the reader.
Not long ago, I attempted to mimic some cooking as it was done in a
recent novel, “Sweet Revenge” by Diane Mott Davidson. Unfortunately there
was a certain lack of specificity in her story about what kind of steak the
heroine was using. The dogs loved it.
Still you have to wonder how well food fits in the storyline. The purpose
of the "food scene", after all, is not to teach a recipe but to paint a mood.
Every age finds an activity that can take place while a character is meditat-
ing or brooding. In Victorian fiction, it was walking; the character takes a long
walk to decide to propose, convert, escape or run for office. That evolved
into driving, an activity recessive enough to do the job. Now characters are
thinking while cooking? How safe is that?
Even the people we encounter in novels are ultimately mere recipes,
too—so many eyes, so many bright teeth, so many repeated tics and iden-
tifying mannerisms.
No matter how much cooking a novel contains, in the end, it goes back
to being a book, as all books will. Even cookbooks are finally more book that
they are cook. For every novel that contains a recipe, there is now a recipe
book meant to be read as a novel. Who in their right mind would spend two
hours mixing and grinding 26 spices for a clear broth soup? Sounds like fic-
tion to me.
Mrs. Joan H. recommends a "food" author named Joanne Fluke. Her
books contain actual, factual recipes with amounts and everything. These
books have enticing titles like, The Fudge Cupcake Murder and The Lime
Pie Murder. The stories are full of sugar and cream rather than blood and
gore. Maybe I will rise to a higher level of culinary ambition and try out one
of these "murder" recipes. Maybe not. I think it would be safer for my family
if I just stuck with good old "Sara Lee" and left the cooking to the authors.
"Foodie" Authors Available at OPL
“Sweet Revenge” by Diane Mott Davidson (14 novels)
“Sugar Cookie Murder” by Joanne Fluke (nine novels)
“Crepes of Wrath” by Tamar Meyers (five novels)
“The Hope Chest” by Wanda Brunstetter (four Amish novels)
“The Spice Box” by Lou Jane Temple ( one novel)
Final Notice and Public Explanation of a Proposed
Activity in the 100-Year Floodplain and Wetland
To: All interested Agencies, Groups and Individuals
This is to give notice that the City of Odem has conducted an evaluation as
required by Executive Order 11988 and 11990 in accordance with HUD regula-
tions at 24 CFR 55.20 to determine the potential affect that its activity in the
floodplain and wetland will have on the human environment for Owner Occu-
pied Program under HOME Contract #1000462. The proposed project(s) which
is/are located in City of Odem, San Patricio County will be reconstructed or
rehabilitated:
(1) 205 Cook, Odem, TX
The City of Odem has reevaluated the alternatives to rebuild in the floodplain
and has determined that the proposed housing reconstruction activities cannot
be undertaken in any other location since relocation activities are not an option
under the HOME Owner Occupied Program. There is no alternative other than
not to perform reconstruction activities which would not serve the purpose of
the HOME Program in providing safe, decent, and sanitary housing for low-
income homeowners who currently reside in sub-standard housing and that it
has no practicable alternative other than to demolish and reconstruct or do major
rehabilitation to the unit(s). This activity will have no significant impact on the
environment for the following reasons:
1. The proposed project site locations are already occupied by
homes and therefore existing sub-standard homes will be
replaced with standard dwellings.
2. Failure to provide reconstruction assistance would result in the
continued unsafe and unhealthy living conditions for the nine
households.
3. The new homes will be elevated above the base flood elevation,
which will prevent flooding.
4. Flood insurance will be provided for the homes.
Written comments must be received by the City of Odem at the following
address on or before October 19,2007: City of Odem, 514 Voss Ave, Odem,
TX 78370, Attention: Jessie Rodriguez, Sr., Mayor.
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Tracy, James. The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 11, 2007, newspaper, October 11, 2007; Sinton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1055840/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Odem Public Library.