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Texans pay the nation's highest homeowners insurance rates,
and our auto insurance bills are skyrocketing, too.
We can count on David Lengefeld to fight for lower homeowners
and auto insurance rates.
In fact, Lengefeld has a four-point plan to lower rates that will:
• Close the loophole insurance companies are using to drive
up homeowners and auto rates
• Limit the use of credit scoring
• Increase competition by encouraging further deregulation of
insurance.farms,
• Improve effortslo stop insurance fraud
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Miller for Himself!
Though Sid Miller says he wants to lower insurance rates, you
wouldn't know it by looking at his campaign contribution reports.
Miller has taken thousands of dollars from insurance companies
that are dead set on stopping any effort to lower insurance rates.
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When my grandparents bought land in the
small town of Ericksdahl m 1906, West Texas
was still a raw and untamed land
One of the the first things they did when
they arrived was help build the town church-
chiseling rock from a creek bed for the church's
foundation What they built was a monument
to their-faith, values and decency
I'm extremely proud of my grandparents
and the values that they and my parents instilled
in me-West Texas values
It's those same bedrock values that I work
very hard to bring everyday to my job
representing you in the United States Congress
I hope that I've earned your trust and
support for another term
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He’ll Serve Us, Not Himself.
Vietnam Vet • Small Businessman • Conservative Democrat
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wish to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their chil- •
dren, Amy Dawn to Oracio Lopez. The bride-elect is a 2000 graduate |
of DeLeon High School and a 2002 graduate of Ranger Nursing College
and is currently employed by Canterbury Villa Nursing Home of
DeLeon. The prospective bride-groom is a 1992 graduate of DeLeon e _
High School and is currently employed by Comanche Electric Co-Op in Brenham Brewery afid pi
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Lots of Goodies for the Senior Citizens Bake Sale held on
lot with the tasting, too."
What’s next for the Brenham
Brewery? "More customers.
That's what's next. We really
believe there's a market for our
product or we wouldn't go to all
this trouble and expense."
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"The traffic through here has
been phenomenal. People are curi-
ous. They want to see what's going
on here. They're interested in what
we're doing."
Joe Hudec and his two sons
have started a brewery in
Brenham.
"It's the Hudec Brewing
Company but we re doing business
pro-
ducing a product called Brenham
Beer." Since they're right in the
middle of an area heavy in German
and Czech heritage, they have
made a Lager (German) and a •
Pilsner (Czech). A bock beer is
being added for fall consumption.
Joe's son James is the
brewmeister. While he was get-
ting a degree in business at
Southwestern University in
Georgetown he was bitten by the
home brewing bug. He wrote a
thesis on making beer. His minor
was German, which he speaks flu-
ently.
"He went, over to Germany
and worked for a year in a brew
house. He learned all the brewing .
techniques for these German beers.
Our beers are primarily German.
All of our ingredients are from
Germany." 1 asked Joe what was
Friday morning were brought in by several volunteers includ- involved in starting a brewery and
ing Jeanette Damron, LaJoyce Davis, Diane Donegan, Ruby he said quickly, "Buying tanks.
• - ......... Blue Bell helped us. They sold us
a tank. Then we got Vita Fresh
Orange Juice in Houston to sell us
two, then we found a brew pub in
Dallas that was going out of busi-
ness and we bought all their tanks."
Then they had to decide on a loca-
tion.
"We liked Brenham for gener-
al reasons, but it's halfway between
Austin and Houston and that
would make our shipping costs a
lot less. It's working out real well."
Brenham Brewery will sell only
keg beer at first. "A bottling line is ■
. very expensive. So wo‘want to
. make sure that our product is liked.
When we see that our keg business
is going well to restaurants and
bars in Houston, Austin and
around here, then we'll go to a bot-
tling line."
Brenham Brewery is in down-
town Brenham, where the Hudecs
bought some buildings that were
considered eyesores and restored
them. The brewery is in an old
Pearl Beer distributor warehouse.
A beer garden and tasting room are
set to open right away.
Construction on the complex start-
ed a year and a half ago.
Joe's hobby is restoring old
tractors. He has a building across
the street from the brewery to
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ulous. And why wouldn't they like jUST A STRUMMIN’ AND A STIR RIN’ Brothers Nikki Wilker-
us. We make beer and our name is son (far |eft) and Rowdy Wilkerson (right) are checking on their
Hudec. The people have accepted chi|j as brother-in-law Jim Alix is inspired to strum and sing on
us with open arms. They help us a the co|d damp day. Other cooking teams included Richard
Owen, Ryan Sides, Dirk Zollinger, and Jason Clark.
down with the lambs, a compati-
bility ensued, and before long the
rabbits expanded to twice the size
of Black Beard, yet the friendly
relationship only expanded
betwixt he and the does. I believe
their names to be June and Judy
Doe, but don’t hold me to it.
A couple of weeks back
Emily went out to check on her
rabbits. Alas and alack, the gate
The trade a man pursues to was ajar, and there was no trace of
put groceries on the table does not hide or hair in the backyard,
always reveal the full spectrum of Naturally, Emily was distraught by
his abilities. As proof, I hereby the AWOL hares and her lamenta-
present documented evidence, pre- tions were shared with dear old
sented unto me by unimpeachable dad.
testimony, of reliable and unnamed A search of the area began
witnesses concerning heretofore immediately and one of the rabbits
highly classified incidents. was located-but sadly, one was
It’s logical that since geese, in not. Emily, of course, was heart-
bunches, are gaggles then guineas broken, but dad assured her that
must surely fall into groups or there was no evidence of foul play,
gatherings. Let’s just say that in “We’ll find your bunny,” he
this case they’re a group. As I comforted, and he enlisted the help
recall, there were a half dozen in of Lynn Chupp, who is a famous
the posse that ranged around the rabbit tracker here in Comanche
Poverty Sink area of De Leon eight County. The search party fanned
or ten years ago. They were a out, but failed to locate the errant
familiar sight as they made their rabbit. Suspicions of foul play by
rounds, chattering gaily to one area dogs or a traffic demise were
another as they harvested bugs and the fears of the search part, and
greenery. They were an arresting finally they gave up on the rescue,
spectacle, and to enhance their Then, to the amazement of all,
patrol they featured an unlikely the lost rabbit appeared approach-
accompaniment. A red rooster of ing the home place. It was
brilliant plumage was a constant unharmed, in good health and was
companion, and he supervised the being escorted back to the safety of
street crossings and the real estate hearth and home by none other
they inhabited and cultivated. than Black Beard kitty cat. He
Welsir, most casual observers herded the wild hare into the pen
assumed that the rooster chose his and walked over to the folks for
line of work, but subsequent evi- praise and petting, and of course he
dence seems to dispel that notion, received both.
The rooster may have been under I forgot to tell you that
direct orders of the automobile Emily’s father and the automobile
fixer who provided home base and fixer are one and the same. Mr.
roosting trees for the outfit. Call Eric Royall. He owns and operates
him Eric. the car care clinic on Sipe Springs
The guinea group is no longer Road, but that trade may be his
with us. They were evicted due to minor ability. A man who can
city ordinances and their habit of communicate with guineas, chick-
scratching in flowerbeds. They ens, rabbits and kittens is a cut
were disbanded and accorded a above-Mr. Goodwrench I figger.
royal send-off by the car fixer and Maybe we could call him our
nurturer of the flock. At that time *Varmint Whisperer. And he can
our mechanic’s uncanny ability to also communicate with his daugh-
communicate with that feathery ter.
entourage was not suspected. Robert Redford may be nego-
Emily, a darling daughter of bating for the movie rights.
DeLeon, gained title to a pair of Let me hear from you. My
furry little rabbits from Slick phone number is 254-893-5063;
Carlin Enterprises just lately and my address is 333 West Ayers
added them to her string of felines. Avenue, De Leon, Texas 76444.
The kitties and bunnies coexisted My Email is
in a back yard pen, and inexplica- chupp@charieschupp.com and my
bly developed into boon compan- website is
ions. Black Beard kitty cat often www.charieschupp.com.
visited and frolicked with the little Ok Margaret, my operator is
rabbits, and like the lion who lay standing by.
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house some of his antique
machines. Joe's background is
managing high rise buildings in
Houston. "Brenham has been fab-
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Morgan, Jerry. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 2002, newspaper, October 31, 2002; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1248014/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.