The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 99, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 2016 Page: 1 of 14
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Volume 125, No. 99
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Williams passed away Sunday at the age of 87. (Melony Overton/Wave photo)
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Throughout 2015 and 2016,
patients of Memorial Medical
Center have rated it a top facil-
ity for healthcare.
Following a stay at MMC, a
certain percentage of patients
are contact by telephone and
asked to rate the hospital and its
services in 11 areas, MMC CEO
Jason Anglin said. The hospi-
tal has about 1,200 patients in a
year, the CEO said.
MMC has utilized the sur-
veys for several years now,
Anglin said, adding that other
similar surveys are used for the
emergency department and the
Memorial Medical Clinic.
The survey is performed by
Healthstream, Inc., that provide
healthcare workforce solutions.
Patients admitted to MMC take
the Hospital Consumer Assess-
ment of Healthcare Providers
and Systems survey
“With the survey, what
we do is after a patient is dis-
charged, we transmit basic de-
mographic information to the
survey company, and they con-
tact them via telephone within
a few weeks after they were dis-
charged from our services,” An-
glin said.
The 11 areas of the hospital
survey included a patient’s com-
munication with doctors and
nurses, how quickly a patient
received help when wanted, how
well pain was controlled, clean-
“I don’t believe in moving
from church to church. I am
totally committed to the Baptist
doctrine. If we are truly
Christians there should not be
anything that goes on within
the church that should cause
you to want to go somewhere
else. ”
-D.J. Williams, of Port
Lavaca, and longtime member
of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church.
Jake Carter, left, enjoys a moment with Christina Silva after they were named 2016 Calhoun High
School Homecoming King and Queen Sept. 9. Carter was diagnosed with Stage 2 melanoma in
May. He is now cancer free. (Sherry Ficklen/Wave photo)
Carter waited two weeks
after surgery to hear whether
the cancer had spread to his
lymph nodes.
“We were hoping to have
good news since it was only
Stage 2, but it was very sad for
all of us. Turns out it spread
to my lymph nodes, and it was
Stage 3 melanoma,” he said.
A week later, his lymph
nodes were removed.
“It was the most painful
thing I’ve ever gone through
in my life,” Carter said. “The
first surgery didn’t hurt
that bad at all. I was on pain
medication for a day This one
I stayed on pain medication
for a week. The first day home,
I was so devastated. I thought
why me?”
After surgery, Carter had
to wear two drain tubes for
three weeks.
“It’s like having two kids
attached to you,” Carter said
of the tubes. “I had to have
them paper clipped to my
shorts or they would rip out. I
had to have those on for three
weeks.”
Carter did not have to
miss any school, and he
started working at Walmart in
June.
“I had to miss a month
of work after I had the lymph
node dissection,” he said.
Carter also went through
physical therapy in Port
Lavaca after surgery Now,
Carter goes to MD Anderson
for an MRI every three to four
months.
The best weapon to have
in the fight against cancer is
a positive attitude, according
to Jake Carter, 18, of Port
Lavaca.
Carter, who is a Calhoun
High School senior, found out
he had Stage 2 melanoma on
his birthday this year after
he went to a dermatologist
in Victoria. He went into the
doctor to have warts removed
from his right thumb and
underarm before prom.
“During the month of
April, I had a wart on my
thumb. The wart under my arm
was big and green. It looked
funny The dermatologist sent
both of them off. He said
the wart on my thumb was
normal, but he said the other
one was malignant, and he
was going to refer me to MD
Anderson (Cancer Center),”
Carter said.
On May 3, his birthday,
Carter found out one wart
was malignant. Carter started
his senior year at CHS cancer
free, but his summer was
spent working part time in the
Walmart garden center when
he was not in and out of MD
Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston.
“A couple of weeks later,
I had a doctor’s appointment
at MD Anderson. The doctor
said I had Stage 2 melanoma,
and they were going to
remove it,” he said. “We were
all surprised. Out of all the
people, it was me who had it.”
About 40 business and
community leaders enjoyed
a hot breakfast Wednesday
morning while the Calhoun
Port Authority director gave
an update on the facility
Port Director Charles
Hausmann outlined the port’s
history and its benefits to the
community, calling the port
a main economic driver in
Calhoun County Hausmann
also spoke about the personnel
makeup at the port. The port
has a board with six members
representing the eastern
portion of the county
The port, Hausmann said,
draft ships utilized the port.
Ship traffic was an all-time
high, last fiscal year, exceeding
its previous record of 302 deep
draft ships in 2013, Hausmann
said.
For calendar year 2015,
approximately 15.3 short tons
of material moved through
the Matagorda Ship Channel,
Hausmann added. That figure,
he said, included products
moved through the port,
Alcoa’s facilities and the Gulf
Intracoastal Waterway
Hausmann also spoke
about the port’s financials. The
port is a multimillion dollar
entity with a revenue last year
of about $12.6 million. Despite
an approximate $4 million
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The Calhoun County
Commissioners’ Court accepted
Thursday a $167,861 grant from
the federal Department of
Homeland Security to be used
by the sheriffs office.
The grant,
Operation Stonegarden
Program, is for overtime pay
and equipment used toward
“reduction or elimination of
threat, risk and vulnerability
along our nation’s borders.”
Earmarked
document is
time-and-a-half
for deputies and $74,153 for
equipment including a 2015
Chevrolet Tahoe. There is
money for mileage at 56.5 cents
a mile and for maintenance of
existing 4-wheel vehicles. The
Texas Department of Parks
and Wildlife, termed a friendly
force, is to get $19,670 for
overtime and fringe benefits for
two officers.
In other
commissioners:
-Voted to allow the County
Fair Association to use part
of the parking lot at the Little
League baseball facility to sell
beer only on the Friday and
Saturday during the fair. The
fair is scheduled Oct. 11-15.
-Authorized County Judge
Mike Pfeifer to sign a letter
of approval for the Texas
Department of Transportation
to close County Road 206
(Gin Road) for approximately
four months while a new
bridge is being constructed.
Commissioner Vern Lyssy said
work is scheduled to begin in
January or February
-Agreed to close narrow
D.J. Williams, of Port
Lavaca, lived to serve the
membership of Mt. Sinai
Baptist Church and his
community Williams passed
away Sunday at the age of 87.
Williams joined the
church at the age of 5 when
the Rev. A.K. Black was pastor.
In 2014, when interviewed by
The Port Lavaca Wave for
a story about the church,
Williams had this to say, “All
my family grew up in this
church.”
At the
interview,
of the
Williams
remembered his parents
the late Samuel and Eliza
Williams sitting him in the
pews of the church when it
was a wood frame building
located at the corner of
Nueces and Center streets.
In his eight decades
of service to the church,
Williams taught Sunday
school for 57 of those years.
The deacon of Sunday school
at the time had asked him to
take over the program.
“He felt real sure that I
wasn’t going into it depending
on myself. I was going to let
God guide me,” Williams said.
The Rev. James Fowler,
pastor of Mt. Sinai Baptist
Church for 10 years, said
Williams gave his best to the
end.
“He (Williams) was at the
revival Friday (Sept. 16). That
is the last day I spoke to him.
I got the call early Sunday
morning that he had passed
from a massive heart attack,
and he was gone,” Fowler
said.
was established in the early
1950s by the Texas Legislature,
and it was needed by Alcoa,
who needed a non-federal
sponsor for building the
Matagorda Ship Channel.
Since its birth, the port
has grown. Today, the port has
four deep draft ship berths and
can accommodate six separate
barges at once, Hausmann
said.
“The port has really grown
and taken off,” Hausmann
said, attributing that growth
primarily to Formosa Plastics,
Corp.
About 65 percent of
the product moved through
the port is from Formosa,
Hausmann said. Other
land purchase, the port was
able to have a net revenue of
more than $450,000.
“That tells you if we
would not have purchased that
property, we would have put
into reserve a little over $4
million,” Hausmann said.
The port is also a taxing
entity in Calhoun County This
year, the board voted to lower
the tax rate as low as possible
at $0,001 per $100 valuation of
property, Hausmann said.
“We don’t want to rely
on the citizens of Calhoun
County for revenue. My board
looks at this the same way I
do. We run like a business, we
businesses that utilize the port
include INEOS Nitriles, Alcoa,
JR Simplot, Invista, NST,
Sanchez Energy and Pelorus
Investments.
“What we mainly
bring in through the port
are high dollar, high value
petrochemical products,”
Hausmann said. “They come
in via pipeline, and we ship
them out via barge or ship.”
Other products that move
through the port include
natural gas condensate,
bauxite, aluminum, fertilizer,
crude oil and other natural
gas products, he added.
In fiscal year 2016, which
ran from July 2015 to June
2016, 806 barges and 319 deep
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French, Tania. The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 99, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 2016, newspaper, September 24, 2016; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1301582/m1/1/?q=green+energy: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.