The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1994 Page: 9 of 24
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Thursday, November 24,1994 THE SEALY NEWS 9
Ursula Kutra honored as 4-H Leader of the Year
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of the business he had no luck in
Could he go? You bet.
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accompanied him.
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LEADER OF THE YEAR
Ursula Kutra was honored with the recognition of 4-H leader of the year by the
Austin County 4-H Council at the appreciation banquet Saturday night With her
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Sealy High School
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take care of living expenses while
on the job.
But they do get help with trans-
portation. Rotary, through an
agreement with IESC, picks up
travel costs as a part of the Rotary
International program.
For stays of more than four
weeks, spouses can go along (Walt
stayed five weeks) so his wife. Sue,
Thursday, November 24
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East Bernard .Riverside Hall
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So before he left, Walt developed plained, was purely a matter of job
a 50 page manual that covered qual- security. The plant is about 30
ity control, and improved drying by miles from metropolitan Cali, and
the introduction of more air on the with a lot of labor-saving machin-
Don Nowak, club manager from by these agencies to comfort and of-
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Contrary to what you read and
changing. hear about Colombia, Walt said
When he got there he noticed ev- they saw no evidence of drugs or
erything was done by hand; loading excesses in alcohol use. "With no
trucks for delivery and hand labor TV and little radio, the people
for unloading at the job site. Not a spend a lot of time doing what they
fork lift or pallet in sight. enjoy most...talk."
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Along the way he learned of and
became interested in IESC, which this organization unique. Volun-
teers are paid no salary and have to
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To date, membership includes most modern plants, like the one at
the latest IESC newsletter re- on the cool mountain air and sun-
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fer security to children in emer- Bo Haltom of the Wallis 4-H was
gency cases. Ron Dilic, Katie Clark the lone entertainment on the pro-
and Mark Wuthrich, representatives gram. He took the microphone to
of the three receiving entities, ac- sing a song which he wrote and per-
cepted this special gift The Wallis formed at the 1994 county 4-H
4-H alone collected 208 bears for roundup. It won for him a standing
this cause. ovation.
The myriad of stuffed animals Others on the program included
formed a colorful stage background Angie Schubert, Amanda Toman,
and enhanced the dining tables for Bo Haltom, Manda Haltom,
the banquet. Michelle Nowak, Tamara Davila,
David Marek addressed the as- Rachel Niehaus, Kara Galle, Stacy
sembly as president of the Austin Thiel, Tommy Wise, Will Hartnett,
County Fair Association, extending Courtney Mikeska, Kelley Som- j
appreciation to the youth and all meriatte, Angela Sowa, Melanie
supporters. Coody, Laura Kutra, Amanda Bara-
Eunice Schulz, president of the nowski, Brenda Schumann, Zane
Austin County Parent/Leaders As- Schulz, Angela Sodolak, Aaron Ku-
sociation, recognized two outstand- tra, and Amy Coody.
ing supporters of the 4-H program, The program followed a catered
Brookshire Bros, of Bellville and chicken fried steak dinner. A dance
the Bellville First Baptist Church, was the concluding event of the
as Friends of 4-H. banquet.
Bruce and Grace Viereck visited Scott and Chanda and family to see
with their daughter and son-in-law, their new home. Chanda, Nicole
Ranelle and Dudley Kiefer, in Va- and Trevor spent four days at the
caville, California. Their grand- Kiefer home so they could all have
children, Kim and Kirk more time together.
Williamson, also live there. The Vierecks were glad to have
They were joined by their grand- traveled by plane so they could sit
daughter, Chanda Mansfield, her back and rest on their return trip
husband Scott, and their twins, home from a wonderful 10 days
Nicole and Trevor, from Modesto, visit.
California for a weekend stay at
Lake Tahoe. They had the pleasure
of staying in the resort home, with
guest cabins owned by friends of
the Kiefers.
Grace says the snow was beauti-
ful at Tahoe and fun to play in with
the great-grandbabies. The Vierecks
visited for a day in Modesto with
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Appreciation Banquet draws over 600persons
Austin County 4-H‘ers gave their the Wallis 4-H presented perfect at-
official “thank you” to the support- tendance awards to 42 4-H’ers.
ers of the youth program and hon- Five, ten and fifteen year service
ored several individuals for out- pins were presented to several
standing work with the organization adults.
at the annual 4-H Appreciation and Michelle Allen and Toby Lepley,
Awards Banquet Saturday night, county agents, handled the distribu-
Around 600 men, women and youth tion of certificates, pins, trophies
attended the traditional pre-Thanks- and awards, which this year also
giving banquet which was held at included winners of Rising, Bronze
the Sealy Knights of Columbus and Gold Star awards.
Hall. Amy Janicek, Bo Haltom and
, Lisa Galle, chairman of the. Angie Schubert were recipients of
county 4-H council, was mistress the Rising Star awards. Kara Galle,
of ceremonies. She and other club Kelley Sommerlatte, Mandy Hal-
ports 16,000 project completed
worldwide with 173 currently work-
ing.
What really prompted Walt to get
involved was a chance meeting with
a member who had recently returned
from Mexico after helping get a
lumber mill back on track. Walt
took the bait and signed up.
His first opportunity came not
too long afterwards. But it was for
almost immediate departure and
didn't work out. Members have that
option.
Then came a call from headquar-
ters. A small South American brick
plant near the city of Cali, in
Colombia, high in the Andes
Mountains, was having problems
with both production and quality.
members gave recognition to 4- tom and William Hartnett received
H'ers for their efforts and accom- the Bronze Star awards.
plishments during the year, along John Wesley Hardin, son of Mr.
! with the buyers at the county fair and Mrs. John Hardin of Bellville,
, auctions, award providers and other was the lone recipient of the Gold
’ supporters at the fair. Many verbal Star award. He has been an active
bouquets were cast out over the au- member of 4-H for six years and
dience by the grateful young men has been a beef exhibitor at the fair,
and women of 4-H. John says 4-H has offered him an
Ursula Kutra of Sealy was excellent opportunity to discover ACAANTJAANN
awarded a plaque as the 4-H leader and develop many interests, develop bY.ThAnK.bKNAn---------
of the year. This is the highest leadership skills and team/ skills, . Walter Karnes is.not your every
award a leader can receive on the and it has given him confidence. He dayarun-ofphe mil UP Rotarian,
county level, and is voted by the received an award, a jacket and a works in Hempstead, and attends
members of the 4-H council. It rec- 5400 scholarship. Rotary meetings in Brenham "Un-
1 ognizes the leader who has sup- In addition he received a gift from usual?" you ask. Well, maybe. You
ported the program and has been a the Family and Community Educa- see, he's still a member in Sealy,
club leader, project leader and all lion Club presented by Julia So when he showed up at a recent
around supporter of the 4-H pro- Thompson, a longtime 4-H leader. Friday's weekly gathering at Tony's
3 gram Donnie Strieder presented the Restaurant, members figured he was
’ county 4-H program with a $400 making his annual visit. (Not re-
: Certificates for 4-H leadership check from the Austin County quired.it just seems to work out
J were presented to Fred Bates, Donna Farm Bureau, this way.)
( Brandt, Faye Krenek, Don Luedke, The family of the late Edward .But hewas thereina dual capac-
iJudy Luedke, Don Mahlmann, Kramer and the family of the late "walt retired PomAme Brick (he
g Margie Mahlmann, Kathy Mewis, Roger Kokemor were honored with was one of the early managers at
g-aurie Michalke, Becky Mills, memorial awards following a pre- the San Felipe plant) in 1989, and
. Pamela Epperly, Chris Grimes, sentation by Brenda Hartnett. has since been pursuing his second
.Kim Grimes, Clayton Ignasiak, The council presented to the career...greenskeeper ata Hempstead
Kathy Ignasiak, Bonnie Peschel, Austin County EMS, Austin
William Peschel, Willroy Peschel, County Sheriff’s Department and
Streckfuss and Jennifer Zurovec. which they had collected, to be used ime fter ‘P ^°z
< Don Nowak, club manager from by these agencies to comfort and of- Founded in 1964 by David Rock-
efeller, the organization is a coali-
tion of retired executives who make
their expertise available to busi-
nesses and to a broad spectrum of
professions to mostly developing
nations around the world A brief
sampling of both men and women
would include experience in the
fields of lumber, banking, hospi-
tals, schools and, like Walt, brick-
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Petrusek, Wilma. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1994, newspaper, November 24, 1994; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1559184/m1/9/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.