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Serving Sealy and Austin County since 1887 • Home of Vlasta Jurica
INSIDETODAY
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The Sealy News • 193 Schmidt Road • P.O. Box 480 • Sealy, Texas 77474 • phone (979) 885 35G2 • fax: (979; 885 3564 • www sealynews com
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ratings
decline
plan park
in vacant
Cat Spring EMR
looks to raise funds
for new construction
77th annual AC Fair
souvenir section
Volleyball Action
in Ful Swing
PAGE 7
By JIMWEBRE
Staff Writer
By JIMWEBRE
Staff Writer
Volunteers Lend
Helping Hand
PAGE 11
By JIM WEBRE
Staff Writer
ProGrad dinner
planned today
The Project Graduation
class of 2005 will host a
baked potato dinner on Oct.
8 in the high school cafete-
ria, before the Hempstead
football game. Tickets are
$6 for adults and children.
Serving will be from 5-7
p.m. - dine-in or take-out.
Contact any senior student
or parent for tickets, or call
Mona Norris at 885-2351.
Kevin Kulow, a longtime
Sealy firefighting volun-
teer and rookie Houston
fireman, was killed in a
Houston nightclub arson
on April 4, 2004 His
father Dan and brother
Keith still serve on the
Sealy VFD.
Thousands recently returned home from Colorado having honored fallen firefighters from all over the United States and Canada. Above,
Dan Kulow, father of the late Kevin Kulow of Sealy, makes an impression of his son's name with some help from Kyle Kulow, Kevin’s son,
at the Colorado monument dedicated to firefighters killed in the line of duty.
Paying their respects in Colorado
Check out our annual Austin
County Fair section inside
today’s newspaper. The 77th
annual event will be held Oct.
13-17 in Bellville.
Today
Mostly cloudy with show-
ers and thunderstorms like-
ly. High in the upper 70s
and low in the mid-60s.
Saturday
Partly cloudy with a 30
percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. High
near 80 and low in the mid-
60s.
Sunday
Partly cloudy with a high
in the lower 80s and low in
the mid-60s.
Columbus Day
Partly cloudy with a high
in the mid-80s and low in
the mid-60s.
By BOBBY HORECKA
Managing Editor
By BOBBY HORECKA
Managing Editor
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"If you don’t say any-
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on to repeat it.”
- Calvin Coolidge, 1933
BIBLEVERSE
Wallis KCs fish fry
Wallis Knights of
Columbus Hall ballplayers
will have an “All You Can ,
■ NEWSBITS, page 2
and myriad other items in addition
to either granting or denying the
variance for the gas producer. The
public will have a chance to address
council publicly at that time.
Residents in the area earlier this
year voiced concern over the possi-
bility of locating the facility so close
to the city’s Little League ball
fields, an historic building and sev-
eral residences at the intersection
of Second and Lux Road.
Western International is claiming
the offloading system will be closed
Medical Services, say officials.
Cat Spring EMR will host a
fundraiser Saturday begin-
“In his mind a man plans
his course, but the Lord
directs his steps.”
- Proverbs 16: 9
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being built with donations and
fundraiser monies,” said EMR
spokesman Tim Lapham
Items are needed for the auc-
tion and can be brought to the
Cat Spring Hall on Saturday
Oct. 9, or call Lapham at 877-
0511 to arrange for pick-up.
Austin County EMS officials
say the two-bay building will
be smaller than the station in
Bellville for Medic 1, but will
still hold a single ambulance Workmen are already erecting the skeleton for the new Cat
and a rescue truck belonging Springs EMR station at Cat Spring next door to the volunteer fire
These and more than 100 other names
were added to the black granite “Wall of
Honor” at the International Association
of Firefighters Memorial in Colorado
Springs, Colo., which has taken on the
names of 1,686 fallen firemen from all
across the United States and Canada
since the monument was erected in 1978.
Dan Kulow knows the sadness pf such
a memorial all too well. He was among
the entourage from the Texas Gulf Coast
who made their return treks home in late
September, having attended the ceremo-
ny to pay his respects to Kevin, his son.
“You don’t know how you feel until you
witness something like this,” Mr. Kulow
told the newspaper last Friday.
“It’s such a lonely feeling to lose a kid
like this. It’s just hard to explain unless
you’ve been through it,” he said.
But that’s one of the comforts the annu-
■ KULOW, page 3
system would not be objectionable,
but they intended to move ahead
with their project.
WI has surveyed the several
acres already, but the material the
company wants to offload is consid-
ered a hazardous material
WI officials claim only a single
18-wheel over-the-road gondola
truck would roll out of the facility
daily, but that truck would be car-
rying calcium carbide, the raw
■ VARIANCE, page 2
Cat Spring Emergency
Medical Responders need to
raise $10,000 or risk losing a
private grant to help pay for a
two-bay emergency medical
station house next door to Cat
and there will be no dust or unto-
ward environmental affects.
The issue of whether Western
International would be able to
move ahead with plans to build two
railroad spurs and an offloading
mechanism on the property directly
across the street from the
Liedertafel/Firemen’s Hall was on
hold after the council last July
adopted a complete set of develop-
ment standards that would have
prevented the project.
WI officials said at the time the
No Austin County school
districts are in fear of fail-
ing, but there wasn’t much
rejoicing last week when
the state issued its account-
ability ratings, the first
since the new, more strin-
gent state testing programs
became the new benchmark
for success.
“We’ve come a long way in
preparing our students for
these new requirements,”
said Sealy superintendent
Dale Lechler. “But I doubt
any of us can say we’re sat-
isfied with our ratings so
far. In fact, you never really
can say that. The require-
ments get tougher every
■ RATINGS, page 5
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Thousands flocked to Colorado late last
month to honor those who may be gone,
but definitely not forgotten.
They were people like a man named
Barry Bennett, a captain with a
Cambridge, Mass. Fire Department who
died in November of hepatitis C compli-
cations after being pricked by a drug
user’s needle.
Or a man named Ricky Blodgett, a fire-
man from Omaha, Neb., who died in
September 2003 from a cancer he got
fighting chemical fires.
Or closer to home, a man like Kevin
Kulow, a longtime Sealy firefighting vol-
unteer and Houston Fire Department
rookie whose life was extinguished on
April 4, 2004 while fighting a nightclub
blaze later ruled to be an arson.
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Sealy NEWS
Sealy’s planning board Tuesday
unanimously recommended to the
city council that Western
International Gas be allowed to
construct a hazardous material
offloading depot on Lux Road near
BP&W Park
The matter will be put on the city
council agenda for Oct 13, a meet-
ing at which the council will consid-
er instituting a drainage system fee
Spring Volunteer Fire ning at 5 p m. with a $7 a
Department. plate chicken fried steak din-
At present there is insuffi- ner. A live auction begins at 7
cient room to house the staff p.m.
and mobile unit for Medic 3 of "The Emergency Medical
Austin County Emergency Responders (EMR) building is
WALLIS - Three vacant,
flood-prone lots could wind
up an open space play area
if Wallis City Council fol-
lows through with purchase
of the property at tax sale.
Council member James
King told Council
Wednesday that three lots
on Gresham that are for
sale through the Austin
County Appraisal District
have drawn a bid of $1,400
for all three properties on
the edge of Elm Slew, a
draw for flood waters dur-
ing heavy rain.
“These could be made into
■ WALLIS, page 2
Call for mini-camp
cheerleaders Oct 8
All mini-camp cheerlead-
ers are invited to join the
Sealy High School cheer-
leaders during the Sealy-
Hempstead game today at
7:30 p.m. Formereinfen -
mation call 885-3515. 4 .
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