Frio-Nueces Current (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1991 Page: 3 of 18
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Cotulla Airport Open
House September 19
Scout Country Fair set
Ladies return from trip to Haiti
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Notice to the public
9-1-1 Task Force meeting
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Subject matter - exhibit should
effectively communicate its theme.
Exhibit Appearance - should be
attractive, well planned to catch
the spectator’s attention, and easily
understood. It should also reflect
planning and preparedness as
much as possible by our youth
members.
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Mineral 12:12
Identification - who we are and
what arc we doing.
Attendance - at least two Boy
Scouts plus one adults Scouter at
booth.
membership meeting at the George
Hopkins Cafeteria Tuesday eve-
ning, September 24th at 6:30.
President Joe Crisp said five
directors are to be elected. Direc-
tors must have agriculture income
and meet once a month with the
Board. There will be an auction
immediately after dinner with
proceeds going to the Building
Fund. Everyone isasked to bring
things to be auctioned off by
Darwin Avant.
Commiteeot Middle Rio Grande
Development Council strongly
recomended that your agency be
contacted in order to have a rep-
resentative attend the meeting.
The meeting is intended to try
to involve every technical individ-
ual available to develop the most
reliable and efficient 9-1-1 system
for La Salle Counts.
Personal Appearance - in correct
uniform, clean and neat.
Spirit - as always, one’s Scouting
Spirit must be outstanding.
Subject Knowledge - need to know
what and why you’re doing this
exhibit.
services, people stayed several
hours asking questions of the
pastor.
The Voodo-drums beat every
night in the city. The country is
90% Catholic and 100% Voodo.
"the people trust God but their
tremendous fear lead them to ap-
pease the devil," Tot said. The
Texans saw two voodo funerals,
and some of the teens saw aZom-
bie. During the second week, the
group traveled daily with 9 nurses
and doctors from North Carolina
who go to Haiti annually as a
Mobile clinic.
There will be an Open House
for the public to attend at the
Cotulla Airport Thursday, Sep-
tember 19, from 1:00 to 4:00p.m.
E.T. Page said an army group
from Ft. Hood has been in train-
ing with the Border Patrol for two
weeks that ends Saturday the 21st.
They have helicopters and other
things that will be on display.
The LaSalle County Farm
Bureau will h’ave its annual
Total Possible Score - 100
points. Sweepstakes Award to
the top display in that Area. 1st
Premium Award - 90 to 100 points,
2nd Premium Award - 80 to 90
points, 3rd Premium Award - below
80 points.
When you must make funeral arrangements
for a family member, call on Hurley Funeral
Home. We will extend a helping hand to guide
you through that difficult time.
And, yes, we offer services in all price
ranges, so every family can afford a dignified
funeral.
We take pride in the fact that our family
provides a needed community service and we
do so in a caring way, just as we have for over
60 years.
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This year each S.C.F. exhibit/
demonstration will be judged with
the judges weighing neavily on
youth members’ involvement in
the exhibit planning, creatingand
manningon the following factors:
Promptness - booth must operate
the whole period from 12 noon to
6 p.m.
"I can tell you about Haiti, but
until you experience it and see it,
you can’t really believe it."
Twenty-five ladies, five from
Pearsall, attended.
Citizens of Cotulla:
In order to promote govern-
mental efficiency, the council of
the city of Cotulla in their special
meeting of September 5,1991 voted
unanimously to consoliate the col-
lection of property taxes with the
LaSalle County Appraisal District.
The city tax department with
an annualexpenditureofS18,500
per year has now been reduced to
500 lbs. $59.95
While supplies last!
Member of The Order of
the Golden Rule
Our Yamifv
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MINERALB
12:12 Mineral Blocks
$9.00 each
6:12 Loose
$12.00 per bag
12:12 Loose
$11.00 per bag
COTULLA - S.C.F. (Scout
Country Fair) will be held on
October 19, just one calendar
month from today. Cotulla’s Boy
Scout Troop 150 has already started
preparing for the big event. This
year our Troop will compete in
two parts of the Fair. As for the
past 15 years, our Troop will set
up theircamp and compete in the
Camporena portion of the Fair.
They’ll also compete in the ex-
hibit/demonstration portion by
manninga 10ft x 10ft. booth in the
cooking section where they’ll be
demonstrating how to make char
cloth and start fires using Hint and
steel like the American mountain
men and pioneers had to do back
in their days. Our Troop mem-
bers will work in teams manning
the booth so they too can get to
enjoy the rest of the Fair’s activi-
ties.
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The Middle Rio Grande coun-
cil will be holding a La Salle county
9-1-1 Task Force meeting Sep-
tember 24. 1991 at 3:00p.m.- 5:00
p.m. at the Cotulla Housing Au-
thoritv.
Upon presentation of possible
task force members from the City
of Cotulla, and the La Salle county
area, the CJD/911 Advisory
eumme
an expenditure of S8,000.00 per
year. The net result will be a
savings of 57% to the city taxpay-
ers of Cotulla.
Effective October 1, 1991, all
city taxpayers will pay their prop-
erty taxes to the LaSalle County
Appraisal District located at 101
N. Baylor Street.
Joe R. Lozano, Mayor
and City Council
COTULIA - Improving par-
ent-child relationships will be the
focus of a series of discussion
sessions beginning October 1,1991
at Vo-Tech Campus. The program
is being sponsored by P.A.C.E.
according to Connie Sierra. The
discussions will be based on Sys-
tematic Training for Effective
Parenting (STEP), the most widely
used parenting education program
in the country.
More than two million people
throughout the United States,
Canada, and other countries have
participated in STEP discussion
groups and used the accompany-
ing Parent’s Handbook since
American Guidance Service
(AGS) of Circle Pines, Minne-
sota, introduced the program in
1976.
STEP encourages mutual re-
spect between parent and child,
increased cooperation, more ef-
fective communication, and a more
responsible, self-reliant attitude
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cotulla record | STEP program teaches effective parenting
Ladies of the Cotulla Church
of Christ had a luncheon and
program given by Marilyn "Tot"
Holmesly of Ozona who was among
nine people whose primary pur-
pose was to carry the word of God
to the people of Haiti. Ron Fant,
pastor of the Sheffield Church of
Christ, Tot Holmsley, Randy Fant,
and Susan Hayre of Sheffield,
Sandra Sconicrs, Jason Holifield,
Kevin Grigsby, Reva Turk and
Andra Crimm from Iraan landed
in Cape Haitian after a year of
planning the journey.
Tot made a video of the trip
and her narrations were superb.
The group stayed at Cape Haitian
Orphanage, spending the first week
working in any way possible to
help the staff and children of the
facility.
The orphanage, which is over-
seen by the elders ol the Church
of Christ in Ada, Oklahoma, be-
gan five years ago in the home ol
then 64-year of retired Nurse
Evelyn Boyd. Mrs. Boyd, who
calls herself the resident babysit-
ter, saw the plight of the Haitian
children when she went to the
country as a member of a visiting
medical team. She returned to
Haiti, rented a house and began
caring for 12 homeless children.
Now she heads an orphanage w hich
is home to 42 children; ages 5
month-old-twins to 16years. Her
staff consists of a full-time cook,
baby lender, four teachers, a wash-
erwoman (clothes and bedding are
washed in a pan, then spread on
the grass to dry), a body guard and
a female Haitian who assists Mrs.
Boyd. Some of the staff members
live within the walled compound
of the orphanage.
The West Texans spent much
of their first week painting build-
ings, tilling and planting gardens,
helping with the babies and teach-
ing conversational English to the
children and some adult men.
"The people want so much to
do better," Tot said "Haiti, the
to share cxpcriences and learn Irom
others Some STEP leaders spoke
ol networks ol parents that had
grown up locally around the pro-
gram. Others said that STEP
enabled parents to "learn new ways
to handle persistent problems,"
"to get in touch with their feclings
and their child’s," and to over-
come a sense of guilt and develop
sense of confidence and sell es-
teem. STEP was also credited for
improving participants’ relation-
ships with other people, includ-
ing husbands and wives, employ-
ersand employees. Benefits cited
for children included the oppor-
tunity for children to take more
responsibility for their own be-
havior, a calmer, more relaxing
environment in which to develop
emotionally, and less spanking and
parent "snooper-vision."
For more information on STEP
groups being organized in Cot-
ulla, contact Mrs. Maria Garcia
512-879-3747.
"The Lord must have picked
the teens we look," Tol said. "They
were hot, hungry , frustrated and
uncomfortable all the lime; eve-
rything was difficult, but they never
complained." People would be
amazed at the maturity that teens
can demonstrate when they are
asked to serve. I feel there is
probably not a teen in the town of
Cotulla that would not rise to the
occasion," she said.
formula with iron, baby food and
cereal, powdered milk, macaroni
and cheese, disposable diapers,
Kool-aid, toothpaste, booth
brushes and any type baby soap
except ivory. A four pound box of
powdered milk, when it can be
gotten, costs S32.88 in Cape Hai-
tian.
"People are on the move 24
hours a day in Cape Haitian, many
because they have no homes. The
constant noise, stench, press ol
people, heat and humidity are
sensations which will never be
forgotten," Tot said. Many boys
up to 12 years of age roam the city
and rural areas with no clothes
on. Girls wear a skirt. Only the
16-year old boy (who does all the
ironingat the orphanage) attends
school outside the orphanage.
The others, beginning at age
two are taught without books,
paper and pencils. Mrs. Boyd
teaches them responsibility
daily chores.
"If you're part of this family,
you work to make this family work,"
she said is the philosophy there.
The Texans went door-to-door
in the citv to take the Word of
God to the people who instantly
became interested. At worship
Our Boy Scouts are selling tick-
els to S.C.F. Each ticket costs $2.00
but the ticket purchaser gets a
coupon worth S2.00 off on the
purchase at any Pizza Hut. Each
ticket sale not only helps the Troop
of the Scout selling the ticket (25%
comes back to the Troop), but the
buyer can spend a most interest-
ing afternoon watching 3,000 or
more boy Scouts putting on a huge
display of Scouting in action plus
getting a good meal at a great
discount. That’s not a bad deal!
Pearsall
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lion is a result ol many social
changes in the U.S. These include
changing roles for mothers, a shill
away from the autocratic "Father
Knows Best" value system to a
more democratic viewpoint, and
the increasing mobility of fami-
lies.
The survey showed that very
diverse organizations sponsor
STEP groups: schools, religious
groups, community centers, so-
cial service, agencies, mental health
centers, hospitals, individuals, and
state and local government agen-
cies.
Of the 1,300 STEP leaders who
responded to the survey, 88% said
they received positive feedback
from parents about the program;
only 2% reported any negative
feedback.
The parents who participated
in STEP groups said they found
the program beneficial for many
reasons. High on the list was the
opportunity it provided for them
among children. Locally, on Sep-
tember 23, 1991 at 6:30 pm at the
George Hopkins Cafeteria, Ms.
Jo Mascoro will be on hand to
provide additional information on
parenting skills. Community
members of LaSalle County have
joined to Charter Parenting And
Caring Education (PACE ), this
charter of STEP will conduct it’s
first session on the dale stated
above. Headingour local charter
is Mrs. Connie Sierra-Chairman,
Mrs. JoAnn Piland-Vice Chari-
man, Mr. Jimmy Montemayor will
serve as Facilitator.
Our community’s interest in
parenting education is part of a
nationwide trend. A nationwide
survey conducted by AGS showed
that parenting education is a grow-
ing phenomenon, sponsored by
hundreds of diverse groups and
organizations and conducted by
thousands of individuals through-
out the country.
The trend in parenting educa-
Purina
poorest nation in the Western
Hemisphere, is beset with prob-
lems stemming from illiteracy.
Forty percent of all children are
dead before two years and an adult
who lives to 50 is considered very
old."
Electricity is on in downtown
Cape Hainan where 100,000
people live 24 hours a day but at
the orphanage, power was sup-
posed to be from 3:00 to 10:00
pm. Mrs. Boyd said during a span
of 16 weeks the electricity was
available a total of five hours.
The country has no method ol
sanitation. Garbage is dumped at
random; there is no bathrooms.
Trenches carrying raw sewage
line both sides of the streets. I land
pumps are located throughout the
city At the one nearest the or-
phanage, people could be seen or
heard at all hours drinking, wash-
ing themselves, their clothing and
dishes. There is no hot water;
Culligan water, (purified water),
is available to those who can af-
ford to buy it. While visiting in
one home, the missionaries were
given Culligan water. Their host
had spent S5. of his monthly in-
come of S 100 for their comfort.
Tot explained that although they
were apprehensive about drink-
ing from the glasses, they put
themselves "In the Lord’s hands",
and no one became ill.
Starved before reaching the
shelter of theorphanage.lhechil-
dren are grateful to have food,
clothing and medical attention.
One 13-month old baby arrived
weighing 10 pounds, ill with
measles, and able only to hold up
it’s head.
Obtaining food for the orphan-
age is no small chore for Mrs.
Boyd, whose old pickup runs
sometimes. The diet at the or-
phanage consists of plantains, rice,
beans, macaroni and cheese, fruit,
milk and Kool-aid.
The greatest needs which can
be sent from the states are baby
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