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State-ranked
Lady Panthers lay
the smack down
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Volume 52
Castroville • La Coste
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 Castroville, Texas
Angel tree in
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MV moves to learn defendant’s identity in lawsuit
Alicia Ramirez reality is that we’re being
Staff Writer sued by someone, yet we
The lawsuit between don’t know who they are,
the Schultz family and what their complaints are
• Medina Valley ISD contin- and we don’t know how
ues on while the district we can remedy this,” said
attempts to learn the iden- Assistant Superintendent
tity of the new defendant Chris Martinez. “Up to this
Pat Doe and District Court point, the judge has said
Judge Fred Biery tries to that he is allowing some-
• get the parties to come to body to enter into this case
an agreement before going that has a disagreement
are so that they can be
addressed by the district,
but plaintiff’s attorney
Greg Lipper said that by
Lipper. “We will be filing decree in which the defen-
an opposition within the dant does not agree that it
next several days. We cer- has violated the antitrust
tainly oppose it and think laws, but agrees to change
disclosing the identity of that it puts Doe at risk of
to trial.
with you that is serious
“We have from the very enough to go into a federal
beginning questioned the court, yet he’s not going to
whole situation regarding allow us to know who it is
Pat Doe, while we under- or to know what the con-
stand that there is a new cerris are.”
plaintiff, we have asked Martinez maintained
the court just out of simple that the district simply
fairness to know who Pat wants to know what the
Doe is because the simple specific complaints of Doe
Doe, it opens him or her up
to harassment and retali-
ation.
“We oppose the motion
and we think that the pro-
tective order is in place
and the judge granted
anonymity for the time
being recognizing that
there were legitimate
risks of harassment and
retaliation that Doe could
encounter if his or her
identity was disclosed and
so we think the district’s
motion would undermine
those protections,” said
the very harassment and
retaliation that the ano-
nymity order is designed
to protect against.”
While the argument
over Doe is far from over,
both sides seem willing
and eager to reach a com-
promise before the trial,
a decision that Biery
endorsed Monday with his
filed observation.
“The field of antitrust
its practices or refrain
from past practices which
could arguable be violative
[sic] of the law. This would
appear to be a reasonable
“Our perception is that
Judge Biery is telling us
and the plaintiffs that
he wants us to resolve
this,” said Martinez. “He
does not believe that this
should go to court and we
truly have said at the same
time that we believe that.
method for resolution of We believed from the very
this case and the preclu- get go that we have been
sion of future expense and forthcoming and we have
community divisiveness.” been listening and have
The document went on been open to conversation,
to state that if the parties but at the same time, we
choose to move forward cannot negotiate away stu-
with the costly litigation dent rights and we’re not
and take time away from going to do that. We have
litigation is instructive," educating students, the tried to be very open and
the filing stated. “Those court would believe that
cases are frequently both sides would rue the
resolved with a consent choice.
See ‘Both’ on Page 2
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Castroville
residents
orated
Highway
dec-
the
90
County’s “Monday” map
receives seal of approval
bridge in prep-
aration for the
28th
0 Old
Annual
Fashion
Christmas
event that will
take place this
weekend, start-
ing with a
parade sched-
uled for Friday
night. (Photos
by Jovana
Nadaski)
Alicia Ramirez
Staff Writer
percent between the most
“The plan that we
Days after submitting populous precinct.
populous and the least approved, if this is accept-
the aptly named Monday
The plan also puts the
ed by the court, it will
be entered in as a court
. Morning Plan, District majority minority district ordered compromise plan
Judge Orlando Garcia back in Precinct 3 with and if that is done, then
a approved the compromise over 61 percent Hispanic that plan that is in the
plan that left none of the voting age population and justice department will be
■ I commissioners happy, “an emerging potential put aside, so we’ll have to
but stopped a three judge opportunity district” in
panel from creating a plan
for the county to use in the
upcoming elections.
“As far as I can tell
: by looking at it, it looks
■ exactly like what we
agreed to on the meeting
of Nov. 21,” said County
Judge Jim Barden of the
court ordered plan. “That
apparently resolves that
issue and we can proceed
with our primaries and
that kind of stuff and be on
time for everything. That’s
resolved but the lawsuit
isn’t dismissed because
there may be other things
that are still pending, but
it looks like that’s all done
and we just have to draw
the voting precinct lines
and that’s about it, but the
precinct lines look to be
pretty much set.”
In the court order by
Garcia, the plan is said
to provide a 4.27 per-
cent deviation, of which
the most allowable is 10
Precinct 4 with just about
re-file it at some future
date to get it reconsid-
54 percent Hispanic vot- ered,” said Barden.
ing age population. Based
If that happens, Garza
on the numbers provided, said that there could be
Garcia approved the plan future activityinthe case
to be put in place for the since the plaintiff’s still
upcoming election cycle. oppose the plan that was
“The plaintiffs are submitted by the county to
pleased with the court’s the DOJ.
order,” said attorney Jose Overall, both sides are
Garza. “We entered into content with the outcome
negotiations with the coun- of the case, even if they
ty regarding the status of are not thrilled with the
the case and we are satis- resultant map, it’s one
fied with the compromise they can live with for the
plan that was submitted time being.
to the court and accepted "I'm pleased that the
by it.” thing has been resolved
Both sides are still so we can proceed with
waiting for the conclusion the voting and the elec-
of the case though. Garza tions and stuff,” said
said the plaintiffs have yet Barden. “I’m not particu-
to decide if they want to larly pleased that we had
seek legal fees and the to compromise, but then
commissioners still have nobody
to decide whether or not
to resubmit the original
ever is really
thrilled about compromise.
I thought our plan was a
plan to the Department of good one, but this one is
Justice for pre-clearance one we can live with.”
at a later date.
Castroville kicks off its holiday season this weekend
• Jovana Nadaski “Last year there were peo-
Staff Writer ple who joined in the day
Castroville area resi- of the parade.
dents will be kicking off We love to have extra
the Christmas holiday sea- people, the more the mer-
son this weekend with the rier.”
, 28th Annual Old Fashion Entertainment through-
Christmas, which this year out the day will consist of
will again be a two-day music groups, tumblers,
event. local choirs, a train for
The event will com- children to ride, Scottish
mence with a parade filled Bagpipes and Drums, and
with twinkling lights and much more.
plenty of entertainment Castroville Line Dancers
leading up to the Houston and Zumba dancers will
Square where a tree light- also be showcasing their
ing ceremony will be held, talents down the parade
Chamber
Office route, said Bates.
Manager Ashlee Bates said “There will be a lot of
that the parade will start little local groups,” said
at the Castroville Cafe Bates.
where interested folks can In addition, Santa will
line up between 5 p.m. or also pay his annual visit
5:30 p.m. the following day at 1 p.m.
0 Bates said that indi- where children will be able
viduals interested in par- to talk to him and take
ticipating in the parade pictures.
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should call the chamber,
so she can have an idea for
the number of the floats
e or can just show up at the
day of the event.
“We are trying to expand
the parade... and get more
participants,” said Bates.
During the Saturday
Houston Square will be packed with all sorts of vendors this Saturday during the second
day of the two-day Old Fashion Christmas event. (File Photo)
part of the event, visitors jewelry, wood crafts, baby
will have an opportunity to items, paintings and can-
kick-start their Christmas dies will be available for
shopping and enjoy 250 purchase.
different vendors. “A lot of handmade
Bates said that any- stuff, but we have some
thing and everything from commercial items also,”
said Bates. “We also have
a man that sells birds and
turtles... and another that
sells miniature hamsters.”
Bates said that there
are quite a few vendors
that keep coming back
each year and are already
known to returning visi-
tors.
“But there are quite
a few newcomers,” said
Bates.
All spots have already
been filled for the booths
and there is already a
waiting list that serves as
a back up in case one of
the vendors cannot make
it.
“So it worked out great,”
said Bates.
In addition, for the first
time this year kids will
also have something to do
on Saturday morning at
the Kids Korner.
Bates said there will be
about eight stations avail-
able where kids can play
fair type games.
The chamber is work-
ing with a school group
looking for volunteers to
work the games through-
out the day, but is opening
the opportunity to anyone
interested in helping.
“We can always use more
volunteers,” said Bates.
Old Fashion Christmas
kicks of on Friday Dec.2,
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The fun will continue
on Saturday, Dec. 3 from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. with vendor
booths lining the down-
town area of Castroville.
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