Brady Standard-Herald and Heart of Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Page: 1 of 18
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By James Stewart
It’s their 24th anniversary and their party
is growing bigger and better.
The Heart of Texas Country Music
Association is hosting its annual birthday
celebration beginning this Friday night and
for the next week, fans of traditional country
music are headed to Brady to celebrate by
attending a number of live music events.
“Our celebration has been growing in
popularity over the past few years and this
year, with the added attraction of the taping
of the TruCountry television show, there
has been even more interest shown which is
evident by ticket sales for the shows,” said
event organizer Tracy Pitcox. “We’ve got
shows scheduled over the next week, many
of which are already sold out.”
Shows begin this Friday and will be held
Friday and twice on Saturday and then again
next week on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Each performance is limited to
400 tickets and of the shows on the schedule
tickets remain for the Saturday afternoon
show, the Tuesday show at the events center
(tickets sold only at the door) and then a
few tickets remain for next Thursday and
Saturday afternoon’s shows.
“This is great for the association, but
it’s great for Brady too,” said Pitcox. “My
dream is to make this into a week long event
that gets people here and they stay for the
entire week.
“As it is now, we are turning into a
destination event. We have people coming
from Sweden, Ireland, Canada, England and
Norway. It’s neat to see that folks would come
all that way for an event like this.”
New this year, the event organizers have
scheduled a benefit golf tournament on Friday
morning at 9 a.m. at the Brady Municipal
Golf Course.
“Darrell McCall has done tournaments
like this in years past and this will be the
first time we host one here in Brady as part
of the week of events,” said Pitcox. “It’s a
three-person team that will have one celeb-
rity added as the fourth and it’s going to be
a great opportunity to have some fun on our
little 9-hole course.”
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THE SURVIVORS—Curtis Potter, Tony Booth and Darrell McCall are just
three of the entertainers to highlight the 24th Anniversary of the Heart of Texas
Country Music Association that kicks off this week in Brady.
Secret of the Vine
By Jaime Tankersley
NRCS-Public Affairs
Specialist, San Angelo
“Dig deep!”
That’s the mantra many
coaches shout at their players
when it is clutch performance
time.
One football player took it
literally - on and off the field.
Alphonse Dotson was the
1964 Grambling State Foot-
ball All American. He then
went on to the National F oot-
ball League where he retired
from the Oakland Raiders as
a successful defensive tackle
in 1970.
From the bright lights of
the football field to the Pa-
cific bay lights of Acapulco,
Alphonse found himself retir-
ing in the middle of his life.
However, during this time
of relaxation and daily chess
matches, he often thought of
a childhood experience that
put a secret desire in his heart.
Not yet ready to act on that
desire, he continued his daily
life in Acapulco, where he
soon met and married Martha
Cervantes.
Sharing a Secret
After spending 15 years in
the resort town, the scenery
in the old city was changing,
and so was Alphonse. He told
Martha his nearly 40 year old
secret... grapes.
A young Alphonse had
taken his first trip to his
grandfather ’ s Houston home.
An afternoon exploration of
the two acres led him to two
boats parked under an arbor
wrapped in grapevines and
dangling grapes. The vision
of grapes was a moment in
time forever etched in his
IRRIGATION—After planting over 6,800 grapes
in Voca, Texas, the Dotson family installed an irrigation
system that would protect the young plants from drought.
memory.
“I told myself, if you can
grow grapes in Houston, you
can grow them anywhere.”
Alphonse said.
He wanted to grow grapes
GRAPEBUD—In late February a grape vine shows the first sign of production,
the small bud will grow into a cluster by early summer.
County urges residents to sign up
for reverse 911 notification system
McCulloch County Judge
Danny Neal is encouraging
local residents to sign up
online for the county’s emer-
gency notification system.
When seconds count,
the emergency notification
system will give members a
call concerning everything
from evacuation notices to
missing child reports.
All land line numbers have
already been obtained from
the 911 land line database.
The focus now is registering
as many cell phone users as
possible so that everyone
throughout the county will
be the first to receive vital
information with an auto-
Brady Standard-Herald
matic call.
"We are proud to offer
this new service to the pub-
lic," said Neal. "An Emer-
gency Notification System,
or Reverse 911 as they are
sometimes known, gives
those in charge of public
safety a chance to reach out
to the public in case of an
emergency event.
"This system, combined
with our other emergency
alert methods, is designed to
get emergency messages to
you—the public—quickly
and effectively. This does not
preclude you from calling 911
if you need emergency infor-
mation; it simply provides
an opportunity for us to dis-
seminate critical information
to you if and when the need
arises.
"The reason for this form
and he wanted to do it right.
As he had exercised on the
playing field, he educated
himself and executed his plan
in a way that would make him
successful.
Martha was a working
wife and mother; she had
made her way into a top
spot with one of the largest
hotel and resort companies
in Mexico City as an inter-
nal trouble shooter. While
Alphonse took care of their
children, he studied soils
and his passion to create a
vineyard grew stronger.
He was digging deep for
information. Bom and raised
in Texas, Alphonse knew he
wanted to take his secret back
to the Lone Star state. He
began consulting with experts
in the grape growing field,
reviewing real estate prices
and educating himself on all
aspects of the business.
“I had three already
known grape growing areas
to choose from, Lubbock,
the Red River or the up and
coming Hill Country.” Al-
phonse said.
After spending ayear-and-
a-half talking to producers,
educators and studying soil
compositions, Alphonse kept
turning to the quiet town of
Brady. His mother had always
talked about the community
and the city park had been
named after one of his uncles
MDotsonwine—The husband and wife team of
Alphonse and Martha Dotson have created a bottled
master piece, Gotas de Oro, meaning drops of gold.
in the 1950’s.
With his mind made up
on McCulloch County he
obtained a document on soil
types issued in 1974 by the
USDA-Soil Conservation
Service, now the Natural Re-
sources Conservation Service
(NRCS). This tool wouldhelp
him locate the prime grape
growing areas in the county.
The Search is On
“I sat down and based
on the soil I marked my top
three choices, location A, B
and C,” Alphonse said.
Shortly after studying the
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Group makes $30K donation
for local fight against cancer
is to gather as many means of
contact as you may have, so
in the event of an emergency
we can notify you in multiple
ways."
Cell phone users who
would like to join the emer-
gency notification system
should visit the county's Web
site, www.co.mcculloch.
tx.us, click on Global Con-
nect and register by creating
a user name and password.
The system allows for
multiple cell phone numbers
per household to be included,
and members can also sign
up to receive e-mail notifi-
cations. Current registered
members can update their
information as needed.
For more information,
contact Neal at 325-597-
0733, Ext. 4 or atjudgeneal@
hotmail.com.
As part of the non-profit
group's efforts to affect
positive change in the fight
against cancer in McCulloch
County, Hope From the Heart
recently donated $30,000
toward the cost of a new
digital mammography unit
at the local Brady hospital.
Heart of Texas Healthcare
System in Brady recently
added the new machine as
part of its long-term goal to
outfit the local hospital with
state-of-the-art diagnostic
equipment.
The cost of the hospital's
newest piece of equipment
is nearly $250,000 and the
donation will help pay for a
portion of the machine, but
the efforts to raise donations
to cover the complete cost
are ongoing.
"This new machine is so
much more technologically
advanced than our old unit,"
said Vivian Denson, director
of radiology at the hospital.
"Having this digital unit al-
lows radiologists to manipu-
late the image and see films in
much greater detail than was
previously afforded by ana-
log machines that produced
a single film."
The new digital unit was
recently installed as part of
the radiology suite at the local
hospital and appointments are
being scheduled.
"We are already seeing an
increase in patient visits, so
anyone needing to schedule
should have their primary
care physician contact us,”
said Mrs. Denson.
$30,000 DONATION—Hope From the Heart, a
local non-profit group dedicated to helping local patients
in their battles against cancer, recently donated $30,000
to Heart of Texas Healthcare System to help offset
the cost of their new digital mammography machine.
Pictured here accepting the check are hospital represen-
tatives Vivian Denson (left) and Megan Norman and
Hope From the Heart board member Michele Derrick.
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