Jackson County Herald-Tribune (Edna, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Page: 1 of 16
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April 3,2013
Around
the County
EISD turns to
random tests
It s ‘Sweep week again
Editor’s Note: Listings are for non-
profit, civic, church benefits or
school events only. Email Chris
Lunds from at chindstrom@jackson
conews .com or call 782-3547 to list
your event.
The Red Hat Dolls will
meet for lunch from 11 a.m. -1
p.m. on April 4 in the back
room at Los Reyes Restaurant
in Victoria, across the street
from Hall Electric on Navarro
Street. For carpooling or for
more information call Linda
McFarland at 781-0062.
The First Baptist Church
of Edna will have a chicken
fried steak luncheon April 7
from 11 a.m.-l p.m. to raise
money for the Dominican
Republic Mission Trip. Plates
are $8 and to-go only. A bake
sale will coincide with the
luncheon. For more informa-
tion, contact Duane Curlee at
550-3263.
A class “Fruit for Health”
presented by registered dieti-
cian Elizabeth Sommerfield
will be held at the First United
Methodist Church fellowship
hall on Monday, April 8 at
10:30 a.m. Everyone will leave
with a bag of fresh and canned
fruit. For more information
call Wesley Nurse Lindsey
Floyd at 782-2413.
The Jackson County
Historical Commission will
meet April 8 at 7 p.m. at the
Texana Church at the
Brackenridge Campground.
The program will be “The
LaSalle Expedition and its
Archeology” given by Frank
Condron.
It’s time to clean up, Edna!
The annual City of Edna
Clean Sweep returns April
12-13 at 404 N. Kleas by the
water tower. The gates open
April 12 from 7 a.m.-6 p.m.
and April 13 from 7 a.m.-2
p.m.
As before, dumpsters will
be provided by the city for
Edna citizens to unload their
larger and unusual garbage
into.
“We’re really hoping to see
a lot of electronics this year,”
said Sheila Miller, speaking
for the city. “We’ve got a
group coming all the way
from Dallas to pick up elec-
tronic goods and we hope to
have a great turn out.”
Old electronics are some of
the hardest household items
to dispose of under normal
conditions, and the Clean
Sweep is targeting comput-
ers, hard drives, monitors,
printers and TVs in particu-
lar.
The usual bric-a-brac is
being taken, box springs and
mattresses, fence boards and
posts and sheet rock in small
amounts. Small amounts of
concrete, small pieces of
brick and landscaping rocks
are also being taken.
Swing sets, outdoor toys,
bicycle frames are good, so
toss the playhouse the kids
don’t touch anymore. Patio
furniture and bed frames, car-
pet and rugs, shower stalls,
sinks, commodes and bath-
tubs from that do-it-yourself
renovation can finally be
unloaded. Bring in that loose
car battery and those old
rechargeable batteries that
lost their punch.
There is a limit of five
automobile tires per house-
hold. The thou-shalt-nots are
See Liquids Page 3A
By Lisa Shapiro
Staff Writer
After a two hour board
workshop on campus securi-
ty and random drug testing
on March 25, the Edna ISD
Board of Trustees concluded
their regular meeting by
approving a security plan
and random drug testing pol-
icy.
Both items were proposed
by Edna ISD Superintendent
Bob Wells during the meet-
ing at the Edna Junior High
School cafeteria.
The random drug testing
will begin next school year.
The board of trustees
approved unanimously to
add random drug testing
along with the suspension
based drug testing currently
ongoing. There will be a five
panel test, that will be taken
by 50 percent of the students
in the student pool at an
additional cost of $6,750.
There also will be testing for
synthetic drugs and steroids.
According to a memoran-
dum from Bob Wells, the
current five panel urinalysis
test is $45 per test. Add syn-
thetic drugs to the five panel
test and the cost is $115 per
test. Test for steroids alone
is $150 per test.
Bob Wells included a few
scenarios for drug testing
program in Edna ISD in the
memorandum, such as con-
tinue current suspicion-
based program at a cost of
$5,000 per year or adding
random drug testing to the
current suspicion based
using the current five panel
test. Testing 50 percent of
the student pool in any
given year, or 150 students
at $45 per test equals an
additional $6,750. Total
testing program would cost
$11,750.
One of the board mem-
bers asked Bob Wells why
the board should conduct
random drug testing on just
50 percent of the students
during the board workshop.
“When I talked to the
drug companies they say
most of the school districts
start out 100 percent then in
two to three years they back
it off by 50 percent and then
they eventually keep it to 50
percent,” Wells replied. “I
asked them how much it
would cost if we did every
single kid and they said that
would be a total cost of
$20,250.”
Board Member Alfred
Rosa suggested that the
board should consider test-
ing more than 50 percent of
students.
Bob Wells said if the
board decided to have more
students taking the random
drug tests it would be costly.
He also mentioned that ran-
dom testing tends to have
one percent positive results
and suspicion based testing
has from 15 to 80 percent
positive results.
“To me random testing is
a scare tactic,” Patrick
See EISD Page 4A
Photo by Paul Harrison
One man’s trash is still trash
But the City of Edna can help you get rid of it! April 12-13 marks the annual Clean Sweep for
Edna-ites. Waiting patiently to direct your loads are city employees, from left, Sheila Miller,
Brad Ryan, Bernard Scott, Josh Mennen and Edward Granados.
The Economic
Development Committee of
the Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce invites anyone
interested to a Business to
Business fomm with coffee,
donuts and conversation. The
meeting will be at the
Chamber building at 317 Main
St. in Edna from 7-8 a.m.
The City of Edna will hold
its “Clean Sweep” city
cleanup on Friday, April 12
from 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. and
Saturday, April 13 from 7 a.m.
- 2 p.m. at the city bam at 404
N. Kleas St.
The Chamber Golf
Tournament will be April 12
at the Edna Country Club.
Rabies Clinics will be held
in-county April 13-18. Several
other vaccinations will be
available April 13 at the
Ganado High School Ag Dept,
from 1-3 p.m. with Dr. Boyd.
Clinics are in Edna at the fire
hall April 16 from 4-6 p.m.
with Dr. Wilfort and April 18
from 4-6 p.m. with Dr. Boyd.
Rabies shots are $10 and are
offered for cats and dogs.
The next Run For God 5K
will be held at 7:30 a.m. on
Saturday, May 4 at the
Brackenridge Main Event
Center. Registration is $20 at
www.rfgjc.org. Call Christina
Mulenex at 782-8192 or email
cmulenex@ymail.com for
more information.
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Fishing tournament will benefit Santa Run
By Lisa Shapiro
Staff Writer
Thinking about the smiling
faces on the children being
treated for cancer eagerly
awaiting for their chance to
visit Santa at the Methodist
Church’s Hospital in San
Antonio during the Kory
Kubecka Santa Run brought
tears of joy to Cody Loewe’s
face.
She said words could not
express the feeling.
“The minute they see
Santa Claus and all the gifts
and the banquet room com-
pletely decorated, it’s like
their cancer is not even
there,” she said. “They have
that one day where their wish
is granted and they’re all
smiles. I don’t know how to
describe going into the room
and seeing all of them.”
The Kory Kubecka Santa
Run was established in 2008
to provide Christmas gifts for
cancer stricken children at
the hospital in San Antonio.
It is named for Kory
Kubecka, a 16-year-old boy
who died of Leukemia at the
Methodist Church’s Hospital
in 2008.
Loewe is one of five board
members of the Santa Run.
She said the board
announced it will hold the 1st
Annual Kory Kubecka Santa
Run Fishing Tournament at
the 2013 Victoria Livestock
Show in February. She said
the Santa Run board has
already received entries for
the event. All of the proceeds
from the event will go to the
Kory Kubecka Santa Run.
She said every year the board
collects more donations for
the Santa Run. Loewe also is
the director of the fishing
tournament. She said the idea
of having a fishing tourna-
ment just popped up during a
friendly conversation before
the board decided to organize
one.
“We had talked about hav-
ing one just as friends and no
relation to the Santa Run,”
she said.
During the Santa Run, the
children are given a
Christmas party at which
Santa arrives on a motorcycle
accompanied by a caravan of
other cyclists who make the
run from La Salle to San
Antonio. The children also
receive Christmas gifts at the
party. Loewe said the Santa
Run has many local children
in the county and surround-
ing counties such as Victoria
and Calhoun on its wish list,
meaning they grant their
wishes.
“We’re trying to reach out
See Everyone Page 3A
It is all relative
By Lisa Shapiro
Staff Writer
Behind every individual,
there is a story. If someone
were to trace their family
roots they may discover a
past with historical meaning
or find ancestry that they did
not know about.
Two families who share a
common link four genera-
tions ago met March 16 for
the first time in Edna. While
nibbling on cake and cookies,
14 descendants of Frank and
Clara Jaschke looked at old
photos, baby books, journals
and newspaper clippings and
talked about their ancestry.
The Jaschkes lived more than
century ago in the historical
town of Texana.
Stafford resident Frank
Ancestry.com, DNA testing
and finding historical infor-
mation dating as far back as
the 1600s. When Brown and
Cox realized they had family
in Edna they had never seen
before they conversed with
Giles Willis, who ironically
was also doing separate
research on his family roots.
"We found each other on
Ancestry.com and kind of
emailed and talked to each
other back and fourth during
the fall of 2012," Cox said.
"So far mostly we’ve gotten
more familiar with the tree
and how everybody’s linked
and connected. We are taking
a common interest in getting
to know our family and
where everyone came from.”
After online chats and e-
Brown and his daughter mailing each other, the par-
Heather Brown Cox of Justin ties scheduled a meeting at
researched the extended fam- Willis' Edna house. There
ily tree through See Strangers Page 3A
Photo by Lisa Shapiro
Two families meet for first time
Both the Brown family and Willis family found out they were descendants of Frank and Clara
Jaschke on Ancestry.com. The two families met in Edna for the first time and shared photos,
journals, newspaper clippings and other momentos with each other while nibbling on cookies
and cake.
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