East Bernard Express (East Bernard, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 2014 Page: 1 of 10
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East Bernard
Thursday,
April 3,2014
Volume 71, No. 14*10 Pages
75 cents
INSIDE
Brandes yard named
March yard of month
PAGE 6
Classified......................8
Editorial..........................4
Living................................5
Obituaries.....................2
Puzzle...............................8
Sports...............................7
What’s Next.................3
Worship Diredory......6
TODAY’S
FORECAST
Today a slight
chance of showers,
then a chance of show-
ers and thunderstorms
after 1 p.m. Mostly
cloudy, with a high near
82. Breezy, with a south
wind 15 to 20 mph,
with gusts as high as
25 mph. Chance of pre-
cipitation is 30 percent.
Tonight a 30 percent
chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly
before 1 a.m. Mostly
cloudy, with a low
around 58. South wind
5 to 10 mph becoming
light and variable.
Friday a slight
chance of showers be-
fore 1 pm. Partly sunny,
with a high near 75.
FROM
THE BIBLE
The people who walk
in darkness will see a
great hght — a light
that will shine on all
who live in the land
where death casts its
shadow.
Isaiah 9:2
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Courtesy photo
UIL One-Act Play winners
Saturday, East Bernard High School drama students performed Anatomy of Gray at Rice High School
where seven high school drama departments converged to present their efforts before judges. East
Bernard's play won and will advance to area contest next Tuesday. Those pictured who garnered
special recognition at the contest are, from left, Justin Kocian who won an All Star medal as Tech-
nical Director, Sara Marie Berrett who won an All Star gold medal and Andrew Kubena who won
honorable mention in his first on-stage performance. For more information on the win and a photo-
graph of the entire crew, See Page 5.
Meetings set
on bond vote
EBISD seeks $24.9M for facilities
By KEITH MAGEE
kmagee@journal-spectator.com
A series of town hall meet-
ings have been set to allow
residents to discuss the East
Bernard ISD’s proposed $24.9
million school bond election.
The meetings are scheduled
as follows:
• Monday, April 7: 7 p.m. in
the East Bernard school caf-
eteria.
• Monday, April 14: 7 p.m.
at Lissie United Methodist
Church.
• Monday, April 21: 7 p.m.
in Elm Grove, location to be
determined and announced at
a later date.
• Sunday, April 27: 6 p.m.
in the East Bernard school caf-
eteria.
The April 27 meeting will
include a meal and tours of
East Bernard High School.
The district has prepared
an informational brochure
that has been mailed to resi-
dents who live in the East Ber-
nard ISD.
The information is also
available on the school dis-
trict’s website, www.ebisd.org.
The plan includes building
a new high school, converting
the Naiser Building to a junior
high school campus and con-
verting the present junior high
school to an elementary school
campus.
Officials say the original
high school building, con-
structed in 1939, is no longer
educationally adequate given
current Texas Education Agen-
cy curriculum requirements.
Copies are also available in
Spanish by calling the school
district at 335-7519.
Youth Fair
just around
the corner
By NATALIE FRELS
nfrels@journal-spectator.com
CRESCENT — All is fair in ribs and ro-
deo. And it’s just around the corner.
The Wharton County Youth Fair & Expo-
sition begins in two weeks, and WCYF offi-
cials are preparing for the annual event that
kicks off with the Barbecue Cook-off April
11-12.
The bulk of the youth fair — 10 days of
festivities — will be in full swing two weeks
later, from April 24 to May 3.
Local media, including the Wharton
Journal-Spectator, East Bernard Express,
El Campo Leader-News, KULP and oth-
ers, were treated to lunch and an update at
Thursday’s Press Day Luncheon, held in the
Director’s Room at the Crescent fairgrounds.
This will be the fair’s 38th annual event,
and this year, there are some changes, repre-
sentatives said.
In years past, the fair began the week fol-
lowing the cook-off. This year, visitors will
have two weeks to digest all the good eats
before they come back for more on April 24.
The reason for the two-week break is because
See YOUTH FAIR, Page 2
Staff photo by Keith Magee
Russell Machann, who takes over this year as president of the Wharton County Youth Fair, speaks during the annual media
day on Thursday at the fairgrounds. Also pictured is youth fair coordinator Cindy Blaha.
Photo courtesy of John Dettling
Frederica von Stade, left, one of America's leading mezzo sopranos of the Houston
Grand Opera, takes the Plaza Theatre stage with Concertmaster and violinist Denise Tar-
rant, right, in "A Coffin in Egypt." The chamber opera in one act was adapted from the
play with the same name by Wharton's Horton Foote.
Plaza’s Opera
Performance: Bravo!
Sold-out show
gives theater,
town publicity
By NATALIE FRELS
nfrels@journal-spectator.com
It was a full house last Sunday at
the Plaza Theatre for the Houston
Grand Opera’s performance of “A
Coffin in Egypt.”
The local venue rarely features
such sounds, but visitors from all
over Texas came to see the chamber
opera in one act on March 23. In fact,
tickets sold out weeks in advance.
“The show encouraged people
from outside of Wharton County to
come to a town that doesn’t get a lot
of publicity,” said Tony Bone, a mem-
ber of the Plaza’s board of directors.
“I think the people who attended
were most impressed with what we
could do.”
The opera is based on the play
with the same name by Wharton’s
Horton Foote. And for some area
residents, the show really hit home
in an interesting way.
“People in the audience apparent-
ly admitted that the characters were
based on their ancestors,” Bone said.
The Wharton showcase was the
last stop in Texas for the touring cast
and crew, which featured music by
Ricky Ian Gordon and Libretto by
Leonard Foglia. The Plaza stage also
hosted Frederica von Stade, one of
America’s leading mezzo sopranos,
according to Bone.
It was an intimate concert-style
performance with an eight-piece or-
chestra, a four-person gospel choir,
and no sets, no props and no cos-
tumes.
The show almost didn’t make it to
the Wharton stage in a struggle for
funding (the Plaza was asked to con-
tribute $15,000), but was made pos-
sible by the generous support from
numerous individuals and business-
es that chipped in, with the largest
portions coming from Gulf Coast
See OPERA, Page 2
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