Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 74, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 23, 2007 Page: 3 of 48
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POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE • SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2007 • PAGE 3A
Chester ninth-grader wins
National Anti-Violence AWard
CHESTER - Madison Cody, Ches-
ter ninth grader, was a 2007 national
winner in the Do the Write Thing
Challenge Program.
The Do the Write Thing Challenge
is a unique education program de-
signed to give middle school students
an outlet to communicate in class-
room discussions and then in writ-
ten form how violence impacts their
daily lives.
In addition to exposing the causes
and impact of violence, students are
asked to identify what they will do to
address these problems.
Madison, along with classmate Ja-
cob Lowery, were chosen from Ches-
ter to be honored at the Beaumont
area Do the Write Thing Challenge.
Madison's essay was chosen from
over 700 essays submitted to repre-
sent the Beaumont area at Austin at
the state level and at the national level
in Washington, D.C.
On the national level, over 120,000
essays were submitted.
As a result of being chosen as a na-
tional finalist, Madison, her mom and
Mrs. Betty Whitworth, her teacher,
were flown to Washington D.C. on
an all-expense paid trip where Madi-
son presented a book containing her
award-winning essay to be placed in
the Library of Congress.
DO THE WRITE THING — Madison Cody (middle) is pic-
tured with Ken Nichols, Executive Director, Texas Office of
the Governor, Criminal Justice Division (right) and Julie Ko-
curek, Judge, 390th District Court, Austin.
She also was invited to attend din- Mrs. Michael Cody of Chester,
ners at the Kuwait Embassy and the The National Do the Write Thing
National Press Club, and met with Challenge is sponsored by the Ku-
dignitaries from the Department of wait-America Foundation, the United
Justice to discuss ways of preventing States Department of Justice, Marriott
violence. International, and the Texas Criminal
Madison is the daughter of Mr. and Justice Di\ ision.
Local recycling easier
than most of us think
By JAMES E. BAUGH
Staff Reporter
LIVINGSTON-Whether global
warming is actually occurring or
not is a topic which can be debated
without resolution.
That human beings have an
impact on the planet is evident
in innumerable ways, from the
pollution generated by refineries
to the trees which are felled to
make way for our homes.
While sometimes there is little
that can be done directly about
the chemical plants or about the
actions of folks next door, there
arc lots of little things that can be
done daily-awhich taken together
can have a major impact on the
environment.
With thise small changes comes
the greatest personal change - the
rising awareness of individual
culpability in the destruction or
salvation of our habitat.
To help our readers lessen their
impact on the world around them
we present this list of the items
most easily recyclable in Polk
County and where to take them:
• Aluminum, copp -, brass,
stainless steel, diecast and lead
- Alverson’s Recycling, 1811 N.
Washington, Livingston
• Motor oil, antifreeze and
transmission fluid - Wal-Mart
Automotive, 1620 W. Church
Street, Livingston
• Cellphones, ink-jet cartridges
and toner cartridges - Habitat for
Humanity - 1001 U.S. Loop 59,
Livingston
• Paint - water-based paints can
be left open to dry out or you can
mix kitty litter with them until
they form a solid, then they can be
placed with your regular household
garbage.
• Plastic shopping bags - Wal-
Mart, 1620 W. Church Street,
Livingston
• I ires - Community Collection
Center (area dumps and landfill) -
disposal lee of $2 per tire - located
on Hwy 146 and Hwy 190
• Household batteries (A,C,D,
etc.) - can be taken to Radio
Shack. 1501 W. Church Street,
1 ivingston
•Automotive batteries, radiators
and air conditioning coils -
Alverson's Recycling, 1811 N.
Washington, Livingston
Polk County residents currently
have no place locally to dispose
of herbicides, pesticides, oil-
based paints, toxic chemicals,
newspapers, magazines, or plastic
bottles and containers.
If you know of other items that
can be recy cled or of other places
in our community to recycle,
please scud this information with
your thoughts and suggestions to:
polkncwsOt gmail.com or write
Polk County Enterprise, P.O. Box
1276, Liv ingston, I'exas 77351.
OFFICIAL RECORDS
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How does violence affect my life...
By MADISON CODY
Editors note: This is the award
winning essay written by Madison
Violence in its self is a fighting
word. Violence is some thing that
affects everybody in some way,
shapes, or form,
Violence affects me personally
because It changes who and what I
am today. Another way violence has
affected my life is the war in Iraq. It
doesn't just effect me it effects ev-
erybody. I mean people are loosing
there lives just so America can stay
free, and people don’t even think
twice about what’s happening.
And one more thing, many kids
see violence on television and even
Jtee it at home. . j
* 'So in a'vvayThe people are pro-
moting violence or letting them get
violence related games
and then saying is ok. Most of
the times when kids see and play
violence video games or watch vio-
lence in a real-life act they think its
ok to take it to school. So in a way
some kids get put in a life treating
situation at school by school gangs,
or kids who just think violence is ok
to use in situation there put in. Vio-
lence also takes away your child-
hood innocence.
Each day we are forced to face
many different si tuations and events.
Some are negative and some are
positive. The positive causes each
person to look at who they are and
how they should be treated. The
negative causes each and every per-
son to look at how bad their situa-
tion is and how to act out in violence
he lies with Jesus because of that. I
guess that this is a good example of
how violence and drugs do not mix
very well. This child was not asking
for his life to be tookin’ because of
his mother’s problem. This shows
how violence in the home can affect
you.
Choices arc hard, especially for
children, We like boundaries and
guidelines; these are the things thut
assure use that we arc on the right
track, At a football game we un-
derstand that we are to stay on the
home side, and inside the gates,
and in sight of a parent. This is a
good boundary to stay with because
who knows what violence related
thing could happen to you. These
are boundaries that we understanc
As children we need bouadarr
guidelines for understanding is
that may cause conflict or doAVFofl
choices.
I believe that many wrong choic-
es lead to violence, but I also un-
derstand that not every child has
someone to teach them the correct
guidelines or boundaries. Boundar-
ies that are established by specilie-
guidelines. My guidelines are based
on the morality taught by the Bible.
My boundaries are the same guide-
lines that this country was founded
on.
"Thou shall not kill" quotes the
Bible (Deuteronomy 5:17)
I think by not killing or harming
other people this world would be-
come better and better as we work
on taking violence out of the soci-
ety. If every person lived their lives
based on the morality of the Bible,
my life choices would be less af-
fected by the violence I see around
me. If there's a person that can not
live by the morality of the Bible,
that person should respect the foun-
dations of the United Stales. The
foundations of the United States
■should not be changed. We its chil
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just tearing down the world piede
by piece. So il wedon't stop it "We
the People"'(Constitution) will not
be the same. Everybody is think-
ing of their selves before others, so
when violence beconjcs an issue
you will think of "We the People”
instead of "I the People". You will
think of others before harming or
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He says he had fell off his bike and
landed on the side-walk. The kids
just frown and walk off. The next
day the kid at school where wonder-
ing where the child was and began
to ask around and this is what the
principle announced that morning:
We are grieving the loss of a fellow
student today. He has been in a very
violence incorporated life and now
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Judge Stephen Phillips
presiding.
Criminal Docket
Coleman Celestine, Livingston,
possession of marijuana Class B.
Arthur Lewis Davison,
Livingston, possession of marijuana
Class B.
JUSTICE COURT
Precinct 1
Judge Darrell Longino
presiding.
Criminal Docket
Jessie James Carter, open
container.
Kathy Renee Smith, open
container.
Richard Hudson Jr., bond
surrender/possession of controlled
substance.
Richard Hudson Jr., bond
surrender/possession of marijuana.
William T. Monroe IV, issuance
of bad check.
David Scott Villanueva, issuance
of bad check.
Kari Ann McNiel, Livingston,
DW1 Class B.
Cesar Alejandro Kcbolloso,
Diboll, failure to identify fugitive
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Cesar Alejandro Rebolloso,
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Samuel Charles Vanness,
Livingston, possession of marijuana
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' Carolyn Smitherman, Onalaska,
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Antonio Ortiz Vargas, no driver's
license (when unlicensed).
Gayle Lynn Daley, driving while
license invalid,
Robert Shane Stephens, driving
while license invalid.
Joshua How Long, public
intoxication.
Theresa Trammell, public
intoxication.
Richard Hudson Jr., bond
surrender/possession of controlled
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Reddell, Valerie. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 74, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 23, 2007, newspaper, September 23, 2007; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788406/m1/3/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.