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Opinion
Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Community Calendar
18 Days without a traffic fatality
in Franklin County
THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 2012
Christmas Lighting Contest, judging
begins, lights on by 5:30 p.m.
Community Food Bank open, 822
Leftwich St., 4-5:30 p.m.
Black Onyx Club Board of Directors
meets, 428 Grady St., 6 p.m.
South Franklin Volunteer Fire De-
partment meets, Community Center.
FM 115 at FM 1448, 7 p.m.
White Oak District Roundtable -
Scoutleaders and Order of the Arrow
members meet, FirstUnited Methodist
Church, classrooms, 7 p.m.
TOPS, “Taking Off Pounds Sensibly”
meets every Thursday, 1142 Hwy. 37
N, 9:30 a.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets
nightly Thursdaythrough Wednesday,
537 I-30, Suite 4, SE corner Hwy. 37
intersection, 7 p.m..
Senior Citizens Meal Center meals
served Mondaythrough Friday(except
holidays), meals begin 11a.m.; games,
including Dominos, Chickenfoot and
“42” before mealsand following meals
until around 1 p.m.
Genealogical Society offices open,
S. side sq.,10 a.m. to 4p.m. Monday-
Friday; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Historical Association’s Parchman
House open Tuesday - Friday, 10
a.m.-4p.m.;museumsopenTuesday-
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m; and by
appointment, 903-537-4760.
Alamo Mission Museum open by
appointment, call 903-380-2739.
Samaritan Shop, 111 Dallas St.,
open Monday, Thursday and Friday
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 2012
Christmas Open House, Guaranty
Bond Bank - MV, intersection Hwys.
37-67, 3 to 5 p.m.
Tiger Basketball (JV, V) girls vs.
Clarksville, 4:30/6 p.m.; (JV,V) boys
at Paul Pewitt, 5:30/7 p.m.
Cultural Arts Center, open each
Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and by ap-
pointment, call 903-537-4034.
Rotary Club meets, Masonic Lodge
Hall, i-30 South Service Rd., noon.
SATURDAY, DEC. 15, 2012
Christmas For All Food Baskets
distributed, Community Food Bank,
822 Leftwich St., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Scout Ship #271 Christmas celebra-
tion, First United Methodist Church,
6 p.m.
Downtown Attractions open, mu-
seum, and family research center, 10
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kings Country Property Owners As-
sociation meets, Clubhouse, 9 a.m.
SUNDAY, DEC. 16, 2012
Third Sunday of Advent - The many
churches of Franklin County invite
you to worship in the church of your
choice.
Museums open by appointment, call
903-537-4760-historical, 903-380-
2739 -Alamo, 903-434-9130-arts.
MONDAY, DEC. 17, 2012
Cub Scout Pack 271 Pack Meeting
and Christmas PotLuckdinner, Family
Life Center at FUMC, 6:30 p.m.
Arts Alliance board meets,Cultural
Arts Center, Rusk St., 4 p.m.
Main Street Alliance will not meet
this month.
Library open until 6 p.m.
Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Dept,
meets, station, Hwy. 37S, 6:30 p.m.
Purley Volunteer Fire Department
meets at Community Building, FM
900 west of Hwy. 37, 7 p.m.
Genealogical Society meets, south
side of square, 7 p.m.
Faith Based Recovery Group meets,
Voice of the Believers church, FM 21
atCR SE4110, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 2012
Win the Window, last day to register,
local merchants.
Angel Gift pickup Elementary school,
NE entrance, third/fourth grade pod,
stay in the vehicle, 9 a.m. to noon.
Kitchen Shower and AARP Chapter
Pot Luck dinner, Senior Citizen Meal
Center, 6 p.m.
Tiger Basketball (JV,V) girls at
Cooper 4:30/6 p.m.; (JV,V) boys at
Cooper, 5:30/7 p.m.
Community Food Bank open, 822
Leftwich St., noon -2 p.m.
Saltillo Community Education Club
meets, Community Center, 2 p.m.
Friends of the Library meets, library,
SW corner of square, 5:30 p.m.
Winfield ISD Board of Trustees meets,
school library, 6 p.m.
Franklin County Water District
board will not meet this month.
Boy Scout Troop 271 meets, First
United Methodist Church, 6:30 p.m.
Sheriff’s Posse meets, Arena Con-
cession building, FM 115, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY,DEC. 19, 2012
THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 2012
Community Food Bank open, 822
Leftwich St., 4-5:30 p.m.
Masonic Lodge meets, Lodge Hall,
i-30 S. Service Rd., 7:30 p.m.
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State Capital Highlights
Lawmaker asks to use rainy day fund for
drought needs
AUSTIN — Texas should spend some of its “rainy day
fluid” on water issues, state Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville,
suggested in a letter to Gov. Rick Perry last week.
Deuell pointed to U.S. Drought Monitor data that says 94
percent of Texas is classified as abnormally dry, adding that
the state climatologist called the months of October and No-
vember the driest hi Texas history.
hi his Dec. 6 letter, Deuell asked for the State Water Plan
to be funded. He did not mention a dollar amount, but noted
the existence of a “growing consensus that action needs to be
taken now to ensure the future water needs of our state.”
The state’s economic stimulus fluid —
widely referred to as the rainy day fluid
— totals somewhere between $8 billion
and $10 billion. The governor has called
the rainy day fluid “critical to our ability to
respond to and recover from disasters and
emergencies, whether they’re natural or
man-made.”
The State Water Plan, written by the
Texas Water Development Board, is sup-
posed to be a blueprint to secure Texas’ water needs 50 years
into the future. But to finance projects that conserve, capture,
channel and move water supplies, it takes money that the Leg-
islature has been reluctant to appropriate and spend and last
session was averse to selling general obligation bonds as a
way to fluid the water plan.
Texas’ water planning process is based on a bottom-up,
consensus-driven approach that integrates the efforts of 16
Regional Water Planning Groups made up of members repre-
senting agriculture, industry, environment, public, municipal-
ities, business, water districts, river authorities, water utilities,
comities and power generation.
As referenced above, exceptional drought continues to
grip Texas.Gov. Perry on Nov. 30 renewed the July 5, 2011,
drought disaster proclamation for another 30 days for 180 of
Texas’ 254 comities. The proclamation directs that all nec-
essary measures, as expressed in state law, both public and
private, be implemented to meet the threat prolonged drought
poses to public health, property and the economy.
Ed Sterling
Regents say yes to med school
State Rep. Eddie Lucio III, D-San Benito, on Dec. 6 an-
nounced the Board of Regents of The University of Texas
System passed a measure that paves a path to create a medical
school in the Rio Grande Valley.
While the board of regents passed the measure, the Texas
Legislature, which convenes Jan. 8, must give approval for
the progress to continue.
The idea is to merge UT Brownsville and UT Pan Ameri-
can in Edinburg into one new UT system that will house the
new medical school. Regents also approved the $100 million
over the next 10 years needed to accelerate the transitioning of
the Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen to a free-
standing school of medicine.
“This is a veiy important issue, which is veiy dear to my
community. ... The Rio Grande Valley, as well as the rest
of the State, will greatly benefit from the creation of a new
medical school in South Texas,” Lucio commented. “Moving
forward on this will be one of our top priorities this session.”
Railroad commissioner resigns
Buddy Garcia, one of three members of the Texas Railroad
Commission, resigned effective Dec. 7.
A former member of the Texas Commission on Environ-
mental Quality, Garcia was appointed to the commission - the
state agency that regulates the oil and gas industries - by Gov.
Perry on April 12, 2012.
Stepping into the spot vacated by Garcia is newly elected
Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick.
DPS: Program is effective
Interdiction for the Protection of Children, a program ad-
ministered by the Texas Department of Public Safety is work-
ing, the agency reported on Dec. 6.
The program trains state troopers and officers to “identify,
recognize, intervene and remove endangered children without
obvious signs of abuse being present.”
As a result of this training, DPS said, officers have made 20
criminal arrests and recovered 62 missing or exploited chil-
dren since 2010. Some 2,600 officers in Texas and approxi-
mately 1,900 officers nationally and internationally outside of
Texas have received the training.
Unemployment rate is down
Total nonfarm payroll employment nationwide increased
by 146,000 jobs in November, the U.S. Department of Labor
Statistics reported on Dec. 7. The increase in jobs nationally
reduced the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent, the lowest in
four years.
Texas Workforce Commission November employment sta-
tistics are expected to be released soon.
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Letters
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Quick response
Words can not express our gratitude to South Franklin, Pur-
ley and North Franklin Volunteer Fire Departments and to
the EMTs that responded to our recent request for help to a
fire at our home. Their response time, quick actions and will-
ingness to help was veiy much appreciated. Their dedication
and devotion to helping others is what makes firemen and all
emergency responders so special! Gaylon and Jean Moore
I Answers to this week’s puzzles on Page 12A |
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p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19.1 will take the entries that have all
20 song titles correct and draw for a free one-year subscription
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day, Dec. 19. Good Luck!
1. Felicitations for the Season
2. Sterling Carillon
3. Circuitous gambol of Festive Conifer
4. Awesome hibernal acreage
5. Altitudinous celestials acclaim
6. Senior flattened by cloven aviator
7. Covert observation of matriarch’s scandalous osculation
8. Petit birthplace
9. Sprightly venerable benefactor
10. Allegiants proceed
11. Enquiry of mutual auditory perception
12. Hushed darkness
13. Noel - envisage blanched
14. Inaugural Yule
15. Royal Eastern trio
16. Planetary jubilance
17. Theurgical cool guy
18. Matchless season
19. Full-grown enumeration of holiday hopes
20. Commencement of Yuletide complexion
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
1 Tuck’s partner
4 Carpet type
8 Summer brew
14 Stuff to be smelted
15 Grape grower’s prefix
16 “It’s unnecessary”
17 Word with marked or
masked
18 *Typical Valentino
roles
20 Declared
22 Itch scratchers
23 Full sets of
chromosomes
25 Potpie piece from
apod
26 Western treaty gp.
29 It’s up when you’re
angry
31 Safe and sound
33 Race circuits
35_Mountains:
Eurasian border range
37 Mozart’s “Cosi fan
38 Med school subj.
39 Cheesecake on a wall
41 Crane component
42 Conveyed, as water
through a main
44 Centers of attention
45 Corp. money VIPs
46 Audiophile’s setup
48 Bothers persistently
50 Musical ability
51 English channel,
briefly
53 Swing by for a visit
56 Former CBS News
anchor Comic
58 Response
59 *Cold War symbol
63 Org. for piece lovers?
64 Poses (for)
65 Wheel attachment
66 Aussie runner
67 Pint-size
68 For fear that
69 Free (of)
Down
1 Chinese menu
assurance
2 Hopping mad
3 * Quaint means of
communication?
4 Like vows
5 *Was in charge of
6 Picnic crasher
7 Enter
8 Taking the place (of)
9 Car radiator need
10 They may be self-
sealing: Abbr.
11 Kickoff aid
12 Suffix with musket
13 Spots on TV
19 Cat’s pause?
21 Place for Pop-Tarts
24 Letter flourish
26 *To whom “Howdy,
stranger” is often said
27 Threepio’s buddy
28 What keeps bloomers
up?
30 Talked a blue streak
32 Wheel covers
33 Run out, as a
subscription
34 Santa_racetrack
36 “Star Wars”
mastermind
40 Girlish hairstyle (and
what the starts of the
answers to starred clues
SSLo
47 More than right, in
triangles
49 Shakespearean verse
52 Columbus in N.Y.C.
or DuPont in D.C.
54 Nuclear pioneer
Enrico
55 Hoax
56 Was aware
57 List-ending abbr.
59 Little devil
60 Microsturgeons?
61 Poem of praise
62 Logger’s tool
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