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SEPTEMBER 13,2012
Lifestyle
THE HOMETOWN PRESS - PAGE 4
YOUR HEALTH
Conoco gave Daron some good advice
Everbody is somebody
This phrase may sound familiar
to some of you.
Those who have visited Lucken-
bach, Texas, are familiar with their
town motto, “Everybody’s some-
body in Luckenbach.”
For those who haven’t visited,
this is a small town located in the
hill country, just outside of Freder-
icksburg. If you search the Internet,
you’ll see it’s made up of only nine
acres of land. The town gained
popularity after Waylon Jennings
and Willie Nelson hit record charts
with the famous song “Lucken-
bach, Texas - Back to the Basics of
Love.”
I recently visited this area, for the
second time, and they certainly do
make “everybody feel like some-
body.” The motto just sticks in your
head and leads me into this article.
You see, just recently, I had the
pleasure of visiting with a long
time resident of the Anahuac area.
He went on and on to brag about
his experience at Bay side Commu-
nity Hospital. He even mentioned
that after spending a few days in a
higher level facility out of town, he
still preferred the small home-town
feel of Bayside.
Nellie Lunsford,
Director of Development
Chambers Health
Some of our own residents are
unaware the programs and services
available at Bayside Community
Hospital. Much like any traditional
hospital, we offer a wide range of
inpatient and outpatient programs
and ancillary services typically
found at other institutions, just
“right-sized” for our comer of the
world. We’ve continued to hire and
train our staff with latest advances
in medicine, and we are fortunate
to provide the only Level IV
trauma designated emergency de-
partment between Houston and
Beaumont.
Bayside Community Hospital
offers a “Swing Bed Program,”
which allows patients to be near
their family, friends and loved ones
when they no longer need to be
hospitalized but still need rehabili-
tative care while they recover from
an illness, injury or surgery. By ob-
taining local services, patients
maintain ongoing contact with
friends and loved ones. This ongo-
ing contact and support is impor-
tant in making a difficult situation
easier for the patient and their care-
givers.
The friendly and personable staff
at Bayside Community Hospital
believes that “everybody’s some-
body” and will treat you with the
dignity and respect you deserve.
Bayside Community Hospital
continues its mission of serving the
healthcare needs of the community,
providing the best care possible.
We are tme to being “What You
Need, Where You Are.”
For more information regarding
our Swing Bed Program, please
contact Licensed Social Worker
Malinda Albritton at 409-267-3143
or by email at malbritton@cham-
bershealth.org.
County to sell $7 million worth of bonds
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equipment.
The $7 million in bonds are scheduled to be sold by
the end of October and the money will be in the
county’s checkbook account a shortwhile afterwards.
The county will receive $6,884300 of the $7 million
in bonds sold. The remainder will go toward the fees
associated with the sale of the bonds.
Coastal Securities of Houston is handling the bond
sale for the county.
County Auditor Jerry Sparks said the bonds will be
paid off with tax revenue. The payments are included
in the 2013 budget, he said. Commissioners are plan-
ning to adopt the 2013 budget this month. The budget
does not call for a tax rate increase because the
county’s overall taxable property values have in-
creased substantially and the county will receive an
additional $4 million in property tax this coming year.
Sparks said the bulk of the bond payments are sched-
uled to be paid in the first few years while the county
has all the additional property tax revenue flowing into
its coffers.
James Gilley, with Coastal Securites, said the county
will receive 1.23 percent interest rate on the bonds.
‘This is a very, very good interest rate,” he told com-
missionners.
The interest rate is, essentially, the fee that the
county will pay to borrow the $7 million until they are
paid off six years from now.
County Judge Jimmy Sylvia said the low interest
rate is indicative of the county’s good credit rating.
Much of the $7 million will be spent improving Kil-
gore Parkway on the west side of the county where
the industry is booming. Sylvia said improving the
roadway will help relieve traffic congestion in the area,
which will help industry and residents alike. If the traf-
fic congestion is not alleviated, it could hamper fu-
ture industry, he noted.
In other action Tuesday, commissioners also
awarded bids on the improvements to the Smith Point
Waste Water Treatment Plant. The $1,055,742.80
federal Disaster Recovery Grant will finance the in-
stallation of sewer pipes in neighborhoods that still are
on underground septic sewer system, said David
Baker with Public Management, which has been hired
by the county to oversee the project.
Commissioners are scheduled to award bids next
week on a contracting firm that will install fresh water
lines in Smith Point. Some homes are still on well
water, Baker said. “We’ve been working on these is-
sues for the past 17 years so we are excited.”
Daron Norwood is a musician
who lives in Muleshoe. He talks
best when he is holding a guitar.
T’ve been playing it since I was ten
years old,” he says with a twinkle
in his eye. “Music has been my life
since I was about three. I’ve only
had one job outside of music. That
was in 1985 when I graduated from
high school in Tahoka I got a job at
the local co-op where they busted
flats and changed tires. It was dur-
ing the old filling station days when
you actually washed windshields
and swept out the car while you
were filling it with gas.
I worked with a black man called
Conoco. We were washing a car
one day and a George Strait tune
came on the radio and I was singing
along with it. Conoco held out his
hands to me and said, ‘Daron, you
see these old hands I got right here.
With a voice like you got, there
ain’t no reason that your hands have
to look like these in fifty years. ’ He
said he knew of a place in Lubbock
that pays good money to singers.
That’s how my music career got
started.”
Daron left the service station the
very day that Conoco held out his
hands. “I came to a little hole in the
wall called Adolph’s. It was so dark
inside you couldn’t even see when
you went in off the street.
I walked up to the bartender and
said ‘you don’t know this, but you
need me today. If there’s one thing
in this world I can do it’s sing.’
He told me I could play for tips. I
made $85 a day for the next three
months. I played there from noon
to three. I got a cold beer and a
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His name was Hugh Jack Norwood
and was an evangelistic preacher.
Our family had some funny names.
There was Hugh Jack and Billy
Jack and Betty Faye and Betty Jo.
They had so many kids they started
using the same ones over ‘cause
they ran out of names. My daddy
was the baby of eleven kids. It was
a musical family. When you turned
ten years old they handed you an
instrument. Let’s say if somebody
had graduated from school and they
used to play mandolin. Well the
mandolin was still at the house.
Papa Norwood would hand you the
mandolin and say ‘learn to play
this.’ “
Daron went to Nashville and had
some hit tunes. He had a bus and
performed all over the country.
One time he had a gig in Lubbock
and he was in his bus with some of
his band members and one of them
told Daron there was a man outside
named Conoco that said he knew
the singer. Daron said, ‘You better
let him in. He’s the one that started
all this mess. He told me to put the
chamois down and follow my
dreams.”
Bubba Wilcox was
known for his sense
of humor, attention
to customers and
love of his family
hamburger after I played. One day
the bartender told me thee was an-
other place where I could play from
4 to 7.1 picked up that job.
One of my musician friends told
me he was quitting his gig at a
honky-tonk on the other side of
town and he got me that job. t was
9 to closing. I was soon making a
thousand dollars a week playing
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music when I was 19 years old.”
As a youngster, Daron sang with
his Dad. “He looked a lot like
Johnny Cash and he sang a lot of
Johnny Cash. We sang gospel
songs. He’d sing ‘Daddy sang bass’
and I’d come in with my high voice
and sing ‘Mommy sang tenor.’ I
was kinda his sidekick. I’d wear a
hat and turn up the brim in front.
Daddy let me sing a whole song at
the end of the performance to let the
audience know I could really sing.
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their respects to the affable
Anahuac apothecary at his stand-
ing room-only service on Friday.
Cars were parked on the road-
way for about a half mile in each
direction of Sterling Funeral Home
in Anahuac during visitation on
Thursday. Streets in the surround-
ing neighborhood were also lined
with automobiles.
After graduating from Anahuac
High School in 1955, Bubba
earned his bachelor’s of science
degree from the University of
Houston. He went to work for his
father at Wilcox Pharmacy in
Anahuac in 1959 and has served
several generations of customers
over the last 54 years.
He knew most of his customers
by name, what was going on in
their lives, where their children
were attending college or who their
kids married. He quickly be-
friended newcomers to the com-
munity with his gentle smile and
inquisitive nature.
Bubba could hold an intelligent
conversation on most any topic —
and did on a daily basis with those
customers who had some time on
their hands.
“Over the years I've enjoyed
playing golf with Bubba and hav-
ing great conversations with him
over a cup of coffee at the drug
store!” said Judy Moor Edmonds.
“I swear we solved all the world's
problems over that cup of coffee!”
Bubba’s delightful wit, keen
sense of humor and ability to recall
even the slightest mishap are leg-
endary.
He once dared a high school stu-
dent to ring a fake phone at gradu-
ation — despite the decorum of the
joyous event. Lock your keys in
your car on a rainy day? Embar-
rassed to buy personal hygiene
products only to arrive at the
counter to find out you left your
wallet at home? Drive through the
front of a convenience store by ac-
cident? You could expect Bubba to
flash his ear-to-ear smile each time
you returned to the pharmacy and
rib you about it for years.
And while he was dedicated to
his customers, he always made
time for his wife, Ebbie, a popular
school teacher, and his three chil-
dren, Jeannie, Dave and Andy.
“He put a lot of time into his
business, but he always made time
for his family,” Andy recalled. “We
spent a lot of time with him hunt-
ing, fishing and golfing. And he
and mom did everything together.”
Bubba was surprised when his
sons Dave and Andy decided to go
to pharmacy school. He warned
them they could expect to work
long hours and on their days off.
After he retired, he continued to
work at the Anahuac store one day
a week to allow Dave a day off.
When his younger son, Andy,
opened a pharmacy in Winnie ,
Bubba added a second day to his
work schedule to allow Andy some
much-needed time off.
“He wanted to make sure we
spent some time with our own
families,” Andy recalled.
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