Chase Carter

Charles R. Carter (Chase) made the Dean’s List for the second time at Texas State University, this time for the Spring Semester of 2011.

Chase also received his fourth Scholarship through Texas State College of Science/Department of Engineering Technology via their Concrete Industry Management Program.

Chase is working his second year of internship for Lehigh Concrete in Buda , Texas. He will also be working for another company in Dallas this July and will be completing his studies at Texas State this fall and is scheduled to graduate December, 2011.

Chase is the son of Chuck and Brenda Carter of Port O’Connor.

Victoria College is pleased to announce its spring 2011 Dean’s List to acknowledge students whose outstanding performance qualifies them for honors recognition.

Those Victoria College students in the Dolphin’s distribution area who accomplished this are:

Seadrift:
Christie Cook and Alicia Garza

Port Lavaca:
Stephanie Abraham, Jensica Burkett-Russo, Morgan Elgin, Christopher Hamelwright, Tanner Hermes, Louis Maldonado, Alex Martinez, Evan Mutchler, Crystal Paniagua, Adan Rubio, Ruben Soliz

Placedo: Ann Enriquez

Cuero:
Shane Harryman, Henry Lind, Jennah Lind, Kaitlin May, Evan Migura, Stephen Tinsley

Bloomington:
Dionicio Gonzales, William McAfee, Bobby Venglar

Brother Marcos Gohlke, our pastor for the past four years, preached his final sermon as pastor this past Sunday. It was a sad, but joyous service. Sad, because all of us are disappointed to lose Brother Marcos and Sue, but happy to see them enter into the retirement mode with less pressure and more time to spend with their children and grandchildren.

The morning service was packed with members, friends and a gathering of family members. The service opened with Marcos and Sue singing “When We Get Carried Away”, followed by Brother Raymond Grant leading the congregation in singing “To God Be The Glory”. Granddaughter Meg Gohlke sang a beautiful solo accompanied at the piano by Sue Gohlke. The special music continued with Sue, Marcos, and their daughter Misty Gohlke singing “Precious Savior”.

After the offertory, Brother Marcos and Sue sang the beautiful song, “Holy Ground”. Brother Marcos’ final sermon was “Remembering” from Isaiah 46: 9-10. Two young men who made decisions to give their life to Jesus during the Children’s Summer Camp at Palacios, came forward for salvation – a final tribute to Brother Marcos and his outstanding pastoral leadership at our church.

Sunday evening was a special evening dedicated to Brother Marcos and Sue with an “Ole Fashioned Ice Cream Social”. Fellowship Hall was full of friends and everyone enjoyed the celebration. Recognition was given to all those who had birthdays in April, May and June. It was really a great “Birthday Bash” and a “Happy Retirement Party”.

A great preacher, Bible teacher and friend, Brother George Yarbrough from Goliad, will be preaching all Sunday sermons in the month of July. Brother Yarbrough and his wife Barbara have visited us many times and he has graciously filled the pulpit on several occasions.

The Men of the Church are meeting every Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m. in Fellowship Hall to pray for our church and the elected “Pastor Search Committee”. After a cup of coffee, the men enter into a season of prayer that God will guide the Committee in their effort to find a new Shepherd to lead our Church.

See you in church Sunday!

Marcos and Sue Gohlke

Emily De La Garza won first place in the Shrimpfest Kids Karoake Contest singing “Stuck Like Glue” by Sugarland.

Kids:

1st Emily De La Garza

2nd Chloe White

Adults:

1st Leslie Gomez

2nd Greg Morales

During the July 7th Club meeting two members were commended for being one year older as each was celebrating her birthday this month. Our membership chairman and our Community’s Librarian, Shirley Gordon had noted her birthday on Tuesday, July 5th. And our sterling president, Janet Johnson celebrated her day on that Thursday of the meeting. Expressions of congratulations and other kudos were voiced for these outstanding members.

If you were outside on Saturday, July 2nd, you saw the incredible fireworks that lit up the sky. In charge of the pyrotechnics was “Fireworks’ Setter-Off-Er” Donnie Haynes. Our thanks to him and his helpers for an outstanding evening of oohhhhs and ahhhhs. And earlier that day the Volunteer Fire Department provided bbq plates to go of brisket and salad and other juicy items that were capped off by desserts as provided by the members of the Service Club.

After an outstanding meeting of the Historical Book Committee when Mr. and Mrs. Paul Apostolo were present to speak to the members of early day life in this community, we were thrilled to have the acceptance of Grady Jean Clark to appear at the next meeting in July. Mrs. Clark has been a member of this community for a number of years and we are all looking forward to listening to her tell us of some of the tales and joys of living here at that time. Hopefully, following that July meeting, we will be able to convince Kenneth Clark to speak more learnedly of the fishing industry in the 30’s and 40’s.

As we are now on our Summer schedule of holding only one meeting a month, the next meeting will be August 4th at 10:00 a.m. in the back room of the Community Center. We welcome all interested women at any time at our meetings; contact Shirley Gordon, Membership Chairman, 983-4365 or Janet Johnson, President, 983-4733 for further information. Do plan to come and say hello.