In her State Championships gymnastics meet, she placed 2nd place vault (Silver medal), 2nd place beam (Silver Medal), 4th place floor (bronze), 5th All-Around (bronze).

This means she made it to regional which is in Colorado– so lots of bake sales all month long. So if anyone would like to sponsor; please let her parents, Tim and Kimberley Gonzales, know so we can get her there!

To all of the Dolphin Talk readers who also used to read the column “The Way I See It” by William Brayshaw, I apologize as his widow, for not informing Joyce Rhyne of his death back in December of 2021, so she could have mentioned it in her newspaper. He had been fighting cancer since 2017, and did all of the pushups with months of radiation and chemo treatments, which he tolerated quite well. But a third surgical repair after two major surgeries was the end. Pain coming from somewhere no one was able to determine and the VA not allowing his civilian primary care doctor to prescribe any more pain medication, led to him taking his own life. Our government is always happy to give free pain meds and meth, and marijuana to the homeless and to illegals, but prohibit doctors from giving anything to the veterans who keep defending the Constitution of the United States.
Those of you who enjoyed his articles, know who he was and what he stood for. Those of you who mocked him, and to the one commenter (SMH), who even went so far as to hope he died from his cancer, if you see this, your wish came true. I hope, as hateful as you said he was, that your life has dramatically improved because he is gone.
William was a two tour Vietnam veteran, who came from an entire family of Veterans. His father, step mother, brother, wife (me), my father, grandfather, two uncles, sister, and brother-in-law all served in the military. At this time in history, military service is not very much respected anymore, but some of us remember when we were all proud of our military service people.
Mr. Brayshaw tried very hard to get people to understand how important it was to remember our history and to remember why we are the one and only country in the world where everyone else has always wanted to come. Of course they all want to come here now… everything is free… paid for by US, the American Taxpayer. But for decades people have wanted to come here because we offered them the freedom to fulfill their dreams.
RIP, Bill.
-Karla Burland, widow of William Brayshaw

We are so proud of all our little chefs who participated in the Future Chef Cook-off. Everyone did a great job! We would like to send a special shout out to our CCISD Child Nutrition staff for working with our students and promoting healthy living.

Congratulations to our top three chefs:

1st place- Beth Boone, Travis Middle School, who cooked with CCISD Child Nutrition staff member Veronica Acosta

2nd place – Madden Guevara, Port O’Connor, who cooked with CCISD Child Nutrition staff member Ruby Castellano

3rd place- Caleb Escobar, JR Elementary, who cooked with CCISD Child Nutrition staff member Diana Torres

-Port O’Connor PTO

Seadrift Municipal Election

Port O’Connor Municipal District Bond Election

STATEWIDE ELECTION:

Proposition 1 (SJR 2 – 87th Legislature, 2nd Special Session)

“The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.”

Proposition 2 (SJR 2 – 87th Legislature, 3rd Special Session)
“The constitutional amendment increasing the amount of the residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation for public school purposes from $25,000 to $40,000.”