Walter Mitchell Shotwell (Walt), 68, of Port O’ Connor, TX passed away Monday June 17th, 2024 at his daughter’s house in Pharr, TX where he had been living out his last few months. He passed peacefully with his loved ones by his side.

Walter Mitchell Shotwell (Walt) was born November 30,1955 in Columbus, OH to parents Janet Broussard (Johnson) and Bill Shotwell. He later moved to Port O’Connor, TX with his mom and step-father Lewis Johnson. He attended school in Port O’Connor, TX. He joined the Navy in 1973 and was honorably discharged in 1975. He served in the Vietnam war and was proud of being a Vietnam Veteran.

He loved to fish, hunt, go camping, and boating. He had love for art, he could draw anything. He also liked to collect driftwood from the beach front and carve things out of it. His favorite time was to go fishing and camping with his kids. He always had a love for cats and in his later years he loved to spend time with his cats.

Walter is survived by his sister Leafy Ann Johnson, his daughters Tiffany Koelsh (Eric), Tonya Ecker (Jesse), , Aundria Dickens (Crystal), his grandkids, nieces and nephews, Aunt Pauline and Uncle Johnny Morgan, Aunt Lois Durant, Aunt Janie Pago, Lorraine Duhon and Uncle Ronnie Chargois.

Walter is preceded by his mother Janet Johnson, his stepfather Lewis Johnson, his sister Debbie Lebouef, his brothers Billy Gene Shotwell and Charlie Cecil Johnson.

Scott Brown (far left) and friends who helped with distribution.

“I felt like I needed to do something to help the people in need of supplies due from the damages from hurricane Beryl. I reached out to my friends on Facebook posting that I have a big cargo trailer and that I wanted to get some supplies together and take into these areas hit hard by the hurricane. So a lot of good hearted folks from the Calhoun County and surrounding communities reached out to me wondering how they could help! Can’t thank them enough for helping me help others!

So I got one trailer load ready to go and with the help of Ham Radio I was able to get in touch with the right people to know where I needed to take this load. So off I went to Bay City with the first load to the Matagorda County Emergency Coordinator. They assured me that they would get those supplies into the areas hit hard by Beryl including Sargent, Tx. At this time I had more people wanting to donate too. So we filled up another trailer load. This time I wanted to take it to a different area that was impacted. I then decided to take the second load down to Galveston County. I ended up at the Galveston County Sheriff’s Department where the department was very surprised to see me. We unloaded the supplies into a store room with the help of several deputies. They told me they would put items into their patrol cars and hand them out to civilians through out Galveston County. I was very happy with that.

I want to thank everyone who has donated. Big hearted people in this world still. I couldn’t have been able to make this happen without them.”

Scott was also instrumental in organizing the July 4th Trump Boat Parade.

Some of the goods distributed to hurricane victims.

The Calhoun County Republican Party would like to invite the public to our Lincoln Reagan Dinner on October 5, 2024.

Social Hour begins at 5:00 p.m. at the Bauer Community Center in Port Lavaca. The dinner and speaking program begins at 6:00 p.m. including Don Huffines with the Liberty Foundation, LJ Francis with District 2 State Board of Education, and the candidates for the 13th Court of Criminal Appeals and many others.

Please call (361)552-6313 or (361)920-5467.

POC’s Book Club, “Hooked On Books”, will resume meetings starting on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 2:00 p.m., and our book of the month is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

If you are interested in joining us, please email your contact information to alanehaardt@yahoo.com.

All Ladies are welcome.

Hello Dolphin Talk folks, I’m Kenneth Reese and since 2017 I have had the honor of being an elected member of the City Council of Seadrift. Starting out in 2017, I was assigned to oversee Harbor operations and later when the city decided to go into the trash business, I was placed over Seadrift Solid Waste department.

Harvey visited our town during my first term and the city got into the FEMA business. I was assigned Harbor debris cleanup duties, seawall replacement duties, west end erosion duties and, just for fun, I got to do Restore project also.

Going into my seventh year, I am now over Utilities Department (everything water) and Waste Water Treatment Department (every thing sewer) and, just for fun, I’m still involved seawall, Restore, and overall city drainage project. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job and hope to continue giving the City my time.

There is still work to be done. I hope to see the new water tower project, our waster water plant and our seawall project come to fruition. Won’t it be great to have better water pressure, toilets that flush and a seawall park with grass and hopefully new playground equipment. That’s another department, but I hope to see it happen. I love the ‘drift and I hope to keep it the ‘drift!