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Acclaims and a Shame for
May 22, 2007
Published May 22, 2007
River article below -You
Should ‘Dig It’
Only two gold medals came
back to Brazoria County after the UIL state
track meet in Austin this month. Both hung
from the neck of Columbia High School senior
Jade Davis.
Davis, a multi-sport standout athlete,
capped a spectacular high school career by
winning the Class 3A 100-meter hurdles and
the long jump.
“It’s very emotional for me, because of
course this is my last year,” Davis said
after winning the second gold. “I wanted to
go out with a bang.”
That she did, getting to the top of the
medal stand twice after competing at state
the two previous years and missing out.
Davis also was instrumental in getting the
high school’s basketball team to the
playoffs the last two years, including an
unbeaten regular season in the most recent
campaign.
Following her medal wins at state, Columbia
coach Katherine Carr said girls athletics at
the high school will have a huge hole to
fill with Davis’ graduation. No doubt she’s
right.
We wish Davis the best of luck as she
continues her athletics career at Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi, where she has a
basketball scholarship.
Congratulations also to the other athletes
who competed at state, including the bronze
medal-winning Angleton 400-meter relay team
in Class 4A and Brazowood’s Freddie Brown,
who finished with the bronze in the Class 5A
high jump.
Angleton students deserve kudos
Imagine life without something as basic as
having clean water to drink. While such a
thought is almost unheard of in the
neighborhoods of our country, in some
third-world countries, finding a clean sip
of H2O is a daily challenge.
Angleton High School Interact Rotary Club
recently handed over a $1,000 check to bring
clean water to a Guatemalan village to help
ease such a burden in that small corner of
the world.
Members fulfilled a commitment to raise
money for the Living Water organization,
which works to bring clean drinking water to
poor areas around the world. The money will
be used to establish a well to pump clean
water and helping curtail the number of
deaths in the area from the drinking of
contaminated water. The well will provide
water for 200 to 500 Guatemalans.
Club members raised the $1,000 by reselling
food bought at Angleton University and by
auctioning themselves to provide 20 hours of
manual labor at Rotary’s annual fundraiser.
The winning bid was $375 from Angleton Auto
Center.
It’s always good to see our younger
generation with an awareness of the world,
not just their immediate surroundings. It’s
doubly nice to see those youngsters reaching
out to lend a hand to the global community.
You Should
‘Dig It’
About 75 people showed up at what should be
the mouth of the San Bernard River this
month to draw attention to the fact that the
river doesn’t flow into the Gulf of Mexico
the way it should at the second annual “Dig
It.”
Over the last 10 years, a 3-mile long,
200-yard wide island has formed and changed
the landscape.
Those in attendance dug a shallow ditch
through the sand to allow water to flow into
the Gulf the way it should. It was a
“symbolic opening of the mouth of the
river,” said the event’s organizer, Roy
Edwards, who wants to raise awareness to
this situation.
Friends of the River San Bernard members are
lobbying the state and several federal
agencies to reopen the river to a width of
600 feet and a depth of 7.5 feet. The effort
would result in dredging 700,000 cubic yards
of sand, which could be used to renourish
area beaches, Edwards said.
“It’s a win-win situation,” Edwards said.
“We put the river back where God had it in
the first place and use the sand to rebuild
eroding area beaches.”
We applaud the efforts of those who
organized and participated in the “Dig It”
event. It’s a worthy effort and one that
makes a lot of sense. We hope that one day
soon Edwards and his friends will see their
mission accomplished. |