The VFW Post 6899 held their annual barbecue cookoff and fundraiser on April 18th. Six teams participated in the barbecue cooking competition, with the proceeds going towards VFW scholarships for Trinity County seniors. P2 Cookers won several categories including 1st place for brisket and beans. The event also included a silent and live auction. The fundraiser helps support college scholarships for local high school students.

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By Elizabeth Evans
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 6899 held their twelfth
annual barbeque cookoff and
fundraiser on Saturday,April 18.
Six teams participated in the
cookoff, making beans, brisket,
chicken and ribs for the three
judges.
“We usually have twelve to
fourteen teams, but the weather
scared off most of them,”
Assistant Quartermaster Gene
McLeod said. “But we said if
half of the teams show up, we
will have it because it’ll be a
continuous thing.”
The fundraiser also featured a
silent auction and a live auction
conducted by retired Marine
Warrant Officer Gunner Smith.
The money raised from the
auctions will go into the VFW
scholarship fund for Trinity
County seniors.
Smith and McLeod spoke
about several of their past
scholarship recipients going
to Yale, Angelina College, and
Texas A&M to study nursing,
medicine and agriculture.
“Any Trinity County senior
is eligible,” Smith said. “They
can be from Groveton, Trinity,
Apple Springs, any school
within Trinity County.”
The auction consisted of
homemade desserts and sweets,
gift baskets and certificates to
local restaurants and services,
bird houses and feeders,
appliances and kitchenware,
quilts, home decor, tools,
apparel, jewelry, toys, and lawn
and garden furniture.
Of the six teams that
participated, P2 Cookers walked
away the big winners. Gary
Schultz, and Debbie and Randy
Lovell won 1st place Brisket,
which included a Calcutta prize
of more than $600.
Judge Ron Gibson explained
the Calcutta as a betting pool
where each team bet on their
chances to win first place in the
Brisket competition.
P2 also won 3rd place Chicken,
1st place Beans, and 2nd place
Ribs.
Lil’ Pit Kountry participated
for the first time in the cookoff.
Tom and Tammy Butler and
Terry and Amanda Lindner
walked away with 2nd place
Chicken.
Other winners included the
Trinity Wall of Honor Cookers,
2nd place Beans, 1st place Ribs,
and 3rd place Brisket; What’s
Cooking, 3rd place Beans; and
Lost & Found Cookers, 3rd
place Ribs, 1st place Chicken,
and 2nd place Brisket.
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LAKE LEVEL
All Lake Livingston
elevations listed below are
in feet above mean sea level
(msl) above the dam. Rate of
discharge is listed as cubic feet
per second (cfs).
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Normal Pool Level ..............131.00
Current Level-04/20/14 .......131.71
Last week-04/13/14 ............131.29
Record Low-10/26/88 ....... .125.25
Rate of discharge ................. 1,000
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Trinity County 4-H Shooting Sports
VFW BBQ Cookoff Fundraiser
Trinity ISD Sports
VFW hosts annual barbeque fundraiser for scholarships
Retired Marine Warrant Officer Gunner Smith conducts the VFW BBQ Cookoff live auction,
auctioning off items such as homemade cakes and desserts, bird feeders, lawn furniture, gift
certificates and toys.
(Staff Photo: Elizabeth Evans)
Trinity couple arrested
after baby tests positive
for methamphetamines
TRINITY- The Trinity Police
Department arrested a married
couple after their baby tested
positive for methamphetamines.
Elizabeth
Danielle
G e n t r y,
29, and
E d w a r d
Troy Kib-
bee, 37,
have been
c h a r g e d
each with
state-jail
felony endangering a child.
According to the arrest report,
the investigation began on April
2 when police looked into a
domestic disturbance call in con-
nection with the couple’s home.
TPD Chief Steven Jones said
officers found meth in the home
and arrested Kibbee and Gentry
on drug charges.
CPS was
called to
the home
and tests
were con-
d u c t e d
o n t h e
11-month-
old girl,
who tested
positive for
a high concentration of meth.
Gentry was arrested again on
the felony child endangerment
charge on Tuesday April 14 and
Kibbee was arrested on Wednes-
day April 15.
4-H Shooting Sports
Trinity County 4-H kids place at 4-H
Shooting Sports Competition in Groveton
By Cathy Faulkner
GROVETON – It was a pretty
day at the Trinity County Fair
Grounds on Saturday, April
11 as 4-H members from five
different counties showed up
to compete in the District 5
Shooting Sports Contest. This
is the fourth year that Trinity
County hosted the District 5
contest. There are 22 counties
in the district and any of them
can participate in the contest.
The counties that participated
this year were: Trinity, Ange-
lina, Cherokee, Panola and
Henderson counties. There were
a total of 65 shooters there to
participate.
The contest is open to any 4-H
members. They begin shooting
at the end of January and shoot
weekly until April. Teams are
then chosen for the District 5
Contest.
Each shooter has their scores
charted, which are visible to all
shooters, coaches and parents to
examine each time they shoot.
This gives the shooter an op-
portunity to look at how well
they need to score to catch up
and pass any others in their age
group for bragging rights. The
highest scoring shooters get the
opportunity to move on to the
district contest.
The shooters compete in three
different age categories: Junior
(8-10), Intermediate (11-13), Se-
nior (14-18). They can utilize
three different positions, Prone
(Laying), kneeling and stand-
ing. Junior competitors used the
prone position, where the inter-
mediate and senior competitors
can shoot in all three positions.
They use the NRA small bore
rifle rules that can be found on
the NRA website.
The contest was a small bore
rifle contest, allowing .22 Rifles
with open sights to shoot at a
50 foot range. The targets are
basically the score chart, count-
ing each line hit on the target
for points. Hitting the bull’s eye
gives you 10 points, the score
decreases a point with each line,
the outer line gives three points.
Each target sheet contains 10
targets the shooter can try for
there are two targets in the mid-
dle for practice and bringing in
the competitors sights. Points
are calculated when they are
done shooting.
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2013-14 fiscal year audit discussed
at monthly city council meeting
By Elizabeth Evans
TRINITY- The Trinity City
Council met to discuss the
2013-14 fiscal year audit, among
other things at their monthly city
council meeting on April 9.
Dianna Sollock of Davis,
Heinemann and Company
addressed the council about the
2013-14 audit, stating that the
independent audit’s report states
that the finanical statements
within the audit presented fairly
the financial position of the city
of Trinity as of September 30,
2014.
The general fund has almost $2
million in total assets, and total
liabilities of about $1 million.
The total revenues in the
general fund were a little over
$1.7 million, with expenditures
about the same, and an increase
in fund balance for the year of a
little over $25,000.
Water, Sewer, and Solid Waste
Funds’total equity was at about
$2 million, but the Water/Sewer
fund had a deficit, decreasing the
equity by almost $133,000, and
the Solid Waste Fund increased
the equity by $74,000.
Sollock stated that the
depreciation is not being
budgeted and taken into
consideration, which is almost
$151,000 and a majority of the
deficit.
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These are the Trinity County 4-H participants in the 4-H Shooting Sports Competition on Saturday, April 11 at the Trinity
County Fairgrounds, which included kids from Groveton, Trinity, and Apple Springs.
(Staff Photo: Cathy Faulkner)
By Chris Edwards
GROVETON- The possible
“greatest thing to happen to
Trinity County” according to
Precinct 3 Commissioner Neal
Smith was discussed on Mon-
day morning when the county
commissioners held their first
regularly stated meeting for
April.
Representatives from Okla-
homa-based SR20 Holdings
and a committee led by Trinity
County Treasurer Bob Dockens
spoke to the gathered officials
and citizens about the proposed
bio-fuels plant that SR20 has
maintained an interest in con-
structing in the county.
Following a thorough study
by the committee as to the ef-
fect such a facility would have
on Trinity County, a resolution
was drafted, presented and ap-
proved at Monday’s meeting.
SR20 president Andre Thomas,
who was present along with at-
torneys Hull Youngblood and
Harold Kennemer, thanked the
court and the committee for
moving forward.
Before the approval of the res-
olution, Dockens and each of the
committee members spoke be-
fore the court, with each member
affirming that a bio-fuels plant
would be a feasible and benefi-
cial asset to the county.
Dockens also outlined the steps
toward setting the project in mo-
tion. Essentially, the county will
form a public/private partnership
in order to purchase tax-exempt
revenue bonds and equipment to
lease to SR20, as well as attor-
neys to work on a contingency
basis.
These steps would require no
up-front money from the county
and would be of no liability to
Trinity County or its taxpayers
should the project fail, which
Dockens explained in a hypo-
thetical situation.
Once the resolution was ap-
proved, the SR20 representatives
fielded questions, one of which
came from Commissioner Smith
regarding a timetable for permits
to be obtained and eventual con-
struction.
Youngblood said the time it
would take was “nebulous,” cit-
ing due diligence work yet to be
done in preparation.
Smith said that if it is built, the
bio-fuels plant could “put [Trin-
ity County] on the map and put
a lot of people to work.”
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