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Vol. 47 No. 17 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] November 15, 2019 FEAR THE RAM INSIDE Ladies Take 2019 Red River Championship

BBBS of Central Texas holds RAPPIN’ annual Ice Ball. Tommy Wyatt See GALA Page 2 I too am a Veteran! On Monday, November 11th, we celebrated Veterans Day in America. This day was Cummings joins set aside for the Veterans race for 7th District who participated in congressional. World War 1 and 2. See MAYA I am a military Page 5 veteran, but did not participate in either of those wars. I was born in the middle of World War 2 (1939-1945). However I knew many people who Black foodies did partricipate, but most spearhead of them are no longer community mixer. with us. Huston-Tillotson celebrates winning See DINNER When I was in high Red River Athletic Conference volleyball championship Page 6 school, I learned that all Tillotson's volleyball tive year. "We were lead- timeout from that ence Tournament, H-T males were required to team rallied to win the ing 17-10 in the third set point." received an automatic register with our local school's first conference and it looked like we H-T won the final bid. military office at the age title and advance to the were going to take that two sets to clinch the Opening-round of 18. This made you NAIA National Tourna- set. But they won that five-set marathon in matches will be held at eligible to be drafted for ment for the first time. set and it was a tough what has become the various campus sites on military service. The Lady Rams will situation to deal with." best season in school November 23. The win- However, your draft could learn their first-round With the score tied history. Senior Briana ners will advance to the be delayed as long as you opponent on November 11-11 in the fourth set Domino was named final rounds in Sioux City, were attending college. I 18 and open tourna- and H-T trailing two sets Tournament MVP, and Iowa with the national finished college in 1962 ment play November 23. to one, Behnke called fellow seniors Anabel championship game and was drafted that same By John Harris Jr. "This whole year timeout. Bustamante and Mir held December 7. year. Villager Sports has been about how we "They're just so re- Tillman joined Domino "This year we have At this time we were in Columnist responded to adversity silient," Behnke said. on the All-Tournament been in a lot of close the middle of the (VILLAGER) - Down and different things on "They trusted each other team. matches. It's helped pre- Vietnam War that lasted one set to host Our Lady and off the court," said even when things The Lady Rams (26- pare us for where we are form 1954-75. However, of the Lake in the Red H-T coach Dan Behnke, weren't going our way 5) are among 44 teams now," Behnke said. "This I was never sent out of River Athletic Confer- who was named the Red and they did a really in the NAIA National is the start of a new sea- the states. I spent my ence championship River Athletic good job of turning the Tournament field. By vir- son for us, and we look whole time in military match on November 9 in Conference's top coach match around. I didn't tue of winning the Red forward to the chal- bases here at home. San Antonio, Huston- for the second consecu- have to call another River Athletic Confer- lenge." However many of our soldiers were not so lucky. Many of them did Protesters take fight for Rodney Reed Kardashian West, not survive the war and Beyoncé and Meek Mill, the others who did return began lobbying in his were not welcomed back to the Texas Governor’s mansion defense. home, because they were By Carla Herreria | Reporter, HuffPost She added: “I heard Reed, who is black, not winners of that war. (HUFFPOST) AUS- Governor Abbott is a was convicted of sexual Many young men left TIN, TX - Protesters took good man. Well, I say assault and in the country in order to their fight for actions speak louder the 1996 death of 20- escape being sent to inmate Rodney Reed’s than words.” year-old Stacey Stites in Vietnam. They did not freedom to the Texas Reed, who has Bastrop, Texas. believe that this was our governor’s mansion in served more than two Investigators war to fight. They were Austin, Texas, on Satur- decades in prison, is found DNA from Reed’s considered traitors of the day. scheduled to be ex- semen on Stites’ body, country and were not Roughly 1,000 ecuted by lethal injec- though Reed maintains welcomed back home. people, including Reed’s tion on Nov. 20. Abbott’s that he and Stites, a The men who did fight mother Sandra Reed, office did not immedi- white woman, were in and returned, were met showed up for the dem- ately return HuffPost’s a consensual sexual re- with jeers and rejection. onstration, according to requests for comment. lationship. Reed, now They were not welcome to Texas Observer report- Protesters marched 51, was 29 when Stites participate in the Veterans ers who were on the on the streets of Austin died. Day festivities. It took scene. Protesters carried near the governor’s According to the many years for them to be flags bearing the words mansion. Local city Innocence Project, accepted again. “innocent” and held council members joined which also serves as For many years, I felt signs while chanting the demonstration, as Reed’s legal represen- guilty for not being sent to “free Rodney Reed!” did the mayor, Steve tation, new evidence — the front lines to fight in Despite calls from Adler. Shaun King, a including new wit- the war. But, I was lawmakers, celebrities prominent civil rights nesses who can cor- thankful that I had been and activists for Reed’s activist, also spoke at the roborate Stites’ and discharged before the real case to be reexamined, event. Reeds’ relationship — fighting began. Gov. has that everybody behind on Saturday. “I stand on Reed’s case was can prove that Do I have the right to stayed quiet on the mat- bars are not guilty. My these truths scientific thrust into the spotlight See ONLINE celebrate on Veterans ter. son is innocent,” Sandra facts and findings back last month after celebri- PETITION, page Day? “This case shows Reed said at the protest me up.” ties, including Kim 7