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We Took Drastic Measures During the Web Blackout Library book sale August 10, 2021 planned at county Our 28th Year of Publishing FREE fairgrounds (979) 849-5407 PLEASE Weekly © 2021 Bulletin SEE PAGE 15 mybulletinnewspaper.com TAKE ONE LAKE JACKSON • CLUTE • RICHWOOD • FREEPORT • OYSTER CREEK • JONES CREEK • ANGLETON • DANBURY • ALVIN • WEST COLUMBIA • BRAZORIA • SWEENY Bob and Tissie Schwebel went to banquet, Nature joined by sound of the diesel We took drastic learned building has been named after them dredges at lower San Bernard River measures during By Ernie Williamson It didn’t take them long to find By Janice R. Edwards I closed my eyes and listened for The Bulletin out. There was a surprise. The Bulletin the birds. I was expecting to hear Bob and Tissie Schwebel couldn’t With their family watching, David I got up one morning recently just my neighbor’s new rooster learning the web blackout help but wonder what their sons, Jordan, president of Brazoria Her- as the sunlight was breaking on the to crow like he did a couple of days grandchildren and great grandchil- itage Foundation, announced that San Bernard River and started my ago. How I struggled with dren were doing at the recent Santa the foundation was honoring Bob morning rituals around my home But all I heard was the morning the machines and won Ana Ball, a re-enactment of the ball and Tissie by putting their name on early. strains of the Purple Martins. By John Toth that followed the Battle of Velasco one of the buildings that once was My mind would not turn off the This has been a banner year The Bulletin in 1832. Brazoria Elementary School. previous night, and sleep would not for them. They’ve raised a couple It was the second day without Bob, as the first president of come. of clutches, and they seem to be Internet at the house, and it was the heritage foundation, was the I felt like my life was on a hanging around under the deck time to spring into action. driving force behind saving the precipice waiting … for something. and on the electric lines overhead. We have distributed papers school buildings from destruction Meanwhile, I put on a pot of coffee There must be 30 or more of them during tropical storms and even in by convincing the Columbia-Bra- and went out on the deck to water and remaining this long in such the middle of the Big Texas Freeze zoria Independent School District the loofah plants. (See DREDGING on Page 11) in February. I sure was not going to donate the buildings to the to be stopped by the Internet being foundation. out. The foundation has converted the school into a civic center for the Ramblings community. Bob, who attended the school, I called the AT&T helpline again, says the motivation for his involve- but nothing had changed. The com- ment is simple: “I love the town; puter voice still did not know when I love the people and love the service would return. school,” he says. We started packing the animals The heritage foundation was and clothes for a week, grabbed the established in 2004 to help pre- 5G hotspot and hit the road. (For serve the history of the city and the some reason, the hotspot does not county. work at our Angleton location). Next The foundation hopes the civic stop, the hideaway near a boring center will be a place for Brazoria little city called San Antonio. Tissie and Bob Schwebel were to unite in entertainment, com- After many years of waiting and maneuvering by local officials and those A publisher must make drastic honored at the recent Santa Ana merce and festivities. who live along the lower San Bernard River, dredging of the plugged- decisions to make sure the presses Ball by having one of the Brazoria Thanks to the foundation, the old up mouth has begun. Pipes used in the operation are laid along the keep rolling each week. I was Heritage Foundation buildings (See BHF on Page 5) shoreline. (Photo by Janice R. Edwards) prepared to go to any length to bring named after them. you this paper no matter what the circumstance. It’s my commitment to INSIDE THIS ISSUE Baseball’s All Star Game was Chicago editor’s idea readers and advertisers. That’s the way we do things around here. Four hours later (with Tribune sports editor Arch Wald called it ‘the Game of the Century’ in 1933 no pit stops this time nor stopping at By Joe Guzzardi asked local sportswriters to submit made his case to AL president Will Buc-ees in Luling), we arrived at our Special to The Bulletin ideas for a sporting event that would Harridge and NL president John destination, and I started to set up It’s time to go Major League Baseball’s All-Star draw out-of-towners to the fair. Heydler and argued the game The Bulletin Emergency Headquar- Game, also known as the mid-sum- Ward was convinced that a game would showcase the sport and ters. back to school mer classic, evolved from an between the National and American attract baseball bugs nationwide. Luckily, I have some experience unlikely union between the National League’s best players, with teams When Ward offered that the in this. It’s not like this was the first and American League. selected by the fans, would be a game’s proceeds would be donated time I had done it. The 5G became Chicago Tribune sports editor huge success. To promote the con- to charity, and that the Tribune active, and The Bulletin was back in SEE OUR Arch Ward came up with his brain- test, Ward called it the “the Game of would guarantee losses in case rain business. storm in 1933 when the Windy City the Century.” canceled the game, Harridge and (See INTERNET on Page 5) SPECIAL PAGES hosted the Century of Progress But first, Ward needed the Heydler readily agreed. Exhibition, later known as the Chi- approval of the leagues’ presidents, Since 1933, the All-Star Game facebook.com/ SEE PAGES 7-10 cago World’s Fair. Chicago officials no small task. Ward persisted, (See GAME on Page 6) thebulletinbrazoriacounty/ Page 2 THE BULLETIN August 10, 2021 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com AUGUST 11 AUGUST 12 AUGUST 13 AUGUST 14 AUGUST 15 AUGUST 16 AUGUST 17 Weather facts that are not that ordinary August 10 1856 - The Isle Derniere (Last Island) disaster occurred off the coast of Louisiana. A storm tide drowned 140 vacationers as a five- foot wave swept over Low Island during a hurricane. August 11 1980 - Clouds and moisture from Hurricane Allen provided a brief break from the torrid Texas heatwav with daily highs mostly in the 70s to lower 90s. August 12 1778 - A Rhode Island hurricane prevented an impending Brit- ish-French sea battle and caused extensive damage over southeast New England. August 13 1831 - A blue sun was widely observed in the southern states. The phenomena was believed to have pre-staged Nat Turner’s slave uprising. August 14 1989 - Afternoon thunderstorms in Illinois soaked the town of Batten- dorf with 2.10 inches of rain in 30 minutes. August 15 1787 - Tornadoes were reported in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mas- sachusetts, and New Hampshire. Wethersfield, CT. was hard hit by the tornado outbreak. August 16 1777 - The Battle of Bennington, delayed a day by rain, was fought. The rain allowed the Vermont Militia to arrive in time. Future USA won. www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 August 10, 2021 THE BULLETIN Page 3 Strange but True By Bill Sones someone’s head? How about “The bottom line is,” says and Rich Sones, Ph.D. your own head? Gedney, “if you are camping in American Roulette not as A. The story is told of an 18th the high mountains when the rewarding as European century climber scaling Mount sun is behind you, there is a mist Q. From a Williamstown, Brocken, highest peak in the Harz or cloud in front of you, and you Mass., reader: “In the movies, Mountains in Germany, when see a ghostly figure with a halo whenever James Bond goes to suddenly he glanced up and saw approaching, don’t panic. It’s only the casinos in MonteCarlo, rou- before him in the haze a human you.” lette seems to be the game that figure with a halo around its head, Why there are more older everybody is playing. Whenever says Larry Gedney in the “Alaska women then men I go to casinos here in the U.S., Science Forum. “Understandably Q. When human egg meets however, hardly anyone appears startled by this apparition, he lost human sperm, it’s not 50/50 as to be playing roulette. What’s his hold and fell to his death.” to boy/girl in the making - not up?” Called the Specter of the even close. Can you supply the A. Quite simply, roulette is a Brocken, such apparitions have numbers to the unfolding saga better deal in Europe than America, long been reported. It is now known of the disappearing males? says Williams College econo- that what is actually being seen is a A. Actually, 126 male embryos mist Victor Matheson. In Europe, shadow of the climber, surrounded begin life for every 100 females, roulette consists of a wheel with 37 by colored rings in the mist. says Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., in numbers from 1-36 alternately col- But the shadowy figure often “The Roots of the Self.” Maybe the ored red or black plus a number 0 looks bigger than it really is, since sperm carrying the boy-begetting Y in green.
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