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Take One! It’s FREE! The May 27, 2014 Our 20th Year of Publishing Weekly (979) 849-5407 . mybulletinnewspaper.com Bulletin © 2014 LAKE JACKSON • CLUTE • RICHWOOD • FREEPORT • OYSTER CREEK • ANGLETON • DANBURY • ALVIN • WEST COLUMBIA • BRAZORIA • SWEENY Texas economy TICKET Bulletin tech adds 64,100 jobs BULLETIN health almost Unemployment lowest since SUMMER GIVE-AWAY September 2008 at 5.2% back to normal Texas employers expanded their WE ARE GIVING AWAY TWO TICKETS EACH TO EIGHT LUCKY READERS Still missing a few payrolls by 64,100 jobs in April for a NAME:__________________________________ PHONE________________________________________ essential programs total of 348,000 seasonally adjusted like video poker non-farm jobs added over the year. ADDRESS________________________________ CITY___________________(TX), ZIP________________ Texas’ unemployment rate fell to By John Toth 5.2 percent in April, down from 5.5 PICKED UP PAPER AT: ____________________________________________________________________ Editor and Publisher percent in March and down from 6.4 percent a year ago. Send entries to: The Bulletin, PO Box 2426, Angleton, TX. 77516. Eight winners will receive two tickets each I wrote a couple of weeks ago to the Galveston Island waterpark. One entry per person. Copies not accepted. Winners will be chosen June 12, how The Bulletin publishing machine “April was a robust month for and will be announced in the June 17 issue. By sending in this entry form, you allow the Bulletin to print your caved in on a Monday morning. Texas job growth; the unemploy- name and city of residence in the paper and post it on the Bulletin Facebook page. Your entry form will be shred- Well, the good news is that every- ment rate continues to fall, and ded after the promotion is over, and the information will not be sold or forwarded by any means. Thank you for thing is almost back to normal. The we posted the highest monthly job reading The Bulletin and helping us reach our 20th anniversary in July. bad news is that it’s “almost” back to growth in well over three years,” normal. said Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) Chairman Andres Alcantar. After years “With all 11 major industries adding of being used jobs over the year, I encourage job to the same seekers to visit Workforce Solutions system and offices around the state and seize adding to it as the opportunities created by Texas needed, all of employers.” the sudden, it’s ROUNDABOUT a brand new Over the month, eight of the 11 world, with major industries in Texas experi- many pieces missing. enced positive growth. Employ- ment in Professional and Business So, for the last two weeks, I have Services grew by 20,100 positions, been filling in the blanks, looking for the largest monthly increase ever programs that have been lying in recorded for this industry. some drawer somewhere. “We’re fortunate in Texas to see I located one of the last puzzle significant growth across several pieces just the other day in a drawer industries,” said TWC Commis- where I could have sworn I never sioner Representing Labor Ronny put a program CD – ever. But there Congleton. “Trade, Transportation, it was, in plain sight – after I pulled and Utilities is one example of this Young Welders the drawer open. encouraging trend, adding 16,300 Since I am a stickler to backing up positions in April - the most in the Seventy students from Brazosport, Brazoswood, Sweeny, Columbia, Foster and George Ranch high everything, I needed a new back-up industry in over 20 years.” schools recently visited Brazosport College to test for their American Welding Society Certification. publishing machine, because the old A total of four certification levels were possible, with students combining for 83 total certificates. Bulletin 1 sort of got fried. Bulletin 2 These certifications will allow many of the students to be able to get a job after high school. For more is now the lead machine. UTMB - Angleton hospital information about Brazosport College’s welding program, call (979) 230-3307. To learn more about the It’s like driving across country sign cooperation agreement college’s plans for its new welding facility, call (979) 230-3245. without a spare tire. That would not be a good idea. So, I set out to See Page 7 search for Bulletin 3, the new back- How fast is the world’s fastest up printing machine thingy, and found one pretty quickly. wooden roller coaster? See, my two desktop publishing See Page 8 computers have to be the same kind to make the conversion fast and Vocal Trash featured Friday – easier. Anyway, I was looking for- at free Lake Jackson concert ward for the replacement computer See Page 12 (Continued on Page 2) Page 2 THE BULLETIN May 27, 2014 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com Bulletin publishing machine tech health almost back to normal (Continued from Page 1) screen. That means that there is included. Problem solved. to arrive. It did in a few days – with no software loaded into the back- This is an exciting business. but a cracked screen. up machine to run the camera on I’ve had enough of it for a while. The packaging was flimsy to the transplanted screen. I want to revert to just worrying begin with, and the post office I have to have a camera on about newspaper stuff. I think perhaps decided to use it as a the production machine. How am we’re finally back in the saddle. football. One of the right corners of I going to waste time on Skype Wait, where is the video poker the box was smashed in. without a camera? program? That’s a must for every This is where it pays to use the Luckily, the back-up program publishing machine. I put that disc same kind of publishing computer. discs that came with one of the somewhere a few years ago. Bulletin 1 that decided to break computers had a camera program I think someone stole it. still had a good screen. It’s just the hard drive and perhaps the mother board that went south. I got on Google and streamed a video on how to replace the screen, and within an hour, the new back-up had a working screen. BTW, the seller gave me a nice refund. I swear that sometimes this pub- I THINK IT WILL BE MORE FUN WITHOUT YOU: During their hon- lishing business is more tech work eymoon flight from Atlanta to Costa Rica, an intoxicated groom got into than using gooder grammar. It is a an argument with his bride that was so disruptive that the pilot made an joke. Don’t send it to the “Tonight emergency landing on Grand Cayman Island and had him thrown off the Show.” plane. His new wife was so mad at him that she continued on the flight Wait a minute. There is no to Costa Rica without him. functioning camera on the cracked I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY CAUGHT ME: A man, serving time in a prison in Austria, had a Smartphone smuggled into the jail, and used it to take a photo of himself in front of the marijuana that he had secretly been growing in his cell. He was caught when he posted the picture on Facebook. He is now on round-the-clock surveillance. ANYHOW, THE LADIES LOVE ME …WAIT, SOMEONE’S AT THE DOOR: A drunk called the police emergency number in Birmingham, England, 30 times in the wee hours of the morning to brag about his sexual exploits. The lady who answered his called warned him that he should stop, but he persisted. The cops traced his number, and arrested him. HE SHOULD BE PRETTY EASY TO SPOT: After committing a theft at a jewelry store in Henderson, Nev., a 300-pound man fled the scene in a motorized scooter. There is surveillance video of the crime, so an arrest is expected shortly. ABOUT US YOU MEAN THIS ISN’T WAFFLE HOUSE!? An intoxicated man walked into a stranger’s house in Motueka, New Zealand, and pro- John and Sharon ceeded to make himself an omelette. The owner wasn’t home at the Toth, Owners and time, but the neighbors saw him and called the cops. HEY MAN, I WAS JUST CELEBRATING: A man who was released Publishers from prison in Florence, Ariz., was pulled over on a traffic stop an hour Since July 4, 1994 later and arrested for possession of marijuana. THE BULLETIN is distrib- A SOLDIER … IN THE WAR ON DRUGS: A man on a flight to Fort uted each Tuesday by J&S Lauderdale told fellow passengers that he was a soldier about to be Communications, Inc.. E-mail deployed to Afghanistan, and tried to get them to buy him drinks. It letters and press releases to worked for a while, but then he got drunk and threatened to kill a flight [email protected]. Faxed attendant. The plane was diverted to Jacksonville, and authorities there said that he was not a soldier, but was headed for Florida for drug rehab. or mailed announcements are no longer accepted. YEAH, IT’S ME AGAIN, CALLING FROM THE CART: A woman, who For advertising information, was sitting in a shopping cart in the parking lot of a supermarket in Boca Raton. Fla., called the police, because an employee insisted that she call (979) 849-5407. Advertising get out and give the cart back. A deputy came and told her to knock it and news release deadline is 5 off, but she called the police from the cart two more times after he left so p.m.Tuesday.