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October 24, 2017 Our 24th Year of Publishing FREE (979) 849-5407 PLEASE mybulletinnewspaper.com © 2017 TAKE ONE LAKE JACKSON • CLUTE • RICHWOOD • FREEPORT • OYSTER CREEK • ANGLETON DANBURY • ALVIN • WEST COLUMBIA • BRAZORIA • SWEENY Hemingway, Halloween and Fall festivals It came By Sharon Toth pre-register starting at 5:30 p.m. haircuts, and Publisher at the park pavilion for the 6:30 back to life There’s lots of Halloween- p.m. contest. The contest will be The old van decided themed fun in Brazoria County to divided into three age groups, 0 a free shave feature in The Bulletin’s Round- to 3, 4 to 7, and 8 to 12. There will that it wasn’t time to go By Ron Rozelle up of area events, and the good be medals for first- to third-place By John Toth Contributing editor news for parents and grandpar- winners in each age group. The Editor and Publisher Right after World War I, when ents is that most of it is designed event is sponsored by the Clute A couple of weeks ago I wrote Ernest Hemingway was working on for families and is free. Parks & Recreation Department. sort of an obituary for my old green his first novel, he made a few dollars We suggest Lake Jack- van, which has almost a quarter mil- a week as a foreign correspondent keeping this son Parks & lion miles on it. writing human interest pieces about story or issue Have a safe Recreation’s As it turns out, the van’s death being an American in Paris for the to refer to for all and happy Monster Dash may have been slightly exagger- Kansas City the upcoming 5-K and BASF ated. Star. He and his fun. Halloween Kids Run will This 1995 model Dodge Caravan, wife and young The 2017 City be Saturday, Oct. probably the only one still on the son made do of Freeport 28 at MacLean road, has had its with very little Fall Festival has been com- Park. For more information, go to ups and downs, while he was bined with the Freeport Historical www.LakeJackson-Tx.Gov/Parks but kept churning honing the craft Museum Haunted House this or to the Lake Jackson Parks & out the miles that would soon year in Memorial Park downtown. Recreation Facebook Page. The year after year. The date has been moved to parks & recreation department THE WORDSMITH make him rich When it was time and famous, Saturday, Oct. 28, and the event also is hosting its annual Family to get rid of it, I and those little checks from America will be 5 to 8 p.m. The outdoor Fright Night Campout Oct. 27-28, decided to keep festival is free to everyone, and but registration ended Oct. 21. were probably greeted with great joy. RAMBLINGS it for memories’ In this dispatch titled “A Free the Haunted House is free for Sea Center Spooktacular sake. Plus, it Shave”, published on March 6th, children under 17 and $5 for will be held on Sunday, Oct. 29, could serve as an extra delivery van. 1920, he wrote “The true home of adults. 1-3 p.m. at Sea Center Texas in A few weeks ago the instrument the free and the brave is the barber There is a free costume Lake Jackson for educational fun. cluster went blank. This could be college. Everything is free there. contest open to all ages from Children are welcome to dress a major problem when I try to find And you have to be brave. If you newborns to senior citizens. up and enter the costume contest out what speed I am going, or how want to save $5.60 a month on There also will be games, crafts, at 1 p.m. There will be live sea much fuel is left in the tank. shaves and haircuts go to the barber food vendors and Trunk or Treat, animals to touch and learn about, There was one light that remained college, but take your courage with according to Kari Thomas Perez games, candy, and all these are on. It advised me to check the you.” with the Freeport Parks & Recre- free, but the crafts session has instrument panel. I did. It was dark, It should come as no surprise that ation Department. a fee of $5 per child. The Sea no sign of life. Hemingway’s short essays started Clute’s 23rd annual Center is operated by Texas The mechanics that have worked out as reporting but all ended up as Harvest Fun Fest will be held Parks & Wildlife. on the van throughout the years, short stories, complete with dia- Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Clute West Columbia’s 2017 whether they liked it or not, forgot logue. They’re collected in a fine little Municipal Park at 100 Parkview Trick or Treat in the Park to run when they saw me pulling book titled By-Line: Ernest Heming- Drive from 6 to 8 p.m. There will will be held Tuesday, Oct. 31, at up (Just kidding. I really like those way: Selected Articles and Dis- be free games, candy, haystack First Capitol Park at 1300 N. 13th guys). After analyzing the van’s patches of Four Decades, and that dives and cookie walks. St., from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Walk the latest predicament, their best (Continued on Page 6) There also is a costume trail for tricks and treats, enjoy recommendation was that I should contest, and participants need to (Continued on Page 11) get rid of this piece of junk and let it rest in peace. I did the next best thing. I parked it and checked on it every now and then to see if it was still dead. I let Nov. 4 (Continued on Page 7) Like us on Facebook facebook.com/ FREE brazoriacountybulletin Page 2 THE BULLETIN October 24, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com Vendors sought for Miracle Market and Bistro in W.C. Columbia United Methodist Advertisement for the event will be vendors specifically selling home- Church is sponsoring the fourth increased to include newspaper made, handmade, handcrafted, annual Miracle Market and Bistro ads, radio spots, social media and home canned or home grown items. on Nov. 4 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. take home fliers in businesses so For this reason items that have Vendors are being sought to increased attendance and participa- been bought or ordered for resale fill the hall with their homemade tion is expected. will not be permitted. wares. Booth fees will increase as In an effort to showcase crafts, Booth fee is $65. Outside booth time goes on so get your applica- the Miracle Market will be a crafts space will be larger for the same tion in early for the best price. only show offering booth space to prices, and arrangements will be made for inside space in case of inclement weather. Applications may be obtained from the church office located at 315 South 16th Street, West Columbia, Texas 77486; on the church website: www.columbiaum.org; or by call- O.K., STICK ‘EM UP! NO, YOU STICK ‘EM UP, PUNK! Two ing the church at (979) 345-4642 nitwits tried to rob a bar in Baltimore despite the fact that it was a police between 9 a.m. amd 2 p.m. week- hangout located right across the street from a precinct station. Also, on days to request a copy be mailed the night in question, a whole bunch of policemen were in the bar to to you . celebrate the retirement of one of their own. Anyway, the cops quickly put You may also call Lynn Log- a stop to it. gins at (979) 292-4570, or email EXCUSE ME, MIND IF WE PLAY THROUGH? UH, SIR!? [email protected] to MA’AM!? A man and a woman were arrested for getting very intimate on request a copy. the eighth fairway of a golf course in Tega Cay, S.C. There is also a silent auction for MORNING SLEEPYHEAD: A man was arrested for drunk driving the event. Each booth will be asked at 3:20 in the morning after police officers found him asleep at the wheel to donate one item for the silent of his SUV in the middle of an intersection in Portland, Ore. Cops sur- auction. rounded his vehicle with their cruisers, and woke him up. BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA’ GONNA’ DO? WHAT- CHA’ GONNA’ DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU!? A policeman went to an apartment in Shippensburg, Pa., where a loud party was under way, and told the participants to keep it down. But then, as the officer was leaving, a partygoer cranked up the theme song from the Cops TV show. He returned and issued them a citation for excessive noise. SURE, COME ON IN, SMILEY: A man knocked on the door of an apartment in Rheinfelden, Germany and asked the lady who lived there if he could look on her balcony for his false teeth. He told her that they had fallen out while he was visiting with a friend on his balcony one floor above. YOU AGAIN!? After being refused service at a motel in North Bat- tleford, Saskatchewan, a man went outside, put on a mask, returned, and ABOUT US tried to rob the place. The clerk refused to give him any money. EXCUSE ME, MA’AM, I THINK YOU FORGOT SOMETHING! John and Sharon A woman was accused of shoplifting by security personnel in a store in Toth, Owners and Mobile, Ala., so she ran outside and sped off in a car, leaving her five- Publishers year-old son behind.