TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION This paper can www.TheAustinVillager.com be recycled Vol. 47 No. 16 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] September 6, 2019 Fire Dragon Championships INSIDE Held at Givens By Carolyn Jones | Special to the VILLAGER TLD, Inc. hold annual retreat. See CAPITAL RAPPIN’ Page 3 Tommy Wyatt Sometimes I feel guilty! Whenever I start to complain about the hot Texas native returns weather that we are to film Netflix experiencing in Texas, I original movie. am reminded that there See EMMY are people in other parts Page 5 of the country who have larger problems. Pictured above is Kung Fu Grandmaster Moses Williams (top row center, eighth from left) For example, the along with black belts from around the state. Standing (from L to R) are Willie Galloway, weather bureau has been Myron Burse, Clarence ‘Daddio’ Smith, Michael Hornsby, Dan Roberts, Danny Baker, Abel tracking Hericane Villareal, Moses Williams, Ray Johnson, Willie Simpson, Thomas Gohring, Meranda Matthews Dorian for more than a and Craig Speer. Kneeling are Ricky Reed, Joe Yanez, Eric Ryan, Jeff Richardson, Dedrick week now trying to Burns, Dustin Matthews, Jason Matthews, and Moses Williams, III. Photo by Carolyn Jones New Orleans native determine where it will serves up flavorful hit the mainlands in (AUSTIN, TX) - Beginning at age nine, Moses his First Degree Black Belt in 1973 and later a Tenth cajun dishes. Florida,Georgia and the Williams competed in countless martial arts tour- Degree Black Belt in 2001. See SCHOOL Carolinas. And because naments, earned First through Tenth Degree Black He also competed in Point Karate and was a Page 6 they cannot be sure, Belts, participated in Point Karate, and competed competitor in full contact Karate and Kickboxing on residents of these areas on the professional circuit in full contact Karate as the professional circuit between 1977 and 1987. He Dorian are being told to leave well as Kickboxing. presently teaches Austin Police Department law the area. This is because Now at age 58, Grandmaster Williams is enforcement officers as well as Travis County triggers there is no way to sponsoring martial arts competitions of his own. sheriff’s deputies. He has participated in the police guarantee their safety, if On Saturday, August 31, 2019, Grandmaster Olympics where he also served a judge. massive they stay. Williams and his wife, Stephanie, hosted their four- Grandmaster Williams decided to make a We have been hit by teenth annual Fire Dragon Championships, which career out of martial arts because he wanted to flooding in some very powerful drew the top martial artists in Texas. work with youth. When he first started teaching storms in the past, but we The one-day tournament was held at Givens others in 1980, he spent 14 years working out of Bahamas have not been told to Recreation Center in east Austin and drew over 100 his mother’s garage. In 1992, he opened the Fire By Associated Press evacuate the entire competitors. Youth and adult martial artists ranging Dragon Martial Arts Institute in Pflugerville, Texas Central Texas area for from pre-K to senior citizens in their eighties competed where he teaches young and old alike. our own good. in the categories of weapons, forms and fighting. Grandmaster Williams feels it is good for The one thing that is Growing up in Austin in a family of nine chil- people to know how to protect themselves. heart warming is that the dren, Grandmaster Williams’ love of the sport be- “Martial arts teaches discipline, respect and first responders from gan when he was introduced to martial arts in 1968 honor, and also keeps you in good health” he said. around the country rush at the downtown Young Men’s Christian Associa- “Discipline is very important because you have to (AP) - Hurricane to these disaster areas the tion. Between 1974 and 1986, he trained at the learn to train your mind, body, soul and spirit. It all Dorian unleashed mas- minute that they hear Bergstrom Air Force Base Youth Center. He earned becomes one.” sive flooding across the about the problem. They Bahamas on Monday, do this inspite of the fact pummeling the islands that they put their own Trump says he’ll work with with so much wind and safety at risk. water that authorities News reporters are Congress to stop mass shootings urged people to find also quick to rush to the floatation devices and areas that are expected to By Associated Press grab hammers to break be affected, in order for (AP) - President out of their attics if nec- us to have the latest Donald Trump ex- essary. At least five information about the pressed a commitment deaths were blamed on situation on a continuous Sunday, hours after the the storm. basis. latest deadly mass “We are in the I spent some time in shooting, to work with a midst of a historic trag- the army, but it was divided Congress to edy,” Prime Minister peace time and I was “stop the menace of Hubert Minnis said in never sent overseas. I did mass attacks.” He said announcing the fatali- volunteer to go abroad any measures must sat- ties. He called the devas- but was denied the isfy the competing goals tation “unprecedented opportunity. It was peace of protecting public and extensive.” time and I was needed safety and the constitu- The fearsome Cat- more back home as a tional right to gun own- egory 4 storm slowed al- clerk who drew up the ership and seemed to most to a standstill as it orders for others to be cast fresh doubt on the shredded roofs, hurled sent over. merits of instituting cars and forced even res- I could not wait to more thorough back- President Donald Trump speaks at the Federal Emergency Management Agency cue crews to take shel- complete my two years ground checks for gun (FEMA), Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ter until the onslaught on active duty as a peace purchases. passed. time soldier. And I was Trump spoke troopers and fled. He shootings, but acknowl- Management Agency Officials said they happy that I was out shortly after the death shot more than 20 edged that that was un- headquarters in Wash- received a “tremen- before the Vietnam War toll in Saturday’s ram- people before he was likely. ington. dous” number of calls broke out. As a result, I page in West Texas rose killed by police. A motive “We want to sub- Trump’s commit- from people in flooded had done my time. I am to seven as authorities has not been released. stantially reduce the vio- ment to gun control has homes. A radio station grateful that I was not worked to understand The president said lent crime,” Trump said been in doubt ever since received more than drafted for this war. But, why a man pulled over it would be “wonderful at the top of a briefing 17 students and adults 2,000 distress messages, I sometimes feels guilty for a traffic infraction to say” he’d work to about Hurricane Dorian See POLICE, page 2 that I did not serve. opened fire on state “eliminate” mass at Federal Emergency See WAFFLED, pg 7 Page 2 ~ THE VILLAGER/September 6, 2019 THE COMMUNIQUÉ www.theaustinvillager.com Police tell Bahamians, “We simply cannot get to you.” Continued from page 1 that Dorian could gener- The water reached “catastrophic” and said strength. ees and vacationers including reports of ate a storm surge as high roofs and the tops of officials did not have in- The Bahamas archi- heading home on Labor a 5-month-old baby as 23 feet (7 meters). palm trees. One woman formation on what hap- pelago is no stranger to Day, Gov. Henry stranded on a roof and a Meanwhile in the filmed water lapping at pened on nearby cays. hurricanes. Homes are McMaster said. grandmother with six United States, the Na- the stairs of her home’s “We are in search-and- required to have metal “We can’t make ev- grandchildren who cut a tional Hurricane Center second floor. recovery mode. … Con- reinforcements for roof erybody happy, but we hole in a roof to escape extended watches and In Freeport, Dave tinue to pray for us.” beams to withstand believe we can keep ev- rising floodwaters. Other warnings across the Mackey recorded video A spokesman for winds into the upper lim- eryone alive,” the gover- reports involved a group Florida and Georgia showing water and float- Bahamas Power and its of a Category 4 hurri- nor said. of eight children and five coasts. Forecasters ex- ing debris surging Light told ZNS that there cane, and compliance is A few hours later, adults stranded on a high- pected Dorian to stay off around his house as the was a blackout in New generally tight for those Georgia’s governor, way and two storm shel- shore, but meteorologist wind shrieked outside. Providence, the who can afford it. Risks Brian Kemp, ordered ters that flooded. Daniel Brown cautioned “Our house is 15 archipelago’s most are higher in poorer mandatory evacuations The deaths in the that “only a small devia- feet up, and right now populous island. He said neighborhoods that have for that state’s Atlantic Bahamas came after a tion” could draw the where that water is is the company’s office in wooden homes in low-ly- coast, also starting at previous storm-related storm’s dangerous core about 8 feet. So we’re Abaco island was flat- ing areas.