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Texas Gulf Coast Press Association celebrated 75 years at its annual convention, May 16-18, in Galveston. Pictured above is a group shot of anniversary attendees. Photos by TPA’s Shawn Jones.

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Showing its age, the old newspa-per clipping has turned a pale shade of orange and is torn on the edges in a couple of places.

Arriving in the mail recently, the clipping was accompanied by a brief note from Carolyn Anderson of The Texas Mohair Weekly in Rocksprings.

“Found this photo in a box of old photos given to the newspaper,” she wrote.

“I think it is your mom & dad.”She was right.The clipping — a photo with a

cutline — is a newspaper announce-ment of my parents’ wedding in 1952 at the First Baptist Church of Mertzon.

Trimmed closely, the old clipping doesn’t include anything that indi-cates the name of the newspaper or the town in which it was published.

It could have been San Angelo, near where my mom was raised, or Alpine, where the 21-year-old new-lyweds were scheduled to return to college.

But I suspect it came from the Del Rio newspaper, given the proximity of that city to both Rocksprings and my dad’s hometown of Langtry.

I have no idea how it wound up in a box of photos given to The Texas Mohair Weekly.

On the newspaper margin above the photo is a penciled note, appar-ently written by the person who carefully cut the announcement out of the newspaper.

“Thought you would like to see this picture,” it says. “Rose Mary.”

Although written to someone else almost 61 years ago, the message reached out across time, almost as if it was written just for me.

What a treasure!I have seen the photo before —

maybe even a similar newspaper clipping — in my parents’ collection

of wedding memorabilia.Mom and dad marked their 60th

anniversary last fall and, God will-ing, will celebrate another year together this coming September.

And now, all these years after their wedding, a newspaper clipping from their big day winds up in the hands of their son.

To me, that speaks volumes about the importance of newspapers in the daily lives of our readers and our communities.

Someone years ago took the time to clip a wedding announcement out of a newspaper and send it to some-one else, perhaps a friend or family member.

That clipping was cherished enough that it was saved and even-tually tucked away in a box with other items.

Eventually it was rediscovered, and again was sent to someone who will long cherish and treasure it.

Pieces of the newspapers we pub-lish are receiving similar treatment every day, even today.

Life-changing events such as births, graduation ceremonies, wed-dings and deaths are regularly being recorded in local newspapers.

Those stories and photos are making their way into scrapbooks and other personal collections to be saved for years.

So are newspaper accounts of

many more-everyday events like basketball games, livestock shows and even local city council meet-ings.

Honor rolls, published letters to Santa Claus, and photos of Easter-egg hunts receive similar treatment.

Each is important, on a very per-sonal level, to someone.

A district judge serving four counties in our area subscribes to all of the newspapers in the dis-trict and regularly clips out items to send, with a handwritten note, to many of the people recognized in those newspapers.

All of those clippings are likely to be saved and preserved for years in the future.

At the same time, people are turn-ing to newspapers for information from years past.

We regularly receive inquiries from people looking for local news-paper accounts of long-ago events.

Just recently someone was seek-ing a published photo of triplets born in 1928.

Another person was looking for a story about a murder many years ago which may have prompted her ancestors, who witnessed it, to pack up and move to California.

The goal of newspapers generally is to inform our readers of events and activities affecting their lives, their neighbors and their communi-ties.

But in doing so, we’re also record-ing and preserving those events — and documenting them for history.

The stories, photos and even the advertisements we publish reach across the years.

And in today’s digital age they reach around the world.

Receiving a newspaper clipping can make someone’s day, even 60 years after the fact.

It certainly made mine!

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Q: Our groundwater conservation district recently adopted a media policy that (a) prohibits board members from answering direct questions from the media; (b) requires media to submit questions via email; and (c) allows the district to answer media questions col-lectively at its next meeting if it chooses to do so. At its next meeting, the board refused to answer my questions about water well contamination. The secre-tary/treasurer told me the board would answer my questions via correspon-dence. I put my request in writing and I am still waiting for a response. What options do I have? Should I contact the Texas Attorney General’s office?

A: If your complaint is about the way the district conducts its public meetings, Texas Open Meetings Act-related complaints should be presented to the county attorney or criminal dis-trict attorney, according to the Office of the Attorney General. If your com-plaint is about non-receipt of requested information, you may file a written

complaint with the AG’s Open Records Division. Include with your complaint a copy of your original request for information and any other support-ing documentation that may help

resolve the complaint. And meanwhile, you may want to check for reports of contamination in your county by contacting the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Q: During the public comment por-tion of a recent meeting of our school board, the chair informed a citizen who wanted to express support for a prin-cipal “to please respect the privacy of others and refrain from identifying stu-dents, employees or other community members by name.” Can the school board do that?

A: The Texas Open Meetings Act, Government Code Chapter 551, does not require a governmental body to have a public comment period. Whether or not it is the school board’s policy to have a public comment period, the open meet-ings law does not contemplate a restric-tion on freedom of speech. If someone is prevented from speaking as you have described, the newspaper can serve as the outlet by interviewing the thwarted speaker and the school board superin-tendent or school board president. Let the school official explain the district’s policy and publish what you learn.

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When the dust settles from an-other hard-fought legislative ses-sion, the people of Texas will have a clearer picture of current events in the Lone Star State, thanks to the hard work and determination of two Texas statesmen — one Re-publican, one Democrat.

Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, and Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, scored major trans-parency victories in the 83rd Leg-islature. Three of those victories will be particularly helpful in strengthening and clarifying the public’s right to complete and ac-curate information.

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Former Panhandle Press Associa-tion president and longtime area jour-nalist John Brooks of Castro County and Amarillo Globe-News columnist and longtime sports writer and editor Jon Mark Beilue were inducted into the PPA Hall of Fame at the 103rd an-nual Panhandle Press Convention in Amarillo in April.

John Brooks’ resume includes working at the Castro County News from 1967 to 1973, then from 1984 to 1987 and again from 1993 to 1997. He worked at the HSU Brand at Hardin-Simmons University from 1973 to 1974 and the Hereford Brand from 1987 to 1993 and rejoined the Hereford Brand staff in 2012. He was an active member of Panhandle Press Association from 1984 to 1997. He served on the board of the association from 1987 to 1993, in-cluding a term as president from 1992 to Jan. 10, 1993. Brooks has received many awards through the years, in-cluding a Personal School Bell Award in 1991 from the Texas State Teachers Association for education coverage in Hereford. He has received dozens of individual and staff awards from PPA and Texas Press Association. Brooks left the Hereford Brand in January 2012 due to health reasons, but he con-tinues to write a weekly column.

Beilue has covered the Texas Pan-handle in two major roles at the Ama-rillo Globe-News, first as sports editor and now as a popular, general colum-nist.

Beilue grew up in Groom and grad-uated from Texas Tech University. While sports editor of The University Daily at Tech in the 1970s, he cov-ered Southwest Conference athletics and interviewed such sports figures as basketball legend Bob Knight. At the Globe-News, Beilue worked as a sportswriter and assistant sports editor before serving as sports editor for 17 years. He also can be heard as a color man on area high school foot-ball radio broadcasts. Since 2006, he has written columns and news on is-

sues, trends and people on the front page and elsewhere in the newspaper, touching readers across the region with heartfelt observations and de-scriptions. He is a modern newspaper-man whose breadth of knowledge also provides a link to the area’s past.

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meager resources to defend himself against a SLAPP suit filed by a deep-pocketed Goliath.

Unfortunately, an appeals court ruled that the 2011 law did not include certain appeal rights for David. If a judge ruled against David’s motion to dismiss Goliath’s suit early in the process, David could very quickly find himself bankrupted by the expensive discovery process following that de-nial.

The legal tweak pushed through the 2013 session by Hunter and Ellis makes it crystal clear that David does, indeed, have a right to appeal, thereby stop-ping the discovery process until the motion is heard on appeal. It is a major victory for those who believe the qual-ity of justice shouldn’t be determined by the depth of one’s pocketbook.

Another measure championed by Ellis and Hunter makes it clear that a government official’s use of his private electronic device for messages regard-ing public business does not allow him to hide those messages from public scrutiny.

In recent years, a number of local of-ficials across Texas have maintained that their government-related messag-es are no business of the public so long as the official uses his private device to send or receive them. Texas attor-neys general have consistently ruled against that strained and arrogant line of reasoning, but officials continue to try to evade Texas’ open records laws anyway.

Once signed by the governor, the

law will establish in black and white that citizens do indeed have the right to access these electronic messages about the public’s business. There should be no doubt going forward that if a public official is discussing public business in cyberspace, those mes-sages are, yes, public — regardless of whether they’re transmitted on the official’s government computer or his personal e-tablet.

The third bill enhances public dis-course by establishing clear and fair rules for prompt corrections by pub-lishers. Until now, there was no estab-lished legal framework for a citizen to request a correction, nor were there guidelines for publishers to follow in addressing that request. The new law establishes clear processes and deadlines, which will result in the re-cord being corrected quickly and fully when a mistake is made.

None of these important legal ad-vances would have happened without the hard work and legislative prowess of Hunter and Ellis. For decades the two veteran lawmakers have fought hard — often against daunting opposi-tion — to expand and protect citizens’ access to government information and journalists’ right to cover the complex issues that affect our daily lives.

The 83rd Legislative Session of the Texas Legislature saw these two vet-eran legislators from different par-ties — men who do not consider the First Amendment a partisan issue — at the top of their game. And because they were at the top of their game, the citizens of Texas can see more clearly now.

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Division 21. Fredericksburg Standard– Radio Post2. Pleasanton Express3. Port Arkansas South Jetty

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diSPlAy AdverTiSiNgDivision 11. Goldthwaite Eagle2. The Hometown Press3. Flatonia ArgusHM. Shiner Gazette and Gonzales Cannon

Division 2 1. Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post2. Port Aransas South Jetty3. Pleasanton Express

Division 31. The Highlander2. Gonzales Inquirer3. The Bastrop Advertiser

SPeCiAl SeCTioNDivision 11. Goldthwaite Eagle2. Shiner Gazette3. Gonzales CannonHM. Cameron Herald andSmithville Times

Division 21. Frio Nueces Current2. Rockdale Reporter3. Port Aransas South Jetty

Division 31. The Bastrop Advertiser2. Gonzales Inquirer 3. Polk County Enterprise

liFeSTyle PAgeSDivison 1 1. Hays Free Press2. Cameron Herald3. Schulenburg StickerHM. Pfl ugerville Pfl ag

Division 2 1. Rockdale Reporter 2. Pleasanton Express3. Fredericksburg Standard- Radio Post

Division 31. El Campo Leader-News2. Uvalde Leader-News3. Lampasas Dispatch Record

HeAdliNe wriTiNgDivision 11. Hays Free Press2. Smithville Times3. Westlake Picayune

Division 21. Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post2. Port Aransas South Jetty3. Karnes Countywide

Division 31. Copperas Cove Leader-Press 2. Kingsville Record and Bishop News3. Wharton Journal Spectator

PAge deSigNDivision 11. Hays Free Press2. Goliad Advance-Guard3. Westlake Picayune

Division 21. Rockdale Reporter2. Pleasanton Express3. Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post

Division 31. Uvalde Leader-News2. The Bastrop Advertiser 3. The Highlander

S. griFFiN SiNger geNerAl exCelleNCe AwArdDivision 1

1. Gonzales Cannon2. Hays Free Press 3. Bandera Bulletin

Division 21. Port Aransas South 2. Pleasanton Express 3. Fredericksburg Standard

Division 31. Uvalde Leader-News 2. Gonzales Inquirer3. The Highlander

Fred ANd JoyCe lATCHAm CommuNiTy ServiCe AwArd 1. Pleasanton ExpressHM. Beeville Bee Picayune ,Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post

JourNAliST oF THe yeArDivison 11. Hays Free Press – Kim HilsenbeckHM. Westlake Picayune – Dane AndersonGoliad Advance Guard – Coy Slavik

Division 21. Port Aransas South Jetty -

Dan Parker2. Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post - Matt Ward3. Frio-Nueces Current - Marc Robertson

Division 31. Lampasas Dispatch Record – David Lowe2. Gonzales Inquirer – Lynn Adams3. Round Rock Leader – Brad Stutzman

SweePSTAkeSDivision 11. Hays Free Press2. Gonzales Cannon3. Goldthwaite Eagle

Division 21. Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post2. Port Aransas South Jetty3. Rockdale Reporter

Division 31. 480 points – Gonzales Inquirer2. 385 points – El Campo Leader-News3. 370 points – Uvalde Leader-News

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