New editor and publisher of The Kingsville Record
Press Release:
Terence Fitzwater has been named the new editor and publisher of The Kingsville Record as part of the ongoing process to rebuild the more than century-old community newspaper, the Kingsville Area Industrial Development Foundation said in a statement.
Fitzwater has more than three decades in the newspaper industry, including tenures with USA Today and most recently as editor and publisher of the Gonzales Inquirer. He begins in his new role in Kingsville on April 6.
Fitzwater takes over the helm of The Kingsville Record from Tim Acosta, who has spent the past few months helping to stabilize the newspaper after its near closure in early December. Acosta is a resident of Kingsville and graduate of Texas A&M University-Kingsville. His last day with The Kingsville Record is March 27.
“It became apparent to me several weeks ago that the newspaper was in need of a new type of leadership who could help carry it through the next phase of its recovery process,” Acosta said in a statement. “After expressing this to the foundation leadership, the search began for some-one who fit that mold, and I believe they have found just the man for the job in Terence Fitzwa-ter.”
“The newspaper is going through a difficult time – as is each of the communities we cover – with concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. Businesses have been devastated and peo-ple are worried about their families,” Acosta continued. “While our newspaper has been im-pacted financially from the crisis, it is our duty to continue to provide our communities with im-portant information that affects them and to hold government accountable for their actions. I have no doubt The Kingsville Record will continue that mission moving forward.”
“We are excited about Terry joining the team and expect great things from him in the future,” said Brad Womack, president of the Kingsville Area Industrial Development Foundation. “I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincerest gratitude to Tim Acosta for his tremendous contributions to the Kingsville Record. He came to us in our greatest time of need and stabilized the Kingsville Record during a very tumultuous time.”
About The Kingsville Record
The Kingsville Record got its start on Aug. 19, 1906, two years after the City of Kingsville was founded. That was when the first edition of a four-page weekly newspaper, the Gulf Coast Record, was published.
The Gulf Coast Record was later changed to the Kingsville Publishing Company, which moved
into a new building on Fifth Street in mid-1924 after a fire demolished the newspaper’s original office on Sixth Street. The publishing company later became a wholly owned subsidiary of King Ranch Inc. in 1953. In 1964, the publishing company purchased the Bishop News, a smaller weekly newspaper serving the nearby town of Bishop.
The names of the two community newspapers were briefly merged into the Kingsville-Bishop Record-News before ultimately being revised to the Kingsville Record and Bishop News. In 2020, the name was reverted to The Kingsville Record as it transitioned to new ownership, but maintained the same coverage areas.
The Kingsville Record publishes once a week on Thursdays. It operates under the banner of the non-profit Kingsville Area Industrial Development Foundation.
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Presbyterian Pan American School clarifies its response to the Coronavirus testing site location.
Press Release
March 19, 2020
Interim President Mr. Kim Warner issued a statement this afternoon intended to put recent Kleberg County decisions in some perspective. “Facing an unprecedented situation, the school and the County Commissioners attempted to navigate the need for testing against the need to protect students and the staff at this residential setting.
While the school is very grateful for the sharing use of the FEMA dome designed for emergency use by the public, this health-imposed situation was different. With only a one or two day notice,the ability to get students home to ten different countries was just not possible. Border access and airline schedules simply do not adjust to such a quick decision.”Speaking on behalf of the approximately 130 residential high school students under her responsibility, the Principal, Ellie Perez,expressed clear concern for student and residential staff health and safety.“It is one thing to remove the kids in quick fashion when a storm is on the horizon, but this was a hidden enemy with deadly and unknown ability to transfer.
While we never said we wouldn’t accommodate the County’s request to use the FEMA dome on our campus, and we are appreciative of TAMUK’s willingness to assist with housing for our students and staff living on campus, we didn’t feel this option provided for adequate supervision of our young teenagers in a setting with college-age students. I know the Judge and County Commissioners would never make a decision that endangered even one child -we simply did not have time to implement their decision.”
“Pan Am is very appreciative of the decision that has been made by Kleberg County to move the testing facility to Dick Kleberg Park,” said Mr. Warner.
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Primary Election Day Kleberg County Polling Places - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Polling Locations on Election Day will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
For more information visit the Kleberg County Election page.
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For more information visit the Kleberg County Election page.
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Polling Location
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Polling Address
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11
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Wild Horse Mall
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1601 S. Hwy 77, Kingsville
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12
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Kleberg County Precinct 1 Building
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1910 E. Trant
Rd, Kingsville
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13, 14
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Coastal Bend Fellowship Church Hall
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1500 E. Caesar, Kingsville
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21
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Kleberg Elementary School
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900 N. 6 Street at Nettie Ave.,
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22
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Kleberg County Precinct 2 Building
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620 N. 3rd Street
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23
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University Baptist Church - Rear
Building
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1324 N. Armstrong, Kingsville
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24
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Santa Gertrudis School
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803 Santa Rosa, Kingsville
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31
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Knights of Columbus Hall Council 3389
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320 Gen. Cavazos,
Kingsville
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32
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St. Paul’s AME Church
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529 W. Warren, Kingsville
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33, 34
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Riviera County
Building
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103 N. 7th St, Riviera
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35
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Ricardo Senior Center
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109 N. Nix St, Ricardo
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41, 42
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Gillett Intermediate School
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1007 N. 17th,
Kingsville
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43
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Early Voting Annex Office
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720 E. King at 12th, Kingsville
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44
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KISD Administration Bldg. - Rear
Building
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207 N. 3rd St, Kingsville
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45
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St. Martin’s Church Parish Hall
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504 E Ella, Kingsville
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TEXAS A&M-KINGSVILLE - Health and Kinesiology Department
KINGSVILLE (Feb. 25, 2020) — Representatives from the health and kinesiology department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville attended the annual meeting of the Texas Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (Texas ACSM) and brought home their share of awards.
Alyssa Fick, a senior exercise science/pre-physical therapy student from Corpus Christi, won the Undergraduate Scholar Award as the top undergraduate exercise science student in Texas. Fick also is the Exercise Science Major of the Year for the department of health and kinesiology and the American Kinesiology Association Undergraduate Scholar. She will be entering the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in fall 2020.
This is the sixth time a Texas A&M-Kingsville student has won this prestigious award since 2010. Dyana Bullinger won in 2010; Ricky Balderas in 2011; Samantha Cantu in 2015; Joel Perez in 2016; and Meagan Cantu in 2017.
No other university in Texas has had their students receive this award more times than Texas A&M-Kingville.
Fick was not the only winner at the Texas ACSM meeting. The Texas A&M-Kingsville Student Bowl team placed third for the second year in a row. And for the second year in row, the team of Javelinas finished higher than any other team from the Texas A&M University System.
Members of the team are Isabel Soto; Kadi Shipman; Alyssa Fick, captain; Blessing Tamez, alternate; and Jessica Hinojosa, alternate.
The Texas ACSM Student Bowl is an annual event where teams of undergraduates from universities all over the state compete in an academic quiz bowl devoted to exercise science and sports medicine topics.
A&M-Kingsville students were not the only ones coming home with honors. Dr. Robert Kowalsky, assistant professor and pre-physical therapy program coordinator, was elected to the Board of Directors of the organization by the membership. He will serve a three-year term as a non-medical representative.
About Texas Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (Texas ACSM)
Texas ACSM is one of 12 regional chapters of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). ACSM is the largest exercise science and sports medicine professional society in the world with over 50,000 members. Its members are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of the exercise sciences and sports medicine.
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Alyssa Fick, a senior exercise science/pre-physical therapy student from Corpus Christi, won the Undergraduate Scholar Award as the top undergraduate exercise science student in Texas. Fick also is the Exercise Science Major of the Year for the department of health and kinesiology and the American Kinesiology Association Undergraduate Scholar. She will be entering the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in fall 2020.
This is the sixth time a Texas A&M-Kingsville student has won this prestigious award since 2010. Dyana Bullinger won in 2010; Ricky Balderas in 2011; Samantha Cantu in 2015; Joel Perez in 2016; and Meagan Cantu in 2017.
No other university in Texas has had their students receive this award more times than Texas A&M-Kingville.
Fick was not the only winner at the Texas ACSM meeting. The Texas A&M-Kingsville Student Bowl team placed third for the second year in a row. And for the second year in row, the team of Javelinas finished higher than any other team from the Texas A&M University System.
Members of the team are Isabel Soto; Kadi Shipman; Alyssa Fick, captain; Blessing Tamez, alternate; and Jessica Hinojosa, alternate.
The Texas ACSM Student Bowl is an annual event where teams of undergraduates from universities all over the state compete in an academic quiz bowl devoted to exercise science and sports medicine topics.
A&M-Kingsville students were not the only ones coming home with honors. Dr. Robert Kowalsky, assistant professor and pre-physical therapy program coordinator, was elected to the Board of Directors of the organization by the membership. He will serve a three-year term as a non-medical representative.
About Texas Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (Texas ACSM)
Texas ACSM is one of 12 regional chapters of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). ACSM is the largest exercise science and sports medicine professional society in the world with over 50,000 members. Its members are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of the exercise sciences and sports medicine.
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Early Voting Location - Kleberg County
Early Voting for Kleberg County starts today.
For more information go to Kleberg County Election Office.
Kleberg County Early Voting Annex Office
(Tuesday, February 18th - Friday, February 28th)
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: 720 E. King at 12th, Kingsville
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER SERGIO TINOCO TO VISIT AREA GEARUP STUDENTS AT H.M. KING HIGH SCHOOL
Texas A&M University-Kingsville's Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) students will listen to Sergio Tinoco, author of Proud American: The Migrant, Soldier and Agent. He will speak about his struggles as a young migrant worker and how he strives get an education. The GEAR UP program is designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in post secondary education.
GEAR UP provides six-year grants to states and partnerships to provide services at high poverty middle and high schools. Currently, GEAR UP is serving class of 2020 and 2021 at the following three schools: Mary Carroll High School, H.M. King High School, and Roy Miller High School.
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GEAR UP provides six-year grants to states and partnerships to provide services at high poverty middle and high schools. Currently, GEAR UP is serving class of 2020 and 2021 at the following three schools: Mary Carroll High School, H.M. King High School, and Roy Miller High School.
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020
9:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
H.M. King High School
2210 Brahma Blvd.
Kingsville, TX 78363
ABOUT SERGIO TINOCO Tinoco started his journey to America as a poor migrant worker of Mexican descent, having to pick crops for a living at the age of seven. To break from the family cycle of farm labor and depending on government welfare programs, he joined the United States Army and served 10 years on active duty. He now serves as a Border Patrol agent and writes columns for Homeland Security Today about conditions, challenges and humanity of the situation on the southwest border. Return to South Texas Community News
Navy to begin testing for private drinking water wells
Press Release:
The Navy is seeking to sample private drinking water wells in designated areas near Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi, Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF) Waldron, and NAS Kingsville, Texas. These free tests are to determine whether certain chemicals used by the Navy in its activities on base have migrated through groundwater to private drinking water wells at levels greater than U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) health advisory levels.
The Navy will be holding Open House events, to inform the community of the sampling program and respond to questions from the public, as follows:
NAS Corpus Christi and NOLF Waldron
February 25 and 26, 2020 between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
New Life Church, South Campus
1241 Flour Bluff Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas 78418
NAS Kingsville
February 27, 2020 between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Elks Lodge
1404 South 6th Street, Kingsville, Texas 78363
Also on hand at the Open House events and working in partnership with the Navy are representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Department of State Health Services, the City of Corpus Christi and the City of Kingsville.
In May 2016, the EPA issued lifetime health advisory levels for two chemicals: perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The EPA’s health advisory level for lifetime exposure is 70 parts per trillion (ppt) for PFOS and 70 ppt for PFOA. When both PFOS and PFOA are found in drinking water, the combined concentrations should not exceed 70 ppt. Although these health advisory levels are not enforceable regulatory standards, the Navy is seeking to identify private wells that have been impacted at levels greater than the lifetime health advisory levels.
PFOS and PFOA (two types of a class of chemicals collectively referred to as PFAS) are man-made chemicals persistent in the environment. PFAS has been used since the 1950s in products that resist heat, stains, grease and water. It has been used in a variety of products and substances such as non-stick cookware, food packaging such as microwaveable popcorn bags, and water-resistant textiles and sprays used to treat carpets and fabrics. The most common historical Navy use of these chemicals has been through the firefighting agent, aqueous film forming foam (AFFF).
More information about the Navy’s PFAS initiative and drinking water testing program at NAS Corpus Christi and NOLF Waldron may be found online at: https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nas_corpus_christi.html or by contacting the Public Affairs Office at 361-961-2674 or email at nascc-pao@navy.mil.
More information about the Navy’s PFAS initiative and drinking water testing at NAS Kingsville may be found online at: https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nas_kingville.html or by contacting the Public Affairs Office at (361) 516-6500 or email kngv-pao@navy.mil.
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GEOPHYSICS LECTURE
PRESS RELEASE:
KINGSVILLE (February 3, 2020) — The 2020 1Q/2Q Distinguished Lecturer from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Dr. Sergey Fomel, will be making a stop at Texas A&M University-Kingsville with his presentation Automating Seismic Data Analysis and Interpretation. Fomel will present his lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, at Peacock Auditorium in the Biology and Earth Sciences Building. “Recent developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning can automate different tasks in data analysis,” he said. “I will discuss the quest for automation by tracking the development of automatic picking algorithms, from velocity picking in seismic processing to horizon picking in seismic interpretation. We will search the limits of automation to discover the distinguishing qualities that separate human geophysicists from machine.”
About Dr. Sergey Fomel
Fomel is the Wallace E. Pratt Professor of Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin and the director of the Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology (TCCS) in Austin. At UT Austin, he is affiliated with the Bureau of Economic Geology, the department of geological sciences and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. He received his doctorate in geophysics from Stanford University. For his contributions to exploration geophysics, he was been recognized with a number of professional awards including SEG’s J. Clarence Karcher Award in 2001 and the EAGE Conrad Schlumberger Award in 2011. Fomel has served SEG in different roles including most recently, vice president of publications. He also serves as the project manager for Madagascar, an open-source software project for geophysical data analysis.
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KINGSVILLE (February 3, 2020) — The 2020 1Q/2Q Distinguished Lecturer from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Dr. Sergey Fomel, will be making a stop at Texas A&M University-Kingsville with his presentation Automating Seismic Data Analysis and Interpretation. Fomel will present his lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, at Peacock Auditorium in the Biology and Earth Sciences Building. “Recent developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning can automate different tasks in data analysis,” he said. “I will discuss the quest for automation by tracking the development of automatic picking algorithms, from velocity picking in seismic processing to horizon picking in seismic interpretation. We will search the limits of automation to discover the distinguishing qualities that separate human geophysicists from machine.”
About Dr. Sergey Fomel
Fomel is the Wallace E. Pratt Professor of Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin and the director of the Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology (TCCS) in Austin. At UT Austin, he is affiliated with the Bureau of Economic Geology, the department of geological sciences and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. He received his doctorate in geophysics from Stanford University. For his contributions to exploration geophysics, he was been recognized with a number of professional awards including SEG’s J. Clarence Karcher Award in 2001 and the EAGE Conrad Schlumberger Award in 2011. Fomel has served SEG in different roles including most recently, vice president of publications. He also serves as the project manager for Madagascar, an open-source software project for geophysical data analysis.
PRESS RELEASE - Annual anti-terrorism force protection exercise
PRESS RELEASE:
NAS KINGSVILLE – Naval Air Station Kingsville will participate in an annual anti-terrorism force protection exercise Feb. 3-14.
Exercise Citadel Shield/Solid Curtain 2020 is conducted by Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Commander, Navy Installations Command on all Navy installations in the continental U.S.
The exercise is a regularly scheduled event designed to enhance the readiness of Navy security forces and ensure seamless interoperability among the commands, other services and agency partners. It is not in response to any specific threat.
“This annual exercise uses realistic training scenarios to ensure U.S. Navy security forces maintain a high-level of readiness to respond to changing and dynamic events,” said Commanding Officer Capt. Erik Spitzer.
The captain continued that the air station has had advanced coordination with local law enforcement and first responders, and that measures are in place to minimize disruptions to the community and to normal base operations.
“There may be times when the exercise causes increased traffic around the air station or delays in base access,” said Spitzer. “Residents in the immediate vicinity of the air station may also see or hear security activities associated with the exercise.”
Patients of the Branch Health Clinic should anticipate delays entering the air station and plan accordingly in order to arrive on time for scheduled appointments. Additionally, at some point during the two-week exercise, entry to the clinic will be routed through the Flag Pole/Quarterdeck entrance, require 100% ID checks, and limit the disability parking to the parking lot with the blue ramp. Patients requiring wheelchair assistance into the building should call the Quarterdeck at 361-516-6160 upon arrival.
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