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   Handwashing is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your family from getting sick. 
   Learn when and how you should wash your hands to stay healthy. 
   You can help yourself and your loved ones stay healthy by washing your hands often, especially during these key times when you are likely to get and spread germs:
   Before, during, and after preparing food
   Before eating food
   Before and after caring for someone at home who is sick with vomiting or diarrhea
   Before and after treating a cut or wound
   After using the toilet
   After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has used the toilet
   After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
   After touching an animal, animal feed, or animal waste
   After handling pet food or pet treats
   After touching garbage
   Follow Five Steps to Wash Your Hands the Right Way

   Bay City police are investigating deadly conduct in connection with shots fired at a house in the 1500 block of Cottonwood early Saturday morning, March 14. 
   Officers were initially sent to the 2400 block of 12th Street on a report of shots fired at about 5 a.m. Saturday. 
   An officer in the area was flagged down and notified that the shots came from the 1500 block of Cottonwood.  Dispatch confirmed a caller reported their house had been shot at, and they were in the 1500 block of Cottonwood. 
   At the time, a check of the residence did not reveal any bullet holes and no one in the house was hurt, reports show. 
   Later that morning, officers were called back out to the residence in reference to bullet holes located on a fence as well as a residence.   
   Detectives were called to the scene to investigate the deadly conduct.   
   Anyone with information can call Detective Robert Pierce at 245-8500. 

   Karly Brown took her now-accustomed place showing her grand champion steer at the Matagorda County Fair & Livestock Show auction Saturday, March 6. 
   This is, after all, the fourth straight year the Van Vleck Community 4-H member has shown either the grand champion or reserve grand champion at the show. 
   She has shown the top show animal in the 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020 MCFLA auctions. 
   Karly’s sister Kenzie won the title in 2017 and Van Vleck’s Jenna Schultz showed the 2016 grand champion. 
   This year, Karly’s grand champion steer fetched a $10,000 purchase price at the auction - the same price buyers paid for her 2019 grand champion steer.  
   Shelby Sliva, with Tidehaven FFA, showed the reserve grand champion this year. Her steer sold for $8,500. 
   Saturday’s 186 lots sold for $473,250, for an average price of $2,544, compared to the 2019 auction total of $497,600 for 220 animals, for an average price of $2,261. 

   Bay City ISD has two new job openings to fill before next year; head football coach and Athletic Director as of Feb. 28.
   Former head Blackcat football coach and athletic director (AD) Patrick Matthews bid farewell to the district Feb. 27.
   Citing an amicable spit from the district, Matthews has returned to Houston.
   “We currently have 23 applicants for head football coach and 11 for athletic director,” said BCISD Superintendent Dr. Marshall Scott, III.
   The district has appointed Bryan Hood as the interim athletic director until a permanent one is hired.  
   Hood coaches track and defense players in football and teaches physics, chemistry and robotics.
   “The positions were posted separately to give additional hiring and contractual options,” said Scott.

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   If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, check out these beachside events for family-friendly fun.
   The Sargent Area Lions Club hosts the annual Sargent Jubilee from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Lions Club Mike Leebron Memorial Park, 716 CR 298.
   The jubilee is a community celebration of food, rides, games and activities for all ages. Wristbands for games are $10 per person. This year will have shuttles from your car to the event.

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   Jordan Rickaway was on familiar ground last week – the Matagorda County Fairgrounds arena. 
   The former Tidehaven High School standout interviewed the youngsters in the Matagorda County Fair & Livestock Association (MCFLA) Bucket Calf competition Friday, March 6. 
   Rickaway once was among the Bucket Calf participants in an event that guides kids through their first glimpse of showing cattle – in their case calves. 
   “I grew up showing steers here at MCFLA with a bucket calf just as many of these young people have,” Rickaway said in her speech to those attending the event. 
   Tidehaven’s valedictorian, student council president, Tidehaven FFA president and the 2016 Fair Queen, Rickaway is a senior Public Health major at the University of Texas in Austin and will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in May.  

   EDITOR’S NOTE: The following narrative was given when Danny Andel received the Cattleman of the Year Award from the Matagorda County Cattlemen’s Association.  
       
   Our Cattleman of the Year began his career as a cowboy at the age of seven helping his father on Nielson Ranch near Cedar Lane.  
   Since then his love of working cattle has afforded him the chance to ride horse back more days than not. 
    Danny was a member of 4-H and Van Vleck FFA and showed animals at the Matagorda County Fair receiving two Grand Champions in the Brahman Crossbred division.  
   After high school, he worked a period time at A/P Ranch before moving to Dayton, Texas where he worked for the largest landholder in Harris County, Seaberg Ranch, a Registered Brahman and Commercial cattle operation.  
   While in Dayton, Danny met and married his wife Lois.