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12/20/2025

Abbott Endorses Leo-Wilson
By Ruth Ann Ruiz
The Post Newspaper Features Editor
To a full house at the Lasker Inn on Tuesday in Galveston, Governor Greg Abbott gave a public endorsement of Representative Terri Leo-Wilson in her quest for another term as representative for Texas House District 23.
“I endorse and support Teri Leo-Wilson,” Abbott said. “Texas is a better state because of Terri.”
Leo-Wilson was first sworn in to represent the people of District 23 on January 10, 2023.
During her tenure, Rep. Leo Wilson has focused on education, local industry and community development. As a former educator, she supported historic school funding that included an 8.5-billion-dollar investment in public education and the largest teacher pay raise in Texas history. She also championed Education Savings Accounts.
As explained by the Associated Press Stylebook, these accounts are "[G]overnment-authorized accounts into which public funds are deposited for families who withdraw their children from public school. They can be used for private-school tuition, online learning tutoring or approved higher education expenses."
Leo-Wilson also has supported legislation pertaining to parental rights and instructional materials.
She has worked to strengthen Galveston's economy by supporting the Texas A&M Maritime Academy, advocating for the official Juneteenth Museum, and passing SB 823 to protect the Gulf Coast sh*****ng industry through accurate labeling requirements. In addition, her concurrent resolutions designated Galveston as the official Juneteenth Capital and Mardi Gras Capital of Texas.
Further achievements include preserving aerobic septic systems on the Bolivar Peninsula, streamlining disaster recovery funding, and securing long-term water-supply and flood-control support. Galveston County has also received substantial opioid settlement funds totaling more than 756,000 dollars since 2023 for drug-use prevention and addiction treatment programs.
"Our work for Galveston is never finished. I am committed to honoring the trust this community has placed in me. I am proud to stand before the people of Galveston with a record of delivering on the promises I made,” Leo-Wilson said. "This job is about keeping your word, fighting for your community and producing results that improve lives."
She and her husband, Dave, live in Galveston. They have five children and six grandchildren. She had a 38-year career in education as a teacher of visually impaired students and as a case manager and department head of middle school special education students. She also served on the State Board of Education for ten years.

12/20/2025

A Conversation with Consul General Gunther Sales: On Autism, Inclusion, and Filipino Compassion
By Ruth Ann Ruiz
The Post Newspaper Features Editor
Everyone has a story to tell, and it is my job as a features editor to listen and ask questions. But my interview with Gunther Emil M. Sales. Consul General of the Philippines started off with the Consul General interviewing me. In fact, it felt like I was sitting with a minister who wanted to know how he could help me.
As the conversation went on for about 20 minutes, I realized I needed to switch it into an interview. But that switch just didn’t happen. In fact, our time together turned into a two-way conversation between me, the journalist, and Sales, the diplomat. I learned from Sales that Texas was once called Nuevas Filipinas.
Texas and the Philippines share a similar history in that both were once colonized by Spain and this is the reason for the temporary name of Nuevas Filipinas for parts of the area that we know as Texas.
I learned a lot more from Sales, such as about the cross he and his wife, Joanna carry. And I also learned that in Sales' experience, Americans are especially inclusive of people with special needs.
Sales was on assignment at the Philippine embassy in Washington D.C. from 2014-2021. While his family was living in Washington D.C., they learned of a cross they would be carrying for the rest of their lives.
Their second son was two years old, and they noticed that he was no longer maintaining eye contact with them. They sought out answers. It was an American doctor who diagnosed their son with autism.
“Our son Scott is autistic nonverbal,” Sales explained.
Sales described a moment when his son was being very noisy in their apartment elevator while they were living in Washington. As a father, he felt the need to apologize to the other person in the elevator. The response he received surprised him.
“The man said, ‘Why are you sorry?’"
Sales and his wife grew to learn the American culture is tolerant and accepting of people who are different.
“There is hardly any prejudice against people with special needs. People are accepting and they understand," Sales said. "There is a very inclusive culture here.”
Because their child has autism, they have found American schools and therapy to be very beneficial for their family.
Sales also expressed comfort with Americans' use of the term "special needs students" versus terms that have been used in the past.
Their oldest child, Samuel, is 14, and he does not have autism. Both sons are currently attending public schools in Houston.
Going further into the conversation with Sales, I learned he was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His father worked with the Philippine foreign service. As a child, he lived in Korea, London and in his family home in Manila.
It was while his father was working in Manila that Sales decided he was not going to move again, at least until he entered his own career. He elected to stay behind in Manila with his older brother at the family home rather than travel to his father’s next work assignment.
After completing high school, he entered university and began pursuing a degree in economics. It was at this point that I began to understand why speaking with him felt so comfortable. He attended Ateneo De Manilla University, which is a private Catholic college established by Jesuits in 1859.
It was his university education that had contributed to my feeling like I was with a friend or a minister. He described several times the impact of a priest who told him that every day one should be sure to make another person feel better about themselves.
As part his heartfelt commitment to supporting his fellow Filipinos, he attends as many Philippine celebrations and events as he can fit into his schedule as consul general
Upon arrival in Houston, Sales realized he needed to make the Filipino nurses of Houston feel better about themselves. He worked with Houston’s mayor John Whitmire’s office to officially honor nurses serving in Houston who come from the Philippines.
During National Nursing Week, Whitmire officially proclaimed May 13 as Filipino Nurses Day in Houston.
Filipino nurses play a vital role in serving the massive medical infrastructure of Houston and the surrounding regions. It is estimated that one in every 20 registered nurses in the United States was trained in the Philippines.
Sales shared with me that the Philippine culture tends to be a caring and nurturing culture which lends itself very well to developing nurses who are committed to compassionate nursing care.

Beyond nursing, Sales listed many other professions that Philippines serve in. According to Sales, there are about 80,000 Filipinos living in Houston and 280,000 in all of Texas.
The Philippines is a nation formed of 7,000-plus islands and, for a brief period, the island nation was a colony of the United States. English is spoken by almost all Filipinos. The official language is Filipino, a standardized version of Tagalog, and Spanish is also spoken, dating back to when Spain colonized the island nation. There are at least 300 other dialects or languages spoken.
Our conversation/interview lasted nearly three hours. In the end, I left feeling like I had just sat and chatted with a friend. Possibly it is because of the friendly nature of the Filipino culture.

12/20/2025

Galveston County Republican Women Celebrate Bigs, Littles and Brenda Weber
By Ruth Ann Ruiz
The Post Newspaper Features Editor
The Galveston County Republican Women (GCRW) held their annual swearing-in of new officers in Galveston on Wednesday. The organization also honored Brenda Weber with its Women of Distinction Award. Its monthly meeting included a guest speaker from Big Brothers Big Sisters Gulf Coast.
Big Sister Shelly Teinert and her Little Sister Zaria were front and center on stage talking about what it means to be a duo.
“We sing and dance and do girls' stuff,” Zaria said. With some prompting from her Big Sister she added, “We talk about grades and college.”
Zaria wants to be a teacher when she grows up, and for now, she is delighted to have a Big Sister to do fun things with.
Her Big Sister is glad to be able to support Zaria on her life journey.
GCRW presented a check for $1,500 to Big Brothers Big Sisters Gulf Coast.

12/19/2025

Santa came early this year at the Texas City Museum-Now through January 10th experience the joy of holidays past!

🕰️Tuesday-Saturdays 10am-4pm
🎄December 23rd- last free day of 2025!

Note: the Texas City Museum will be CLOSED December 24th and 25th and January 1st for the Christmas and New Years Holidays

12/18/2025

GALVESTON COUNTY: SH 146 southbound FM 519 to SH 3 in the Texas City area crews will be making asphalt repairs until 4pm today. A flagging operation will be in place. Be drive carefully through the work zone.

12/18/2025

🐩We will be hosting no-appointment-necessary, low-cost pet vaccination clinics on Wednesday, December 17th from 2:30-4:30pm and Friday, December 19th, from 12-3pm.
🐾These events are open to residents of any city and will include pet microchipping and county registration.
🐈Microchipping will be available for both cats and dogs.
🦴County regulations require pet owners who live in the municipalities served by the ARC (Bayou Vista, Clear Lake Shores, Hitchcock, Kemah, La Marque, Santa Fe, Texas City, Tiki Island, and unincorporated Galveston County) to register their pets.
**For Heartworm Prevention, we carry Iverhart Chewable
***For Flea and Tick Prevention, we carry Monthly Vectra 3-D Topical
****We DO NOT provide any written prescriptions****

12/16/2025

Texas Leads Bold Push to Build “The Gate" — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Texas General Land Office, and Gulf Coast Protection District Unite to Advance Nation’s Largest Coastal Protection Project

AUSTIN, TX — The Gulf Coast Protection District (GCPD), in partnership with the Texas General Land Office (GLO), is proud to announce the approval of two engineering design contracts that will advance the largest coastal protection effort in U.S. history— the Coastal Texas Project.
These contracts mark a significant milestone in moving this historic federal initiative toward construction.
“Everything is bigger in Texas – including the Coastal Texas Project, which is the largest coastal resiliency undertaking in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers history that will feature the largest barrier gate system in the world. We can no longer wait to implement this long-term resiliency strategy, aimed at safeguarding the largest port and petrochemical complex in the nation,” said GLO Commissioner, Dawn Buckingham, M.D. “The State of Texas has appropriated nearly $1 billion to the Gulf Coast Protection District to advance projects offering multiple lines of defense to reduce the risk of coastal storm surges. With President Trump leading the way, I am confident our federal leaders will follow suit and fully fund the Coastal Texas Project, ensuring our national assets are protected from the threat of devastating storms.”
The Coastal Texas Project
The Galveston Bay Barrier System, also known locally as the “Ike Dike,” is the largest element of the broader Coastal Texas Project, accounting for 85 percent of the $35 billion authorized cost. “The Gate,” a historic federal initiative that will serve as the largest flood gate system in the world, and the Beaches and Dunes features are the first two components of the Galveston Bay Barrier System to move into design.
Jacobs has been awarded the engineering design of The Gate (Bolivar Roads Gate System), located along a two-mile-wide waterway between Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. While HDR has been awarded engineering design of Beaches and Dunes (Bolivar and West Galveston Beach and Dune System), a key ecosystem restoration feature designed to strengthen natural coastal barriers along the Bolivar Peninsula and West Galveston Island.
“These contracts are important because they move two major features of the Coastal Texas Project into design. I am proud to work with incredible leaders, like Commissioner Buckingham and President Trump’s administration in Washington to progress this project. Once designed, we can finally realize the full magnitude of these ideas and further engage local communities with details, not concepts,” said Coalter Baker, Executive Director, Gulf Coast Protection District.
For more information, visit the GCPD website by clicking the button below:

Gulf Coast Protection District Website

About the Gulf Coast Protection District (GCPD) The Gulf Coast Protection District (GCPD) was established by the 87th Texas Legislature in 2021 to lead a unified and comprehensive coastal resilience strategy for the upper Texas coast. As the non-Federal sponsor for major elements of the Coastal Texas Project and the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Project, GCPD plays a pivotal role in delivering large-scale storm surge protection and coastal restoration. Responsible for safeguarding approximately 5,220 square miles across five counties, GCPD is at the forefront of advancing the largest coastal protection initiative in U.S. history. To learn more, visit cpdtexas.com.
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Dr. Dawn Buckingham made history in 2022, winning a statewide election to become Texas' first female Land Commissioner. As Land Commissioner, Dr. Dawn Buckingham is committed to helping Texans after a disaster, supporting Texas energy, ensuring that every child in Texas receives a high-quality public education, serving Texas Veterans, and securing the border to keep our communities safe.

12/16/2025

Galveston Historic Catholic Churches Opening for Tours
By Ruth Ann Ruiz
The Post Newspaper Features Editor
Have you ever wanted to see the inside of Galveston's historic Catholic churches? If so, your chance is coming up to take a self-guided tour. Holy Family Parish is opening the doors of several churches for guests to tour.
This idea to share the churches with guests came from parishioners who asked for tours, and a committee was formed with dedicated volunteers.
Over a year of researching the history of each church has concluded, and docents are now ready to provide information to guests who come to see the churches. The traditional Nativity staged for the Christmas season will be on display in each of the churches.
"There is so much history with each church, and it's been really nice to research and get more information on each one of them," said Ramona Trevino, a member of the committee.
"For example, the very first St. Patrick's church was destroyed in a storm just before the pastor arrived, and he took some of the wood from the first building to use as a chapel where Mass was held until they built the new church."
Ramona is from Galveston and grew up attending Mass faithfully with her family. She has especially enjoyed the exploration of the parish history, which also took her down her personal memory lane.
Rick Whelton, an acolyte with the parish, is looking forward to participating as a docent and answering questions at St. Mary's. He also looks forward to the possibility of some people exploring the Catholic faith through "showing the churches and promoting the faith."
"A lot of people will come in wanting to see the churches because of the historic significance, but we also might get some fallen-away Catholics or non-Catholics for whom it might spark an interest in learning more about the faith," said Whelton.
Whelton grew up attending St. Mary's Catholic School.
"It has been so exciting and so informative and just a joy learning about the churches we attend," said Thomasine Allen, who has a long history attending Holy Rosary church.
The tours will be held on Saturday, December 27th, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.
The churches that will be open for tours are: St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica, 2011 Church St.; Holy Rosary, 1420 31st Street; St. Patrick, 3424 Avenue K; Sacred Heart, 1302 Broadway; and the Ursuline Chapel, 1525 25th St.
With the historical churches open for tours accompanied by docents who have lifelong histories in Galveston, the tours promise to be a truly special way to round out the Christmas season.
For more information, call Holy Family Parish office at 409-762-9646.

12/16/2025

Twas a Christmas Parade on Galveston Island
By Ruth Ann Ruiz
The Post Newspaper Features Editor
It was a Christmas parade, a Blue Santa parade, in fact, that rolled down Postoffice Street and onto The Strand in Galveston. However, Blue Santa was hard to spot amid so many other fashionable Christmas treats.
Blue Santa rode on an airboat with his reindeer and his helpers.
There were the marching drill teams with smiles and fluffy pom poms in their hands. There was even a marching band. Of course, with this parade being in Galveston, there also were jeeps, golf carts and bicycles decked out for the season.
Adding to the amusement were floats with dragons and other creatures not often associated with Christmas. Next to these, there were Christmas symbols such as red bows and a replica of Santa. One float, titled Merry Catmas, carried ladies and balloons in green, red and white and other decorative items.
Along with the school-aged drill teams, there were the delightful groups of dancing and strutting krewes that have come to be signature entrants in Galveston’s famous parades.
Most surprising of all were the vehicles. Oh yes, there were fire trucks — two — in fact. But rolling down the streets of Galveston in the middle of the Blue Santa parade also came a big rig, — a semi-truck — in a Christmas parade! Who would have thought? Someone sure did, and the truck and its trailer were shining like two Christmas jewels as though they had just been polished before joining the parade.
In addition to the out-of-the-ordinary big rig, the parade included several vintage cars — not the old-fashioned models you see in other Christmas parades, mind you. Rather, the cars in Galveston’s 2025 Christmas parade seemed to have rolled off assembly lines in the late 1960s and '70s. The cars also shone. They had most likely been freshly polished and were decked out with Christmas lights and other Christmas décor.
Beads, stuffed animals and candy were thrown out to the thousands of people who came out to witness a Christmas parade that no other place can deliver. On Galveston Island, a Christmas parade seems to make a promise of being out of the ordinary and delivers on the unspoken promise.

12/16/2025

Yeshua, Born in Bethlehem; A Christmas Message
By Bill Sargent
When I lived in Northern Virginia I had a Jewish house-mate for several years, and in the mid-1970s my boss was Jewish. All of my personal experiences and interactions with members of the Jewish community have been positive! In recent times I’ve had a burden for them.

Recently a Rabbi spoke to a group I attend. He explained there are the three denominations within the Judaism:
The Orthodox [which tries to adhere to the law of Moses and rabbinical laws];
The Reform [which is based upon the Bible and oral laws passed down through generations. They emphasize themes such as social justice rather than strict adherence to the law of Moses]; and
The Conservates [which share many of the views of the Reform but feel the Reform movement has pulled too far away from the Jewish tradition. They believe the Jewish law remains obligatory, but that the Orthodox interpretation is too rigid.]

When I asked him what happens to Jewish people when they die, the Rabbi said he doesn’t believe in heaven and hell as Christians do and consequently, he didn’t know what happens.

Not mentioned was the rapidly growing Messianic movement which observes the Jewish traditions but which believes both the Old Testament and the New Testament are valid parts of the same book; The Bible. They accept Jesus [Yeshua in the Hebrew language] as the Messiah. My former boss at the Commerce Department in Washington, Paul Liberman, has been a leader in this movement for generations. There are close to a thousand such congregations worldwide and currently 275 active groups that meet weekly in Israel.

When I started working for Paul, I asked him how he could believe Jesus was Messiah and he told me that a Christian on the commuter bus he took to and from work challenged him to find as many Messianic prophesies in the Old Testament as he could and then to see if Jesus fulfilled them. Paul took on the challenge and discovered that Jesus had fulfilled all of them! Then he had a choice to make. He wasn’t willing to give up being Jewish. So, Paul became a Messianic Jew – one who believes Jesus is the Messiah.

So, this Christmas as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, let’s take a few moments to look at some of these Messianic prophecies:
Isaiah 7:14 – Messiah would be born by a virgin. [The angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her she would be impregnated by the Holy Spirit and that her child was to be called Jesus. Then the Gabriel came to Joseph and told him in a dream that Mary had not been playing around, that the child was from the Holy Spirit and was the Son of God.]
Michah 5:2 – Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem. [Ceasar Augustus decreed that a census be taken with each person going to their hometown to register. Mary and Joesph being of the House of David went to Bethlehem where Jesus was born.]
Isaiah 53 – Messiah would be rejected by His own people [After a triumphant arrival to Jerusalem on the c**t of a donkey (foretold in Zechariah 9:9) the people turned on Him calling for His crucifixion.]
Psalm 51 & Zechariah 11 – Messiah would be betrayed by a close friend for 30 silver coins. [Judas, one of the twelve, plotted with the Chief Priests to betray Jesus for exactly 30 pieces of silver.]
Psalm 22 – His garments would be split between them and they would gamble for His clothes [The soldiers who crucified Jesus split His garments between them but because His outer garment was one piece of cloth, they threw dice to determine who would get it.]
Psalm 34 – None of Messiah’s bones would be broken [Death by crucifixion is death by asphyxiation where the person’s lungs fill up with fluid until they die from a lack of oxygen. The person can push up with their legs in order to get air but eventually they die. The religious leaders didn’t want to have bodies hanging on crosses during the Passover celebration so they asked to have the prisoner’s legs broken in order to hasten death. The Roman soldiers did so for the two who were crucified with Jesus but Jesus was already dead so none of His bones were not broken.]
Space doesn’t allow us to discuss all the Messianic prophesies but it’s clear no human could fulfill all of them, but God’s son Jesus did. So, this Christmas think about these truths:
Jesus (Yeshua) really is the Jewish Messiah.
It’s clear the Jews are God’s Chosen People. We should be praying for their protection in the midst of all the antisemitism we see these days. God promised Abraham those who bless His people will be blessed and those who curse them will be cursed. Speak blessing upon them.
Jesus isn’t just a historical figure, He’s alive today, not necessarily in bodily form but he’s alive just the same. We should take Him seriously. As we do, our lives will reflect it.
And finally, we are all sinners. Forgiveness and redemption comes through Jesus’ sacrifice/atonement on the cross for what we deserve. It’s what He did not for us, not anything we can earn by doing good deeds.
Merry Christmas!

12/16/2025

Sin is No Laughing Matter
Proverbs 14:9
To say that our world at large disregards the gravity of sin is so obvious that one hesitates even to mention it. Countless men and women go about their daily existence, moment-by-moment drawing breath from the very God whose name they openly disrespect and blessings they so proudly take for granted.
One shouldn’t be surprised by this among unbelievers. But it is all the more shocking when professing Christians respond to sin with a casual disregard for the offense to the honor and glory of God. I believe this is what James is talking about in the fourth chapter. People who read James often react with shock that he would insert this passionate appeal to the professing Christian community:
“Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom” James 4:9.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that this is how God wants us always to live our lives as his children. James is directing these exhortations to those who had befriended the world and treated it as if it were no big deal, James 4:4-5. They were insensitive to their sin. They had grown somewhat indifferent, even to defy and dishonor God and his grace. Their sense of the gravity of sin had been somewhat blunted. James is thinking in the same terms as Solomon in the book of Proverbs when he said: “Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool” Prov. 10:23a.
James is calling them to a sober re-evaluating of their souls. James is certainly not opposed to joy. After all, he tells us back in James 1:2 to rejoice even in the midst of trials. His point here is simply that sin is no laughing matter. Rejoice in holiness. Find in Christ and his beauty a reason for joy inexpressible and full of glory, 1 Peter 1:8. But don’t delight in your worldliness.
Some of us who are calloused and careless about our sin need to mourn and weep and exchange our laughter for heartfelt repentance. But others of us who are burdened by our guilt and saddened by our failures need to rejoice with joy inexpressible that our sins are forgiven!
So, James is not condemning all laughter, but thoughtless, hard-hearted laughter that makes light of sin.
James would have happily echoed the sentiment of the psalmist when he said: “When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them.’ The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad” Psalm 126:1-3.
And he would certainly agree with Paul that we should “rejoice always” as we find delight in the sweetness and freedom of forgiveness Phil. 4:4.
So, let us rejoice and be glad and extraordinarily grateful that God has given us innumerable reasons to experience “joy inexpressible and full of glory” 1 Peter 1:8. But be assured of this, sin is not one of those reasons! We must mourn and weep when we fall, but give glad-hearted thanks and celebrate when we reflect on the forgiving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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