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He inherited a Shorthorns team that had gone 0-10 the year before he arrived They went 5-6 and made the playoffs his first year in Schulenburg Then last season Hobbs and the Schulenburg football team went 8-4 and made it to the second round of the play- offs Hobbs told his players he had accepted the Giddings job during a meeting Monday afternoon “The best part of Schulenburg was those kids Those kids are winners and they are going to keep winning Hobbs now faces another rebuilding effort in Giddings The Buffaloes have fallen on hard times the last four years with a pair of 3-8 seasons sandwiched around two 2-8 seasons They are also now in a really competitive District 11-4A that includes Bellville Former Giddings head coach Michael Adams resigned after three years there at the conclusion of the season in early November He coached there as an assistant in 2018 when Giddings went 11-2 He returned to coach at his alma mater in Roy for three seasons as on offensive coordinator before coming back to Texas in 2022 when he spent one year as the Columbus Offensive Coordinator before being hired at Schulenburg “I have a lot of familiarity with the coaches there Giddings is a top-notch school,” Hobbs said “It’s a strange feeling going to a new job but also feeling like you are going back home.” Hobbs played football at Utah Tech and then finished his degree in 2017 at Praire View A&M Hobbs’ first day at Giddings will be Monday Feb Read The Fayette County Record Copyright © 2025 The Fayette County Record to Wanda Morehouse-Giddings and Edwin Giddings Diane spent her childhood years in Defiance and graduated from Defiance High School in 1956 She continued her education at Defiance College and Bowling Green State University where she laid the foundation for a life filled with purpose As a proud United States Air Force military wife relocating across numerous locations throughout the United States and Europe Along the way she made many lasting friendships and always found ways to serve others In addition to her role as a military spouse and devoted mother Diane held occupations that took many paths including working in a school district in Nebraska serving in a forensic crime lab in Wyoming and eventually retiring from the First Federal Bank of Defiance in Ohio Marc Swanson (Dessie) and Linda Janenka (Vince) Sarah Swanson-Predovich and Matthew Janenka Her passions through the years have included Bible studies and fellowships Diane bloomed wherever she was planted and made friends wherever she went She had a gift of hospitality and found joy in entertaining and creating wonderful meals for family and friends. She was always well known for her beautiful smile which could light up a room The family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to her exceptional and loving caregivers at Eddy Village Green Nursing Home in Cohoes NY,  as well as to Community Hospice for their compassionate and supportive care for her unwavering friendship and support to Diane through the years Diane will be laid to rest alongside her parents in a private family ceremony in Defiance we take comfort in knowing that her love and light will continue to guide us and her memory will forever live on in our hearts.  Those who desire may make memorial contributions to the Community Hospice Foundation online or by mailing to 310 South Manning Blvd The Community Hospice Foundation310 South Manning Blvd., Albany NY 12208Web: http://Make a Donation-Community Hospice Bruce Giddings was elected PEF Vice President in June 2024 after serving three years as a PEF Trustee he conducted critical oversight of union policies working in collaboration with his fellow trustees to ensure the union’s policies were sound and in the best interest of members Originally hired by New York State in 1988 as a principle drafting tech Giddings is now an assistant electrical engineer at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation His work has taken him from Port Jefferson to Plattsburgh and Cape Vincent in the north “I have enjoyed designing recreation projects and fish and wildlife projects in the Adirondacks and Catskill parks,” Giddings said “Serving the public by building them new and renovated facilities motivates me.” He became a Steward for PEF Division 169 and then was elected Treasurer He has held a seat on the PEF Executive Board seat for six years and served as Civil Service Committee co-chair; on labor/management and health and safety committees; and on the AFT Climate Task Force he provided members with information about telecommuting and ensured oversight of agency health and safety mandated guidelines and protocols he intends to work on projects and issues assigned by President Spence always maintaining his core values of integrity which inspires me to better serve the members I have represented and the new members I have yet to serve,” he said “I know that I can help strengthen the mission and forward direction of our union.” Being a union leader for more than two decades has been rewarding “I am proud of the continued years of service I offer to my colleagues and PEF siblings I am proud to know that I have helped inform and direct members so they may proceed with their valuable work serving New Yorkers I am proud to be an example to my three sons,” Giddings said “I hope they follow in their father’s footsteps and find joy in serving others.” where he is active in his community and a Deacon in his church 2025 — The Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) advises PEF that there were challenges in calculating years of qualifying service for the 2025 performance awards (longevities) for.. as workers around the world celebrate International Labor Day Various unions and groups across New York State are hosting events will be coming to Region 7 in June – offering New York State Dental Plan enrollees and covered.. went on to tutor Snow’s BBQ pitmaster “Tootsie” Tomanetz Among Orange Holloway's most famous barbecue recipes was his sausage – drawing many to Giddings but there’s more nuance to that statement than many might credit it’s more than just meat in many ways It helps us understand who we are and where we’ve been the meat market pitmaster who many generations ago brought a Texas community together The story is told in Texas Monthly, where Daniel Vaughn is barbecue editor Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity: Texas Standard: You write that in 2019 the Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring “Tootsie” Tomanetz of Snow’s BBQ in Lexington – a very famous pitmaster who just been inducted into the American Royal Association’s Barbecue Hall of Fame as you did a little bit more research into her story you wanted to know more about the pitmaster who tutored Tomanetz way back in the day Daniel Vaughn: Orange Holloway is the long forgotten pitmaster who taught Tootsie Tomanetz,  one of the most famous barbecue pitmasters in Texas I think a lot of people know Tootsie from her work at Snow’s BBQ, who’s been at the top of our Texas Monthly list for many years long before she was working at Snow’s BBQ long before she and her husband were working at their own market in Lexington she was down in Giddings as really a barbecue greenhorn and didn’t really know where to start as far as cooking barbecue or making sausage who was a long time employee there in Giddings at the City Meat Market that taught her how So I gather that this prompted you to sort of make a pilgrimage to Giddings yourself You went  to a family reunion nearby to learn more about Orange Holloway and his impact on the city and she had mentioned Orange Holloway and really what a meaningful character he was in her life But there weren’t really a whole lot of details about Mr So it had been really a long time and couldn’t really find a whole lot of recent information One of the family members actually reached out to me and noted that his four children were still alive but were getting rather up there in years So we gathered together in Giddings at the City Meat Market and shared a meal and talked about their father That must have been a heck of an experience because back when Orange Holloway was at his prime as pitmaster I guess you might say Giddings was quite a segregated place And just talking to this group – I mean Vergie Brown and Myrtle Holloway Mitchell – talking to the four of them but just about what life was like in Giddings They talked about wanting to go to the movie theater but having to go up into the balcony if they wanted to watch anything There was a side door into the City Meat Market where most of the Black customers would enter right next to the pit Orange was a Black Texan there in Giddings. He was known for his hunting dogs and there was a notable tragedy involving those dogs. It’s a moving story that you recount and I’m going to suggest people read the full version in your Texas Monthly article But the short version of those dogs – what happened he had these highly trained hunting dogs and he had different dogs for hunting different animals – rabbit dogs But the most prized one we have were his wolf-hunting dogs “wolf” is just the name that they called coyotes back then But any of those coyotes who were out and about were likely hunting small calves and sheep and so they would hire Orange Holloway to come out and use those trained hunting dogs to track down the wolves he was out hunting and there was a farmer who was unhappy about the dogs being on the property and Orange Holloway ended up taking him to court that was his first court case that he argued in front of a jury he went to court and he argued that this white rancher needed to pay for these dog’s compensation He needed to pay for the damage that he’d done that was the first time that a jury in that county had awarded damages to a Black man from a white man Orange Holloway had many effects on the community I gather that the food that he served was so well known people would pass by some of the bigger towns around so they could get his sausage right now is known as the “sausage capital of Texas.” But the legend goes that when Orange Holloway Sr they would bypass Elgin to come down to Giddings to get the sausage or at least has a recipe that she thinks closely resembles the sausage that Orange Holloway used to make because he never measured anything He would basically lay out the ground meat and just sort of spread the spices across that meat until it looked right So she has a recipe that she thinks is a good approximation but she hasn’t made it in many years why did you want to share the story of Orange Holloway I focus so much on the pitmasters who are alive today and those that are sort of making the story of Texas barbecue right now But I think telling the history of Texas barbecue and certainly telling it through the people who actually did the work and not just the people who own the barbecue joints and the meat markets is an important thing So that’s really why I wanted to find out more details about Orange Holloway and understand how he became so influential as to teach really one of the most famous pitmasters that we celebrate now in Texas If you found the reporting above valuable, please consider making a donation to support it here. 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An FBI agent came to the Ivory family home in Howell Township The dust had largely settled on the summer’s struggle between her group of concerned parents and the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan The agent tried to explain that Klan speech was covered by the First Amendment and that little could be done against them Events in rural Monmouth County had been sparked by homework A Black student in Howell Township schools had been assigned to write about their “family heritage.” The student’s grandmother asked for an exception writing that neither she nor the student had ever studied African American history and that the school had no texts available to guide them Black parents and guardians organized themselves into Citizens for Progressive Action and called for the local school board to start a Black studies curriculum in grade school and to close schools for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday trash and Klan literature were thrown into the yards of four CPA leaders and Elenora cautioned the local newspaper “We intend to use whatever means of support necessary to protect ourselves.” It was liberation time, and “by any means necessary” was language that flowed naturally for Elenora, who would become the third ordained Black woman in the Presbyterian church. Rural New Jersey was not exempt from what Black liberation had set in motion nationally. While driving, Elenora would be routinely stopped by police, mistakenly identified as Assata Shakur The Klan had deep roots in Monmouth County. In the 1920s it was strong enough to build Klan summer resorts, and set up marches through Jersey shore towns. A renascent New Jersey Klan was trailed and surveilled by the FBI in the mid-1960s In 1971 the language of the United Klans of America was also shaped by the politics of Black liberation One of the flyers loosed on the Ivory lawn decried “those who have promoted race mixing to pollute our white race; the SDS and Black Panther revolutionaries who are working to destroy our country to achieve their fanatical goal of WORLD COMMUNISM” [capitals in original] Citizens for Progressive Action sought something radical: authentic encounter among people They wrote “The incorporation of multi-ethnic history into existing social studies programs is essential It would help promote better understanding and communication between races.” The UKA held this to be the leading edge of a plot to dominate the society of Howell Township: “Our organization is dedicated to the purpose of never permitting this take-over by the Blacks of our community occurring at any time now or in the future.” (As of 2023 Howell, NJ was 73% white.) 1971 a man was arrested by Howell police for burning a shoddily constructed cross as the police “feared reprisals.” On the 25th the Board of Education met in closed session with Citizens for Progressive Action In the end they managed a letter writing campaign of three the schools had announced an in-service commemoration of Martin Luther King on January 15 and had promised to develop a multi-ethnic social studies curriculum Elenora Giddings Ivory’s course would lead her to Harvard Divinity School The public pursuit of justice and mercy would shape her whole career In a public prayer contributed to the volume African American Presbyterian Clergywomen Elenora called for truth and understanding in much the same way she had in Howell in 1971: “Lead us from public deceptions that weaken trust / Lead us from divisions among us based on class or sexuality / Lead us from wealth that will not share.” Archives 18-1108 World View From Elenora Giddings Ivory Tower Use this form to sign up for any one or multiple blogs and/or newsletters at once If you would like to learn more about each Lafayette contestant Kayla Giddings and her 'Wizards of Baking' partner Yohann Le Bescond work on an intricate cake as the time clock ticks down Lafayette's Kayla Giddings and Yohann Le Bescond met for the first time when they were teamed up on Food Network's 'Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.' says Food Network went all out to create a magical backdrop for the set of 'Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.' It's the competition series' first season They'll be steering clear of anything resembling Hagrid's rock cakes on Food Network's new culinary competition series as Lafayette cake artist Kayla Giddings and her 17 fellow contestants travel to the source "The competition kicks off with a super-sized episode in which nine teams of pastry chefs and cake artists are tasked to craft massive spellbinding edible showpieces inspired by moments and themes from the 'Harry Potter' saga," a show synopsis states the culinary artists will design eye-popping creations not only to tantalize the taste buds but that also offer surprising and enchanting the winning team will be awarded the first Wizards of Baking Cup and will have the chance to appear in a new "Harry Potter" cookbook Adding to the fun for Potterheads: Presentation of the cakes at the end of each episode will take place on some of the original Self-proclaimed Potterhead Giddings said she's followed "Harry Potter" since the first movie ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone") was released "We had a little log cabin on a lake and we would go camping," Giddings "It was one of the only VCRs (VHS tapes) we had Giddings has since indoctrinated her 11-year-old daughter "We had a whole marathon (there are eight films total)," Giddings said which is like one of my favorite scenes in the movie." In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," the bus assists those in the wizarding community who are stranded with public transportation Although Giddings' "Potter" knowledge would come in handy in the Food Network kitchen all those competing faced a curve quaffle soon after entering — they would each be paired with another contestant forming nine teams for the entirety of the contest It was working with someone that I had never met before or knew much about," Giddings said "A pastry chef is like the prim and proper world of sweets And then cake decorators are like the Wild West of sweets," she said So it was really interesting being put together with him because he has all these technical ways to do things and I'm like we could just slap this here and do this.' I think we really learned a lot from each other Giddings took her own contest experience into "Wizards of Baking," having also been a contestant on "Cake Wars," "Cake Wars: Champs," "Food Network Challenge," "Santa's Baking Blizzard," "Chocolate Meltdown: Hershey's After Dark" and most recently coming up with something super impressive and really big and something that you can execute really quickly," she explained I feel like people don't understand how hard it is to get something done in that amount of time." Show rules prohibit contestants from speaking about the specific weekly challenges She has also been hired to create cakes for a few commercials mostly seen on YouTube "Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking" will premiere at 7 p.m Email Judy Bergeron at jbergeron@theadvocate.com Email notifications are only sent once a day News Tips:newstips@theadvocate.com Other questions:subscriberservices@theadvocate.com Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Giddings ISD on Monday afternoon named Schulenburg head Luke Hobbs as the next athletic director/head football coach at Giddings High School Hobbs replaces Michael Adams who resigned after three seasons at the conclusion of the season in early November Hobbs spent two seasons leading the Shorthorns posting a 13-10 overall record including an 8-4 mark and a trip to the area round of the playoffs this past season Utah native played college football at Dixie State University (now known as Utah Tech) before making his way to Texas to take the QB Coach job at Giddings High School so we came to Texas and I started my coaching career at Giddings,” said Hobbs Hobbs made his way back home to Utah after leaving Giddings where he became the offensive coordinator at Roy High School in Roy Hobbs spent three seasons in his native Utah RHS which has an enrollment of approximately 1,900 students Coach Hobbs returned to Texas in 2022 where joined Matt Schobel’s staff at Columbus as the Cardinals offensive coordinator he spent one seasons at CHS before being named the new head coach at Schulenburg in December 2022 “We love Schulenburg and the kids and it is tough to leave We had some familiarity with Giddings since I coached there it was a great experience for me as a young coach I felt like it was an honor to be able to put my name in the hat there and have a chance at a job where you can jump two classifications and not have to move too far I applied late in the process and this has been a whirlwind we are really excited to get started and be in the community,” said Hobbs The new Giddings head coach anticipates a February 3 start date at his new job and he’s got a plan on how things need to go “The biggest thing when I get to Giddings is watching and evaluating the kids we just got to see what they are doing well and where I can step in and help and make it better,” said Coach Hobbs We've been the Bible of Texas football fans for 64 years By joining the DCTF family you'll gain access to all of our exclusive content and have our magazines mailed to you « Back Texas — A tanker truck towing a trailer carrying crude oil barrels collided with an SUV on Highway 290 in Giddings Sunday morning The SUV's two occupants were critically injured and transported to a hospital for treatment According to a preliminary report from the Texas Department of Public Safety the crash occurred at approximately 10:49 a.m near the intersection of US 290 and FM 180 in Lee County The tanker truck was attempting to enter the eastbound lane of US 290 when an SUV were taken to a medical facility for treatment of their injuries The extent of their injuries is unknown at this time and EMS responded to the scene of the fiery crash The investigation into the cause of the collision is still ongoing No further details are available at this time co-owners of Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts have been steeped in the New England regional arts scene for almost five decades owners of Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their opening with a new gallery show that will open on Saturday BRATTLEBORO — Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings Both professional artists and affiliated with numerous arts organizations and nonprofits they have developed broad knowledge and insights into the world of art making These passions merged when they opened a gallery in 2014 “You’ve brought Paris to Brattleboro!” Since then MGFA has introduced artwork by more than 100 artists from Maine to Hawaii and curated over 80 exhibits MGFA relocated upstairs to its street level location highlighted by natural light and a storefront window on Main Street MGFA’s mission is to exhibit and promote artists who consciously engage with the myriad of challenges of personal expression within their chosen medium Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings, owners of Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro, hang up a painting by Elaine de Kooning on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, that will be part of the gallery’s’ 10-year anniversary celebration with a new show that opens on Saturday. Purchase local photos online. co-owner of the Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro that will be hanging during the gallery’s’ 10-year anniversary celebration with a new show that opens on Saturday Join them in celebrating 10 years in business representing contemporary art in New England including a solar plate demonstration with Dan Welden on Sunday at 4 p.m Get the latest headlines every morning in TheBeat Breaking news delivered directly to your inbox Everything you need to know about the arts and culture scene in Southern Vermont Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.