Last Months at The Victoria Advocate

A collection of frames from my last few months at The Victoria Advocate:

A pole vaulter leaps up in the air during a Region IV-4A meet at Heroes Stadium in San Antonio, Texas on Friday, April 25, 2014. The top two finishers in each event qualified for the state meet in Austin, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Dancer Jorge Perez waits offstage before starting his routine during a Cinco de Mayo Celebration at DeLeon Plaza in Victoria, Texas on Saturday, May 3, 2014. Perez was born in Mexico and has been dancing since he was 3-years-old. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Isaac Cohen backs up his friend's 1974 Volkswagen "Ameribus" art car after participating in the Art Car Parade in downtown Victoria, Texas on Saturday, May 17, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Columbus High School runner Royce Caldwell reacts after winning the 100-meter sprint at an area meet in Sealy, Texas on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

5k Superhero race winner Nacho Trevino, left, runs through Riverside Park in Victoria, Texas moments after starting the event on Saturday, March 29, 2014. "It was a big group this year," Trevino said of the event's turnout. "I'm glad for all the people that came out." (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

A fire burns in the 700 block of East Stayton Avenue at a commercial structure as Victoria residents, from left, Lakaylah Williams, 13, Brenae Williams, 12, and Crystal King, 15, say a prayer in Victoria, Texas on Saturday, May 3, 2014. The cause of the fire that rendered the building a total loss is currently under investigation. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Laura Salazar, left, hugs her mother Maria Garcia after surprising her by hiring the mariachi group Mariachi de Serpientes de Oro to play for her on Mother's Day at La Villa Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center where Garcia lives in Victoria, Texas on Sunday, May 11, 2014. "She's been a wonderful mother—an awesome inspiration to me," Salazar said. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

During a sunrise Easter Sunday service Stella Gutierrez prays at Son Valley Ranch in Victoria, Texas along with others in attendance. "It's awesome," Gutierrez said of the service, "It just brings me so close to nature, and to the Lord." (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Goliad Zaragoza Society members listen to a speech during a ceremony to honor Mary and Lupe Flores who posed as models for a fresco of the Annunciation painted in 1946 by Corpus Christi artist Antonio Garcia at Presidio La Bahia's Our Lady of Loreto Chapel in Goliad, Texas on Sunday, May 4, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

After leading his team to a successful season, Hallettsville High School junior Jimario Grounds was chosen as the all-area basketball MVP. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Angel Swain walks down North Navarro Street in Victoria, Texas with her AR-15 rifle during a gun rights march to promote the Victoria area's new Open Carry Texas chapter which aims to promote the legal carrying of certain firearms in public places on Sunday, March 30, 2014. "It's more of a safety issue for me and my children," Swain said. "If someone sees me with a gun, they are less likely to harm me." (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

An American flag is painted on the side of a building at the Victoria Education Gardens in Victoria, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Donning Mexican flag bandanas, cousins Sadree Cisneros, 5, left, and Jayra Rojas, 6, play together during a Cinco de Mayo Celebration at DeLeon Plaza in Victoria, Texas on Saturday, May 3, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Aaliyah Martinez, 9, center, carries her basket full of eggs after participating in an Easter egg hunt put on by Parkway Church at Riverside Park in Victoria, Texas on Friday, April 18, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Yoakum High School student and defending 3A State Girl's Discus Champion Celine Markert prepares to throw during a practice in Yoakum, Texas on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. "I try not to think when I throw," Markert said, "I try and just go out there and do what I already know how to do." (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Flames tear through a commercial structure that caught fire around 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2014 in the 700 block of East Stayton Avenue in Victoria, Texas. No injuries were reported in the blaze that rendered the structure a total loss. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Jackie Stock gives an animal she believes to be a chupacabra water on the front porch of her home in Ratcliffe, Texas on Thursday, April 3, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Retired Marine Corpsman Nick Lowry takes a moment of silence during a prayer vigil on Sunday, April 6, 2014 at Northside Baptist Church in Victoria, Texas to honor victims of a shooting that took place at Fort Hood military base on April 2, 2014. About 50 people were in attendance on Sunday evening for the vigil put on by the Christian Warriors Retreat organization. "It's a tough blow," Lowry said, who served two tours of duty in Iraq between 2000 and 2007 and now works to help veterans returning home. "The most important thing for a veteran returning home is a peer to peer system— someone they can talk to," Lowry said. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Paul Vela, lower left, drives his candy green 1985 Chevrolet Caprice near the intersection of West Commercial Street and North Glass Street in downtown Victoria, Texas after participating in the Art Car Parade on Saturday, May 17, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Prom Princess contest winner Ashley Green, left, makes sure her date J.R. Castillo, voted for her for Victoria West 2014 Prom Queen at Spring Creek Events Center in Victoria, Texas on Saturday, May 10, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

A deputy with the Victoria County Sheriff's Department holds a phone up to a man's ear who was among seven men detained after being suspected of entering the U.S. illegally after a navy blue Ford Explorer driven by a 23-year-old female driver was pulled over heading northbound on U.S. Highway 59 for following too close. Law enforcement then discovered the seven men stowed away beneath floorboards in the rear of the vehicle. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

A woman looks into a cave-like formation at Hamilton Springs outside of Austin, Texas on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Victoria Livestock Show

Participants in the Victoria Livestock Show Judging Competition survey and take notes on sheep as a part of eight stations they visited as part of the contest during the Victoria Livestock Show in Victoria, Texas on March 2, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Ty Foeh, 10, of Nursery, center, holds up a chicken to show the judges during the market broiler competition at the Victoria Livestock Show in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 27, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Kaden Ramirez, 10, of Mission Valley, lays on his pig Sadie on the first day of the Victoria Livestock Show in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 27, 2014. Ramirez was diagnosed with autism when he was 8-years-old and was participating in the livestock show for the second time. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Rabbits wait to be judged during the Market Rabbit Competition at the Victoria Livestock Show in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 27, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Sporting a unicorn backpack, a young livestock show attendant takes a moment to pet a goat during the Victoria Livestock Show Judging Competition on March 2, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Victoria Livestock Show Judging Competition competitors examine and take notes at a pig station during the Victoria Livestock Show in Victoria, Texas on March 2, 2014. 280 youth from around Texas participated in the competition. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Victoria Livestock Show attendants walk as clouds and rain move in on the final day of the annual event held in Victoria, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Lewis and Clark Circus

Lewis and Clark Circus aerial acrobat Chelcie Carpenter, 22, of Savannah, Ga., puts makeup on next to her dog Selena before a show at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. "I get to meet people from all over the world," Carpenter said about working for a circus. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Beginning in March, the Lewis and Clark circus will begin an eight month tour which will include up to three performances each day. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Aerial acrobat and owner of the Lewis and Clark Circus Lena Dotsenko performs at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Lewis and Clark Circus clown Vandeir Dos Reis leads an audience volunteer into the ring during a performance at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Lewis and Clark Circus aerial acrobat Veronica Betancourt, of Orlando, Fla., performs at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Various juggling batons and beanbags sit ring-side before a Lewis and Clark Circus performance at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Lewis and Clark Circus aerial acrobats, from left, Chelcie Carpenter, Lena Dotsenko and Veronica Betancourt laugh during an intermission at the group's performance at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Lewis and Clark Circus performing dog, Tiko, walks around the ring during a show at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Various brushes and paint sit on a work stand at a Lewis and Clark Circus performance at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

A Lewis and Clark Circus performer walks out of the ring at the end of the group's performance at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 24, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Single: Limo Service

Caroline Christen, 3, of Lincoln, Calif., exits a 10-person stretch limousine with her brother Nicholas Christen, 5, at a wedding reception at the Spring Creek Place Events Center in Victoria, Texas on Jan. 18, 2014. San Antonio based company Elegant Limousines and Charters has extended their service to include Victoria and offers over 110 vehicles for hire. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Dora Patton at 102 Years Old

Dora Patton, 102, grew up in Victoria, Texas and remembers listening to Martin Luther King Junior in the early 1960's. "Everything he talked about is coming out just like he said," Patton said. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Dora Patton, 102, talks about her childhood and what it was like to grow up during the early 1900's at her home in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 6, 2014. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

From left, 102-year-old Dora Patton's great great granddaughter Kanisha Littles, 21, great grandson Michael Bates, 40, and great great granddaughter Galecia Huerta, 25, laugh as they listen to her stories at Patton's home in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 6, 2014. "Despite all the bad things that have happened in the past, she still loves and treats everybody the same," Bates said. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

A letter from The White House addressed to Dora Patton hangs on her wall at her home in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 6, 2014. A letter from the President is traditionally sent to centenarians in celebration of their longevity. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Pots and pans sit in Dora Patton's kitchen in her home in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 6, 2014. At 102-years-old, Patton still lives by herself near to where she grew up. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Shanell Graves, 25, of Victoria, left, laughs as she shares stories with her great great grandmother Dora Patton, 102, at Patton's home in Victoria, Texas on Feb. 6, 2014. "Her still being here? It means a lot to me," Graves said of Patton. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

The Victoria Advocate | February 8, 2014

Single: The TubaMeisters

I spent Sunday afternoon up in Hallettsville (about an hour drive north from Victoria) doing a story on The TubaMeisters' show at the Hallettsville Cultural Events Center.

More photos, a video, and a quick article I produced can be seen here.

Tuba player, vocalist and arranger in The TubaMeisters quartet, Ray Grim, of San Antonio, introduces a song before continuing a set of traditional German and Czech music at the Hallettsville Cultural Events Center in Hallettsville, Texas on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2013. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Texas Rage in a Cage MMA Fight

Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas hosted the Texas Rage in the Cage MMA fights on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Fighters prepare by stretching and taping their hands in a back room at Victoria Community Center before the start of the Texas Rage in a Cage MMA Fights on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013 in Victoria, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Professional UFC Fighter and host of the Texas Rage in a Cage MMA Fight, Diego Sanchez, left, introduces the evening's scheduled bouts at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Evan Ellerbe, left, lands a punch on his opponent Jordan Holy, right, during an MMA fight at Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Ruben Aguirre, of Victoria, steps into the cage before the start of his bout against Carlo Avendano at the Victoria Community Center in Victoria, Texas on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Kody Perez, right, lifts up Jay Martinez, left, during their fight at the Victoria Community Center on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013 in Victoria, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Jay Martinez, top, attempts to choke Kody Perez, bottom, during their fight at the Victoria Community Center on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013 in Victoria, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Jay Martinez, top, punches Kody Perez, bottom, during their fight at the Victoria Community Center on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013 in Victoria, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)

Defending 125-pound Texas Rage in a Cage champion Jerry Dakota Stewart, of Harlingen, makes his entrance before his fight at the Victoria Community Center on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2013 in Victoria, Texas. (IAN TERRY/ITERRY@VICAD.COM)