A couple dances
A couple dances to the sounds of Mark Halata and Texavia at Krause's Cafe in New Braunfels on Dec. 5.
A couple dances to the sounds of Mark Halata and Texavia at Krause's Cafe in New Braunfels on Dec. 5.
Maeker’s Sausage & Processing started out as a family-run grocery store in the small Czech community of Shiner, Texas in 1967. They began experimenting with several types of smoked sausages in the meat market of their store, and due to high demand, they opened Shiner’s first state meat plant in 1972. Today, you can find their sausage in their Retail Meat Market in Shiner as well as HEB, Walmart, Brookshire Brothers, Lowes Markets, and more throughout the state of Texas.
Edita and Chris Rybak at the Orchard Music Festival.
When the strains of Polka Time in Texas came rolling out of radios tuned to 1450 AM across Southern Central Texas from 1996 to 2013, people’s ears pricked up and concentration was shifted to hear the voice of John Zavadil wishing them a pleasant day in English, Czech, German, and Spanish.
The European music gene pool for the Pavelka families must have been very deep with musical ability as research has revealed three different Pavelka Orchestras in Texas: one in 1924 in San Antonio, another in Houston in the late 1960s, and the Pavelka Orchestra from Robstown.