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To tell the truth Doug Hiser’s life is a cartoon: funny, extravagant, creative, exciting and many of those “Coyote falls off the cliff and lands with a puff of dust at the bottom.” Student of the Year at the University of Houston Clear Lake with a degree in Applied Design and Visual art he studied with Sondria Hyu and Nick Devries.

He is an author of many books, (Secret Grotto, The Honey Bee Girl, Crow Canyon, Tropical Calypso, Cavern of the Eggstone, Wink-Eye Creek, Bite of the Mailman, Lost Oasis,) a poetry slam winner and producer, a professional artist and art teacher, a football/soccer coach, an eco-tourism specialist, a journalist, a retired mailman, (that's another story) a public speaker at conferences and schools, and there is also a bunch of stuff he used to do, like, play every sport imaginable, karate, a competitive bodybuilder for about ten years, and in 1992 he was on the American Gladiators television show.

Doug Hiser represented the Texas Soccer team in 2004 in Oahu, Hawaii as the goalkeeper for the Veteran’s Cup Tournament. Recently, this year he has been the featured artist at Galveston’s Feather Fest and also at Armand Bayou’s Earth Day Celebration. He was the guest speaker and workshop presenter at the Bay Area Writer’s League Conference at University of Houston this May, 2009 and is annual Author at the Giddings Word Wrangler Event.

He has published many award winning short stories. He entered his first art show in 1980 and won Best of Show with a pen and ink. His art has won numerous awards from The Bay Area Artist Colony first place show to the Texas City Art Festival first place. Doug Hiser’s art ranges from the realm of his own creation of “Elaborism”-the illumination of wildlife art-to the world of odd and strange things, dabbling in surrealism and hyper-abstraction.

From Santa Fe, Texas, he was born to catch cottonmouth water moccasin snakes and grab armadillos by the tail. He still likes being out in the wilderness and exploring, except now it is in Costa Rica or Canada or the Florida Everglades.

Doug Hiser paints to create new images to convey an awareness of the world around us and captures the magic that we should never lose in nature. He writes stories that fill the world with new sights. His creations, art or writing, influences you to grab your friend or the closest person and insist they take notice of what he has fashioned. His unique observations, paintings, and exotic words are thrilling and the emotions he instills in us from his work hang around after the words and images are over.

Doug Hiser is now a proud employee of the Bay Area Houston Convention and Visitor’s Bureau in Seabrook. He conducts workshops in writing, teaches art, and produces between 60 and 80 pieces of fine art a year. His wife is Gayln Blinka-Hiser, a coach at Creekside Intermediate School. He has a daughter, Heather, a son, Cade, and a step son, Myles.

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The Volleyball Combats are Heating Up-“Creek vs Brook “and “Lake vs Springs”

By Doug Hiser
Date 10/6/2009

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Each week crucial games are being contested between the four teams around the Lake and this week the Clear Creek Lady Wildcats, 5-2-0 in District play, take on the Clear Brook Lady Wolverines, 6-1-0, at Clear Brook high School, 6:30 pm, Tuesday, October 6th.

The other CCISD matchup this week will take place on Friday, October 9th, at Clear Springs High School where the Lady Chargers, 2-5-0, will take on the “Undefeated in District play,” Clear Lake Lady Falcons, 7-0-0.

Last year’s District 24-5A Champions; Clear Creek, has two district losses, one last week, to Clear Lake. Clear Brook has only one District loss, also to Clear Lake. Clear Brook needs to win to stay one game ahead of Clear Creek and one game behind the undefeated Clear Lake Lady Falcons.

The Clear Springs Lady Chargers have a hard task ahead of them, taking on the powerful Clear Lake Lady Falcons. They will have home court advantage and they will need to play mistake free ball against this overwhelming Lady Falcon team, with multiple attacking hitters, like Kate Foley, Ashley Power, Lauren Horelka, Kiara Wright and Felissa Baker, and their excellent “setter” Logen Bourque. The Lady Chargers bring hitters like Tori Whitworth, Carley McCarra, Samone Boyd, and Bailie Jedlicka.

The Clear Brook Lady Wolverines are focused and battling Clear Creek should be the intense game of the week, featuring Lady Wolverine talented hitters like Alicia Dittrich, Caiti O’Connell, Anita Permenter, Darian Lockwood, and Crystal Young and the excellent Trysta Dionne. Clear Creek brings the heat with the fiery play of the dominating Madeline Gaffney, along with freshman Ashley Smith, Ellen Shoemaker, and Rachel Hobaugh.

“Will,” the Wolverine Mascot, might just have his claws out and ready to take on the Clear Creek Wildcat Mascot in a showdown that’s so important for both teams. If Creek could beat Brook they would move into a tie for second place in District 24-5A.

Pick your game to attend, the showdown at Brook vs Creek or the upset ready Springs taking on the powerful attack of Lake, or better yet attend both, Tuesday and Friday! This year is shaping up to be the tightest race in CCISD volleyball ever.

Team	* W-L-T	* Pct.	W-L-T	Pct.	PF	PA	Strk	More
Clear Lake	7-0-0	1.000	22-9-0	0.710	62	29	8 W	[+]
Clear Brook	6-1-0	0.857	19-10-0	0.655	53	36	3 W	[+]
Clear Creek	5-2-0	0.714	22-10-0	0.688	63	32	1 L	[+]
Alvin	4-4-0	0.500	17-16-0	0.515	46	49	2 L	[+]
Dickinson	3-4-0	0.429	20-12-0	0.625	62	36	2 W	[+]
Clear Springs	2-5-0	0.286	11-15-0	0.423	36	38	4 L	[+]
Brazoswood	1-6-0	0.143	9-13-1	0.413	31	44	7 L	[+]
Ball	0-6-0	0.000	5-20-1	0.212	18	59	9 L	[+]

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