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his holiday season, I gave a lot of thought to peace. As a Christian, I celebrated Christmas — a joyful recognition of the birth of a man known as the Prince of Peace. I was fortunate enough also to be invited to observe the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah with dear friends. The last couple of years, I have also had the happy opportunity to share Muslim Ramadan celebrations and prayers with friends. While the folks I refer to might customarily worship in different ways
and on different days than I do, they respect my beliefs, and they share my view the United States is the greatest place in the world to live. Like me, they treasure the extraordinary freedoms we have in this country – including freedom of speech and freedom of religion. As do most of the people I know. So, I find it disturbing when any group is repeatedly singled out in hateful speech, and more disturbingly, hateful actions. People of every nation, including ours, have persecuted others on the basis of religion throughout history. Many pilgrims came to America to freely practice a faith, and the Founding Fathers passed on such ideals to us. True, at different times Catholics, Jews and others have borne harsh burdens of discrimination, but religious freedom still remains part of the American fabric. In the wake of terrorism in Paris and California, there has been a big spike nationally in the intimidation, threats and violence targeting American Muslims and their institutions. In San Antonio, an armed man appeared at a mosque in November shouting obscenities after the attacks in France.
Yet all of the Muslims I know, both individually and in organizations, have clearly condemned terroristic acts committed in the name of Islam, which they choose to practice peacefully – just as most Christians have condemned acts of violence by gunmen like the accused Planned Parenthood shooter, the Oklahoma City bomber and others whose inspiration came from twisted, angry minds. It’s a shame when politicians play on fear by targeting an entire religion, rather than focusing on specific extremist groups we have reason to dread. Those groups do not represent the vast majority of American Muslims. Several thousand San Antonians are Muslim. They are our neighbors, operating small businesses, teaching in universities, raising funds for common causes such as Habitat for Humanity and the San Antonio Food Bank. Their mosques and community organizations welcome friends of different faiths. At the Raindrop Turkish House, Turkish Muslims share their culture through cooking, art and language classes. Their Muslim members practice the tenets of peace, charity and harmony. San Antonio’s chapter of the Dialogue Institute of the Southwest hosts regular
lectures and events celebrating diverse religions and promoting understanding and peace. This fall they sponsored interfaith dialogues with Congregation Agudas Achim and The Woodlands First Baptist Church. This month the Dialogue Institute and the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio are partnering to bring a special exhibit to town from the Jewish Museum of Turkey. On Feb. 1, the institute will partner with the University of the Incarnate Word to bring a prominent scholar to speak on the place of Jesus in Islam. Many members of San Antonio’s peaceful Muslim community are reaching out to encourage understanding and respect. It’s up to us to accept their offered friendship. I’ve found it enriches my life and expands my horizons. I’m all for protecting our borders, thoroughly vetting folks who come here to earn America’s blessed freedoms, and taking strong action against those who would harm us or weaken our treasured American values. The Muslim Americans I have met in San Antonio want those same things. syerkes@localcommunitynews.com
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The Safe Exchange Zones are designated sites in the parking lots to transfer and pay for products listed on online marketplaces including Craigslist and Facebook. The spots are under camera surveillance, but if the parties involved desire additional security, they can go inside to the substation lobby. The city’s substations — which started around the time of Chief Charles Rodriguez in the 1980s, and continued under the progressive administration of Chief William Gibson — are always staffed by sworn personnel, conveniently located and well-lit. An appointment to use these new rendezvous destinations is not needed, but calling ahead to the police substation is always appreciated. Anyone can use the service. While in-person exchanges based on Internet sales usually take place without incident, there still have been enough episodes nationwide involving fraud, assault and even worse to warrant the local Safe Exchange Zones. One of the obligations of government is to protect its citizens, and the council — working with the Police Department — is fulfilling this duty by creating these safe havens.
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GO WILD FOR SUPPER Northeast Bible Church’s 30 ninth annual Wild Game Dinner is 5 p.m. at Garden Ridge Community Center, 9500 Municipal Parkway in Garden Ridge. In addition to the meal, a raffle plus an inspirational entertainer and comedian are featured. Cost is $20. For more including tickets, visit www.gardenridgewildgame.com.
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CIBOLO GRANGE WEEKLY MARKETPLACE The nonprofit agricultural and civic organization hosts Farmers and Artisans Markets every Thursday from 2-6 p.m. at Grange Hall, 413 N. Main St., in Cibolo. Homegrown produce and handcrafted items are available from local vendors. For more, visit facebook. com/CiboloGrangeFarmersMarket or call 307-0599.
LOVE READING? The Universal City Public Library’s temporary 13 home, 401 W. Byrd Blvd., will host a book sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Books of all genres from Westerns to children’s stories, paperbacks and hardbacks can be purchased. Sponsored by Friends of the Universal City Public Library, all proceeds go to the new-library fund. For more, email Lou Ann Shircliffe at shircliffela@gmail.com. CONVERSE LIBRARY WEEKLY CHILDREN’S STORY TIMES Readings are 10:30-11:30 a.m. each Wednesday at the Converse Public Library, 601 S. Seguin St., in Converse. The free event gives toddlers an early start to literacy through books, music, and arts and crafts. Parents are urged to arrive promptly; youngsters must be
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8020 Pat Booker Road in Live Oak, provides various fitness training and nutritional planning, accompanying 24-hour support services. No memberships are required. Located in the same facility as SoccerZone Live Oak, appointments are scheduled, but the facility is open from early morning to night. For more, call 422-1943 or visit allpurposefitnesstraining.com/ or facebook.com/AllPurposeFitnessTraining. (See story on page 22)
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3. LOCKAWAY STORAGE, 8401 Crestway
Drive in Converse, is a new, three-story storage and office facility featuring climatecontrolled and other units in different sizes. Office hours are 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. For more, call 662-0412 or visit www.lockaway-storage.com.
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5. NORTHERN TOOL & EQUIPMENT, 14619 Interstate 35 North in Live Oak, celebrated its grand opening Dec. 12.
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IN OTHER NEWS THE UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE, the state’s governing body for extracurricular public school activities, releases its biennial list of competitive football and basketball districts for the 201617 and 2017-18 school years on Feb. 1. Most Class 6A area high schools should remain stationary, though district placements could hinge on other regional reassignments. In November, UIL announced plans to raise 6A student enrollments by 50 – from 2,100 to 2,150 and above. North East Independent School District’s seven high schools – Churchill, Johnson, Lee, MacArthur, Madison, Reagan and Roosevelt – currently alone in District 26-6A, could stand pat or be joined by others. The same in District 25-6A, which last fall saw four of its seven
football teams reach the state quarterfinals, a first since 2007. Steele, Clemens, Canyon, Smithson Valley, Judson, Wagner and New Braunfels might continue competing against each other, join the NEISD contingent or possibly enter an Austin-area 6A district. The announcement will be televised live in a morning broadcast on Fox Sports Southwest. WALMART WILL EMPLOY UP TO 300 WORKERS for its new Cibolo store, slated to open Jan. 27. The Walmart Supercenter, located at the corner of Cibolo Valley Drive and Borgfield Road, is nearly complete. “We’re proud that Walmart chose Cibolo for its next store,” said Jay Hogue, Cibolo mayor pro-tem. “The new Supercenter provides our growing community with hundreds of local jobs, more convenient retail options and increased tax revenues for the city.” Hiring, begun in early December for full- and parttime associates, resumed after the holidays at the store’s location, 602 Cibolo Valley Drive. Applications are being accepted from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and online at http://careers.walmart.com. In a statement, Walmart pledges to offer jobs to eligible veterans honorably discharged
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LOWDOWN continues from pg. 13 from active duty since its Veterans Welcome Home Commitment launched on Memorial Day 2013. For more, visit http://walmartcareerswithamission.com. SCHERTZ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AWARDED checks to Clemens and Steele high schools’ Distributive Education Clubs of America, or DECA, from funds raised during the sixth annual Schertz Chamber/Caterpillar Golf Classic held Oct. 9 at The Bandit Golf Club in New Braunfels. At the Chamber’s Dec. 15 luncheon, officials said the outing was its most successful. Representatives and sponsors from each school equally split total proceeds of $16,526.90. “The young men and women of DECA are the business leaders of tomorrow, and the business community within the Schertz Chamber of Commerce proudly supports their efforts,” said Maggie Titterington, Chamber president. In 2016, the fundraiser returns to The Bandit on Oct. 7. For more, contact Robin Thompson at rthompson@ schertzchamber.org, or call 619-1950.
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BEXAR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT ON DEC. 15 unanimously approved an interlocal agreement with eight suburban cities in creating a cooperative purchasing program to give them greater acquisition power for commodities and services. Under the agreements, Schertz, Selma, Elmendorf, Grey Forest, Hollywood Park, Kirby, Leon Valley and Sandy Oaks can ride Bexar County contracts with vendors at no extra cost to the county. The coop allows the cities to reduce expenses when obtaining goods and services, and increase participation of potential sellers in the bid-solicitation process. Adding more municipalities to the cooperative is probable. Participating cities will pay a 1 percent administration fee for each purchase made through the co-op, but the county has the ability to increase or decrease amounts in maintaining costneutral responsibilities for Bexar County. DOLLAR GENERAL CORP. RECENTLY AWARDED $50,000 to benefit the reading program at Judson Independent School District’s Hopkins Elementary School. The contribution stems from Dollar
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Devin Clark to an individual state crosscountry title. “Coach Lanehart represents Smithson Valley and Comal ISD so well – she is very deserving of this award,” said Matt Monzingo, Comal Independent School District athletic director. COMAL COUNTY RESIDENTS CAN APPLY for the fourth annual University of County Government, a nine-week class where attendees visit facilities and learn more about the structure and services county government provides. The 2016 University of County Government will meet 6-9 p.m. every Tuesday from March 8-May 3. Graduation concludes the final session, with recognition at the Commissioners Court May 11 meeting. Seminars, usually at the Comal County Courthouse, 100 Main Plaza in New Braunfels, will also include off-site tours at the county jail, district courts, and elsewhere. “This is a great opportunity for Comal County residents to learn more about how counties are run, what powers counties do and don’t have, and more specifically, how their tax dollars are spent in our county,” said County Judge Sherman Krause. For more, including application forms, visit www.co.comal.tx.us/ucg.
SPURS SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT RECENTLY ANNOUNCED AN AGREEMENT with Bexar County and San Antonio to operate a new soccer franchise at Toyota Field in 2016. The deal, announced Dec. 22, may be a forerunner to local Major League Soccer. The city and county purchased the 8,500-seat stadium for $18 million. SS&E agreed to a 20-year lease to run all operations, pursue an MLS club, and donate $3 million to Morgan’s Wonderland, a special-needs theme park adjacent to Toyota Field at the corner of Wurzbach Parkway and Thousand Oaks Drive. In a release, SS&E stated it will operate a United Soccer League team this year. USL is the largest professional soccer organization in North America, comprised of independent and MLSowned and operated squads. The accord eliminates the San Antonio Scorpions, a North American Soccer League team based at Toyota Field since 2013. “We are very excited to continue the growth of soccer in San Antonio, and we plan to operate a USL franchise as part of a proven path to Major League Soccer,” said Rick Pych, SS&E president of business operations.
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Comments from JISD residents split before final board decision Community members pack the room as the Judson Independent School District board debates whether to strip the name of former Superintendent Willis Mackey from a new high school still under construction. Trustees voted 4-3 to keep the name. Photo by Rudy B. Ornelas
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Following months of debate and a sometimes-raucous Dec. 9 meeting, by a 4-3 vote the JISD board reaffirmed the Mackey selection for the campus, expected to open in August on Evans Road near Nacogdoches Road. Red, white and blue are the school’s colors, with Patriots as the mascot. More than two hours of public discourse – often split along racial lines – preceded
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SALOCALLOWDOWN.COM MACKEY continues from pg. 16 petition – and you still want to sit here and continue this process? I ask you to stand up and be a leader,” he said. Cyndi Green Lucas supported her husband. “Everyone needs to stand together for Judson pride,” she said. “It’s not about (naming the school) for one individual, because that’s not what it’s all about. It’s about following the (district’s) policies and procedures.” Salyer was absent from the Nov. 19 session, though he did attend Dec. 9. An arduous process led to the board reconfirming its September decision. In the wake of the first result, a coalition of JISD parents, former students and residents protested through social media and online appeals for nearly three months. Previously, the district had solicited public input on potential names and received more than 400 suggestions. In addition to Mackey, other nominees included Clarence B. Alberts, a former Judson High School principal; Robert Evans, a landowner during the 19th century whose property is now home to JISD facilities and is the namesake for Evans Road; and Marine
Lance Cpl. Christopher Baltazar Jr., who died serving in Afghanistan in 2009. Also proposed were Thomas E. “Eddie” Parsley, who worked for JISD 30 years, including as a principal at Kirby and Kitty Hawk middle schools and Judson High; and Helen Rook, a longtime educator responsible for launching JISD’s gifted and talented program. Other nominees included late Wagner High School student Leslie Avalos, President Barack Obama and Julian Castro, former San Antonio mayor and current Housing and Urban Development secretary. Many spoke in favor of titling the facility after Parsley, including past Judson High football coach and JISD Athletic Director Frank Arnold, and Parsley’s daughter, Dawn Parsley Johnson. “Eddie Parsley was such an obvious choice for this school that it seems unfathomable that he not be chosen,” she said. “As time (since the original decision) progressed, it became evident that some members of this board had other intentions. That’s when you began to see people speak up and engage.”
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She added, “People are paying attention – and the name on this school does matter. To me, it’s not about Dr. Mackey. It’s about honoring a man who spent 30 years of his life (for this district).” However, Mackey had plenty of fans at the December meeting, including many African-Americans. Wagner High JROTC instructor Wayne Harper recited the educator’s accomplishments. “He was enthusiastic, inspiring and influential,” Harper said. “Judson ISD became a recognized (school) district under his leadership.” Added Keith Marshall, another supporter, “Dr. Mackey’s credentials speak for themselves,” he said. “I ask you, what’s the problem? I’ll tell you – it’s the 800-pound gorilla that’s still in the room.” The comment, eliciting boos from those feeling Marshall was playing the race card, was reinforced by former JISD trustee Johnny Harris, who disputed opposition speakers’ insistence their positions weren’t racially motivated. “Any time someone leads with saying that it’s not about race, it’s about
race,” Harris said, adding there was practically no dissent during other recent designations of JISD schools for Anglos. “Not a single person showed up to protest those names,” Harris said, “but then, none of those people were African-American or Hispanic.” In the end, Salyer and board members Gilbert Flores, Renée Paschall and Richard LaFoille voted to uphold the original decision, with trustees Jose Macias, Arnoldo Salinas and his daughter, Melinda Salinas, voting against. Mackey High is the second JISD school named after an African-American. Opponents are still miffed Mackey will receive $218,000 as part of his settlement with the district, remaining on the payroll until June. In mid-December, Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams appointed Mackey as one of seven managers to guide the final months at La Marque ISD, merging with Texas City ISD in June. Meanwhile, construction at Mackey High is more than 84 percent complete, said JISD spokesman Steve Linscomb. With the controversy concluded, “branding the Mackey name (on the school) has not begun, but should commence (in January),” he added.
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It’s the first salvo leading to the March 1 Super Tuesday primaries, which feature candidates who met the Dec. 14 filing deadline in hopes of obtaining party nominations and spots in the Nov. 8 general election. Perhaps the biggest upset chance is the U.S. House District 21 post, for years occupied by Republican Lamar Smith of San Antonio. He faces GOP challengers Matt McCall, Todd Phelps and John Murphy. The winner squares off against Tom Wakely or
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JAN. 18 - FEB. 15, 2016 races, a few local contests will pique interests. The District 26 state Senate race will be a reprise of the February 2015 special election, when then-District 124 state Rep. José Menéndez defeated District 116 state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer to succeed state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte. Both will again battle March 1 for the Democratic nomination to hold the seat for a four-year term. Two neighboring House districts are also being contested. In District 119, which includes parts of Live Oak, Universal City, Converse and Schertz, Democratic incumbent Roland Gutierrez is unopposed for his party’s primary nod and won’t face a Republican challenger in November. In District 120, which includes part of Converse and most of Windcrest, Democrats Lou Miller, LaTronda Darnell, Barbara Gervin-Hawkins, Art Hall, Mario Salas and Byron Miller are vying to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon. Bexar County Precinct 3 Commissioner Kevin Wolff will face two other Republican challengers, Mike Koerner and Pamela Lill, with the winner vying against Democrat Brandon Johnson in November. Guadalupe County has a host of challengers for several positions. Notable races feature Daryl John against Elizabeth
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Wall of Heroes honoree retired Navy Adm. William ‘Bill’ McRaven, a Roosevelt High School graduate, who urged listeners to practice courage, kindness and compassion. Courtesy photo
Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, the Ordre National de la Légion d’honneur from France, 2011 Texan of the Year, and the USO’s 2013 Military Distinguished Service Award. Bakaysa is proud of McRaven’s Roosevelt roots. “He’s not this high-exalted person, he’s down-to-earth, he’s like us,” the cadet said. Speaking at Roosevelt, McRaven said “one act of courage, one act of kindness, or one act of compassion” could make a huge difference.
“Never, ever pass up a chance to help someone. Never, ever pass up the chance to be kind. The students you help can go on to change the world and you can be a part of it,” said the military man who actually never joined Roosevelt’s JROTC. He attributes his success to friends and family, but also his high school teachers and coaches. Col. Robert Foutz, one of three Army instructors for Roosevelt’s JROTC, said the admiral’s words inspired the students. “It was a sea of gray uniforms ... As he talked, there wasn’t a phone out, there wasn’t a sleepy eye, every cadet was glued to Adm. McRaven’s comments,” Foutz said. “I just felt that energy, that sense of inspiration, that desire to say I’m a part of this great organization.” McRaven also spoke to the Rough Rider football players and admitted being more of a benchwarmer than a player when he was on the Roosevelt team. “For all of us that spent time in high school, they are formative years and they make a difference and they really do kind of start your trajectory towards the future. If it was a good experience, which mine was great, then you go off and do good things,” McRaven said.
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The doughnut shop is at 11104 Toepperwein Road, next to Papa John’s Pizza. Tun, a 10-year veteran of the baking industry, recently opened the store to provide hot-from-the-oven goodies people crave for breakfast or as a pleasant snack during the day, she said. “I think we have the best recipes and we work hard to make the best doughnuts and pastries for our customers,” she added. “We buy fresh and good-tasting
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