THE RUNDOWN Granite Pub takes an interest in the family buzz over the past few months. ANAHUAC PROGRESS
Now that the New Year has arrived and we all look to renew our resolutions to improve ourselves whether it’s physically, spiritually and or financially, it brings promise for the future. Looking back the past three months have just flew by so quickly and we saw parades, homecoming games, Chamber of Commerce mixers, Santa and so much more. Our little area is headed for big changes in the near future. Commissioners have approved a $100 million new Justice Center to be built. The facility will include a 200bed jail, admin offices and parking areas. The county will be tearing down the library and rebuild it in another location,
and seven houses will be torn down also to accommodate the new facility. It will be located right behind the current Progress office. Another big change coming our way is a developer has started building a new housing section in the outskirts of Anahuac that will start off with 116 new houses being built over the next three years and they will continue over the next seven years with over 300 new homes total being built in the new subdivision. It is believed this will bring some growth to the Anahuac area that includes not only new residents but also businesses to accommodate all the extra population.
BANDERA BULLETIN
There is no way that this will not sound like Grandma’s annual Christmas letter, detailing Grandpa’s gout condition and her disapproval of the state of the Nation. Grandma has since passed on (which explains why she doesn’t pickup when I call). But with Grandma channeled, I present the happenings of the Bandera Bulletin this quarter. Bill Pack logged another year as Managing Editor at the Bandera Bulletin, I logged another birthday and a single-engine airplane won’t be logging any more hours as it crashed landed just down the road from the office on Hwy. 16 S. And it gave us an idea. As the adage goes: A picture is worth a thousand words. However, the picture of a relatively new million-dollar airplane, with its nose in the dirt and tail sticking embarrassing high in the air and sitting just off the side of the road, has proven to be even more valuable. We posted the picture of the airplane on our Facebook page and offered free calendars to whomever submitted the best photo caption. We provided no other information except the story would be in the upcoming issue of our weekly. The following day and our day of publication, we received 90 submissions on Facebook, a dozen shares and nearly
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3,000 views. Additionally, at least two people came to the office to purchase “the issue with the plane in it.” One woman came in to renew her subscription that expired in 2016 stating she likes the paper now. We intend to continue this new Best Caption Contest, offering minimal information and with the deliberate intent to drive people to read the paper. And besides, Fran bought a couple of hundred calendars and we are approaching February.
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