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Lehman offense explodes in season opener.

Genealogy seminar offered at Kyle Library.

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a Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Ann Miller (left) watches as Buda City Manager Kenneth Williams signs a check signifying $375,000 in infrastructure incentives offered to Baylor, Scott & White. On Tuesday, the Buda EDC unveiled its agreement that paves the way for a full-service Baylor, Scott & White hospital to be built in Buda.

New hospital approved for Buda

BY MOSES LEOS III

One of the worst kept secrets in Buda is a mystery no more.

By unanimous approval, Buda city leaders Tuesday approved a Buda Economic Devel-

opment Corporation development agreement that paves the way for Baylor Scott & White to build a 70,000-squarefoot, full-service hospital in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.

According to the

agreement, Baylor Scott and White intends to make an investment of at least $35 million in land, buildings, equipment, inventory and other improvements necessary for a full medical facility.

The hospital will also

include a full-service emergency department, medical office space, operating rooms, imaging and other facilities. According to the agreement, the facility is expected to be open and operational by Decem-

ber 31, 2019.

The facility is to be located on a 19-acre plot of land on FM 2001 behind the Emergency Service District (ESD) No. 8 Station No. 2, which is with-

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Buda City Park to add amphitheater The process of developing a proposed amphitheater in Buda City Park marched forward Tuesday While no official vote was taken, the Buda City Council directed Design Workshop, the group tasked with designing the amphitheater, to begin with a base $550,000 plan for the project, with city leaders possibility adding on additional alternatives in the future.

Claire Hempel, principal with Design Workshop, said the proposed amphitheater, located at the northwest edge of City Park, is being looked at as an event

park with a capacity of 24,000 people. Hempel said the design of the amphitheater, which is bell-shaped, is planned to project sound to the railroad tracks, and not into neighborhoods.

The amphitheater is slated to also have a 1,200 square-foot stage that could house bands, orchestras and choirs.

Lisa Leal-Tate, architect associate with Carter Design Associates, said the stage is “good size,” but the city would have to discuss with specific acts if it is big enough to meet requirements.

Donna Carter, principal of Carter Design, said the idea of the amphitheater started when

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The proposed Buda City Park amphitheater is expected to have a capacity of 24,000 people and a 1,200 square-foot stage.

the city was asked to house a traveling show in City Park.

Carter said the “guts” of the amphitheater are based on work they have done in the past, which have dealt with enclosed spaces. The team also envisioned a structure

that could possibly hold necessary rigging and utilities needed for big music acts.

Designers also envisioned a large enough space that could cater to flag football, the Buda Wiener Dog Races and other events.

Parks and Recreation Director Greg Olmer said construction documents are 50 percent complete. Olmer said the design team expects construction documents

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COMING UP Buda Ninja Warrior 2017

Get ready to run, jump, climb and win at the Hays Hills Baptist Church Buda Ninja Warrior competition Feb. 25.

Adult competition will be held at 1 p.m., youth competition at 3 p.m. and a youth rally at 6 p.m. Competitions are $20 per person. Participants must sign waiver forms. See more info at BudaNinja.com.

Elisa Albert readings and book signing

Author Elisa Albert will hold book readings and signing on Feb. 23 at 3:30 p.m. at Texas State University’s Witliff Collections and Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle. Albert is the author of “After Birth,” “The Book of Dahlia,” “How This Night is Different,” and the editor of the anthology “Freud’s Blind Spot.” Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, The Believer, Time Magazine, and numerous others. She has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the HWK in Germany, and the Amsterdam Writer’s Residency. She lives in upstate New York with her family.

VENUE PROTEST Dripping Springs residents protest venue.

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Lehman High’s interim athletic coordinator was arrested by Kyle Police Feb. 14 after he allegedly asked for, and received, a nude photo from a juvePROUD nile via text message, according to an affidavit.

Jonathan Proud, 29, of Kyle, was charged with one count of child pornography, which is a third degree felony. Proud was booked into the Hays County Jail Feb. 14 and his bond has been set at $175,000.

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Man indicted in San Marcos Police officer shooting STAFF REPORT A Hays County Grand Jury Thursday indicted a man accused of shooting and killing San Marcos Police officer Kenneth Copeland in December 2017 for cap- METTZ ital murder, according to a press release.

Stewart Thomas Mettz, 58, of San Marcos, was indicted on capital murder, which is punishable by death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. The indictment has been delivered to the Hays County District Clerk’s Office.

An indictment is not a finding of guilt; it is a formal accusation that suggests enough evidence exists to warrant a trial. Mettz was originally booked into the Hays County Jail Dec. 6,

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HISTORY

Founded April 10, 1903, by Thomas Fletcher Harwell as The Kyle News, with offices on the corner of Burleson and Miller streets in the town’s oldest remaining building. It merged into The Hays County Citizen in 1956. The paper consolidated with The Free Press in October, 1978. During its more than 100-year history the newspaper has maintained offices at more than a dozen locations in Kyle and Buda.

Hays Free Press • February 21, 2018

County seeks grant funding for more night vision goggles SWAT Calls

BY SAMANTHA SMITH

An increase in Hays County SWAT activity over the past four years prompted the agency to obtain grant funding for night vision goggles.

Lt. Joe Faulkner, commander of the Hays County SWAT team, said roughly 95 percent of SWAT’s operations take place in lowlight or no light conditions.

Faulkner said the night vision units are necessary for carrying out those operations.

Faulkner said in 2017, the Hays County SWAT Team was awarded a $106,000 grant from

Faulkner said in 2017 there was a reported 27 SWAT related calls and attributed the increase to a bigger focus from the Criminal Investigations Division and Repeat Offender Unit.

Although Faulkner said suspects on the street are upgrading their equipment and tactics, he said the upgrade of the SWAT team’s equipment has more to do with the lessons learned from other law enforcement agencies across the country.

Faulkner said suspects are more likely to use rifles versus handguns these days, but said suspects

behavior has changed drastically over the last few decades.

The result is law enforcement officers to have to “adapt and overcome,” Faulkner said.

Faulkner said suspects today exhibit a “total disregard for humanity and the willingness to attack law enforcement officers.”

“This type of behavior was unheard of ten plus years ago, but now days, it seems you hear of a law enforcement officer being attacked everyday, somewhere in the country,” Faulkner said.

Faulkner said other areas of law enforcement, if

needed, can use the SWAT equipment, no matter what it is.

However, he said the equipment was purchased to prepare for any and all events including active shooter events.

“SWAT has had to re-evaluate how they operate to minimize injury to themselves and innocent civilians,” Faulkner said.

At this time it is unknown if the Hays County SWAT team was awarded the grant from Homeland Security for $123,000 for the 14 additional night vision goggle units for the part-time Hays County SWAT officers.

The woman who reported the incident said she wanted to notify officials of the situation as Proud served as the boys and girls powerlifting coach at Lehman High.

14 or 15 years old. The juvenile told the woman Proud began texting her when he was no longer employed at the campus in 2016, according to the affidavit.

The juvenile said this was the first time she sent Proud nude photos of herself and she sent them because he had asked for nude photos. The juvenile allegedly told the woman she didn’t want that kind of communication with Proud and she didn’t know what to do when he had “sexual inappropriate conversations” and asked for nude photos, according to the affidavit.

The woman who reported the incident said she wanted to notify officials

of the situation as Proud served as the boys and girls powerlifting coach at Lehman High.

Proud had been powerlifting coach at Lehman High and an employee in Hays CISD since August 2016, according to a district statement.

While he had been serving as Lehman’s interim athletic coordinator since Jan. 18, Proud was not being considered, nor had he applied, for the full time position.

Hays CISD has notified the Texas State Board of Educator Certifications Office of Investigations regarding this matter.

The Kyle Police Department is continuing to investigate the incident.

How man calls have Hays County SWAT responded to?

2013 – 15 calls 2014 – 7 calls 2015 – 9 calls 2016 – 16 calls

Homeland Security for 12 night vision goggle units.

In 2018, Hays County SWAT applied for a grant through the same agency for the 14 additional units, which cost $123,000.

Faulkner said the average number of SWAT events per year varies, but he estimated 15 to 25 events per year.

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According to a Hays CISD statement, the case does not involve any Hays CISD students or anyone in Hays County.

Proud resigned his coaching and teaching position Wednesday morning prior to his arrest, according to the district’s statement. He was then subsequently taken into custody by Kyle Police officers without incident, who had a warrant for his apprehension.

According to an arrest affidavit magistrated by Hays County Justice of the Peace Pct. 2 Beth Smith, Kyle Police were contacted Feb. 11 by a woman for a reported sexual offense call.

When police made contact with the woman,

she alleged Proud was having inappropriate text messages with a female whom she believed was a juvenile.

At 1:30 a.m. Feb. 11, the woman, who was not identified in the affidavit, found an inappropriate text between Proud and the juvenile. That conversation included two shirtess photos of the juvenile, which showed her face.

When the woman approached Proud, he allegedly told her that he “only text messages the juvenile when he is drunk,” according to the affidavit.

The woman said Proud was “heavily intoxicated” on the night of Feb. 11.

According to the affidavit, the woman contacted the juvenile via telephone, who said that Proud was her powerlifting coach at Italy High when she was

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2017 and is being held on $1 million bond.

According to the indictment, Mettz is accused of “intentionally or knowingly cause the death” of Copeland, who was shot and killed while serving a warrant on Dec. 4, 2017.

Mettz was also indicted for Injury to an Elderly Person and Retaliation, which was allegedly committed around Nov. 25, 2017.

According to the release, the Injury to an Elderly person indictment “corresponds to allegations in the warrants” Copeland was serving when he was killed.

“The indictment is just the first step in the process,” said Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau in a statement. “While we at the DA’s office have every intention of seeing that justice is done for Ken Copeland, his family and friends, and the law enforcement community here in San Marcos and

Mettz was also indicted for Injury to an Elderly Person and Retaliation, which was allegedly committed around Nov. 25, 2017.

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Hays County, there remains a long way to go. To say any more than that at this time would be inappropriate.”

No further details were made available regarding the case. This story is developing; we will provide additional details as they become available.

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Opinion

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “We have to get this (amphitheater) right. This is such a keystone of the park and will change what type of events we have vastly.”

–Evan Ture, Buda City Council member. Story page 1A.

Hays Free Press • February 21, 2018

When Gimme a sin tax A pigs fly N

ow, I’m not exactly an animal lover, although some folks might think my relationship with my cows is a bit peculiar. I don’t have a dog and our cat died From the years ago, Crow’s Nest although

by Clint Younts the smell of its litter box still hovers.

I know many people who simply adore their pets and treat them like family members, and I think that’s fine and dandy. What I do have a problem with is when some Nutty Nancy tries to take a peacock on an airplane because it’s her “emotional support animal”.

I have seen numerous reports of people taking their dogs, pot-bellied pigs, turkeys, ducks and other critters on flights claiming the animals give them emotional support. I strongly believe dogs do supply emotional support, and some are trained as service dogs to assist people with medical issues, but to declare you get emotional support from some farm animal is asinine, pardon the pun.

I have lived and worked on a farm most of my life so I believe I know something about the relationship between a person and livestock. Most folks who raise livestock don’t do it because it makes them feel warm and cuddly inside. We do it for money or as a food source. I don’t recall my cows giving me emotional support as I was out breaking ice in their water trough in freezing weather or fixin’ a fence on a day with triple digit temperatures. Not once did I hear a cow say, “We appreciate all your hard work, Clint.”

I understand that many folks have some type of mental defect, and there is a wide range of treatment of mental illness. But when some whack-a-doodle claims she can’t go anywhere without her peacock, I wonder if this gal should even be permitted to board a plane. I saw a TV interview with this woman and her feathered pet, and I’m not sure which one was the cuckoo bird.

I know lots of folks have a fear of flying.

Being crammed in a metal tube and shooting through the sky at 30,000 feet can be a bit stressful, but personally, I’d rather clutch a tiny bottle of Jack Daniel’s than some big bird to calm my nerves.

Plus, sitting next to a passenger with some barnyard critter in her lap might create even more stress and discomfort for other passengers.

Numerous people are allergic to specific animals. Should they suffer throughout their flight because some person can’t travel without their pet in their lap? Some folks are deathly afraid of some species, and sharing a confine space with that animal would be very unsettling. We’re having a big problem with feral pigs on our ranch. I often dream about these hogs and wake up in the middle of the night thinking they’re rootin’ up our yard. If I had to sit next to a pig for a three-hour flight, I guarantee you’ll hear Lester Holt mention my name on the Nightly News. The only pork I want to see on an airplane needs to be lying beside some scrambled eggs and hash browns.

Now that I’ve got PETA and other animalloving extremists ticked off at me, I think I should toss another buffalo chip in the fire and suggest some criteria for what animals should be allowed on a plane. If there is a TV show where rednecks or Cajuns are hunting the animals, this species should be banned from planes. If the animal has a close relative residing at the Snake Farm, it should be banned. If they pick lice off each other and eat it, they should be banned. If they have hooves and poop wherever they dang well please, this critter should not be on a plane.

I do have a simple solution for Wacky Wilma who believes she needs a nonhuman companion to supply emotion support for her flight. Get yourself a pet rock.

Oh, if Clint Younts’ cattle could talk, we’re sure they would, “Thanks, Clint, for your weird humor. Just leave us out of it.” crowsnest78610@gmail.com

Hays Free Press Publisher Cyndy Slovak-Barton News and Sports Editor Moses Leos III

friend of mine, his girlfriend and I parked the car and were walking toward the restaurant when a grossly obese fellow came out through the door.

Robert turned around and walked back to the car. Laura said, “Robert, don’t be that way, c’mon, Robert, turn around.”

“What’s the use,” he said. “There’s no more food left.”

Looking at statistics, obesity is running at 36% in the USA. What’s the reason for this? One reason is increased agriculture efficiency and food has become cheaper.

People are flat out eating more but not better stuff.

Obesity is a worldwide problem.

The Atkins diet was not what you’d call a healthy diet but we learned something vital by its use – carbohydrates, complex (potato starch) and simple (pure sugar) – was the cause, not fat. So, eating all that low fat food and pigging out on sugar wasn’t working.

And so, not surprisingly, obesity is the number one cause of premature death surpassing smoking in the USA. Obesity’s ill effects account for $130 billion

I Could Be Wrong

by Ray Wolbrecht

(20%) of health care costs.

What may follow our current Obamacare, unfortunately, may be a single payer – government – health care system, but no proposals have been made on how to pay for it.

I propose a method of funding not conceived up to this time: A Sin Tax. Yes, a sin tax on sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and processed carbohydrates. Again the Atkins diet showed the most significant cause of obesity in one way even though it omitted effects of sedentary behavior.

With Americans addiction to such overeating, a sin tax would allow them to have some skin in the game (is there a pun here?) when it comes to who’s gonna pay for health care. A copay could be based on the amount a person is overweight because they, of course, would be more expensive to treat because of their greater odds of contracting diabetes,

strokes and heart attacks.

I can see a tax on the percentage of carb calories in the product.

Potatoes, beans, rice, bananas, corn, in the unprocessed state would be exempt, while instant potatoes, bleached flour, candy, pastries and soda would be hit the hardest.

The bar code would store the information and the check out register would add the tax to the final tally.

But can you just see the food industry lobbyists crawling up the steps of Congress to press their case against such ideas? On their knees, step by step, flagellating themselves with wet ropes, with their mendicant cries of “Unfair. Unfair.” Yes, the opposition will be great.

I’ve been all over the web looking at the opinions of Canadians’ national health care system which is based on an income tax predominately, but high taxes on alcohol (a 24 pack of beer is about $43) and cigarettes (around $10/pack) evidently contributes some to the overall Canadian funding of their health care issues.

It seems they pretty much

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like it mostly because an illness won’t immiserate a family with hospital bills. By the way, doctors are not hired by the government; they just get paid by the government.

One problem most Canadians see is the lack of funding for preventive care.

I’m not sure and probably never will be confident that Washington DC has the ability to run a national healthcare system. Look at the VA system which has had more than its share of inefficiencies in the past. But, any attempts to impose one will have to deal with the issue of “how will it be funded?”

So, let me be the first to suggest a sin tax on the main cause – overeating of sugar. Worry about exercise next.

Like Butch Cassidy said, “ Man, I got vision where the rest of the world wears bifocals.”

Hey, can I help it if I feel that way too?

That’s what I think but I could be wrong, you know.

Ray Wolbrecht is a retired dentist from Kyle. rbrickwall@gmail.com

Turn the corner against gun-culture politics A

19-year-old drove a killing machine right through a Florida high school the other day, killing 17 and injuring many more.

It just shows you that no matter what traffic laws we have, people will die. So let’s all agree to do nothing. It’s pointless.

Well, all right. The killer tore through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High with an AR-15, not a Dodge truck. But, hey, what can you do?

After all, he was old enough to drive.

Anyway, why talk about the means by which he killed? He could have used a machete, quoth the AR-15 lobby. He could have used poison gas. He could have detonated a nail bomb.

The 9/11 killers used box cutters, you know, and jet planes.

What was a nation to do then? Nothing, of course.

Take away people’s box cutters and only the people with jet planes at their disposal will fly them into skyscrapers.

But, wait. As we recall, the heinous deeds of those attackers caused America to turn itself inside out, to wage two wars, create a new Cabinet department, to change how airports and seaports and surveillance agencies operated.

The 9/11 toll was staggering – 2,996 dead.

And yet, behold the yawn over the fact that 15,549 Americans died by gunfire last year and that 1,881

Young At-Large by John Young

have died at the end of a gun this year. Yes, it’s only February.

That makes the massacre at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High, and before that inside a prayerful church church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and before that in Las Vegas, and before that in Orlando, less than unusual and more of the usual.

To address gun violence as the threat it is, one that faces every family in America and every community, it calls for a 9/11-style culture shift. It calls for laws that treat gun violence as a national emergency.

Or we could do nothing.

President Trump – what a guy in a time of horror and tragedy. The students of that high school had just had their childhoods and their childhood friends ripped from them, and he was lecturing them, via tweet, that they should have been more alert.

Don’t take offense, grieving child. That tweet wasn’t really meant for you. It was meant for the National Rifle Association – a signal that “do nothing” will be federal policy on guns until, say, 2020.

Or maybe something

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will happen sooner if Americans refuse to vote for, in Bob Weiss’ words, “gun whore” politicians.

Who is Bob Weiss?

He’s a California father who lost his daughter Veronika in 2014 when a gunman killed six people and injured 14 near the University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara.

Yawn.

He was one for whom those “thoughts and prayers” wafted across the land from politicians bought and sold by the gun lobby.

President Trump last week said that no one should have to endure what Bob Weiss did.

Watch Trump do nothing to ensure that.

He and his fellow Republicans, or at least most of them, won’t even grab the low fruit of banning the bump stock, the mechanism that enabled Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock to fire off 1,100 rounds before killing himself.

A few decades ago policymakers decided that a culture shift was in order to confront a public health emergency: carnage of the nation’s highways.

Though some said people would just ignore it, in 1973 a national speed limit was enacted.

The result? Though many continued to ignore it, highway fatalities declined by 17 percent in one year.

Imagine if that happened with gun violence. That would have meant 2,466 of last year’s gun violence victims would be around today to vote out lawmakers and presidents who do nothing.

You can see why the gun lobby wants nothing done.

Longtime Texas newspaperman John Young lives in Colorado. jyoungcolumn@gmail.com

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Hays County restructures its hazmat team

BY KATERINA BARTON

The creation of a team responsible for tackling hazardous material (hazmat) situations in Hays, Bastrop, Blanco and Caldwell Counties was approved by Hays County Commissioners Jan. 30.

The creation of the Hays County hazmat team came during the Jan. 30 commissioner’s court meeting when Emergency Management Coordinator Kharley Smith brought it to commissioners’ attention that the hazmat response for Hays County had not been evaluated since 2004.

In 2004, Homeland Security provided the Capital Area Council of

Governments (CAPCOG), which serves 10 counties in the Austin area, a regional grant for public safety and emergency management. This provided funding for Hays County to buy a hazardous material response vehicle and funding for equipment on the vehicle.

Since San Marcos was the only full-time fire department in Hays County at the time, officials entered into an interlocal agreement with the city of San Marcos to run hazardous materials response calls for the area, Smith said.

The interlocal agreement had not been reevaluated since then, but there are now multiple full time paid fire depart-

“This resolution is to form more of a county-wide team, a collaborative effort, amongst all of the different departments with that Hazmat truck and equipment coming back to the county for maintenance and operation.”

ments, with some even having hazardous material technicians.

“It’s time we really reevaluate that system and see how we can better service the citizens of Hays County and have more of a collaboration with the many different

fire departments that we have,” Smith said.

The Office of Emergency Services has spoken with the San Marcos, Buda, Kyle and North Hays Fire Departments, who have hazardous material trained technicians, and they have agreed

to provide personnel to serve on a designated Hazmat team.

“This resolution is to form more of a county-wide team, a collaborative effort, amongst all of the different departments with that Hazmat truck and equipment coming back to the county for maintenance and operation,” Smith said. “The restructuring of that team and how we respond to calls was necessary given the amount of personnel we have in the county and the population that we serve.”

The team will respond to chemical spills and other hazardous material issues, especially considering the large transportation of goods along I-35

“Not only will the city of Buda be gaining a much needed community asset and partner tonight but we will be starting a new era of growth and development in our community as this project and its employees could spur additional spin-off development.”

as housing for the nurses, janitors and others who will work at the facility.

The facility could also further push the city’s need to improve its infrastructure, primarily roads.

Haehn said with growth of business and population, the need for interconnectivity could become a focus. Miller said Hays

County plans to realign FM 2001, a large factor in the project.

“I don’t see a doubt in my mind that Austin is going to want to connect with Buda. There are going to be folks from south Austin that want to come to Baylor Scott & White,” Haehn said.

For Haehn, the facility

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and the railways that run through the county.

The team is anticipated to follow the structure of Hays County SWAT and the Hays County Negotiations Team.

With those teams, different departments are responsible for their own personnel, but members respond to calls as the Hays County Hazmat Team.

Commissioners also approved creation of a Special Operations Coordinator, who would be in charge of monitoring and coordinating the haz-mat team.

The SOC postion has yet to be assigned, but would be a full-40 hour work week and would be effective March 1.

also will test the city’s ability to balance its small town charm with a growing area.

“If we can nurture that (small town feel) and keep it going, it won’t matter if we have 100,000 people stacked 10 miles high, it will still be Buda,” Haehn said. “We never want to lose that.”

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in the Sunfield Municipal Utility District (MUD).

In January 2017, the Buda City Council approved an amendment to the Sunfield MUD consent agreement to allow zoning for a medical facility.

Ann Miller, Buda EDC executive director, said the agreement was the culmination of almost two years of work.

Miller said the project’s origins began when the EDC received a phone call in March 2016 from a firm representing Baylor Scott & White. That call kick-started a series of events that eventually led to the successful negotiation of incentives for the project’s key infrastructure costs.

“Not only will the city of Buda be gaining a much needed community asset and partner tonight but we will be starting a new era of growth and development in our community as this project and its employees could spur additional spin-off development,” Miller said.

According to the agreement, public infrastructure-related costs for the facility are estimated to be $517,700; Buda EDC will pay $375,000 to Baylor Scott & White for reimbursement of those infrastructure costs.

Funds from the reimbursement are expected to pay for a turn lane, sidewalks, water and wastewater connections. Other

in San Marcos, Texas on February 23

–Ann Miller, Buda EDC executive director

costs covered by the EDC’s reimbursement include driveway access to the facility, permitting, tap and impact fees.

On the opposite side, Baylor Scott & White is obligated to acquire the land, construct the facility and make necessary capital investments.

Per the agreement, BS&W will be required to create 150 jobs that will be staggered over the course of four years. The agreement calls for creation of the jobs from 2020-2024.

The average wage for the 150 jobs is to be no less than $30 per hour, according to the agreement.

Buda Mayor George Haehn said it was “very gratifying” to see BS&W make its way to Buda.

Haehn also lauded the efforts of Miller and the EDC team for the agreement.

–Evan Ture, Buda City Council member

duced funding for parks improvements in Prop 5, said Chance Sparks, Buda assistant city manager. To include the amphitheater in the Prop 5 budget could impact the city’s contingency costs for other projects in the Proposition.

Instead, the city is seeking alternative ways to pay for it. One possibility is obtaining sponsorships for the amphitheater.

Sparks said the project is suited for that form of public, private relationship.

“I think we did the right thing in doing the incremental bill, but, of course, I would love to have it done all at once and not have to worry about it,” Haehn said. “It comes down to how much contingency we have left.”

Texas Congressional District 21 Prevaricators During my campaign for Texas CD-21, I have been circumspect in criticism of my Republican opponents. I mistakenly believed they would be truthful in their public utterances about their experience, platform, and rationale for seeking Lamar Smith’s Congressional seat. Regrettably, their actions have been deceptive and misleading.

In light of their unwillingness to speak openly and with candor, I believe the voters need to understand that their insincerity reeks and their self-serving motives are disingenuous.

Five candidates list residency OUTSIDE of CD-21 in their filing document. Jason Isaac, Chip Roy, Susan Narvaiz, Autry Pruitt, and Francisco “Quico” Canseco. It is clear – the fact is, they are political carpetbaggers.

Roy is carried by Senator Cruz and heavy-hitter, outside money.

Canseco must be desperate for a job — he’s run for congress on six occasions, in three congressional districts.

Narvaiz lost three congressional races in another district and now claims to be the “most” conservative candidate in this Republican primary. Hogwash! Non-politicians like me were never rated.

When asked about Rep. Farenthold’s sexual harassment, Isaac stated, “I don’t want to rush to judgment...I don’t live in that District, I don’t speak for those constituents.”

Isaac doesn’t live in CD-21 either yet he wants to tell us what’s in our best interest? Nonsense!

Honor and trustworthiness should constitute our character. Candidates who purposely deceive voters will not stop the corruption or drain the DC Swamp!

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“We have to get this right.

This is such a keystone of the park and will change what type of events we have vastly.”

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“Without her hard work, none of this would ever be possible,” Haehn said.

“Her and her team … I’m just excited. It’s an amazing, exciting time to be here in Buda.”

With the facility come several byproducts, one of which is business growth to the area.

Miller said ideally Buda wants businesses that not only have an impact, but “spin-off impact,” which could lead to indirect jobs and put more money into the economy.

Miller said with the project, Buda could soon be the “health capital of Hays County.”

How Buda looks at its future housing needs could also be impacted by the facility as well.

Haehn said he expects to see a desire for executive level housing, as well

Buda Amphitheater to be 100 percent by April or May. Buda’s design team also included two additional options for the amphitheater, which, if implemented, would expand the full cost to $750,000.

Evan Ture, Buda City Council member Place 6, said seeing the possible $750,000 price tag is “a difficulty.” Ture said the city has always been able to find ways to reduce cost on parks.

True also proposed the city obtain a sound engineer to assist with the amphitheater’s development.

“We have to get this right. This is such a keystone of the park and will change what type of events we have vastly,” Ture said.

Buda Mayor George Haehn said he wanted to make sure the amphitheater was done right the first time, as it was going to be the “core of the park.”

Lee Urbanovsky, Buda City Council member Place 1, advocated for approaching the project incrementally, as opposed to building it all at once.

Funding the project has not been decided at this time. The amphitheater was included in Proposition 5 of the city’s $55 million bond package.

However, the city’s purchase of the now named Garison Park in 2016 re-

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Debt Service

REVENUES 5700 Local and intermediate sources 5800 State program revenues 5900 Federal program revenues

$ 64,847,038 86,315,411 2,766,661

$ 30,329,797 4,223,527 -

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153,929,110

Data Control Codes

0011 0012 0013 0021 0023 0031 0032 0033 0034 0035 0036 0041 0051 0052 0053 0061 0071 0072 0073 0081 0093 0099 6030

Total revenues EXPENDITURES Current: Instruction Instructional resources and media services Curriculum and staff development Instructional leadership School leadership Guidance, counseling, and evaluation services Social work services Health services Student transportation Food service Extracurricular activities General administration Facilities maintenance and operations Security and monitoring services Data processing services Community services Principal on long-term debt Interest on long-term debt Bond issuance cost and fees Facilities acquisition and construction Payments related to shared services arrangements Other intergovernmental charges Total expenditures

1100 EXCESS (DEFICIENCY) OF REVENUES OVER (UNDER) EXPENDITURES OTHER FINANCING SOURCES (USES) 7911 Capital-related debt issue 7916 Premium or discount on issuance of bonds 7080 Total other financing sources (uses)

9,344 -

$ 3,248,839 3,245,177 10,774,650

$ 98,435,018 $ 93,784,115 $ 13,541,311

34,553,324

9,344

17,268,666

205,760,444

88,589,954 2,079,850 2,651,897 3,092,604 9,277,724 4,502,075 351,607 1,752,367 9,577,861 4,066,622 4,792,565 18,217,555 1,453,104 4,394,864 192,149 388,879 674,577

21,615,000 13,227,640 12,936 -

1,201,714 18,417,037 -

8,742,309 107 930,516 149,340 14,626 184,369 784,534 8,177,530 180,360 51,530 144,147 956,646 -

97,332,263 2,079,957 3,582,413 3,241,944 9,292,350 4,686,444 351,607 1,752,367 10,362,395 8,177,530 4,066,622 4,792,565 18,397,915 1,453,104 4,446,394 336,296 21,615,000 13,227,640 1,214,650 19,373,683 388,879 674,577

156,056,254

34,855,576

19,618,751

20,316,014

230,846,595

(19,609,407)

(3,047,348)

(25,086,151)

(2,127,144)

(302,252)

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1200 NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCES

(2,127,144)

0100 FUND BALANCES, BEGINNING

52,933,328

3000 FUND BALANCES, ENDING

60 98 2017 Total School Building Other Governmental Bonds Governmental Funds

$ 50,806,184

(302,252) $

$

160,340,000 15,861,714 176,201,714 156,592,307

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160,340,000 15,861,714 176,201,714

(3,047,348)

151,115,563

1,444,389

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11,821,295

66,199,012

1,142,137

$ 156,592,307

$ 8,773,947

$ 217,314,575

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Lehman offense explodes in season opener

BY REED GRAFF

The Lehman Lobos baseball team wasted little time flexing its muscle at the plate in Monday’s 10-5 season opening win over the Del Valle Cardinals.

Leading the charge for the Lobos was Ben Gettig who went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and was a home run away from hitting for the cycle.

Gettig started the season off with a stand-up triple in the first inning, and eventually scored the game’s first run on

a passed ball in the first inning. Lehman’s Karlos Gallego laced a tworun RBI double to give Lehman a 3-0 lead.

Del Valle got a run back in the second inning on a double and trimmed the Lehman lead to 3-1.

Lehman’s centerfielder Austin Gonzales responded by smacking a solo home run to left field, which extended the Lobo lead to 4-1.

While Del Valle added a fourth inning home run off of Lehman starting pitcher Shane

Coming Up

Lehman will be in action again Thursday when the team travels play at New Braunfels Canyon.

Miles, the right-hander remained aggressive and avoided additional damage. Miles went five innings and stuck out eight batters while only allowing two runs.

Lehman added another run in the bottom of the fourth frame; the Lobos added two more runs in the fifth inning.

Del Valle, however, found success against Lobo relief pitcher Robert Enriquez in the sixth frame, tagging him for two runs.

Gettig struck again in the next half-inning by hitting a double for his third hit of the night.

Following an Albert Martinez walk, Lehman’s Braden Sullins came up with a big two-run RBI double to left field. Sullins advanced to third base on an errant throw from the outfield.

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PHOTO BY BECKY TINNEY

Lehman pitcher Shayne Miles stares at the plate as he heads back to the pitchers mound. Miles pitched five innings in Lehman’s 10-5 win over Del Valle.

Lady Rebels take down Del Valle 9-4 in home opener

BY SHANE SCHOLWINSKI Early jitters didn’t stop the Hays Rebels softball team (3-1) from cruising past the Del Valle Cardinals in a 9-4 win Monday at the Lady Rebel Softball Field.

Solid team hitting and speed around the bases were catalysts for Rebel success.

“I’m proud of the girls,” said Hays head coach Lisa Cone. “We were patient at the plate.

I mean we didn’t have a big, huge inning, but we scored a couple here and there and that’s good. We kept our bats going.”

Hays trailed 2-0 in the first inning after a walk by junior starting pitcher Maxine Valdez set up a two-run Del Valle home run over the right field fence.

Valdez gained composure quickly after the

early mistake, finishing the game with eight strikeouts in five innings pitched, while only allowing four runs.

“She was a little nervous tonight, being the first home game,” Cone said about Valdez. “I know that she was dealing a little bit with the nerves. At the beginning of the game, she had a little bit of a hard time finding the strike zone, but then she settled down after that first inning and did fine.”

Valdez got the scoring started for the Rebels in the bottom of the first inning with an RBI double to left field, which cut the Cardinals’ lead to 2-1.

Outfielder Kaylin Davis placed Hays in the lead in the second inning with a bases clearing inside-the-park home run to center field. Davis went 2-for-4 with three

PHOTO BY TRACY STIRMAN

Hays Rebel Kaitlin Davis (16) approaches a Westlake player in Tuesday’s district game at Shelton Stadium.

PHOTO BY NATHAN LATSHA

Hays High junior pitcher Maxine Valdez zips a pitch toward the plate Monday at the Lady Rebel Softball Field.

Coming Up The Rebels return to action Feb. 23 when they host Pflugerville Hendrickson (2-5).

runs batted in and also had a stolen base.

“So we talked about the fact that we have a lot of speed this year,” Cone said about Davis’ threerun inside-the-park home run. “It’s definitely obvious. We put a lot of pressure on the defense and they made some

mistakes because they had to hurry.”

Del Valle made the game interesting in the fifth inning after a triple brought in two base runners and cut the Rebel lead to 5-4.

A two-run double from Rebel junior first baseman Bri Rodriguez halted the Cardinals rally and helped Hays to secure the win.

Cone said improvement each time the Rebels are on the diamond is her focus as the Rebels near the district

schedule.

“We still have things to work on, but I feel like we’re better than we were the last time we were out,” Cone said. “I still feel like we are improving every time. Defensively sometimes we have been sitting back and not charging the ball, but tonight we did more of that. You know going to get the ball and coming across and making great plays. So I’m still seeing improvement every time out and that’s so important.”

Lobo softball snags key 4-2 win over Austin

BY MOSES LEOS III A three-run third inning explosion Monday carried the Lehman Lobos to a hard-fought 4-2 win over the Austin Maroons.

But it was several stellar defensive plays in the field that allowed Lehman to secure its fourth win of the 2018 campaign. Jesse Bustamante, Lehman head softball coach, said the efforts accentuate the high level of play the Lobos have exemplified so far this season.

“The girls are doing everything I’m asking them to do,” Bustamante said. “Our defense has been really good all year.

I’m proud of the girls, they work hard in practice and are trying to get better every day.”

Lehman’s defense stood firm early in the contest by denying Austin a potential gamebreaking play in the second inning.

With Austin runners on first and second base and no outs, Lehman

left fielder Mariana Pena completed a sensational diving snag to rob a would-be extra base hit.

Pena turned the fly ball out into a double play, which helped Lehman keep Austin to a 1-0 lead.

Lobo Pitcher Lexi Bechtel, who went the distance in Monday’s game, lauded the play of her defense.

“It’s great that the outfield was working for me and it boosted my confidence because they always have my back,” Bechtel said.

The Lobos took advantage of the play an inning later when they broke out for three runs, highlighted by a two-run RBI single from Audrey Dienhart.

“I saw an opportunity to get runs for our team to get ahead,” Dienhart said.

The scoring outburst was a by-product of situational hitting for the Lobos, who tried to execute with runners in scoring position.

Bustamante said the team works on “small

PHOTO BY MOSES LEOS III

With a little extra determination, Lehman Lobo left fielder Mariana Pena secures the softball as she completes a sensational snag that robbed an Austin Maroon extra-base hit Monday.

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The Lady Lobos plays Vista Ridge Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Lehman

ball” during practice, to ensure they have runners in position to score when their big hitters go to the plate.

“I tell the girls, if we aren’t able to hit, we have to be able to play small ball and move the runners over,” Busta-

mante said.

Lehman turned to the arm of Bechtel, who shut down the Maroons to only one additional run scored in the fourth frame. Bechtel and the Lobo defense stranded upwards of five Maroons on the base paths.

Bustamante said Bechtel hit her spots and had a strong outing in the circle.

“All we can ask for is ground balls, even if they are making con-

tact,” Bustamante said.

“Ground balls, pop-flies, that’s the type of pitcher she is.”

Taking things one moment and one game at a time is the Lobos’ goal as they prepare for the district schedule.

But the win was critical for the morale of the Lobos.

“It puts a win on our shoulders and gives us something to look forward to and work on,” Dienshart said.

Westlake soccer ties the game up on Lady Rebels

BY LISETTE LOPEZ The Hays Lady Rebels took a 1-1 game when Westlake hit a goal late in the second half to tie up the score.

The Rebels didn’t get the start they The Rebels return to action were Friday at 7:30 looking p.m. against for at Lehman at the beLobo Field ginning of the match with Westlake constantly playing through balls to get around the Rebel defense.

Once the Rebels started to play their game, the ball was kept in the middle of the field with both teams looking for their break.

Off a corner kick that went across the goal in the 15th minute, junior Zoe Briceño shot the ball and put it in the lower left corner of the net, taking the lead over Westlake 1-0.

After the goal, Westlake began to speed up its play and took any shot that came their way.

Making more passes and opening up for quick plays, the Chaparrals were not slowing down.

The Rebel defense was tested toward the end of the first half with several close calls, but the Hays goalie wasn’t letting anything in her goal.

At the start of the second half, the Rebels were playing more aggressively trying to add to their lead. Hays had more quick plays and passes to

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Hays Free Press • February 21, 2018

On the lookout for new Hays CISD coaches More than 100 people have applied for the open athletic coordinator and head football coaching positions at Hays and Lehman high schools, according to a list provided by

Hays CISD officials.

Tim Savoy, Hays CISD public information officer, said the district is currently going through the phone screening process this week, with in-person interviews

slated to start next week.

Hays CISD began searching for a head coach and athletic coordinator at Lehman High in mid-January after Josh Kirkland, who was

LEHMAN

Andy Garza – MacArthur High athletic coordinator – Aldine ISD Michael Beckett – Alief ISD Steven Bergestki – Caprock High assistant coach – Amarillo ISD Michael Strunk – Anderson High assistant coach – Austin ISD Jonathan Cruz – Sam Houston High assistant coach – Arlington ISD Brad Franchione – Association Member Benefits Advisors Mark Dawson – Crockett High assistant coach – Austin ISD Patrick Bailey – Reagan High offensive coordinator – Austin ISD Jason Davis – Austin ISD David Pena – Austin ISD Joseph Saxe – Akins High assistant coach – Austin ISD Lance Riddell – Banquente High head football coach – Banquete ISD Lee Hartsell – Cedar Creek offensive coordinator – Bastrop ISD Ryan Olson – assistant coach – Bemidji State University Daniel Oelschlegel – Richland High offensive coordinator – Birdville ISD Lloyd Spotted Wolf, Jr. – Bridgeland High assistant coach – Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Brad Eblen – Burleson High assistant coach – Burleson ISD Adam Harvey – Cibolo Steele assistant coach/co-defensive coordinator – Schertz-Cibolo ISD Jesse Walker – Caney Creek High assistant coach – Conroe ISD Michael Collins – Canyon Intermediate School District Christopher Lewis – Colleton County High offensive coordinator – Walterboro, SC Benjamin Jacobs – Comal ISD Robert Sledge – Comal ISD Kendal Hineman – Conroe High assistant coach – Conroe ISD Eric De Los Santos – Coppell High assistant head coach – Coppell ISD Joseph Rivera – Corsicana High defensive coordinator – Corsicana ISD Michael Zierlein – Cypress Ridge High assistant coach – Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Michael Mason – Danbury High athletic director/head football coach – Danbury ISD JD Jordan – Deer Park assistant coach – Deer Park ISD Jeff Ramirez – Del Valle assistant coach – Del Valle ISD Arista Owens-McGowan – DeSoto ISD Daniel Foster – Dripping Springs High offensive coordinator – Dripping Springs ISD Kemmie Lews – San Antonio Memorial High head football coach – Edgewood ISD Jose Martinez – Elgin ISD Larry Moyer – Fayette County Alvin Dotson – Elkins High assistant head coach – Fort Bend ISD Matthew Miracle – Paschal High head football coach – Fort Worth ISD Kenneth Johnson – Richmond Foster High offensive coordinator – Lamar CISD Kent Laster – Frisco Heritage High assistant head football coach – Frisco ISD Dustin Blann – Naaman Forest High offensive coordinator – Garland ISD Casey Boggs – Hays CISD Desmoin Cooksey – Hoffaker Blake Besselman – Houston San Houston High head football coach – Houston ISD Steven Wright – Waltrip High head football coach – Houston ISD Jesse Woods – Humble ISD William Heyward – Jim Barnes Middle School William Goodloe III – San Antonio John Jay High assistant coach – Northside ISD James McDaniel – San Antonio Wagner assistant football coach – Judson ISD Richard Starrett – Mayde Creek High assistant coach – Katy ISD Kristopher Price – Keller High defensive coordinator – Keller ISD Jacob Bible – Kermit High head football coach and athletic director – Kermit ISD Justin Jackson – Killeen ISD Jeremy Williams – LaGrange High assistant coach – La Grange ISD Kevin Ellison – Leander Rouse assistant coach – Leander ISD Michael Adams – Vandegrift High assistant coach – Leander ISD Jeffery Middleton – Leon ISD Donald Hatcher – Little Elm High assistant head football coach – Little Elm ISD Chandler Smith – Little Elm High assistant coach – Little Elm ISD Cody McGuire – Lockhart High assistant coach – Lockhart ISD Carlos Rivera – Lockhart High offeinsive coordinator – Lockhart ISD Jason Strunk – Lubbock ISD Chad Bishop – Marble Falls High defensive coordinator – Marble Falls ISD Cory Maxwell – Marble Falls High assistant coach – Marble Falls ISD Bruce Salmon – Marion High head football coach/athletic coordinator – Marion ISD Jesus Baez – Medina Valley high assistant coach – Medina Valley ISD Christopher Castillo – Mission High assistant coach – Mission CISD Anthony Christian – San Antonio Roosevelt High assistant coach – Northeast ISD Nathan Young – San Antonio Madison offensive coordinator – Northeast ISD Ross Moore – San Antonio Brandeis assistant coach – Northside ISD Barrett Matthews – Pasadena Dobie High assistant coach – Pasadena ISD Charles Ross – Pecos High assistant coach – Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD Tyler Crow – Plano West High assistant coach – Plano ISD Darrick Ware – Princeton High assistant head coach – Princeton ISD David Fambrough – former Quanah High head football coach/athletic coordinator – Quanah ISD Brian Hall – Rice Consolidated High offensive coordinator – Rice CISD Chris Armatta – McNeil High assistant coach – Round Rock ISD Jose Coss – Round Rock ISD David Sine – Schulenburg High assistant coach – Schulenburg ISD Jason Wheeler – Sharyland High head football coach – Sharyland ISD Marcus Booker – South San ISD Calvin Neatherlin – Jr. – Southwest ISD Louis James II – Southwest ISD Abdul Mustafa – Spring Branch ISD Ken Mizell – Spring ISD David Brown II – Texas A&M Kingsville defensive coordinator Samuel Padgitt – Thurgood Marshall High assistant coach – Fort Bend ISD Dusty Ortiz – Timber Creek High defensive coordinator – Keller ISD Jeffrey Whitehall – Venus High athletic director/head football coach – Venus ISD Jared Taylor – Virginia Union University Christopher Tobola – Wortham athletic director/head football coach – Wortham ISD Jason Fiacco – Yoakum High assistant coach – Yoakum ISD Lonnie Cook Bryan Crews Isaac Rodriguez Thomas Walser

hired to lead Lobo athletics in 2017, accepted an assistant coaching position at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.

On Jan. 26, Neal LaHue, who has served

as Hays High’s athletic coordinator and head football coach for the past five seasons, announced plans to retire from coaching.

LaHue intends to retire when his contract ex-

pires on June 30.

Hays CISD’s Board of Trustees is slated to take up an action item on the Hays and Lehman athletic coordinator positions at its Feb. 26 meeting.

HAYS

Kerry Bamburg – Aldine Eisenhower athletic coordinator/head football coach – Aldine ISD Steven Bergestki – Caprock High assistant coach – Amarillo ISD Michael Strunk – Anderson High assistant coach – Austin ISD Raymond Maxfield – Amarillo High assistant coach – Amarillo ISD Jonathan Cruz – Sam Houston High assistant coach – Arlington ISD Patrick Bailey – Reagan High offensive coordinator – Austin ISD Jason Davis – Austin ISD Lance Riddell – Banquente High head football coach – Banquete ISD Guadalupe Flores – Bay City High head football coach/athletic director – Bay City ISD Brett Mouser – Brenham High defensive coordinator – Brenham ISD Wade Griffin – Brewer High head football coach/athletic director – White Settlement ISD Brad Eblen – Burleson High assistant coach – Burleson ISD Michael Collins – Canyon Intermediate School District Robert Sledge – Comal ISD Kendal Hineman – Conroe High assistant coach – Conroe ISD Eric De Los Santos – Coppell High assistant head coach – Coppell ISD Danny Faust – Corpus Christi Michael Zierlein – Cypress Ridge High assistant coach – Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Kenneth Woods – Danville (IN) Community High head football coach JD Jordan – Deer Park assistant coach – Deer Park ISD Allen Hayes – Desert Ridge High School (AZ) Daniel Foster – Dripping Springs High offensive coordinator – Dripping Springs ISD Jose Martinez – Elgin ISD Sammy Burnett – Farmersville High head football coach/athletic coordinator – Farmersville ISD Mike Arogbonlo – Fort Bend Travis High offensive coordinator – Fort Bend ISD Matthew Miracle – Paschal High head football coach – Fort Worth ISD Chip Gregory – Frisco ISD Dustin Blann – Naaman Forest High offensive coordinator – Garland ISD Colby Hensley – Rowlett High defensive coordinator – Garland ISD Casey Boggs – Hays CISD Desmoin Cooksey – Hoffaker Blake Besselman – Houston San Houston High head football coach – Houston ISD Jesse Woods – Humble ISD Brad LaPlante – Hutto High offensive coordinator – Hutto ISD William Goodloe III – San Antonio John Jay High assistant coach – Northside ISD Wayne Woodall – Kermit High assistant coach – Kermit ISD Justin Jackson – Killeen ISD Jason McClendon – Lakeside High head football coach – Lakeside ISD Matthew Burnett – Little Cypress Mauriceville CISD Donald Hatcher – Little Elm High assistant head football coach – Little Elm ISD Chandler Smith – Little Elm High assistant coach – Little Elm ISD Russel Kuhns – Livingston High offensive coordinator – Livingston ISD Jason Strunk – Lubbock ISD Christopher Bishop – Marble Falls ISD Bruce Salmon – Marion High head football coach/athletic coordinator – Marion ISD Michael Thrash – McGregor ISD Christopher Roberts – Meridian High head football coach/athletic director – Meridian ISD Les Goad – Geronimo-Navarro head football coach/athletic director – Navarro ISD Nathan Young – San Antonio Madison offensive coordinator – Northeast ISD Ross Moore – San Antonio Brandeis assistant coach – Northside ISD Michael Norman – Pasadena ISD Charles Ross – Pecos High assistant coach – Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD James Norman – Pflugerville ISD Darrick Ware – Princeton High assistant head coach – Princeton ISD David Fambrough – former Quanah High head football coach/athletic coordinator – Quanah ISD Keivon Liburd – Rawson Saunders School athletic director Chester Pettibon – San Antonio Reagan High assistant coach – Northeast ISD Brian Hall – Rice Consolidated High offensive coordinator – Rice CISD Chris Harbin – Fort Bend Ridge Point High assistant coach – Fort Bend ISD Jose Coss – Round Rock ISD Brad Molder – Schertz Clemens High assistant coach – Schertz Cibolo Universal City ISD David Sine – Schulenburg High assistant coach – Schulenburg ISD Bryan Wilson – South Grand Prairie High assistant coach – Grand Prairie ISD Richard Lock – Southside High athletic director/head football coach – Southside ISD Kirk Botkin – Spring Dekaney defensive coordinator – Spring ISD Ken Mizell – Spring ISD Samuel Joseph – St. Michael’s Catholic Academy coach Nicholas McDow – Cibolo Steele High assistant coach – Schertz Cibolo Universal City ISD Brandon Avants – Texas City High co-offensive coordinator – Texas City ISD Mike Shields – Terrell High head football coach – Terrell ISD Dusty Ortiz – Timber Creek High defensive coordinator – Keller ISD Andrew McClain – Glenn High assistant coach – Leander ISD Spencer Gantt – Victoria East offensive coordinator – Victoria ISD Matt Cook – Whitehouse High assistant coach – Whitehouse ISD Audie Jackson – Willis ISD Robert Gail – Wills Point ISD Justin Havard – Woodville ISD Lonnie Cook Todd Sturdy

Lobo Baseball Continued from pg. 3B Lehman’s Nathaniel Garcia brought him in with a sacrifice fly to give the Lobos a 10-4 advantage.

Del Valle got a run back in the top of the seventh frame, but Lobo Justin Edwards came into the game with two outs to close things out. He prompt-

Rebs fall to Tigers 5-1 Hays Rebel catcher Andrew Cisneros (left) leaps to apply a tag on a Dripping Springs Tiger baserunner during a scrimmage played at the Rebel baseball field Monday. While it didn’t count on the record, Hays and Dripping Springs got a little last-minute preparation before the start of the season in an exhibition. Big Tiger bats, however, ruled the day as Dripping Springs won the game 5-1. But who’s counting, right?

ly got the groundout he needed, and the Lobos secured the win.

Sullins was 1-for-2 with two walks and two RBIs. As a team, the Lobos worked seven walks in the game and scored ten runs on eight hits. Six of the Lobo hits went for extra bases.

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try to work past the Westlake defense.

In the 26th minute of the second half, a Westlake forward took on the Rebel defense. With the ball moving closer into the box the Rebel goalie came out to help, but Westlake got the shot off behind the goalie to tie the game 1-1.

Briceño said despite not getting the win, she is proud of how the team played against the firstplace district team.

“I think we did really good, we played aggressive, talked more and wanted the ball,” Briceño said.

Rebels head coach Brent Holcomb said his team did a lot better in the second half than in the first and it showed.

“Our passing got a lot crisper in the second half which we needed. The first half passes weren’t real crisp and weren’t always targeted to where we needed them to

be,” Holcomb said. “We kind of let them dictate our pass quality in the first half, but I think we found more passing shape in the second half.”

The last time these two teams faced off, Westlake took the win from the Rebels 4-0.

There was much improvement from the Rebels and they played together as a team.

Holcomb said his team was prepared for

the offensive push from the Chaparrals and were ready to be aggressive.

“With a team that’s so offensive-minded like them, very fast and they shoot fast and from distance, instinctively you want to play more defensively,” Holcomb said.

“We have been stressing our offense so we actually played with less defense and more offense.

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Safety protocol program keeps schools safe in a crisis

A daily reminder of a close call

BY KATERINA BARTON

PHOTO BY MOSES LEOS III

BY MOSES LEOS III In the back of her mind, Buda resident and Hays CISD Board Trustee Holly Raymond views Aug. 29, 2013 as a distant memory that seemed almost dreamlike.

An 18-inch scar on her chest, however, pulls Raymond back to the reality that death, in fact, had once set foot on her doorstep.

Amid the fear, pain and recovery, Raymond views the scar as a daily reminder of how much she has overcome since then.

For Raymond, it’s the knowledge that she survived a bilateral pul-

“If I would have gone back to that meeting, the clots could have released and I would have been done.

Him being able to come in and press the immediacy of how important it was got me to the hospital.”

–Holly Raymond, Hays CISD board member

monary embolism, or a blood clot in the lungs, and lived to tell the tale.

“I have that daily reminder of how far I’ve come and how much I overcame,” Raymond said. “It’s a good centering point.”

Raymond said her problems began as she was trying to leave her day job at Big Brothers, Big Sisters in Austin.

On that day, Raymond said she felt a pain in her leg as she was getting up to leave work. When she tried walking out to her car, Raymond said she began to feel short of breath.

When she sat down, however, Raymond said the pain and the breathing struggles went away.

“I just thought I

needed more exercise,” Raymond said.

From there, Raymond drove back to Buda, picked up her children from school and made dinner for the evening.

She also was preparing for a scheduled school board meeting that was taking place that night.

But all the while, Raymond continued feeling short of breath. Every

movement she made exacerbate her problem.

It came to the point where she laid down for a short time prior to the meeting to try to recover.

But her breathing problems got progressively worse. It came to a head when she arrived at Hays High for the board meeting and was forced to park far from the Career and Technology Education (CTE) building.

“I had to stop a few times heading toward the building because I felt like I was going to pass out,” Raymond said. “When I stopped,

CONSTANT REMINDER, 4B

Students to pay portion of Advanced Placement exams

BY MOSES LEOS III

proximately $45,000 of that.

Hays CISD’s board For the first time in of trustees has also five years, Hays CISD high school students will historically increased its annual $128,000 budget be required to partially to cover the AP exam foot the bill for their cost.

Advanced However, Placement the Texas (AP) Exams.

Hays Education Those Agency in changes CISD’s December come after board of 2017 anthe district nounced altered its AP trustees a decrease Exam policy the state prior to the has also AP exam 2017-2018 school year, historically subsidy from $30 to which was enacted after increased $24 dollars for eligible “feedback its annual students. received from The students $128,000 2015 Every and their families,” acbudget to Student Succeeds Act cording to a eliminated a letter sent to cover the federal subparents. sidy of $16 However, AP exam per eligible an additional cost. student. factor inAs a result, volved state Hays CISD and federal trustees opted not to subsidy cuts for AP exincrease its AP Exam ams. budget for the 2018 Tim Savoy, Hays CISD fiscal year, Savoy said. public information The district also altered officer, said the district its AP Exam policy by uses state and federal eliminating the requiresubsidies to help cover ment for students to a portion of the cost take them. incurred from offering Rising test costs and AP exams. budget constraints was a Prior to 2018, Hays factor in district officials CISD’s policy required making those changes, students to take all AP Savoy said. The cost of exams in courses they AP Exams rose to $94 per were enrolled in. test in 2018.

In 2017, the district “Some kids concenincurred a $223,000 bill trated on the test they for the AP Exams, with wanted to concentrate subsidies covering ap-

HAYS CISD SPRING 2018 AP EXAM COST

on, or they could have been spread thin because they had to study for all of them,” Savoy said. “With the investment, they don’t have to take any tests, if they don’t want to.”

But some Hays CISD students fear paying for exams may affect those who might be economically disadvantaged.

Claudia Palomarez, a Lehman High senior, said she understood the district’s previous policy was a luxury. She said many districts in the area don’t pay for students to take AP exams.

It also did create challenges for students when it came to studying for multiple exams.

However, Palomarez said the district has a “high number of students who can’t afford AP Exams.” Palomarez said the district’s policy

shouldn’t hinder them from being able to take the tests, and potentially receive college credit.

Savoy said the district has a plan that allows students on free and reduced lunch to only pay a portion of the discounted rate.

“I feel fortunate enough that my family can pay for that, but I still think a lot of families can’t pay for that,” Palomarez said.

She also was frustrated by what she believed was a lack of communication by the district to students on the changes.

Palomarez said some students received the district’s old policy, which said Hays CISD would pay for all exams.

Savoy said the district sent letters to parents notifying them of the changes prior to school starting in August.

However, he said some students were also given material before the district enacted its policy changes in January 2017.

On Feb. 14, Hays CISD sent a letter to parents regarding AP exam registration, as well as changes in its policy.

Students and parents were also given an option to apply for additional fee waivers for financial assistance.

Applications will be “reviewed by a campusbased committee,” and applicants will be notified on Feb. 26 if they will receive additional assistance.

“We’re frustrated because of the discombobulation at the top that trickles down to the bottom,” Palomarez said. “It stresses out our administrators and teachers, and it stresses us.”

Following the tragic Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Hays County and local school districts assure parents and students there are safety protocols in place in the instance of an emergency situation.

According to a county press release, Hays County officials instituted a School Safety Protocol (SSP) program in 2013 that’s been adopted by every school, both public and private, and at many government offices.

Kharley Smith, Hays County director of emergency services, said in a statement the SSP was created in the wake of a shooting and SWAT standoff incident near Wimberley. The incident required the lockdown of a nearby Wimberleyarea school.

Will Conley, former Hays County Pct. 3 commissioner, called a meeting of local officials to review lessons from the event.

“The goal of the program is to ensure that all first responders, school authorities and students understand what is being asked of them given any type of dangerous or potentially dangerous situation, be it an active shooter, hazardous material spill, fire or weather emergency,” according to a county statement.

The Hays County Office of Emergency Management Standard Response Protocol Task Force has worked with the sheriff’s office, city of San Marcos Police, all first responders in the county and school officials to conduct drills that practice safety protocols each year.

The Standard Response Protocol is an emergency protocol created by the I Love U Guys Foundation.

Many school districts throughout the U.S. use the protocol, which defines action responses to lockout, lockdown, evacuate and shelter situations.

“We wanted to make sure everyone is on the same page with what the terms lockdown, lockout, shelter, and evacuate mean and what each action requires from those affected,” Smith said. “We had amazing cooperation from all the school districts in Hays County, as well as elected officials countywide.”

The task force conducts a training refresher and full lockdown drill on every campus, every year, which is about 70 drills across Hays County, according to the release.

“Officials take campus security very seriously and anything we can do to provide safety and security for our children, teachers, administrators and parents is paramount to our efforts,” Smith said.

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PHOTO BY JIM CULLEN

Hays High Speech and Debate sends three to nationals STAFF REPORT

This weekend, Hays High Speech and Debate team competed at the National Speech and Debate Association’s National Qualifying Tournament. Hays advanced over a dozen students to semifinals, clearing seven to finals.

Brough Cosgrove and

Erin Swearingen earned 5th place in Duo Interpretation, Merisa VanSchalkwyk earned 5th in Dramatic Interpretation.

Patrick Fox earned 1st place, going undefeated in Lincoln Douglas debate, Ryan Coffey and Vince Johnson got 5th and 2nd place respectively in Foreign Extemporaneous and

Jude McClaren got 2nd in Domestic Extemporaneous.

Johnson, McClaren and Fox earned competition spots at the NSDA National Tournament to be held in Fort Lauderdale in June. Hays stands to pick up several more national qualifiers at the NSDA Student Congress Qualifier on March 9.

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my breath came back and I was fine.”

Eventually Raymond made her way into the air-conditioned building and sat on the dais as the meeting was called.

But when the meeting was called into executive session, Raymond’s problems worsened to the point that help had to be called in.

Mark Winter, Hays High head athletic trainer, was working a junior varsity football game when he was radioed to help.

Winter checked Raymond’s vital signs and discovered her heart rate was at 122 beats per minute. Her blood pressure was also “high,” Raymond said.

While Raymond’s vital signs calmed after the closed session, Raymond continued to exhibit breathing issues.

“He said, ‘You are done.

We are going to the ER right now,’” Raymond said.

Raymond was driven to Seton Hays in Kyle, where within ten minutes, she was diagnosed with a blood clot. It was discovered she had a blood disorder where her blood tends to clot on its own; it required her to take blood thinners.

For the next three days, Raymond was in the ICU at Seton Hays. Raymond said the clot was so big, that it went into both of her lungs.

The clot eventually parked itself in her left lung and stayed there.

Doctors tried to dissolve the clot with medications, but to no avail.

Surgery was eventually called for, and for the next nine months, Raymond waited for a surgery that she hoped would save her life.

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“All I wanted to do was get home to my kids ...

When I had the surgery, I wanted to get done and recover fast.”

–Holly Raymond, Hays CISD school board member

cally removing the clot from the lungs. Raymond said one out of 20 people die from that particular surgery.

An additional complication was the limited number of hospitals that perform such procedures.

Raymond was forced to travel to San Diego, California to have her surgery.

But the most pressing fear Raymond had was for her husband, whose mother passed away from cancer at a young age.

“My biggest fear in all of it was that he would have to lose someone like that again, that he would

have to raise our kids by himself,” Raymond said, tearfully.

On May 16, 2014, Raymond successfully went through surgery to remove a clot from her lungs. After several weeks of recovery from her surgery, Raymond went home.

Her drive to see her children pushed Raymond to have the second fastest recovery from the operation.

“All I wanted to do was get home to my kids,” Raymond said. “When I had the surgery, I wanted to get done and recover fast.”

Time has healed most of the wounds Raymond suffered, though she did suffer some permanent damage to her lungs that cannot be fixed.

Raymond feels she is fortunate to have a new lease on life.

She credits the work of the community, including Winter, with saving her life.

“If I would have gone back to that meeting, the clots could have released and I would have been done,” Raymond said.

“Him being able to come in and press the immediacy of how important it was got me to the hospital.”

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The glory of redbuds & other flowering natives Ask Chris

PHOTO BY EXSAR ARGUELLO

Genealogy Gems (participants above) meet on the third Saturday of the month, is a new program hosted by Assistant Library Director Cara Waits.

Finding one’s roots

Genealogy seminar offered at Kyle Library

BY EXSAR ARGUELLO

Tracing family lineage is a time consuming and tedious project, but the Kyle Public Library is looking at initiatives to help local residents find their roots.

Genealogy Gems, which

meets on the third Saturday of the month, is a new program hosted by Assistant Library Director Cara Waits.

For Waits, tracing her family’s roots has been years in the making, researching on numerous databases and sending letters to churches and universities as far

as Mexico for answers.

In her quest to finding her roots, Waits has worked on receiving her Genealogy certification and strives to share her knowledge with interested citizens with the same goals.

A pilot program was launched on Jan. 27 and was hosted by

Waits. The immediate success prompted the monthly meeting, which saw eager citizens engage in conversation about different methods of tracing their lineage.

“We want to educate and hear how others are finding the

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Kyle City Planner Will Atkinson said the building still has several other permits to apply for before development, but he expects the facility to begin construction before the end of the year.

More senior living options in Kyle

BY KATERINA BARTON

several other permits to apply for before development, but More options for senior livhe expects the facility to begin ing facilities in Kyle could be on construction before the end the horizon. of the year.

On Feb. The facility is The proposed 13, the Kyle expected to go Planning before the Kyle 65,000-squareand Zoning City Council at Commission date. foot property that a later recommended The approval of a proposed would be loconditional 65,000-squareuse permit cated near Seton foot prop(CUP) for a erty would be Medical Center new senior located near living facility Seton Medical Hays, will have to be located Center Hays near Seton off of Philom86 rental units.

Hays. ena Drive. The Developers lot is located The facility will be of the new fabetween Bluecility submitstem and Butthe fourth of its ted an applitercup streets kind in the city of between both cation, with the city’s Planentrances of Kyle. ning Departthe Prairie ment looking on the Creek at the overall design aesthetic subdivision. and building materials.

The new facility, which will Officials in the Planning have 86 rental units, will be Department felt the facility an addition to the three other met the current requirements senior living facilities already in within the city’s Interstate 35 the city of Kyle.

Overlay standards.

Comparatively, Orchard Kyle City Planner Will AtkinPark of Kyle offers about 100 son said the building still has beds, New Haven Assisted

Living and Memory care offers two 16-bedroom homes, and Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation offers 126 beds.

According to Wallethub’s findings on best states to retire to in 2018, Texas ranked 22nd out of the 50 states in the U.S. Texas ranked well in affordability, but lower in the categories of quality of life and health care.

Kyle Mayor Travis Mitchell said senior living is a growing market in the Kyle area. He said several other development groups are looking to come to Kyle in the near future.

Mitchell said the city has taken votes on other facilities that are also being proposed.

One of the primary aspects of the growing senior population is access to medical care at Seton Hays, Mitchell said.

While Kyle does compete with Buda for senior facilities, Mitchell said the city has “soft power” to where they don’t have to entice developers to make their way to Kyle.

“Seton has been wildly successful in Kyle and has generated ancillary medical buisnesses around our community,” Mitchell said. “As a result, it creates a great opportunity for the senor living community.”

More information on the WalletHub study can be found online at https://wallethub. com/edu/best-and-worststates-to-retire/18592

by Chris Winslow

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pring will be arriving soon, and it is always such a wonderful time to be living in central Texas. For me one of the highlights is the sight of some of our flowering native trees blossoming out – the redbuds, the mountain laurels and the Mexican plums.

You can see them planted in landscapes as accent plants, and along the roadways growing wild.

It is these wild trees that show us just how adaptable they are. Sometimes they are exposed to the full force of the sun and other times they form an understory, shaded from the sun by larger canopy trees.

At the nursery I am often asked about Eastern, Mexican, and Texas redbuds. What’s the difference?

The eastern redbud, which grows all over the hills of Austin, is the largest of the local redbuds. It can reach a height of more than 20 feet and has large, heart shaped leaves.

Its flowers are purplishred, and they appear late February through the end of March – a great announcement that spring has arrived. Its leaves are dull (non-reflective) and tend to rust in the late summer heat. Many horticulturists believe the Eastern redbud is more suitable to the eastern part of the state where rainfall is more abundant and soil pH is more acidic.

Better for our region are the Texas and the Mexican redbuds.

The Texas redbud grows naturally west of the range of Eastern redbuds, in calcareous, well-drained (limestone) soils. It is more heat and drought tolerant, grows to a width and height of 15 feet, and has rose-purple flowers. Its waxy leaves are smaller than the eastern variety.

It has a multi-trunk form which makes it an attractive landscape accent or specimen tree.

The Mexican redbud is a little smaller than the Texas redbud, with smaller, glossier wavy leaves.

Mexican redbuds must be planted in a well-drained location. They are known for their extreme drought and heat tolerance. For hard, xeriscape plantings, this beautiful tree is the one for you.

My two other favorite native, spring flowering trees are the Texas mountain laurel and the Mexican plum.

The laurel is a large shrub… or small tree if you prefer. It has dark evergreen leaves and multiple trunks. Its flowers are dark purple with sweet, grape Kool-Aid fragrance.

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Glamorous actress had more than mere ‘oomph’

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he Sheridans of Denton, Texas brought Texas their fifth and final History child into their modest home on Feb. 21, 1915

by Bartee and gave the baby girl the Haile name Clara Lou. Looking back on her on-screen credit. formative years in the “Clara Lou” was a mite North Texas town, the selftoo country for the studio described “tomboy” once snobs’ taste, but they could recalled with unmistaknot settle on a stage name able pride, “I can whistle for their new property. She through my fingers, became bulldog a “Ann steer, light Clara Lou was Sheridan” a fire with purely by two sticks a 17-year-old accident and shoot after a pistol student at playing a with fair character accuracy.”

North Texas by that She also State Teachers name in played an on-lot basketCollege, when producball well tion put enough to her sister on by her make the women’s Pauline secretly drama coach. team at the local entered her in Everyone, even the college. obliging Paramount’s Not the young usual “Search starlet, skill set agreed she for one of for Beauty” looked like the most an “Ann.” glamorous contest.

The Things actresses began to of Holattractive look up for lywood’s Ann after teenager won “golden a director age.” the competition insisted Clara upon givLou was and the first ing her a a 17-yearspeaking old prize that part in student the film at North included a “Behold Texas State movie contract My Wife.”

Teachers Impressed College and a cameo by her when solid perher sister in the motion formance, Pauline especially secretly picture “Search in an emoentered her sibling for Beauty” that tional suicide scene, with the introduced the Parahead-turnmount exing looks Texas coed to tended her in Paracontract. mount’s the world.

The size “Search for and scope Beauty” of her roles improved for contest. The attractive teenager won the competi- awhile. She was chosen for the female lead opposite tion and the first prize that Fred MacMurray in the included a movie contract and a cameo in the motion 1935 flick “Car 99” followed picture “Search for Beauty” by a western with Randolph Scott titled “Rocky that introduced the Texas Mountain Mystery.” But by coed to the world. the end of the year she was Clara Lou quit school, back to one-line parts – the moved to California and prelude to Paramount’s went to work in 1934 at decision to let her go.

Paramount Studios as a Ann was not in the $75-a-week contract extra. unemployment line for The movie-makers kept long, however. She signed the new-hire busy casting with Warner Brothers and her in 14 films that first soon was making better year alone. All the roles movies, a combined total were tiny “bit parts” with of 18 in 1937 and 1938, only a couple of words of dialogue and often with no with box-office mainstays

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Continued from pg. 1C They require a welldrained site and can grown successfully in a wide range of sunlight, from full sun exposure to shade. They are also drought and heat tolerant.

The Mexican plum can be seen along the roadside toward the end of February and early March. It is a small tree with black trunks and beautiful, strong scented white flowers. Mexican plums do best with a little afternoon shade, making this a good choice for an understory tree.

like Humphrey Bogart, Pat O’Brien and Dick Powell.

She stepped up to Warner Brothers’ “top tier” with the female lead in the hit crime drama “Angels With Dirty Faces” released in November 1938. Her name appeared alongside James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart on movie theater marquees across the country.

Warner’s publicity department shifted into high gear with a campaign to make Ann Sheridan a topic of kitchen-table conversation. To give her a slightly scandalous image, she was touted as “The Oomph Girl” and ordered to show her face in Hollywood nightclubs at least three evenings a week.

Ann hated that nickname but wisely kept her opinion to herself. Years later she had second thoughts saying, “If it hadn’t been for ‘oomph,’ I’d probably still be in the chorus.”

“I was struck by her extraordinary magnetism and directness,” English icon Rex Harrison said of “The Oomph Girl.” He recognized in her that “distinctive quality of earthiness that never transcends to blatant sexiness.”

Ann finally found stardom during the war years of the 1940’s with a deft mixture of comedies like “It All Came True,” “Navy Blues” and “The Man Who Came Dinner” and taut dramas such as “Torrid Zone,” “They Drive

by Night” and “Kings Row” which featured her most critically acclaimed performance as well as future president Ronald Reagan at his best.

Nevertheless, by the late 1940s Ann’s career in

motion pictures was in irreversible decline. Warner Brothers lost interest in the aging actress, even though she was still in her thirties, and pushed her out the door. Work for the freelance performer was hard to come by in Hollywood, so she switched coasts in search of opportunities in the New York-centered television industry.

Ann’s longtime relationship with publicist Steve Hannagan, which had followed her two brief marriages, ended with

his sudden death in 1953.

She took the loss hard but eventually picked up the pieces of her life and career with an occasional movie, stage-show tours and better luck in television that include a year on the soap opera “Another World.”

Ann’s career as well as her personal life were on the rebound by 1966. She was happily married to her third husband and starring in her own successful TV show “Pistols and Petticoats.”

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Then on Jan. 21, 1967 Ann Sheridan died at her California home from cancer of the esophagus and liver at the age of 51.

Not a single person, not even her spouse, knew she had been terminally ill for months.

Copies of “Unforgettable Texans,” Bartee’s fourth and latest book, are still available. Get yours by mailing a check for $28.80 to “Bartee Haile,” P.O. Box 130011, Spring, TX 77393 or order on-line at barteehaile.com.

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One of the best native stands of Mexican plums is along FM 1626 near Leisurewoods. These redbuds, laurels and plums can be found all over Hays and Travis counties, both in wild settings and as statements in landscapes.

Happy Gardening Everyone!

If you have a question for Chris, send it via email to iathyme@yahoo.com. Or mail a postcard to It’s About Thyme: 11726 Manchaca Road, Austin, TX 78748 www.itsaboutthyme.com

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When starting to trace one’s roots, Waits said there are a few factors in finding success, such as know who you’re looking for and having general location, dates and records.

If a birth or death certificate does not exist, old military, baptismal or travel records can aid one in their search to finding answers. Genealogists can pinpoint a location and decade by looking at old photographs based on dress, style and other details.

Tracing lineage also teaches individuals about historical events rang-

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ing from wars and mass migration patterns, Waits said. The Galveston immigration database and Austin Historical Center are resources in the state that could help trace when one’s ancestors left their home country for a better life in the United States.

The Kyle Public Library is looking to purchase a new microfilm reader, a device that projects images stored on microform to a readable size. Without the reader, local residents are forced to travel outside of the area for access to a device.

Waits is currently working on a grant and other means of funding to help provide this machine to the library.

In addition to the microfilm reader, the heritage room at the library is equipped with numerous

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books and archived newspapers and state documents that could aid one in a search to tracing their genealogy, locally.

“I grew up with stories about my family and after I had my son I realized I wanted to pass these stories before they are forgotten,” Waits said. “You do have to like research.

It’s a long process but the more you learn about your roots, the easier it is to give yourself identity.”

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stories of their past,” Waits said. “There are so many resources out there for you to use, and we’re trying to educate and make that more accessible to our citizens.”

The meeting was educational and informative for the eager citizens.

Waits presented different databases and websites that can assist in the process of finding one’s ancestors.

Before computers, birth certificates and other official documents were recorded by hand.

Immigrants from Europe and South America often had difficult names to pronounce.

Once in America, families were forced to change their name or spelling in order to acclimate to American society at the time.

With tracking lineage, old family stories and recorded documents often clash, leaving variance from what was once told by word of mouth.

“You could grow up knowing your greatgrandmother’s last name, then all of a sudden the birth certificate says something completely different,” Waits said. “Family feuds, previous marriages and identity protection could all be contributing factors. You have to keep track of all of these details.”

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Marge Wood book reading at It's About Thyme

Children's author Marge Wood, who has just published the second novel in her 'Secret Buzzard Society' series, will be reading from her work and signing books at It's About Thyme Garden Cente in Manchaca Feb. 26 at 2 p.m.

Set in the fictional west Texas town of Chert during a drought, this humorous tale follows of the efforts of 12-year-old Ingrid and her friends to save water, and thereby save the town. Wood wrote the first “Secret Buzzard Society” while recovering from an illness. “I believe writing is very healing,” she says. She wrote the latest novel – “The Weirdest, Hottest Summer Ever” after attending a workshop on drought and water issues.

Buda Ninja Warrior 2017

Get ready to run, jump, climb and win at the Hays Hills Baptist Church Buda Ninja Warrior competition Feb. 25. Adult competition will be held at 1 p.m., youth competition at 3 p.m. and a youth rally at 6 p.m.

Competitions are $20 per person.

Participants must sign waiver forms.

See more info at BudaNinja.com.

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Author Elisa Albert will hold book readings and signing on Feb. 23 at 3:30 p.m. at Texas State University’s Witliff Collections and Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center in Kyle. Albert is the author of “After Birth,” “The Book of Dahlia,” “How This Night is Different,” and the editor of the anthology “Freud’s Blind Spot.” Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, The Believer, Time Magazine, and numerous others. She has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the HWK in Germany, and the Amsterdam Writer’s Residency. She lives in upstate New York with her family.

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Victoria in recovery

Buda Main Street gives 2,300 for hurricane relief STAFF REPORT

The Buda Downtown Merchants Group, in partnership with the Buda Main Street Program, presented a check to the Victoria Main Street Program Tuesday, which will assist with rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Harvey.

Downtown Buda raised $2,300 in commemorative ornament sales and donations received during the holidays.

Mary Helen Barrick, Victoria Main Street program manager, came to Buda to accept the donation on behalf of Victoria Main Street.

“It means so much to us and I love the idea of Main Street Programs helping each other. It shows that this is such a good organization,” said Barrick.

Buda commemorative ornaments were created

by Assemblage CCG artists, Theresa Jones and Jacqueline Hollis-Martinez, to sell.

All of the proceeds benefitted a sister Main Street City affected by Hurricane Harvey.

Victoria, which has a population of 67,670, had to cancel its primary fundraiser because of Harvey.

Victoria’s “Definitely Downtown” banners were destroyed during the storm, according to a city press release.

The program had to pay for the new banners in the face of decreased funding. In light of this information, the Buda Main Street Advisory Board voted to select Victoria as the recipient of these funds.

Barrick says the recovery efforts are ongoing.

“It is a process. We are strong and we are coming back bigger and better.”

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The Buda Main Street Program and city of Buda staff present a check to the Victoria Main Street program to assist with recovery efforts. Those who participating in the check presentation are (left to right) Kenneth Williams, City Manager, Jessica Burke, Buda Main Street Advisory Board, Maggie Gillespie, Buda Main Street Program Manager, Karlyn Ellis, Buda Main Street Advisory Board, Mary Helen Barrick, Victoria Main Street Program Manager, Julie Renfro, Buda Main Street Advisory Board, Rebecca Acosta-Ojeda, Buda Main Street Advisory Board, Chance Sparks, Assistant City Manager.

Dripping Springs residents head to Austin to protest wedding venue

BY EXSAR ARGUELLO

Continued frustration over a controversial Driftwood wedding venue led area residents to protest in Austin Monday.

The protest, held in front of Terry Black’s BBQ, was done in opposition to the Mark Black Wedding Venue, which is proposed to be located on Crystal Hills Drive.

The protests erupted roughly 24 hours before the Dripping Springs City Council was scheduled to potentially decide on the venue’s fate.

Dripping Springs city leaders Feb. 13 opted to postpone a decision on the venue to Feb. 20 in order to obtain more information.

But in the interim, customers at the barbeque joint, which is owned by Mark’s brother, Terry, watched from

their seats as residents who live along Crystal Hills Drive carried signs down the sidewalk to display their discomfort with the proposed project.

On Jan. 23, the Dripping Springs Planning and Zoning Commission recommended the venue’s approval by a 5-1 vote. Since that time, two public hearings were held on the venue, with a third having taken place Feb. 20.

The public hearings and dialogue between residents and Mark Black was the buildup to the protest, a final showing by the concerned residents before the vote.

Jeanine Christensen, secretary of the Friendship Alliance, a nonprofit organization representing neighborhoods in northern Hays County, said neighbors had sought for a rally

Immigrants fill need locally, nationally

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A handful of area residents marched near Terry Black’s BBQ near downtown Austin to protest development of a proposed wedding venue site in Driftwood. The owner of the proposed venue is Mark Black.

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The City of Kyle and Hays County Engineering Departments, hereby gives notice of the City’s and County’s intent to revise the flood hazard information, generally located between Jack C Hays Road (FM 2770) and the upstream embankment of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Site 1 Reservoir.

Specifically, the flood hazard information shall be revised along Plum Creek from just upstream of Jack C Hays Road to just upstream of SCS Site 1 Reservoir, Plum Creek Tributary 1 from just downstream of Jack C Hays Road to just upstream of SCS Site 1 Reservoir, and Plum Creek Tributary 2 from just downstream of Jack C Hays Road to the confluence with Plum Creek.

As a result of the revision, the 1% annual chance (Base) Flood Elevations (BFEs) shall be established, and the 1% annual chance floodplain shall widen and narrow within the area of revision.

Maps and detailed analysis of the revision can be reviewed at the City of Kyle’s engineering department offices at 100 W Center St, Kyle, Texas 78640 or Hays County Development Service Department at 2171 Yarrington Road, San Marcos, Texas 78666.

Interested persons may call Mario Perez, CBO, CFM (City floodplain administrator and Building Official) at 512-262-3918 or Tom Pope, CFM (County floodplain administrator) at 512-393-2150 for additional information from 02/21/2018 to 03/21/2018.

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The company reserves the right to reject any bid and withdraw any from the sale at any time.

Date: March 3, 2018 River Road Self Storage wishes to avail themselves of the Texas Provision of chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code. This sale is listed below.

Time: 10:00 Location: River Road Self Storage, 880 River Road, San Marcos, TX 78666 Unit 3 Dining Table, Boxes, Mattresses Unit 20 Mini Refrigerator Unit 51 Flat Screen TV, BBQ Pit, Couch, Stroller, Recliner, Bicycle Unit 63 Space Heaters, Several Boxes and Bags Unit 76 Love Seat, Dining Table, Head Board, Recliner Unit 91 Tires, Microwave, Misc Tools, Compressor Unit 97 Bags and Boxes Unit 101 Bar Stools, Baby items Unit 111 Monitors, Bags, Boxes, Bike, Jewelry Box, Garden Tools Unit 135 Boxes and Totes Unit 148 Multiple Boxes, Entertainment Center Unit 163 Boxes, Dresser Unit 172 Couches, Multiple Boxes and Bags, Childs Items Unit 174 Dresser, Clothes, Totes Unit 188 Misc. Items Unit 193 Couch, Chairs, Bicycle, Several Boxes, Coffee Table Unit 232 Washer, Dryer, Wheelchair Unit 268 Iron Swinging Chair, Chairs, Boxes Unit 276 Roll Top Desk, Pentex Camera, AC Window unit Unit 323 Table and Chairs, Microwave, Couch Unit 326 Washer/Dryer, Multiple Boxes Unit 362 Boxes and Totes, Toys Unit 368 Compressor, Weed Eater, Press, Dresser, Generator Unit 374 TV, BBQ Pit, Boxes, Desk Unit 376 Table and Chairs Unit 423 Dresser, Bed Frame, Exercise Machine Unit 425 Clothes, Several Boxes, 2 Beds

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The City of Buda is seeking Invitation for Bids, IFB 018-006 The project includes construction of improvements to the existing drainage system including earthen channels,

culverts, utility adjustments, traffic control, erosion and sediment control, and site restoration. A portion of the work is located with Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way and compliance with railroad safety requirements will be required Please submit four (4) copies of the proposal [one (1) CD or flash drive and three (3) hard copies] signed in ink in a sealed envelope to: City of Buda Attention: Purchasing Manager RE: IFB 018-006 121 Main Street Buda, Texas 78610 The deadline for submission of proposals is 3:00 pm, Thursday March 22, 2018.

The City of Buda reserves the right to negotiate with any and all persons or firms submitting proposals, per the Texas Professional Services Procurement Act and the Uniform Grant and Contract Management Standards.

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NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF GRACIELA ZUNIGA-GARCIA, A DECEASED PERSON

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Independent Administration for the Estate of Graciela Zuniga-Garcia, a deceased person, were issued on November 15, 2017 in Cause Number 17-0279-P, In the County Court of Hays County to Juan Andres Zuniga and he qualified as Independent Administrator on January 9, 2018. All persons having claims against the Estate of Graciela Zuniga-Garcia, should present those claims within the time and in the manner prescribed by law to: Paula J. Salinas, at 804 Rio Grande St, Austin, Texas 78701.

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF GUILLERMO SANCHEZREYES, A DECEASED PERSON

Notice is hereby given that Letters of Independent Administration for the Estate of Guillermo SanchezReyes, a deceased person, were issued on November 15, 2017 in Cause Number 17-0280-P, In the County Court of Hays County to Juan Andres Zuniga. All persons having claims against the Estate of Guillermo Sanchez-Reyes, should present those claims within the time and in the manner prescribed by law to: Paula J. Salinas, at 804 Rio Grande St, Austin, Texas 78701.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Administration for the Estate of Candelario Esquivel, Deceased , were issued on January 24, 2018 in Cause No . 16-0219-P, pending in the County Court at Law No. 1 of Hays County, Texas, to: Olivia E. Duran.

All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. c/o: Olivia E. Duran 403 Field Dr. Manchaca, Texas 78652 DATED the 24th day of January, 2018.

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Representative Jason Isaac,” Christensen said.

Doug Marsh, a resident in the Goldenwood West neighborhood, said he is not completely confident in the outcome of the Feb. 20 meeting, but hopes council listens to neighbor concern.

“We have presented wastewater, fire and traffic concerns all of which have been studied and analyzed by professionals,” Marsh said. “If a person just goes out to the road, they can see that it is not built to accommodate all of the residents and the hundreds of people for a wedding venue.”

Black, who watched from his restaurant’s outside dining deck, said he wasn’t surprised with the protest.

Regardless of the neighbors’ display, Black said he is still confident city council will approve the permits for the wedding venue.

“It’s unfortunate that they continue with the false claims that we haven’t engaged in conversation even though we met last Tuesday,” Black said. “We’ve done everything by the book.

The engineering has been cleared.”

On Feb. 13, the Dripping Springs City Council voted to delay a decision on the venue.

That was followed by heated comments from community members against the development of the venue.

If the city council approves the project, Black said development will begin in the near future.

During the meeting, Carlos Torres-Verdin, president of the Friendship Alliance, spoke on behalf of the concerned citizens.

Although no new scientific developments were presented

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“We have presented wastewater, fire and traffic concerns all of which have been studied and analyzed by professionals.

If a person just goes out to the road, they can see that it is not built to accommodate all of the residents and the hundreds of people for a wedding venue.”

–Doug Marsh, a resident in the Goldenwood West neighborhood

Feb. 13, Torres-Verdin and other community members addressed concerns that ranged from fire safety to an increase in traffic on the road leading to the venue.

Other concerns extended to the potential for noise issues and wastewater treatment, Torres-Verdin said.

“Unless something comes out of left field, I’m confident we got it right,” Black said Feb. 13. “We had our presentation at P&Z and (the neighbors) had theirs. All of the engineering has been cleared and approved by the county.”

migrants were most numerous in construction and manufacturing jobs.

Additionally, immigrant-led households paid upwards of $20 billion in federal taxes in 2014, according to statistics presented by the AIC. Amy Reed-Sandoval, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso, said that as a general rule, immigration is, on the whole, an “economic benefit” to the country.

“However, it is at least somewhat understandable that working-class U.S. citizens may sometimes perceive workingclass immigrants (particularly those who are undocumented) as a threat to their financial well-being and economic opportunities,” Reed Sandoval said in a statement.

Reed-Sandoval advocated that immigrants, undocumented and otherwise, should be “empowered to join labor unions in the U.S., while labor unions should also “strive to be inclusive of undocumented people and their interests.”

“Working people in the U.S. should work together, rather than against one another,” Reed-Sandoval said.

Elizabeth Keyes, associate professor of law in the Immigrant Rights Clinic Program at the University of Baltimore School of Law, said immigrants offer a narrow net economic benefit to the country and that they create jobs and pay into tax systems.

“The question gets more complicated, though, when we look at specific sub-groups being affected. People in the lowest-wage jobs are often more adversely affected than others,” Keyes said.

J.R. Gonzales, executive director of the Buda Area Chamber of Commerce, said immigration is important to the

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Roughly 2.9 million immigrant workers comprised 21.6 percent of the labor force in Texas in 2015, according to the American Immigration Council.

In Hays County, Buda Chamber of Commerce Director J.R. Gonzales said many bluecollar industries have seen an economic impact as a result of immigration. sustainability of the state and federal economy.

He said immigrants help fill in open jobs that are available in the current economy. The inability to fill those positions, which are often skilled labor positions, could end up driving up prices for goods.

One example Gonzales gave was the shrimping industry, which, he said, relies heavily on immigrant labor. Other industries that rely on immigrant labor include the construction and agricultural industries.

“There aren’t a whole lot of people that want to be out 8 to 10 hours a day in the Texas sun to pick crops,” Gonzales said.

Other industries that have seen an economic impact from immigration include engineers, architects and in the nursing field, as well as

in the high-tech industry.

In Hays County, Gonzales said many blue-collar industries have seen an economic impact as a result of immigration.

Additionally, immigrants also infuse dollars back into the local economy as well. Money made by immigrants goes toward purchasing food, gas and other expenses.

“As they’re living here and working here, they’re also spending money as well,” Gonzales said.

“Their dollars also go back to their country of origin as well.”

Immigrants also follow the entrepreneurial spirit, Gonzales said. According to a 2012 Small Business Administration study, roughly one out of ten immigrant workers owned a business.

In 2016, the SBA estimated 14.4 percent of

business owners were immigrants. Industries that have the highest share of immigrant owners are accommodation and food service, as well as transportation and warehousing.

“You talk to people who are very entrepreneurial. They start a business and bring their skill sets,” Gonzales said.

“It’s not just blue collar jobs, but some folks are starting CPA (certified public accountant) companies and filling the needs.”

But many challenges await immigrants who work in the country.

Gonzales pointed to federal immigration policy changes.

While Gonzales said there needs to be comprehensive reform in the country’s immigration policy, the impact immigrants have on the economy will still weighs heavily.

Gonzales pointed to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s advocacy of immigrant labor in the country.

“It’s the basic economics of it,” Gonzales said.

“If you don’t have a basic labor force to meet your needs, you won’t succeed.”

Public Notice continued from 2D NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Chapter 59 Texas Property Code. They will conduct a Public Sale to the highest bidder for cash on their premises. This sale is being listed below.

Morningstar Storage wishes to avail themselves of the Texas Provision of chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code. They will conduct a Public Sale to the highest bidder for cash on their premises. This sale is listed below. The company reserves the right to reject any bid and withdraw any from the sale at any time.

Date: 03/12/2018

Time: 10:15 AM Location: Morningstar Storage, 1001 W. Goforth Rd., Buda, TX 78610 Units: Unit 1073 – Sam Harper – Stand Up Mirror, Luggage Bags Unit 1150 – Ronny Parks – Couch, Flat Screen TV, Guitar, Plastic Totes, Boxes, Mattress, Misc. Household Unit 2026 – Rafael Guzman – Iron Patio Table/ Chairs, Mirror, Toy Box Unit 3122 – Nadine Cawvey – Boxes, Plastic Totes, Household Décor, Kitchen Items, Furniture Unit B211 – Brent Haas – Tools, File Cabinets, Furni-

ture, Washer, Dryer, Boxes, Totes, Misc.

Unit D409 – Joe Flores Couch

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Sale of property to satisfy a landlord’s lien to be held online at Storagetreasures. com by competitive bid.

Anytime Storage, LLC 880 Windy Hill Rd. Kyle, TX 78640 Sale will end on or after March 5, 2018 at 11 a.m.

Cleanup deposit is required. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale. The property

Summer Fun SUMMER FUN CAMP GUIDE 2018

contents of all storage unit(s) sold at this sale are purchased “as is” “where is” for CASH/CREDIT. Unit items sold for cash to the highest bidder.

All Units have some miscellaneous household items and furniture.

Property includes the contents of spaces of the following tenant (s).

EDGAR OLIVO – Appliances KYELYN SKYE SULLIVAN – Boxes KYELYN SKYE SULLIVAN – Electronics, clothes, tools BECKY REYNA – Tools, electronics, materials, MANUEL MARTINEZ

– Tools, sporting goods,electronics

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Bartlett Cocke General contractors, Construction Manager-at-Risk, for: Hays CISD - Dahlstrom Science and Athletic Renovations (multiple campus), is requesting competitive proposals from subcontractors and suppliers.

Subcontractor and supplier proposals will be received via Fax to (512) 326-4339 or (512) 326-3990 or via email to bidaus@bartlettcocke. com no later than 2:00 PM

on 3/1/2018. Any proposals received after this time will not be accepted.

Electronic copies of the proposal documents may be obtained from Bartlett Cocke or viewed at local and online planrooms. Contact Stefan Doerr via email Sdoerr@bartlettcocke.com or phone (512) 326-4223 to make arrangements.

Small, Woman Owned, Disadvantaged, HUB, HUBZone, 8(a), Minority, and all similar firms are encouraged to submit proposals on this project. Bartlett Cocke General Contractors is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer.

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Hays Free Press SUMMER FUN edition in the March 14 newspaper.

This edition will contain summer camp information and other summer events in the area

To advertise in the 2018 Kids Summer Fun edition, call 512-268-7862.

Reserve your space no later than Friday, March 2nd.

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