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Community theater production coming in late summer to Kyle.

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FM 1626: Site of 345-plus accidents in past two years

BY CARLIE PORTERFIELD

Since 2016, nearly 1,000 drivers and passengers have been in involved in 345 car accidents along FM 1626, according to data from the Texas Department of Transportation.

FM 1626 stretches PHOTO BY CARLIE PORTERFIELD through the land west of

I-35 from Manchaca to north Kyle, and sections of the road have been under construction for improvements since 2012.

The number of car wrecks that occur on the road is one reason the county moved forward with the improvements in the first place, Hays County Commissioner Mark

Jones said.

“Ever since we’ve been having the growth we’ve experienced, FM 1626 hasn’t been able to handle (the resulting traffic),” Jones said. “That’s why the county is paying for the improvement. TxDOT will pay it back, but we felt like we couldn’t wait because of the amount of people

Undocumented residents fear losing family

BY CARLIE PORTERFIELD

BY KATERINA BARTON PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WIMBERLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT

Seven injured in wreck near Wimberley

For roughly an hour Sunday, emergency officials closed a part of Ranch Road 12 at Oakwood Loop, located between San Marcos and Wimberley, to clear a major multi-vehicle wreck. Seven people were transported to area hospitals, including two via StarFlight, as a result of the collision, which involved as many as three vehicles. The extent of injuries suffered by victims is unknown at this time. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating.

Democratic candidates take on topical issues in public forum

BY EXSAR ARGUELLO

compasses six counties, including Hays, took on Water issues, school the topic of Wimberley safety and education potentially striking a reform were topics tack- deal with Aqua Texas led by a pair of Demoto supply sewage lines cratic candidates vying in downtown. There for state offices during a is overarching dissent June 30 forum. against the water supThe event, held at the plier in the community.

Wimberley Commu“I will not take a dime nity Center, featured from for-profit corpoDemocratic candidate rations because those Steven Kling, who’s companies always have running against incum- a seat at the table and bent Donna Campbell you never do,” Kling (R-New Braunfels) for said. “Wimberley needs the State Senate 25 seat, a community-owned and candidate Mike system where local conCollier, who will battle trol can manage that incumbent Dan Patrick system.”

PHOTO BY EXSAR ARUGELLO in the Lt. Governor’s Kling also addressed race.

Houston-based compa- State Democratic candidates Steven Kling and Mike Collier Kling, who is vying discussed water issues, school safety and education at a for a district that enCANDIDATES FORUM, 2 June 30 forum in Wimberley.

Relatives of suspect in fatal hit-and-run in Kyle arrested

BY MOSES LEOS III

Two relatives of a man suspected in a fatal Kyle hit-and-run incident have been arrested after authorities believe they might have played a role in covering up the crime.

As the investigation continues, authorities have now located the vehicle they believe

Gilbert Villegas, 47, of San Marcos, was driving when he allegedly struck and killed Kyle resident John Lyon in late May. Kevin Sean Deleon, 31, of San Marcos, was charged with Tampering with Physical Evidence, a third- degree felony, along with False Report

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HIT-AND-RUN ARRESTS, 2 DELEON

INDEX

MOUNTAIN CITY WATER, 2

FM 1626 ACCIDENTS, 2

Chilling effect

Mountain City water system fails The water system in Mountain City two weeks ago failed due to a faulty pressure tank.

Residents received notice that the city had activated an emergency backup connection with Hays CISD that has existed for over 20 years.

As of Friday, Mountain City had been on the Hays CISD backup for 12 days.

This was the first time the secondary system has been used except for tests.

Mayor Phillip Taylor said the pressure tank was installed in the 1970s and was probably due for a replacement anyway. The pressure tank manages water pressure as it comes out of the well pump.

Due to the pressure tank failure, Taylor said, “We lost the ability to maintain consistent pressure throughout the system.”

Residents were instructed to conserve water while the city worked to fix the water system. Some residents had concerns about how this would affect their water rates.

However, Taylor said the city will eat the cost of any increase in water rates which are contingent on what Hays CISD pays for water usage.

that use FM 1626.”

Improvements being made on FM 1626 include widening and adding lanes and shoulders, installing a continuous turn lane through most of the length of the road, widening bridges, adding sidewalks and more.

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In the wake of the forced separation of families along the Texas-Mexico border, groups serving undocumented residents of Hays County believe the news has left people scared and untrusting.

It is hard to even guess how many Hays County residents are undocumented, said Melissa Rodriguez, director of community partnerships at the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center (HCWC), as most organizations do not inquire about a client’s immigration status, to protect their privacy.

“Just in general, there’s been a misperception among domestic violence victims that think we report to law enforcement if they come to us.

We don’t. They’re adults, they report if they make that decision,” Rodriguez said.

Layer the undocumented status on top of that misperception, and HCWC staff constantly have to reassure clients they will not be reported to authorities for being undocumented, she said.

“Which is not something we’ve had to prove above and beyond in the past,” Rodriguez said.

“Now, it’s a point staff feel compelled to make clear. It’s definitely more of a talking point now.”

Even if families with undocumented members in Hays County have not been directly affected by forced separations at the border, current events have caused residents to be more cautious of anyone they do not know, said community activist Karen Muñoz.

Muñoz is the co-founder of a group called Mano Amiga that serves the immigrant communities in San Marcos and the surrounding areas, and provides educational resources for them and their families.

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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.

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“A lot of undocumented people are rightfully scared of institutions generally,” Muñoz said.

“It’s easy to assume that agencies like the women’s center or Mano Amiga would report to police if you’re not on the inside of the group, but that’s not the case.

It’s very difficult to communicate we don’t work with police.”

Undocumented people living in the United States are vulnerable in ways an American-born citizen is not, Rodriguez said.

“Despite a common misperception, they’re not getting all this welfare and government assistance. They’re not eligible. That’s not happening. An undocumented person has more barriers in place that keeps them from getting help,” Rodriguez said.

Even something as simple as applying for an apartment or opening a bank account can be a major hurdle for an undocumented person, Muñoz said.

If someone with their papers runs a stop sign, they could have to pay a fine, Muñoz said. For an

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ny Electro Purification (EP), who submitted an application to pump 2.5 million gallons of water from the Trinity Aquifer. The candidate said EP would devastate the economy, and the company’s concerns are only with its profit margins that would not be invested back in the community.

“We are running out of water and we all know that,” Collier said. “We need our individual water rights protected because our source of water will always be an issue. Money spent on water conservation is money well spent.”

On a state-wide level, Collier said Texas is dealing with big out of state companies coming to Texas, who pay limited taxes and take profit margins back into their pockets.

Families who need assistance can reach out to the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center at 512396-HELP (4357), or at www.hcwc.org.

Mano Amiga can be reached by a call or text to their hotline, 512-7666854. For information on how to get involved with Mano Amiga, follow their Facebook page at www. facebook.com/ManoAmigaSM.

undocumented person, it could mean being detained, separated from their family or possible deportation.

“It’s great that people are upset about families being separated at the border, it’s important we’re upset about that,” Muñoz said. “But in Hays County and across the country, we’re seeing families also separated because of traffic stops.”

Since Mano Amiga began in February 2017, at least four Hays County residents have been detained as a result of traffic stops, she said.

“If we’re only upset about the border, I don’t think we’re doing enough,” Muñoz said.

Taylor said he expects there to be at least a slight increase in the water rate because rates in Mountain City are relatively low compared to bigger water systems.

However, at a city council meeting on June 28, council added a passthrough fee to the city’s ordinance, meaning residents will have to pay any extra rates if the city were to ever use the Hays CISD connection again.

At a city council meeting on June 28, city officials discussed replacing the faulty pressure tank with a new one, although it will take time for the new tank to be built and installed.

In the meantime, a bypass switch was installed

of the puzzle and now we have that as well.”

Authorities began their investigation after a passing motorist discovered the body of a bicyclist, later identified as Lyon, in the grass along the Interstate 35 access road near Yarrington Road.

Kyle Police received the help of several entities, including the Gulf Coast Violent Offender Task Force, the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and the U.S. Marshal’s Office in its investigation.

On June 20, authorities located and arrested Gilbert Villegas in the Houston area. Villegas was booked into the Hays County Jail June 29 on a charge of accident involving death, a second-degree felony, and tampering with physical evidence.

Gilbert Villegas is being held in the Hays County Jail on $325,000 bond.

Barnett lauded the support of the agencies that helped Kyle Police with its investigation.

“I greatly appreciate the help and cooperation from Texas DPS Aviation Unit, Comal Co. Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Rangers, Hays County Sheriff’s Office and San Marcos Police Department,” Barnett said.

Daniel Villegas was released from jail June 29 on $5,000 bond, while Deleon was released July 1 on $30,000 bond.

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“It’s not a cheap fix, but fortunately we have the reserves to take care of it,” Taylor said. Taylor also says residents should not expect to see a difference in water quality or water pressure.

Mountain City only recently obtained ownership of the water system less than a year ago from Mountain City Oaks Water, a privately owned utility company.

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This will be a 30 percent increase of the amount of time the pump would normally run, and may increase electricity usage, which the city will also pay for as normal operating costs of the well.

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me,” Collier said. “Dan Patrick called two special sessions for the bathroom bill, but not for the shooting in Sutherland Springs. Texans were killed in cold blood, and if this happens again, he has blood on his hands.”

Despite the two candidates running for different offices, Kling and Collier said they are committed to raising the Texas economy locally and state-wide by holding corporations accountable by paying their taxes and reinvesting in communities.

“People all over the state are looking at their congressional districts because our democracy is in trouble,” Kling said.

“I am running because I know I had to do something. We don’t care about the odds. We are here to make Texans believe again.”

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In a room filled with retired and active public educators, the conversation changed to public safety in schools and how to prevent school shootings, which have been at the forefront of discussion in recent months.

“I am a proponent of the second amendment, but we need background checks and red flag laws that prohibit people who shouldn’t have a gun to have a gun,” Collier said.

“We need to take sensible measures to prevent these tragedies.”

After the shooting in Santa Fe High, Patrick said more guns are needed in the classroom, Collier said. But after consulting with teachers all across the state, Collier believed more guns would be detrimental to school safety.

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Hit-And-Run Arrests to a Peace Officer, which is a Class-B misdemeanor, according to a press release. Last week, authorities arrested Daniel Villegas, 51, of San Marcos, who was booked on a charge of tampering with physical evidence.

Daniel Villegas is Gilbert Villegas’ brother, while Deleon, who was in the Hays County Jail on an unrelated charge when he was served with arrest warrants, is their nephew, according to a press release.

Kyle Police also recovered a charcoal gray Kia Optima they believe is the suspect vehicle in the hit-and-run incident. The vehicle, which was discovered with its front bumper missing, was located in an out-building on a large property located in a remote area of Comal County, said Jeff Barnett, Kyle Police Chief in a statement. Investigators used air surveillance, courtesy of the Texas Department of Public Safety Aviation Unit, to locate the vehicle.

Barnett said the landowner, who is not related to Villegas, didn’t know the vehicle was hidden in his building.

“Investigators were diligent in their efforts to locate Villegas, and arrest two of his family members for their involvement in covering up the hit and run,” Barnett said in a statement. “Locating the vehicle was a key piece

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Opinion

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I said to myself, ‘I can’t be the only one that feels that way.’

We should really have more theater here.”

–Doug DeGirolamo, president and founder of community theater group. Story, page 7

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EDITORIAL

At least it’s what a president should say

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n the early 1970s, a period of turmoil and division not so very different from now, the owners of this newspaper awoke one morning to find the remnants of a seven-foot-high burnt-out cross outside the home of our publisher at the time.

Emblazoned on it were the letters, “KKK.” In and of itself, it was a failure in the world of intimidation. The home was built on the downslope of a hill, and though the smell of oil and the evidence of burnt rags gave proof that the cross had been set ablaze in the night, no one had noticed.

The telephone threats that came later were harder to overlook.

Over the years, in the course of doing our job as we see it, in the course of covering news and sharing honest opinion as we fathom it, our staff and owners have been threatened, cursed, ku-kluxed, boycotted, shamed and shunned. We have seen ads canceled that we desperately needed, and seen subscriptions canceled that we dearly wanted.

We have not, however, ever suffered anything like

the staff at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis suffered this past week – the specter of a shotgun-toting hot-head pacing through the office, shooting down friends and colleagues.

Journalists are far from the only Americans at risk in their jobs. Electric linemen, construction workers, marital counselors, judges, police officers, fire fighters, soldiers and, so it seems, school teachers and even school children are among the many who face dangers in the workplace. It can happen in any setting, to anyone.

Why violence in our country is triggered by firearms so regularly, so brutally, in such high numbers, is a debate that tears at old wounds in this country. Perhaps our culture has something to do with it; surely our gun laws do. Solving it at this late date, across a continent so diverse, is one of the great tasks that lie before us.

Meanwhile, we need not reconcile every nuance of the gun rights debate to recognize that a minority among us are seeding violence and cheapening life by using dehumanizing language as its own kind

of weapon. They attack easy targets, including those who look different, for political gain. They attack those who rise in objection to this tawdry bullying. And, yes, they attack those who report the plain facts of what is happening.

There are plenty of fools in journalism, just as there are plenty of fools in banking, or auto mechanics, farming, rocket science – or politics. The human condition is given to fallibility.

But across the country and across the world are journalists who are called to their professions as a kind of priestly order, dedicated to doing right as their gods give them the power to see that right, determined to tell large stories and small with fidelity, and conscience, and, when the occasion demands, to write the truth as they can find it, in bits and on deadline, in the face of intimidation and even violence.

Through this fallible instrument we know our world.

Alas, for too many the notion of journalism has become polluted by

Good journalists continue to fight the good fight

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sk a journalist why they’re in this field and you might be surprised by their answer.

Riches, fame, power and glory are motivating factors for other professions; they’re far from what drives a journalist to hop in the car and steer into harm’s way.

An innate, instinctual passion to craft a story to an audience provides some of the adrenaline that makes a journalist go.

But the true power behind a journalists’ pen lies in our ability, and our duty, to uphold the values that make our Republic what it is today.

The chance to regularly exercise freedom of the press, a key tenet of the First Amendment and our right to free speech, pushes us as journalists to work as hard as we can to craft a fair, but factual piece to our readers.

All of this makes Thursday’s tragic and heinous mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland such a gut punch . It felt as if our profession, which has already been the punching bag for our current executive administration, is now quite literally under attack.

The actions of the terrorist, who will not be named, underscores every journalist’s worst fears come true.

How the subject of a story can be emboldened enough to act upon their frustration with the media, with deadly results.

According to reports, the shooter’s motive seems to have derived from a longstanding feud over a story that ran sev-

er’s motive doesn’t seem to derive from the anFrom the ti-media rhetoric that’s Sidelines been cast over the past few months. However, it

by Moses doesn’t do much to dispel Leos III fears people are viewing the media as an “enemy of eral years ago. the people,” as our PresiSadly enough, such dent once said. issues are not uncommon It’s a viewpoint that for journalists to experican’t be further from the ence. At some point in our truth. Journalists, and the careers, every journalist media in general, are not will encounter a reader the enemy. who is frustrated, angry, Are we perfect? No, mad or upset. Those frus- we’re not. We are human trations can range from and we make mistakes. the content of a piece, to But we also do try to make the way the story is writup for them, and rectify ten. them as much as possible.

In some cases, journalRather, we are the beaists can and do receive con that keeps the flame death threats based on of democracy going. what we’re doing.

We are the checks and Through it all, we jour- balances that keeps our nalists take it all in stride. governments in line and Amid the cynicism and away from malfeasance. anger directed at our feet, We serve the governed journalists solider on with and not the governors. skin as thick as an alligaAlways. tor.

I’d be lying if I said But we also don’t exThursday’s shooting didn’t pect retaliation to take usher some semblance place, either. That’s why of concern. However, one Thursday’s event invokes must believe it won’t keep a new awareness in our us from fighting the good profession. fight, to keep asking the That’s not to say we’ll tough questions, to keep start the process of patgiving answers to the downs when someone public. walks into the Hays Free And perhaps most imPress office. We welcome portantly, enact change all those who wish to when it is necessary. visit us in downtown Kyle This terrorist’s actions and are happy to have a were meant to intimidate. friendly debate, should They were meant to inwe have the time to do so. voke fear.

But we also can’t igInstead, it’s rallied a nore the fact that there cause that’s far greater are those who wish harm than anyone can imagine. against us. It’s seemingly We at the Hays Free part of an increasingly Press are unafraid. We in vitriolic tone against the the media are unrelentpress, which has been ing. spearheaded by our curWe will persevere. We rent Commander in Chief. will rise above.

To be clear, the shootWe. Will. Win.

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

carnival hawkers on cable entertainment shows where the phrase “news” is used elastically. Most journalists own worse ties and lesser makeup, are ill-paid, work long hours, pretend to be cynics, and carry a naïve notion of patriotism (and the power of freely shared ideas) tattooed somewhere up the sleeve if not on the heart.

Since recent record-keeping began in 1992 by the international Committee For The Protection of Journalists, 1,817 of these journalists have been killed, 1,306 of those killings confirmed to be because of their job as score-keepers and truth-tellers for society.

That was before this week.

We can now add more names to the list. More than twice as many journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Maryland this year than police officers, for example.

It would be unfair to lay this wreath of violence on the doorstep of our president. Crudity predates him. Violence will outlast him. Words, after all, are not bullets.

But neither are words harmless. Religion shows

Reporters Exsar Arguello, Katerina Barton, Carlie Porterfield Columnists Bartee Haile, Chris Winslow, Pauline Tom, Clint Younts

us, who accept and push and demand and debate and, finally, improve us.

Few readers, we presume, agree with everything they find on our pages; and yet, in testament to the better angels of humankind, we engage with one another, sharing forbearance – and news. The threats, in fact, are few.

The Capital Gazette published on schedule the day after its people were slain, with blood still, literally, on the floor.

Our president issued a statement, the kind that is expected.

He said it was a horrible thing. He said journalists should not live in fear of violence. He pledged his eternal support to the families.

It did not sound particularly sincere but it is at least what a president should say. We applaud him for that, just as we hold him accountable for using his office, his words, and his power to help light a path through the darkness for those who relish political gamesmanship at any cost, and those who feed on fear, and division, and who would see deeper truths go unreported.

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us words can have power and grace. Lincoln demonstrates it. “Mr. Gorbachov, tear down this wall” confirms it.

When a man so powerful that his very whisper can send mighty rockets flying across the world to kill, when a man like that says that most Muslims are a threat, that most Mexican immigrants are probably rapists, most judges are likely corrupt, the FBI crooked, and journalists – especially journalists – are fakers, liars, evil-doers, enemies of the people, then those words, too, have power.

They do not kill. But you are kidding yourself if you think they do not contribute.

From McCarthy to Nixon to now, if this newspaper has at times been threatened and pilloried, it has more often been defended, and even praised. That is because of what becomes an almost mystic compact between decent newspapers and their readers. We have been blessed with readers who forgive our many failings, who perhaps recognize an honest striving to be better, who correct

f you ask me, President Trump should stop messing around with North Korea and Russia, put a hold on all his tariffs, and concentrate on an international crisis that has fallen through the butt-cracks of his meandering agendas. Oh, this problem began several years ago, and it has been steadily creeping up like a pair of drawers purchased at a garage sale. I reckon this illicit act is not as problematic as a North Korean nut-job who likes to blow stuff up, but I think it should be revealed to the unaware American citizens.

No network news has even touched on this sensitive issue. Perhaps they too are uninformed. Well, nothing gets by this curmudgeon’s bloodshot eyes. I recently became aware of something that affects most Americans and most certainly the British, and I was astonished our government and the Queen herself haven’t done something to end this scandalous activity over in Asia.

What might I be crowing about? Well, I’ll tell ya! Have y’all seen what a glass of iced tea costs these days? It’s plumb ridiculous! A glass of tea at a diner might run $1.50, and at fancy restaurants like Applebee’s and Chili’s, it might get as high as two bucks. Two dollars for a glass of tea is highway robbery. Tea is nothing but water with crumpled up, dried out leaves mixed in. We’re not talking about a fine box wine or an exquisite beer in a longneck bot-

Jong-un, and fighting among ourselves, China has quietly raised the price of tea to an astronomical amount.

Have y’all wondered

by Clint Younts how China has become so powerful? It’s because of all the tea that’s sipped over in England and guzzled down here in the south. You know how all the drug addicts here in the States have contributed to the making of billionaires in Central and South America. Well, we tea drinkers have made some folks over in China mighty rich.

Now, I know Mr. Trump has his hands full with other stuff, so I won’t start any protest or create a movement, but I won’t take this foreign meddling into our dining options lying down. As a red-blooded American, I plan to boycott all the tea from China and drink only tea that is grown tle. It’s dadgum tea.

I recall back when my here in the good ol’ US of clothes were still in style, A. I’m not real sure who a big glass of tea cost a grows tea over here. I unquarter. And of course, derstand a few states sell refills were always free. a special tea that is quite Here in the south, evrelaxing, but I haven’t erybody drank tea back seen any on the shelves then. Sodas cost more at HEB. and nobody wanted to Yep, as a proud Amerwash down fried catfish ican, I will stop drinking with a Coke. tea as long as prices are So, you might be won- so high. As much as I like dering what all my fuss a big glass of sweet tea about some internation- with my barbecue, I may al wrongdoing is. Okay, just have to switch to a I’ll walk you through different kind of brew, this. Where does tea perhaps one made here come from? China, right? in the Lone Star State.

We’ve all heard that saying “All the tea in China”, When Clint can’t have so that’s gotta be where his tea, you can bet he is we get our tea. And over quite willing to substitute the past decade or so, a Lone Star Beer. Be that while we’re fussin’ about as it may ...

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Sports Martinez has set his sights high for Hays baseball

BY REED GRAFF As a junior, Aidan Martinez was a pivotal part of the Hays Rebels baseball team’s success. Now that he is a senior and the leader of his team, Martinez has set his sights high.

Hays High had a solid 2017-18 season with the Rebels finishing 16-12 overall, 7-10 in district play. Despite the solid record, the Rebels missed the playoffs. While recognizing his team had some strong moments, Martinez wants to lead his team to the next level.

“As a team, we want to make a deep playoff run.

We know that we can do it,” Martinez said. “We, as

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Project Ace to bring new volleyball complex to Buda

BY KATERINA BARTON

Project Ace will serve up a new volleyball-centered sports complex in Buda to open next year.

The 30,000-square-foot indoor multi-use complex, along with a connected retail center, will be located on Main Street and Camp Del Sur on the east side of Interstate 35.

The complex is primarily for volleyball, but other sports, including basketball, will be offered as well.

The whole complex, which will be called Sunfield Station, will be around 60,000 square feet with the retail center. The retail center is expected to host several sports-related businesses including a fitness center, sporting equipment store, yoga center, physical therapy and other sports-related medical offices, according to a press release.

“The project is the brainchild of a couple of Buda area businessmen.

The focus is primarily volleyball because their children are involved in the sport,” Ann Miller, executive director for the Buda Economic Development Corporation, said in an email.

Miller said these businessmen travelled to different communities so much for volleyball tournaments that they “wanted to develop a facility to allow the local teams to practice and host tournaments.”

She added, “They want to stop spending their money in other communities and start importing new money in our local community.”

The Buda EDC started meeting with the owner of the center, WAMSFTX LLC, in 2015 and it took a few years to develop a business plan, acquire financing, and look for a building site in Buda.

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Hays Rebel pitcher Aidan Martinez competes in a 2018 district game.

a team, believe we can win a district championship, make a deep playoff run, and potentially win a state championship.”

The Rebels started off last season by winning nine of their first ten games. The early surge kept them in the race for the playoffs all season, but a late season struggle ultimately held them back.

Martinez believes his team can improve and take that next step during his senior season.

“We started off last season well. We had a lot of confidence going into each series,” Martinez said. “I know we have a good group of guys and if we can stay focused, we

know we can do a lot.”

If the Rebels are to take that next step, Martinez figures to be a big factor in doing so. Last season, the junior was a bright point both at the plate and on the mound. Martinez usually hit in the three spot of head coach James Howard’s line up. The junior, while mostly playing first base, finished the season with a .363 batting average, as well as slugging nine doubles, two home runs, and 22 RBIs in 101 plate appearances.

Martinez also logged 49 innings pitching for the Rebels, going 6-3 with a 1.86 Earned Run Average, 47 strikeouts and only 19 walks.

Despite these gaudy numbers, Martinez knows what areas of his game he can improve.

“Try and cut down strikeouts. That was something that frustrated me the most,” Martinez said.

“Just find ways to help the team out. Try to help on and off the field and try to do as much as I can to succeed.”

The Hays Rebels are adjusting to a new district with some familiar foes in Bowie, Austin, Del Valle and Anderson high schools all returning to the district. Martinez and his teammates are up to the challenge, however, and are looking to achieve new heights in 2018-2019.

Local archer brings national title back to Hays County

BY REED GRAFF

festivities of the big win, the young archer got to Winning a national meet some of her idols and title in anything is hard enjoyed the experience of enough. Winning one in a the event all together. sport that someone started “The experience and playing just under three people I met was amazyears ago? Now we are in ing,” Vasicek said. “I had rare territory, but that is the privilege of being exactly what Grace Vasicek introduced to two of my achieved. archery role models, Ren Vasicek, 15, started her Sarns and John Demmer archery career just two III. I made some friends years ago, when the sport across the U.S. who I still caught her eye after she talk too. At the end of that joined the Hays Counweekend, I placed 1st, ty 4-H Shooting Sports taking the title of National team. While her first few Champion, a title to keep COURTESY PHOTO forever.” months in the sport were a struggle, she continued Vasicek competed again Above, Grace Vacisek after to practice her craft with in June, where she finished scoring a Classic X to become the 2018 Indoor Nation- fifth place overall in the the help of her coaches, Robert Waring and Andrea al Youth Barebow Champion. 2018 National Archery Perkins. Eventually the Field Championships and techniques began to click, a chance to compete in qualified for the U.S. team and Vasicek began her trek the 2018 National Field Ar- trials. chery Indoor tournament. to becoming a national Vasicek came just two The national tournachampion. slots short of making the ment took place in Cincin- national team. However, In just her second nati, Ohio, and was comfull year of competing 2018 set the bar high for posed of a two-day shoot, in archery, Grace began Grace and her future cawith competitors taking 60 reer, as her father, Rodney to rack up victories in shots a day. Vasicek outcompetitions. She started Vasicek, said following the shot the competition and off 2018 with a 1st place event. came out as the 2018 NFAA finish in the Texas Field “We couldn’t be more Indoor National ChampiArchery Association State proud of her and her poson. Vasicek outscored the Championship, shooting itive attitude,” Rodney Vabarebow with a compound second-place finisher by sicek said. “Look for more 27 points. Amongst the bow. The victory gave her big things to come from

Grace’s archery future.”

Grace has big plans as she looks toward the future. She plans to keep competing in state and national championships, as she builds on her already impressive resume. In 2019, the main goal for Vasicek is to make the United States Archery Team, and travel to Wellington, New Zealand to compete in the International Field Archery Association World Indoor Championships.

The 30,000square-foot indoor multiuse complex, along with a connected retail center, will be located on Main Street and Camp Del Sur on the east side of Interstate 35.

agreement between the Buda EDC and the WAMSFTX LLC on June 19.

The Buda EDC is providing up to $30,000 in incentives that will reimburse WAMSFTX LCC for permit fees associated with the construction of the project.

The project estimates that each tournament will bring up to 1,500 visitors to Buda and eventually the facility could see up to 40,000 annual visitors.

“They will start off hosting several tournaments and grow the number over the next few years based on demand.

I would expect visitor counts to grow to around 40,000 in about 5 years from opening,” Miller said.

When asked if the facility was seen as a need in Buda, Miller responded, “The company has done their due diligence and determined there is a market in our community.

Currently the only similar facilities in the Austin area are located either up north (cedar park/round rock area) and Bee Cave. I know that the Texas Shock will call this facility home for training, camps, etc.”

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District readies for $5 million natatorium

BY KATERINA BARTON

Looking at the capital cost to build its own Hays CISD is contribut- natatorium and the costs ing $5 million toward the associated with upkeep, addition of a natatorium Hays CISD’s Board of facility being built at the Trustees determined in new YMCA Camp Moody, August 2017 going into formerly Camp Cypress, partnership with the in Buda. new YMCA camp would Hays CISD has been a be the most economical longtime partner with the approach.

Hays Communities YMCA Vice President of the center in Buda since it YMCA of Austin Sean opened in Buda in 2007.

Doles said that Hays CISD Both Lehman and Hays school board members High use the pool for their researched other Texas competitive swim team school districts with napractices as it does not tatorium projects. Some have its own pool facility. facilities cost more than However, with the $10 million and had opergrowth of the district and ational expenses in excess the addition of Johnson of $300,000 per year.

High in the next school “Recent 6A school disyear, the district has been trict natatoriums include looking at additional Lamar ISD natatorium, options for aquatics prowhich cost $10 million gramming space. and Cyprus-Fairbanks

Both Lehman and Hays High currently use the Hays Communities YMCA pool for their competitive swim team practices as it does not have its own pool facility.

ISD which cost $17 million, so this is significantly less than that,” Doles said.

Doles added that the cost of the projects did not include operational expenses, and even a conservative estimate adds an additional $150,000 a year. Over 30 years, the district can save $4.5 million, Doles said.

Hays CISD is contributing the $5 million to the overhead cost of building the facility and the YMCA

will cover any possible overrun. The YMCA will also be solely responsible for maintenance and upkeep.

“We’re growing as a district and we’re going to have a third high school,” Tim Savoy, Hays CISD public information officer said. “We’re excited that this will give us an opportunity to expand the competitive swim program, but also continue to provide those important swim lessons to first

graders.”

In addition to providing practice space for district swim teams, the YMCA also hosts a program called Project Safe in which it provides free water safety and swim practice for first graders.

Currently, eight Hays CISD elementary schools participate in Project Safe of the 13 in the district and so far, the YMCA Hays Communities have taught over 8,000 students how to swim. With the new facility, Doles hopes to serve all first graders in the district.

“We’re really excited about it and think it’s going to create tremendous benefits for the community and generations to come. Thousands of kids are going to come

through there, learn how to swim, and be safe in the water,” Doles said.

“Drowning is the number one cause of accidental-injury related death for kids five and under and the number two cause of accidental death for kids aged 14 and under, so if we can get every kid in Hays CISD to come through there and learn how to swim and be safe, that’s a huge benefit for all the residents.”

The natatorium is projected to open in fall 2019 at the new YMCA camp located on Old San Antonio Road. The camp changed its name from Camp Cyprus to Camp Moody after a $6.25 million grant donated by the Moody Foundation based in Galveston.

No substitute for these educators

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In June, Hays CISD celebrated the critical work of its guest, or substitute, teachers. Highlighted by most of HCISD’s campus guest teachers of the Year, many of the group joined with administrators and friends for the 2018 Guest Teachers Luncheon at Kyle Elementary’s Kimbro Building. Tricia Griffith, Staffing and HR Systems Coordinator of Guest Teacher Management, led the celebration.

According to Hays CISD statistics, the 610 guest teachers had a 93 percent fill rate for the 40,000 guest teacher calls submitted in the 2017-2018 school year. The 2017-2018 campus guest teachers of the year included Destiny Horton, Carol Callahan, Theresa Chavez, Irina Casey, Michelle Bevers, Brooke Paluch, Holly Prine Hannah Deaver, Charisa McBee, Laurie Fisher, Caitlin McGuinness, Diana Olvera, Janera Miller, Doug Wiseman, Megan Frazier, Larson Frost, Sarahi Hernandez Lopez, Paul Thompson Julie Castillo, Joel Matthews, Julia DeLeon, MaryAnn Clarke and Ann McReynolds.

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Lobos learn at Camp Mickey D’s

Late last month, several Lehman High School Lobo culinary students took part in “Camp Mickey D’s” at the Kyle McDonalds. Each year, Hays CISD culinary students “work” at McDonalds the first week of vacation to gain hands on experience.

McDonalds has a curriculum they go through with the students including sanitation, writing resumes, mock interviews and much more.

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The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers recently recognized Lehman High student Marisa Tambur as a national gold medalist in photography. Tambur represents less than one percent of nearly 350,000 works of art and writing that were submitted for the 2018 school year. By receiving a Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Medal, these students join a legacy of celebrated authors and artists including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Robert Redford, and Marc Brown. The National Ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall with special speakers and guests R.L. Stine and Marc Brown. Marisa’s work will be exhibited in New York City before it makes it back to Kyle.

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Community A Cappella Unlimited pushes community outreach and music education

BY EXSAR ARGUELLO

A group of 21 women, ranging from backgrounds in music, military, medical and real estate to name a few, gather every Monday to fine-tune and perfect their craft: a cappella.

A Cappella Unlimited, an all women’s a cappella group and a chapter of the worldwide organization Sweet Adelines International, recently qualified for the Sweet Adelines

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The women that comprise A Cappella Unlimited rehearse and perform songs from their recent award-winning competition during their Monday night rehearsal.

Harmony Classic Compe“Students typically do not have tition which will be held in September 2019, where the a place to sing once academic group will compete against other groups from around life is over and some want to the world.

But A Cappella Unlimchallenge themselves beyond ited is more than just a community or church choirs.” competitive group. From its formation around seven years ago, the goal –Katy Dane, director of A Cappella Unlimited has always been musical education, giving a voice to women in Central Texas “Students typically do since 2013, Moody said the to exercise their passion to not have a place to sing group was a way for her to sing. once academic life is over connect with her city and and some want to chalsupport her community lenge themselves beyond with a passion she loves. community or church Despite being an all choirs,” said Katy Dane, women’s a cappella chapdirector of the group. ter, diversity is prominent “This group is a way for through a pool of vocal women to come together ranges, backgrounds and and work on a product ages ranging from 23 to 75. that is bigger than themWith pride in music selves.” and the expectation to For Melissa Moody, grow as a group, the goal a member of the group is same across the board. and San Marcos resident, Sandy Belvin, an original A Cappella Unlimited member of the group, said gave her a home for her the founders spent a year voice and a way to grow outlying goals for its future. as a musician. A member “It truly is about the

education,” Belvin said.

“We welcome new singers to come every week and audition to see if this is a good fit for them. We want to draw other singers in and if you have the will to improve and grow, we will be here for you.”

But the road ahead is a long one for A Cappella Unlimited. The post-celebratory tone from their recent qualification victory is followed by rehearsals for upcoming community events and the international competition in 2019.

The women are often caught smiling between songs, guiding each other to improve. A serious but friendly tone engulfs the atmosphere of the Texas State University music building, where the team rehearses.

“I did not perform competitively during my time in school, but I always knew I wanted to find a group I could connect with,” said Christy Cooper,

member of A Cappella Unlimited. “I’ve been challenged but I can hear improvements from my voice and I can now sing in different styles.”

The group invites women from all backgrounds and vocal ranges to attend a rehearsal, which is held every Monday at the Texas State music building.

The group will be taking a break during July but will kick off again in August.

In the near future, A Cappella Unlimited will be performing July 7 at a charity event at the Wimberley Community Center, and welcomes all residents of Hays County to learn more about the niche community that is a cappella.

“Our goal is to be competitive, yes, but ultimately we open our doors to the community as part of our mission,” Belvin said. “This chorus is unique because I am always challenged and prepared to learn and be a better musician.”

City assists with Make-A-Wish hockey rink project

BY CARLIE PORTERFIELD

A-Wish Foundation and local residents, he may have By teaming up with local a nearby rink in less than partners and the Make-Aa year.

Wish Foundation, the city The Make-A-Wish Founof Kyle is aiming to make dation is a nonprofit that an 8-year-old boy’s dream arranges “wishes” for chilcome true and build a dren facing critical medical public roller hockey rink in conditions, said Kathrin Kyle.

Brewer, the President and Ash Crane lives in Kyle CEO of Make-A-Wish Cenand is described by his tral and South Texas. mother, Lisa, as a happy, When Make-A-Wish easygoing and generous reached out to Kyle about 8-year-old. Ash’s favorite Ash’s wish, City Manager thing to do is to play hockScott Sellers told them it ey. Growing up in Colorado, was actually similar to a he had plenty of opportuproject Kyle had budgeted nities to surround himself for that year. The city had with the sport. planned on building a Before Ash was born, multi-use covered pavilion Lisa and her husband, for community events Stephen, learned he would and recreation, preferhave a congenital heart ably at Gregg-Clarke defect called hypoplastic Park. left heart syndrome, which “As the conversation affects the flow of blood. evolved, it looked like Since he was born, Ash we would very well has undergone three open pull this off,” Sellers heart surgeries. After one said. of them, Lisa said he asked The city and Makenurses if he could roller A-Wish decided to go skate around the hospital all-in on the project instead of walk. together.

“Hockey is all he wants to “It’s really collabdo, all the time,” Lisa said. orative project, not As Ash grew and began just us or them,” to have trouble with his Brewer said. “We oxygen levels as a result like when the of his condition, Lisa and community gets Stephen made the difficult together to make it decision to move from Col- happen, especially orado to Texas, where the when it’s a pay-it-forward lower altitudes make it eas- project like this, where the ier for Ash to breathe. community will benefit.”

Unfortunately for Ash, The original pavilion hockey is not as popular project had about $225,000 with Texans. He misses earmarked toward it, Sellers having easy access to roller said. An early engineer estirinks. With the help from mate has the cost for a rollthe city of Kyle, the Makeer hockey rink, complete

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Eight year old Kyle resident Ash Crane guards a makeshift goal set up for him by his mother as he plays hockey at Negley Elementary with his older brother Dominic. Through the city of Kyle and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Ash Crane’s dream of a public roller rink is coming to fruition.

with nets, scoreboards and other multi-purpose enhancements is about $385,000.

With Make-A-Wish pledging $10,000, the city recruited local businesses and residents to help make up the difference with donations.

After just three weeks of looking for both cash and work donations, the city is only about $13,000 from its fundraising goal. Sellers called it a “fantastic” example of what the

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With the speed at which the city has raised money, Sellers said the project could begin in the next few months and wrap up construction as early as the end of this year or early 2019.

“Moving to Texas was a big deal for us. It was a hard move,” Lisa said. “Texans have been so generous

and so giving and we’re amazed that the city would put money toward making Ash’s wish come true. We feel humbled and blessed that they’re trying to make it happen.”

Ash said hockey is fast-moving, fun and makes him forget about his heart condition. He said he wants everyone to be able to play.

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Abolitionist’s impossible dream wrecked by reality

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PHOTO COURTESY OF DOUG DEGIROLAMO Members of the Hill Country Theater practice their lines prior to a rehearsal for their upcoming performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

A Midsummer production coming late summer to Kyle

BY KATERINA BARTON

Twice a week, actors from the Hill Country Theater don fairy wings and tights while spouting Shakespearean prose as they parade through painted sets of ancient Athens and woodlands on the Lehman High School theater stage.

Thus is the setting of the newly formed community theater’s rehearsals for its first performance, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”,

by William Shakespeare.

Doug DeGirolamo, president and founder of the group, has been passionate about theater most of his life, starting about the time he was in middle school. He received a bachelor’s degree in theater from DeSales Uni-

“I said to myself, ‘I can’t be the only one that feels that way.’ We should really have more theater here.”

–Doug DeGirolamo, president and founder of community theater group

versity in Pennsylvania, and was later an artistic director at a theater in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

DeGirolamo, now a Kyle resident, was tired of traveling to Austin and San Antonio to see live theater, so he decided to see if there was any interest in starting a theater community in Hays County.

“I said to myself, ‘I can’t be the only one that feels that way.’ We should really have more

theater here,” DeGirolamo said.

He made fliers, passed them out, booked a room at the Kyle Library, and waited to see what would happen.

“We had a couple of people come, and word just sort of spread like wildfire after that. It became less of a question of if we could do it, but more of when,” DeGi-

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ith the publication of this column, “This Week in Texas History” is officially 35 years old making it the longest running feature of its kind ever. And for that I am indebted to the many newspapers that have carried it all these years and to you, my loyal readers.

As the sun slowly set in the piney woods on July 5, 1832, a stranger on a mysterious mission crossed the Sabine River into the Mexican province of Texas.

In recent years, Benjamin Lundy had faced the fact that agitation alone would never liberate the slaves.

The Quaker editor understood that most white Americans, who in principle supported the abolition cause, cringed at the thought of blacks, freed from southern bondage, living next door.

Lundy believed the only way to overcome the prejudice so prevalent in the North was to prove that former slaves could become productive and responsible members of society. To this end, he tried without success to create a community of freedmen in the Caribbean country of Haiti.

It was no coincidence that Texas was his second choice as the site for the grand experiment. In the early 1820s, Lundy owned a harness shop in Herculaneum, Missouri at the same time a neighbor named Moses Austin was planning to populate Mexico’s sparsely settled northern province.

After the death of the elder Austin, he closely followed the progress of his son Stephen as he followed in his father’s footsteps.

Lundy announced in October 1831 that Texas was the perfect place for his humanitarian venture, an ideal location which would “present an asylum for hundreds of thousands of our oppressed colored people.”

Although the Law of April 6, 1830 strictly prohibited further emigration from the United States, he was convinced the Mexican government, which had gone on record against slavery, would make an exception in this case.

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among the Anglo-American settlers, Lundy wore a clever disguise and invented a false identity for his first trip to Texas in the summer of 1832. Not long after reaching Nacogdoches, he met Juan Antonio Padilla, an influential resident who encouraged the stranger to waste no time in applying for a land grant.

Lundy quickly filed the necessary papers for a tract with enough space for 400 homesteads. Naively assuming approval was in the bag, he hurried back to Baltimore to find financial backing and black colonists.

After waiting ten months for a decision on his application, Lundy figured the long delay demanded his personal attention. At San Felipe de Austin, he encountered the hostility that had concerned him on his initial visit.

The outspoken advocate of emancipation likely hit a nerve with an offhand comment. Stephen F. Austin’s growing flock included a vocal minority from the Deep South that did not take kindly to even the mildest criticism of their “peculiar institution.” Before anyone lost his head and throttled the agitator, he wisely slipped out of town.

Running out of money, Lundy was stranded for more than two months in San Antonio before earning passage to Monclova, capital of the combined state governments of Texas and Coahuila. Gradually working his way up the bureaucratic ladder, he at last sat down with the governor in early November.

The official cut short the conference without giving the abolitionist any grounds for optimism. But three days later, the governor

Six gardening activities for July 1 . Vegetable Garden: The timing always feels a bit strange, but this is actually the month to renew your vegetable garden for the fall harvest season.

From seed, plant snap and lima beans, sweet corn, Swiss chard, cucumbers, summer and winter squash (my favorite), black-eyed peas, okra, cantaloupe, pumpkin and watermelon.

For transplants, it’s the right time for tomatoes and peppers.

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are surefire, solar fire, solar flare, celebrity, heatwave, sunmaster, and BHN444 (healthy surprise).

3. Water: After the crazy rains of this year, it’s a little hard to predict the type of weather that’s coming our way this month. In the event that we return to more normal weather patterns, your plants will need water to survive. Not just

a splash on the surface… but a profound watering.

This will give them a more established root system and a better reservoir to draw from. Try to water on a 4 to 5 day schedule. Don’t run automatic sprinkler systems during the day. (Loss to evaporation is too great.)

And if it rains, just sit back and enjoy watching your garden grow . . . all by itself.

4. Mulch: Keep all flowerbeds, vegetable gardens and trees mulched. This will conserve water, cool the root zone and generally relieve heat stress.

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Garden early in the morning. c. Drink gallons upon gallons of water. Happy gardening everyone!

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summoned him for another private talk and gave assurances that his land grant would be issued as soon as the national congress did away with the anti-American ban.

The Law of April 6, 1830 was indeed repealed three weeks later but would stay in effect for six more months.

Bewildered by the twists and turns of the foreign political system, the confused colonizer returned to the States to revive public interest in his project.

At home, however, Lundy learned that he had fallen out of favor with anti-slavery activists. Friends and associates, who formerly endorsed his idea of giving free blacks a fresh start in Texas, attacked the plan as a cop-out and told him to forget it.

But with his reputation on the line, Lundy ignored the sound advice and let his ego get the better of him.

The result was a third trip to Texas in August 1834.

Blinded by his desperate desire to keep his doomed scheme alive, Lundy was totally oblivious to the imminent revolt against Santa Anna. Caught completely off guard by the fast-rising tide of revolutionary events, he bitterly blamed the heroic freedom fighters for his own failure.

Following the Battle of San Jacinto, Lundy launched a new career as a self-appointed authority on the Lone Star Revolution. In a widely read pamphlet entitled “War in Texas,” he claimed the independence insurrection was a cynical cover for a giant land grab by evil slaveholders.

Benjamin Lundy’s unsubstantiated allegations gave the abolitionist lobby in congress the ammunition to shoot down statehood. Former president John Quincy Adams based his entire argument against annexation on the anti-Texas tirade of the frustrated empressario.

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Anna Mae Schroeder Kubsch, 81, passed away June 30, 2018.

Anna was born on Christmas Day, 1936 to Richard and Selma Schroeder.

On April 7, 1961 she married Fred Kubsch.

They raised their four children in Buda. She retired from Hays CISD where she worked at Buda and Tom Green elementaries, Dahlstrom and Barton middle schools.

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Anna is preceded in death by her husband, Fred, sister Mildred Schulze, brother Ed Schroeder and son-inlaw Jay Vail.

She will be missed by her children Pamela Hamil and David, Mark Kubsch, Scott Kubsch, and Lori Kubsch and Mark Wied. Those that called her Granny: grandchlidren Justin Vail and Noriko, Marina and Tara Kubsch, Forrest, Ethan, and Nolan Kubsch, Emily Wilson and Dustin, Erica and Erin McConnell, and Anna Hawkins and Ryan.

Great-grandchildren, Adam, Maci, Avery and Faith. Her brothers and sisters, Johnny Schroeder and Ann, Eleanor Schulze and Melvin, Butch Schroeder, Gladys Tramp and John and sister-inlaw Gladys Krakosky.

Visitation was Tuesday, July 3. Funeral Services will be Thursday, July 5, 2018, 11:00 a.m., Christ Lutheran Church 400 E. Monroe, Austin, TX. A reception will immediately follow the service.

An internment will be at 2 p.m. in the Live Oak Cemetery in Manchaca.

Please visit www.Harrellfuneralhomes.com to share a fond memory, photograph, or condolence with Anna’s family on her online memorial site.

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Xavier Cueva, a resident of Martindale, Texas, died after a brief illness on June 25, 2018.

Xavier is survived by his father, Heliodoro V. Cueva, Sr.; stepmother, Margarita Cueva; his brothers and sisters, Heliodoro Cueva Jr. (Adell Fleming); Partrick Cueva Sr.; Cynthia Santiago (Greg); Kevin Cueva (Margaret A. Tamez) and Elizabeth Akers (Matthew). Xavier has several nieces and nephews: Valerie Ann Cueva; Patrick Cueva Jr.; Marcus Cueva; Nikki Cueva; Natalia Cueva; Isabella Santiago; Chloe Cueva; Benjamin Akers; Noah Akers; Olivia Akers; Matthew Mendoza; Cassilda Alvarez; and Talyn Santiago. He was preceded in death by his mother, Natalia Espinoza Cueva.

He was born on September 23, 1973, in Robstown, Texas, where he grew up, involved in the local community, specifically St. Anthony’s parish as an altar boy and boy scout. He attended St. Anthony’s and St. John’s Catholic Schools and graduated from Robstown High School. He participated

larger than could be measured for all. He was a protector and loved his nieces and nephews fiercely. His faith in God and respect for our Blessed Mother guided his actions. In addition to being a great friend to all, he often prayed for all those he loved. The strength in his faith was visible in his deeds. His absence is already a huge loss to family and friends.

A celebration of his life was held at Harrell Funeral Home July 1, 2018. Funeral mass was celebrated at Santa Cruz Catholic Church in Buda.

Interment followed at Live Oak Cemetery, Manchaca.

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Donn Patton Brooks, age 80, of Kyle, TX, passed away on Friday, June 29, 2018. He was born in Dayton, Ohio on March 2, 1938, the son of Roy B. and Verna L. (Patton) Brooks.

At age 10, he moved wth his family to Kyle.

His parents, and his brother, Covin Brooks preceded him in death.

He is survived by his wife,Betty (Johnson) Brooks; son, Ross Patton Brooks and wife, Linda of Kyle;daughter, Lynn Chapman and husband, Jason of Kyle; brother, Linton Carvel Brooks of Austin; and five grandchildren.

He taught in the Hays CISD and at Austin Community College.

Graveside services were held Monday, July 2, 2018 at the Kyle Cemetery, followed by a Celebration of Donn’s life at the Kyle United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Darlene Boaz officiating.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Kyle United Methodist Church, 408 W. Lockhart Street, Kyle, Texas 78640.

Arrangements by Pennington Funeral Home, San Marcos, Texas.

in sports, including the RHS baseball organization. He attended Del Mar College in Corpus Christi before moving to Austin. He lived for many years in Austin, Texas, before buying his home in Martindale, where he could indulge his love of animals. He worked as a tax examiner for the IRS at the time of his death.

In his lifetime, Xavier learned many things including hunting, fishing, mechanics, plumbing, carpentry, welding and many specialized skills. He had a heart of gold and was known to drop everything to come to the rescue of friends, family, and friends of friends who called on him when they were stranded in a broken-down car. Sometimes these calls were nearby, but he was also known to drive hundreds of miles to help. In addition to being an incredible auto mechanic, he could create and build almost anything. Xavier knew how to have fun.

He went on cruises with his cruising family and he traveled the world with both friends and family. He was known as “Clutch” to his beloved GI Joe Costume group, The Fightin’ 788th, with whom he attended Comic-Cons and charity events.

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rolamo said. “There’re a lot of people in Kyle, San Marcos, and Buda who want a community theater, a place where they can go and be creative and see good shows.”

After thorough discussion, the group overwhelmingly voted to put on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a favorite for live theater.

The production now has a cast of a little more than 20 people who rehearse twice a week at Lehman High School.

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“We’ve got a lot of people in the community who are just looking for a creative outlet,” DeGirolamo said. “There’s people of all ages too, it’s really

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Public Notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON INTENTION TO GRANT A FRANCHISE TO SIENERGY, LP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KYLE WILL CONVENE AT 7:00 P.M. ON THE 17th DAY OF JULY, 2018, AT ITS REGULAR MEETING PLACE IN KYLE CITY HALL, 100 WEST CENTER STREET, KYLE, TEXAS AND, DURING SUCH MEETING, THE CITY COUNCIL WILL CONDUCT A HEARING TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF KYLE, TEXAS, GRANTING TO SIENERGY, LP, A TEXAS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, A FRANCHISE TO FURNISH AND SUPPLY GAS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE CITY OF KYLE, HAYS COUNTY, TEXAS, FOR THE TRANSPORTING, DELIVERY, DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF NATURAL GAS IN, OUT OF, AND THROUGH SAID MUNICIPALITY FOR ALL PURPOSES; PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF A FEE OR CHARGE FOR THE USE OF THE STREETS, ALLEYS, AND PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY; REQUIRING COMPLIANCE WITH ALL REGULATORY ORDINANCES OF THE CITY. THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN PURSUANT TO SEC. 11.02 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF KYLE, TEXAS, WHICH REQUIRES THAT NO FRANCHISE OR PERMIT SHALL BE PASSED EXECPT ON TWO READINGS HELD AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING FOR WHICH TEN (10) DAYS NOTICE IS GIVEN. AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE HEARING, THE CITY COUNCIL MAY CONSIDER AND TAKE POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE THE ORDINANCE GRANTING THE FRANCHISE. JENNIFER VETRANO CITY SECRETARY CITY OF KYLE, TEXAS JULY 4, 2018

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SUBDIVIDE An application has been filed with HAYS COUNTY to subdivide 64.31 acres of property located at along Cotton Gin Road, Kyle, TX 78640. Information regarding the application may be obtained from Hays County Development Services (512) 393-2150. Tracking number: SUB-911

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Joyce Wilkinson Dyvad, Deceased, were issued on June 11, 2018, in Cause No. 18-0142P, pending in the County Court at Law No. 2, Hays County, Texas, to: Harold Gene Dyvad.

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: Harold Gene Dyvad 109 Dodgen Trail Buda, Texas 78610 DATED the 27TH day of June, 2018.

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Authority Ð Phase 1A Booster Pump Station Bid Date: July 17, 2018 2:00pm Please confirm that your firm will be bidding the project and what spec sections that will be included. Send to: txbids@mgccontractors.com Scope letters are requested to be in our office no later than 3 days before bid AT 12:00 p.m.

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Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code hereby gives notice of public sale under said act to wit: This sale will be held at StorageAuction. com on July 13, 2018 at 2:30 pm. The property in the storage unit(s) listed under tenant’s name is being sold to satisfy a landlord’s lien.

The property contents of all storage unit(s) sold at this sale are purchased “as is” “where is” for CASH. Safe-nSound Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid or to cancel any public sale advertised. Announcement made the day of the sale takes precedence over any INVITATION TO BID printed materials.

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The City of Kyle shall hold a public hearing TABC NOTICE onApplication a request byhas Sterling/Babcock & Brown, been made with the LP (Z-18-0026) rezone approximately Texas Alcoholic toBeverage Commission 14.36 of land for a acres Beer and Winefrom (BG)Retail licenseService for a District to Multi-Family Residential-3 Wine ‘RS’ Bar by Mama Merlot’s LLC to ‘ R-3-3’ for property located within the 3400 be located at 1570 Satterwhite Road, block KyleCounty, Crossing, Hays Owners County, Buda,ofHays TXin78610.

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The Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend, and the City Council may Public Notice consider, assigning any zoning district Notice of Public Hearing whichNOTICE is equivalent or more restrictive.

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INTERESTED PERSONS, THAT: The City of shall holdwill a public a A public Kyle hearing behearing heldonby the request by Sterling/Babcock & Brown, LP (Z-18-0026) Planning and Zoning Commission on to rezone approximately 14.36 acres of land from Retail Service District Multi-Family ‘ Tuesday, July‘RS’ 24,to2018 at 6:30Residential-3 P.M. R-3-3’ for property located within the 3400 block of Kyle Crossing, in Hays County, Texas.

AThepublic hearing will be held by the Kyle Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend, City Council on Tuesday, August 7,any 2018, at and the City Council may consider, assigning zoning district which is equivalent or more restrictive.

7:00 P.M. A public hearing will be held by the Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 6:30 P.M. Kyle City Hall Council Chambers A public hearing will be held by the Kyle City Council 100 W Center St., Kyle,atTexas on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 7:00 P.M. Kyle City Hall Council Chambers 100 W Center St., Kyle, Texas Agent: Jackson Roche Agent: Jackson Phone: (512) Roche 682-5518 Phone: (512) 682-5518 Publication Date: JulyJuly 4, 2018 Publication Date: 4, 2018 Z-18-0026

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A nearly twelve-acre business park is on the horizon for the city of Kyle after proposed economic deals for a new development were approved by both city council and Hays County Commissioners within a week.

To be located on the southwest section of Kohler’s Crossing and Kyle Crossing, the proposed Majestic Plum Creek Business Park will be a master-planned, mixed use development, said Diana Torres, director of Kyle’s Economic Development department.

Through the project, Los Angeles-based Ma-

jestic Realty Company will invest more than $40 million dollars into Kyle, Torres said. The Fortune 500 company does not flip properties, she said.

“You know when (Majestic) comes into a community, they’ve done their homework, and feel pretty strongly it’s going to work,” Torres said at the June 19 Kyle City Council meeting.

The park will be made up of two buildings with a combined 535,113 sq. ft. of space to be leased out.

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According to TxDOT numbers, at least 103 of the crashes on FM 1626 involved distracted drivers.

“My observation says we still have a lot of people using their cell phone while driving, more than I would have thought,” he said.

With construction still on track to wrap up in either December or January, Jones warned Hays County residents to keep an eye out for workers on the road and to stay alert.

“Be patient and be careful out there,” he said.

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TABC NOTICE

An application to the TABC to sell and consume alcoholic beverages is proposed for this location: 4955 Bell Springs Rd, Bldg 2, Dripping Springs, Texas 78620 Type of permit: Distiller’s and Rectifiers Name of Applicant: Moonshine Ridge Inc. Notice of First Public Hearing Owners/Partners: Jason M. Hicks/President; Thomas A. Hicks/ Secretary; Marco A. Rodriguez/ NOTICE ISMark HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL Shareholder; D. Taylor/Shareholder INTERESTED PERSONS, THAT:

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The City of Kyle,Public Texas, proposes to initiate Notice of First at Public annexation Notice proceedings the Hearing request of Blanco River Ranch Properties, LP to extend the boundary IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL of saidNOTICE city to include approximately 63.6 acres of INTERESTED PERSONS, THAT: land located generally south of W. FM 150, west of Road.proposes to initiate annexation TheArroyo City ofRanch Kyle, Texas,

proceedings at the request of Blanco River Ranch Properties, LP to extend the boundary said city to include As prescribed by law, the firstofpublic hearing will approximately 63.6 acres of land located generally be held by the Kyle City Council on Tuesday, July south of W. FM 150, west of Arroyo Ranch Road.

17, 2018, at 7:00 P.M. in the Kyle City Hall Council Chambers, 100 Center As prescribed by law, the firstW. public hearingSt., willfor be all held by the Kyle CityinCouncil on Tuesday, July 17, At persons interested the proposed annexation.

2018,time at 7:00 in the Hall Council Chamsaid andP.M. place all Kyle suchCity persons shall have the bers, 100 W. Center St., for all persons interested in the right to appear and be Additional maps proposed annexation.

Atheard. said time and place all suchand materials to tothe above persons shallrelated have the right appear and be referenced heard.

Additional maps materialsfor related to the above annexation are and available inspection at City referenced annexation for inspection at be Hall, 100 W. Centerare St.,available Kyle, Texas, and will City Hall, 100 W. Center St., Kyle, Texas, and will be available at the public hearing. available at the public hearing.

The City of Kyle, Texas, Public proposesHearings to institute unilateral annexation Notice of First Public Hearings proceedings of said city to include three areas of land consisting of NOTICE IS HEREBY TO ALL approximately 195.99 acres, more or GIVEN less, as depicted in the maps INTERESTED PERSONS, THAT: below.

The City of Kyle, Texas, proposes to institute unilateral

As prescribed law, the firstofpublic hearings will bethree held by the annexationbyproceedings said city to include Kyleareas City of Council on Tuesday, 17, 2018, at195.99 7:00 P.M. in the land consisting of July approximately acres, less,Council as depicted in the maps below.

Kylemore City orHall Chambers, 100 W. Center St., for all persons interested in the proposed annexations. At said time and As prescribed by law, the first public hearings will be placeheld all such persons the right to appearJuly and 17, be heard. by the Kyle shall City have Council on Tuesday,

2018, at 7:00 P.M. in the Kyle City Hall Council Cham-

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proposed annexations. At said time and place all such theparcels right to belocated heard. in Hays Areapersons B. All shall those have certain or appear tracts ofand land

County, Texas, being approximately 131.73 acres, generally Public Hearings: located south of W. FM 150, north and west of Arroyo Ranch Area B. All those certain parcels or tracts of land locatRoad.

ed in Hays County, Texas, being approximately 131.73 acres, generally located south of W. FM 150, north and Areawest C. All those certain of Arroyo Ranchparcels Road.or tracts of land located in Hays

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acres, generally located west of S. Old Stagecoach Road, north of Wildcat Hollow Drive.

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