Sept. 2018 Echo

HAYS COUNTY

ECHO

SEPTEMBER 2018

Healthcare in Hays County

IN THIS ISSUE: • Taking care of Kyle’s iconic cemetery • Caring for an illness in the family • Meals on Wheels driven by volunteers

• Exercises you can do at the office • Chiropractic can curb absenteeism • Recipes for festing in October

HAYS COUNTY

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Barton Publications, Inc 113 W. Center St., Kyle, TX Publisher Cyndy Slovak–Barton Editor Moses Leos III Graphics Director David White Contributing Writers Moses Leos III Exsar Arguello Katerina Barton David White Contributing

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EDITOR’S NOTE Hays County Echo: The same, but a little different

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n the not too distant past, before the dense subdivisions and fast food joints dotted our landscape, finding adequate medical care might have meant a trip to Austin or San Marcos.

Such a trip could have, in some cases, meant the difference between life and death.

Heck, even trying to find solutions to something as simple as a cold or the flu could mean possibly spreading the love around during the car ride.

Thankfully, Hays County’s growth has ushered the rise of the medical industry, to the point where two hospitals and a myriad of clinics are a short car drive away.

It’s in that spirit we at the Hays County Echo place some of our spotlight on the medical industry, where it’s been and where it could go from here.

We at the Echo reached into our archives this month to bring a story on the late T.C. McCormick, whose efforts brought medicine to Buda and Kyle well before any hospital

could.

For some, the advances in medicine and technology have helped many live normal lives.

Reporter Exsar Arguello offers insight into the battle his sister has with Type-1 Diabetes, and how helping to treat it is a family affair.

Our focus then shifts from the living to, well, the dead, and how local residents keep the honor and memory of our loved ones sacred. Be sure to read our story on Kyle resident Jane Kirkham and her role as the caretaker of the historic Kyle cemetery.

For many, working in the office can be a droll, boring affair.

This month, we offer tips to stay fit at your own desk. We’ll also look into how chiropractic care can help curb absenteeism

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Reporter Carlier Porterfield then sheds some light on Meals on Wheels and how it’s more than just providing lunch to those in need.

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Before we go, a quick note for our readers – starting this edition, the Hays County Echo is switching from a monthly newsprint publication to a glossy, sleek quarterly magazine.

While the exterior will change, the content inside of our little labor of love won’t be altered at all. Readers will continue to see the same in-depth, engrossing stories, as well as mesmerizing, eye-catching photos that they have come to expect from the Hays County Echo.

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Doctoring in a different era A lot has changed since Dr. T.C. McCormick, namesake of the new McCormick Middle School, served Buda and surrounding communities in the 1950s. Former Hays Free Press reporter Jen Biundo, gave us a feel of how life and medical care were back in that era when she interviewed the doctor and published the following story in 2006.

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BY JEN BIUNDO

UDA – You can’t help thinking that someone should make a movie out of Doc McCormick’s life, a story replete with all the comedy, tragedy and drama that comprised the life of the country doctor in the middle of the last century.

And don’t forget the babies, all 1,600 to 1,800 of ’em.

This week, sitting in his Buda home with his wife Jerry, Doc McCormick flipped through a thick stack of birth certificate first drafts from 1956, smiling with recollection. McCormick pointed to the card on the top of the stack – Luanne Brewington, the last baby born in that year.

“She’s named Luanne Caraway now, and she’s our county tax assessor,” McCormick said.

“Her little brother was a 3.5 pound premie. We had an incubator that he stayed in for two or three months.”

McCormick has a near-encyclopedic memory of every family in the area, and all the children that made up his Buda legacy. From 1946 to 1959, McCormick delivered nearly every baby born in the Buda-Kyle area, birthing a slew of new Tenorios, Montagues, Garzas and Alcalas.

Dr. Thaddeus Charles Mc-

Cormick, affectionately known as T.C. or plain Doc, came to Buda with his wife Jerry and two young children in 1946 and prepared to take over the Main Street medical practice of the retiring doctor, Clay Lauderdale.

At that time, Buda was a small farming community with a population of about 450, where ranchers and dairymen would gather at sunrise at Molly’s Cafe to talk shop about their grain and cotton farming, milk tal,’” he said.

The new doctor was a handdelivery and livestock.

McCormick and the other re- some young man with a thick turning servicemen who rolled shock of wavy dark hair and a head full of into Buda afnew-fangled ter World War ideas, fresh II represented From 1946 out the army an infusion and just 27 of fresh blood to 1959, years old. Too and new ways young, some of thinking McCormick townspeople into the thought, to cacommunity, delivered nearly pably serve as shaking up the only physithe status every baby cian between quo. born in the Austin and San When MchanCormick took Buda-Kyle area, Marcos, dling obstetover, there rics, geriatrics were two birthing a slew and everything waiting rooms in between.

– one for the of new Tenorios, The nay-sayers white patients were quickly and another Montagues, proved wrong. for the black Garzas and Old Dr. Laupatients. With derdale had little fanfare, Alcalas. He only overseen McCormick home deliverintegrated his delivered ies. Within six hospital and months, the refitted the somewhere new doctor segregated had created waiting room between 1,600 a “lying-in” into a laborato 1,800 babies. room with detory. livery tables in “I had the the hospital. personal “I would have patients come pleasure of meeting a number of black people, some of whom in and we would take care of them there in a much more…” said, ‘You’re the doctor from Buda who integrated the hospi- McCormick paused and smiled

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slightly, “…medically acceptable manner. A number of ladies in Buda with nursing experience would then come in and stay with the new mother and baby, overnight if necessary, with most going home within 24 hours after delivery.”

The full service, from pre-natal to post-natal care, cost about $150. Before long, McCormick was delivering between 125 and 150 babies a year. In between the deliveries, McCormick saw 60 to 70 patients a day, and did house calls in the undeveloped swath of ranchland and farmland surrounding the town at a travel fee of $1 per mile.

In the late 1940s, McCormick purchased an a rmy hospital officers’ ward, which he transported through Elgin and Austin, and placed on a lot at the corner of Ash and San Marcos streets, under the name of Buda Hospital.

McCormick saw his first patients in the new clinic in early 1948 – two women from Manchaca who gave birth within 24 hours of each other.

But the old hospital building he inherited wasn’t hooked up to a water supply.

“Mr. B. Watson, who owned the feed mill here, brought over two or three or more milk cans filled with water,” McCormick said. “You have to have hot

water to deliver a baby.”

The most serious injuries were transported to an Austin hospital, but McCormick had plenty of other ailments to keep him occupied.

Early in McCormick’s tenure, a U.S. serviceman, his wife and their 2-year-old child had been living in Japan and just completed the long journey home to Buda. During the trip, the child came down with a nasty case of sinusitis and accompanying high fever, but in an odd twist, only one nostril was infected. He was given penicillin, which cleared up the fever, but he was sick again within the week. Doc McCormick peered up the infected nostril, pulled out his forceps and got hold of the offending intruder.

“It was the eraser off a #2 pencil,” McCormick recalled.

“Poor little kid had it all the way from Japan to Buda.”

In a similar case, a middle-aged man came into the hospital, complaining of discomfort in his ears.

“He tells me he’s been deaf in that ear for years,” McCormick said. “I got out my instruments and pulled out a snail shell. He said ‘I put that in my ear when

1950s, McCormick delivered a healthy baby boy to one such migrant couple – who promptly stole away in the middle of the night, leaving their baby in the hands of someone they hoped could care for him.

Within a couple of years, “Little Joe” was a fixture in the hospital, riding his tricycle through the back halls.

“We just kept taking care of The Buda Medical Clinic was located on Ash Street in the 1950s. The build- him,” McCormick said. “A lot of ing is still there but now serves as condos. (Hays Free Press file photos) people wanted to adopt him.”

But to everyone’s sadness, I was a little boy and was afraid 1940s, pre-med students studthe couple returned to reclaim ied either French or German. to tell my momma.’” their abandoned child.

But many of McCormick’s Then there were the In 1959, McCormick ran into mid-century disease outbreaks patients were Hispanic – eian old psychology professor, ther Buda-area locals or poor that hit Buda: the polio epiwho convinced McCormick to migrant workers who quietly demic of 1953-54 that killed a move back to his original field young soldier home on leave in passed through the area – and of neuropsychology. After a the new doctor gave himself Kyle, the endemic typhus that three-year stint in Galveston, hit workers at the feed mill, and a crash course in the Spanish McCormick moved his family language. the relapsing fever, a tick-born back to Buda and set up a clinic “I had one Hispanic patient spirochete disease similar to in Austin. who pointed at her stomach lyme disease and to syphilis, He has since retired, but and said, ‘No tengo hambre,’” that McCormick successfully found time along the way to McCormick said. “I thought she serve as mayor of Buda and as treated with the old syphilis cocktail of arsenic and mercury. was saying, ‘No tengo hombre.’ a trustee on the Buda School We had to pull a woman out of “Things were changing very Board, where he helped with the waiting room to translate.” much in the practice of medithe desegregation push. In Many of the migrant workers 2003, the former country doccine over those years,” McCorcame in to deliver their babies, tor was elected Distinguished mick said. often without the benefit of When McCormick went to Life Fellow of the American pre-natal care. In the early the University of Texas in the Psychiatric Association.

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CARING FOR ILLNESS

It’s a family affair

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ife with a pre-existing condition doesn’t just affect the person who might be ill.

It also affects everyone in a family.

Learning to cope with my sister’s diabetes is a family endeavor that takes a lot of attention and care from everyone involved.

We are fortunate enough as a family to have a father who is a doctor, giving us the necessary education we need with how to treat my sister in the case of an emergency.

Alyssa has Type-1 Diabetes, which unlike Type-2, is caused when the pancreas shuts

“I was hit with the struggles of trying to fit in with my high school peers.

My biggest regret was trying to hide my disability out of fear of being judged or pitied.”

–Alyssa Zuniga, living with Type-1 Diabetes

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At such a young age I had

to quickly learn the responsibilities and importance of maintaining a steady blood sugar, something I had never even thought about prior to being diagnosed.

It was a constant routine of continuously checking my blood sugar and giving myself insulin shots at least five times a day.

You could see how that could be a struggle for a tenyear-old to go through when also trying to balance my passion and dedication for dance.

As I got older and things got a little easier, I was hit with the struggles of trying to fit in with my high school peers. My biggest regret was trying to hide

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A labor of love (and death)

Longtime Kyle resident keeps up historic cemetery

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BY MOSES LEOS III

mid a lifetime of duties and occupations, taking up the task of a cemetery caretaker wasn’t something Kyle resident Jane Kirkham necessarily had in mind.

But as with all things, life, or in this case death, has a way of falling into one’s lap when they least expect it.

Such was the case for Kirkham several years ago when she volunteered to help manage and maintain the historic Kyle cemetery.

While the job has it stresses and challenges, Kirkham also takes pride in helping to continue the legacy of the longest-operating community cemetery in Hays County.

Kirkham’s path to the job began when the late George Vaughn convinced her to join the Kyle Cemetery committee.

Often times, committee members “recruit” their friends or neighbors to join, Kirkham said.

It was also a role that held significance for Kirkham, whose father, Lex Word, was also once part of the cemetery committee. She also got the chance to work with those whose lineage traces back to some of the Kyle area’s most iconic figures.

Eventually, Kirkham took hold of the board president role. It’s a job that Kirkham said can offer some complexities.

One challenge is meeting the burial needs for a rapidly growing city.

For many years, Kirkham said the Kyle Cemetery had few, if any, burial plots for sale, and had no real need to do so at the time. In the past, local residents often purchased multiple plots of land on the cemetery site for their entire families.

Today, burial plots, which cost $1,500 in Kyle, are more likely to be purchased on an individual basis, as opposed to en masse.

But that also leads to finding more places for burial plots.

It wasn’t until 2011 that the

“The thing about it is when people need a burial plot, they often need it immediately. It’s difficult because they have a lot of decisions to make at the time. Buying a cemetery space becomes a big decision for them.”

–Jane Kirkham, Kyle Cemetery board member

committee gave the go-ahead to survey a parcel of land on the property for more burial sites. Kirkham said with the amount of growth in the area, the committee might consider surveying another parcel for more burial sites in the future.

It’s a change from the past, when burials were often held on lots owned by an individual family. In some cases, decedents were buried in cemeteries outside of Kyle, as they were not original residents.

“More people live here and die here, so they need to be buried here,” Kirkham said.

Talking the business of death can be a painful experience as well. Kirkham’s duties include coordinating with families of decedents to find a burial plot.

For many families, finding a burial plot is, at least at the time, a search for perfection.

Kirkham said while she tries to accommodate, sometimes the

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right spot might not always be attainable.

It’s equally difficult for Kirkham to talk business with families who are in the process of grieving for a loved one.

“The thing about it is when people need a burial plot, they often need it immediately,” Kirkham said. “It’s difficult because they have a lot of decisions to make at the time. Buying a cemetery space becomes a big decision for them.”

Keeping up the grounds is also a key component for Kirkham and the committee.

That can mean coming across different ways people honor or celebrate their loved ones, which can sometimes create distractions.

Kirkham said she has seen people hold a BBQ on the cemetery grounds, or drink alcohol or smoke at the cemetery.

While the Kyle Cemetery is open to all denominations,

Kirkham said it’s also a place of reverence.

The site, which received a marker from the Texas Historical Commission in 1992, is the burial site for many area namesakes, such as Fergus Kyle, for whom the city is named. Others include Laura Belle Wallace and D.J. Simon for whom HCISD schools are named, and Edward Burleson, who fought in the Mexican-American War, as well as Samuel T. Washington, nephew of George Washington, who was buried in the cemetery in the late 1860s.

Additionally, the site has also been a place for the weird and the strange. Several ghost hunting crews have approached Kirkham over the years with requests to tour the site after hours for activity. All have been turned away.

One former volunteer groundskeeper came across a couple that was allegedly caught having sex near a burial site.

But for Kirkham, the cemetery is not just a place where residents can honor the departed, but also where people can learn more about their history.

“People call me and they often are doing their geneaology and they need a picture of the headstone,” Kirkham said.

“That to me is what the cemetery is, more than going back to commune with the dead.”

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Deskercising

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your head and reach as high as you can, then lower them as much as possible behind head.

Hold each position for 30 seconds.

Here are some helpful tips that you can use to stay fit while at the workplace. The great thing is most people around you will not even notice.

With all of the following, repetitions depend on your fitness goals (but try to do as many as possible in a day)

Try standing as much as possible It has been shown to burn more calories than sitting.

The Chair Squeeze While sitting in a chair, slowly squeeze glutes together as tight as you can. Hold for 5-10 seconds, then release.

Tiptoe Raise Whenever you’re standing, lift your heels up into a tiptoe position. Hold for 5-10 seconds, then slowly lower your heels.

Leg Extensions While sitting in a chair, place your feet flat on the ground.

Slowly raise feet up to be parallel with knees.

Hold for 5-10 seconds, then lower.

Ab-Doer Sit straight up on a sturdy desk or table.

Hamstring Leg Curl The Desk Dip Stand about two to three feet away from a stable desk or table. With feet flat on the ground, lean forward and place hands shoulder width apart on desk. Slowly lean in towards the desk, then push back up.

Make sure there is about 2-3 feet of room open behind you. Grasp the desk with both hands on respective side of knees. Slowly lower yourself back as far as you can go while tightening your abs.

Hold for a few seconds then bring yourself back to the upright, straight position.

are based off a 150-160 lb person). 1 flight of stairs, 3X per day = 15 calories burned.

Toe Raise While sitting or standing, lift your toes up as high as you can, hold for 5-10 seconds, then lower again.

Arm Pump

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your abs and then rotate the chair slowly from side to side.

Ab Swivel

If you have a swivel chair, sit upright with feet lifted up off the ground. Hold on to the desk while tightening

While sitting or standing, pump arms up and down over your head for 30 seconds at a time.

Arm Stretch Stretch arms as far out in front of you, then lift them over

While standing, hold on to something stable for support and lift one leg up backwards while aiming your heel at the top of your thigh. Lower it back down.

Thigh Press While sitting in a chair, squeeze knees together as tight as possible. Hold for 5-10 seconds.

Shoulder Raise While sitting or standing, lift shoulders up as high as possible towards your ear. Hold for 30 seconds then release.

Foot Tapper Rapidly tap feet in place while sitting in a chair. Do for 30 seconds at a time.

How chiropractic care can fight absenteeism at work According to a new report by Global Corporate Challenge, presenteeism costs companies 10 times as much as the $150 billion annually in lost productivity from absenteeism.

NEWS USA Even with a stronger economy, businesses face an uphill battle when it comes to making a profit. Which is why it’s not surprising that much of a company’s success hinges on its employees. But what if an employee is fighting a medical condition or illness? How impactful is that to a business’ bottom line? It turns out: quite a lot.

Unlike absenteeism, according to a recent study, presenteeism – when people show up for work but don’t or can’t perform at full capacity – isn’t always apparent. You

know when someone doesn’t show up for work, but you often can’t tell when – or how much – health problems, including chronic conditions such as back pain, headaches, and arthritis, can leave them muddling through the day.

“Underlying the research on presenteeism is the assumption that employees do not take their jobs lightly, that most of them need and want to continue working if they can,” the Harvard Business Review reports.

Many attribute the problem to the current opioid crisis, claiming that it’s in employers’ best interest to

see that their workers have access to safer options to such potentially addictive (or worse) prescription painkillers such as OxyContin. One popular approach for relief from neuromusculoskeletal issues such as low-back and neck pain – drug-free chiropractic care – has actually been incorporated in onsite wellness programs by companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook.

Doctors of chiropractic, who are highly educated and trained in the structure and function of the human body, use hands-on techniques designed to enhance flexibility,

muscle strength, and range of motion. Most insurance policies cover its use.

“Chiropractic care is a win-win situation for both businesses and their employees,” says the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress’s Sherry McAllister, DC. So how much money does this phenomenon impact businesses’ bottom line?

According to a new report by Global Corporate Challenge, presenteeism costs companies 10 times as much as the $150 billion annually in lost productivity from absenteeism.

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At press time, Kyle has 15 A volunteer-based program volunteer drivers who split two in Kyle that helps to ensure el- routes each day. One reaches derly and homebound neighthroughout Kyle west of Interbors in need can enjoy a warm state 35, and the other route meal at home every day seeks serves those on the east side of assistance. the highway. Meals on Wheels is Meals on Wheels Delivers always looking for more volunlunches to the doors of about teers who have time to donate, 20 homes in Jones said.

Kyle, five days “The Meals Many of the a week. Delia on Wheels Bernal has led program is people served the program in very rewardKyle for about ing,” she said.

by Meals On 11 years. Every “It’s just someday of the work thing I think Wheels are elweek, she prepeople, once derly or unable they did it, pares food sent from the Meals would want to to walk and do on Wheels ofcontinue to do fice in Austin, it. It’s a good not leave their packages it, feeling.” and then sends Kim Hilsenhome very ofit out to be beck, who delivered by a works as the ten. The volunvolunteer. city of Kyle teer drivers are communicaThe program depends tions specialsometimes the on its fleet of ist, has been drivers, all of volunteering only person a whom volunas a Meals on teer to take Wheels driver customer sees hot lunches for almost out during the four years. It all week. work week to gives her an folks who may opportunity to not be able to cook or shop for give back and touch someone’s groceries on their own. The life, all in about an hour. meals cost $2 each, but no “The people are so kind and one is turned away if they are grateful,” Hilsenbeck said. “We unable to afford a meal, and all need each other as humans, service is not dependent on no matter what your beliefs income. or political views are. I don’t Besides the guarantee of know what the folks I deliver a hot meal, customers look to believe; I just know they forward to interacting with need help and that I have the volunteers who come by, Beropportunity to do it.” nal said. Many of the people It can be difficult to recruit served by Meals On Wheels are new volunteers to come out elderly or unable to walk and and deliver, but Bernal said do not leave their home very she hopes to find more drivers often. The volunteer drivers who enjoy delivering meals and are sometimes the only person getting to know the Meals on a customer sees all week.

Wheels customers.

“It does benefit our seniors “I love it,” Bernal said. “I love who are homebound,” said helping people and going out Cheryl Jones, the volunteer and meeting the elderly. Becoordinator for the group. “A cause someday, we’ll be there.” happy, smiling face coming to To donate to Meals on see them every day might be Wheels Kyle or request meal what they need to get through deliveries, contact Delia Bernal the day. And of course, a hot at 512-431-9150.

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A&E Air Conditioning & Heating, LLC

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NEMEC Heating and Air

LANDSCAPING

Free furnace special, $500 off complete system or 15% off any repair by mentioning you saw us here.

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Proudly serving Central Texas.

Residential, commercial and after hours available. chris@nemecheatingandair.com 512–312–9081 or 512–789–5132

AUTOMOTIVE AMM Collision Center

Three great locations!

Kyle: 21681 IH–35, 262–1013 Austin: 11740 Manchaca Rd., 292–1060 Dripping Springs: 3990 Hwy 290, 512–894–3888

Buda Automotive

You know us... by our reputation!

Full service car & truck repair.

601 S. Loop 4 in Buda 512–295–2832

Central Garage, LLC

Complete Auto Repair, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

20 Hwy. 290 West, Dripping Springs 512-894-4114 or 512-858-4252

COMPUTER SERVICE Hays Technical Services

Want help selecting the best value? Office systems not maintained? Did your kids or employees leave your computer useless? mike@haystech.com

Loam, topsoil, sand, gravel, roadbase, asphalt millings, granite, compost mix. Tractor work available. Specializing in country driveways.

512-858-7952. robinnds@aol. com, www.rick-rob.com

Daniel Stone & Landscaping Supplies

We deliver. Grass: St. Augustine, Buffalo, Bermuda, Tifway.

Chopped rock, patio rock, flagstone, drystack, gravel, river rock, mulch, sand and loam.

12015 Hwy 290 W, Cedar Valley, Austin. 512-288-8488.

Who Does Your Lawn

Call Jesse Reyna at 512-7882180 or email apa6207@ sbcglobal.net Offering competitive pricing and superior service in the Manchaca, Buda, and Kyle area since 2010. Taking care of all lawn needs so you can play.

Mowing, trimming, edging, debris removal, flower bed maintenance

LEGAL SERVICES John A. Hall

Attorney and Counselors At Law Business law, wills, trust, probate, family law, divorce, custody, consumer law, deceptive trade, property law, landlord–tenant law, personal, injury, DWI, criminal defense, debt defense, general civil litigation. 130 Hall Professional Center , Kyle, TX. 512–268–6425

PAINTING Texas Star Painting

Interior and exterior painting.

Siding & rotten wood replacement.

Sheet rock repairs. Wallpaper removal & wall texture. Pressure washing. Insured & References available, 512-699-0441.

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PLUMBING Prince Plumbing Company

Residential repair, remodeling, water heaters, sewer maintenance, slab & gas leak repair. 20 years experience, family owned and operated.

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POOL SERVICE G&S Pool and Spa Service Serving South Austin, Dripping Springs, Driftwood, Kyle and Buda since 1994. 512–326– 4695. www.gspoolspa.com

High Tide Pool Service

Over 10 years cleaning and maintaining pools. Drain & clean, pressure washing, full service repairs, replastering.

Free estimates, call Keith Miller at 512 965-3465.

REMODELING Tri–County Construction Let us make your dreams a reality!

Specializing in custom remodeling and insurance repairs since 1984.

Fully insured. 512–282–6224

Wild West Remodeling

No job too small or too big!

Kitchen/bath remodels, painting, tile, siding, decks, trim, door & window replacements, drywall repair, electrical and plumbing.

Curtis Dorsett, 512–402–4704

ROOFING Area Roofing Company

Serving Hays County. Residential & Commercial. Free estimates.

Insurance claims welcome. Ron Johnson, owner. 512–312– 5050

SEPTIC SERVICES All American Wastewater Solutions, LLC

Septic problems... Let us help!

Locally serving our community since 1982. Septic repair and installation specialist, septic tank pumping and servicing, aerobic system servicing and more.

Commercial and residential. www. allsepticcheck.com, 512–282–3889.

Sellman Enterprises, Inc.

Septic plumbing, cleaning, repairs Commercial & Residential Serving the Hays Metro area, including Travis, Blanco, Bastrop, Williamson & surrounding counties.

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SHOE REPAIR Austin Shoe Hospital

Quality boot & shoe repair as well as purse and luggage repair. Ten locations in Central Texas including: Ben White & Manchaca, 512-4408788; Hwy 290 & Nutty Brown Rd., 512-827-3398; and Hwy 290 in Oak Hill, 512-288-6386.

TREE SERVICES Lees Trees

Firewood, pruning, tree removal, chipping, planting, cedar posts, bulk mulch. Free assessments & estimates. Affordable oak wilt treatment. Schedule ball moss treatment for June. Call Marcus Lees at (512) 858-4018, leestrees@vownet.net

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Custom window treatments at affordable prices. Graber, Hunter Douglas, Norman and more. Blinds, shades, draperies and shutters.

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Oktoberfest

You don’t have to be German to partake in the tasty traditions As the summer settles down, we can look forward to cooler weather, backyard barbecues and Oktoberfest! Whether you’re of German descent or not, everyone is welcome to participate the month-long celebration harvest celebration. So, if you want to add a little German flare to your picnic fare, here are a couple of recipes you might enjoy

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• 3 cups diced peeled potatoes • 4 slices bacon • 1 small onion, diced • 1/4 cup white vinegar • 2 tablespoons water • 3 tablespoons white sugar • 1 teaspoon salt • 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

Place the potatoes into a pot, and fill with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and cook for about 10 minutes, or until easily pierced with a fork. Drain, and set aside to cool.

Place the bacon in a large deep skillet over medium-high heat. Fry until browned and crisp, turning as needed. Remove from the pan and set aside.

Add onion to the bacon grease, and cook over medium heat until browned.

Add the vinegar, water, sugar, salt and pepper to the pan. Bring to a boil, then add the potatoes and parsley. Crumble in half of the bacon. Heat through, then transfer to a serving dish. Crumble the remaining bacon over the top, and serve warm.

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2 lbs. bratwurst 2 onions, cut into thin slices 1 cup butter 6 12-oz. bottles of good beer Ground black pepper, to taste • Thick hot dog or sandwich rolls • Stone-ground mustard • Sauerkraut

Poke holes in the bratwurst with a fork. Put them in a large pot with the onion, butter, beer, and pepper. Simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.

Heat the grill and oil a grate, then add the brats for 10 minutes or until crisp and brown.

Warm the rolls on the grill and serve with fixings.

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