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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 7 No. 43
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LEAKEY ISD ............................ Page 4
REAL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE WANTED PERSONS AND FUGITIVES ............................ Page 3
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October 25, 2017
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TxDOT ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN LEAKEY COMING TO AN END by Julie Becker
Leakey Texas is getting a great Christmas present this year, completion of one of the major projects in the City. Allen Keller Construction Project Supervisor Tony Magnus reported last week the TxDOT road construction is coming to an end. Magnus reported the completion of water flow concrete at U.S. Hwy. 83 and Tucker Hollow is under way. The driveway at High Places Realty is completed. The entrance to 7th Street will be completed this week. On Ranch Road 337 West the driveway reconstructions will begin this week, along with the driveway at the Leakey Volunteer Fire Department. One driveway will be added, the requested driveway next to the Post
Office for the Frio Canyon EMS. The transition from the new concrete road to the asphalt road at the City limits will be completed within the next weeks. U.S. Hwy 83 North transition will be completed along with approximately 20 driveways. Magnus stated Allen Keller hired a sub contractor to speed up the concrete work, which has helped the time line tremendously. He also said the entrance to the south side of Live Oak Circle will be enlarged to increase traffic flow width. On the South end of U.S. Hwy 83, Magnus said a buried drainage line in front of the Family Dollar store, North to the Reed property will be completed along with
driveways at those locations. Both locations of pedestrian walk ways at Tucker Hollow (337 and 83) will have pedestrian hand rails. The sidewalk will be removed in front of Mill Creek Cafe, ending the walkway at the Leakey Beverage Barn. Magnus and Jamie Hibler, Keller’s newly designated supervisor for project completion stated the entire project will be completed by the end of the year. And yes that is this year, 2017, YEAH! Projects of this size always have delays and change orders, but as projects go this one has been completed with professionalism and respect for our community and some of the thanks go to TxDOT Project Manager,
DRT Library Grand Opening and Stephen F. Austin Honor Day by Judy Burleson Caddel-Smith Publicity
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Somewhere in the West
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REAL COUNTY AND DISTRICT COURT RESULTS ............................. Page 8
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library Collection (Presidio Gallery) Grand Opening is set for Friday, October 27 from 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. in its new location on 126 E. Nueva Street, San Antonio. The event is co-sponsored by Texas A & M University-San Antonio and DRT, and is open to the public. The October opening is just a few days ahead of the November Honor Day celebrating Stephen F. Austin’s November 3 birthday. Austin is best remembered as “The Father of Texas” whose colonization venture begun by his father was realized with the contract with Mexico to settle 300 families, known as “The
Old Three Hundred” in an area between the San Antonio and Brazos Rivers. He subsequently received contracts to settle an additional 900 families, making him the most successful empresario in Texas history. Because its goal is to preserve the rich history of the Republic, DRT has received donations of Republic era artifacts from personal and legal sources. Some items like a chair belonging to Mexican
General Santa Anna can be found in the Republic of Texas Museum in Austin while a vast collection of diaries, letters, legal documents, books and maps make up the DRT Library Collection. Among the historical documents in the Collection are the handwritten and typed drafts of Andrew Jackson Sowell. Sowell (1848-1921), was a Texas Ranger and the author of Rangers and Pioneers of Texas (1884), Life of
Leakey Football Moves To 6 Man The mood of the meeting was serious as the Leakey School Board quizzed the district’s Athletic Director, Donnie Dutton; Head Football Coach, Josh Stacey; Assistant Football Coach, Brian Leiker; and Principal, DeeAnna Blanton regarding the pros and cons of considering 6-Man Football. Athletic Director Dutton said, “Serious injuries have plagued the Leakey Eagle Junior High and High School teams this year as they faced older and larger players on the other teams.” Coach Stacey added that just last week a junior high school
student broke his arm, and a high school student was diagnosed with a concussion. Leakey is currently one of the smallest schools in the state still trying to field an 11-Man team. It has been years since Leakey has been able to win more than 50% of its games. But the Board members agreed that more important than any win-loss record is the safety of our local athletes. Currently, due to injuries, only 16 students will be able to play football this Friday night and many of them are young players. One game was already
Big Foot Wallace (1899), Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas (1900), History of Fort Bend County (1904), and Incidents Connected with the Early History of Guadalupe County, Texas (undated). Sowell’s paternal grandfather John Newton Sowell (1780-1838) moved his family from Tennessee to Missouri and then to Texas, settling in Green DeWitt’s colony near Gonzales in 1830. During the Texas Revolution, he was one of the “Old Eighteen” in Gonzales and aided the Texan cause by making and repairing guns. continued page 5
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forfeited this year due to injuries. Next week the district’s Athletic Director and Superintendent must file the district’s intent to not only play UIL Football next school year but also whether or not it would be 6-Man or 11-Man Football. Just last year Nueces Canyon and before that Medina ISD faced the same crossroad and successfully transitioned to 6-Man Football. In the 1970’s Leakey was a powerhouse in the state’s 8-Man Football league, an option no longer available. In February the UIL will release which
teams Leakey will play next school year in six-man football. Hopefully, it will include our neighbors Medina and Nueces Canyon and other teams that are in close proximity as more small schools consider this option. Coaches Dutton, Stacey, and Leiker assured the Board that they can easily make the transition to coaching Six-Man Football. Coach Stacey cited that his own uncle had done so after many years of coaching 11-Man. continued page 4
WOODIE AND WOODIE HONORED AT OCTOBER DAR MEETING by Karen Collins
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INDEX Legals/Jail Register ... . Page 3Community News ......... Page 4-7 Feature Story ............... Page 8-9 Obituaries ...................... Page 10 Classifieds ..................... Page 14
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Woodie Etheridge Hornburg and Manny Guerrero and Mario Woodie Hornburg Trotter, mother Ocana, and featured their canine and daughter from Brackettville, partner Cayro. They explained were honored at the National Socithat European pups are brought to ety of the Daughters of the Ameritheir facilities in Texas or Vircan Revolution (DAR), Uvalde ginia for extensive training before de las Encinas Chapter, at their being assigned to agents in the October meeting on Saturday the field. Cayro’s handler, Guerrero, twenty-first. Regent Lesley Jones demonstrated how the dog located presented certificates to them for narcotics in hidden locations, being DAR members for fifty and and answered questions from the forty-one years, respectively. audience. Registrar Nancy Baker Regent Jones opened the meetreported that the chapter has 57 ing by welcoming members and members, and five prospective guests at the El Progreso Library members. Regent Jones menThe other is a pic of Woodie Trotter, Regent Leslie Jones, and at 10:30 a.m. After the opening tioned that a Bakeless Bake Sale Woodie Hornburg. rituals, Billie Franklin read the is currently in progress, and that President General’s Message, which discussed ways Box Tops were still being collected for DAR schools. to help victims of the recent hurricanes, and encourMembers are also collecting money to be sent to the aged members to honor veterans on their special day Salvation Army for hurricane victims. November on November 11th. Diane Dooley read the National 11th is Veterans Day, and volunteers to help with the Defense Report, which included information about Uvalde program on November tenth were asked to President Trump’s plans to strengthen our nation’s contact Betty Lawrence or Sharon Hubble. The next military advantage by increasing our personnel nummeeting of the chapter will be on Saturday, November bers and developing more unmanned technology. 18, 2017, at the El Progreso Library. DAR member The program was presented by Border Patrol Agents and retired pharmacist Francis Karasek will pres-
ent the program. Regent Jones reminded the group that the State Convention will be held in March in San Antonio. Any woman 18 years of age or older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution is eligible for DAR membership. For more information, contact Regent Lesley Jones at 830-563-2347. The group enjoyed lunch and a time of visitation at Oasis Outback following the meeting.
DAR treasurer Sharon Hubble with Border Patrol Agent Manny Guerrero and his canine partner Cayro.