Lampasas Dispatch Record November 12, 201

Lampasas Dispatch Record TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019

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Lampasan killed in crash on U.S. 190

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Lampasas resident David Y. Garcia Jr., 40, was pronounced dead at AdventHealth Rollins Brook on Thursday after a two-vehicle collision that afternoon in the 3400 block of U.S. Highway 190.

First responders were dispatched at 1:27 p.m. to the crash near Lampasas Baptist Church, where a gray 2010 Ford Focus had collided with a gray 2018 Dodge Ram. Dispatch officers reported “the caller said they are trapped in their vehicle.”

First responders confirmed entrapment when they arrived at the wreck site.

Texas Department of Public Safety Senior Cpl. Monte Carroll said just

before the crash, the pickup was traveling east on the highway, and the Ford Focus was headed west.

“For an unknown reason, the Focus had entered the center lane and continued to drive into the eastbound lanes,” Carroll said.

The car crossed into the outside, eastbound lane, where it collided with the Dodge.

“The front left of [the sedan] collided with the front-left quarter panel of the Dodge,” Carroll said.

The Focus came to rest facing southeast in the inside eastbound lane, and the Dodge came to rest facing southwest in the eastbound right of way.

Garcia, the driver of the Focus, was transported SEE ONE, PAGE A8

Military veterans lauded for their service

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Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8539 in Lampasas -- shown in foreground -- join a crowd of local veterans and their family members in saluting as the Lampasas Middle School band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" during LMS’ Veterans Day Program on Friday. See page A2 for related photos of recognition for veterans.

Water line replacement begins on West Avenue C, nearby blocks

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Water line replacement has begun on West Avenue C. Qro Mex Construction Inc., based in Granite Shoals, started work earlier this month on the $492,600 project. A Community Development Block Grant is providing $265,000 toward the infrastructure work, and the city is paying the remainder.

Qro Mex will replace the water line from Key Avenue to Porter Street, then south on Porter to Avenue A, said Mike Blair, city utility field supervisor. Qro Mex also will install a new water line on West Avenue B from Nix Road to an alley just west

of Arnold Street, Blair said.

Public Works Director Rickie Roy said Blair basically is functioning as the city's project manager for the water line replacement.

The new water line will be 8 inches in diameter and should provide much better service than what is available now, Blair said.

One section of the existing water line on West Avenue C has about 20 repair clamps within 300 feet, Blair said. With a new line -- and therefore a reduced need for repairs -- "it's going to be a whole lot better for them," Blair said of West Avenue C residents.

The existing water line under the SEE WATER, PAGE A3

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Badgers win district, will face Brazosport on Friday

Badger football players, left to right, Ethan Rascoe, Jack Jerome, Ace Whitehead and Jaylon Porter pour a Gatorade cooler over head coach Troy Rogers to celebrate a 47-35 district-title-clinching victory at Fredericksburg last week. See pages B1-B4 for game coverage and a playoff preview.

City offers free curbside pick-up of brush Residents who need to dispose of brush may do so for free over the next several weeks by leaving brush at the curb of their property.

City crews will pick up brush in specific parts of town on designated weeks through Dec. 6.

Crews served the northwest side of town -- west of Key Avenue and north of First Street -- last week before moving to another section Monday. Today through

WEATHER Date Nov. 7 Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Nov. 10

High Low Rain 66 38 0.55 50 37 0.01 69 39 0 72 50 0

Rainfall so far this year: 22.96 in.

Data from the Lower Colorado River Authority (site 11 miles west-northwest of Lampasas, near Nix).

Friday, city workers will continue collecting brush in the southwest section of town -west of Key Avenue and south of First Street.

Brush collection dates for other areas are scheduled as follows.

• Nov. 18-22, southeast section (east of Key and south of First) • Nov. 25-27, northeast part of city (east of Key and north of First).

City offices will be closed Nov. 28-29 for Thanksgiving, but

brush pickup in the northeast section of town will continue Dec. 2-6. Workers also will go back through the entire city that week to check for brush that was not picked up earlier.

The following conditions apply for the brush chipping program.

• brush must be no longer than 4 feet • no lumber or trash will be picked up by city crews. An SEE BRUSH-CHIPPING, PAGE A8

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Sulphur Creek aglow with floating lanterns

A Lampasas teen places a tealight candle into a floating luminaria during the inaugural Lantern Lighting ceremony at W.M. Brook Park on Saturday evening. The luminarias -- which represented community members’ well-wishes, prayers and notes of thanksgiving -- were released to float down Sulphur Creek.

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COLD FRONT

At press time, weather forecasts called for temperatures in the lowto mid-20s Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning, with sleet possible late Monday night. The temperature could challenge daily records. Lampasas’ coldest weather of 2019, so far, occurred on March 5, when the low was 21.

LAMPASAS CITY COUNCIL

The Lampasas City Council will

meet today in its new Council Chambers, 302 E. Third St. A workshop session will begin at 5:30 p.m., and the regular session is set for 7 p.m.

The workshop session, which is for discussion only and no action, will include items about Pecan Street development and Lampasas Central Appraisal District operations.

The agenda for the regular session includes possible action about a mural at the former Santa Fe train depot on East Second and South

Live Oak streets, a preliminary engineering analysis related to water system improvements on the west side of town, and curb and gutter work on Chestnut Street between Third and Fourth streets.

Other agenda items include possible action about utility improvements on Hetherly Drive for a residential development and a preliminary plat for a 12-lot residential subdivision on FM 1478, across from the Diamond Ridge neighborhood.

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Lampasas events honor military veterans ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH | DISPATCH RECORD

Aspen Wheeler recites “A Veterans Day Poem” by Holly Rulli, at the Lampasas Middle School Veterans Day Program on Friday.

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U.S. Army veterans Don Davis of Briggs, seated, and Merritt Romans of Lampasas, standing behind Davis, chat with State Representative Brad Buckley at the LMS Veterans Appreciation Breakfast on Friday.

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Eighth-grade student Lilianna Miller reads an essay she wrote on the subject, “Why should we honor veterans?” for the LMS Veterans Day Program.

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Jesse Tomasek, a U.S. Marine Corps and Army veteran, enjoys the LMS Veterans Appreciation Breakfast with his service dog, Trooper.

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Kenneth Bench receives a certificate of appreciation for his military service from Amanda Thomison at the Lampasas MultiService Center Veterans Day program on Friday.

Rabindiamath “Rob” Kuldas, a U.S. Army veteran, poses with the cover of Life Magazine from Feb. 19, 1968, where he is pictured with a member of the Viet Cong after the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.

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Mike Morse served as a Lampasas police officer before he became a Texas game warden.

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American Legion Post 277 Commander Jack Shelton, left, speaks at a wreath-laying ceremony Monday morning outside the Lampasas County Courthouse. Sgt. Michael Uhler, second from right, and George Van Stienberg, far right, laid the wreath at the base of the flagpole in honor of fallen service members. Uhler is a veteran of the Iraq War, and Van Stienberg served in Vietnam.

Treasures found in Courtyard Square Garage Sale

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Starla Powell, left, of Starla’s Creations in Lampasas visits with CHERI JAY-WEINECKE | DISPATCH RECORD Belton resident Becky Vance at her booth during the Lampasas Chris Tucker of Kempner gets his booth set up with handmade Courtyard Square Garage Sale on Nov. 2. birdhouses for the garage sale.

Former Lampasan retires after long game warden career Mike Morse of Pearsall retired from Texas Parks and Wildlife recently after 27 years of service as a Texas game warden.

A 1976 Lampasas High School graduate, Morse served as a Lampasas police officer before he became a game warden.

He was a game warden in Region 5 in South Texas his entire career. He was stationed initially in Rio Grande City before he transferred

to Pearsall. He attained the rank of captain, which he held until retirement.

In his retirement, Morse will spend time raising cattle. He lives in Pearsall with his wife, Cayce, and son, Cole. His daughter and her husband reside in Kerrville with Morse’s three grandchildren.

Morse is the son of the late Charles E. Morse, and Bea Morse, who still lives in Lampasas.

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Water line replacement underway on West Avenue C FROM PAGE A1

street may date back to the 1940s or 1950s, Blair said.

Qro Mex began water line replacement at Key Avenue and plans to work westward in about three- to four-block sections, Blair said. Each section may take two to three weeks to complete, he said.

After the new water line is installed, Qro Mex will tie old lines at cross streets into the new 8-inch line on West Avenue C, Blair said. The company also will patch the pavement sections it cut, he and Roy said.

Qro Mex's entire project may be in "the finishing stages" around June or July 2020, Blair said.

Roy and Blair said city officials plan for West Avenue C to get a new curb and gutter system, as well as new pavement, once all utility work is finished. Officials plan to seek another Community Development Block Grant -- separate from the water-related grant -to help pay for the installation of a new sewer line under West Avenue C, Blair said. Once the new sewer line is installed, the street can be repaved, Blair said.

There could be some interruptions of water service for an hour or two at various points during the new line installation project, Blair said.

There also could be water boil orders at some times in the

project area if water pressure drops below the minimum level the state allows, he said.

Boil orders are state-mandated, Blair said.

He said drops in water pressure should be resolved fairly quickly, especially if the cause is a valve being turned off briefly and then being turned back on.

"So if [residents will] just bear with us and give us an hour or so and then recheck their water, it'll probably be back up to normal where they're used to," Blair said. "If not, don't hesitate to call [the] city and make a report. I've got guys I can send out on it, or we'll go up there and see what's going on right then. I mean,

that's our job. That's what we do 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

He said the city will try to keep streets open as much as possible throughout the water line project, but some temporary closures may be required at times. Blair advised people to observe warning signs in construction areas, and he encouraged motorists to reduce their speed in work zones.

It is a good idea to use an alternate route if possible, Blair said. He said that is true not just for motorists but also for bicycle riders and pedestrians.

They can be difficult for workers to see, Blair said, when construction crews are using large equipment.

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A trench has been dug on West Avenue C between Walnut and Broad streets as part of a water line replacement project.

Senior Center to host veterans services event The Lampasas MultiService, Senior Center will host a veterans’ services program on Wednesday from 1-3 p.m.

Kindred Hospice representatives will be at the center to give a presentation on the veterans’ services they offer and also to have a presentation to honor local veterans.

This event is open to the public. * This week’s lunch menu follows.

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‘Celebrity’ judges at KWE contest

Community members participated as judges in the Kline Whitis Elementary pumpkin decorating contest in late October.

Pictured front to rear: Mayor Misti Talbert; County Tax Assessor Betty Salinas; LISD Superintendent Dr. Chane Rascoe; retired LISD Art Teacher Joan Bear; and Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Davis Keele.

TUESDAY, NOV. 12 Beef tips and gravy, rice, broccoli, cake and bread.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13 Salmon patty, potatoes, squash, cookie and bread.

THURSDAY, NOV. 14 Swiss patty, peas and onions, potatoes, pudding and bread.

FRIDAY, NOV. 15 Scalloped ham and potatoes, cabbage, okra and tomatoes, apricots, cornbread.

Queso Fest people’s choice winners announced

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KWE celebrates book characters Kline Whitis Elementary held Book Character Day on Oct. 31. Pictured are Principal Wes Graham, second from left, Assistant Principal Abby O’Hair and administrators Terry Morphis and Diane Pierce, dressed as Willy Wonka and his helpers. School dog, Honey, is costumed as the “golden ticket.”

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The restaurant category winner was El Rodeo Mexican Restaurant, represented

by Mario Medrano, pictured here with Karen DeZarn, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension agent.

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The amateur category winner was the Colorado River Cattle Women, represented by Janet Machen, pictured here with Dillon Brister and Dean Brister, pictured right to left.

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The youth category winner was Jaycee Lockhart, pictured here with Dillon Brister and Dean Brister, right to left.

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Fall fun at Browning Garden Club meeting The Browning Community Garden Club met on Oct. 15 at the country home of member Amy Parke who presented a program on Folklore Remedies and Herbal History. Some members dressed up in traditional fall and Hallow’s Eve attire to represent October’s folklore theme. Pictured from left to right are: Anelicia Cheney-Campbell, Janet Mahoney, Shannon White, Debbie Burrows, Esther Bailey, BJ Logue, Janet Crozier, Debbie Votaw and Mollie Bersch.

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Three cheers for refugee reduction

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ver the weekend, President Donald Trump approved a new annual refugee cap of 18,000, the lowest since the U.S. program began in 1980. The reduction follows news that America took a pause last month and refused to admit any new refugees.

On economic, public safety and national security grounds, this is a very good thing for the 325 million people already in our country.

But you wouldn’t know it from the grim headlines and hysterical condemnations by globalist zealots and media sympathizers.

CNN International led the open borders funeral procession last week, with a report decrying, “No refugees will be resettled in the U.S. in October, leaving hundreds in limbo around the world.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., hyperventilated that “Donald Trump is trying to destroy the very heart of this nation. I won’t let him.” Social justice group MICHELLE CARE bemoaned this “dark MALKIN moment in our nation’s history.” Human Rights First complained that Trump’s proposal is “crippling the United States’ status as a global leader in refugee resettlement.”

Heaven forbid citizens in a sovereign nation have an effective say in who comes here, from where and how many. Is one refugee-less month in America such a catastrophe? Calm down, Chicken Littles.

Get some perspective.

It is most certainly true that America has a legacy of embracing people from around the world fleeing persecution and war. After World War II, the U.S. helped lead efforts to assist 650,000 displaced Europeans who had fled in fear, were expelled and were victims of Nazi crimes and terror. Congress passed the 1948 Displaced Persons Act to accommodate them. Five years later, the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 aided refugees from Italy and East Germany escaping Communist regimes, adding another 250,000 refugees over four years. In the 1950s and 1960s, we welcomed Hungarians, Cubans and Czechoslovakians also escaping Communist oppression. In the 1970s, we opened our doors to an estimated 300,000 political refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The Refugee Act of 1980 created the Office of Refugee Resettlement and office of U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and raised the annual ceiling of admissions to 50,000.

Under Obama, that number soared to nearly 100,000 annually. The idea that we’ve abandoned our humanitarian leadership role because of this refugee resettlement reduction is ludicrous. Overall, since 1975, the U.S. has resettled more than 3 million refugees. Under Trump, the U.S. still accepted more refugees than any other country in both 2017 and 2018. On top of that, America forked over nearly $1.6 billion to support the U.N.’s refugee resettlement campaign. Moreover, America remains the largest single country provider of humanitarian assistance worldwide. Total U.S. humanitarian assistance was more than $8 billion in fiscal year 2017, covering food, shelter, health care and access to clean water for millions. That’s enough.

Past refugee admissions don’t lock America into those same levels now or in the future. America’s constitutional duty is to Americans first (“ourselves and our posterity”). The truth is that we’ve been generous to a ruinous, open borders fault.

Last year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform tallied refugee resettlement costs to taxpayers at nearly $9 billion over five years.

In my adopted home state of Colorado, a new University of Colorado Boulder study acknowledged that refugees are often “trapped in chronic poverty” after resettlement subsidies dry up and are unable to lift themselves out of dependency on government aid such as public housing, Medicaid and food stamps. Federal statistics show that nearly half of all refugee households receive cash welfare. Chain migration perpetuates the cycle of poverty.

A tiny cabal of government contractors perpetuates the refugee resettlement racket.

Openly hostile to American sovereignty, these people spread their tax-subsidized syndicate’s wealth to a vast network of subcontractors, often tied to billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, which promote global governance and unfettered migration.

These special interests have systematically blurred the lines between legitimate refugees seeking asylum from oppression and economic migrants from Central America clamoring for higher wages or better welfare benefits.

They’re indifferent to the national security risks of absorbing large numbers of Muslims whose adherence to repressive sharia and religious jihad is utterly incompatible with our constitutional principles.

Mass migration champions have stretched the definition of refugee so thin that “climate change refugees” seeking relief from uninhabitable environments are now a phenomenon. Nuts.

Only a complete moratorium on immigration would give America the break it needs to regain control of our system.

Trump’s refugee reduction is not an apocalypse. It’s a long overdue respite from the world’s wretched refuse that deserves cheers, not jeers.

MICHELLE MALKIN is a columnist with Creators Syndicate. Her email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.

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Beto’s aspirations fizzle

eto O’Rourke’s pullout from the presidential race leaves the Democrats with, oh, a mere dozen and a half or so candidates available to run the country. The country’s corresponding task is to keep awake for the remainder of the race.

The pressing question is, or should be, what goes on here? What’s the mission -- to can President Donald Trump or to move us in new, as yet hazy, directions? Or both at the same time?

Beto -- or to use his baptismal name, Robert Francis -- typified the confusion.

What was he trying to do? He’d lost, if narrowly, a Senate race in Texas. He had no credentials to speak of. He just thought that even if an insufficient number of Texans liked him, he could charm a majority of Americans into loving him.

That aspiration fizzled. He had nothing to say, apart from, “Give me your guns.” It was, evidently, what he said because so little else came to mind.

I’m generally against kicking people when they’re down. I think a word about Beto’s departure may nonetheless have relevance, due to the jangling words it speaks about how we overvalue people whose purpose in life is to go around asking for votes.

Beto won’t be missed. Candidates who come out of nowhere in order to lead us somewhere else are a dime a carload.

As are the ideas with which they intend to galvanize us. In the 21st century, nothing’s good enough.

Everything demands changing.

Was I speaking to you, Sen. Elizabeth Warren?

Ummmhmmm.

The No. 1 or No. 2 candidate in the Democratic race, depending on what poll results you rely on, has a plan -- actually, a variety of plans -- to turn life inside out. Her latest is a $20 trillion gig to throw us all off whatever health insurance we have, replacing it with a monolithic program of government health care -- whether we want it or not. And, more important

Candidates who come out of nowhere in order to lead us somewhere else are a dime a carload. As are the ideas with which they intend to galvanize us. Beto had nothing to say, apart from ‘Give me your guns.’

yet, whether the money is out there to do what she tells us to do.

Oh, Lord, what else? Tom Steyer wants to spend billions of our dollars battling climate change and fixing energy infrastructure. Julian Castro will go on “being a voice for the voiceless,” according to his campaign manager. Andrew Yang wants to give us all a lot of money. Bernie wants to control everything -- for our own good, naturally.

None of this has to do with the rocking-chair concerns of American voters: jobs, kids, schools, security, freedom and so on.

No matter. This is presidential politics.

If you want to be president, you must DO something for us. That we might be capable of doing things for ourselves, and our communities, WILLIAM is to the campaigners MURCHISON a weary assumption characteristic of a long-dead America.

The candidates want to DO something. Something big. This is why they are there -- to tell us what and how. Beto might have lasted longer had he excitingly engaged those larger Somethings we so conspicuously want. “Here’s how to maintain and strengthen social peace” -- maybe something on that order.

The great irony of these campaign trail excitements is how essentially boring and repetitious they are, carefully assembled with paste and cardboard for exhibition on the campaign trail. Democrats like to rail at capitalists. Here we get down to it.

What’s all this free tuition, free health care, soak-the-rich, grab-the-guns stuff if not commercialism of the worst kind, meant to sell products -- specifically the candidates themselves: Beto, Elizabeth, Joe, Bernie and so on.

What all campaigners want is to sell at a profit. Donald’s ballyhoo just happens to be better tailored to human realities than, say, that of the senator from Massachusetts who wants our money so she can improve how it’s being spent. This is why, all else being equal, Donald is 2020’s likely winner and our president for four more years.

Beto just thought the Something we wanted to hear was, “I’m coming for your guns.” Never mind. There’s lots more such stuff out there, e.g., “Get those hands up. I’m here for the money.

And you’ll love what I’m going to do with it.”

WILLIAM MURCHISON is writing a book on moral reconstruction in the 21st century. He is a columnist with Creators Syndicate.

LETTERS

Incorrect use of the words ‘Democrat’ and ‘democratic’ I have been watching the talking heads on TV and reading the local newspapers along with casual conversations with friends and associates over the past months, and I have picked up on a disturbing misuse of two very important words in our vocabulary; i.e., Democrat and democratic.

Democrat is a noun, and democratic as described in Webster’s Dictionary is “relating to, encompassing or promoting the people’s interest.” The word Democrat is used to describe our U.S. government. Beg your pardon, but the U.S. government was established as a republic, not a democracy. This is being misused by elected officials, reporters, newspapers, teachers and the general public.

In order to fully understand what is

happening to our language, it would be advantageous to use the word in the correct manner, especially when it comes to understanding our government. The way the Democrat Party is acting these days is in no way democratic, and those who are espousing the Democrat Party way of running the United States today are anything but democratic.

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.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland issued a new statement Nov. 4 to the House Intelligence Committee that he “presumed” military assistance to Ukraine was “likely” being conditioned by the administration when he spoke to a Ukrainian presidential aide on Sept.

1, but that he “did not know… when, why, or by whom the aid was suspended…”

In any sane world, this would be the end of the impeachment farce by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Per Sondland, there was no communication from the White House, President Donald Trump or his attorney Rudy Giuliani to leverage Ukraine using military assistance -- the heart of the allegation against the president.

From the testimony: “I now do recall a conversation on Sept. 1, 2019, in Warsaw with [Zelensky presidential ROBERT aide Andriy] Yermak. This brief pull-aside conversation ROMANO followed the larger meeting involving Vice President [Mike] Pence and President [Volodymyr] Zelensky, in which President Zelensky had raised the issue of the suspension of U.S. aid to Ukraine directly with Vice President Pence. After that large meeting, I now recall speaking individually with Mr. Yermak, where I said that resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement we had been discussing for many weeks.”

But, he didn’t know. Here, Sondland says he was speculating: “I always believed that suspending aid to Ukraine was ill-advised, although I did not know (and still do not know) when, why or by whom the aid was suspended.

However, by the beginning of September 2019, and in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, I presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anti-corruption statement.”

On Aug. 28, Politico broke the story that the U.S. had decided to pause U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, days before the planned meeting, which is how Ukrainian officials had learned about it.

Then the meeting in Warsaw happened, and the issue was raised there by both Zelensky and afterward by Yermak. But if Sondland was “presuming” the aid was being leveraged and told Ukrainian presidential aide Yermak that the military assistance would “likely” not resume until the statement had been issued, then he was guessing. Nowhere does Sondland say the White House told him to tie military aid to any statement by Ukraine. Of course, that’s not stopping major media outlets from reporting what they want the testimony to mean. They think Sondland is their star witness.

The anti-corruption statement by Ukraine that had been sought was that they were looking at origins of the Russiagate investigation and potential corruption at Burisma Holdings, not in exchange for military assistance but a soughtafter meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainan President Volodymyr Zelensky.

But those conditions were dropped. Because the Sept. 1 Warsaw meeting originally was supposed to be Trump and Zelensky but an imminent hurricane had Pence traveling there instead, facilitating such a statement had been abandoned by State Department officials.

According to former United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker’s Oct. 3 testimony, “To my knowledge, the news about a hold on security assistance did not get into Ukrainian government circles, as indicated to me by the current foreign minister, then diplomatic adviser, until the end of August. And by the time that we had that, we had dropped the idea of even looking at a statement” in exchange for a meeting.

Further, Volker was asked about conditioning the meeting, “Did the president ever withhold a meeting with President Zelensky… until the Ukrainians committed to investigate the allegations… concerning the 2016 election?”

To which, Volker replied, “The answer to the question is no… there was no linkage.”

Trump was set to meet Zelensky on Sept.

1. And then a hurricane hit and so did the Politico story about military aid being paused.

That’s when Trump canceled his trip and Pence went in his stead, and then Sondland says he surmised the military assistance was tied to the statement.

But when he circled back to the White House, he found out he was wrong. In Sondland’s original testimony on Oct. 17, he said he asked Trump directly what he wanted out of Ukraine, and Trump said “Nothing.

There is no quid pro quo.” The president repeated: “no quid pro quo” multiple times.

Sondland now says he “presumed” that military assistance was “likely” being conditioned directly following the Sept. 1 meeting between Vice President Pence and Zelensky where the issue of the lapse in military funding was raised. But he was wrong. Barring any other disclosures, it appears Sondland was the source of the confusion.

That will not be enough for Pelosi and Schiff — they are too committed at this point. But if Zelensky says there was no pressure, neither Trump nor Pence conveyed any conditions on the aid, and the only person who communicated that the military assistance was being conditioned now says he was assuming that it was, then that’s it. This is a dead end.

ROBERT ROMANO is vice president of public policy at Americans for Limited Government, based in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Wreck on river bridge leads to injuries, hazardous materials cleanup

BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH DISPATCH RECORD

Two men sustained non-lifethreatening injuries Thursday morning after a crash on the Lampasas River bridge west of Kempner, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper said.

At 6:40 a.m., emergency responders were called to the scene of a collision between two pickup trucks at the river crossing on U.S. Highway 190.

DPS Trooper IV Mark Owens said the collision likely occurred due to hydroplaning during heavy rainfall.

Owens said a white 2008 Chevrolet Silverado, driven by 61-year-old Hyacinth St. Mark, was westbound on the highway in the outside lane. A gray 2007 Dodge Dakota, driven by 56-year-old Harry Herndon, was eastbound in the outside lane.

The pickups were traveling toward each other, Owens said, when St. Mark lost control of his vehicle on the slick road. St. Mark crossed over the highway into Herndon’s lane, Owens said.

The vehicle crossed four lanes of traffic and collided with the Dodge pickup, frontright quarter panel to frontleft quarter panel.

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Grones Environmental Services, a hazardous materials unit out of Elm Mott, was called to the Lampasas River bridge on U.S. Highway 190 west of Kempner to clean up a chemical spill after a two-vehicle collision Thursday morning.

Owens said the two vehicles spun counterclockwise, and the Chevy spun into the eastbound shoulder, striking the concrete bridge railing with its right-rear quarter panel. It came to rest in the shoulder of the bridge facing north.

The Dodge also struck the concrete bridge railing with its front-left quarter panel and front-left passenger door, then rotated clockwise and traveled northeast across the eastbound traffic lanes and center turn lane. It came to rest in the inside westbound traffic lane, facing north, Owens said.

Both drivers sustained nonincapacitating injuries and

were transported by Acadian Ambulance Service to AdventHealth Central Texas hospital in Killeen. Both vehicles were towed from the scene.

Some vehicle fluids spilled from the bridge into the riverbed as a result of the collision, Owens said.

“One pickup was owned by a painting company, and so gasoline and perhaps some paint and paint thinner spilled,” he said.

Dispatch officers contacted Grones Environmental Services, a hazardous materials unit out of Elm Mott, to assist in the clean-up.

Pedestrian hit by pickup at U.S. 190, Old Georgetown Road

BY ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH DISPATCH RECORD

A woman was transported to the hospital after she was struck by a vehicle Thursday evening.

Lampasas police responded to the 700 block of Old Georgetown Road at 5:39 p.m. after a report of a vehicle striking a pedestrian.

Patrol Lt. Chuck Montgomery said the collision occurred when a pickup truck driving south on Old Georgetown Road stopped at the

intersection with U.S. Highway 190.

“He stopped for a stop sign on [U.S.] 190, and he was going to head southbound,” Montgomery said of the driver. “She walked out in front of him, and he failed to see her.

He rolled forward and bumped her.”

Montgomery said the collision did not occur at high speed, and the pedestrian was alert and conscious when first responders arrived.

She was transported to AdventHealth Rollins Brook for evaluation.

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One man killed, one injured in crash on U.S. Highway 190 FROM PAGE A1

to AdventHealth Rollins Brook.

“He was extracted, and life-saving measures were done at roadside, en route and upon arrival at the hospital,” but to no avail, the DPS trooper said.

Carroll said Garcia was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash, and multiple airbags had deployed in the vehicle.

The pickup driver, 67-year-old Rick A. Robinson of Harker Heights, was transported

by Acadian Ambulance Service to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple with “incapacitating injuries,” Carroll said.

At 1 p.m. Friday, Carroll said: “I believe he is in serious but stable condition.”

The front-left quarter panel and front of the pickup were damaged. The sedan received extensive damage to its front end, including the engine compartment, windshield and front-left driver’s side.

Carroll said the roadway was “wet with recent rains” at the time of the wreck.

Carroll was assisted at the scene by DPS Sgt. Stephen Bynum, and troopers Josiah Burzynski, Chad Freeman and Greg Hutchison.

The Lampasas County Sheriff’s Office, Lampasas Police Department, Lampasas Fire Department, Texas Department of Transportation, and Texas ALEXANDRIA RANDOLPH | DISPATCH RECORD Department of Parks and Texas Department of Public Safety Senior Cpl. Monte Carroll, left, and Lampasas Police Department Wildlife Game Warden Patrol Lt. Chuck Montgomery look at a 2010 Ford Focus that crashed into a 2018 Dodge Ram on Division also responded to Thursday in the 3400 block of U.S. Highway 190 east of Lampasas. the scene.

Firefighters from several departments battle residential fire near Kempner

BY JIM LOWE DISPATCH RECORD

Jennifer Hurley and her son, Chris, were watching television Saturday afternoon inside their house on County Road 4810 that is only a short distance south of the Kempner city limits.

They went outside to work on a lean-to shelter for their horses. They had been outside several minutes when Chris went back to the house for some bottled water.

All of a sudden, he yelled, “Smoke! It's a fire.”

Hurley's son went inside to try to rescue some of their animals from the onestory structure.

“We saw smoke coming out of the chimney,” Jennifer Hurley said. By then, she was at the front door, where black smoke “was billowing out.”

The Hurleys had snakes and lizards inside the house, but fire claimed their rabbits and ball pythons. They saved their geckos and sugar gliders, which Hurley described as looking like miniature gray squirrels.

Kempner Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Chris Long later said 12 dogs

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outside company, Waste Connections, provides trash collection services in Lampasas.

• the bundle of brush must be out by the curb. No alley pick-up is available.

The brush that city workers collect is ground into mulch, Public Works Director Rickie Roy said. The mulch is available for free on a first-come, first-served basis at the city's public works facility, 201 Brown St., Roy said. People may pick up mulch at the public works facility Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Street Superintendent Carlos Garcia said.

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A chimney at this house in the 900 block of CR 4810 leans toward the west during a fire Saturday afternoon.

inside the house also were rescued. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Long said.

“When we got there, half of the house was on fire and was already selfventilated,” the Kempner fire official said. “The fire had already gone through the roof.”

Of the house, Long said, “It's gone.” He added:

Cooperative arrived at the “There's no fixing it or scene to cut off electricity. anything like that.”

Kempner VFD received a call about 2 p.m. concerning the blaze. Lampasas Fire Department, Lampasas Volunteer Fire Department, Copperas Cove Fire Department and Oakalla Volunteer Fire Department also responded. A twoman crew out of Bertram with Pedernales Electric

John Maxfield – Jennifer Hurley's father, who lives nearby on the property in the 900 block of CR 4810 – told the Dispatch Record: “All the medication burned up, and my grandson takes a lot of high-dollar medication.”

Hurley said she had a considerable amount of medication in the house, too, as she said she has high blood pressure, diabetes and other health issues.

The residence where the fire occurred consists of a house and a garage that was converted into an apartment. A woman was living in the apartment.

“She grabbed her purse and got out,” Hurley said.

Maxfield's daughter was at a loss to explain what might have caused the blaze. There had been no fire in the fireplace for the past two weeks, and the stove was not on, she said.

“I don't get it,” she told a reporter. “I'm puzzled.”

She said the quick turn of events had left her “kind of numb now.”

The Lampasas County resident said she had done her Christmas shopping for everyone, but the as-yet wrapped presents went up in smoke.

Hurley said she spent her childhood days in the residence, which she said was built in the late 1970s – one stage at a time – by her father. Her grandparents also assisted in the construction, she said.

In a telephone interview Monday morning, Lampasas Fire Marshal Ronnie Withers said the cause of the fire still was undetermined. The blaze started in the living room area, he said.

The Red Cross was called in to assist the two families displaced by the fire, Withers said.

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Badgers win district, erasing 14-0 deficit

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BI-DISTRICT REMATCH

The Badgers faced more competition in the first quarter Friday than they have nearly all season. Fredericksburg raced ahead 14-0, but Lampasas rallied to take the district title with a 47-35 road win.

The Badgers proved they can regain composure after errors and win close ones as well as blowouts. Six of their regularseason wins had been by 32 points or more.

Earning the district’s top spot gives Lampasas a bi-district match-up Friday against Brazosport at Shelton Stadium in Buda.

Quarterback Ace Whitehead threw six touchdown passes and gained 408 total yards for the Badgers against Fredericksburg.

“Coach always preaches, ‘Adversity and chaos is gonna strike through the course of a game,’ and throughout the season we haven’t had much,” Whitehead said. “But for it to show up in the district championship game in the first two series, and then we overcome that, I think that’s just credit to how good we really are as a football team.”

Whitehead reached 3,067 total yards on the season. Three of his touchdown passes were to Mike Murray, two to Jaylon Porter and one to Cameron Everts.

Lampasas’ first two drives ended in three-and-outs and just one completion. The Billies scored on their first offensive play and led 14-0 less than five minutes into the game.

“Of course, we’ve got to fix that…,” Whitehead said. But as for the comeback, overall, “looking back on this, that’s gonna be a defining moment for us.”

Fredericksburg’s quarterback Tucker Elliot produced five touchdowns, 313 total yards, and also made four tackles on defense.

Fredericksburg’s stout offensive line also shielded him from the aggressive Badger defense.

Lampasas put the brakes on the Billies’ offense in the second quarter, forcing a fourth-down incompletion, a fumble and a safety.

The turnover on downs came deep in Badger territory, with Dax Brookreson and Clayton

Lampasas (9-1, 5-0 in district) will face the Brazosport Exporters (6-4 overall, 3-3 in district) Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Shelton Stadium in Buda.

The address is 4800 Jack C Hays Trail, Buda, TX 78610.

The host school, Hays Consolidated, has a “clearbag policy” prohibiting most backpacks, purses, folding chair bags and other tinted bags. Bags are subject to inspection prior to entry.

Accepted items include clear tote bags, one-gallon plastic freezer bags, clear bags with a logo, clutch purses smaller than 5.5” x 8.5” and wallets.

Tickets are $8 per adult and $6 per student.

Lampasas is the home team.

The Badgers beat Brazosport last year in the bi-district playoffs, 42-35.

The Exporters are fourth in their district: 13-4A Div. I. Shelton Stadium has a capacity of about 8,600 and an artificial playing surface.

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Owen Seaver (50) makes a fourth-quarter sack on Friday, despite a hold by a Fredericksburg lineman.

Bever covering the intended receiver.

Later, Daunte Cuffie made one of the team’s two sacks in the game, forcing a punt.

Fredericksburg had a bad snap on the punt. The punter scooped up the loose ball near the two-yard line and scrambled. He threw the ball away with Koby Allen bearing down in the end zone, and the intentional grounding call resulted in a safety.

The Badgers’ third safety in district play, and their only one of the night, put Lampasas ahead 16-14.

“We just had to settle down…,” Allen said after the game. “We busted some coverages. Sometimes they just made a good catch.”

His safety was one of the biggest turning points in the game.

“We were all playing for each other,” Allen said, and “our defensive line was doing great.”

While the Badger offense continued to roll most of the game, penalties came into play

a few times.

After two flags against them on a single play, they faced first and “halfway to Luckenbach,” 36 yards from the first-down marker.

Defensive Coordinator Sam Waldrip said the Badgers “came out flat,” but around their third defensive series “we realized what we needed to do.”

Lampasas scored 23 unanswered points with Whitehead’s touchdown passes to Porter and Murray, and Allen’s safety.

Both teams scored a touchdown pass in the last minute of the half. Everts made his 42-yard reception on a single-play drive with 17 seconds left in the half.

Lampasas brought a 30-21 lead into the break.

Most other weeks, Elliot’s dual-threat attack would have carried the Billies to victory, but he couldn’t match the Badgers’ passing game.

Whitehead and Murray connected for two more touchdowns in the second

Troy Rogers with an icy Gatorade cooler.

Rogers couldn’t help but smile despite the cold.

“Football’s fun, and winning’s fun…,” he said.

“These kids deserve it, and

half, and Whitehead’s 30-yard field goal helped Lampasas hold the lead the rest of the game.

To celebrate their first district title since 2011, players soaked head coach

Lampasas Fredericksburg

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7 14

Q2 23 7

Q3 Q4 FINAL 10 7

7 7

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SCORING SUMMARY

First quarter FRED - Tucker Elliot 35-yard pass to Judson Beard (Aaron Cordero-Rojas kick) 10:55 FRED - Elliot 3-yard pass to Jarrett Beard, (Rojas kick) 7:39 LAM - Ace Whitehead 10-yard pass to Jaylon Porter, (Whitehead kick) 4:53 Second quarter LAM - Whitehead 48-yard pass to Mike Murray, (Whitehead kick) 9:43 LAM - Koby Allen safety 7:39 LAM - Whitehead 22-yard pass to Porter, (Whitehead kick) 2:40 FRED - Elliot 12-yard pass to Judson Beard, (Rojas kick) 0:38 LAM - Whitehead 42-yard pass to Cameron Everts, (Whitehead kick) 0:17 Third quarter FRED - Elliot 71-yard run, (Rojas kick) 10:37 LAM - Whitehead 30-yard field goal, 6:54 LAM - Whitehead 45-yard pass to Murray, (Whitehead kick) 4:48 Fourth quarter LAM - Whitehead 6-yard pass to Murray, (Whitehead kick) 7:31 FRED- Elliot 8-yard pass to Jarrett Beard (Rojas kick), 2:23

Jaylon Porter (5) scores his second receiving touchdown of the night.

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they’ve worked hard for it.”

Adding to the excitement was the huge crowd of fans who made the 180-mile roundtrip drive.

“Speaking for the team, I want to give a big shoutout to the fans,” Whitehead said.

“The community’s supported us. Without them, I don’t think we win this game tonight.”

TEAM STATISTICS LAM FRED

Total yards 481 389 Rushes-yds. 27-164 36-252 Passing yds.

317 137 Comp-att-Int. 21-32-0 12-25-0 Punts-avg. yds. 4-38.3 6-28.7 Fumbles lost 0 1

INDIVIDUAL STAT LEADERS Passing: Ace Whitehead 2132, 317 yds., 6 TD, 0 INT Rushing: Whitehead 12-91 Jack Jerome 9-46 Receiving: Mike Murray 8-134, 3 TD Jaylon Porter 7-95, 2 TD Cameron Everts 2-42, 1 TD Brenton Webb 3-32 Tackles: Koby Allen 10

Case Brister 10 Tackles for loss: Dustin Engdahl 1 Isaiah Rhodes 1 Sacks: Owen Seaver 1 Daunte Cuffie 1 Fumbles forced: Seaver 1 Fumbles recovered: Rhodes 1

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DAVE CAMPBELL’S TEXAS FOOTBALL RANKINGS - 4A DIVISION I 1. Argyle Eagles (10-0) 2. Carthage Bulldogs (10-0) 3. La Vega Pirates (9-1) 4. Decatur Eagles (10-0)

beat Celina 30-13. beat Kilgore 49-11. beat Gatesville 59-0. beat Gainesville 49-12.

6. Lampasas Badgers (9-1) 7. Springtown Porcupines (9-1) 8. Brownwood Lions (9-1) 9. Beeville Jones Trojans (10-0) 10. Andrews Mustangs (9-1)

beat Fredericksburg 47-35. beat Burkburnett 61-7. beat China Spring 41-14. were off. beat Seminole 35-20.

5. Dumas Demons (10-0)

beat Hereford 45-13.

The previous No. 6 team, Needville (8-2), fell from the rankings after a 49-0 loss to unranked Sealy to end the regular season.

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Lometa junior Enrique Prado (4) takes a handoff from Corbin Cline (15) in Friday’s 33-22 loss to Zephyr. Also pictured is Luis Acevedo.

Prado competes in state meet, football finale

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Enrique Prado scored multiple touchdowns in the Hornets’ season-ending 33-22 loss at Zephyr on Friday. A few hours later, he raced in the 1A state cross country meet for the second year in a row.

Prado placed 35th out of 147 runners with a 5K time of 17:31.

The state meet in Round Rock started at 9 a.m. after the long trek to Zephyr had ended Lometa’s football season with a 3-7 record.

“We tried to limit his snaps, but him being a competitor, he wanted to keep playing,” Lometa head football coach D.T. Torres said. “It was his choice that he wanted to play.”

Prado was the only Lometa runner to advance to state.

In Friday’s game, he scored once on a pass from Corbin Cline and also reached the end zone on a rushing play.

Details on Lometa’s other score in game were not available at press time.

Zephyr led 25-22 at the end of the third quarter

HORNET FOOTBALL RECAP SCORE BY QUARTER

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Lometa 6 16 0 0 Zephyr 13 12 0 7

SEASON RESULTS W 34-13 over Lingleville L 47-0 to Blanket L 64-14 to May W 56-6 over Mullin L 56-54 to Gorman L 61-16 to Brookesmith W 36-2 over Bynum L 60-10 to Jonesboro L 50-0 to Evant L 33-22 to Zephyr

Zephyr will face Nueces Canyon on Friday.

Jonesboro will face Leakey the same night.

Evant ended the season at 5-5, 1-2 in district.

before tacking on another touchdown.

The Bulldogs (4-6, 2-1 in district) advance to the playoffs as the runner-up, behind Jonesboro (9-1, 3-0).

In 1A Div. I, only two teams per district advance.

Colby Henry and Anthony Seider, seniors, played their last football game for the Hornets.

“Anthony Seider, he played well defensively for us,” Torres said.

Prado proved to be “a real, true competitor,” Torres said.

Head cross country coach Aurora Reyes said “we got in some really good workouts,”

leading up to the state meet.

“I felt like he worked a little harder than usual.”

Two weeks ago, Prado earned the No. 3 individual qualification at the Region III-1A meet in Dallas.

After Saturday’s race, he said, “I felt pretty good about it, but there was more competition.”

A rolled ankle from the night before bothered Prado some on the first two miles of the race.

Hoping to place in the Top 10 at state next year as a senior, Prado’s other goal is “be more confident about myself.”

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Freshmen, JV sweep East View in basketball

Allison Bertrand reaches to make a save at the baseline in the Lady Badgers’ 41-36 JV victory over Georgetown East View. Lampasas won the ninth-grade game 35-18.

Senior outside hitter Emma Cornish earned the Lady Badgers’ only spot on the all-district volleyball team.

Brooklynne Edgar, a senior libero, was named to the second team.

Sophomores Juliana Dwamena and Laurcy Bender received honorable mention.

Liberty Hill, the district’s last team standing, was eliminated from the playoffs late last week.

The Lady Panthers took most of the top 27-4A awards, including MVP, Defensive Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

The Lady Badgers went 16-23 in their first season under head coach Whitney Doyen.

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Emma Cornish makes a left-handed kill in her last Lady Badger game, Oct. 29 at Austin Eastside Memorial.

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East View girls hold on after big first quarter

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Georgetown East View jumped out to an 11-0 lead and finished off the Lady Badgers 31-23 in the girls’ basketball regular-season opener on Saturday.

Lampasas improved defensively after the first quarter.

After entering halftime down 20-7, Lampasas closed the gap to 26-21 at the end of the third quarter.

Three-pointers by Jessica Ball and Laurcy Bender contributed to the Lady Badgers’ 14 points in the third. The Lady Badgers were 4-4 from the free-throw line in that period.

Sophomore Juliana Dwamena led the Lampasas offense with seven points. Freshman Payton Tatum played her first varsity regularseason game.

Last year, East View beat Lampasas by nine points in overtime.

The Lady Badgers are scheduled to play at 7 p.m. tonight at Kyle Lehman, weather permitting. The Lehman Lady Loboes (1-0) are a 6A team.

They beat Austin LBJ 54-25 on Friday.

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Nuckles pleased with offensive output in first basketball scrimmages Lampasas High School hosted the first series of scrimmages in the boys’ basketball season on Saturday.

The Badger varsity beat Hyde Park 22-21, then lost to Marble Falls 27-25. Both of those scrimmages used a 20-minute running clock. Then, in an eight-minute live quarter, Hyde Park outscored the Badgers 13-8.

In JV action, also with a 20-minute running clock, Lampasas beat Marble Falls 23-8 and Hyde Park 30-17.

“I like how our kids handled the varsity side of things, most of them for the first time ever,” LHS head coach Aaron Nuckles said. “Our offense was a little ahead of where I expected to be, and we shot well for so early in the season. However, we did have too many unforced turnovers. Our defense was not as good as I expected it to be and will need to improve quickly for us to be ready to compete and win games.”

Weather permitting, Lampasas is scheduled to scrimmage Lago Vista tonight. The regular season starts Saturday at home with a 12:30 p.m. tipoff against Rosebud-Lott.

Vipers win golf tournament at Burnet

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Addison McDonald (24) guards an East View player near the edge of the paint in a 31-23 loss on Saturday.

Lampasas placed sixth as a team at the Viper Classic girls’ golf tournament at Delaware Springs in Burnet Friday and Saturday. LHS shot 350-348--698.

Vandegrift won with a score of 294-296--590.

Lampasas’ individual results were: LeeAnn Parker, tied for 13th, 164; Kinsley Lindeman, 170; Kirsten Richards, 176; Shaylee Wolfe, 188; and Elizabeth Cross, 208.

Badger JV defends district football championship For the second year in a row, the Badgers won the JV football district championship and finished with eight wins.

At home Thursday night, Lampasas beat Fredericksburg 34-20.

Lampasas (8-1) was undefeated in district. One game, against Taylor, was canceled due to the weather.

Offensive highlights on Thursday included Peyton Underwood’s four total touchdowns.

Along with two rushing touchdowns from inside the 10, Underwood connected with Connelly White on a 46-yard pass for six points. He also threw a 10-yard pass

to Cody Hinson for the last score of the night.

“Aden Rascoe had 17 carries for 134 yards rushing due to a great night from the offensive line – Conner Keele, Avery Smith, Caleb Brady, Harrison Hayes, Michael Neary, Sosa Sokimi, Wade Davis, Cole Lowery and Caden Melton,” coach Shane Doege said.

White intercepted a pass on defense.

Rascoe made eight tackles – three of them behind the line of scrimmage.

“Ian McKinney had a great night at linebacker with six tackles,” and “Sosa Sokimi had five tackles, two tackles for loss, and one sack,” Doege said.

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Ian McKinney (99), AJ Torrez (67), Sosa Sokimi (51) and Ruger Miserlian (6) swarm to the ball on a JV defensive play on Thursday.

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Freshmen end season against Billies

Dylan Sanchez (12) takes snaps in the Badgers’ ninth-grade game against Fredericksburg, while Shea Robinson (51) and Hank Kielpinski (68) block. The Fredericksburg Billies won 28-14 in Lampasas.

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UIL Region 4A Div. I Region Hall of Fame selections announced IV football playoff bracket Garry Milligan, a 1975 Lampasas graduate, and the late coaching legend Rodney Hudson are the newest selections for the Lampasas Football Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame was started in 2015, and the Badger Quarterback Club booster organization has overseen the induction of one or more new members each year.

The ceremony will be held later at a date that has not been announced yet.

Milligan played defensive tackle for the Fightin’ Texas Aggies, who reached a ranking of No. 2 his freshman year of college.

Hudson coached the Badgers to four consecutive district football titles. His 1986 team reached the state semifinals, which is the Badgers’ deepest playoff run, so far.

The team added a fifth straight title in 1989, a few months after Hudson’s death.

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BI-DISTRICT, NOV. 14-16 AREA, NOV. 21-23

REGIONAL SEMIS, NOV. 28-30

REGIONAL FINALS, DEC. 5-7

Garry Milligan

Rodney Hudson

Playoff opponents compared Lampasas 9-1 Pass/run ratio: 52.6% pass Points for/against: 522/193 Opponents’ combined record:

39-60 Results/schedule W 63-14 over Joshua W 66-27 over Lago Vista L 31-30 to Lorena W 48-28 over La Vernia W 59-0 over Gatesville W 45-13 over Burnet W 52-10 over Liberty Hill W 56-0 over Taylor W 56-35 over Canyon Lake W 47-35 over Fredericksburg

Brazosport 6-4 Pass/run ratio: 57.9% run Points for/against: 303/227 Opponents’ combined record: 53-45 Results/schedule W 33-8 over Hitchcock W 27-12 over Sweeny L 30-27 to Edna W 54-8 over North Forest W 21-20 over Sealy L 51-17 to El Campo W 35-20 over Bay City L 17-12 to Columbia L 48-35 to Needville W 42-13 over Fulshear

Lorena, the only team to beat Brazosport’s win over Sealy, Lampasas, ended the season the state’s No. 4 team at the at 5-5. time, was a highlight.

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efore the Nov. 8 showdown, Lampasas’ last game in Fredericksburg was Ace Whitehead’s varsity debut in 2017 as a freshman QB. Despite Whitehead’s 200-plus yards in his first game, the 27-13 loss kicked off a 2-8 season.

“Me and the offensive linemen were joking about it” last Friday, Whitehead said. “I told ’em, ‘Boys, y’all’ve got to give me some protection. I might get some flashbacks to that year.’ But it’s just good to be out here and play. And obviously last time we were here we lost, and now we come back here today and we win.”

The Badgers’ 9-1 record matches the regularseason record they posted

When and how Badger football turned the corner during their last districttitle run eight years ago.

2018 ended a three-year streak of losing seasons and a playoff drought that had started in 2012.

“A turning point to me in the program was probably a goal-line stand against Burnet last year right before half…,” LHS head coach Troy Rogers said.

“I know it doesn’t seem like much, but I think that kind of kick-started us a little bit. And we had the same thing against Canyon Lake last year. It just kind of motivates everyone, and we saw that we can actually come back, and we can finish quarters and halves.”

The Badgers smashed Burnet 56-7 in 2018, ending a three-game losing streak and posting their biggest margin of victory in 43 years. Three weeks later,

they clinched a postseason trip with a win at Canyon Lake.

“Of course, the buyin this offseason has been great, the summer conditioning…,” Rogers continued. “They all enjoyed what happened last year, but they felt like they left a little bit, kind of some unfinished business [losing in the area round].

These guys have been on a mission.”

Turning points this year included home victories over La Vernia and Liberty Hill.

Both of those opponents are down from last year’s dominant performances.

But Liberty Hill was the 2018 state runner-up, and La Vernia has more than 20 consecutive playoff appearances. Teams that seemed almost unbeatable not long ago left Badger Field in defeat.

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Daunte Cuffie, Koby Allen and Isaiah Rhodes sprint during a summer conditioning drill led by assistant coach John Rogers, right. The intensity of the workouts, and the number of participants, was noticeably higher than some summer conditioning programs of the past.

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In a moment that Coach Troy Rogers called a turning point in the program, Cameron Everts made this goal-line stand in 2018 at Burnet. Landon Irvin, in background, assisted on coverage.

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