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his is a very special issue of Seguin Magazine.

In this issue we feature the 2020 Mary Lee Roberts Citizen of the Year and VISION Award winners. Back in the fall, we received nominations from the community naming individuals who they believed were making a difference in Guadalupe County. Many times these folks go unrecognized, so we want to honor them and share their stories with you.

The 2020 Citizen of the Year is Jack Lee, and the VISION Award Winners are Tammy Bargfrede, Kyle Kramm, Craig Russell and Barbara Vinson. You can read each of their stories in this issue, and they’ve all done some amazing work throughout Guadalupe County.

We also have Dalondo’s Under the Hood story where he visited with Hilario Alvarado and his 1978 Monte Carlo aka “Nugget,”a scrumptious grazing board filled with Valentines treats for Culinary Creation and much more. So get comfy, turn the page and enjoy!

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on the cover Photo by Felicia Frazar Jack Lee was presented the Seguin Chamber of Commerce’s Educator of the Year in 2017. He is now being recognized as the Seguin Gazette’s Citizen of the Year.

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– Lizz Daniels “While interviewing the daughter of this year’s Mary Lee Roberts Citizen of the Year, a few things were quickly and irrefutably apparent; Amy Hanson loved her father Jack Lee. Hanson spoke in glowing terms about her father’s kindness, patience and giving nature. After the conversation, if I never am nominated Citizen of the Year it will be fine. The true goal is to be loved and admired by my son as much as Hanson loves and admires her father.”

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Showcase Seguin is the premiere business trade show produced by the Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce. Each year local businesses and organizations gather to show what they offer the community. This year’s “The Roaring Twenties” evening celebration is 5 to 8 p.m. at the Seguin Events Complex.

Admission is $30. The Show Day offers an action-packed day of interaction and a job fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., admission is free.

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Love at the Parthenon Lounge

Play land Productions and Events is hosting its Valentine’s dinner and a show, “Love at The Parthenon Lounge” an original musical comedy. The show will feature a Mediterranean dinner and musical guest appearances. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Aumont Rose Ballroom. Tickets are $60 and proceeds benefit Special Kids with Special Needs.

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Straight from the International touring Cher Tribute Show, “The Beat Goes On” - award-winning singer/actress Lisa McClowry will perform as CHER LIVE ay 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 and 15 at the Palace Theatre. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. General Admission: $30 and are available at www.palacetheatre.com at Gift and Gourmet or at the theatre 212 S. Austin St. Seguin.

February 25th

Fat Tuesday

The Seguin Education Foundation is hosting its largest fundraiser of the year Fat Tuesday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 25 at the Seguin Events Complex. This year’s event will feature a Creole Bar offering a choice of gumbo or jambalaya, King Cake, hurricanes, silent auction and raffle.

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Mariachi singers flock to Seguin to participate in Teatro de Juan Seguin’s 34th Annual Noche De Gala Vocalista Competition at 7 p.m. in Jackson Auditorium. Vocalistas will compete in four divisions: elementary, middle school, high school, and Community/Collegiate. For further information about tickets or the event, please contact Alberto “Beto” Rincón, program coordinator, (830) 401-0232.

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Tapping atSchultz STORY BY JOE MARTIN PHOTOS BY LIZZ DANIELS

A newly restored establishment is offering visitors a place to wet their whistle and tap their toes to live music in downtown Seguin.

Schultz Saloon offers up a charming live music venue with an authentic western feel.

The family-run business is housed in the century-old Schultz building at 109 N. Austin St. and hosts a variety of local artists spanning multiple musical genres each weekend.

“The days that we have music here are — as you can imagine — good days for us,” owner Terry Smith said. “A place for people to actually listen to live music and dance and socialize is very important to us because it’s what we’ve been missing in Seguin, downtown Seguin especially.”

Smith said the idea to bring a music venue to the area was his son’s.

“This was all his vision. This place had already been a saloon off and on for years, so we

elected to keep that going,” he said.

The establishment hosts acoustic sets on Thursday evenings, with live band performances on Fridays and Saturdays. On the second Sunday of every month, the saloon hosts an Open Jam Session.

“The jam session is open to all musicians and singers that want to get together and play,” Smith said. “Which is something that artists like to do. We want to create a place where artists can network and connect and come in and listen to each other.”

The saloon plans to host local musician Natalie Rose as a reoccurring artist on the first Thursday of each month starting in March. She’ll be joined on stage with some guest artists, Smith said.

“We’ve been open for around three months, and we’ve had probably about 18 different bands in here,” Terry’s wife and saloon owner Velma Smith said. “We have had karaoke. We’ve had some jazz. We’ve had a lot of country. ” As a Nashville native, and a musician for nearly the entirety of his life, Terry said he knows a thing or two about good tunes.

“My dad was a musician, and I’m a musician as well, so I have an ear for music and artists and a background in

knowing what people like to hear,” he said. “I grew up going to the old bars, many of which have disappeared with time, but all your old bars had a stage right in the front. You had to walk past the band basically and the dance floor to get to the bar area, so that’s kind of what we have going on here.”

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The roughly 14-foot by 13-foot stage overlooks a small dance floor where hundreds have flocked since the venue’s opening in September.

“We can enlarge the dance floor by moving tables back,” he said. “We also have a pool table in the back because even when you have bands in here, people like to do other things, so we’re kind of restricted. It’s not a very big venue, but it makes it a lot more intimate.”

Velma hopes more people come to the saloon to participate in their jam sessions.

“We’re hoping to have younger people or outsiders know that they can say, ‘Hey, I can go get on that stage and play for free.’

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or quite a while, Hilario Alvarado has been into cars.

He’s worked on them, driven them, driven the ones he’s worked on and more. The cars he used to have came and went, really no big deal. But that all changed a few years ago when he bought and restored the one he and others around the area call the “Golden Nugget.”

“Throughout my life, I used to buy cars here and there, fix them and sell them when I got tired of them. This is one I’ve kept the longest,” Alvarado said. “I usually get tired of them but this one I’ve kept. You’re not going to find very many like this anymore, unless you’re willing to pay a lot of money.”

The “Nugget” is a gold-painted, 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo coupe.

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wanted to get rid of one.

Alvarado was in the market, heard the vintage coupe was being offered and swooped it up, even though it wasn’t quite road ready at the time.

“It had hail damage and I decided to fix it up and did everything myself,” Alvarado said, adding that he gave the car its distinctive paint job. “It’s like a dark gold. It was supposed to be the original color but ended up coming with a little more metallic in it. I liked it so that’s how it turned out and I like it.”

You won’t catch the Golden Nugget blasting down the streets or highways.

Alvarado said it’s a cruising car meant for shows and similar events. It’s not a racing hot rod.

That all being said, he was short on providing specs. It has a 305 engine in it with a small cam, Alvarado said. It has a speedometer that peaks at 140 mph but he’ll never test the car’s 0-60

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or quarter-mile times, the Seguinite said.

He pointed out the 14-inch, after-market wire wheels great for low riding, and let’s not forget the dual exhaust system with Magna Flow mufflers.

“It sounds tough when it’s (running),” Alvarado said.

It runs great and looks great. In fact, it’s the look of the Monte Carlo that gets much attention.

Alvarado said he’s allowed it to be filmed in a music video and has driven it at a snail’s pace during local events.

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couple years ago might recall seeing the Golden Nugget with a distinctive magnet attached to its sides, Alvarado said.

“I had it in the parade a couple years ago,” he said. “I didn’t make it last year.

I usually go down the parade with the ‘Seguin, It’s Real’ magnet on it. The first year they changed the logo, I got a sign and rode in the parade.”

Alvarado now lives in New Braunfels in a neighborhood along the Guadalupe/Comal county line, and is sure to store the Nugget away from the elements. It’s unlikely the car will see any of the hail damage it had when he purchased it several years ago.

After the rebuild, the Golden Nugget isn’t built for speed or inclement weather, the car’s owner said.

“It’s a cruiser. I cruise on the weekends when it’s sunny,” he said. “I don’t think that thing has seen rain. Well it’s probably seen rain once or twice.”

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It’s easy to get caught up in the romance of Valentine’s Day. No matter where you go, it is impossible to not be reminded of your relationship status — regardless what it is. That’s why this February we suggest sharing the love with all of your favorite people by creating a Valentine’s themed grazing tray that will allow you to enjoy all of the sweets you want.

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Congratulations to the family and friends of Mr. Jack Lee, a true Matador legend. Seguin ISD was extremely fortunate to have a veteran educator whose career was defined by a calm and caring demeanor. Jack Lee dedicated his teaching career, both in and out of the classroom, toward making a positive impact on the lives of his students. From August 1982 through May 2019, each student who entered Jack’s classroom was treated with respect and kindness. He is truly deserving of the Seguin Gazette Citizen of the Year/VISION Award.

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Teaching consecutively in the Seguin ISD for four decades helped the late Jack Lee leave an irreversible mark on the community.

One would be hard pressed to find a life Lee didn’t touch or someone with whom he is not connected within one or two degrees of separation.

He was proud to have touched so many lives in the ways he did, Lee’s daughter Amy Hanson said.

“He taught in Seguin for so long that he taught the children and grandchildren of students that he had taught when he first started in the district,” she said. “He loved that. Nothing made him happier than to realize he was teaching the child, or grandchild, of somebody that he had previously.”

Sadly, Lee won’t get to teach the great grandchildren of his former students, as one can only guess he would’ve liked. The consummate educator and humanitarian died in August.

With his untimely passing several months ago came yet another opportunity for Lee to share a valuable lesson about the harmful effects of nicotine, Hanson said.

“He smoked his entire life and it was lung cancer that had metastasized everywhere,” she said, adding that the cancer was the root but not the ultimate cause of Lee’s demise. “He developed an infection after a surgery.

That’s really what did it. Not even the cancer, dammit.”

Lee taught in El Paso and Schertz-Cibolo before wading into stints at schools in Seguin. He began teaching in the Seguin Intermediate School District on Aug. 23, 1982, and was well known for teaching government and economics. He retired in May after 44 years of educating students.

Shortly after his retirement, news began to spread about health issues. In seemingly in no time, he passed away, Hanson said.

“He had just announced his retirement and then he was gone,” she said.

“It all happened so fast it was not expected.”

Lee didn’t suffer and died with his family and loved ones nearby, Hanson said.

In his death, the longtime educator left a massive hole in the community.

His work as a teacher created much of the aura of greatness surrounding Lee, but he was also much more.

His reach spread from the work he did in classes to his personal giving efforts to his help teaching children the importance of community involvement through the Interact Club, the student version of Rotary Club,

and beyond.

“I know that when he was with us, that he was just tireless in doing community service and making sure that the students that were under him with the Interact Club volunteered with these community events also,” Hanson said. “Anytime they were asked, they would try to make availability for student volunteers for different events in Seguin like Children’s Day in the Park, Moonlight and Roses, Denim and Diamonds, that was a big one.”

Lee wasn’t just giving of his time, energy and effort. He also was a generous tipper. Helping others made him happy, even in the form of a nicesized gratuity, she said. Doing the little

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things that made others happy made Lee happy.

His wit — not the most appreciated of her father’s attributes — was well known and kept a smile on his face, she said.

“He was real funny, always joking and making puns. That was his favorite thing,” Hanson said. “He thoroughly enjoyed when he could come up with a good pun and agonize us with it. He was a terrible singer but he loved to sing to make people laugh.”

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differences between himself and others, he found some common ground on which they could stand and come together, Hanson said.

“He respected other people’s opinions,” she said. “He was very patient. He didn’t lose his temper a lot, probably never in school. He was very diplomatic. It was hard to make

His reach spread from the work he did in classes to his personal giving efforts to his help teaching children the importance of community involvement.

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him angry and he didn’t sweat the little stuff.”

She has tried to carry aspects of her father with her as she continues to navigate life, Hanson said. She does so in his memory but also because his teachings and actions make for good practice and good people, she said.

“Being part of a community, you’re going to meet every different type of person that there is. You have to just accept them for who they are,” Hanson said. “Even if your views are different, it doesn’t mean that if it’s different than you believe that it’s wrong. If it’s different, it’s okay.”

Lee was full of similar gems of knowledge. He shared them throughout the community, and for that and so much more, he will be sorely missed.

“The community definitely feels his loss,” Hanson said.

His gifts to the community, caring spirit and tireless commitment to Seguin and the area are reasons why, posthumously, Jack Lee received the 2020 Mary Lee Roberts Citizen of the Year Award.

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It’s 9:55 am, July 4. There is a sense of anticipation in the air so strong it pulls at the crowd creating ripples in the sea of red, white and blue lining Austin street. It’s Independence Day and any moment, the biggest small town Fourth of July parade in Texas will begin.

Kyle Kramm is Seguin’s Mainstreet and CVB director, and despite all the events he helps plan, from the holiday favorite Sip and Stroll to the Texas Ladies State Chili Championship, this is his favorite moment of the year.

“I’m on a golf cart in the parade staging area and the second we close the streets down, I drive down to Central Park, so I’m the last thing that drives down Austin Street before the parade starts,” he said. “Every year I’m just amazed at the size of the crowd that comes out. It gives me chills to see the thousands of people out there.”

Seguin, like much of small town America, is growing. Over the past decade the city has flourished with the opening of new locally owned businesses and the growth of an active nightlife scene that draws crowds from across the area. Kramm played a large part in this boom through his role overseeing the city’s revitalization and tourism programs.

“I try and recruit people to bring them in — put heads in beds because tourism is a pure form of economic development where people are going to come in, spend a whole lot of money in the community and then leave,” he said. “You hope while they’re here they’re not going to need EMS, fire, or police. So really they’re coming in spending money and its pure profit for the community.”

This kind of local economy creates what he describes as a spin-off effect by providing money for jobs in restaurants, hotels and other local businesses. For Kramm, much of this has been achieved through a focus on bringing new life to the downtown area.

“Downtown is kind of people’s third space,” he said. “You have work, your home, and then you have the coffee shop, the bar — wherever you go to hang out. It’s inspiring to work with the local businesses because I get to take them from the idea and concept to helping them find a location. Even once they open, I work with them on marketing, to try and bring people in. So it’s really neat, and at the same time I’m helping to save a historic building.”

Born in the Seguin hospital, Kramm has a lifelong connection to the community of Guadalupe County, though he has not always lived here. He grew up in the Cibolo/Schertz area, but came to the county fair with his family every October.

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Now, it’s 10 years later and I’ve fallen in love with the community.

Seguin has a unique sense of place and character, there’s so much history here and it’s a welcoming community that you don’t find everywhere.

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“We’d enter plants and baked goods, and artwork, everything,” Kramm said.

“Then we’d get our passes to come into the fair and go ride the rides for the evening before finding out what ribbons we got. And that was really my first connection to Seguin.”

That grounding in the local culture went on to impact Kramm as he selected Texas Lutheran University for his post secondary-education. In May 2009, he graduated into a recession, but found himself employed with the city.

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“When I started, I said I want to make downtown fun, and that led to the Pecan Fest Pub Crawl,” he said. “The very first pub crawl we had, people were amazed because they didn’t know we had all of this in Seguin. I’ll be honest, when I started with the city in 2009, I thought ‘three years tops and then I’ll be ready to move on.’ Now, it’s 10 years later and I’ve fallen in love with the community.

Seguin has a unique sense of place and character, there’s so much history

here and it’s a welcoming community that you don’t find everywhere.”

Kramm has great plans for the future, and sees a lot of exciting things happening in the next year.

With several soon-to-open businesses currently in the process of obtaining permits, the growth the city has seen under Kramm’s direction looks to continue as he puts his eyes toward the future with more historic properties scheduled to open in the coming year.

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Jails are not known for comfort, in fact, they are quite the opposite.

Bland walls painted shades of beige and grey quarantine visitors in waiting areas with uncomfortable chairs and occupants as diverse as the inmate populations the jail houses. Visiting someone in a detention center is never ideal. That’s why a serendipitous meeting in the Del Valle jail came as a surprise to Barbara Vinson.

“My son was in jail,” she said. “I was sitting and I couldn’t do anything.

You have your car keys, and your license. No paper, no pen. I had a librarian sitting next to me, and she said ‘I guess you’ve heard of NAMI.’” Well, like much of Guadalupe County at the time, Vinson had not heard of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, more popularly known as NAMI. The national non-profit makes it their mission to inform the wider public about what mental health is, and educate people on living with mental health problems through instructors who have first-hand experience with it.

“I don’t have a mental health issue, but I have lived and breathed living with someone who has a mental health condition,” she said. “My son lives with bipolar disease, anxiety and depression. He was diagnosed when he was 17, although when I look back, he was born with it. It’s a biological brain disorder. Mental health issues have a huge stigma. People think others will think bad thoughts about them, and that has got to change. It’s just like a physical illness.”

By becoming involved in NAMI Central Texas, Vinson learned the ropes of the organization by serving on its board for six years. As a state trainer, she stayed busy learning the different programs NAMI offers, but then it was time for a life change.

“My husband and I decided to retire, so we moved to Seguin,” she said.

“January of 2018, my husband had NAMI come down and talk to the Kiwanis Club because it’s all about the kids. So then I started wondering how I could start an affiliation here.”

In under a year, Vinson had the Guadalupe County NAMI affiliate up and running, and since then has been raising awareness about mental health in the community, but it hasn’t always been easy. She says finding donors can be difficult when the NAMI name isn’t well known, but the local Rotary Club, and others are helping change that. More difficult is finding volunteers who are “living in their wellness,” which means someone successfully managing mental illness and living a productive life despite the inherent struggles. In small communities, often times people don’t feel

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Mental health issues have a huge stigma. People think others will think bad thoughts about them, and that has got to change.

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comfortable admitting they live with offering presentations for Navarro mental illness because of the negative ISD as well as the local public library. connotation associated with it.

She has had great turnouts at her “The biggest struggle is that people “Let’s Talk about Mental Health” don’t know what NAMI means,” meetings, but says there are still Vinson said. “I have to explain it’s a challenges. With a goal of getting the word out in 2020, Vinson hopes nonprofit when I call people. I still get phone calls from people who to continue growing the program so that those in need of mental health don’t want to go to the meeting, but want to come into the office to talk support will know where to go, and because they don’t want others to how to help the people they love. know.”

It’s her work at bringing mental health awareness to the community Since launching the affiliate model she now runs, Vinson has connected that helped her earn one of the Seguin with the larger Seguin community, Gazette’s Vision Awards.

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Tammy Bargfrede has spent the past 18 years volunteering with organizations that support students. From 4-H Exchange and Seguin High School Band Boosters to Buck Fever and the Guadalupe County Aggie Moms, Bargfrede has helped hundreds of children.

“I initially became involved in various organizations to support my own children,” she said. “Once I became involved with some of these organizations, it was no longer about just my children, it became about all the children involved. That is truly what has led me to where I am today and the number one reason I have stayed involved.”

That is why Tammy Bargfrede earned a Seguin Gazette Vision Award.

Bargfrede is a native of Seguin and a Seguin High School graduate. She was involved in a couple of student organizations, as well as the Matador Band. Just days after high school graduation, Bargfrede began dental hygiene school.

“I was really reserved when I was younger,” she said. “I was very shy and timid. When I got into hygiene school, I was involved in the dental hygiene association student organization. I got real involved within my class there and in the organization I became an officer.”

After graduation, Bargfrede came back to Seguin and began working.

Her role in the 4-H Interstate Exchange Program jump started the year her oldest son, Caleb, participated. The local group hosted students from Saratoga County in 2002 during a flood.

“The NY group arrived just days before the flood of 2002,” she said. “All pre-planned activities had to be completely changed due to our inability to travel to, and through, flooded areas. I assisted the leader, Mary Rhode, in rearranging activities to fit within safe travel areas as we monitored weather conditions for the week.”

Since then, Bargfrede and Rhode have co-lead the students, planning trips, hosting sessions and helping them learn more about agriculture.

“It is an honor for me to serve these 4-H students,” she said. “My biggest reward is watching them have fun and seeing the smiles on their faces as they welcome their new friends to Texas, and go out of their comfort zones to experience something they never thought they would do. I continue to volunteer as a 4-H leader for the Exchange Group because I truly love these kids.”

As a former Matador Marching Band member, it came easy for Bargfrede to step into the role as a booster when her younger son Cameron joined the program in 2010.

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During that time, she served — and continues to serve — in a number of capacities. Her most noticeable role is as the “Voice of the Matador Band.”

“I travel to all football games as a volunteer to announce the halftime performance and highlight the students of the week,” she said. “I have also remained active as a member of the Seguin Band Boosters.”

She helped the band raise money to perform at Carnegie Hall, and is a member of the Guadalupe County Aggie Moms, where she has served as president twice and secretary twice. The group raises funds for scholarships for future Texas A&M

students, as well as current students who haven’t received a scholarship from the organization. They also provide goodie bags to help students get through their semester finals.

Bargfrede also serves as a director for Buck Fever alongside her husband, Rodney, who is the president.

“It is heartwarming to know the small part I play as a Buck Fever director has such a positive financial impact on so many deserving kids each year,” she said.

Other roles include serving on parent-teacher committees for her sons’ school, as well as the city-wide organization, being a member of

the FFA Boosters, member of the Seguin ISD Key Communicators and a volunteer for the Guadalupe County Youth Livestock and Homemaker’s Show.

“I am proud to be from Seguin, TX, and am honored to receive a 2020 Vision Award and nomination for Citizen of the Year,” she said. “I am truly passionate about helping students through the organizations I work with, but none of these organizations would be successful without the generosity of this community. We are blessed to be from a community that has so much compassion.”

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I am truly passionate about helping students through the organizations I work with, but none of these organizations would be successful without the generosity of this community. We are blessed to be from a community that has so much compassion.

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For decades, the SS American Memorial Foundation President and Founder Craig Russell has dedicated his time and property to the betterment of veterans’ lives.

Since its inception, the SS American Memorial Foundation headquartered on Russell’s property, the Lazy U Ranch, has hosted more than 30,000 civilians, children, and veterans with more than 4,000 activeduty soldiers visiting the location for respite care and retreat in 2019 alone.

“Someone asked my wife years ago the question of why we’re doing this, and it’s as simple as her comment,” Russell said. “It’s just the right thing to do. Nothing more, nothing less.”

The decision for the Russell family to open their arms and home to those in need was easy, he said.

“We’ve always loved people to come by,” Russell said. “I was raised that way. My mother and my father’s doors were always open and there were just tons of people coming through the place.”

It’s that commitment to veterans and serving his community that has earned Russell one of the Seguin Gazette’s Vision Awards.

Guadalupe Valley Young Marines Commander Dina Dillon, who has known Russell for more than 10 years, said his nomination for a Vision Award comes as no surprise.

“Craig is an authentic, real person,” she said. “He’s a no holds barred man that’s honest and tells it like it is. He’s given his time and has completely signed over his home to the foundation because he believes that much in what he is doing.”

Dillon, who is also an honorary plank owner with Russell’s foundation, said he plays a significant role with the GVYM. “He has come out and spoke at our recruit graduation, but one of the main things is he’s allowed us to go out and camp on the ranch,” she said. “We’ve been able to have free rein access to it, and the kids really appreciated it. He’s always been more than welcome to give us ideas for some extra things that we can do when we’re out there and, of course, we always try to do community service while we’re there.”

Russell was born and raised in San Antonio. He graduated from MacArthur High School in 1978, then joined the Navy two years later.

During his time as a sailor, Russell served on a “fast attack submarine” out of Pearl Harbor, where he performed the duties of a Navy diver and a torpedoman’s mate, he said.

Over his four-year term, Russell said he saw the world - circumnavigating

the globe twice by the time he was just 22 years old.

“When I was 23, I was head of the nuclear weapons division, and at 24, I was a senior Navy diver on the most powerful warship man had ever seen,” he said. “The Cold War was very much a submarine war. All of our missions are still very much classified top secret, but at the end of the day, history will show that it was submarine warfare that basically nobody knew about that brought down the Soviet Empire.”

After leaving the Navy, Russell began working for his father until branching out to run several businesses of his own, he said.

Later, in 2003 Russell bought the Lazy U Ranch — a property that had been in his wife’s family since 1970.

In July of 2000, Russell hosted a Fourth of July reunion for his former submariner shipmates at the Lazy U Ranch, making it the first time the crew had been together in more than 15 years.

“We came back together every year, proceeding opening it up to friends and family in 2004,” he said. “So over time, the event went from about 30 sailors to upwards of 600 people from around the country. In 2008 my shipmates and I decided that we didn’t like what we saw in the culture of today and that nobody knew what the Fourth of July was all about.”

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and convert the gathering into a memorial service to honor veterans and educate those who would listen.

“We got rid of the bands and tuned it down into a two-day event with a memorial service on the second day,” he said. “This service entailed an educational event that taught attendees on what these rich traditions are in our country.”

Over the next few years, Russell worked to improve the ranch as the property and foundation it hosted evolved thanks to unsolicited donations by supporters who believed in his cause.

Russell used the donations to construct and improve upon a “living” war memorial building on ranch grounds outfitted with custom art.

“There was on old existing building here (Lazy U Ranch) that my father-inlaw had built but never finished out,” he said. “It was just four walls, no roof, no nothing. The building was there, and the vision was that I was going to put a roof over it and put air conditioning in it. People were standing around and heard me talking about this and prior to them leaving, they had already handed my family $20,000 that day just to put air conditioning in the building.”

The building was completed in 2014 and since has seen more than 20,000 soldiers, numerous church groups, youth organizations and high school students pass through its doors.

Although the ranch is used for myriad reasons, the donations gathered funded

What we’ve seen here personally is that the war is taking its toll on the soldiers,

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programs Russell developed to provide active-duty soldiers and wounded warriors a place to recharge through outdoor and social activities.

“What we’ve seen here personally is that the war is taking its toll on the soldiers,” he said. “We have these soldiers coming out here that are either getting ready to go to war or they are coming back from war. And with all that comes the baggage that those soldiers have, which is the problems associated with combat.”

Russell said he has big plans for the property and foundation coming into 2020, opening its doors to accept donations by those who are willing.

“Were raising money now for a budget to hire a full-time business manager to take over some duties,” he said. “We have a master plan we have been working on for the past four years for the potential development of the property. There’s a number of things that have to come into place financially for the foundation before we just turn this all over. But, it’s all working towards that.”

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