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Tivy band member Jessica Doss and other students rehearse for UIL marching contest today (Saturday). Tom Holden/ Times Photo Editor, photo@ dailytimes.com
World War II vets to ride in parade Committee still seeking local veterans to be honored Nov. 11 By Mark J. Armstrong Assistant Managing Editor mark.armstrong@dailytimes.com
Contest bound Tivy band heads to UIL contest today
Tivy marching band xylophone player Ashton Edgington rehearses Thursday for today’s (Saturday) UIL marching band competition.
Despite their dwindling numbers and declining health, 68 World War II veterans are expected to ride in the Nov. 11 Veterans Day parade through downtown Kerrville. Bill Bacon, a local veteran who serves on the Veterans Day Parade Committee, is in charge of making sure every living World War II veteran in Kerr County has a spot in the parade, if they want one. The committee, along with The Kerrville Daily Times, has been collecting names of World War II veterans from family members, nursing homes and the veterans themselves to compile a list.
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“My wife, Debbie, and I will be calling everyone to complete the information. If your caller ID shows an unfamiliar number and name, it could be us calling,” Bacon said. “We are not selling anything; we just want to make sure you get the right information and the attention you deserve.” See Veterans, page 9A
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will score well at today’s contest, as they have had a successful contest season. Tivy competed at the Hill Country Marching Festival in Fredericksburg on Sept. 27, taking first place in the 5A division and sweeping the drum major, color guard, percussion, marching and music categories. Last weekend, the band competed at the Northside Independent School District Marching Invitational and placed second
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Dogs, owners invited to Bark for Life cancer fundraiser Man’s best friend can join the fight against cancer at the sixth annual Kerr County Bark For Life event today. The event will be from noon to 4 p.m. at the River Star Arts and Event Park at 4000 Riverside Drive. Bark For Life, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, is a noncompetitive walk event for dogs and their owners to raise funds and awareness for cancer research and remember those who have fought the disease. Alexis Hutcherson, 2014 Bark For Life chairwoman, said the event was started so participants could have their four-legged friends by their side, giving unconditional love and support. The event honors the lifelong contributions of canine companions and caregivers. Anyone can attend for free, and dogs may participate with a $10 donation. Hutcherson said more than $10,000 was raised for the American Cancer Society last year, and much of the money stays in the region. Humans and dogs alike can participate in the fashion show at 2 p.m. Awards will be given in the categories of best dressed, best underdressed, best owner younger than age seven and best owner older than 70 years, best movie character and best costume. Hutcherson said several vendors will be on site selling dogrelated items. K9 Cafe, a vendor from San Antonio, will sell bags, treats, collars, clothes, bones, strollers and other products. People also can look forward to a silent auction, “balloon doggies,” hot dogs, sausage wraps and other food items, Hutcherson said. — Caitlin Clark, Staff writer
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To participate in the Veterans Day parade, contact Bill Bacon at 634-2975, or call The Kerrville Daily Times at 257-0337 to have a World War II veteran included in an upcoming Veterans Day special section.
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By Caitlin Clark Staff Writer fter months of learning drill formations, perfecting music and making sure all lines are straight and feet are in step, the Tivy High School band will perform their 2014 marching show today (Saturday) at the UIL Region 11 Marching Contest. UIL contests are what bands across the state work toward each fall and spring when they perform marching shows and stage concerts, respectively, for division scores that reflect superior performances (Division I) to poor performances (Division V). Band Director Marty Lenard said he is confident the band
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Cecilia Abbot visits ahead of early voting Early voting
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Early voting begins Monday at the Kathleen C. Cailloux City Center for the Performing Arts in Kerrville and at the West Kerr County Courthouse Annex in Ingram. Voting ahead of the Nov. 4 general election will continue through Oct. 31.
By Mark J. Armstrong Assistant Managing Editor mark.armstrong@dailytimes.com Cecilia Abbott could be the next first lady of Texas, but on Friday, as she stood in front of the Republican Women of Kerr County group, the self-described daughter of a traditional Hispanic family from San Antonio who shies away from public Tom Holden/Times Photo Editor, photo@dailytimes.com speaking and campaigning said she Wayne Musgrove, chairman of the Kerr County Texans for Abbott, talks with was thinking about her upcoming Cecilia Abbott, wife of gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott on Friday, at birthday next month. Inn of the Hills at a Republican Women of Kerr County meeting. “Maybe I can hold this over Greg’s head,” she joked. Abbott is the wife of Texas especially Democratic nominee Texas, where she was studying to Attorney General and Republican Wendy Davis, are making their final be a teacher like her parents, and he nominee for governor Greg Abbott. big pushes ahead of early voting. was majoring in pre-law. With voting starting next week, Abbott met her future husband “He showed up with that smile he the candidate and his opponents, while attending the University of has, a twinkle in his eye and almost
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in the 5A division. “We’re extremely proud of that one, because that’s the first time we’ve gone to that contest and placed,” Lenard said. “That was a big step, and we felt really good about it.” Lenard said planning for this year’s show, titled “Liquid Metal,” started about one year in advance.
The air around Junction Highway vibrated with the roar of motorcycle engines Friday morning as members of police, firefighter and military biker clubs left Inn of the Hills for the famed 95-mile “Three Sisters” route to the west. “It’s a beautiful ride, and it challenges your skills,” said New Jersey resident David Behr, just before he hopped on his motorcycle and left
for Leakey on the heels of the dozens of other bikers in town for the annual Knights of the Round Table tournament and conference. Behr, a Boerne native and former Air Force fuel specialist — he just retired after 21 years — has been deployed 12 times to places including Iraq, Oman and Kuwait. He’s among about 200 bikers who will be in town and riding throughout the Hill Country for the conference, which is being held in Texas for the first time. The
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always with a football under his arm,” she said. She talked about how they wed a week before he started law school, and about the incident that left her husband paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. “This accident changed our lives forever, but it also started a chain reaction of blessings,” Abbott said. “Greg was always tough, but he took that toughness to a level I never knew was possible.” Abbott said she learned about her shyness on the campaign trail when her husband decided to run for Harris County State District Judge in 1992. See Abbott, page 11A
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UN: WHO botched Ebola response
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LONDON (AP) — In a draft document, the World Health Organization has acknowledged that it botched attempts to stop the nowspiraling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information. In the document obtained by The Associated Press, the agency wrote that experts should have realized that traditional infectious disease containment methods wouldn’t work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems. “Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall,” WHO said in the document.“A perfect storm was brewing, ready to burst open in full force.” The U.N. health agency acknowledged that, at times, even its own bureaucracy was a problem. It noted that the heads of WHO country offices in Africa are “politically motivated appointments” made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency’s chief in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Chan. WHO is the U.N.’s specialized health agency, responsible for setting global health standards and coordinating the global response to disease outbreaks. The document — a timeline on the Ebola outbreak — was not issued publicly but the AP was told the health agency would be releasing it earlier this week. However, WHO officials said in an email Friday that the timeline would now probably not be released publicly. No official at the agency would comment Friday on the draft report. Dr. Peter Piot, the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, agreed in an interview Friday that WHO acted far too slowly, largely because of its Africa office.
Barking for Life Community members and their four-legged friends are teaming up in the fight against cancer at the sixth annual Kerr County Bark For Life event today. Read more in Monday’s paper.
A big week ahead Texas A&M revisits Alabama during another high-quality weekend of football. Read the Monday sports section to get caught up on the action in the NFL and NCAA.
Public Meetings Monday Kerrville ISD Board of Trustees 6 p.m., Joseph A. Tivy Administration Building Board Room, 1009 Barnett St. Ingram ISD Board of Trustees 6 p.m., Ingram ISD Boardroom
Tuesday Library Advisory Board 3 p.m., Library meeting room 505 Water St.
World 16 dead in S. Korea concert accident SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Sixteen people watching an outdoor pop concert in South Korea fell 60 feet to their deaths Friday when a ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed, officials said. Photos of the scene in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, showed a deep concrete shaft under the broken grate. Seongnam city spokesman Kim Nam-jun announced the deaths in a televised briefing and said 11 others were seriously injured.
Hurricane Gonzalo en route to Bermuda Tony Gutierrez/AP photo Medical staff in protective gear escort Nina Pham, exiting the ambulance, to a nearby aircraft at Love Field on Thursday in Dallas. Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan who died of the same virus. “It’s the regional office in Africa that’s the front line,” he said at his office in London.“And they didn’t do anything. That office is really not competent.” WHO’s other regional directors — the Americas, Southeast Asia, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific — are also not accountable to Geneva and are all elected by their regions. Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, also questioned why it took WHO five months and 1,000 deaths before the agency declared Ebola an international health emergency in August. “I called for a state of emergency to be declared in July and for military operations to be deployed,” Piot said. But he said WHO might have been scarred by its experience during the 2009 swine flu pandemic, when it was
slammed for hyping the situation. In late April, during a teleconference on Ebola among infectious disease experts that included WHO officials, Doctors Without Borders and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, questions were raised about the performance of WHO experts, as not all of them bothered to send Ebola reports to WHO headquarters, according to the draft document. In the timeline, WHO said it was “particularly alarming” that the head of its Guinea office refused to help get visas for an expert Ebola team to come in and that $500,000 in aid was being blocked by administrative hurdles. Guinea, along with Sierra Leone and Liberia, is one of the hardest-hit nations in the current outbreak, with 862 deaths so far blamed on Ebola.
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LONDON (AP) — U2 singer Bono says his ever-present sunglasses aren’t a rock-star affectation — he has suffered from glaucoma for 20 years. The condition — a buildup of pressure that can damage the optic nerve — can make the eyes sensitive to light. Bono told the BBC’s “Graham Norton Show” that he had the condition, but “I have good treatments and I am going to be fine.” He said people would now think of him as “poor old blind Bono Bono.” He also acknowledged that some people had been annoyed when U2’s new album,“Songs of Innocence,” was sent unsolicited to millions of people with iTunes accounts. In comments released Friday by the BBC, Bono said,“We wanted to do something fresh, but it seems some people don’t believe in Father Christmas.”
A: The study of flags is “vexillology,” while a person who studies flags is a “vexillologist.”The art of designing flags is “vexillography,” and the person who does the design is a “vexillographer.” One more? If you are an admirer of flags, you are a “vexillophile.” The term vexillology was created in 1957 by U.S. flag researcher and historian Whitney Smith. To create the word, he combined the Latin root “vexillum” (flag) and the Greek suffix “logia” (study). DID YOU KNOW? Daniel Craig is the first Bond actor to have been born after the Bond series began. Craig was born in 1968, while the first Bond film,“Dr. No,” was released in 1962. Mr. Know-It-All at AskMrKIA@gmail.com or c/o United Feature Syndicate, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016.
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Today’s birthdays Oct. 18 (Saturday): Singer-guitarist Chuck Berry is 88. Actress Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s Island”) is 76. Actor Joe Morton is 67. Actress Pam Dawber is 64. Actress Erin Moran (“Happy Days”) is 54. Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is 54. Guitarist Peter Svensson of The Cardigans is 40. Actor Wesley Jonathan is 36. Singer Ne-Yo is 35. Country singer and “American Idol” contestant Josh Gracin is 34. Country musician Jesse Littleton (Marshall Dyllon) is 33. Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding is 30. Actor Zac Efron is 27. Actress Joy Lauren (“Desperate Housewives”) is 25. Actor Tyler Posey is 23.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Hurricane Gonzalo pounded Bermuda with wind and heavy surf on Friday, bearing down on the tiny British territory as a powerful Category 3 storm that could raise coastal seas as much as 10 feet. The storm was centered about 100 miles southsouthwest of Bermuda Friday afternoon with top sustained winds of 125 mph according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. It was moving to the north-northeast at 16 mph and was expected to pass near or over Bermuda Friday evening.
Nation Houston lets up on sermon subpoenas HOUSTON (AP) — Houston city attorneys are no longer seeking through subpoenas sermons from five pastors who publicly opposed an ordinance banning discrimination against gay and transgender residents. Mayor Annise Parker said Friday that the city was backing off the sermon request but would not withdraw the subpoenas, which seek other information from the pastors as part of a lawsuit over a petition drive to repeal the equal rights ordinance. While the word “sermons” was being deleted from the subpoenas, the revised request for other speeches or presentations was appropriate, Parker said.
Washington Obama appoints ‘Ebola czar’ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama turned to a trusted adviser to lead the nation’s Ebola response on Friday as efforts to clamp down on any possible route of infection from three Texas cases expanded, reaching a cruise ship at sea and multiple airline flights. Facing renewed criticism of his handling of the Ebola risk, Obama will make Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, his point man on the U.S. fight against Ebola at home and in West Africa. Klain will report to national security adviser Susan Rice and to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, the White House said.
Wall Street Stocks end week by moving up NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market had another turbulent session Friday, capping off one of the more eventful weeks on Wall Street in years. The Dow Jones industrial average soared more than 250 points following strong earnings from Morgan Stanley, General Electric and Textron as well as some encouraging U.S. economic reports. The Dow Jones industrial average advanced 263.17 points, or 1.6 percent, to 16,380.41 Friday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 24 points, or 1.3 percent, to 1,886.76 and the Nasdaq composite rose 41.05 points, or 1 percent, to 4,258.44.
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Obituaries | Weekend, October 18-19, 2014 Irving Weed Andrews Jr. Services Monday KERRVILLE — On Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Kerrville, Texas, Irving Weed Andrews Jr. fell asleep in Jesus, just shy of his 87th birthday. He was born on Armistice Day, 1927, in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Irving Weed Andrews and Helen Lucile (Monks) Andrews. His childhood was spent in the central states, where his father found work managing mines. Irv was close to his dad and from an early age wanted to have a career in mining. During the Great Depression, the family moved to Joplin, Missouri, and he always considered himself a “Joplin boy.” With a disarmingly affable personality, he had the capacity to make instantaneous friends, and the companionships he formed in second grade continued to be celebrated in annual reunions until recently. A graduate of Joplin Junior College, Irv had opportunities to attend Missouri University and Duke University, but family circumstances prevented him from achieving his goal of being a mining engineer. For a brief time he served in the Navy, but when the war ended, he struck out on his own, staking mining claims in the Southwest. From 1950 to 1959, he hunted for uranium while based in Grand Junction, Colorado. The rugged life of the prospector suited him, and his love of flying, camping, hunting and fishing never left him. Then he met the “girl of his dreams” and, on April 9, 1955, he married Emily Louise Peters from Denver, Colorado. When government uranium contracts were canceled, Irv was forced to look for work elsewhere. The reputation he had earned in the field of mining brought him to the attention of the Gardner-Denver Company, where his knowledge of the industry, strong personal character and outgoing nature made him an excellent salesman. He ascended the company hierarchy from commissioned sales to manager of sales for North America. In 1980, he left the company after a corporate merger and started a mining division for Sullair Corporation as corporate vice president. When the division was sold off in 1982, he went back into business on his own, building houses in Dallas, Texas. In 1984, he retired to Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, where he enjoyed playing golf and, with Emmy Lou, visiting friends across the country as members of the RV set. For the past 20 years, he and Emmy Lou have lived in Ingram, Texas, where their roots have gone deep in the church and local community. Those who were fortunate enough to have him as a friend will remember
him as a humble and generous individual who always believed the best in folks. He took delight in life’s simplest things and was loyal to a fault. He was devoted to his family, providing cohesion and promoting a gentle conciliation at times of conflict. He had a special affection for the boys at the Pathways 3H Camp and never tired of sharing life lessons that he had learned from his own mistakes. Above all, he would want people to remember him as a man who had found Jesus and who was confident in the peace with God that Jesus brings. He died surrounded by his family and secure in his Savior’s arms. He is survived by his wife, Emmy Lou; his sons, Steve (and Fawna) and Mike (and Darlene); and grandchildren, Kristin (and Ed), Clare (and Luke), Daniel, Ellen and Josh. Of his siblings, his sisters, Alice Fryer and Sally Clements survive; while his brother, Tom, and special niece and adopted daughter, Amy, are deceased. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, at Hunt United Methodist Church, 120 Merritt Road SW, in Hunt, Texas, with the Rev. Mike Cave presiding. Refreshments and opportunities to reminisce will follow the service. In lieu of flowers, Emmy Lou asks that donations be made in Irving’s name to Hunt United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 137, Hunt, TX 78024, and designated for the ministry of Pathways 3H Boys’ Camp. Irv’s cremated remains will be interred in the Hunt United Methodist Church Columbarium at a later date. The family invites you to send condolences to www. wrightsfuneralparlor.net. All arrangements are under the care of Wright’s Funeral Parlor of Kerrville, Texas.
Albert Arthur “Art” Oster Services Saturday SAN ANTONIO — Albert Arthur “Art” Oster, 43, of Katy, passed away Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in San Antonio, Texas. He was born in San Antonio to Arthur H. Oster and Barbara Oster Hill on March 1, 1971. He married Amanda L. Yarbrough Oster on Sept. 5, 2001, in Kerrville, Texas. He graduated from John Jay High School in San Antonio. In 2009, he started his own general contracting company called OCI Construction. Art was preceded in death by his grandfather, George W. Hayes; grandmother, Mary Jane Hayes; his grandfather, Albert “Ab” Oster; his father, Arthur H. Oster; his grandmother, Dorothy “Dot” Oster; and his aunt, Patricia KnoxCardin. Art is survived by his wife, Amanda Oster; his sister, Amy Oster Mills; stepsister, Vicki Lynn Q. and Steve; stepbrothers, James Hill and Carol, and Christopher and Stephanie Hill; his mother, Barbara Hill and stepfather, Edward L. Hill; uncles, Ronnie
and Laurie Hayes, and Thomas and Cynthia Hayes; and “Uncle” Charlie and Eddie Mae Porter; nieces, Ashley and Jamie; nephew, Jon; and numerous stepnieces, stepnephews and cousins. Visitation was on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, at Grimes Funeral Chapels. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 2014, at Grimes Funeral Chapels with Deacon Charles Domingues officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Cemetery in Mountain Home. The family invites you to send condolences at www. grimesfuneralchapels.com by selecting the “Send Condolences” link. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
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Shirley Anne (Lahti) Lightfoot March 22, 1937 – Aug. 12, 2014 KATY — Shirley Anne (Lahti) Lightfoot, 77, passed away at a health care facility in Katy, Texas, on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2014. Shirley was born in Brule, Wisconsin, on March 22, 1937, to the late Wayne and Helmi Lahti. A long-time resident of College Station, Texas, Shirley moved to Kerrville with her husband, Jim, in 1993 after retiring from Texas A&M
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Funeral services set Herbert Frank Hensley Services pending PIPE CREEK — Services for Herbert Frank Hensley, 88, of Pipe Creek, who died Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at his residence, are pending at Grimes Funeral Chapels of Bandera. William Hegman Services pending
KERRVILLE — Graveside services for Charles “Goatie” Coldwell, 72, of Center Point, who died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, at a Kerrville hospital, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, at Center Point Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
PIPE CREEK — Services for William Hegman of Pipe Creek, who died Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at his residence, are pending at Grimes Funeral Chapels of Bandera.
Cheryl Jeanette Lee Services Monday CLIFTON — Cheryl Jeanette Lee, 40, of Lampasas, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, at a hospital in Clifton, Texas. She was born Dec. 21, 1973, in Kerrville, to John W. and Patricia Kay (Gerard) Lee. Cheryl worked in retail and home health. She had a big heart and loved her family and her animals. She was preceded in death by mother, Patsy Lee. Survivors include her father, John Lee of Lampasas; sister, Loretta Robinson and husband, Dale of Ingram; brother, William Lee and wife, Staci Lee of Meridian; niece, Milena Sena; nephews, Garrett Sena, Wyatt Lowrance and Dillon Lowrance; and numerous
aunts and uncles. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, at Grimes Funeral Chapels, officiated by Brother Whelan Watson. Interment will follow in the Nichols Cemetery. The family invites you to send condolences at www. grimesfuneralchapels.com by selecting the “Send Condolences” link. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
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several churches. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014, at Oak Hill United Methodist Church, 7815 U.S. 290 West, Austin, Texas. Memorial contributions may be made in Vicky’s honor to the Oak Hill United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. Condolences may be made at www.cookwaldenforestoaks.com. Arrangements are entrusted to Cook-Walden Forest/Oaks Funeral Home in Austin, Texas.
University. She was predeceased by her beloved husband of almost 50 years, James “Jim” Lightfoot. She is survived by her two sons, Wayne Lightfoot and his wife, Jane of Austin, Texas, and Lee Lightfoot and his wife, Rebecca of Katy, Texas; her stepson, Dale Lightfoot of Cedar Creek, Texas; her stepdaughter, Joy Campbell of Cedar Creek, Texas; three sisters, Donna Miller, Irene Courtney and Evelyn Hansen; seven grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Shirley’s greatest pleasures were her family, golf and reading. She will be greatly missed.
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Mary “Vicky” Beardsley Services Sunday AUSTIN — Mary “Vicky” Beardsley of Austin, Texas, passed away Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, at the age of 72. She was born on Nov. 28, 1941, in West Virginia. She was preceded in death by her parents, Michael and Ethel Orban; and sister, Carolyn O’Dell. She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Reed Duane (sure do love you); and daughters, Stephanie Beardsley, Amy Thompson and Carolyn Beardsley; grandson, Everett Thompson; sister, Helen Stamper of Danville, Indiana; brother, Michael and wife, Becky Orban of Martinsburg, West Virginia; sistersin-law, Barbra Hadley of Seattle, Washington, and Marilyn Reck of Mission Viejo, California; and numerous nieces and nephews. Vicky was a sweet, kind and wonderful individual who loved her family and God’s gift of life. She took great enjoyment in helping others through volunteering at Peterson Regional Medical Center, the Auld Center, the Girl Scouts and
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Unnervingly, the U.S. public health services remain steps behind the Ebola virus. Contact tracing is what we do, Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden assured the nation. It will stop the epidemic “in its tracks.” And yet nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, who developed Ebola, were not even among the 48 contacts that the CDC was initially following. Nor were any of the ➤ Charles doctors and nurses who Krauthammer treated the “index patient,” Thomas Duncan. No one even had a full list of caregivers. The other reassurance was: Not to worry. We know what we’re doing. We have protocols. When, however, we got the first Ebola transmission in the U.S., it was blamed on a “breach in protocol.” Translation: “Don’t blame us. The nurse screwed up.” The nurses’ union was not amused. Frieden had to walk that back the next day, saying he didn’t mean to blame anyone. Frieden had said that “the care of Ebola can be done safely, but it is hard to do it safely.” Meaning: In theory, it’s easy; in practice, very dangerous. Unfortunately, that’s not what he said on Day One. These missteps raise questions of competence, candor and false confidence. But the problem is deeper. And it rests not in our doctors but in ourselves. In the face of a uniquely dangerous threat, we Americans have trouble recalibrating our traditional (and laudable) devotion to individual rights and civil liberties. That is the fundamental reason we’ve been so slow in getting serious about Ebola. Consider:
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A few months ago, The Kerrville Daily Times launched Your Home in the Hill Country, a new publication covering local real estate and home improvement. Readers can find the latest edition inserted inside this weekend’s newspaper. Unlike many of our other publications, Your Home is unique, because it is all color, publishes monthly and focuses on topics not extensively covered in other areas of the daily newspaper or existing publications. As a newspaper, our primary mission is to deliver relevant, timely news about issues of local importance. That largely includes reporting on local government, crime and courts, business news and happenings at local schools, but readers aren’t just interested in so-called hard news. Among our many editorial goals is to deliver diverse content that readers find interesting and useful to their everyday lives. That’s where Your Home fits in, as we aim to help local residents be more ➤ Carlina Villalpando knowledgeable and confident consumers and assist them in better maintaining and enjoying their homes. Now in its fourth edition, the publication so far has shared stories ranging from profiles on interesting local homes and builders to stories on decorating, gardening, home maintenance and real estate industry news. The October edition features a story on Riverhill residents James and Betty Stutz, who invited Your Home staff to tour the home they refer to as Casa Plumosa. The colorful 7,683-squarefoot home reflects the couple’s love for and frequent travels to Mexico, with its lime green, turquoise and fuschia walls and Mexican art scattered throughout the home. We hope the Stutz’s home will be the first of many more featured in Your Home, and we encourage residents to suggest interesting local homes they’d like to see featured. We also are anxious to get connected with local decorators, builders, landscapers and artisans we can spotlight in future editions. In addition to story ideas, we also are seeking columnists and writers for the publication. The November publication will include a fall home improvement guide, and the deadline to contribute to that edition is Nov. 3. For information or to contribute to the new publication, email yourhome@dailytimes.com, or call 257-0337. Other upcoming special publications readers should watch for include the fall/winter visitor’s guide that will be published in the weekend, Nov. 25-26, edition, and a Veterans Day section, featuring local World War II veterans that will be inserted in the weekend, Nov. 8-9, newspaper.
Privacy Pham’s identity was initially withheld. In normal circumstances, privacy deserves absolute respect. But these are not normal circumstances. We’re talking about a possible epidemic by an unseen pathogen that kills 70 percent of its victims. Contact tracing is the key to stopping it, we’ve been told. What faster way to alert anyone who might have had contact with Pham than releasing her name? Why lose 24 hours during which people have to guess if they’d had contact with someone carrying the virus?
Besides, training and equipping every hospital in America to treat this rare disease would be ridiculously expensive and 99 percent wasted. Every Ebola patient should be evacuated to a specialized regional isolation center, such as the ones in Atlanta, Omaha or Bethesda. Not because these facilities possess some unique treatment. There is no treatment. But they know how to prevent contagion. Local hospitals don’t. It took 15 days and Amber Vinson to wake the authorities up to this obvious reality.
Quarantine When Duncan was first hospitalized, the CDC said it would locate his contacts and check regularly for symptoms. For the secondary and tertiary contacts this made sense. But not for those in the inner “concentric circle.” They had had close contact with Duncan and were living in an apartment requiring massive decontamination. They should have been quarantined immediately. Yet initially they were not. In fact, the word quarantine was not uttered by a single authority during the first news conference revealing Duncan’s illness. It’s understandable. Quarantine is the ultimate violation of civil liberties. Having committed no crime, having done no wrong, you are sentenced to house arrest or banishment. It’s unfair. It’s, well, un-American. But when an epidemic threatens, we do it because we must.
Travel bans British Airways has already canceled all flights to the affected countries in West Africa. We haven’t. A couple more cases of imported Ebola and we will. Why are we waiting? The CDC argues that a travel ban would stop the flow of medical assistance to West Africa. This is silly. Simply make an exception for health care workers. They apply to federal authorities, who charter their flights (or use military aircraft already headed there) and monitor their movements until 21 days after their return home. Done. President Obama, in his messianic period, declared that choosing between security and liberty was a false choice. On the contrary. It is the eternal dilemma of every free society. Politics is the very process of finding some equilibrium between these two competing values. Regarding terrorism, we’ve developed a fairly reasonable balance. But it took time. With Ebola, we don’t have time. Viruses don’t wait. The sooner we reset the balance — the sooner we get serious — the safer we will be.
Evacuation Why have we been treating Ebola patients at their local hospital? This is insane. They don’t have the expertise or the training. They will make mistakes — as we’ve now seen repeatedly at Texas Health Presbyterian.
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Understanding aquifers: What they are, what they’re not First, a disclaimer. I am not trained in pour some water into the glass, slowly, geology, hydrology or any related field. and you won’t displace the sand. You can I am certainly not an “expert” in these see the level of the water in the glass, and fields, so what I say below is likely to you will eventually fill it up with water be an oversimplification. But I know also. many people are interested in our Even though the sand had “filled” aquifers and may also have some the glass, there was still room misconceptions about them. to add water to the glass — the Hopefully, I can shed some light water was simply filling the spaces on the subject. between the sand grains; the First, I think a very common spaces usually referred to as misconception is that an “pores.” aquifer is a large underground Some aquifers are actually “lake” or an underground strata of unconsolidated sand ➤ Jim Stanley cavern filled with water. Another or gravel, although many, if not Hill Country Naturalist most, are rock. Sandstone rock common misconception is that the water in an aquifer is is, in its simplest form, just sand separate from and/or different from the grains stuck together to form a rock. Many water in our creeks, rivers and lakes. other types of rock, including limestone, My dictionary defines an aquifer as “a which would look to us to be a “solid” water-bearing stratum of permeable rock, rock, do indeed have pores that can hold sand or gravel.” I think the best way to water. envision an aquifer is to think about filling In order to be a significant aquifer, the a water glass to the top with sand, so that formation has to have three important the glass is “full” of sand. But you can still properties: sufficient pores to hold a useful
Hill Country | Quick take Schreiner to host 12th annual graduate fair Schreiner University will host its 12th annual Graduate and Professional School Fair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 28. The community is welcome to attend this free event. The fair will be in the Floyd & Kathleen Cailloux Campus Activity Center lower lobby. Hannah Beavers, career development specialist at Schreiner, said the purpose of the fair is to provide individuals seeking an advanced degree an opportunity to visit with college recruiters from various institutions. Some of the more than 27 participating universities are Schreiner, The University of Texas at Houston, Our Lady of the Lake University and St. Mary’s University. For more information about the graduate fair, contact Beavers at 895-7110 or hcbeavers@schreiner.edu. For more information about Schreiner, visit www.schreiner.edu.
Project Graduation raffling roundball passes Extended by public request, Project Graduation 2015’s current fundraiser to raffle two “roundball passes” will be extended and announced during the homecoming game on Friday. The winner of this raffle to benefit Project Graduation 2015 will receive two passes to every remaining volleyball game at both Tivy High School and Hal Peterson Middle School; season passes to every home soccer game for both boys and girls; and season passes to every home softball and baseball game. The prize is valued at $100, but Project Graduation chairwoman Lisa Winters said the prize is priceless. “For only a $5 chance, our winner will get the chance to support our middle and high school athletes in a variety of sports, while also supporting the seniors of 2015,” she said. Roundball raffle tickets can be purchased at The Winters Gallery in Old Ingram Loop, at Randal’s Automotive on Texas 16 across from Cal Bob’s Smoke Shack or at Cartridge World on Sidney Baker South by H-E-B. Supporters also can contact Winters for tickets at 928-5472. All proceeds benefit the Class of 2015 and Project Graduation.
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amount of water, the pores have to be connected together enough to allow for the flow of water (something that is referred to a “permeability”), and the formation has to be above a layer of rock that is not permeable. If the pore space is too small, referred to as a low-porosity formation, then it can’t hold enough water to be useful to humans. If the permeability of the formation is so low that water will not flow from the rock into a well-bore, then it can’t support a useful water-well. In the oil field, low permeability formations are made useful by fracking. Finally, if there is no low-permeability formation below the strata in question, then water will not accumulate in that strata but will simply seep deeper underground — something has to “confine” the water in a permeable formation to keep it in place. Those of us who live in the San Antonio TV coverage area are accustomed to hearing about the Edwards aquifer and
its state of recharge or depletion. The Edwards is an unusual aquifer in that it actually has places where the water resides simply in pools or large cracks and holes in the limestone, and in addition, there are places on the surface where during heavy rainstorm events, rainwater can actually flow directly from the surface down into the aquifer. These characteristics make the Edwards unusually easy to be recharged by rainstorm events and for the water to easily flow through the highly permeable formation. But even the Edwards is not a giant cavern full of water covering many miles. In our area, underneath the Edwards in many places lies one or more aquifers often referred to as the trinity. These aquifers are much slower to display any recharge reaction to a rainstorm event. Like many other aquifers around the country, exactly where and how they are recharged is not as clear, but it probably
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involves either water seeping into the ground and down through many layers of soil and rock, or possibly in places where the formation is close to the surface, it is recharged from creeks or streams. Water from both the Edwards and the other aquifers may in places provide the springs that feed our creeks and rivers, and in other places water from the creeks and rivers may help recharge the aquifers. And we don’t always know where all of those places are. It is all the same water, it just resides in different places at different times and in time it will all flow downhill to the ocean, evaporate and start the process all over again. Until next time. ... Jim Stanley is a Texas Master Naturalist and the author of the books “Hill Country Landowner’s Guide” and “A Beginner’s Handbook for Rural Texas Landowners: How to Live in the Country Without Spoiling It.” He can be reached at jstmn@ ktc.com. Previous columns can be seen at www. hillcountrynaturalist.org.
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NPOs work with other groups
Grape Juice marks 5 years on Water St. Grape Juice will celebrate its move five years ago from the tiny rock building in Ingram to the heart of historic downtown Kerrville today. At the time of the move, the old Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital was a shell waiting to be torn down and the Schreiner building and many other store fronts were vacant. “We knew downtown had great potential and really we wanted to be involved in the revitalization efforts,” said Patrick Wilt, who owns Grape Juice with his wife, Keri, who currently serves as president of the Historic Downtown Business Alliance. With the move to Kerrville, the Wilt’s added a restaurant to the Grape Juice mix and has been written about in Texas Monthly, Texas Highways and the New York Times. “Some of our most popular items are our scratch-made daily soups, the smoked gouda mac and cheese, antelope nachos, quail tacos and our specialty flatbread pizzas,” Keri Wilt said. The Wilts are giving back to their customers on Saturday with complementary drinks and munchies from 5 to 7 p.m. on the back patio of Grape Juice. “We are so thankful for the support this community has given to us that we would like a chance to shake their hands and say ‘thank you.’” Patrick said. For more information about the celebration, call 792-9463 or visit GrapeJuiceKerrville on Facebook.
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Community First National Bank will celebrate its grand opening at 305 Sidney Baker South, Suite 100, on Tuesday.
Community First Nat’l Bank celebrates opening Community First National Bank will celebrate its grand opening with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at 305 Sidney Baker South, Suite 100. The bank is across from River Hills Mall, just south of the river. A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 4:30 p.m. The newly formed Community First National Bank in Kerrville is a branch of Community First National Bank of Manhattan, Kansas, founded in 2001 by veteran banker Kent McKinney, who is now heading up the Kerrville branch as senior vice president. “Relationships are first with us,” McKinney said. “One of the ways our customers benefit from this foundational business touchstone is that all loan decisions are made right here in Kerrville. Meaning your life isn’t put on hold in another time zone.”
Community First National Bank offers a full suite of banking services, from online banking to small business loans and a variety of deposit accounts. “We believe your bank should be a place that’s so friendly, every time you enter, it just feels like home,” said senior vice president/bank manager Jeff Rhea, who has worked in banking since 1984. Longtime Hill Country resident Justin Foster serves as assistant vice president of commercial lending at the bank. “We are all about coming alongside families and businesses as they grow,” Foster said. The bank is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Call 315-2362 for more information.
As you read about the huge to law enforcement and crime refugee camps in the Middle East, victims’ services in the 13-county you will see the term “NGO.” region that is the Alamo Area. When you see the news reports This board is made up of law about the Ebola epidemic in West enforcement officials from these Africa, you will see “NGO.” 13 counties and persons with Most of the world uses a background in NPO work. “NGO” to refer to what Our recommendations go we in the United States the governor’s office. generally call an “NPO,” a In this instance, it has nonprofit organization. been determined that NPOs, What you also will often with crime victim see in these news advocates at the county accounts is that the level, are the best entities NGOs partner with ➤ Bill Blackburn to help victims in ways governmental entities law enforcement cannot. Focus on NPOs and with corporations The partnership and foundations. between businesses, the In our economy and economies government and NPOs is seen here around the world, the division is in the cooperation and coordination often made of business, government between law enforcement and the and the nonprofit sector. NPOs and further in the additional Why is this combination seen funding supplied to the NPOs in these instances? All three are by individuals, corporations and needed to provide the goods, foundations. services and, yes, security of a Often it is found that the NPO society. can provide services at less cost Of course, all three of these act and in a more timely fashion than independently of each other, but government agencies. they also partner when that is the You also see more and more best way to get the job done. businesses going beyond their Here’s an example: I serve regular contributions to partner on an Alamo Area Council of with NPOs by providing volunteers Governments advisory board. for special events but also allowing We review grant requests related personnel to help NPOs by giving
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employees the time to help NPOs with things like marketing, project management, social media and accounting. The NPOs give back by recognition to the companies. One of the ways NPOs are partners in the communities they serve is in economic benefit. Since NPOs are always seen with their hands out, their economic contribution is sometimes not seen. Ministries like Christian Women’s Job Corps and Christian Men’s Job Corps prepare people for the workplace. With very good results of graduates getting jobs, these graduates are tax-paying citizens proudly employed. There are many more examples that could be given; but, in the next few weeks, when you get all those envelopes with fundraising letters in them, realize that wise and effective and efficient NPOs can be a very good investment in a better society, The Urban Institute reports that in one recent year, NPOs contributed products and services that added $779 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product and comprised 5.4 percent of GDP. The Rev. Bill Blackburn, Ph.D., consults with NPOs on planning, board training and executive coaching.
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Center Point grad completes basic training
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Army Pvt. Frank Hernandez has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises. Hernandez is the son of Francisco Hernandez of Center Point. He is a 2014 graduate of Center Point High School.
Plans march ahead for veterans day parade Efforts to locate World War II veterans as special asked to utilize the theme “Honoring Our World War II participants for the Veterans Day parade have shown great Veterans” in preparing their entries. success. As of this time, almost 50 local WWII veterans The parade committee is composed of local veterans have been identified and will receive invitations to ride with an interest in restoring an annual Veterans Day in the parade. parade in Kerr County. The parade begins at 5 p.m. on Veterans Day, The event is chaired by Maggie Baker, veterans Nov. 11. The formation area is A Street between county service officer for Kerr County. She may be Jefferson and North streets. This is immediately reached during business hours at the courthouse south of the B.T. Wilson Sixth Grade School. or by calling 792-2203. Participants are asked to arrive after 4 p.m. to Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 814 be assigned a position in the parade. The route is providing special coordination for this year’s will follow Jefferson Street to the Kerr County event. WWII veterans wishing to be in the Courthouse. parade are asked to contact Bill Bacon at 634➤ Gary Noller Musical entertainment, children’s games and 2975. Donations to help cover costs should be food vendors will be located on the courthouse made payable to MOPH 814. Contact Byron Salute to Veterans grounds following the conclusion of the parade. Warren at 257-8025 to make a donation in Limited seating will be available for the free Veterans Day support of the parade and program. program. Spectators are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or I am handling general questions about the day’s events blankets and stay for the entire evening. with special emphasis on parade entry questions. My phone This year’s event follows last year’s very successful number is 377-8115. Veterans Day March. The event this year features an Early in the planning process, the committee decided to expanded parade with the addition of vehicles and floats. hold the Veterans Day activities on the real Veterans Day The parade is open to veterans service organizations, and not move it to an alternate date. In order to allow for community and civic organizations, school and youth students and families to attend, the schedule is set for the groups, businesses and individual entries. Participants are early evening.
Marine pilots reunion begins Sunday A reunion is set for U.S. Marine Corps pilots who served together in Attack Squadron UMA 324. The event will be Sunday through Wednesday at the Y.O. Ranch Hotel and Conference Center. This is the 19th annual reunion for the pilots. For more information, contact Lee Spaulding, organizer, at 895-4047.
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Beginning Oct. 28, the Schreiner Mansion Historic Site and Education Center will present “Salute to the Military,” an exhibition made possible in part by the donations of some Kerrville families and veterans. The exhibit focuses on the World Wars, with a few pieces pertaining to the Civil War, Spanish American War, Korean War and the Vietnam War. The majority of the pieces presented come from the donations of Hill Country veterans and their families. The exhibit will be available to the public Oct. 28-Nov. 14. For more information about viewing hours or to arrange group visits, contact the Schreiner Mansion at 896-8633.
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he event this year features an expanded parade with the addition of vehicles and floats. The parade is open to veterans service oranizations, school and youth groups, businesses and individual entries. The committee also wants to ensure that the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day is recognized. Questions have been raised, mostly by veterans, as to why the Veterans Day activities are planned and operated by veterans. One comment heard was that we were patting ourselves on the back. But I do not look at it in that manner. Veterans are having the parade because it is the right thing to do — and no one else is doing it. I suppose, but I do not know, that the Veterans Day parades that I attended in my youth were organized by World War II veterans. So this year, at least, it is the other way around. Gary Noller is the moderator for the newly formed Hill Country Veterans Alliance. He can be reached at gnoller@aol.com.
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COMFORT — Locally owned Camp Comfort will offer free lodging for active duty or retired U.S. military personnel on Nov. 10 and a 50 percent discount for additional nights in honor of Veterans Day through the Better Way to Stay website and its program for B&Bs for Vets. Camp Comfort provides boutique lodging in the Hill Country with five guest suites in Comfort. “We are excited to be able to offer this small gesture for those who have and those who continue to serve our country,” company spokesman Phil Jenkins said. Camp Comfort also extends a 10 percent discount to all active duty or retired U.S. military personnel year-round. For more information, contact Lisa Jenkins at 601 Water St., Comfort, TX 78013, by phone at 830221-6090, or email stay@ camp-comfort.com. More information also is available at www.camp-comfort.com and www.betterwaytostay.com/ bbs-for-vets/#Texas.
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SAR hears Greystone update, inducts 2 new compatriots The Hill Country has a unique asset in the Greystone Academy at Schreiner University, the program’s executive director told members and guests of the Hill Country Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at their Oct. 15 meeting. Col. Randy Buhidar explained that the 50 men and women who enrolled in August are the largest class in the 11-year history of Greystone, which prepares high school graduates for consideration as cadets at the nation’s five service academies. He also noted that 15 of this year’s Greystoners are women, the highest percentage of females to sign up for the program to date. Another significant fact is that Greystone is the only one of more than 40 academypreparatory schools around the country that gives college credit to participants. All of the others, he said, provide continuation of high school. With 20,000 young men and women competing each year for admission to the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and Naval academies, preparation at Greystone has to be rigorous, and it is, the colonel said. Greystoners take 16 to 18 hours of academic work in disciplines such as math, science and literature, plus more than an hour daily of physical training starting at 6 a.m., and finish their day with four hours of mandatory study hall. On Friday afternoons and weekends, they frequently devote time to community service such as mentoring in public and private elementary schools. They elect their own leaders and each class writes and adopts an honor code each year. Thus, Buhidar said, it’s no surprise that 86 percent of Greystoners in past classes have received service academy appointments, and that most of the others are offered ROTC scholarships in civilian universities. Half of this year’s 50 members have grade point averages of
3.75 to 4.0, he noted, and Greystoners are well represented on the president’s list of honor students at Schreiner. In other SAR business, Kevin Pickard and John Carswell became the newest members of the Hill Country Chapter, following their induction by State Registrar Gerald Irion. Pickard, a Fredericksburg resident, transferred his SAR membership to the Hill Country from a chapter in Louisiana, and regional vice president Tom Carswell of Kerrville accepted the certificate of membership for his son, who lives in Dallas. Members also took note of the death earlier this year of retired Lt. Gen. Murphy Chesney, a chapter member who had been Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force, Chief of Staff at the Kerrville Veterans Administration Hospital and a founding director and vice president of the Hill Country Veterans Council. The SAR is one of the nation’s oldest and largest patriotic organizations for men, with chapters in every state and several foreign countries. Members, known as compatriots, are men who can document having at least one ancestor who served in the Colonial Navy or in the Continental Army or state militias under George Washington, or aided the fight for American independence by supplying the sailors and troops with such things as blankets, uniforms, arms and ammunition, cash, medical supplies and food for the troops and their horses and mules. The organization provides genealogical assistance to men who are interested in joining and believe that they may qualify for membership. Locally, SAR members are active in supporting veterans, active duty military personnel and ROTC programs, and promoting the teaching of American history and respect for the American Flag and our nation’s Founding Fathers.
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an order, contact Elizabeth Schneider at elizjschneider@gmail.com or Emily Russ at russemily@ymail.com.
Every year, the Kerrville Junior Service Guild sells Christmas greenery for local residents to decorate their homes for the holidays. “The greenery arrives just in time to keep your home looking and smelling divine through the holidays,” an organization spokeswoman said. All the funds raised in the sale goes toward college scholarships for young women in Kerr County. “Last year, we were able to give two young women $3,500 each toward their education,” the spokeswoman said.“Please consider ordering. ... The greenery is really beautiful and makes great gifts to be delivered to others and decor for workplaces.” The guild also is teaming up with the Tivy High School cheerleaders to offer holiday decorating to area businesses. For more information or to place
Blood drive Sunday at local church The South Texas Blood and Tissue Center will be on hand Sunday from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for a blood drive at First United Methodist Church, 321 Thompson Drive. Donors must present identification. Anyone who is 17 years old and weighs at least 110 pounds and is in good general health can donate blood. Anyone who is age 16 and weighs at least 120 pounds can donate with a parental consent form. Blood drives also are scheduled Monday, 1:30-4 p.m. at Trinity Mission Health and Rehab in Comfort; and Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at Fredericksburg High School, by the vocational education building. Visit www.southtexasblood.org.
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Thief steals purse Police say missing credit card was used to pay personal bill By Sean Batura Staff Writer
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Gerald Irion, left, presents a certificate of appreciation to Col. Randy Buhidar, executive director of Greystone Academy at Schreiner University. Buhidar spoke at the Oct. 15 meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution.
The Hill Country Chapter meets for programs and lunch at Rails: A Cafe at the Depot at 11:30 a.m. on the second Tuesdays of September through November and January through May. Information on the SAR is available from chapter secretary Tom Carswell at 792-2160 or at tecarswell@mail.com or from registrar Gerald Irion at 469-585-0959 or girion@windstream.net.
Someone stole a purse left at a grocery store and used a credit card to pay a bill, according to police. On Thursday, a 64-year-old woman realized she had left her purse at a store, and went about canceling her credit card. While doing so, she discovered an unauthorized $36 charge on the
Veterans | continued from page 1A Information being collected by the parade committee and for an upcoming special section in The Times includes the veterans branch of service and the operational theater in which the veterans served. This year’s parade will be only the second Veterans Day parade going back for at least 30 years. Last year, a group of veterans organized the event, which included marching bands, local junior ROTC units and local veteran organizations. The parade will be on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and start at 5 p.m. at A and Water streets. The parade will go west on
Above: Kevin Pickard displays his certificate as a new member of the Hill Country Chapter. At left: Tom Carswell, father of John Carswell, who was inducted into the organization.
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card, said Chuck Bocock, police spokesman. Bocock declined to say what the charge was for exactly, citing a need to protect an investigation, but added it was for a bill paid in Kerrville. The case was forwarded to the agency’s Criminal Investigations Unit, which is handling the matter as a possible felony credit card fraud punishable by as much as two years in state jail and a $10,000 fine.
Water Street, turn up Earl Garrett Street and end at the Kerr County Courthouse where activities will include live music, vendors, food, drinks, games and a short military presentation. Along with the parade, work currently is being completed on the expansion of the Kerr County war memorial at the courthouse. The expansion will add the names of three veterans killed in wars since the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s and will include space for future names. Maggie Baker, Kerr County veterans service officer, has said the expansion could be dedicated on Veterans Day as part of the activities that day, if it is complete in time.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast 8-11 a.m., VFW Hall, 220 Thompson Drive. Sponsored by veterans group 40/8. Cost is $6.50. Event is open to the public. 792-0775.
Center Point Lions Club Garage Sale 8 a.m.- 4 p.m., Trinity Church, Texas 27, Center Point. Lots of goodies. Funds raised support Center Point Lions Club’s scholarships, send kids to summer camp and provide hearing and eye screening tests. Donations accepted: 634-3168, 634-2018 or 634-2839.
Big Fix Cat Adoption
Baubles and Beads 10-11 a.m. and 1-2 p.m. Emporium, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Luncheon and Program; Y.O. Ranch Hotel & Conference Center, 2033 Sidney Baker St. Emporium showcases top-quality vendors from across the Hill Country, featuring items such as jewelry, clothing, luggage, purses, cosmetics, shoes and more. Proceeds benefit the Executive Women’s Club scholarship program, a local cancer assistance/community outreach fund and purchases PET scan monitoring equipment used by radiologists for in-depth diagnoses and to help monitor cancer treatments. Tickets are $45 per person. Sponsorships and raffle tickets also are available. 459-4797 or traci@ terminixabc.com.
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Noon-5 p.m., Hastings, 501 Main St. Adopt a cat through the Big Fix Homeless Cat Project. All cats are fixed and current on vaccinations. A $38 adoption fee enables the Big Fix to care for additional cats in Kerr County. 896-2165 or http://bigfixcats.com.
7-8:30 p.m., Riverside Nature Center, 150 Francisco Lemos St. Kim Lohmeyer offers a menagerie of gross-out bugs. Add to the fun by dressing as your favorite insect. Admission is $10 for nature center members, $15 for nonmembers. RSVP: 257-4837 or rnc. kerrville@gmail.com.
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RHS Gardens of London Tour Presentation 10-11 a.m., Riverside Nature Center, 150 Francisco Lemos St. Special presentation on the Royal Horticulturalist Society’s tour of London’s gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Admission is free. RSVP to 257-4837 or RNC.Kerrville@ gmail.com.
Social Media Discussion 7-8:15 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church of the Hill Country, 960 Barnett St.. Become informed about social media and learn more about networking platforms, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest. Handouts will be available for attendees to study at home and work more with social media usage. Second session in a four-week course. Free. 896-4204 or spiraldroplet@yahoo.com.
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10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday and Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Vaudeville Gallery, 230 E. Main St., Fredericksburg. Artist showcases her newest exhibit, which explores fragmentation and transition. www.vaudeville-living.com or 830-992-3234.
10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends, Homestead Farm & Market, 502 Jenschke Lane, Fredericksburg. Pony rides. Visit www. homesteadfarmandmarket.com for details. Admission is $7.
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4-7 p.m. Thursdays at the Pioneer Museum, corner of Main and Milam streets, Fredericksburg. Features food from local farmers, ranchers and chefs, as well as wines from local wineries, certified organic eggs artisan bread, goat cheese and more. Live music and free recipes.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Riverside Nature Center, 150 Francisco Lemos St. A study of the creatures that make their home in the wilds of our Hill Country. Free, but donations always welcome. 257-4837, www.riversidenaturecenter.org.
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The Tivy band practices at the high school Thursday in preparation for UIL marching contest today (Saturday).
Band | continued from page 1A “We played (the students) the show last February and they really dug it,” Lenard said. “They really like the music that we’re doing, taking Metallica and (Gustav) Holst and intertwining it.” This year’s show is based on the craft of a blacksmith creating steel out of iron ore, Lenard said. The three movements, “The Blacksmith,” “The Craft” and “The Result” culminate in the blacksmith ultimately making steel, he said. Schools have the opportunity to compete for UIL state title every other year based on size. This will not be a state year for Tivy. However, Lenard said plans for next year’s show are already underway with the goal of making a state run next year. To compete at the state competition, the band must first qualify at the regional and area UIL contests, like the one Tivy competes at today. “With our success so far this year and being a young band, we’re looking to build off that for next year,” Lenard said. “We want to qualify for state.” There are 105 students total in the band, about 40 of which are freshmen. Lenard said the band grew from 87 students last year, and he predicts there could be as many as 130 members next year based on the number of eighthgraders who have expressed interest in joining. Today’s UIL contest marks the end of the competitive marching
Abbott | continued from page 1A “To be honest, I was happiest behind the scene, and I still am,” Abbott said. “I was overjoyed when he won. I could stop hanging out in grocery store parking lots.” By 1996, Abbott had become a principal in a Houston area school, and for a time, after then-governor George W. Bush appointed her husband to the Texas Supreme Court, he commuted to Austin. Eventually, Abbott found a principal position in Austin, where the couple went through another life-changing event. That was when they learned of a pregnant woman who was willing to give up her baby for adoption. The Abbotts soon adopted Audrey. “It was nice to have a diaper changer in the house who has a nice, strong work ethic,” Abbott joked about her husband. She said being a father has had a profound impact on Greg Abbott and on the way he approaches fighting crime. “Texas is the wrong place to be to abandon your family or hurt a child when Greg Abbott is on the job,” she said. As her time ran short, Abbott looked at the clock on the wall and with little effort noted the number of hours and minutes remaining before polls close on the Nov. 4 election day. She encouraged voters to get to the polls and to take a friend with them to ensure a good turnout for Greg Abbott. “As wonderful as it is when I hear he has it in the bag, he doesn’t,” she said. Early voting begins Monday in Kerrville at the Kerr County Courthouse and at the West Kerr County Annex in Ingram. Early voting will continue for two weeks ahead of the general election.
season for the Tivy band, but they still will perform in the stands at halftime for the remainder of the football season.
event is used by the bikers as an opportunity to raise money for a selected charity, to honor their fallen comrades and enjoy fellowship and the beautiful motorcycle rides to be had in this region. Due to the plethora of military bases in Texas, most of the bikers at this weekend’s event are members of the Green Knights, which is composed of current and former U.S. troops. But there also are members of the other public service clubs in attendance this weekend — the Red Knights, which is for firefighters, and the Blue Knights for police. Craig Colton, international vice president of the Green Knights Military Motorcycle Club, said he retired from the Air Force after 21 years and found it a little difficult to get acclimated to civilian life. He was a bomber avionics specialists working on B-1s and B-2s, in addition to other jobs, such as training and commanding Iraqi airmen. A few of the Iraqi troops he taught were killed this month when insurgents shot down two helicopters in the country. “For me to see these guys still there fighting for their country, it gives you faith,” Colton said. “Because you listen to people talking about how everyone threw down their weapons and walked away.” After Colton retired and came
Dozens of motorcyclists wait in a staging area near Inn of the Hills before heading out to tackle the 95-mile “Three Sisters” ride west of Kerrville on Friday morning. home for good, it was difficult for him to hear loud noises, due to his experiences, and he missed the camaraderie of the military. So riding a motorcycle and joining the Green Knights was a way to relax and socialize with people of similar backgrounds. “The cops and the firefighters will tell you the same thing: there’s a bond, there’s a brotherhood and sisterhood (here) that’s hard to beat,” Colton said. He added, there’s a long history of motorcycle clubs being started by military members and vets. Colton’s now a full-time student in Abilene working on a master’s degree in psychology with the goal of working as a health care provider to wounded service members. Bikers who traveled the Three Sisters on Friday will be reminded of the importance of safety when they see a certain boulder topped with motorcycle parts, marking the place where someone was killed. It’s a common tradition; there’s a tree in Tennessee — the Tree of
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Tivy 48, San Marcos 14
State scores: 2B
Our Lady of the Hills 69, Austin Veritas 72
Tivy volleyball wins again: 2B
Ingram 28, Randolph 26
College football TV lineup: 2B
Comfort 48, San Antonio Cole 9
Weather: 3B
Center Point 49, Sabinal 35
Rangers manager is home: 3B
Harper — OFF, next game is Oct. 24 v. Center Point
Hot Shots photo page: 4B
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Bites Tivy plays homewrecker The Antlers played spoiler to the Rattlers on Friday when they beat San Marcos in their new $18.4 million stadium, 48-14. Pirates fall to old coach Center Point lost a long game against the Sabinal Yellow Jackets, who are coached by former Pirates’ coach Jason Keller. The Pirates fell 49-35. Explosive heartbreaker Brando Hernandez started the game with a 60-yard kickoff return and scored eight touchdowns on the night,but a fumble on the final drive cost OLH in a loss to state-ranked Austin Veritas, 72-69.
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(San Marcos) might be taller, bigger and faster, but our kids have incredible heart.
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Tivy receiver Tres White scrambles for a first down in Friday’s road district game against the San Marcos Rattlers.
Tivy ruins San Marcos’ homecoming, playoff chances in 48-14 drubbing Sports Editor sports@dailytimes.com
At the grand opening of the San Marcos Rattlers’ new house, Tivy made itself at home. Cade Dyal went 25-of-30 for 299 yards and 2 touchdowns, Redmond Carson gained 112 yards on the ground and Tivy pulled away in the second half in a 48-14 win. “Sometimes there’s a slow start getting the nerves out,” Dyal said. “But after that, everything was rolling and clicking.” The Antlers (5-2, 4-1) took control soon after the second half kickoff, outscoring the Rattlers 31-7 after halftime in the Rattlers’ first-ever game at the new $18.4 million Rattler Stadium. Determined to contain San Marcos quarterback David Hamilton, the Tivy defense left him no room to run as the pressure eventually broke down Hamilton and the Rattler offense. “Relentless effort — coach (Jeremy) Hickman preaches that; our defensive coaches preach that. On paper, (San Marcos) might be taller, bigger and
faster, but our kids just have incredible heart,” head coach David Jones said. “They refuse to give up.” The defense earned a key stop to begin the second half while protecting a 17-7 Tivy lead. After a Hamilton incompletion and Hamilton’s rush for no gain, Sean Foreman sacked Hamilton with one hand to force a three-and-out. Two plays later, receiver Parker Brown lined up as a tailback and took a handoff 55 yards for a touchdown, breaking three tackles before dashing down the sideline to give his team a 24-7 lead. “I just kind of saw it unfold. It was good blocking for sure. I was just excited to get in some (playing time at) running back,” Brown said. “I never quite understood how good our offensive line is until tonight.” Brown caught 11 passes for 133 yards and rushed three times for 58 yards and two touchdowns. As the Antlers expected, Hamilton did have a big, potentially game-changing play. It came after Brown’s touchdown when Hamilton took a designed run up the middle 67 yards to the house, cutting Tivy’s lead to 24-14. San Marcos gained more momentum with Brown’s
fumble two plays after Hamilton’s touchdown run, but the Tivy defense answered with another threeand-out. It was Foreman again clinging to Hamilton’s jersey before Foreman’s teammates helped him finish a 12-yard sack. “Our outside contain did great; we filled our gaps like we needed to. Linebackers did what they needed to; the other (defensive) linemen did great,” Foreman said. “Overall, our defense did great.” A second chance was one too many for the Tivy offense, which then marched 75 yards on a touchdown drive capped by Dyal’s 21-yard scramble. A 31-14 deficit had some San Marcos fans heading for the exit. Back-to-back Hamilton incompletions caused a turnover on downs on the ensuing drive, which the Antler offense turned into another score near the end of the third quarter. Dyal rushed from three yards out for a 38-14 lead, capping a 64-yard drive. San Marcos fumbled the next kickoff, setting up Tivy’s final touchdown, a 7-yard slant pass from Dyal to Hutch White. Later in the fourth quarter,
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Center Point running back Larry Leitha (24) tries to break a tackle against Sabinal on Friday.
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Quarterback J.R. Vera threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 60 yards and another score to lead the Sabinal Yellowjackets past the Center Point Pirates 49-35 Friday night at Pirates Stadium, spoiling a huge night by Center Point quarterback Kolby Kitchens and the Pirates’ 2014 playoff hopes. Vera’s 17-for-26 passing night fueled a Sabinal offense that racked up 638 yards in total offense, as fullback David Hernandez rushed for 90 yards and one TD and Preston Nevarez 86 yards in a Yellowjacket ground attack that compiled 361 ground yards on 47 carries. Sabinal needed every bit of the offense against a Pirates’ offense that despite trailing 323-94 in total yards and 28-7 at halftime, tried to make a game of it late after trailing by as many as 30 points early in the fourth quarter. Kitchens threw for 322 yards and four touchdowns, including eight passes to tailback Larry Leitha for 194 yards and one score. Kitchens threw two interceptions including one returned for a Jackets’ TD, and the Center Point defense found no answer for Sabinal’s up-tempo offensive scheme. The loss was the fourth consecutive for the 3-5 Pirates, who dropped to 0-4 in See CP, page 2B
The number of touchbacks Comfort kicker Victor Falcon kicked against SA Cole.
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COMFORT TEAM STAT LEADERS Rushing: Dax Wright — 7 carries, 143 yards, 2 TDs; Garrett Pressler 7 carries, 94 yards, 2 TDs Passing: Kyle Bohlen — 8-14, 83 yards Special Teams: Victor Falcon — 2-2 field goals (39, 42 yards), 4/4 XP
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Austin Veritas 16 30 50 72 72 OLH TEAM STAT LEADERS Rushing: Brando Hernandez— 10 carries, 51 yards, 2 TDs Passing: Brando Hernandez — 21-34, 363 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT Receiving: Jordan Sirianni — 3 rec, 141 yards, 3 TDs
Ingram at Randolph Ingram Randolph
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INGRAM TEAM STAT LEADERS Rushing: Jacob Anzaldua — 19 carries, 103 yards, 1 TD Passing: Keaun Valverde — 9-19, 146 yards, 1 INT, 2 rush TD Receiving: Derek Brown — 4 rec, 81 yards
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HILL COUNTRY SPORTS ‘14 Houston holds out against Temple HOUSTON (AP) — Greg Ward Jr. threw two touchdown passes in a 51-second span late in the third quarter to help Houston beat Temple 3110 on Friday night. Ward was 29 of 33 for 268 yards without an interception for the Cougars (4-3, 2-1 American Athletic). Ward started the third-quarter scoring burst with a 7-yard touchdown pass to Deontay Greenberry with 1:42 left. On the next play from scrimmage, Howard Wilson intercepted P.J. Walker’s pass at the 26 to set up Ward’s 30-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Jackson that completed the scoring. Greenberry had 10 catches for 63 yards, and Markeith Ambles added six receptions for 96 yards. Ryan Jackson led the Cougars in rushing with 75 yards on 18 carries. Walker was 12 of 29 for 259 yards and a touchdown with three interceptions for Temple (4-2, 2-1). Jahad Thomas had three catches for 150 yards. Temple missed a chance to tie
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ESPN— 14 Kansas St at 11 Oklahoma
2:30 p.m. ESPN— UCLA at Cal 2:30 p.m. ESPN2— 8 Michigan St at Indiana
Eric Christian Smith, Houston Chronicle/AP Photo Houston running back Kenneth Farrow (35) runs past the Temple defense during the first half of an NCAA college football game on Friday in Houston. it early in the third quarter when Walker fumbled at the goal line a play after Thomas went 74 yards on a screen pass. Houston scored 10 points in 8
Luke Fierst bounced a 40-yard field goal off the crossbar and through the uprights to put Tivy ahead 48-14. Both teams took a while to get moving on Friday. White eventually caught a 14-yard pass for a 7-0 Tivy lead, which San Marcos answered with a 63-yard scoring drive ending with Preston Natal’s 21-yard touchdown catch. Facing a 7-7 tie, the Tivy offense began to find rhythm on its next drive, using quick screen passes to the sideline that set up Brown’s 2-yard jet sweep touchdown run. “For whatever reason, they didn’t want to cover our slot people up,” Jones said. “Cade just kept throwing it out there. We had run plays called, and (Dyal) has the option, if we have some space out there, he’ll raise up and (throw) it.” Fierst kicked a 27-yard field goal to give Tivy a 17-7 lead after two quarters. At the halftime break, Tivy defense had contained Hamilton, one of the leading rushers in the state of Texas, to 70 rushing yards on 10 attempts. “I think that’s a credit to what we were doing. We wouldn’t open up lanes for him to run through,” Jones said. “Most people have been trying to go after him, and it creates space. And we just sat there on the line and just didn’t give him any clear, definitive lane to run.”
13-2A play with games remaining next week against area rival Harper, and Junction to end the season. Sabinal, coached by former Pirates’ coach Jason Keller, improved to 5-2 overall and 2-1 in district. A 21-point second quarter outburst helped the Yellowjackets take control of the contest 28-7 at halftime, as Sabinal blasted the Pirates for a 323-94 advantage in total offense in the first half. The Jackets grabbed a 7-0 lead with 31 seconds remaining in the first quarter, as Albert Aguilar ended a 10-play, 55-yard drive with a 3-yard TD scamper, and Shane Medina’s first of seven successful kicks put Sabinal ahead. The Yellowjackets didn’t wait
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seconds midway through the first quarter. Kyle Bullard kicked a 34yard field goal and Trevon Stewart returned an interception 29 yards for a touchdown.
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long to increase their lead, as Pablo Arteaga intercepted a Kitchens pass five plays into Center Points ensuing possession and returned the pick-off 52 yards for the touchdown, putting Sabinal ahead 14-0 just 1:18 into the second quarter. With the Pirates unable to sustain any offense, Sabinal extended its lead to 21-0 with 5:24 left in the half, as Vera hit Aguilar with a 15-yard screen pass to cap a 62-yard scoring drive. Center Point showed some life on the ensuing drive, as Kitchens connected with Leitha on a 47-yard pass play to the Jackets’ 11, setting up a 6-yard TD pass from Kitchens to Aaron Walters at 3:56, and Pablo Martinez’s extrapoint cut the Sabinal lead to 21-7.
The last time Texas A&M played Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Johnny Manziel had a career-defining game as the Aggies beat the Crimson Tide 29-24. After getting their revenge in 2013, the Tide host the Aggies for another massive SEC West showdown on Saturday.
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Vera gave the visitors their 21-point halftime lead, however, ending a 75-yard march with a 26-yard TD run with 1:12 remaining in the quarter. The Pirates opened the second half with a five-play scoring drive completed by Kitchens’ 26-yard TD pass to Alan Zendejo, but the extra-point was blocked, leaving Sabinal up 28-13. The Yellowjackets answered with scoring drives capped by a Hernandez 5-yard touchdown run and Juan Aguilera’s 10-yard TD burst, giving Sabinal a 42-13 edge, before Leitha’s 11-yard TD run ended the third quarter and cut the margin 42-19 after the failed 2-point try. Vera capped his night with a 30-yard screen pass TD to Andrew
Guevara just 1:48 into the final 12 minutes, giving Sabinal more than enough cushion to withstand Kitchens’ TD passes of 9 yards to Leitha and 45 yards to Ty Carnes inside the final 5 minutes of play. The penalty-marred contest saw Sabinal flagged 14 times for 110 yards, while the Pirates were hit for 11 penalties for 88 yards. Leitha added 43 rushing yards on six carries for a 237-yard total offensive effort, but Center Point managed just 56 total rushing yards on 14 attempts in the game. Walters punted five times for a 40.2-yard average in the contest, and caught a 2-point conversion pass, while Jerid Gesell added a 2-point run after Carnes’ TD catch for the game’s final points with 1:04 left to play.
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Tivy stat leaders Kendall Bosse - 10 kills, 17 assists, 11 digs Riley Risinger - 10 kills, 3 blocks Merci Perry - 11 assists, 4 aces Anna Beth Burniston - 8 digs At right: Lady Antler Riley Risinger goes for a kill shot against San Marcos.
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CLASS 6A Abilene 30, Odessa Permian 13 Aldine Davis 40, Aldine MacArthur 14 Alief Taylor 45, Fort Bend Kempner 30 Arlington Houston 75, FW Paschal 19 Arlington Lamar 51, Arlington 21 Arlington Martin 33, Arlington Bowie 21 Austin Westlake 49, Buda Hays 7 Beaumont West Brook 33, Baytown Sterling 21 Brownsville Hanna 34, Brownsville Lopez 15 Canyon 37, Hereford 34 CC Carroll 62, CC Ray 42 CC King 29, SA South San Antonio 6 Cedar Hill 42, Grand Prairie 7 Cibolo Steele 45, New Braunfels 10 Colleyville Heritage 45, Hurst Bell 3 Conroe Oak Ridge 20, The Woodlands College Park 13 Coppell 62, N. Richland Hills 7 Cypress Ranch 42, Cypress Ridge 17 Dallas Highland Park 34, Richardson Lake Highlands 7 Dallas Jesuit 51, Irving Nimitz 27 Del Rio 14, Laredo Alexander 7 Del Valle 44, Austin Anderson 24 Denton Guyer 56, Keller Central 27 DeSoto 41, South Grand Prairie 10 Eagle Pass 24, Laredo Johnson 22 Edinburg 17, PSJA Memorial 7 EP Franklin 41, EP Americas 38, OT Fort Bend Austin 17, Alief Hastings 0 Fort Bend Hightower 27, Fort Bend Dulles 13 Galena Park North Shore 35, Deer Park 20 Garland 62, Tyler Lee 54 Garland Lakeview Centennial 30, Garland Naaman Forest 17 Garland Rowlett 35, North Garland 0 Hewitt Midway 66, Copperas Cove 54 Houston Bellaire 56, Houston Westside 28 Houston Chavez 63, Houston Math Science & Technology 6 Houston Langham Creek 55, Cypress Woods 31 Houston Westbury 52, Houston Milby 21 Humble Atascocita 27, Humble Summer Creek 15 Irving 27, Carrollton Turner 14 Irving MacArthur 69, Dallas Sunset 0 Justin Northwest 38, Byron Nelson 36 Katy Seven Lakes 77, Houston Strake Jesuit 33 Keller 21, Keller Timber Creek 6 Killeen 40, Killeen Ellison 14 Klein Collins 42, Klein 25 La Joya Palmview 21, McAllen Rowe 17 La Porte 41, Port Arthur Memorial 35, OT Lake Travis 62, Austin High 6 Laredo United 55, Laredo United South 10 League City Clear Creek 48, Friendswood 21 League City Clear Springs 35, Clear Brook 17 Leander Rouse 30, Round Rock McNeil 10 Lewisville Hebron 37, Lewisville Flower Mound 27 Lewisville Marcus 31, Plano East 12 Los Fresnos 35, Harlingen 23 Manvel 52, Alvin 7 McAllen 41, La Joya Juarez-Lincoln 6 Mesquite 28, Richardson Berkner 7 Mesquite Horn 28, Richardson 7 Midlothian 47, Duncanville 42 Montgomery 30, Spring 26 North Crowley 41, Weatherford 23 Odessa 21, Midland Lee 10 Pasadena 35, Pasadena South Houston 30 Pearland 52, Pasadena Rayburn 7 Pflugerville Hendrickson 21, Pflugerville 6 Plano West 55, Lewisville 22 PSJA North 37, Edinburg Economedes 28 Richardson Pearce 31, North Mesquite 21 Round Rock 49, Round Rock Cedar Ridge 3 Round Rock Stony Point 47, Round Rock Westwood 14 SA Lee 28, SA MacArthur 26 SA Northside Marshall 44, SA Northside Brandeis 13 SA Northside Warren 42, SA Northside Jay 20 SA Reagan 27, SA Churchill 10 SA Southwest 34, SA East Central 16 San Angelo Central 35, Midland 21 Smithson Valley 42, Schertz Clemens 17 Southlake Carroll 10, Euless Trinity 6 Weslaco 62, Edinburg North 10 Wolfforth Frenship 35, Amarillo Tascosa 34 CLASS 5A A&M Consolidated 41, Conroe Caney Creek 0 Aledo 42, Crowley 20 Austin Crockett 55, Austin Lanier 20 Austin McCallum 40, Bastrop 38 Austin Vandegrift 39, Cedar Park 34 Azle 56, FW Chisholm Trail 7 Beaumont Central 35, Beaumont Ozen 14 Brenham 63, Magnolia 24 Bryan 34, Willis 13 Burleson 23, Burleson Centennial 10 Canutillo 52, EP Burges 0 Canyon Randall 56, Amarillo Caprock 36 Carrollton Smith 63, North Dallas 9 CC Flour Bluff 37, Victoria East 10 CC Tuloso-Midway 21, CC Miller 0 Cedar Park Vista Ridge 31, Dripping Springs 7 College Station 48, Huntsville 27 Crosby 41, Dayton 35, OT Denison 42, Sherman 20 Donna 14, PSJA 7, OT El Paso 21, EP Austin 10 El Paso Eastlake 27, EP Parkland 0 Elgin 17, Pflugerville Connally 6 Ennis 30, Tyler 27 EP Andress 66, EP Jefferson 6 EP Chapin 55, EP Irvin 0 EP Del Valle 48, EP Bel Air 3 EP Riverside 40, Clint Horizon 14 Everman 42, Cleburne 7 Floresville 28, Seguin 27, OT Fort Bend Marshall 45, Santa Fe 10 Frisco Lone Star 52, Frisco Heritage 27 Frisco Wakeland 42, Frisco Centennial 41 FW Dunbar 59, FW Carter-Riverside 7 Galveston Ball 21, Fort Bend Willowridge 13 Georgetown East View 45, Georgetown 42 Granbury 33, Joshua 2 Gregory-Portland 27, CC Calallen 24 Houston Madison 65, Houston Austin 0 Humble Kingwood Park 20, New Caney 14 Kerrville Tivy 48, San Marcos 14 Lancaster 55, Mansfield Legacy 40 Laredo Martin 28, SA Southside 21 Lewisville The Colony 19, Frisco Liberty 11 Livingston 26, Bryan Rudder 13 Lockhart 40, SA Kennedy 14 Longview 38, Texarkana Texas 20 Longview Pine Tree 31, Mount Pleasant 29 Lucas Lovejoy 56, Wylie East 28 Lufkin 63, Lindale 28 Lumberton 42, Baytown Lee 21 Manor 52, Waco University 13 Mansfield Lake Ridge 51, Red Oak 14 Mansfield Summit 36, Arlington Seguin 14 Mansfield Timberview 57, Waxahachie 27 Marble Falls 49, Leander 46 Marshall 42, Greenville 17 McKinney North 28, McKinney 16 Mercedes 22, Edcouch-Elsa 19 Mesquite Poteet 55, Royse City 14 Mission Sharyland 28, Roma 6 N. Richland Hills Birdville 63, FW Polytechnic 6 Nederland 35, Port Neches-Groves 28 New Caney Porter 20, Galena Park 7 Plainview 68, Abilene Cooper 63 Port Lavaca Calhoun 28, Rosenberg Terry 21 Richmond Foster 56, Rosenberg Lamar 0 Rockwall-Heath 21, West Mesquite 13 SA Alamo Heights 45, SA Memorial 0 SA Burbank 40, SA Highlands 34 SA Harlandale 28, SA Lanier 17 SA Houston 21, SA Edison 13 Saginaw Boswell 52, White Settlement Brewer 24 Somerset 52, Castroville Medina Valley 22 Sulphur Springs 49, Hallsville 42 Temple 41, Hutto 34 Terrell 42, Forney 27 Texas City 7, Fort Bend Bush 0 Tomball Memorial 57, Magnolia West 49
Uvalde 21, Laredo Nixon 15 Victoria West 33, Alice 13 Vidor 49, Baytown Goose Creek 48 Waller 73, Tomball 36 Whitehouse 38, Corsicana 35 Wichita Falls 34, Saginaw 0 Wylie 44, Prosper 8 CLASS 4A Abilene Wylie 42, Brownwood 7 Alvarado 34, FW Castleberry 14 Andrews 47, San Elizario 8 Anna 37, Bonham 34 Argyle 65, Wilmer-Hutchins 7 Athens 70, Mabank 7 Austin LBJ 55, Bastrop Cedar Creek 17 Bellville 31, Wharton 30 Boerne 38, Fredericksburg 20 Bullard 42, Nevada Community 7 Burnet 45, Robinson 23 Carrollton Ranchview 49, Sanger 31 Carthage 21, Kilgore 7 Celina 52, Bridgeport 6 China Spring 31, Waco La Vega 28 Coldspring-Oakhurst 48, Diboll 7 Crystal City 20, Carrizo Springs 19, OT Decatur 35, Mineral Wells 24 El Campo 36, Stafford 30 EP Hanks 35, EP Ysleta 28 Fabens 7, Clint Mountain View 3 Fairfield 38, Groesbeck 0 Ferris 48, Dallas Lincoln 41 Fort Stockton 31, Pecos 7 Gatesville 38, Lampasas 20 Geronimo Navarro 47, Hondo 0 Giddings 56, Salado 0 Gilmer 70, Canton 0 Gladewater 36, Atlanta 14 Gonzales 42, Rockport-Fulton 14 Graham 65, Burkburnett 20 Henderson 52, Brownsboro 0 Houston Kashmere 38, Houston Worthing 20 Ingleside 45, Jourdanton 8 Iowa Park 38, Bushland 20 Kennedale 71, Lake Worth 0 Kingsville King 21, Zapata 20 Krum 17, Aubrey 0 La Feria 48, Hidalgo 6 La Grange 56, Caldwell 34 La Vernia 51, Beeville Jones 7 Liberty Hill 21, Taylor 17 Little Cypress-Mauriceville 34, Bridge City 7 Lorena 47, Rusk 13 Lubbock Estacado 53, Levelland 33 Madisonville 41, Huntington 7 Melissa 61, Emory Rains 60, OT Mexia 82, Waco Connally 53 Mission Memorial 33, Sharyland Pioneer 19 Monahans 58, Lamesa 13 Navasota 65, Sealy 6 Orange Grove 61, Progreso 0 Pampa 47, Seminole 20 Paris North Lamar 26, Quinlan Ford 18 Pleasanton 42, Robstown 24 Poteet 55, Pearsall 14 Princeton 65, Paris 64 Raymondville 42, CC West Oso 6 Rio Hondo 21, Port Isabel 14 Silsbee 34, Splendora 25 Sour Lake Hardin-Jefferson 54, HamshireFannett 39 Springtown 61, FW Diamond Hill-Jarvis 6 Stephenville 49, Snyder 16 Sweeny 25, Columbus 2 Sweetwater 41, Midland Greenwood 13 Tatum 46, Center 6 Texarkana Liberty-Eylau 28, Pittsburg 20 Tyler Chapel Hill 76, Palestine 36 Van 37, Crandall 6 Venus 65, Dallas Roosevelt 24 Vernon 48, Dalhart 0 West Orange-Stark 42, Orangefield 14 WF Hirschi 20, Gainesville 10 Wimberley 37, Lytle 13 Yoakum 46, Sinton 40, OT CLASS 3A Alba-Golden 60, Grand Saline 13 Amarillo Highland Park 27, Sanford-Fritch 14 Arp 38, Troup 21 Bangs 55, Early 21 Blanco 56, Nixon-Smiley 0 Brady 49, Tuscola Jim Ned 0 Breckenridge 34, Paradise 0 Brock 36, Bowie 26 Brownfield 45, Tornillo 0 Buna 49, Kirbyville 42 Cameron Yoe 42, Troy 3 Childress 37, Dimmitt 7 Cisco 51, Milford 0 Clyde 63, Merkel 6 Coahoma 27, Stanton 20 Coleman 35, Colorado City 7 Comanche 31, McGregor 25, 2OT Comfort 48, SA Cole 9 Cooper 44, Edgewood 22 Corrigan-Camden 52, Hemphill 0 Denver City 61, Kermit 20 Dilley 39, Freer 12 Eastland 42, Holliday 0 Edna 44, Altair Rice 41 El Maton Tidehaven 34, Danbury 21 Eustace 34, Kemp 6 Farmersville 51, Whitesboro 28 Fischer Canyon Lake 37, Bandera 28 Franklin 70, Trinity 0 Frankston 30, New Diana 14 Garrison 43, Deweyville 0 Goliad 47, Mathis 36 Grandview 56, Hillsboro 6 Gunter 52, Whitewright 0 Hallettsville 74, SA Brooks 0 Hebbronville 56, Cotulla 38 Hempstead 48, Vanderbilt Industrial 7 Henrietta 48, Jacksboro 14 Hitchcock 56, Palacios 34 Howe 48, Tom Bean 12 Hughes Springs 48, Hooks 34 Idalou 27, Tulia 13 Ingram Moore 28, Universal City Randolph 26 Jarrell 50, Bruceville-Eddy 22 Jefferson 65, Quitman 0 Karnes City 42, Natalia 7 Kountze 54, Warren 14 Leonard 31, Sadler S&S Consolidated 6 Lexington 49, Buffalo 27 Little River Academy 35, Florence 17 Littlefield 19, Amarillo River Road 7 Lone Oak 69, Paris Chisum 33 Luling 28, Marion 0 Malakoff 49, Elkhart 13 Marlin 36, Dublin 28, 3OT Mount Vernon 7, Winnsboro 0 Muleshoe 48, Friona 0 New Boston 42, Redwater 20 New Waverly 29, Hearne 12 Newton 55, Crockett 19 Odem 52, Skidmore-Tynan 7 Omaha Pewitt 21, Queen City 6 Palmer 44, Blooming Grove 39 Pattonville Prairiland 42, Daingerfield 30 Pilot Point 49, Van Alstyne 48 Post 32, Ballinger 0 Pottsboro 42, Callisburg 6 Red Oak Life 38, Commerce 25 Rice 28, Rio Vista 6 Rockdale 33, Lago Vista 21 Rogers 37, Clifton 6 San Diego 43, Lyford 15 Santa Rosa 27, Falfurrias 7 Shallowater 44, Slaton 0 Sonora 48, Crane 29 Spearman 61, Lubbock Roosevelt 21 Stockdale 15, Poth 14Stratford 48, Panhandle 14 Sunnyvale 56, Dallas Life Oak Cliff 14 Taft 30, Banquete 26 Teague 63, Palestine Westwood 19 Waskom 56, Winona 6 WF City View 47, Nocona 7 White Oak 49, Gladewater Sabine 7 Whitney 58, West 28 Woodville 28, Anahuac 7
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Banister home as Rangers manager
Five-day forecast From the National Weather Service, www.srh.noaa.gov
Sunday
Monday
Mostly cloudy High: 77 Low: 59
Partly sunny High: 79 Low: 56
Tuesday
Wednesday
Partly sunny High: 80 Low: 54
Mostly sunny High: 80 Low: 54
Mostly sunny Light and variable wind High: 80 Low: 59
Almanac High/Low (yesterday)............................................................................................... 84/61 Average High/Low..................................................................................................... 77/51 Rainfall (yesterday) ................................................................................................... 0.00” Rainfall year to date................................................................................................... 17.56” Average rainfall to date............................................................................................ 22.97”
Dr. Doppler’s forecast
Expect moisture in the air soon A weak frontal boundary will be Low clouds develop overnight and draped across South Central Texas we have a slight chance for drizzle and the Hill Country area through or light rain by daybreak Sunday Saturday. The front will wash morning. East-southeast winds out and moisture levels should average 5 to 10 mph. be noticeably higher. Rain Sunday remains partly to chances are slim, but we do mostly cloudy with isolated have at least a slight chance showers and thunderstorms for showers on Sunday possible, mainly to our and Monday. south and west. Highs Low clouds start likely hold in the 70s. the day off Saturday East-southeast winds ➤ Cary Burgess continue at 5 to 15 mph. with areas of patchy fog Dr. Doppler possible. Skies become Mostly cloudy skies partly cloudy during the return Sunday night with midday hours. Humidity levels will be an isolated shower threat. Fog and higher. Daytime highs climb into the drizzle may develop overnight. Lows lower 80s. Winds become east at 5 to range from 55 to 60 degrees. 10 mph during the afternoon hours. Mostly cloudy skies continue After a week of comfortable Monday with isolated showers and morning low temperatures for this thunderstorms possible. Highs top time of the year, we can expect out in the 75 to 80 degree range. humid conditions at night Saturday. Cary Burgess is a certified broadcast Low temperatures only fall into meteorologist. Visit his website, www.drdoppler.net. the lower to middle 60s areawide.
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Guadalupe River
Middle Trinity Aquifer August reading
Change from previous month
1,371.7 ft. - 8.5 ft.
Guadalupe River Flow (Daily reading).....................................................28 cfs Water Consumption Oct. 10 City of Kerrville ......................... 3.1 million gallons
Stage 2 Water Conservation: Automatic and hose-end sprinklers and soaker hoses are allowed 6-9 a.m. and 8-10 p.m. Tuesday and Saturday for odd-numbered addresses, Wednesday and Sunday for even addresses. Watering with hand-held hose with nozzle, drip irrigation and bucket is allowed 7 p.m.-9 a.m. every day. For information, visit www.kerrville.org. Check the bacteria levels at your favorite swimming holes: http://ugra.org/swimability.html
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National temperatures Friday Temperatures indicate Friday’s high and overnight low to 8 a.m. Eastern Time. Hi Albany,N.Y. 63 Albuquerque 64 Amarillo 57 Anchorage 39 Asheville 81 Atlanta 86 Atlantic City 61 Austin 93 Baltimore 61 Billings 67 Birmingham 86 Bismarck 62 Boise 72 Boston 63 Brownsville 90 Buffalo 56 Burlington,Vt. 58 Casper 68 Charleston,S.C. 87 Charleston,W.Va. 58 Charlotte,N.C. 84 Cheyenne 52 Chicago 58 Cincinnati 57 Cleveland 59 Columbia,S.C. 88 Columbus,Ohio 60 Concord,N.H. 62 Dallas-Ft Worth 92 Dayton 56 Denver 58 Des Moines 57 Detroit 59 Duluth 45 El Paso 80 Evansville 59 Fairbanks 34 Fargo 58 Flagstaff 70 Grand Rapids 59 Great Falls 70 Greensboro,N.C. 84 Hartford Spgfld 65 Helena 71 Honolulu 89 Houston 90 Indianapolis 52 Jackson,Miss. 89 Jacksonville 87 Juneau 53 Kansas City 54 Key West 88
Lo Prc Otlk 38 Cldy 55 .03 PCldy 53 .03 PCldy 34 .09 Rain 58 Cldy 66 Cldy 47 Rain 73 Rain 55 Rain 39 PCldy 68 Cldy 21 Clr 47 PCldy 51 Rain 78 Cldy 43 PCldy 41 Cldy 32 PCldy 62 PCldy 53 .15 Cldy 60 Cldy 44 Clr 41 PCldy 53 .63 Cldy 37 Cldy 65 .56 PCldy 49 .04 PCldy 30 Cldy 74 Rain 48 .05 PCldy 48 .22 PCldy 43 Clr 39 Clr 32 Clr 60 PCldy 57 .32 Cldy 25 Cldy 25 Clr 43 Clr 34 Clr 37 Clr 57 .24 Rain 41 Rain 38 Clr 77 .01 Cldy 75 Cldy 49 .01 PCldy 74 Cldy 65 PCldy 51 1.39 Rain 50 .63 PCldy 80 Cldy
Las Vegas 90 Little Rock 86 Los Angeles 79 Louisville 61 Lubbock 65 Memphis 85 Miami Beach 88 Midland-Odessa 85 Milwaukee 54 Mpls-St Paul 53 Nashville 71 New Orleans 89 New York City 64 Norfolk,Va. 83 North Platte 59 Oklahoma City 72 Omaha 56 Orlando 90 Pendleton 80 Philadelphia 61 Phoenix 89 Pittsburgh 59 Portland,Maine 64 Portland,Ore. 71 Providence 63 Raleigh-Durham 84 Rapid City 63 Reno 79 Richmond 78 Sacramento 86 St Louis 56 St Petersburg 88 Salt Lake City 74 San Antonio 94 San Diego 76 San Francisco 69 San Juan,P.R. 89 Santa Fe 54 St Ste Marie 48 Seattle 65 Shreveport 90 Sioux Falls 57 Spokane 72 Syracuse 60 Tampa 90 Topeka 54 Tucson 84 Tulsa 68 Washington,D.C. 64 Wichita 55 Wilkes-Barre 62 Wilmington,Del. 61
68 Clr 67 Rain 64 PCldy 57 .48 Cldy 59 Cldy 71 Rain 76 .01 PCldy 66 Cldy 40 Clr 35 Clr 66 1.42 Rain 74 .36 PCldy 52 Rain 58 Cldy 45 Clr 68 .40 Cldy 43 Clr 72 PCldy 47 Cldy 53 Rain 69 Clr 43 PCldy 42 Cldy 51 Rain 44 Rain 58 Rain 37 PCldy 46 Clr 56 .78 Rain 56 Clr 55 .81 Cldy 76 Clr 49 PCldy 77 Rain 66 PCldy 60 PCldy 78 .18 Clr 49 .26 PCldy 43 PCldy 50 Rain 70 Rain 29 Clr 47 Cldy 41 Cldy 72 Clr 51 .53 PCldy 62 Clr 65 1.17 Cldy 63 .03 Rain 55 .52 Cldy 39 Cldy 50 Rain
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cifics on plans for his staff. “It’s a process that all of us are going through at this time,” Banister said. “Out of respect for the process, I will just leave it that we have had some conversations.” Banister was born in Oklahoma, but went to high school, junior college and college in Texas before getting drafted in the 25th round by the Pirates in 1986. The Rangers believe he is the first manager in club history to attend high school or college in the state. While in high school in 1980, Banister had seven operations on his left ankle and leg for bone cancer and an infection of the bone or bone marrow. The temporary paralysis happened while playing for Baytown Junior College in 1983. “The impact is I don’t take any day for granted. When I wake up every morning and put my feet on the floor or I sit up in the bed, I thank God I have another day,” said Banister, the son of two educators. “I understand perseverance, I understand what hard work means, that pain is one of those things we’re given to let us know we’re alive from time to time.” Banister said much of his passion for the game stems from nights in a hospital bed when he couldn’t get up, but could dream and think and challenge himself that he would play again. “It gave me joy in a time when there was no joy,” he said. “That burning desire, that internal fire that burns inside of me to have success to pass on, to push forward, was melded a long time ago in a couple of different hospitals.” His coaching career began as a player-coach with Double-A Carolina in 1993, and his first managerial job was in the New York-Penn League in 1994. He had a 299-330 record in five seasons as a minor league manager, before serving as field coordinator for the Pirates from 1999-2002 and then as the club’s minor league field coordinator for eight years after that. In 515 games in Pittsburgh’s minor league system from 1986-93, he was a .247 hitter. In his only major league appearance, he got a hit on July 23, 1991, and the most emotional he got Friday was when he was asked about that. “There are a group of people
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Tony Gutierrez/AP photo Texas Rangers President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Jon Daniels, left, hugs newly hired manager Jeff Banister after presenting Banister with his team jersey at a news conference on Friday. who prop you up and take care of you, try to motivate you on a daily basis — it’s tough to be motivated,” he said. “To be able to walk into a major league game when everybody told you that you couldn’t, you shouldn’t, you
wouldn’t ... now you get an opportunity to do it, it happens, you’re on top of the mountain for one day, one moment in time and you carry those people with you, it’s the best ‘thank you’ that you can give. That’s what it meant.”
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jeff Banister is a baseball lifer who calls Texas home. He grew up there and played his entire amateur career there before getting drafted. Now the former catcher who got a pinch-hit single in his only major league at-bat, who was temporarily paralyzed from the neck down after a home-plate collision in junior college and who overcame bone cancer with multiple surgeries in high school is a big-league manager in the Lone Star State. Banister was introduced Friday as the new manager of the Texas Rangers after 29 years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization as a player, coach and instructor at all levels. “The best opportunities to come along are the ones you’re not looking for,” Banister said. “Have I prepared myself for this opportunity? Yeah, from the day that I stopped playing until now, I’ve truly dreamed and wanted to and tried to. I got to a point in my life that I told myself that I wasn’t going to chase it. If it happened, it happened.” The 50-year-old Banister, who lives in the Houston area, was the bench coach the past four seasons for Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, whose only season as the Rangers’ hitting coach was when they went to their first World Series in 2010. Banister’s introduction came six weeks after manager Ron Washington’s resignation for personal reasons. Texas gave Banister a threeyear contract with an option for a fourth season. The injury-ravaged Rangers are coming off a 67-95 season, their worst since 1985, after reaching the World Series in 2010-2011 and becoming a trendy postseason pick each year. Banister got the job ahead of two other finalists, interim manager Tim Bogar and Cleveland Indians bullpen coach Kevin Cash. Another of the eight candidates interviewed for the job was Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux, who Banister met with Friday morning. He has also spoken with Bogar, the Rangers first-year bench coach who went 14-8 as interim manager, and hitting coach Dave Magadan. He didn’t get into speGranite • Washed Gravel
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Kerrville Hills Winery is serving up something special for Halloween — a perfect blend of wine, fine dining and murder. Read about it in
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Amy Coward, a certified herbalist and registered nurse, cofacilitates a class on how to create holistic and animal cruelty-free products. Each year in the U.S. tens of thousands of dogs, 96 percent of them beagles, more than 24,000 cats, 57,000 pigs and thousands of other animals are used in research projects.
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very day in the United States, tens of thousands of dogs are used for medical and other research projects, with more than 25,000 subjected to painful experiments, according to American Inside Anti-Vivisection Society — the oldest nonprofit animal advocacy ➤ Recipes: Learn how and educational organization in the to make herbal lip balm, United States dedicated to ending all-natural mouthwash and experimentation on animals in more. research, testing and education. See page 3C Even one dog is too many, said Amy Coward and Sally Garrett, certified herbalists and community educators, who conduct workshops that help residents create animal cruelty-free products. “I began seeking cruelty-free cosmetics back in the ’90s, when I became aware of the animal testing done by most large brand companies. It felt overwhelmingly sad,” said Garrett, who has two rescue birds, Bart, an eclectus, and Yarrow, an Alexandrian ring-necked parakeet, and three rescue cats. “Yet I believe that we, as a culture, can create new ways of ensuring product safety without harming or killing other creatures, in the manor currently going on. For me, I saw that one small, but cumulative, way that I could exert my influence on this kind of change was to vote with my dollar and choose my products from cruelty-free sources.” Kevin Chase, director of operations for the nonprofit Beagle Freedom Project, said the herbal duo’s efforts “are very much appreciated.”
Donna Gable Hatch/Features Editor, donna.hatch@dailytimes.com Above: Certified herbalist Sally Garrett mixes a batch of organic lip balm, one of many products that can be made at home, thereby ensuring the product is animal cruelty-free. Right: From left, E. L. “Junior” Hilburn Jr. and Pam Winter watch as Zada Eastwood works with all-natural products to create an animal-cruelty free lip balm. “More than 65,000 dogs are captives in labs nationwide, 96 percent of them beagles,” Chase said. Dogs often are used in the research of heart and lung conditions, See Animals, page 2C
‘The Christmas Foundling’ to open Nov. 21 From Staff Reports INGRAM — The Hill Country Arts Foundation’s Point Theatre concludes its 2014 season with the heart-warming holiday play, “The Christmas Foundling,” which opens Nov. 21 in the Elizabeth Huth-Coates Indoor Theatre, 120 Point Theatre Road. Set in the California gold rush of the 1840s, “The Christmas Foundling” is the story of a team of grizzled prospectors whose lives are turned upside down when a mysterious pregnant woman
collapses on their doorstep. When this unknown mother dies in childbirth, these unprepared surrogate fathers decide to raise the newborn baby boy themselves, forming an unlikely family. Years pass, and this strange new family is threatened one Christmas when a long lost relative comes to claim the young boy. The Point Theatre’s production is headed by local theater veteran and Ingram Tom Moore theater director Holly Reidel. Reidel already has assembled her cast, which theater insiders refer to
as “talented, diverse and fun to watch.” Tom, the 10-year-old orphan boy who is at the center of the story, will be portrayed by Austin Fairchild, an Ingram middleschooler who is new to the stage. Local artist/musician/educator Tony Gallucci plays Old Joe, the show’s narrator and balladeer. Ken DeZarn, fresh from his role as King Duncan in “Macbeth,” plays Joe’s brother Old Jake, the father See Play, page 3C
Marc Benno to perform Grammy-winning musician Marc Benno and Kat’s Karavan Band will perform Friday at Pampell’s, 701 Water St. Benno, who has performed with Eric Clapton, Jim Morrison, Leon Russell, Boz Scaggs and Stevie Ray Vaughan, recently released his autobiography, “Hollywood Texas.”
At a glance ➤ What: “The Christmas Foundling” ➤ Where: Elizabeth Huth Coates Theatre, 120 Point Theatre Road, Ingram ➤ When: 7:30 p.m. FridaySaturday and Dec. 3 and 2 p.m. Nov. 23 ➤ Tickets: $20 adults, $12 ages 12 and younger, and group rates are available ➤ Info: Call 367-5121 or visit the theater’s website at www.hcaf.com
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➤ Harvest Dance
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Johnny Mac, Mark Jackson perform Saturday
Harvest Dance benefits St. Vincent de Paul
Kerr County Fair Parade set for Oct. 25
HUNT — Johnny Mac and Mark Jackson join Larry and The River Rats on stage from 6:30 to 11:55 p.m. today (Saturday) at the Lazy Days Canteen at Roddy Tree Ranch, 820 Texas 39. The event, Forever Furbush, is an annual event to celebrate the life and times of Steve Furbush, a longtime Hunt Independent School District teacher and athletic coach who died battling cancer in 2009. The event will be MC’d by Jeff Bradbury. For more information, call 367-2871 or visit roddytree.com.
A Harvest Dance from 6 to 10 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Elks Lodge, 1907 Junction Highway, benefits the St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank. The event features entertainment by Reuben Darnell, Dave Kemp and Laurie Gibson, among others, and also includes a full bar provided by the Elks Lodge. Tickets are $10 per person and are available at the Elks Lodge, Melody Corner, 604 Junction Highway, St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store, 1145 Broadway and by calling Darnell at 377-6724. Non-perishable food donations and monetary donations for the food bank will also be accepted at the dance.
The Kerr County Fair parade will take place at 10 a.m. Oct. 25. Check-in is at 8 a.m. at Water and G streets. Judging is at 9 a.m. The parade will travel from G Street to Earl Garrett Street, turn right and proceed to intersection of North and Earl Garrett. There are several good locations along the parade route for viewing. For more information, visit www.kerrcountyfair.com.
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Animals | continued from page 1C cancer and other medical issues, as well as toxicity studies to test human drugs, industrial chemicals and other products, he said. “Companies and individuals that create their own natural products are doing the earth and the animals a big favor. So many cleaners and cosmetics contain carcinogenic, corrosive, pollutionintensive and toxic ingredients,” Chase said. “By including these poisons in their products, many companies thereby condemn many animals to a torturous death being poisoned with them during their “research” and the chemicals are sourced from environmentally damaging petrochemicals.” Kerrville resident Maya Christeson, who took part in Coward and Garrett’s series of classes this summer, said no animals should be used for research, and she’s going to take what she learned in class to do her part to not support companies that conduct animal testing. “As I learn more about the inhumane treatment of animals used in testing, I understand that this process is cruel and unnecessary,” said Christeson, who shares her life with two sibling, male Bengal cats, Rocket and Sonic. “I like knowing I can now make my own skin care products without all those unpronounceable ingredients that do who knows what to your system. I’m also learning that many frequently-used ingredients in all kinds of products are sometimes toxic to us. ... Companies should utilize ingredients in their products that are safe to begin with, so this step
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of testing the products on animals can be completely eliminated.” Spring Branch resident Deborah Duke Hawkins — who has eight dogs, six chickens and a cat — said making and buying cruelty-free products is “extremely important” to her. The class, Hawkins said, “confirmed the infinite possibilities for healthfulness that are based on one’s own preventive responsibility.” Kerrville resident E.L. “Junior” Hilburn Jr., agreed. “It’s very important to look for products that are not tested on animals,” Hilburn said. “I certainly will be more diligent in making sure the products I purchase or use have not been tested on animals.” About the Beagle Freedom Project The mission of the nonprofit, founded in 2010, is to rescue beagles used in animal experimentation in research laboratories. In July, the California-based organization removed seven beagles from a testing laboratory on the Texas/Mexico border — the first such rescue the organization carried out in Texas. Since its inception, the Beagle Freedom Project has rescued 210 beagles, 12 mixed-breed dogs, 18 rabbits, 10 foals, seven cats, four pigs, one rat and even two goldfish
Want to know more? ➤ For more information about the Beagle Freedom Project and to download the CrueltyCutter app, visit www. beaglefreedomproject.org ➤ To contact Sally Garrett, email sally@ earthlightenergies.com ➤ To contact Amy Coward, email greenspiritherbs@ gmail.com from laboratories across the U.S., Europe and Mexico, Chase said. “These animals have been placed in homes in 28 U.S. states and four countries, where they are living reminders of the reality of animal testing and an inspiration for proactive cruelty-free lifestyle choices.” The Beagle Foundation makes it easy for consumers to check and make sure products found on store shelves are cruelty-free through its Cruelty-Cutter smart-phone app. “The app allows a shopper to simply scan the barcode of a product — cosmetics, health and beauty, home cleaning supplies, perfumes, etcetera — and a determination immediately comes back indicating if the product was tested on animals or not,”
Chase said. “The app gives the shopper not only this important information, but public actions to take. If the product was tested on animals, the user can send a quick email of protest to the company and socially share their decision to boycott the product and why. If the product is cruelty-free, the user can socially share (and brag) that they are choosing to shop with compassion.” Coward and Garrett make many of their own products, and they encourage people to do the same, but they also shop for certain brands that have a reputation for cruelty-free production. Garrett said she downloaded the Beagle Foundation’s app to ensure what companies declare is true. “Sadly, almost all prepared essential oils are tested on animals. I have not been able to find one essential oil that is not tested on animals,” Garrett said. Garrett said people can make a conscious decision to check and make sure products they purchase are animal cruelty-free — or better yet, make their own. “If you enjoy cooking, you’ll probably really enjoy making your own body care and other products,” Garrett said.
Shannon Keith, president and founder of the Beagle Freedom Project, off-loads a beagle rescued from a research facility. Keith founded the nonprofit in December 2010. Courtesy photo
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donna.hatch@dailytimes.com Certified herbalists Sally Garrett and Amy Coward, an emergency room RN and founder of Green Spirit Herbs, have long known about the healing properties and health benefits of all-natural products. They share their love of Mother Nature’s infinite bounty with others through a series of classes and workshops, some of which are conducted at the Riverside Nature Center, 150 Francisco Lemos St., where, in 2012, Coward founded the Native Herbal Garden. The duo co-facilitated a class this summer that put the focus on making common household and beauty products that are not only all-natural but which also are animal cruelty-free. The holistic teachers share some of their recipes below:
Natural mouthwash Ingredients 1 cup hydrogen peroxide 1 cup distilled water 1 teaspoon xylitol 2-5 drops high quality oil of Thieves Directions Add ingredients to appropriate bottle, and shake vigorously. Label and use as over the counter mouthwash. (Note: Only use food grade essential oils internally).
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pan of water on burner. Remove when beeswax is fully melted. Add vitamin E oil and essential oil, if desired, and stir well. They both offer a natural preservative along with healing properties. Pour into tube or tin and allow to cool completely, approximately 30 minutes. A lip balm kit with tubes and a drip tray can be ordered from supply companies.
Mom’s make-up remover Ingredients 1 cup distilled water 1.5 tablespoons of Burt’s Bee’s Baby Bee shampoo and wash ( no animal testing) 1/8 teaspoon of olive oil About 50 round cotton rounds Small jar
with tight lid, and shake well. Stack cotton rounds in jar and moisten with liquid. This recipe removes all make-up, including mascara.
Green household cleaner Ingredients 1 quart white vinegar 60 drops (3 droppers) of your choice of 3 of the following essential oils: lavender, spearmint, eucalyptus, rosemary, pine or cinnamon Directions Store this mixture as a concentrated solution. Add 1 part solution to 3 parts water for a spray bottle or mop bucket. The cleaner is effective on most surfaces.
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