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Service now requires a permit for canoeists or other Rio Grande floaters. You can no longer just put your craft in anywhere and start paddling. Guides are also now available. Things are enjoyably different floating and paddling, these days. Parks and Wildlife gets the credit for leasing 22 access points along popular canoeing and kayaking streams. Some require fees, but they’re reasonable. Readers can find a map and short description on the TPWD website. Click on https://tpwd. texas.gov and put “River Access” in the “Search block”. Designation of the Texas Paddling Trails has also simplified and expedited planning and floating without breaking the law or encountering the authorities. John Boros is TPWD’s River Access honcho and told me there are now 141 access sites combined among the inland and coastal trails! “We also partner with communities for inland and coastal access points via the Texas Paddling Trails Program (TPT)” Boros said. “These access points are usually located at county or city parks or at feasible road crossings.” The Paddling Trails have been around a while and take a lot of mystery out of planning a trip. It’s not like Burt Reynolds and his three friends sitting around a topographic map wondering what that South Caroline/ Geogia river looked like from the water they were planning to float in the movie “Deliverance.” And the hillbillies from their adventure are nothing to worry about, either.
Kayaks or canoes are the best crafts to negotiate a Hill Country river, like the San Saba, pictured here. And seeing Texas from the water shows scenes you can’t see any other way. Nobody else besides our small group was on the river all day long. Photo by John Jefferson.
Where’s My Phone!
Richard has a mobile phone and a regular landline home phone. He told me to always call his mobile phone. So I wondered why he still paid to have his home phone. Richard said, “It only costs a few dollars a month and I need it to call my mobile phone when I can’t find it!”
“Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Keep a prayer handy, and you will always find God.
Danny R. Biddy, Chaplain: Chambers County Sheriff’s Office & Fellowship of Christian Cowboys
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Disclaimer: This column is the opinion of Publisher Wade A. Thibodeaux and may contain subject matter on a variety of topics, but usually contains humor of some description. An occasional serious thought may be thrown in to entice the reader to think.
WAW......No, I didn’t misspell that. It’s supposed to be WAW. It stands for What A Weekend. Actually, my weekend started on Thursday evening with the Walker County Fair parade that wound its way through Downtown Huntsville. We will have coverage of the parade in next week’s paper because we just had too much stuff for this week’s paper and that was mostly because of the rest of my weekend activities. Friday during the day was pretty slow and I should have used that time for resting in preparation for the activities of the next few days, but I didn’t. Friday evening started off with me attending a tremendous chicken fried steak dinner that was a scholarship fundraiser event and then that was followed by a fantastic rodeo at the Walker County Fairgrounds. A smart person would have gone home after the rodeo performance, but Noooooooo. I had to stay for the kickoff dance which featured a George Strait look and sound alike. This guy was pretty good and I was asked if I thought that it was a recording and he was lip singing, but I listened and could tell slight differences and I believe that he was just that good. The singing was not the problem.......the problem was that I knew the words to every song he sang because they were all George songs and I felt compelled to dance to a bunch of them. I danced more on Friday night than I think I have in the last three years combined. Saturday morning I had to be up fairly early and catch the Wynne Home Herb Festival and I swear that I told my legs to move, but nothing happened. That was probably a good thing because when they did decide to move, I found about six hundred muscles that I didn’t even know that I had. I was so sore that it took me several minutes to get from the bedroom to the shower and my house is not that large, in fact it was just the room next to my bedroom. I finally got going and caught a couple of events that morning and then headed out to the Fairgrounds to catch the crowning of the 2022 Walker County Fair Queen before I headed over to some friends for some crawfish. These friends host this really cool event called a fly in and basically, people from all over fly their planes in and spend the day eating crawfish and swapping stories. They have a really cool Easter egg drop from the airplanes for all of the little ones that line the airstrip in anticipation of the plastic eggs falling out of the sky. The weather was perfect and the food and hospitality were wonderful and I don’t know what I did to get an invite, but I sure appreciated it and had a really great time. I left there and went back to the Fairgrounds for the second night’s performance of the rodeo and then dropped in on the Tejano music that was playing inside the main building on the fairgrounds. Sunday, I was at least able to sleep in a little and then I attended the dedication of the Vietnam Wall Memorial at the Veterans Museum. We have reported on this wall for quite a while now and basically it’s an 80 percent replica of the Wall in Washington D.C. This was a project that took thousands of dollars in donations and countless hours of volunteer work to get this to completion, but it is worth every bit of the time and effort that went into this project. The weather was absolutely gorgeous and the crowd was huge. I have been doing this publishing thing for over 30 years and consequently have attended a lot of ceremonies, but this one ranks right up in the top. The emotions were all over the place that day as some were happy that the project was completed and the Museum was able to bring such a project to Huntsville and others would wipe away tears as they found a particular name on the wall out of the 58,000 plus. I missed Vietnam as I was just a pup, but I have several friends that served and have heard way too many memories of the events that took place during that era. It hadn’t completely sunk into my mind until I heard someone utter the comment that with this dedication comes the fact that this is now hallowed ground for those that made the ultimate sacrifice. It was a perfect end to a really great weekend and if you get the chance, venture by the Veterans Museum and take some time to reflect in front of that wall. We sometimes forget that we live in the greatest Country on Earth, but freedom is not free and some gave all so that the rest of us could enjoy our freedoms. Till next time, I’m ..........Wade in the Shade.
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