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City, BISD targetlegislative goals

As the State’s 86th legis-lative session gaveled into business last Tuesday, the Boerne City Council voted for a plan of action destined for Austin..

Simply put, “the City of Boerne supports legislation that would positively affect finance, governance, prop-erty/zoning, transportation and safety decisions at the local level,” communications director Pamela Bransford said.

“The city opposes legis-lation that would affect the authority of Boerne to gov-ern its own affairs, including the imposition of unfunded mandates; the preemption of city charter provisions; fur-ther restrictions on municipal annexation authority; the imposition of revenue caps as well as any efforts that substantially erode the city tax base/revenue stream,” she added.

The city council voted to join the cities of Fredericks-burg and New Braunfels in submitting a combined resolution as well, and dis-cussed the need for local citizens to be aware of the need to contact legislative representatives.

The topic of local control also came up during Monday night’s Boerne Indepen-dent School District board meeting, when Rich Sena reported that the district’s legislative goal is to “assist in creating an adequate and equitable school finance sys-tem for all Texas K-12 public school students.”

Sena went on to say that legislative priorities include transparency in funding and tax revenue, as well as the manner in which “Robin Hood” had deprived local property taxpayers of about 14 percent of their money.

A graph used by Sena, showed that in 2008 state money funded 44 percent of K-12 education, with district property taxes shouldering 40 percent of the load.

By 2020 the burden of dis-trict property taxpayers will have increased to 56 per-cent with appropriated State

funds responsible for 34 percent.

Sena said that in coopera-tion with other Hill Country districts, Rep. Kyle Bieder-mann filed House Bill 729 last week.

“HB 729 is a request for the restoration of fairness in our school financing system,” Sena said. “Many school districts, after paying Robin Hood, are at a significant financial disadvantage when compared to other districts in the state. For example, Boerne ISD receives $400 less per weighted student than the state average. This is a significant shortfall after allowances have already been made for challenging student demographics. This legislation will maintain the weighted system while bringing fairness.”

A press release from Biedermann’s office summa-rized the bill in this way: “(The bill) will limit recap-ture, allowing Robin Hood schools to keep at least the state average per student.”

“There is a rationale for Robin Hood,” Sena added, “but I think the pendulum has swung too far.”

“As the 86th Texas Leg-islative Session begins we believe it is of the utmost importance to monitor and track legislation that may affect local government both positively and negatively, said City Attorney Molly Solis. “During the previous Texas Legislative Session, we determined that creation of a legislative plan would be in the best interest of the city. ”.

Sena urged fellow school board members to continue calling local representa-tives. In a later comment, he encouraged all constituents to get involved.

“Elected officials listen when a significant number of their district’s residents advocate for a particular issue,” Sena said. “If we want to have any relief from the current inequitable school financing system, our residents have to make their voices heard.”

To see HB 729 in its entirety, go to: capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?-LegSess=86R&Bill=HB729

A quick start to 2019’s first Boerne ISD trust-ees meeting saw board members congratulating Luke Fox of Boerne Mid-dle School North for his state-level VFW Patriot Pen essay win. Not only was Fox awarded $2,000, but his entry will com-pete at the national level, where his teacher, Todd Rust, predicts that Fox has a great chance of being a stand-out.

Elizabeth Wolff of Boerne High School also enjoyed a VFW win. Wolff was awarded $1,000 along with the title of Citizen-ship Teacher of the Year. She too will advance to the national level.

Early in Monday night’s meeting, Trustee Maritza Gonzalez-Cooper introduced Dr. Heberto Hinojosa as principal of the soon-to-open Voss

Middle School. In August, Hinojosa, currently prin-cipal at Fabra Elementary, will be joined by Mat-thew Myers, now assistant principal at BMS South, as assistant principal, and by Steve Peña, also from BMSS, as head coach.

Tanya Tate, this year’s principal at Curington Elementary, will assume the position of principal at the new Herff Elementary.

Tommy Hungate, cur-rently principal of BMSS, was named director of human resources.

“We’re delighted that a person with Tommy Hungate’s experience and leadership skills is taking over the role of recruiting and retaining top quality teachers for our commu-nity and assisting in the leadership development of our campuses,” Trustee Rich Sena later said.

Superintendent Thomas Price explained Hun-gate’s transfer, saying, “One of the recommenda-tions made by TASB last

year was to have some-one in recruitment and retention.”

According to Price, the district couldn’t afford to fill such a position at the time. However, he went on to explain, “We shouldn’t just wait for tal-ent to come to us - we need to go out and we need to compete.”

Price also emphasized that transitioning admin-istrators would not happen until the conclusion of this school term.

“The priority for us is finishing up the year – our students at the affected campuses deserve that,” Price said.

Jocelyn Durand, district director of com-munications, announced that because January is School Board Recognition Month, a Monterrey oak had been planted in honor of the trustees. As Durand thanked the board mem-bers for their work, those in the audience applauded in a standing ovation.

BY ELENA TUCKER■ Staff Writer elena@boernestar.com

BISD reveals awards, promotions

Star photo by Robert Moseley

Mayor Mike Schultz kicks off his final State of the City address to the Boerne Chamber of Commerce Thursday by displaying the headline in an issue of the San Antonio Express-News: “Boerne is booming” – from 1995. He described how Boerne has indeed boomed in his eight years as mayor. See Tuesday’s Boerne Star for the full details.

First pitched to the City of Boerne in 2016, Water Control and Improvement District No. 3 is a contro-versial entity that will be approved or denied during Tuesday evening’s city council meeting.

WCID No. 3 is being sought by Boernebak II, an affiliate of San Antonio’s BakkeDevelopment, which has developed apartments in Austin, storage facilities in San Antonio, and two commercial strip centers in Boerne: Menger Crossing and Menger Creek South.

To the uninitiated, WCID No. 3 might be confused with the area’s other fre-quently mentioned “water district” – the Cow Creek Water Conservation District, however the two only share

only two words ion com-mon, water and district.

Micah Voulgaris, manager of Cow Creek, said that water conservation districts such as the one he directs are tasked with oversight of water use while WCIDs are created to furnish water.

“We’re a district created by the legislature to regulate,” Voulgaris said. “WCIDs are districts created by the leg-islature to provide utilities.”

Boerne Councilmember Tim Handren concedes that many people don’t under-stand the function of a WCID. “When I got on City Council a year ago, I didn’t know what it was,” Handren said.

Approval of WCID No. 3 would pave the way for the construction of more than 2,400 new homes on over 1,000 acres near the inter-section of Upper Balcones Road and I-10.

According to Handren,

since Boerne is the closest municipality, city coun-cil is obligated to make a decision for or against the proposed WCID on Tues-day. Handren says he is “completely opposed” to WCID No. 3.

In a recent Facebook post addressing WCID No. 3, Handren wrote, “What does that mean to you? It means there could be another sev-eral hundred houses being built in a subdivision off Scenic Loop Rd, just out-side of our city limits. And the density of those houses cannot be managed nor controlled by the City of Boerne. It’s the type of ‘unmanaged’ growth that so many people are unhappy with.”

For a lengthier explanation read a 2018 press release from the city: http://www.ci.boerne.tx.us/…/10079/WCID-No-3-combined-for-w…

City sets final vote on WCIDBISD unveils strategic plan

The results of a strategic plan, created in a process that began early last year, were presented to the Boerne ISD school board Monday night by Assis-tant Superintendent Ashley Stewart.

The plan highlights the district’s 15 core “beliefs” with such statements as “all students have talents and gifts and deserve the high-est quality education” and and “all students must be post-high school ready to enter the workforce and/or higher education.”

“We continue to use the wisdom of the crowd,” said District Superintendent Thomas Price.. “Depend-ing on the objective, we will involve our teachers,

administrators, and other staff members to implement committees to determine next steps. An important element of this is to make sure our teachers (who are the true educational experts) have a say in mak-ing the strategic plan come to life.”

The plan also showcases action plans made up of statements such as:

• Create and maintain a comprehensive support system for all BISD staff that is relevant to individual roles and personal growth, and that supports student success.

• Collect, analyze, publish and respond to an ongoing collection of decision-mak-ing data.

• Construct a commu-nications pathway to educate BISD stakeholders with transparent financial information.

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Ruth ‘Ann’ BalcerAug. 26, 1934 - Jan. 10, 2019

Ruth “Ann” Balcer, 84, of Fair Oaks Ranch, passed away peacefully on Thurs-day, Jan. 10, 2019, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. A small graveside service at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery will be held at a later date.

Ann was born on Aug. 26, 1934, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Samuel E. Loy, Jr. and Wahlelle Parks Loy. She graduated from Will Rogers High School in Tulsa and Oklahoma State University where she earned a degree in accounting and was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. Ann married Bob Butler in the summer of 1956 and together they welcomed a son, Robert, and a daughter, Dianne. Ann worked as a Certified Public Accountant for many years.

In October 1977, Ann was introduced to Raymond Balcer by mutual friends and they were married in August 1978. Ann and Ray built their dream home in Fair Oaks Ranch in 1986 and enjoyed retirement life. They loved to travel, entertain and cheer for the San Antonio Spurs and the Green Bay Packers.

Ann is survived by her son Robert Butler; her daughter

Dianne Finke (Todd); her stepchildren Brent Balcer (Ellen), Brenda Balcer, Kim Balcer Quade (Jeff), Becky Balcer Caplener (Russ); her grandchildren, Jake and Alese Butler, Dalton Finke, August Balcer, Emma Balcer and Connor and William Quade; her brother Sam Loy (Suzie); her neph-ews Steve Loy, Chuck Loy (Melyssa), Sammy Loy (Didi), and Mark Loy (Laura); and numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.

Ann was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Butler; her husband, Ray Balcer; and her parents, Sam and Wahlelle Loy.

The family would like to thank the staff at Care Choice Boerne for their care of Ann and to the staff of Alamo Hos-pice for their loving and compassionate care of Ann.

In lieu of floral donations, the family suggests that dona-tions be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or Alamo Hospice to honor Ann’s memory.

A r r a n g e m e n t s are under the care and direction of the staff of Holt & Holt Funeral Home of Boerne.

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Charles Mallory DaggettMr. Charles Mallory Daggett of Comfort

passed away at his home on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, at the age of 68 years. He was born Bexar County, San Antonio, the son of Donald J. Daggett and Barbara Walters Daggett, married Elizabeth Becker on Sept. 7, 1973, in First United Methodist Church in Boerne, attended Durham’s College, as a draftsman, worked for H.M. Gousha, as a mapmaker for 28 years, and did taxidermy for many years. He was a member of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Dept. for 22 years and the Comfort EMS for 11 years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Donald and

Barbara Daggett. Charles is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Becker Daggett of Comfort; son and spouse Quintin and Tara Daggett of Comfort; grandson Ryker Lee Daggett; two sis-ters and their spouses, Cynthia and Joe Tippett of Texas and Dottie and Zane Heitsche of Austin.

Memorial services will be held on Friday, Jan. 25, at 11 a.m. in the Gaddis United Methodist Church in Comfort with Pastor Carolyn McGuire officiating. His family will greet friends Friday morning from 10 to 11 a.m. prior to services. There will be a private family disposition of his cremains at a later date.

Those who so desire may make memorial contributions in his memory to the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department. Expressions of sympathy may be sent at www.schaetter.com.

Arrangements are by the Schaetter Funeral Home

Elmer Ralph BergmannMay 17, 1922 – January 9, 2019

Elmer Ralph Bergmann, a Boerne native, veteran of World War II, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, well driller, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend passed from this world on Jan. 9, 2019, at the age of 96. Elmer was born May 17, 1922, on a farm near what is now Boerne City Lake. He was born and raised in Kendall County and lived on the same land nearly all his life. He was born to Louis and Ida (Minnich) Bergmann, and had three brothers, Edgar, Walter and Alfred, and one sister, Irene (Eckhardt) who all preceded him in death.

As a young man he played baseball with his brothers on the Boerne White Sox baseball team, and helped his father and brother Walter build a successful water well drilling business in Boerne. Flying was always one of his passions, and he taught his brothers to fly. He graduated from Boerne High School in 1940 in a class of 29 and soon joined the service to fight in World War II. He served as an instructor, teaching other young pilots to fly and continued training pilots throughout his career in the United States Air Force. After serving for over 25 years, Elmer retired in 1968 and came home to Boerne. He soon met the woman he would spend the rest of his life with, Billie (Peel), and they married May 16, 1971. Billie and Elmer loved life and lived it to the fullest. Elmer loved to golf, dance, fish, play cards and travel.

They purchased a RV and traveled all over the United States. Upon returning to Boerne, Elmer rejoined Walter in the well drilling business until the business was sold. He was also a member of the Vintage Boerne White Sox baseball team and played well into his 90s as their pitcher as well as being a pretty good batter! Elmer loved people and was well loved by all who knew him. He will be sorely missed.

Elmer is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Billie; four children, Claudia (Tootie) Huffman and husband Don-nie, Kenny Bergmann and wife Diane, Rick Bergmann and wife Glynda, and Donna Moreau and husband Douglas; 12 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was pre-ceded in death by his stepson, Brad Jennings.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to Wounded Warriors at woundedwarriorproject.org or the charity of your choice.

Visitation was Monday, Jan. 14,. at Ebensberger-Fisher Funeral Home. The funeral service was held Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 10 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church. To leave condolences for the family and to view a video of Elmer’s life, please visit www.ebens-berger-fisher.com and select Obituaries.

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Sharon Lee FrazierDec. 11, 1942 – Jan. 9, 2019

Sharon Lee Frazier age 76 of Bandera went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. She was preceded in death by her daughter Amy Hampton, her son Chris Hampton and her parents Kenneth and Joan Stone. She is survived by her husband Jim Frazier; daughter Julie Hampton and fiancé Mark Alvarado; Jim’s sons Clint E. Frazier and wife Nancy and Jimbo Frazier and wife Michele; grandchildren Brooke Smith, Tye Smith and fianceé Grace Hun-dere, Clayton Frazier, Caitlan Finstad and husband Jason,

Brittney Frazier and Devon Frazier; great-grandchildren Car-son Smith, Violet Ivy Smith, Layton Frazier, Kyle Mullins and Everly Grace Finstad; brother Michael Stone and his children Shelley, Kenny and Michael.

Sharon is remembered as an effervescent, cheerful person, consummate host and most of all a people person. She main-tained elegance and grace by the way she presented herself – a style that is going to be long missed.

Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 18, followed by services at 11 a.m. at the Fred J. Tips Chapel at Mission Burial Park North, 20900 I-10 West. Interment will follow in the cemetery.

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KC Genealogy Society picks topics for upcoming seminar

Members of Genealogy Society of Kendall County voted to select the topics for the 15th annual Hill Coun-try Family History Seminar coming Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Kronkosky Place, 17 Old San Antonio Rd. Doors open at 8:15 a.m. and the seminar is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Topics will be What to do with your DNA results; Researching with Newspa-pers Online; Researching with the Periodical Source Index; and Organizing your

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Cari Taplin of Austin, is a dynamic and entertaining lecturer,” Seminar Chair-man Brooks Boye said.

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Paula Whitworth HarrisApril 7, 1947 – Jan. 11, 2019

Paula was born Syd-ney Paula Whitworth on April 7, 1947, in Santa Rosa Hospital to Sidney and Alice (Schwarz) Whit-worth. She was raised in a home at 212 N. Plant Ave. that her father helped build and spoke fondly of the years spent living in the garage while the home was under construction. She attended school in Boerne, graduating with the Boerne High School Class of 1965. She played clarinet in the Boerne Greyhound Band, served as Kendall County Fair Duchess and was voted Most Beautiful by her senior year. She loved her BHS classmates, helping to plan class reunions through the years.

She attended Southwest Texas State College, where she met Doyle Crews, a young pharma-cist from Hico, on a blind date. They married in First United Methodist Church in Boerne on June 24, 1967. After living in Clifton for nearly 10 years, she returned to Boerne in 1978, working at Boerne State Bank as a new accounts representative. She was the third member of the family to work at the bank. It was there where she met the love of her life, Eldon Harris, a bank equipment technician, whom she married Nov. 8, 1984.

In 1990, she left the bank and began work-ing as a receptionist for Dr. Sylvia Adams. She later worked in the same capacity for Dr. Larry Becker when he opened his dermatol-ogy practice in Boerne and continued to work there for Dr. Joseph Peterson when Dr. Becker retired. She counted down the days until she turned 65 and retired in 2012.

Polly was an avid letter writer, remembering friends and relatives on Christmas, for birthdays and special occasions. She loved arts and crafts, attending craft shows and creating all sorts of things, including decoup-age, macramé, cross-stitch, folk art painting, quilting, stained-glass windows and paper crafts. She even sewed clothes for her children when they were little. Her love of animals, especially cats, was well known.

She loved her family and was very proud of her Boerne pioneer heritage, including ancestors who helped to cre-ate Blanco County in 1856 and Kendall County in 1862. Her research into family his-tory resulted in a genealogy database of over 23,000 peo-ple. She planned the annual Whitworth family reunion for many years.

Paula passed away early in the morning of Jan. 11, 2019, at Kendall House in Boerne. She was preceded in death by her parents, Sid and Alice Whitworth, and her beloved aunt and uncle, Esther and R.K. “Johnny” Uecker. She is survived by her husband, Eldon W. Harris; her son Andrew D. Crews and wife Michelle; her grandsons Matthew and Benja-min Crews; her daughter Cindy Paula Crews; her sister Donna Whitworth; her niece Jessie Speer; her aunt Gladys Fincke; and many dear cousins and extended family in the Boerne area.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the International Rett Syndrome Founda-tion (bit.ly/2s0HIVt), Hill Country Family Services (www.hcfstx.org) or the Hill Country Animal League (bit.ly/2D6mFp0).

Visitation was held at Ebensberger-Fischer Funeral Home on Thursday, Jan. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be at First United Methodist Church on Friday, Jan. 18, at 10 a.m. with a short graveside service to follow. A reception will be held in the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall following the ceremony. To leave condolences for the family, please visit www.ebens-berger-fisher.com and select obituaries.

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Koerner files for reelection to Fair Oaks City Council

Fair Oaks Ranch Councilmember Laura Koerner has filed for re-election in Place 4. In May 2017, she was elected for a two-year term on the council, where she serves as an at-large representative for all city residents.

She is a wife, mom of twins, Navy veteran, engineer and certified professional project manager. She serves on the city’s Stakeholder and Communications Committees and on the Municipal Development District Board.

Koerner lives in the Fairways neighborhood with her hus-band Mike, a retired Naval Officer, twin daughters Alexandra and Eva and her mother Sharon.

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Girls to f orm BSA Troop Over the next few weeks,

Boerne’s first scout troop for girls will form under the Boy Scouts of America orga-nization – now known as “BSA.” A recruitment and informational meeting will be held Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2:30 p.m. in the St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church pavilion.

Lisa Luper, the inaugu-ral scoutmaster of historic Troop 180, said that word of the new organization has

primarily been met with “interest and positivity.”

According to Luper, girls have a variety of motivations for wanting to become BSA scouts.

“Many like my daughter, have been tagging along with their brothers in Boy Scouts for years, participating as much as they were allowed as siblings, but never get-ting credit or reward. My daughter wants to ‘do the fun stuff’ - whittling with knives,

major hiking, canoeing, kay-aking, fishing, learning the shooting sports, challenging herself while roughing it in tents and the outdoors, learn-ing wilderness first aid and the like.” Luper added that her daughter also wants to attain the Eagle rank as her brothers have.

For more information, con-tact Luper at 806-570-7947 or luperateam@gmail.comor Lance Hirsch at 830-446-3552 or lhirsch@gvtc.com.

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As of this writing, the government shutdown is entering its fourth full week. This means hundreds of thousands of Americans have gone almost a full month without a pay-check. This includes a vital branch of the U.S. military, the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard is unique among the armed forces in that it does not fall under the Department of Defense (DOD). It’s chain of command runs through the Depart-ment of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS is one of the federal agencies that is currently unfunded by the U.S. government.

Despite its different administration, the Coast Guard, its personnel and their families are proud serving members of the U.S. military community. And they are in distress.

As Americans, regardless of our personal political affiliations, we are honor-bound to provide for military personnel we often ask to go in harm’s way.

In order to provide a measure of relief to Coast Guard servicemembers and their families, the Boerne Area Democrats have established a fundraising campaign on their behalf. We have established a modest goal of $2000, however the projected need will, of course, far surpass this amount. We sincerely ask all to consider a donation to this cause.

Individual military members are not normally recipients of direct aid – there are government regulations against receiving what can be termed as gifts. Instead, a web page has been established in connection with Coast Guard Mutual Assistance (CGMA), the official relief society of the U.S. Coast Guard.

While it works closely with the Coast Guard, the CGMA is an independent non-profit charitable orga-nization. This particular fundraising group has been entitled “Texas Patriots” and the website is accessible

I appreciate principled leaders. These are individuals who hold a set of beliefs and are consistent in advocating and promoting them.

Sometimes such leaders are required to compromise. This does not mean that they are hypocrites or are abandoning their principles. Rather, they are willing to forego some of what they would like to achieve in order to advance the overall cause. In other words, they will settle for 80 percent of a loaf, then begin working on getting the remaining 20 percent.

Ronald Reagan was one such leader. He believed in the freedom of the individual to pursue the American Dream without a burdensome, controlling central government. To his detractors, Reagan was a simpleton who gave the same speech for the 30 years of his political life.

These critics missed the point. By focusing on his core beliefs, Reagan was able to win the support of the people and change the direction of our nation. Prior to his presi-dency, the top individual tax rate was 70 percent. When he left office it was down to 28 percent.

Despite criticism from the left that he would starve gov-ernment, revenues doubled in his two terms. Reagan was as much a believer in the free market when he left office as when he entered. I think Americans appreciated his consistency.

This quality is missing in too many of our political “lead-ers” today. We need no example other than the rhetoric regarding the border wall, fence, steel divider or whatever you want to call it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls the idea of a wall immoral. Let’s see what some other national leaders have said about this topic in the not too distant past, and how many others voted on the issue.

“Those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.

“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”

– Bertrand Russell

Bible Verse …

“Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.”

– Isaiah 26:8 (NIV)

Worth Quoting …

V i e w p o i n t sOperation Desert Storm

The First Persian Gulf War – Opera-tion Desert Storm – is the only major conflict that the United States has been engaged in that started in the month of January. Hostilities commenced on Jan. 17 and ended on Feb. 28, 1991, also making it the shortest major war we ever fought of the almost 80 other conflicts the United States has been engaged.

We had 148 casualties in those two months, which also ranks it with the fewest casualties for any major war we have been engaged in.

President was George H.W. Bush and Field Commander was General Herbert Norman Schwartzkopf, Jr. We had 540,000 troops involved.

This was a United Nations authorized use of force against Iraq, which was then under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

Hussein had invaded and occupied the independent country of Kuwait for no reason other than to acquire their large oil reserves and to cancel a large

debt that Iraq owed to Kuwait. At the time Hussein was also trying

to expand his power in the region. Egypt, Saudi Arabia along with other Arab Nations were concerned that Hussein was also trying to control the entire area. So they asked NATO and other Western European allies for help through the United Nations. The British, French and Syrians also sent in troops and equipment.

Hussein had already occupied Kuwait with over 300,000 troops. The United Nations gave Hussein until January 1991 to withdraw or force would be used.

Hussein refused, so the United Nations with a force of 700,000 invaded

overland from Saudi Arabia and by sea from the Persian Gulf. Hussein’s army was forced out of Kuwait by Febru-ary and President Bush stopped our troops at the Iraqi border and declared the war was over. Hussein destroyed the Kuwait oil fields as he was being forced out.

As everyone now knows this only delayed the inevitable that began a series of Near East Gulf Wars that is ongoing today.

The cost of the Gulf and Near East Wars for us is now over $7 trillion – more that the total revenue of the United States for two years – plus the health, and lives of thousands of our young people.

We have had 2,870,901 War casu-alties since 1775 (243 years) or an average of about 1,200 per month since 1775.

Today in the USA we have 13,000 people killed by guns, another 40,000

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As of December 10, 2018, the City current conditions are: • Well Level 60-Day Average = 1169.77 feet above Mean Sea Level • GBRA Canyon Reservoir elevation above trigger point.

Please See the Drought Contingency Plan for additional Information.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the USA undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants to this country.” – Senator Barack Obama, 2006.

“We are a nation of laws. All Americans are rightly disturbed by the large number of illegal immigrants entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public programs they use pose a burden to taxpayers. After years of neglect, this administration has taken a strong stand to stiffen the protection of our borders. We are increasing border patrols by 50 percent. We are increasing inspections to prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants. And tonight, I announce I will sign an executive order to deny federal contracts to businesses that hire illegal immigrants.” – President Bill Clinton, 1996 State of the Union.

The Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed into law by President George W. Bush, authorized 700 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border. Senators Obama, Hil-lary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and 23 other Democrats voted for this bill.

In 2013, legislation promoted (but never passed) by a bi-partisan “gang of 8” recommended $2 billion to build additional fencing/wall along the border. Most Democrats supported this effort.

Going further back in history we can recall the activism of United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez, today an icon of the left. But Chavez favored policies opposite to the desires of today’s open borders leftists. In 1969 Chavez marched alongside then-Democratic Senator Walter Mondale and Ralph Abernathy, leader of the pro civil rights Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in opposition to illegal immigration.

Chavez stated, “As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s going to be very difficult to win strikes.” While Chavez was fighting for higher pay and better working conditions for farm workers, he strongly opposed allowing low-cost illegal immigrant labor to enter the USA.

“Progressives” ended the Bracero program, which allowed many seasonal laborers to work our nation’s farms. This resulted in an increase in illegal immigration. Not mentioned in the left’s worship of the United Farm Workers is the violence perpe-trated by union organizers against illegal immigrant farm workers, including brutal beatings and fire-bombing of their homes.

Fast forwarding back to today, what we see are a bunch of opportunistic politicians like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi now opposing very similar policies to what they supported just a few years ago.

This is hypocrisy of the worst kind and is yet another example of why people compare politicians to the oldest profession in the world. Shouldn’t we expect more of our leaders.

die from drugs and 35,000 more die in auto accidents every year. That is a total of 88,000 per year or about 7,300 per month.

As to political parties we have had eight Republican and eight Democrat Presidents in office during our major wars except the American Revolution and the War of 1812.

Our population count in 1775 was 3,929,000. Our pop-ulation count for 2018 is about 327,200,000.

Our total Federal income for this year is estimated at $3.42 trillion.

Did you know we spend $1.03 trillion of your tax dol-lars on welfare each year? Illegal aliens cost taxpayers another $116 billion per year. We send another $6 billion of your tax dollars in foreign aid overseas to dozens of countries each year - many of them hate us.

Our National Debt is now about $22 trillion!

through Facebook or directly at cgmahq.networkforgood.com/projects/67207-texas-patr iots . The homepage of CGMA is itself located at www.cgmahq.org/.

There is a sense of urgency to this request. Coast Guard military members have already missed their mid-month January pay (civilian support staff have missed two pay-checks). As February approaches, the first of the month is typically when higher expense items such as mortgages, rents, car payments are due.

This is in addition to daily finan-cial needs such as food, utilities and transportation. Contributions made now will be available to address what can be projected as a spiking need in the weeks to come.

The government shutdown can end on very short notice. In the event of this, which would be the greatest possible outcome, our intention is that contributions already made will remain with the CGMA. The financial and debt ramifications we have placed on our Coast Guard families will cer-tainly endure into the future, hence the need for this assistance is sure to remain.

Thank you for your consider-ation. No one left behind.

Thomas Macias is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and a Kendall County Democrat.

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BISD honors Academic All-State athletesAcademic All-State winners

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ANGLICAN

ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN

7 Sisterdale Rd. • 249-3978 or 331-4001

Don Hughes, Rector • Sunday 10 am

ASSEMBLY OF GOD

LIVING HOPE CHURCH OF BOERNE

603 Frey St. • 249-2174 • Jeremy Errickson, Min.

TEMPLO VIDA NUEVA

#11 Sisterdale Rd. • 249-7544

BAPTIST

BIBLE BAPTIST

113 Industrial St., Ste. 1 • Manuel Garcia, Jr., Min.

COMFORT BAPTIST

104 Amber Dr., Comfort • 995-3638 • James H. Holt, Jr., Min.

COMFORT HISPANIC BAPTIST MISSION

236 Broadway, Comfort • 995-3993 • Pedro Aguila Lopez, Min.

CURREY CREEK BAPTIST

35 Cascade Caverns Rd. • 755-8806 • John Free, Min.

FBC BOERNE

631 S. School St. • 249-2527

Worship Times: 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

KENDALL COUNTY COWBOY CHURCH

826 Johns Rd. • 210-669-7819

Fellowship 9:30 a.m. • W.S 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Steve "Cowboy" Gross

www.kendallcountycowboychurch.org

FIRST BAPTIST HISPANIC

114 W. Advogt • 249-9289 • Tony Romo, Min.

HILL COUNTRY CHURCH AT FAIR OAKS RANCH

31375 FM 3351 (Ralph Fair Rd.) Fair Oaks Ranch

438-8504 • Eric Hightower, Pastor

Bible Study 9 a.m.; W.S. 10 a.m.

IGLESIA BAUTISTA EMANUEL

103 Chapel Hill • 537-4589

LEON SPRINGS FIRST BAPTIST

24133 Boerne Stage Rd., San Antonio • 698-2880

Dan Allen, Min. • S.S. 9 a.m.• W.S. 10:30 a.m.

Wednesdays: Adult Bible Study and Youth Group 6 pm

BIBLE

BOERNE BIBLE

1026 E. Blanco Rd. • 249-2343

FAITH BIBLE CHURCH OF BOERNE

#1 Bergmann Rd at I-10 W • 249-8448 • Tim Ekno, Pastor

Sunday 8:30 a.m & 10:45 a.m. • Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

BOERNE COMMUNITY BIBLE

745 W. San Antonio • 210-896-2631 • www.cbcboerne.com

Terry Parks. Pastor • Worship 10:30 am

CROSS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP

8770 Dietz Elkhorn Rd • 210-363-3099 • Pastor Gary McCarron

Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. • Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

CATHOLIC

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH

114 N. Highway 87, Comfort (Church)

510 Broadway, Comfort (Office)

Rev. Martin Garcia Avila • 830-995-3708

Mass Times:

Sunday 11am and 1pm (Spanish)

Mon/Wed/Thurs 12:05pm • Tues 12:05pm Communion Service

First Friday/month 12:05pm • Saturday 4pm

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:

Wednesday 11am - noon • Thursday 6:30 - 7:30pm

Confessions: Saturdays 2:30 - 3:30pm

ST. ELIZABETH SETON CATHOLIC

8500 Cross Mountain Trail, San Antonio • 210-698-1941

Msgr. Conor McGrath • Mass 8am Mon. - Fri., Sat. 5:00pm,

Sun. 8am-9:30am, 11:00am. • Spanish Mass at 12:30pm & 7pm

ST. JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC

HC 54, Box 2074, Bulverde • 980-2268

ST. PETER THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH

202 W. Kronkosky St. • 816-2233 • Father Norman Ermis

Weekend Mass Schedule:

Saturday 5:30pm; Sunday 9:00am, 11:00am,

12:30pm (Mass in Spanish); 6:00pm (Life Teen Mass)

Spanish Mass: Every Sunday at 12:30pm

Weekday Mass Schedule:

Monday 6:30pm • Tuesday 8:30am

Wednesday & Thursday 6:15am; Friday 10:00am

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:

Each Wed.: 4:30 – 8:00pm • First Fridays: 10:30am – 5:00pm

CHRISTIAN

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER MINISTRIES

43360 IH-10 West • 537-5244 • Walter H. Tracy, Jr.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUP

Church and Sunday School • Wednesday Testimony Meeting

For info call: 830-331-9779 • www.spirituality.com

UNITY CHURCH OF BOERNE

CHURCH OF THE DAILY WORD

121 Scenic Loop Rd. • Sunday Services 11am

830-755-5419 • www.unityofboerne.org

VAN RAUB CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

8770 Dietz-Elkhorn Rd. • Jim Boring, Min.

CHURCH OF CHRIST

BOERNE CHURCH OF CHRIST

Sunday Bible Classes 9:30am • Sunday Worship 10:30am

249-2685 • www.boernechurchofchrist.org

All are welcome!

CHURCH OF CHRIST - SOUTHSIDE

46 Old San Antonio Rd. • 210-316-3824 • Howell Moore, Min.

Sunday Worship 9am, Bible Study Following

Wednesday Bible Study 7pm

EPISCOPAL

ST. BONIFACE EPISCOPAL

116 Hwy 87 N., Comfort • 830-995-3897 • Rev. Carol Blaine

Sunday 8:45 & 11 • Sunday School 9:45

www.stboniface-comfort.org

ST. HELENA’S EPISCOPAL

410 N. Main St. • 249-3228 • The Rev. David G. Read

Wed.: 10am; Sunday: 7:45am, 9am, 11am • www.sthelenas.net

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

CITY HILLS CHURCH

Currently meeting at Starplex Cinema Boerne:

205 Old San Antonio Road, Boerne • 830-428-3038

Sundays at 9:30am & 11am • cityhillstx.com

CROSS MOUNTAIN

24891 Boerne Stage Rd. • Sundays at 9:30am, 11am

Randy Ayers • www.crossmountain.org

FULL LIFE FELLOWSHIP

825 Hwy 289 (Nelson City Event Center)

1/2 mile off IH 10, Exit 533

9:30 am Breakfast and Fellowship, 10:15 am Worship Service

www.full-lifefellowship.org

HIS HANDS CHURCH

111A Jennifer Dr, Boerne • 830-537-5324

Pastors Ronnie & JoAnn Squyres

Sunday 10:30 am • Tues. Bible Study & Prayer 7 pm

nineteen:ten church

130 FM 1376 (Sisterdale) • 830-249-1217

1910church.com • Pastor Jason Brown

Sundays at 8:30 am, 10 am, 11:30 am

JEHOVAH’S WITNESS

JEHOVAH’S WITNESS

304 N. School St. • 249-2452

JEWISH

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THE HILL COUNTRY

The Unitarian Universalist Church • 960 Barnett Street, Kerrville

Services at 6:30 pm Fridays • 830-331-8941

LUTHERAN

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN

318 High St. Comfort • 995-3756 • Shelley Simmont, Min.

MESSIAH LUTHERAN

9401 Dietz-Elkhorn Rd. • 755-4300

OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN COMMUNITY (ELCA)

Boerne Hill Country YMCA • 820 Adler

Sunday Communion Service - 10:30 am • Pastor Steve Rode

210-260-0317 • Facebook: Our Savior San Antonio

ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH

315 Rosewood Ave. • www.stjohnlutheran.com

249-3651 • 816-1853

Pastor Eric Waters • Pastor Mariola Bergquist

Worship 8:00 am, Traditional & Contemporary 10:30 am

Sunday School 9:15 am

METHODIST

FIRST UNITED METHODIST

205 James St. • 249-2565 • Sunday: 8 am, 9 am, 11 am

Pastors: Ricky Burk and Russell Miller • www.fumc-boerne.org

GADDIS UNITED METHODIST

141 Hwy. 87, Comfort

Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. • Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Carolyn McGuire, Pastor

SPRING CREEK UNITED METHODIST

28970 Old Fredericksburg Rd., Fair Oaks Ranch, Tx 78015

Sunday: 9 am and 10:30 am

830-981-8331 • Rev. Stephen Sanders

MORMON

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

203 Stonegate Rd. • Boerne • 830-249-7257 • www.lds.org

Fair Oaks Ward - 9am to 12pm • Bishop Ryan Baum

Boerne Ward - 11am to 2pm • Bishop Jeff Horne

PENTECOSTAL

BOERNE UNITED PENTECOSTAL

235 Frey St. • Sunday 9:30 a.m. • 830-249-5993

www.boerneupc.org • Kerry Hammer, Min.

IGLESIA HISPANA ‘NUEVO RENACER’

221 Theissen St. • 915-873-3134 • 210-779-1117

Servicios Domingo 4 p.m., Miercoles 7 p.m. y Viernes 7 p.m.

Escuela dominical 11 a.m.

PRESBYTERIAN

CHRIST OF THE HILLS (ECO)

215 Lohmann St. (At Ye Kendall Inn) 830-328-3969

Interim Pastor Ron Scates • www.christofthehills.org

9:15 Bible Study 10:15 Fellowship 10:45 Worship

LEON SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN

23943 IH-10 West • 698-2325 • Pastor Wayne R. Urbanowski, Jr

Sunday School 9-10am • Fellowship 10-10:20am • Worship 10:30am

PIPE CREEK PRESBYTERIAN

8598 St. Hwy. 16 S., Pipe Creek • Rev. Dr. Victoria M. Isaacs, Min.

ST. MARK PRESBYTERIAN

208 W. Bandera Road • 830-816-3000 or 830-249-3232

Sunday Services: Contemporary 9am-Traditional 11:10am

Sunday School Classes from 10:10 - 11:00am

Rev. Dr. Joan Watson • www.stmarktx.org

TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN (PCA)

31 Ammann Road • www.trinityboerne.org

8:00 Worship, 9:30 Sunday School, 10:10 Fellowship, 10:30 Worship

Proclaiming Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life.

OTHER

A HILL COUNTRY CHAPEL

886 Mountain View Lane • Pipe Creek, just off Hwy 46

510-4731 • www.hillcountrychapel.org

Albert “Skip” Marks, Minister, Nathan Marks, Youth Minister

Sunday School, 9am for all ages, Morning Worship, 10am, Evening

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I turned age 9 in 1955. That was the year I discov-ered Audie Murphy. Murphy played himself in the movie “To Hell and Back” that year. That Texas boy was one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II.

After seeing the movie, my local buddies and I would play war games in our back-yards and alleyways for months. We purchased hel-mets and back packs from the Army surplus store to dress the part as we planned and executed our imaginary battles with our toy guns.

When I asked my father what the war was like for him (he served in WWII and the Korean War), he always dismissed me.

During that same year, I sat down one day beside my house with the pastor of my little church. He answered my questions about “receiv-ing Jesus as my personal Savior” after which I prayed with him. It was my “born again” experience.

The next few years I asked my pastor questions about spiritual things. He was always there to answer as best he could. When I turned 16, I volunteered as a private in God’s infantry and Pastor Graham led our little congre-gation in formally licensing me to preach the Gospel.

My pastor was Elmer Gra-ham. He was perhaps the most humble and brilliant pastor I ever met. In college he and his friend, Lyndon B. Johnson, had been on the championship debate team together – two men destined to send boys off to different kinds of wars in different kinds of campaigns.

So, for me, age 9 was eventful – I had two new heroes, Audie Murphy and Jesus Christ. Audie’s place in my mind would be dis-placed by many others over

the years, but Jesus’ place would continue to stand and increase in my maturing mind as my true and constant hero. Today, He continues to amaze me above all others, exciting and fascinating me more each day. He really does.

My senior years find me struggling more and more with God over the reality and morality of war. What puzzles so many of us who desire to follow Jesus Christ in these troublesome days is how we must deal with a world that often appears more gray than black and white in regard to the issues that keep us in perpetual wars and national discord.

Still, my friends who were either killed or scarred for life from war in my lifetime have my greatest respect. Some of the finest men and women who have called me pastor are those whose lives have been forever altered by what they suffered in service for our country, often in wars some of us look back upon as downright unnecessary or even immoral.

The “glamor” of war left me when I was a young pastor. John showed up one Sunday in my little church, home fresh from Viet Nam. He had been awarded two bronze stars.

One day he asked me to visit him privately in his home. He was about 6’2” and a muscular 230 pounds. I sat down across from him in his living room as he nervously asked me if God could forgive him for the things he had to do in

the war. He shared some of those things with me – things I could never have imagined.

I could only tell this Amer-ican hero that the Hero of our faith loved him – that His grace was sufficient for all, acts of war included. We both knelt on the floor as he tearfully prayed in surrender to Christ. I baptized John that next Sunday. I’ll never forget him. I so wish I had kept up with John over the years.

A year or two before my father died, he uncharac-teristically became openly emotional. One day at my house, he looked at me tear-fully and said, “Tommy, I don’t know why God let me come home from the war and not Norman!” Norman was one of his younger brothers who died in battle and is buried in a military cemetery in eastern France.

My dad had carried “sur-vivor’s guilt” for 60 years. I finally understood why he had never wanted to talk to me about the war. He never got over the grief of losing Norman. War was never glo-rious to my father.

Some followers of Jesus in this nation still want to

believe that our nation’s wars are all glorious and righ-teous, that to be an American is to be a “Christian” and vice versa. But President Lincoln said that his prayer was not so much that “God was on our side” as much as “that we were on His side.”

Lord, I still thank you for my childhood heroes, Audie Murphy and Jesus Christ. But even more, I thank you for the less known, less cele-brated and unknown soldiers who were willing to give their lives for our freedom. Thank you for the millions like my Dad and Uncle Nor-man – and, of course, my friend John. There are no “unknown soldiers” to You. Prince of Peace, we need you now – perhaps more than ever.

How we long for that day Isaiah prophesied: “He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plow-shares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up the sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.” (Isaiah 2:4)

No more will we go “to hell and back.” Amen.

F a i t hTo hell and back

A look at the crossTo try to write about the

cross of Jesus almost immedi-ately feels like a redundancy. There is so much meaning and it is of course the pri-mary symbol of the Christian religion.

I seriously doubt that what I am going to propose is a new thought, but just maybe you have not thought of it in this way.

The obvious and well-trav-eled truth is the cross was a cruel instrument of death car-ried out by the Roman army. In the case of Jesus it was of course wrongly carried out by the leaders of the Jews and a cowardly Roman General we all know as Pilate.

There Jesus sacrificed his life for the sins of all man-kind. The world has never known such love.

As I thought about the cross this week I was struck by some symbolism that I thought was interesting, if not important. When the word cross is mentioned it need not be in reference to Calvary’s cross to give us a mental image of two lines crossing each other, such as the Red Cross.

What I began to see was the vertical and the horizontal. The vertical it seems to me symbolizes the relationship we have with the Father in Heaven.

If we chose to avail our-selves of this vertical means it turns out to be a two-lane highway. We speak to God and He speaks to us. The road is traveled in both directions.

Our tendency is to ask for things both for ourselves and others, and hopefully we spend time in praise and wor-ship. But look at what Jesus told his disciples in John 16:13:

“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.”

Jesus certainly set the example for us, in that he often got alone to commune with the Father. Luke 6:12 is an example.

“It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.”

We see over and over in the Gospels where Jesus valued the vertical relationship he has with his Father. This idea is expressed in Luke 5:16:

“As often as possible Jesus withdrew to out-of-the-way places for prayer.”

In John 5:19 we get to the results of Jesus spending much time in prayer.

“Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Him-self, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.”

A further look at this verti-cal relationship gives a strong word of the importance of Jesus fellowship with his Father. In John 7:16-17:

“Jesus said, “I didn’t make this up. What I teach comes from the One who sent me. Anyone who wants to do his will can test this teaching and know whether it’s from God or whether I’m making it up. A person making things up tries to make himself look good. But someone trying to honor the one who sent him sticks to the facts and doesn’t tamper with reality.”

The other direction of the cross is horizontal. In Jesus outstretched arms on the cross there is the symbolism of his welcoming heart. In Matthew 11:28 Jesus said this:

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My bur-den is light.”

In Mark 10:14 Jesus wel-comed the children.

“But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”

And in Luke 9:23 Jesus tells what it takes to follow him.

“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny him-self, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.”

So we find in the cross that both the vertical and the hori-zontal are important to us. The vertical symbolizing prayer and the horizontal symboliz-ing the welcoming arms of Jesus into relationship.

Jack Purcell

ON THE JOURNEY

Tom LanierPastor, The Prodigal’s

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Bandera’s Gateway Fellowship Churchplans open house

Gateway Fellowship Church in Bandera – formerly Liv-ing Springs – will hold its grand opening on Feb. 3 and everyone is invited to services starting at 9 and 10:30 a.m., followed by food, refreshments and family fun for all.

The new church is at 151 Purple Sage Rd. outside of town on Hwy 16.

“Gateway Fellowship Church has been working with the existing members and new members to renovate the building and introduce a place where friends can become devoted followers of Jesus, where our friends can come and feel at home and become family,” Pastor Nick Man-fred said.

Since the beginning of the year, attendance has been steadily increasing as more and more people tell others about the new church in town. Sunday services are cur-rently held at 10:30 a.m., but the church and will go to two services the week before the launch date.

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C a l e n d a r –––––––––––––––UPCOMING EVENTS –––––––––––––JANUARY 18-26RIPCORD, Boerne Community Theatre,

907 E. Blanco, Boerne, weekends, Jan. 18-26,. Rated PG-17. Tickets $15-$22 online at www.boernetheatre.org or 830 249-9166.

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ASSN., Saturday, Jan. 19, Riverside Nature Center,150 Francisco Lemos, Kerrville, noon for refreshments, lecture at 1 p.m.

NIMITZ JR. CORPS, Saturday, Jan. 19, National Museum of the Pacific War, learn how Texans helped win the war, go on a scav-enger hunt in Bush Gallery. free for children 8-12, 1 to 3 p.m. www.pacificwarmuseum.org, 830-997-8600 ext. 225 or bford@nim-itzfoundation.org.

CAVE WITHOUT A NAME, Mark Land-son concert, Saturday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., Cave Throne Room, tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door

JANUARY 24CAREGIVER HAVEN, First Baptist

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JANUARY 26BOERNE CHAMBER AWARDS PARTY,

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Western American Art – It’s more than you think!

From one strictly logical point of view, the West is not a single place but many. Its vast area contains every sort of environment from moun-tains to deserts to forests to prairies. It’s history is so discontinuous and its people are so diverse that it is often easier to understand both in terms of particular regions than on terms of the West as a whole.

Yet almost from the time of Lewis and Clark most Amer-icans have tended to take a more subjective view and to think of the West as having a special overarching identity.

At first it was seen pri-marily as a huge natural wonderland and the earliest artists faithfully reported its various marvels to the East-ern public.

But the things they por-trayed were so exotic and of such a scale as to seem fan-tastic. So much so that when some artists did begin to ren-der their subjects in more theatrical and fanciful ways, their exaggerations went all but unnoticed.

Artists were not, of course, solely responsible for the gradual romanticization of the West. Writers, poets, actors and many others con-tributed to the process. But it was a process for which the public was certainly ready and in fact demanded.

Thus a sort of mythical west was slowly superim-posed on the real West. Like all myths this was more or less than the reality it sought to interpret. It was composed

of selected situations and images that were understood both to typify the West and to be more expressive of the West’s peculiar spirit.

As time passed many Americans, artists included, found it increasingly diffi-cult to keep these visions separate.

If anything lends cohesion to Western art, it is probably a shared vision, a common imaginative structure by which artists and viewers can approach subjects, at least initially, in the same way.

To the extent that this facilitates aesthetic com-munication it has doubtless been a good thing, but it has not of itself been any guaran-tee of good art.

At worst in the hands of less ambitious artists, it has merely produced a form of western genre painting that is at once stereotyped and repetitive. But for artists of greater talent, this informed vision seems to have pro-vided a kind of jumping off point from which their sub-sequent leaps to personal statement may have been made not only more acces-sible to the viewer but also more focused and effective.

Thus Russell’s Cowboys and Indians transcend the genre in which they seem superficially rooted and end as moving, uniquely poetic creations. By the same token, Georgia O’Keeffe begins with a set of props long familiar in Southwestern landscape paintings ¬– sun-bleached animal skulls, stark adobe walls, eroded hills and the like – and turns them into some of the most haunting and individual images in all contemporary art.

For those of you experi-encing wanderlust in this

New Year, my suggested Top 5, “must see” western art museums are members of the Museums West Consor-tium. They are: The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming; Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Col-orado; Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Eiteljorg Museum of Ameri-can Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. My best advice – immerse your-self in art!

ARTIST OF THE MONTH

Bill Scheidt, Artist of the Month for January, Museum of Western Art, 1550 Ban-dera Hwy., Kerrville. Bill’s preferred medium is oil on canvas, and his subject mat-ter includes North American

wildlife, the Native Amer-ican and the life of the cowboy.

Largely self-taught, he has studied with Dan Mieduch of the Scottsdale Artists School, and Joe Beeler and Roy Andersen, of the renowned Cowboy Artists of America. For information 830-896-2553; www.Museu-mOfWestermArt.com.

NEW E-mail contact: paula.hccarts@yahoo.com. Visit Arts Council often at www.hccarts.org.

HCCARTS CALENDARPorch Pickin’ Blue Grass

Jam, Jan. 19, 1 to 3 p.m., The Agricultural, 102 City Park Rd., Boerne. BYOB – Bring your own banjo or come and sit a spell to enjoy the music and fellowship. For infor-mation 210-445-1080; www.theagricultural.org.

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ernment shut-down and the announcement that members of the US Coast Guard will be the first members of the military to miss a paycheck, the Kendall County Demo-cratic Party and Boerne Area Democrats will use their

Texas Patriots fundraiser to help support those person-nel. The groups hope to raise $2,000 in this effort, but much more, will be required to support these service-members and their families.

Since individual military members may not receive

direct aid, Coast Guard Mutual Assistance (an inde-pendent, non-profit agency) provides financial assistance for those in need. The “Texas Patriots” fund has been established in conjunction with CGMA.

KCDP and BAD encour-age everyone, regardless of party, to donate to the “Texas Patriots” fundraiser at bit.ly/2He0PnL or on the Face-book page of the Kendall County Democratic Party.

LEBCO Graphics has purchased a major printing firm in San Antonio and is in the process of consolidat-ing operations at the Boerne plant on I-10.

Owner Lanne Brehmer said recently the purchase of Quadrangle Press was final-ized last month, but he was still working on the transi-tion, including the addition of 16 sales and production employees. LEBCO acquired some pre-press equipment in the transaction, along with the sales and customer base, Brehmer said.

For technical reasons, Breh-mer will continue operating Quadrangle as a separate entity for a transition period, but the combined compa-nies create one of the largest commercial operations under one roof in the San Antonio market.

Quadrangle, he said, was comparable to LEBCO in size and in history.

“We started our companies off at about the same time,” he remembered. “Our two companies grew up together – two parallel companies that had about the same volume.” Brehmer began in 1972, according to the LEBCO website.

The main difference, he said, is that Quadrangle didn’t invest in technologi-cally advanced equipment the way LEBCO did. Brehmer, with a background in phys-ics, bought into the digital advances as they developed.

Brehmer took an indirect

route to lead one of the larg-est printing companies in the area. He started out in San Antonio, he recalls, working his way through college as what he called “a hamburger jerk” at the soda fountain of his family’s drug store.

One of his duties was devel-oping advertising for the drug store. When other compa-nies learned of his skill they began asking him to help with their advertising. Before he knew it, he was running a mimeograph machine and later a small offset printing press to produce promotional material for a variety of small businesses.

At 19, he married his high-school sweetheart, Patsy, then 17, and they’ve been working side-by-side ever since.

Brehmer started college at Texas Lutheran, completed his degree at St. Mary’s Uni-versity and became a physics instructor at San Antonio College. Though it was a tenure-track position, he and his wife continued delivering printed materials to custom-ers, including SAC, which did not have its own printing equipment at the time.

“I handled the techni-cal side. I can fix almost anything, build almost any-thing. I did everything from stripping, color separations, plating and printing. Patsy did all the bindery work. My niece Dolores joined us to do typesetting and is now the production manager.”

Brehmer continued teach-ing while they started EconoPrint and began han-dling some large accounts like USAA and the San

Antonio Convention & Visi-tors’ Bureau. He won tenure at San Antonio College, he said, but “we had so much printing work, I had to resign” as a professor.

At some point, Brehmer said, he changed the name of the business in response to customers who thought the “Econo” implied “cheap.” The firm became LEBCO (Lanne E. Brehmer Com-pany) Graphics and, in 1989, purchased the building it occupies just south of the Cascade Caverns exit off I-10.

LEBCO’s customer base

has increased far beyond the San Antonio market, Brehmer said. They print for companies in California, Houston, Chicago and other far-flung markets. Aside from a handful of custom-ers, LEBCO hasn’t really tried to expand much in the San Antonio market, but this transaction and his new sales staff put the company in a better position to do so.

“We’ve got some of the newest equipment in San Antonio,” he said, referring to his 40-inch 6-color Man Roland press with a coater.

As sidelines, he runs the

audio-visual equipment for St. John Lutheran Church, he’s piloted planes and now drones. And, true to his tech interest, “If Apple makes a new phone, I buy it,” he smiled.

The printing industry has gone through ups and downs since 2008.

“It hasn’t been all honey and roses,” he acknowledged.

LEBCO has bought other competitors over the years to offer services other than off-set printing, but technological advances or the Great Reces-sion cut demand for them. He suffered a heart attack 15 years ago and a local lender

forced him to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy during the reces-sion. But he emerged from those difficulties, bought the Quadrangle business he thinks may require a third shift and feels optimistic about the future.

He sees the printing indus-try, which has suffered through hard times since the advent of the Internet, mak-ing something of a comeback. And he plans to be along for the ride, nearly 60 years after his first press-run.

“I’m not comfortable retir-ing,” he said. “I’ll retire when the good Lord puts me six feet under.”

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B u s i n e s s

Protecting your family’s future Think about your loved

ones. What will their future be like? Can you picture them living in your house many years from now? Can you picture your children going to college? Can you picture your spouse or partner enjoy-ing a comfortable retirement?

These are all pleasant visions – but what if you weren’t in these pictures?

If you were no longer around, you’d leave a gap-ing hole in the lives of your survivors.

The emotional element would be tough enough, but the financial aspect – the per-manent loss of your income – could be devastating to all the hopes you’ve had for your family members.

Fortunately, you can help prevent this “worst-case” sce-nario from happening if you have sufficient life insurance.

Unfortunately, a lot of peo-ple don’t – even when they recognize the need. LIMRA and Life Happens, two organizations that provide education on life insurance, report the following:

Only four in 10 Americans own an individual life insur-ance policy – although 85 percent say that most people need life insurance.

More than one-third of all households report that they would feel an adverse financial impact within one

month of losing a primary wage-earner’s income, while nearly half would feel an impact in just six months.

What’s keeping people from providing adequate insurance for their families? Here’s a sampling of the most common reasons:

“I just don’t want to think about it.” Let’s face it, like almost everybody you prob-ably don’t like to think about death. And consequently, you may well be inclined to postpone thinking about life insurance.

But if you can just envision what your loved ones’ lives would be like without you in terms of their financial situa-tion, you will find it easier to address your insurance needs in a calmer, more analytical manner.

“I have other financial priorities.” You will always have financial obligations – mortgage or rent payments, car payments, credit card bills, student loans, etc. You can’t ignore these expenses, but ask yourself this: Do any of them really take priority over the future happiness and

welfare of your loved ones? Since the answer to this

question is obviously “no,” you will likely conclude that maintaining adequate life insurance is one of the most important financial moves you can make.

“I can’t afford life insur-ance.” If you think life insurance is prohibitively expensive, you’re not alone. In fact, 80 percent of consum-ers think life insurance costs more than it does, according to LIMRA and Life Hap-pens, while nearly half of the “millennial” generation esti-mates the cost at five times more than the actual amount. In reality, some types of life insurance, such as term insur-ance, is highly affordable.

“I don’t know how much insurance I’ll need.” To determine an appropriate level of coverage, you’ll need to consider a variety of factors, such as the number and age of your dependents, size of your mortgage, spousal income, amount of employer-provided insurance and so on. A financial professional can help you calculate the amount of protection you need.

As you can see, none of the reasons listed above should really keep you from adding life insurance to your overall financial strategy. So, take action soon to help ensure that your wishes for your

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Kendall County saw an 8.5 percent growth in home sales in 2018, with a total of 686 sales, according to the Multiple Listing Service Report from the San Antonio Board of Realtors (SABOR), which reports on all areas contained within the MLS.

Median prices in the county increased 2.8 percent to $365,000 and average prices to $459,929. On average, homes in Kendall County sold in 90 days, with 94.2 percent of homes selling for list price. December closed with 6.2 months of inventory in the area.

“Kendall County has always been an attractive place for home buyers, and with 6.2 months of inventory available, buyers are able to find exactly what they are looking for,” Grant Lopez, SABOR’s 2019 chairman of the board, said.

In Boerne, home sales grew an impressive 27.4 percent, with a total of 335 sales. Both average and median price homes in the county rose year-over-year, with average price rising 3.8 percent to $335,492 and median price reaching $321,350, a 12.8 percent increase. Homes in Boerne typi-cally sold in 88 days, with 94.7 percent selling for list price.

Home sales in Comfort increased in 2018, with 24 homes sold, a 9.1 percent increase over 2017. Average homes sales price in the area increased 4.8 percent to $320,321, with median price reaching $236,100. Homes in Comfort sold in an average of 78 days, with price per square foot rising 8.3 percent to $163.

Meanwhile in Fair Oaks Ranch, a total of 222 homes were sold in 2018, 35 less than the prior year. Average and median prices in the area experienced increases, with the average price rising 11.1 percent to $497,840 and median price reaching $455,625, an 8.5 percent growth. Price per square foot in Fair Oaks Ranch rose to $152, a 7.4 percent increase and 94.5 percent of homes sold for list price.

Home sales across Texas increased 1.9 percent in 2018, for a total of 320,760 sales. Average price rose a steady 3.6 percent to $286,637, with median prices rising to $235,000, a 4.4 percent increase. In 2018 homes typically sold in 58 days, with 95.8 percent selling for list price. The month of December ended with 3.3 months of inventory in Texas.

LEBCO buys SA firm, expands potential reach

The team of Lanne and Patsy Brehmer are ready for their next step in the printing industry at LEBCO Graphics.

BY ROBERT MOSELEY■ Managing Editor robert@boernestar.com

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BOERNE POLICE DEPARTMENTJanuary 812:57 a.m., I-10 mile 543 – A

woman was arrested after being stopped for traffic violations.

8:29 a.m., 200 Johns -A school resource officer reported something was lost or stolen.

9:17 a.m., 800 River – A caller reported his neighbors were having a yelling, banging quarrel.

9:18 a.m., 100 W. San Antonio – Police couldn’t find the cowboy and his gal a caller said were smoking pot under a bridge.

12:47 p.m., 200 Lohmann – Someone was found with drug paraphernalia.

1:54 p.m., I-10 mile 542 – An officer chunked a chunk of tire out of the roadway.

2:10 p.m., 600 N. Main – A woman complained someone was stealing her money that God told her was there.

2:58 p.m., 100 Telford – A tow truck driver said the vehicle owner was causing problems by not giving him the key to the vehicle and refusing to get out.

3:11 p.m., 1300 S. Main – A caller said a woman was digging through a donation box.

3:31 p.m., 100 Whisper Way – A caller complained his neighbors were having a loud yelling and hitting fight.

4:19 p.m., 400 W. Bandera – An officer caught a juvenile drawing on a building with a marker.

6:46 p.m., 31700 I-10 – When an officer saw a couple creating a dis-turbance, he stopped, called for the drug-sniffing K9 officer and arrested both of them.

9:33 p.m., 900 N. School – A caller said after she saw a suspicious van at a house and the man inside get out and walk around the house with a flashlight, she stepped out of her house for a better look, but he jumped in the van and drove away, leaving his flashlight behind.

10:23 p.m., 100 Old San Antonio – When an officer saw a suspicious man in an SUV and a woman walking, he stopped and wound up arresting the woman.

Officers made an additional 40 traffic stops, assisted the public four times and an EMS crew once, checked out a 911 hang-up call, worked two non-injury wrecks and handled two welfare checks, one animal call, one civil matter, 31 security checks and one false alarm.

January 92:24 a.m., 400 W. Bandera – A caller

complained a homeless man was liv-ing behind the property, sleeping on the ground under a blanket and leav-ing litter all over.

8:10 a.m., 400 E. Blanco – After a caller reported a homeless woman was in front of city hall getting bags from the dry river bed, an officer learned she was looking for petrified wood and fossils.

8:13 a.m., 200 Johns Rd. – A school resource officer reported a former stu-dent was in the parking lot looking into parked vehicles.

8:36 a.m., 300 S. Main – A caller complained someone left broken bot-tles outside the building and knocked signs over for the second day in a row.

9:54 a.m., 500 S. School – When an officer saw a suspicious person, he stopped and arrested him.

1:41 p.m., 200 Frey – A woman reported someone stole her wallet with her ID.

2:51 p.m., 400 River- A man reported identity theft.

3:36 p.m., 100 W. Bandera – After an officer saw someone stumbling along, he stopped and arrested him for public intoxication.

4:53 p.m., 400 W. Bandera – The man a caller said was dragging a child by an arm explained to an officer it was his son and he was trying to keep him from falling off a bridge.

8:04 p.m., 1500 S. Main – The woman an officer found having a sei-zure was taken to the ER by EMS and animal control called to get her two dogs, but she was arrested after police found meth in her car

8:22 p.m., 100 E. Bandera – During a traffic stop, a man was arrested on a state jail felony warrant from Gillespie County.

8:28 p.m., 100 Abbeydell – A woman said her ex-boyfriend was at her house and blocking her driveway despite having already been given a criminal trespass warning.

Police also made 29 traffic stops, assisted the public three times, checked out a 911 hang-up call, worked five non-injury wrecks and handled two welfare checks, two reckless driver reports, one traffic hazard, one civil matter, one animal call, 32 security checks and four false

alarms.

January 108:54 a.m., 200 Charger- A student

was caught in possession of tobacco.11:44 a.m., 200 Katie Court – A man

reported a case of fraud.1:52 p.m., 100 Herff – An officer

with warrant in hand arrested a man.4:04 p.m., Greyhound Ln. – A stu-

dent was found with a firearm.4:10 p.m., 500 Fabra – A man said

he got a fraudulent cashier’s check during a Craigslist transaction.

4:59 p.m., 1500 River – A case of road rage was reported.

6:25 p.m., 400 W. Bandera – Before she left work a woman reported an older man has been dumpster diving all day.

7:15 p.m., 100 Old San Antonio – A mother reported her daughter was bitten by a stray cat.

8:38 p.m., 100 Whisper Way – A caller reported hearing gunshots at a nearby residence.

Officers also made 39 traffic stops, assisted the public twice, another law enforcement agency once and an EMS crew three times, investigated two suspicious vehicles and two 911 hang-up calls, worked two non-in-jury wrecks and handled two reckless driver reports, one traffic hazard, two civil matters, 27 security checks and four false alarms.

January 111:04 a.m., 300 S. Main – During a

traffic stop, two people were arrested for possession of marijuana.

2:23 a.m., I-10 mile 543 – One man was arrested after being stopped for traffic violations.

4:05 a.m., 100 Lilly Creek – A woman said her husband was chasing four weapon-carrying kids down the block after they rang her doorbell.

6:35 a.m., 100 Medical – Two vehicles were reported burglarized overnight.

7:14 a.m., 800 Johns – A woman complained her downstairs neighbor is always texting about her children being too loud.

9:37 a.m., 200 Rosebud – A woman reported she lost a ring in the past couple of weeks.

9:51 a.m., 100 City Lake – EMS was called when one of the military men doing water training became hypothermic.

11:48 a.m., 31200 I-10 – Firefight-ers shut off the electricity after a bad motor was reported releasing smoke through the vents in a dealership showroom.

12:06 p.m., Staudt St. – A man said his ID was missing.

9:11 p.m., 600 W. Bandera – When an officer found the suspicious man a caller said was wandering around parked cars, he arrested the fellow.

11:49 p.m., 1300 S. Main – During a traffic stop, one person was arrested for DWI.

Police made an additional 20 traffic stops, assisted the public nine times and an EMS crew once, checked out three suspicious vehicles, worked three non-injury wrecks and handled one welfare check, two reckless driver reports, one traffic hazard, four ani-mal calls, 36 security checks and two false alarms.

January 129:26 a.m., 300 James – A caller

reported a tile saw was stolen overnight.

10:23 a.m., 100 Old San Antonio – A locksmith reported a woman called him to unlock the business and now refused to pay.

11:45 a.m., 100 Rosewood – A man reported his Escalade was burgled overnight.

11:53 a.m., I-10 mile 543 – A Christmas tree in the road was creat-ing a traffic hazard.

12:30 p.m., 1300 S. Main – A store security officer reported a man was switching prices on items.

12:45 p.m., 500 FM 1376 – A man asked police to help him get his lost cell phone that was pinging at a res-idence, but police found no one home.

1 p.m., 100 Old San Antonio – A man had questions about selling CBD oil.

3:10 p.m., 800 Johns – A man said his estranged wife was harassing him with texts threatening to send some-one to beat him up.

6:37 p.m., 300 S. Plant – A mother complained a neighbor was arguing with her daughter.

9:52 p.m., 400 W. Bandera – A man first reported his wallet with about $3,000 in cash was lost, but called back minutes later to say he found it.

10:07 p.m., 200 Lohmann – A caller complained about a neighbor’s loud party and bonfire, but police found neither noise, nor bonfire.

11:17 p.m., 300 Irons – A caller complained about drinking at an underage party.

Officers also made an additional 42 traffic stops, assisted the public seven times and an EMS crew once, checked out two suspicious people, worked six non-injury wrecks and handled two welfare checks, two reckless driver reports, four traffic hazards, one ani-mal calls, one civil matter, 21 security checks and two alarms.

January 134:06 a.m., Ebener & Dietert - When

a driver finally stopped for a cop’s flashing lights and siren, he took off running, but officers found three handguns in the truck.

8:19 a.m., 100 Horse Hill - A woman said while she was trying to move out,

her boyfriend was yelling, pushing and threatening her.

8:24 a.m., 200 Sandy Shoal - A man discovered someone shot out his truck window overnight.

9:07 a.m., 600 N. School - A man feared there was a gas leak when he heard a hissing sound, but util-ity workers explained so much gas is being used, that the sound was it rushing through the pipes.

5:28 p.m., 1000 River - When an officer spied a vehicle that was stolen in San Antonio and had been spray-painted black, police arrested the man on warrants and also charged him with failure to identify for giving offi-cers the wrong name.

5:32 p.m., 800 W. San Antonio - A woman said she found marijuana in her tot’s backpack after he was dropped off by his father.

7:43 p.m., 100 Old San Antonio - An assault was reported at a youth home.

Police also made 29 traffic stops, assisted the public twice and an EMS crew once, checked out one suspicious vehicle, worked one non-injury wreck and handled three welfare checks, 19 security checks and one false alarm.

January 149:33 a.m., 600 N. Main - During a

traffic stop, one person was arrested.10:29 a.m., 1300 S. Main - A man

said he lost his wallet earlier at the gas pumps.

11:23 a.m., I-10 mile 543 - After OnStar reported a driver had a stuck accelerator and couldn’t stop, police found her after she got the vehicle stopped and followed her to a car dealership.

1:26 p.m., 100 Old San Antonio - A boy who ran away from a charter school was found and convinced to return to the campus.

5:19 p.m., 600 W. Bandera - One woman was arrested during a traffic stop.

11:54 p.m., I-10 mile 540 - During a traffic stop, one man was arrested for driving with an invalid license.

Officers also made 27 traffic stops, assisted the public five times and an EMS crew once, investigated two suspicious people and one suspicious vehicle and handled one welfare check, one civil matter, one animal call, 28 security checks and one false alarm.

KENDALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT

January 1112:42 p.m., 500 Lindner Ave, Com-

fort – A caller complained about his neighbor’s loud music every morning, but a deputy’s decibel meter regis-tered within the legal limits.

1:43 p.m., 400 July Ln. – After a woman complained about a neigh-bor’s child riding a go-cart in the area, a deputy explained they were private roads and she should give her gripes to the landlord.

5:08 p.m., 700 High St., Comfort – A man reported getting a threatening voicemail.

7:16 p.m., 500 Meadow Ln. – Deputies were called to break up a quarrel between a woman who said her boyfriend wouldn’t give her back her phone and scratched her.

7:54 p.m., 700 Broadway, Comfort – A caller reported a woman was yelling at a neighboring house, but deputies couldn’t find her.

10:06 p.m., N. Hwy. 87, Comfort – A man reported passed out in his car in a drive-thru was found and arrested.

Deputies also made seven traffic stops, assisted the public three times and an EMS crew once, worked four non-injury wrecks and handled five reckless driver reports, two animal calls, two civil matters, one security check and three false alarms.

January 122:05 a.m., N. Hwy. 87, Comfort

– After a clerk asked for help with

an elderly man who had no gas, no money or credit card, deputies learned his wife had just reported he has dementia and was missing from Comal County.

11:23 a.m., Curry Creek & Hwy. 46 E. – During a traffic stop, a deputy real-ized the driver was having a medical emergency and called for EMS.

11:30 a.m., 30500I-10- A caller complained about vehicles cutting through the median because of the traffic backup.

12:39 p.m., 100 Wall St., Comfort – A man reported being harassed by a county employee.

12:45 p.m., 500 FM 1376 – After a man said his lost cell phone was pinging at a house, deputies found no one home.

12:47 p.m., 100 W. Hwy. 46 – A caller said seven or eight motorcycles were being reckless and passing in No Passing zones.

1:04 p.m., 300 Deep Hollow Dr. – Deputies were called to calm a disturbance between a mother and two sisters.

2:40 p.m., Staudt St. – When the man who called to ask if there was a warrant out for his arrest was told there was, he agreed to turn himself in.

5:14 p.m., High St., Comfort – A man suspected a vehicle parked on the back of his property was stolen because it was no longer there.

5:44 p.m., 300 E. Hwy. 46 – Fire-fighters were called to free a woman who was trapped in her wrecked vehi-cle and EMS to treat injuries from a head-on collision

8:12 p.m., Old No. 9 - EMS was called for injuries suffered in a one-vehicle crash.

10:29 p.m., 800 FM 289 – A caller complained their driveway was blocked by guests at a dancehall wedding.

Deputies also made 41 traffic stops, assisted the public twice, checked out one suspicious vehicle, worked one non-injury wreck and handled two civil matters, four animal calls, five reckless driver reports and two false alarms.

January 136:43 a.m., 200 Waring Welfare – A

black cow went for a morning stroll.8:45 a.m., 200 Marquardt Rd. –

After a woman asked deputies to keep an eye out for her mini-pony that ran away, another caller reported a mini horse showed up on their property. Owner and tiny equine were reunited.

9:51 a.m., 200 Upper Balcones Rd. – A man said someone opened his and his neighbor’s mailboxes and nothing was inside.

11:49 a.m., 1900 FM 473 – During a traffic stop, one person was arrested.

2:52 p.m., 100 Mountain Circle – A man who was doing a controlled burn called for help when the fire got out of hand and was reaching nearby trees.

5:33 p.m., Staudt St. – Two inmates were separated after one assaulted another.

6:14 p.m., 200 Brooks Crossing – A woman said her neighbor’s dog had killed more of her chickens.

8:27 p.m., 31100 I-10 – An employee reported three men assaulted a customer and headed out on I-10.

8:40 p.m., 30700 I-10 – After a man reported he could see on security cam that someone was breaking into a vehicle on a dealership lot, deputies learned it was the owner’s son work-ing on one of the vehicles.

11:16 p.m., 100 Ranch Dr. – A man reported his and his neighbor’s mail-box was vandalized.

Deputies also made 47 traffic stops, assisted the public three times and an EMS crew once, investigated two suspicious vehicles and a 911 hang-up call, worked one non-injury wreck and handled two welfare checks, two animal calls, two reckless driver

reports and one false alarm.

January 1410:40 a.m., 100 Holiday Rd., Com-

fort – A dog bite was reported.10:49 a.m., I-10 mile 524 – One

person was detained during a traffic stop.

11:47 a.m., 200 High St., Comfort – A drug case was reported.

1:55 p.m., 400 N. Walnut Way – A sexual assault was reported.

3:02 p.m., Staudt St. – A couple of jail inmates got into a fight, but neither was injured.

5:14 p.m., I-10 mile 535 – Depu-ties shut down several lanes of traffic while firefighters extinguished sev-eral grass fires in the median.

6:02 p.m., Scenic Loop Rd. – Some-one drove through a man’s yard, took out the mailbox and took out several mailboxes along the road, leaving chunks of his car behind.

6:11 p.m., 1100 Ranger Creek Rd. – A caller reported a fire with flames as high as an elephant’s … er … a telephone pole, but several fire trucks couldn’t find it.

Deputies also made 25 traffic stops, assisted the public twice and another law enforcement agency once, inves-tigated one suspicious person and three suspicious vehicles, worked one non-injury wreck, attempted to serve one warrant and handled three reck-less driver reports, two traffic hazards, four civil matters, three animal calls, 11 security checks and three false alarms.

FAIR OAKS RANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT

January 78:02 a.m., 8800 Calvary Dr. – Resi-

dent reported theft of an E-Z Go golf cart from his driveway.

10:26 a.m., 31000 Scarteen – Responding to a report of illegal dumping in a resident’s garbage containers, an officer searched trash, found an envelope with a name and address where the homeowner’s son agreed to remove the garbage.

11: 16 a.m. – 7200 Dietz-Elkhorn – Resident complained of identity theft after his credit card showed charges for beauty products delivered in Delaware.

2:02 p.m., 8500 Rolling Oaks – When a resident complained of unsightly truck in a neighbor’s yard, an officer said police don’t enforce ordinances concerning vehicles on private property, so the complainant threatened to sue the city.

4:28 p.m., 7700 Battle Intense – A resident complained that someone was driving golf carts on the nature trails, but the accused person denied the accusation.

10:54 p.m., Ralph Fair at Dietz-Elk-horn – Officer responded to report of a reckless driving, but was unable to locate the SUV.

Officers also handled two deer calls, one reckless driver report and assisted the public once.

January 812:53 a.m., 9000 Fair Oaks Pkwy.

– Responding to a complaint of a sus-picious vehicle in a parking lot, officer found vehicle and driver, who said he had been drinking and was waiting for his mother to pick him up.

3:44 p.m., 3200 Rolling Acres Trail – Officer investigated report of a loose dog attacking a neighbor’s goat and cited the dog’s owner, who agreed to pay the veterinary bill.

5:15 p.m., 30000 Ralph Fair – No one was injured when a driver passed out and ran into a guardrail.

7:21 p.m., 3000 Ralph Fair – Officer noticed a parked car and several peo-ple near the roadside with flashlights, but learned they were only looking for their dog.

Police also handled three animal calls and one false alarm.

January 911:19 a.m., 8900 Sendero – After a

resident complained of a loose dog, an officer scanned the dog’s chip, located the owner and returned the dog.

1:28 p.m., 7200 Dietz-Elkhorn – A resident turned in the woman’s gold watch he found on a walk.

10:22 p.m., 26500 Ralph Fair – Offi-cer arrested the erratic driver when he found discovered 0.4 grams of meth.

Officers also responded to two ani-mal calls and a false alarm.

January 102:05 a.m., 29000 Ralph Fair –

During a traffic stop, an officer discovered two clear plastic bags with white residue and charged the driver with possession of controlled substances.

3:08 p.m., 28100 I-10 – Officer investigated complain that a work truck rear-ended a motorist in a pri-vate parking lot.

4:30 p.m., Ralph Fair at Dietz-Elk-horn – Officer cited a property owner when his controlled burn got out of control.

Officers also handled three animal calls, worked one non-injury wreck and assisted an ambulance crew once.

January 1112:42 a.m., 8500 Fair Oaks Pkwy –

On a traffic stop, an officer smelled the aroma of marijuana, discovered a pipe and baggie and arrested the driver.

5:33 a.m. 8600 Turning Leaf – A resident said his mailbox had been destroyed.

10:31 a.m., 31000 Meadow Trail – Responding to a 911 hang-up call, an officer learned that a woman acciden-tally hit that button when helping her grandfather install a new phone.

Officers also investigated a 911 hang-up call, assisted the public once, worked a non-injury wreck, handled six animal calls and two false alarms.

January 1210:30 a.m., 7800 Timber Top –

Woman reported suspicious online connection and chats between her underage daughter and an older man.

10:53 p.m., 31400 Ralph Fair – When an officer tried to pull over a suspicious vehicle, the driver led him on a high-speed chase up to 100 mph and into Comal County, so he alerted deputies there.

Officers also responded to a false alarm.

January 1312:36 p.m., 7800 Timber Top – A

caller complained of harassing text messages from a woman.

7:02 p.m., Heritage Trail at Wood-land – A woman flagged down an officer to report her sons had left home without permission, but then said she would call back if they didn’t come home.

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January 141:09 p.m., 30400 Saratoga – After a

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Officers also handled four animal calls, a reckless driving complaint and a false alarm.

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Relationships ... Saying your final goodbye, part 2Here we are again, learning how

to say goodbye, even our final good-byes. Last week I talked about my sister Paula saying goodbye to a dear friend who passed away after a long battle with cancer.

Her friend was one of the most resilient of friends during her time with us. Only those who have made the cancer journey could ever understand more fully the depth and courage required to fight the good fight.

No matter whether a person wins the battle here or wins it on the other side, how do you say goodbye to a dear friend? What do you say before they are gone? What do you say in the final days and hours? How has your own life and faith been challenged? How do you share your love and faith while they are still with you?

Last week I also shared my per-spective on these questions as I witnessed my sister walking with her friend through the years.

Right now, Paula is recuperating from nine long, committed months caring for her friend. Yet, she has offered to share her thoughts this week.

With my sister’s experience being

so fresh on her mind and heart, I felt these questions would be best answered by her as well. Let’s hear what she gained from knowing this special person called, Lydia.

“My friend fought cancer for five and one-half years, through surger-ies, radiation, years of chemo all while holding down a full time job and volunteer positions. She was the strongest woman I have ever known with great beauty inside and out, an amazing mind and memory, a beau-tiful voice, multi-lingual - a woman of many gifts.”

With the first two questions, “How do you say goodbye to a dear friend?” and “What do you say before they are gone?” Paula reflected over her friend’s final months, wondering what else could she do?

Here is her response. “Yet, what could we do? The answer is simple – be there, show up, sit with her,

share your heart with her, be real. No placating words were spoken as they were meaningless.

“Showing up wasn’t always easy. Leaving my husband for a few days every week left household chores, maintenance and upkeep on my home front in disarray. Little got done for nine months.

“Yet I looked forward to going until the last month or so as she began to deteriorate more, pain management was difficult to main-tain and she became difficult to be around at times. That was the time that commitment, faith and love were challenged the most.

“My other friends who didn’t know Lydia supported and encour-aged me to keep showing up.”

Then comes the next question, “What do you say in the final days and hours?”

In the midst of witnessing Lyd-ia’s final days and hours, Paula struggled with her own thoughts of wanting to stay home. Wasn’t what she had done enough?

In Paula’s words, “I was appalled at myself for wanting to stay home. I did continue to visit regularly and was privileged to spend the last three and one-half hours of her

life with her and share this prayer with her: ‘Come Lord Jesus and take my friend home.’ I spoke that phrase several times over the course of that afternoon telling her how much she is loved, what she meant in my life and then putting her in charge of celebratory reunions when her friends and family join her in heaven.”

And the last two questions but surely not the final ones to ponder, “How has your own life and faith been challenged?” and “How do you share your love and faith while they are still with you?”

Paula reflected, “In getting to know her over the years, I have come to understand that exterior beauty is not always a blessing as it brings unwanted attention, and in her case abuse. It was a struggle to stay alive yet she managed to give to others throughout her life. So to see her continue to struggle and endure much pain in her cancer battle was especially difficult for her friends and family.”

Upon Lydia’s final hours Paula closes her thoughts here about her very special friend.

“Lydia liked the song, “A Bridge Over Troubled Water.” I played it

for her. She was often the bridge for me in gaining understanding of the trials of my life, giving me perspec-tive, and helping me to connect the root causes of a situation with my response.

“She was an amazing lady, loved and respected by many and will be missed for the rest of my life. Most importantly, she will continue to inspire and motivate me to make a difference in others’ lives the way she did throughout her life.”

If you are struggling to know what to do for a dear friend like Lydia, I hope this two-part column helped you gain comfort and understanding on how to be there for your friend in whatever way you can.

And most of all, dear reader, if you are struggling and taking a journey like Lydia was, I pray you too will have friends like my sister at your side loving you and caring for you.

Sharon L. Benedict, is a speaker, author and weaver. She is avail-able as a speaker, free-lance writer and custom weaving. She wel-comes questions and comments at seekreachachieve@gvtc.com. Visit www.celebratingyourjourney.com.

Give those red-tipped photinias another thoughtWhile talking to one of my

neighbors the other day, he mentioned that his red-tipped photinias are starting to put on some new red leaves and that some of them had black spots on them. Then he asked me if or how he should prune them.

I told him, “Yeah. With a chain saw – about 1 to 2 inches above the ground.” I laughed but he didn’t. Guess he really likes those photin-ias. They are after all about 15 feet tall so I guess he likes them enough to continue to keep them alive. Whatever.

The reason I mention this is that red-tip photinias aren’t recommended any more for this area by any gardening groups in Texas. They’re too susceptible to the black spot fungus problem and once you get black spot on your photin-ias, it’s just a matter of time before they bite the dust.

The black spot fungus is the same as the one on roses, apple trees, other fruit trees and other plants. It’s a fungal

disease that is usually caused by too much water, which provides the ideal growing environment for the fungus (fungus likes moisture, dark-ness and warmth, which we have plenty of).

If you’ve ever seen it, you’ve probably noticed that the spots are rounded in shape. Look closely and you’ll see the spore mat right in the middle of the spot. It looks like a little spot of dust.

If you blow on it or drop a drop of water on it, it goes “Poof” and kind of explodes, sending the spores down to everything below it (and wherever the wind blows).

If the water drop hits the mat hard enough, the spores will also splash upwards to leaves above it.

A sprinkler system or a good rain really makes it spread. That’s why you must carefully pull or cut the dis-eased leaves off and dispose of them. The spores will go everywhere once you start handling the leaves.

If you do get black spot, you have several choices of what to do about it. The first one was mentioned above – a chainsaw. The second is to take off all the leaves with black spots and put them in the garbage can (not the com-post pile). The third choice is to try to eliminate the fungal disease with a good fungicide.

A systemic fungicide (meaning that it gets into the vascular system of the plant thus fighting the disease from the inside) like Daconil will do the best job, but usually will not completely eliminate the problem.

Be sure to follow the direc-tions for mixing it and spray it until it drips from the leaves. It’s sort of ironic that

to fight the disease you’ve got to spray the leaves and by doing so, spread the spores. You’ll need to repeat the pro-cedure at least 3 or 4 times at 10-day intervals.

If you’re lucky, you’ll whip it. If not, plan on replacing it with something like yaupon holly, Texas redbud, or Amer-ican Beauty hawthorn. Each gets about 12 to 15 feet tall. The hawthorn is the full-sized version of Indian hawthorn so it gets the same beautiful flowers in the spring.

START THINKING SPRING

If you have someplace to do it, now is the time to start seeds indoors for planting in late winter and early spring. Plant seeds like broccoli, cab-bage, cauliflower, collards, lettuce, onions, petunias and begonias.

The seeds may be a little hard to find locally. Check out some of those catalogues you’ve been receiving. If you normally plant seeds for your tomatoes so you can trans-

plant them later, wait another week or so and then plant those seeds.

Since the last couple of freezes, many or most of the plants in your yard have sent their sap down to the roots to be stored for a few weeks and most, if not all, of the leaves are gone.

Now you can really see what the structure of the shrub or tree looks like. What that means is that now is a really good time to do any pruning that needs to be done.

Contrary to popular belief, pruning is a lot more than just hacking the tops off shrubs and trees. In fact, indiscrim-inate pruning causes more ugly than beauty.

Most people won’t cut a plant for any reason. But believe it or not, many plants need and depend on some pruning by the human ele-ment when Mother Nature doesn’t or can’t do it.

Send ideas, questions or comments to gardener1935@gmail.com.

Tom Harris, PhD

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S t a r S p o r t sStar Sports

QUICK KICKS

SPORTS SCHEDULEBoys Basketball

Boerne Champion*Friday, Jan. 18, Cham-

pion at Seguin, 6:30 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, McCollum at Champion, 6:30 p.m.

Boerne High*Friday, Jan. 18, Wim-

berley at Boerne, 6:30 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, Canyon Lake at Boerne, 6:30 p.m.

Boerne Geneva*Friday, Jan. 18, Gene-

va at Marble Falls Faith Academy, 7:30 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, John Paul II at Geneva, 7:30 p.m.

Comfort High*Friday, Jan. 18, In-

gram at Comfort, 7:30 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, Comfort at Gervin Acad-emy, 6 p.m.

Girls BasketballBoerne Champion

*Friday, Jan. 18, Se-guin at Champion, 6:30 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, Champion at McCollum, 6:30 p.m.

Boerne High*Friday, Jan. 18,

Boerne at Wimberley, 6:30 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, Boerne at Canyon Lake, 6:30 p.m.

Boerne Geneva*Friday, Jan. 18, Gene-

va at Marble Falls Faith Academy, 6:15 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, John Paul II at Geneva, 6 p.m.

Comfort High*Friday, Jan. 18, In-

gram at Comfort, 6 p.m.*Tuesday, Jan. 22,

Comfort at Gervin Acad-emy, 6:15 p.m.

Boys SoccerBoerne Champion

*Friday, Jan. 18, Cham-pion at Veterans Memo-rial, 7 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, No game

Boerne High*Friday, Jan. 18,

Boerne at Giddings, 7 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, Boerne at South San, 7 p.m.

Boerne Geneva*Saturday, Jan. 19,

Geneva at St. Gerard, 12 p.m.

*Monday, Jan. 21, Our Lady of the Hills at Ge-neva, 7 p.m.

Girls SoccerBoerne Champion

*Friday, Jan. 18, Veter-ans Memorial at Cham-pion, 7 p.m.

*Tuesday, Jan. 22, Alamo Heights at Cham-pion, 7 p.m.

Boerne High*Thursday – Saturday,

Jan. 17-19, Governor’s Cup Tournament

*Friday, Jan. 25, Pleas-anton at Boerne, 7 p.m.

Boerne Geneva*Saturday, Jan. 19,

Geneva at St. Gerard, 10 a.m.

*Monday, Jan. 21, Our Lady of the Hills at Ge-neva, 5 p.m.

Swim & DiveBoerne High &

Boerne Champion*Thursday – Saturday,

Jan. 24-26, District Meet at Davis Natatorium

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The Comfort High football team had 12 players receive recognition by the District 13-3A II coaches after their performances this year.

CHS had four players named first team on offense and defense, one land on the second team offense and seven that were named hon-orable mention.

First team offensive selec-tions for the Bobcats include junior running back Trenton Gwaltney and junior kicker Ricardo Campos.

The Bobcats had one sec-ond-team offensive selection and that was sophomore wide receiver Jose Herrera.

Defensively, sophomore

David Ashcraft was a first-team outside linebacker, while junior Zachary Vilo was a first-team safety.

Comfort High also had seven players receive hon-orable mention recognition. HM picks for the Cats include senior cornerback Gabe Beck, senior tight end Keegan Crawford, senior inside linebacker Sergio Cabral, senior offensive lineman Rodrigo Simental, senior defensive lineman Antoan Ibarra, junior offen-sive lineman Agustin Flores and senior offensive lineman Braeten Weyel.

Comfort High finished the year at 3-7 overall and went 1-4 in district, just missing the playoffs under first-year coach Brandon Easterly.

BY KERRY BARBOZA■ Sports Editor

Bobcats have 12 footballplayers named all-district

Star photo: Kerry BarbozaComfort junior Ricardo Campos (2) was named a first-team all-district kicker this past season.

Lady Hounds sting Yellowjackets to win 2nd straight district contest

Star photo: Kerry BarbozaBoerne High’s Jessica Davila (33) reaches for a steal in Tuesday’s district game against Llano.

Chargers rain down 3-pointers on IndiansChampion hits school-record 16 3-pointers as Adamek faces former team Harlandale

Tuesday’s victory by the Boerne Champion boys bas-ketball team over Harlandale was – to say the least – bit-tersweet for Chargers coach Chris Adamek.

Champion defeated the Indians, 80-63, as they improved to 6-2 in District 26-5A, but it came against a school where Adamek spent 14 years of his coaching career before coming back to

BY KERRY BARBOZA■ Sports Editor

Star photo: Kerry BarbozaBoerne Champion’s Parker Delay gets ready to launch a 3-pointer during the key third quarter of Tuesday’s game against Harlandale.

See GAME, page 14

BHS boys proving to be road warriors

The Boerne High boys bas-ketball team has had to start district play with their first two games on the road, but that hasn’t fazed the Grey-hounds who are off to a 2-0 start in 28-4A.

After a win in Bandera on Friday, BHS was in Llano on Tuesday and picked up

a 59-30 victory over the Yellowjackets.

Boerne is 16-10 overall and 2-0 in district. They’ll get their first 28-4A home game Friday when they host Wimberley. After that, they are home again on Tuesday

See BHS, page 14

After an 0-2 start to dis-trict play, the Boerne High girls basketball team has won its last two games to even its district record.

BHS defeated visit-ing Llano Tuesday night, 68-36, to pull itself up to 2-2 in 28-4A. Tuesday’s win comes after they beat Bandera last Thursday.

The Lady Hounds are 17-11 overall and visit Wimberley Friday as they continue district action.

Boerne High coach Amy Ruede said the team had been playing well before district began and noted that they appear to be back at that level.

“We finally got back to where we were before Christmas break,” she said. “We needed these last two

games after going 0-2 to start district and the girls have responded by taking it up a notch in practice.”

Ruede added that it was an all-around solid perfor-mance in a lot of different areas on Tuesday that pro-pelled the team to victory.

“The girls really executed the game plan and played with a lot of intensity,” she

BY KERRY BARBOZA■ Sports Editor

See HOUNDS, page 14

Lady Chargers win at HarlandaleField Gatlin scores 20 points and reaches 1,000 for careerOne of the Boerne Champion girls bas-

ketball players had a memorable night as the Lady Chargers defeated Harlandale on Tuesday in a District 26-5A tilt.

Field Gatlin scored 20 points in Cham-pion’s 71-36 road victory over the Lady Indians to reach the 1,000-point scoring mark for her high school career.

The Lady Chargers improved to 7-3 in district and 19-6 overall. Champion hosts Seguin Friday as they continue 26-5A play.

It was all Champion as the Chargers jumped out to a 21-7 lead in the first quarter and then held Harlandale to seven points

See WIN, page 14

Chargers shut out Lanier as district looms

Star photo: Kerry BarbozaThe Chargers celebrate one of their four goals Tuesday night when they hosted Lanier.

Boerne Champion picked up its second shutout victory in a row Tuesday when the Char-ger boys soccer team hosted Lanier.

Champion won Tues-day’s match, 3-0, just a few days after defeating KIPP University Prep last Friday, 4-0.

The consecutive shutout wins improves Cham-pion’s record to 3-2 as they wrap up nondistrict action. The Chargers open 26-5A play Friday at Vet-erans Memorial.

Jack Griffiths and Nick Gaither gave the Chargers

BY KERRY BARBOZA■ Sports Editor

See SOCCER, page 14

Boerne Champion boys soccer coach Clifton Tier-ney said last year’s loss to Austin High in the first round of the playoffs was hard to take and added that it gave the returners some-thing to think about during the offseason.

Now that the 2019 sea-son is here, Tierney said they’ll use last year’s early exit from the postseason as motivation.

“We definitely are look-ing to make it back into the playoffs. Losing to Austin High was something that our entire team struggled with. Having a player taken out of the game in the first

5 minutes due to a terrible foul really set us back a bit,” he said. “After they got a couple of goals on us, soon after that we fought back but were unable to walk away with the win. Even though they ended up at the regional tournament and were a proven good team,

BY KERRY BARBOZA■ Sports Editor

Charger soccer has plenty of motivation

See TEAM, page 14

Geneva girls tripped up by Harper Lady Horns

Star photo: Wendy GriffeyGeneva School of Boerne senior Kensi Parker shoots from the line in a recent game.

The Geneva School of Boerne girls basketball team entered its final week of nondistrict action with a pair of road games.

On Tuesday, Geneva was at Harper and dropped that contest, 46-32. The Eagles, 16-9 overall, visit Marble Falls Faith Acad-emy on Friday before opening district play next week against John Paul II.

Geneva was actually ahead after one quarter on Tuesday but was out-scored in the final three stanzas. The Eagles were leading 11-8 after one, but couldn’t hold the lead.

Harper doubled up Geneva in the second, 12-6, and doubled them up again in the third, 10-5, and the Lady Longhorns

See GENEVA, page 14

The Boerne High boys soc-cer team hit the road to take on Austin Eastside Memorial Tuesday night in a nondis-trict match.

The Hounds competed well but came up short to Eastside Memorial, 3-1, as they slip to 0-7 on the season. BHS will continue nondistrict action Friday with another long road trip to Giddings.

Boerne High’s Tyler Rahn scored the team’s only goal on the assist by Scott Hettie.

The Greyhound boys team will continue to play non-district matches until their district opener on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Canyon Lake. They are scheduled to visit the Rio Grande Valley next week and take part in the Progreso Tournament.

BHS boys soccer team plays nondistrict match in Austin

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You can accuse golf and golfers of being unexcit-ing and uninteresting, but change a few rules and you’ll see some action. This year brought the first major rule changes in years, and two of the changes have lit up pros and amateurs alike.

The first rule to stir every-one up proves how little it can take to excite a golfer. Instead of dropping a ball from shoulder height the new rule says the ball is to be dropped from knee height. A surprising number of people think the knee-high drop is awkward, looks silly, and is hard to execute.

I can’t say I see the big deal here. If you think a knee-high drop looks silly, try doing it like the rules required when I started playing. We dropped it over our shoulder and behind the back. Not only did it look silly, there was no telling where the ball might go.

Excitement over another big rule change is more pre-dictable. There is no longer a penalty for hitting the

pin while putting, so play-ers may now leave the pin in the hole. People argue about whether the pin will hurt or help, but Bryson DeChambeau left the pin in whenever possible at the first tournament of the year and led the field in putting.

Dave Pelz, one of the top short-game instructors in the world, is a former NASA scientist and he brings that science background to golf. Pelz conducted a study 28 years ago that showed the pin might knock a few putts out of the hole but it helps more than it hurts in the long run. I’m sure “mad sci-entist” DeChambeau knows about Pelz’s work.

The folks in charge of the rules claim they had no idea that leaving the pin in the hole would be an advantage. How the USGA missed Pelz’s data is a mystery to me. Pelz has written books about putting, had a televi-sion show, and teaches all over the world. On the other hand, I’ve been in enough academic committee debates to know arguments are a lot more fun than look-ing at evidence. I’m sure

the rules-making commit-tees had a lot of fun arguing.

If scores at the first Good Old Boys tournament of 2019 are any indication, the rule changes won’t have a big effect on scores here. The field of 16 play-ers earned a meager total of 4 points, and one golfer earned the majority of those points. Bandera’s Steve Stoops shot a 3-point round of 80 to win. Stoops got a fast start with birdies on the 1st and 2nd holes at the Fly-ing L and played steady golf the rest of the way.

Tournament director and Bandera resident Ted Brown was next with one point from his round of 89.

San Antonio’s Chris Finger won closest-to-the-hole honors on hole No. 7 and Bandera’s Van Tom “Coach” Whatley was clos-est on hole No. 17.

The Flying L Men’s Golf Association will hold an Individual Low Net tour-nament on Saturday, Jan. 26, and the Couples League will hold their second scramble the next day, Jan. 27. Players may sign up in the Flying L pro shop.

BY CHARLIE PROKOP■ Special to the Star

Good Old Boys Golf League

Submitted photo

On Tuesday, Jan. 8, Pat Childress, recorded a hole in one on the 3rd hole at the Tapatio Springs Golf Resort. Pat used a pitching wedge on the 103-yard hole. This feat was witnessed by Mark Mobley, Bob Drees and Larry Anawaty.

Golfer records hole in one at Tapatio Springs

teach and coach in Boerne.“I was really nervous

before, kind of anxious dur-ing, but after you’ve coached hundreds of games, you get into your element and forget about it for a little bit,” he said. “Late in the game when the outcome was decided I started thinking about them and how much those guys mean to me.

“It was great to see us play so well, but I never want to see those guys get beat,” Adamek added. “I wish nothing but the best for them. I really care for them and miss them a bunch.”

While it was drizzling out-side the gym on Tuesday, it was raining 3s inside as the

Chargers drained a school-record 16 3-pointers in the contest.

In fact, it was a barrage of 3s early in the third that blew the contest open.

Champion was only ahead 34-30 when the second half started, but four straight 3s, two by Nathan Ghavidel and one each from Graham Gross and Parker Delay stretched the lead to double digits and the Indians never recovered.

The Chargers nailed 7 of their 16 3s in the third as they tallied 25 points in the quarter.

“That was our best third quarter of the year, we really played well, “Adamek said. “Nathan was fantastic and we got some great contribu-tions from other people.”

Ghavidel finished with six 3s, including four in the cru-cial third period, and paced

the Chargers with 29 points.Hunter Darling nailed two

3s on his way to 19 points, while Delay hit 5 of 10 shots from beyond the arch to end up with 16 points.

Gross tallied 9 points, all from 3-point range, while Reid Higgins contributed 5 points and Brant Gault and Garrison Giddens both made free throws.

The Chargers were 16 of 34 from long range and fin-ished 18 of 25 from the foul line where Darling went 5 for 5 and Ghavidel hit 9 of 11 free throws.

Darling grabbed a team high 9 rebounds and Gross had 7 boards, while Ghavidel dished out 6 assists and Mar-shall Renfroe had 4 assists

Champion is 20-7 overall and 6-2 in district. They con-tinue 26-5A action Friday night in Seguin.

GAMEFROM PAGE 13

against Canyon Lake and then close out the first round of district at Fredericksburg next Friday.

Things were tight early in Tuesday’s contest in Llano and the Hounds were only

ahead by three points at the end of the first quarter, 14-11, but Boerne got some separation in the second when they outscored the Yel-lowjackets 14-2 to open up a 28-13 halftime lead.

BHS had its best offensive quarter in the third with 17 points, while Llano again tallied 11 and the Grey-hounds were up 45-23 as

the game continued into the fourth quarter.

Boerne was very consistent in Tuesday’s game and hit for 14 in the fourth as they tallied 14 points in three of the four stanzas.

BHS played another solid quarter of defense in the fourth and held Llano to 6 points to go with the 2 points they scored in the second.

BHSFROM PAGE 13

said. “We handled the ball well and were able to knock down open looks. Our defense turned into offense for us.”

The Lady Hounds jumped on the Yellowjackets early in the first quarter and went up 17-6 as the game went to the second.

Llano played better in the second and scored 11, but BHS still outscored them by a point after they tallied 12

and took a 29-17 lead into the break.

After a spirited perfor-mance by the BHS Starlettes Dance Team at halftime, the Lady Hounds blew the game open in the third by winning the quarter, 25-10, to double up the Yellowjackets, 54-27.

Boerne closed it out by outscoring Llano in the fourth, 14-9, as they won all four periods.

Maddie Ferris had another strong game and led the team in scoring with 18 points, while Shea Dudney added 16 points and Jessica Davila made it three BHS

players in double figures after she tallied 15.

Julia Everhardus, Macy Howell and Jordyn Lemm all netted 4, while Tori Riebel, Madison Ebner and Gracie Walker scored 2 points apiece and Cara Wylie hit a free throw.

Walker pulled down 9 rebounds and had 3 steals, while Lemm recorded 8 boards and blocked 3 shots. Dudney led the team in steals and came up with 7 take-aways and also had a team-high 5 assists, while Ebner and Ferris dished out 3 assists apiece.

HOUNDSFROM PAGE 9

again in the second, while they scored 15 to open up a 36-14 lead by halftime.

After the break, Champion hit for 21 in the third and outscored the Indians by 10 after Harlandale tallied 11 to give the Chargers a 57-25 advantage going into the

fourth quarter.In the final stanza, the

teams traded buckets and Champion outscored the Indians by two points, 14-12 to seal the win.

Gatlin had team-high honors with her 20 points after she went 5 for 6 from 2-point range and knocked down three 3s. Hannah Bar-raza added 18 points on 8 of 11 shooting and Caitlin Moon was the third Charger

in double digits after she made it a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds.

Addisen King finished with 6 points, Prestley Hammond contributed 5, Khiara Flu-gence and Megan Herrera both netted 3, while Hadyn Stadler and Sydney Reston chipped in with 2 apiece.

Barraza grabbed 8 rebounds and came up with 4 steals, while Katie Drawdy dished out 4 assists.

WINFROM PAGE 13

a 2-0 lead and then Coastas Heckman iced the match by scoring the last two goals, the last one on a header that sailed over the outstretched

arms of the Voks goalie.Gaither and Griffiths

both collected 1 assist each, while Gavin Peterson picked up 1 assist.

Andres Cortez was in goal for the entire match and came up with 4 saves and Chargers coach Clifton Tierney said the defensive

player of the game was Ruben deLeon.

“We possessed the game well to keep Lanier out of the game, it’s our second shutout in a row,” he said. “We will start district this Friday opening up with SA Veterans Memorial who has been playing well.”

SOCCERFROM PAGE 13

we felt if circumstances were different we could have won that game. Since Austin High went up to 6A we won’t have a chance to replay them, but we still plan on trying to make play-offs and from there to go as deep as possible.”

Tierney said things are smoother than they were last year as he begins his second year with the program.

“After coming into the program last year, I have to admit I was blessed to have such a good group of seniors who really were open to the changes I made from day one. This year things are smoother for me in the sense that I understand the logistics of the district better such as practice facilities, sched-ule, transportation, purchase orders, etc.,” he said. “I also have a better understanding of what types of players we have here at Champion compared to players I have coached elsewhere. When coaches call me up and ask what type of talent I have to work with here at Cham-pion, I usually tell them the players here have a high soccer IQ and can read the game well. This has a lot to do with the amount of work outside of school these kids put in such as club, clinics and camps.”

A look at the districtBecause the Chargers are

in a large district, they only get a few weeks of nondis-trict action and then have to jump into their district schedule.

This year, Champion opened their season on Jan. 4 and begin district play this Friday, only a two-week window to play nondistrict. They were limited to one tournament this year and that was at Alamo Heights opening weekend.

Tierney said he would like more time in nondistrict, but added that everybody in 26-5A is in the same boat.

“I would truly like at least one more week before dis-trict play in order to prepare ourselves. However, all the teams in district have the same starting date and will have to adapt just as quick,” he said. “The main issue for me is going to be injury prevention. I have been resting a lot of players who are banged up know-ing that I need everyone healthy for district since our district season is so long. I believe this will pay off as our guys will be well rested and hopefully 100 percent as we are in district play.

Included in the district is Veterans Memorial, Harlan-dale, Seguin, McCollum, Memorial, Kennedy, Ker-rville Tivy and Wagner, along with the Chargers.

Tierney said it’s a good district and added that some of the teams have played well in nondistrict.

“After looking into the way some of the teams have been performing in nondis-trict play has been a real eye opener as to the quality and talent of the teams in our district,” he said. “For example, with San Antonio Veterans almost beating New Braunfels, and Ker-rville still looking as strong as ever, it is going to be a fight to make it to the postseason. We have been

playing well so far but understand that consistency is key to making playoffs. It is all about getting the points you need (1 point for a tie, 3 points for a win) each game in order to make it to the top. There are teams we know we can’t drop any points to and there are teams we would gladly take a tie against, especially playing at their place.”

A look at the teamIncluded on this year’s

team is Andres Cortez, Coastas Heckman, Caleb Arnott, Colin Gilbert, Nicholas Gaither, Ethan Perryman, Biaggio Centi, Calvin Perryman, Amaan Faruqui, Wilber Ramirez, Miguel Perez, Anthony Del-locono, Patricio Vaquero, Jack Staudt, Marcos Guz-man, Mason Herbold, Cameron Herbold, Gavin Peterson, Ruben deLeon and Jack Griffiths.

Griffiths was a second-team all-district selection last year and Cortez was an honorable-mention pick.

Tierney said the players like each other and that it reflects in how they play.

“Our biggest strength is team unity. These guys all get along pretty well and create a great culture in the locker room and out on the field. I have either played on teams, or have coached teams where this isn’t always the case,” he said. “A lot of talented teams don’t perform as well on the field due to personality con-flicts and sometimes strong personalities. This year’s team really does a great job making each player on the team feel valued which can go a long way in regard to success and playing well.”

TEAMFROM PAGE 13

held a 30-22 lead going into the fourth quarter.

The Eagles played well in the final stanza and scored

10, but Harper kept pace and knocked in 15 to expand their advantage.

Kensi Parker led the team in scoring with 8, Sydney Griffey had 7, Aisling Ayers finished with 6, Micah How-ard contributed with 3, while Alexa Elizondo, Katherine

Lacy, Riley Tippit and Taylor Tippit all chipped in with 2 points.

Parker also had a team-high 9 rebounds and 4 steals, Kellie Khlot dished out 2 assists, while Taylor Tippit and Gabi Griffey came up with 4 steals each.

GENEVAFROM PAGE 13

The Geneva School of Boerne boys soccer team took on Pharr Tuesday after-noon in wet and muddy conditions in Pharr.

It rained all day and the field was saturated and muddy, but both teams were able to score at least once.

Geneva scored first, less

than two minutes into the match despite the conditions after a goal from Matthew Schroder, but Pharr evened the score eight minutes later and it remained 1-1 going into halftime. In the second half, Pharr’s offense picked up the pace as Geneva’s defense broke down and

Pharr capitalized with four more goals for the 5-1 win.

Pharr’s technical play and speed was better than Gene-va’s, according to coach John Rexroat.

The Eagles are back in action Saturday when they visit St. Gerard in San Anto-nio for an afternoon match.

Geneva boys soccer squad falls to Pharr

TMI student, Comfort resident, commits to Georgia State

Submitted photo

TMI junior and Com-fort resident, 6-foot-1 Peyton Crenwelge, re-cently gave her verbal commitment to play Division 1 Beach Vol-leyball at Georgia State after she graduates from high school.

For the second straight game, the Comfort Bobcats took on a state-ranked bas-ketball team in district action – this time the Randolph Ro-Hawks Tuesday night on the road.

Randolph more than doubled up the Bobcats on Tuesday, 80-39, to drop Comfort to 16-10 overall and 0-2 in District 26-3A play. They host Ingram Tom Moore on Friday.

Last Friday, Comfort faced

No. 9 state-ranked Marion and Randolph is ranked No. 5. Oh, and next Tuesday, the Bobcats tangle with No. 4 ranked Cole in another district contest as three 3A teams ranked in the top 9 reside in District 26-3A.

Randolph held a 33-16 first-quarter lead and then outscored the Cats in the second, 21-12, for the 54-28 halftime lead.

The Ro-Hawks won the third quarter, 15-4, and then

held the Cats to 7 points in the fourth, while they scored 11 to close out the contest.

Ethan Lempar led Com-fort in scoring with 8 points, Alan Hernandez added 6, Cooper New and Coltyn Barraza finished with 5 each, Jose Herrera and Oscar Fal-con netted 3 apiece, while Tomas LeBlanc, Chris Ruth-erford, Tucker Weyel and Kyndal Tedder all hit for 2 and David Ashcraft sank a free throw.

Cats face another ranked opponent in district

The Comfort Deer and Randolph Ro-Hawks met on Tuesday at Randolph AFB as the only two teams to not taste defeat in District 26-3A. At the end of the night, it was Comfort who stood alone atop the district standings with a 37-34 triumph.

With the victory, the Deer improve to 4-0 in District 26-3A and 17-11 overall. They host Ingram Tom Moore on Friday.

It was a hard-fought defensive battle the entire game, but the Deer pulled out to a 12-point lead early in the 4th only to have the Ro-Hawks go on a 12-0 run to tie the game midway through the 4th.

The Deer Dynamic Duo of Emiko Sweeney and Savanna Weyel came up big though as Sweeney went on a coast-to-coast weave for a layup and Savanna Weyel gathered in a Madeline Sharp pass down low for an easy bucket. Sweeney then nailed a pair of free throws to put the Deer up 37-32. Randolph’s leading scorer, Kyana Henderson, scored on a drive with 34 seconds left to cut the lead to 37-34, but the Deer defense managed to hold

on for the victory.Sweeney paced Comfort with 13 points

and Weyel chipped in with 8, Kendall Finke scored 7, Sharp added 5, while Cadyn Feller and Ashlynn Rodriguez both netted 2.

Deer take battle of district unbeatens

Photo courtesy of Cara Finke Emiko Sweeney drives the lane dur-ing the 37-34 Deer victory at Ran-dolph on Tuesday. The Deer remain undefeated in District 26-3A.

C h a m p i o n F o o t b a l l A w a r d sFRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2019 THE BOERNE STAR PAGE 15

Academic Award

Spirit Award

Outstanding Offensive Receiver

Outstanding Linebacker Award Most Valuable Special Teams Most Valuable Defense Award

Champion Defensive Club Award Most Valuable Offensive AwardChampion Offensive Club Award

2018 Boerne Champion Football Team Captains

Outstanding Defensive Lineman Outstanding Defensive Back

Outstanding Offensive Line Award Outstanding Offensive Back

Gladiator Award Attitude Award

Sam Gray and Isaac Robinson received the Char-ger Academic Award from Coach Dale Coley.

Jackson Pickett and Peyton Dougherty received the Gladiator Award from Coach Chuck Foster.

Trevor Smith and Kyle Bowman received the At-titude Award from Coach Blain Bagley.

Braden Wright and Justin Schwirtlich received the Spirit Award from Coach Matt Clayton.

Kory Dabbs received the Outstanding Offensive Lineman Award from Coach Matt Clayton and Coach J.D. Zimmerhanzel.

Tamari Jenkins received the Outstanding Offen-sive Back Award from Coach Braeden Lawhon and Coach J.D. Zimmerhanzel.

Konner Beavers received the Outstanding Re-ceiver Award from Coach Dale Coley and Coach J.D. Zimmerhanzel.

Derek Foster received the Outstanding Lineback-er Award from Coach Alan Ford and Blane Ellis.

Lake Schara received the Outstanding Defensive Lineman Award from Coach David Cruhm and Blane Ellis.

Bowen Fjord received the Outstanding Defensive Back Award from Coach John Uecker and Coach Blane Ellis.

Luke Boyers and Konner Beavers qualified for the Champion Offensive Club as a quarterback and a receiver. A QB has to throw for more than 1,000 yards, a receiver has to surpass the 500-yard receiving mark, while a running back has to break the 1,000-yard barrier. Boyers tossed for more than 1,000 yards and Beavers had more than 500 receiving yards. Boyers and Beavers pose with Coach J.D. Zimmerhanzel.

Derek Foster qualified for the Champion Defen-sive Club Award by recording more than 100 tackles this past season. A defensive player has to have at least 100 tackles, or 10 sacks, or 5 in-terceptions to qualify. Foster received the award from Coach Blane Ellis.

Sam Dillard received the Most Valuable Special Teams Award from Coach Chuck Foster and Coach Alan Ford.

Gage Oefinger received the Outstanding De-fense Award from Coach Blane Ellis.

Luke Boyers received the Most Valuable Offen-sive Award from Coach J.D. Zimmerhanzel.

Star photos: Kerry Barboza

The Boerne Champion football program recently held its annual awards ceremony in the school auditorium where several team awards were hand-ed out to the players.

(Left): Team captains for the team this past season were Luke Boyers, Derek Foster, Gage Oefinger and Trevor Smith. The captains were recog-nized and gave out thank-you gifts to the coaches at the ceremony.

PAGE 16 THE BOERNE STAR FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2019

Ringman Michael Ondrasek whips up a bid on behalf of Karsan Kurtz’ reserve grand champion market goat.

Reese Dunham showed the grand champion market lamb which netted him $10,000.

Flanked by helpers showing his grand champion market goat’s awards, Turner Matkin launched Saturday afternoon’s auction with a $15,000 sale.

Maddie Nevels’ grand champion broiler finished the grand champion auction bids at nearly $3,000.

Alexandra Nelson exhibited the show’s grand champion market swine ... an exemplary example of ham and hock that earned her $15,000.

The grand champion turkey ribbon went to Hunt-er Pape, whose gobbler brought in well over $3,000 at the final gavel.

Kendall County Junior Livestock Show

Steer Breed Winners Brahman

Champion - Madison ArnoldReserve Champion - Michelle Ortega

BrangusChampion - Emery Pierce

Reserve Champion - Taygan Rust

Santa Gertrudis Champion - Emma Zoeller

Reserve Champion - Summer Young

ABC Champion - Kendra Pfeiffer

Mini Steer Champion - Tucker Rust

AngusChampion - KJ Gilliland

Reserve Champion - LillieVogt

Hereford Champion - Lauren Byrd

Reserve Champion - Cameron Bourgeois

Shorthorn Champion - Judd Lozano

Reserve Champion - Kelsey Pfeiffer

Charolais Champion - Cole Dutton

Reserve Champion - Tucker Rust

Limi Champion - Claire Lozano

Reserve Champion - Kali Fisher

Maine Champion - Kendra Pfeiffer

Reserve Champion - Carson Bradley

Simmental Champion - Cameron BourgeoisReserve Champion - KJ Gilliland

AOB Champion - Taygan Rust

Reserve Champion - Pierce Dutton

Breeding Goat Breed WinnersAngora

Grand Champion – Jess StumpfReserve Grand Champion – Shanna

Marquart

Breeding DoesGrand Champion - Morgan UphamReserve Grand Champion - Mason

Smoot

Market Goat Breed Winners Light Weight

Champion - Justin Spenrath Reserve- Brynn Crawford

Medium Weight - Champion- Karson Kurtz

Reserve- Logann Weidenfeller

Heavy WeightChampion- Turner Matkin

Reserve - Emily Peters

Breeding Sheep Breed WinnersFinewool

Grand Champion – Corrie SmithReserve Grand Champion – Corrie

Smith

Medium WoolGrand Champion – Emily PetersReserve Grand Champion – Will

Peters

Dorper SheepGrand Champion – Kyra HunterReserve Grand Champion – Kyra

Hunter

Market Lamb Breed Winners Southdown

Champion - Maddie FerrisReserve Champion – Maddie Ferris

FinewoolChampion – Emily Peters

Reserve Champion – Arlis Adickes

Finewool Cross Champion – Maddie Ferris

Reserve Champion – Will Peters

DorperChampion – Sydney Curry

Reserve Champion – Hayes Hallmark

Medium WoolChampion – Reece DunhamReserve Champion – Rodney

Dunham

Breeding Swine Breed Winners Duroc

Champion – Taytum MoldenhauerReserve Champion – Anna Wyle

HampChampion – Gus Stehling

Reserve Champion – Lillie Vogt

DOPBChampion – Samuel Miller

Reserve – Zoe Ely

LOPBChampion – Gus Stehling

Reserve Champion – Gigi Stehling

YorkChampion – Luke Wyle

Reserve Champion – Gus Steling

CrossChampion – Josh Ingram

Reserve Champion – Luke Wyle

Market Swine Breed WinnersDuroc

Champion – Luke BohnertReserve Champion – Luke Wyle

HampChampion – Sophie Nelson

Reserve Champion – Beau Ketchner

DOPB Champion – Taytum MoldenhauerReserve Champion – Luke Wyle

LOPBChampion – Tristan Crawford

Reserve Champion – Anna Wyle

YorkChampion – Anna Wyle

Reserve Champion – Luke Bohnert

CrossChampion – Alexandria NelsonReserve Champion – Allie Esser

PoultryTurkeys

Grand Overall Champion – Hunter Pape

Reserve Overall Champion – Carter Pape

Turkey HenChampion – Carter Pape

Reserve Champion – Lane Matter

Turkey TomChampion – Hunter Pape

Reserve Champion – Natalie Burkholder

BroilersPullet

Champion – Faith HillReserve Champion - Judd Lozano

CockerelChampion – Maddie Nevels

Reserve Champion Laney Anson

MARKET STEERS Juniors

Grand Champion - Judd LozanoReserve Champion - Carson Bradley

SeniorsGrand Champion – Kelsey PfeifferReserve Champion – Kaiya Anders

MARKET GOATSJuniors

Grand Champion - Mason SmootReserve Champion - Riley Titsworth

Seniors Grand Champion - Justin Spenrath Reserve Champion - Shelby Curry

BREEDING SWINEJuniors

Grand Champion - Luke Wyle Reserve Champion - Zoe Ely

SeniorsGrand Champion - Wesley Mobley

Reserve Champion - Anna Wyle

MARKET SWINESeniors

Grand Champion - Madysen WalkerReserve Champion - Tobi Alexander

BREEDING SHEEPGrand Champion - Will Peters

Reserve Champion - Kyra Hunter

MARKET LAMBSSeniors

Grand Champion - Maddie FerrisReserve Champion - Gracie Phillips

JuniorsGrand Champion - Payton Boles

Reserve Champion- Kensley Sawyer

BROILERSSeniors

Grand Champion - Kassidy LanglinaisReserve Champion – Aslyn Pfieffer

JuniorsGrand Champion – Judd Lozano

Reserve Champion – Gavin Brown

TURKEYSSeniors

Grand Champion - Tryce LemparReserve Champion – Will Muck

JuniorsGrand Champion - Blake BurkholderReserve Champion – Emma Wright

AG MECHANICSSenior

Grand Champion – Chase HillReserve Grand Champion – Mason Friar

JuniorGrand Champion - Will Marquardt

Reserve Grand Champion – Eli Warner

Showmanship Winners

Grand Champion Steer - Taygan Rust

Reserve Grand Champion Market Steer - Cole Dutton

Grand Champion Heifer - Emma Zoeller

Reserve Overall Heifer - Gus Stehling

Grand Champion Breeding Gilt - Josh Ingram

Reserve Grand Champion Breeding Gilt - Luke Wyle

Grand Champion Market Goat - Turner Matkin

Reserve Grand Champion Market Goat - Karsan Kurtz

Grand Champion Breeding Sheep - Emily Peters

Reserve Champion – Kyra Hunter

Grand Champion Market Lamb - Reese Dunham

Reserve Grand Champion – Rodney Dunham

Grand Champion Supreme Gilt - Josh Ingram

Reserve Champion Supreme Gilt – Luke Wyle

Grand Champion Pedigree Gilt - Luke Wyle

Reserve Champion Pedigree Gilt – Gus Stehling

Grand Champion Market Swine - Alexandra Nelson

Reserve Grand Champion – Allie Esser

Grand Poultry Champion - Maddie Nevels

Reserve Overall Poultry Champion – Laney Anson

Grand Champions & Reserves

Star photos by Elena Tucker

Kennel Tech Needed, full or part-time, Hill Country Pet Ranch. W e e k e n d s & holidays required. 830-229-5425.

Royal Metal has e m p l o y m e n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s open in Manufacturing A s s i s t a n t /W a r e h o u s e . Work hours M-F, 7 : 3 0 a m - 5 p m . Apply in person at 39312 IH-10 West, Boerne, 830-249-3331.

Come start the New Year off with us! Windcrest Nursing & Rehab. We are hiring for: Hospitality Aide, C.N.A. FT 2-10/10-6, LVN/RN FT 2-10/10-6. C.N.A. classes starting soon. Apply online at SEN IORCARE CENTERSLTC.COM or come by facility at 210 W Windcrest, Fredericksburg, 830-637-7885.

Aerobic Septic Service Tech Needed! Training on the Job. Electrical/Septic k n o w l e d g e preferable. Good driving record required. Call 830-443-4559.

Carl’s Cleaners, Boerne, is currently hiring Delivery Drivers, C u s t o m e r Service Reps and Shirt Pressers. Apply in person at 114 E Bandera, Boerne.

K i t c h e n A s s i s t a n t position for the Rainbow Senior Center at Kronkosky Place. Monday-Friday, 8am-3pm, occasional nights & w e e k e n d s , minimum of 30 hours. E x p e r i e n c e preferred, but not necessary. Contact Richard Polomo at: chef@ra inbow s e n i o rc e n t e r.com, or 830-249-2114.

Bumdood le r ’s now hiring FT Bread Maker. No experience necessary. Apply within 929 N Main St, Boerne.

Help Wanted C l e a n i n g B u s i n e s s e s , Friday evenings and Saturday, $10/hr. Contact Yana at Cleaning and Janitorial, 210-360-0799.

V o l u n t e e r Meals on Wheels Drivers Needed!! Are you looking for some volunteer o p p o r t u n i t i e s and a way to give back? Home for the summer and have some free time? The Rainbow Senior Center is in need of volunteer Meals on Wheels Drivers, Monday thru Friday! This is a family friendly opportunity and is a great way to help serve seniors in the Boerne area! Please contact Josue Romero at 830-249-2114 or: meals o n w h e e l s @r a i n b o w s e n i o rc e n t e r.com.

N e e d B o o k k e e p e r /Admin. Assistant for local Law Office, 15-30 hours per week. Must be a Notary, e x p e r i e n c e with Word and Q u i c k B o o k s . 210-444-0999.

352 Bentwood Dr, 3BD, 2BA, CH/A, fireplace, double garage, big fenced backyard. Totally remodeled with all new kitchen a p p l i a n c e s . $220,000. 830-734-1913, 210-573-6818.

REPO, MUST Sell! $106/mo buys deeded land in gated c o m m u n i t y . Medina Lake C o m m u n i t y . 830-460-8354. OWNER.

Medina Lake lakefront lot, Repo, Utilities installed, must sell. 830-460-8354.

LAND REPO, Hill Country/Bandera, ¼ acre with access to Medina Lake, water, sewer and electric installed. F i n a n c i n g available. 830-796-3143.

LAND REPO, ½ acre, water, sewer & electric i n s t a l l e d . Bandera Hill Country. Owner f i n a n c i n g available. 324-271-0151.

Country Home, 1BD, 1BA, living room, dining room, office, hardwood floors, FP, appliances, covered front & rear decks, garage. Gated entrance near Bergheim off Hwy 46, Call Kenny, owner/broker 210-710-7726.

2BD, 1BA Cabin, full-size range and fridge. On IH-10 close to Comfort, $795/mo. 361-510-9702.

Office available, 216 Market Ave, Boerne. 647 sq.ft. Contact: er icv@jovainc.com.

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Companionship, Boerne area. E x p e r i e n c e d , P a r t - t i m e , flexible, personal care, cooking, errands (work for doctor’s). 830-537-5056.

C a r e g i v e r s Needed at Visiting Angels. Call 830-331-9737.

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R&S Dairy Queens, Inc., is now hiring for

Assistant Managerat our Bandera & Comfort Locations

Health, Dental, Life, 401K and Vacation Available!Please apply at store

or fax resume to 830.609.4814No Phone Calls Please!

EXPERIENCEDCounter Clerk for Area Dry Cleaners.

Start at $9.50/hr.

210.494.7966

Texas Star Nut & Food Co., Inc. is currently

taking applications for the following positions:

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Email Resume to: apply@texasnut.com

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Do you have care and comfort for seniors? We are currently hiring many positions here in Boerne.

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subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it il-legal to advertise “any preference, limitation or dis-crimination based on race, color, religion, sex,handicap, familial status or national origin, or an in-tention or discrimination.” Familial status includeschildren under the age of 18 living with parents orlegal custodians, pregnant women and people se-curing custody of children under 18.

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The City of Boerne is a progressive employer located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Excellent benefits package and competitive salaries. The City can offer an opportunity for professional growth.

SERVICE WORKER I – GAS DEPARTMENTProvides general labor and assists with routine preventive maintenance and repairs on city gas facilities and equipment.

Requirements: Knowledge of gas system operations; equipment used in construction and maintenance of gas facilities maintenance; and the use and care of tools and specialized equipment. The ability to tolerate outside working conditions, including exposure to adverse weather conditions; lifting a force equal to 50 pounds; understand and follow instructions; operate and maintain a variety of power and manual tools and equipment. Texas Driver’s License applicable to job responsibilities. If performing welding, certification of qualifications for welding of polyethylene gas pipe for the type of welding performed.

Starting Salary: $14.44 hourly DOE

Closing Date: February 1, 2019

To apply, visit www.governmentjobs.com/careers/boerne-tx and apply online.

The City of Boerne is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Operations Assistant

The Kendall Appraisal District is accepting applications for the

position of Operations Assistant. Responsibilities include but are not

limited to data entry, filing, answering

the phone, and assisting the public.

Abstracting and Deed experience a plus.

Applicant must be a responsible,

professional individual with

good communication skills

and work well with others.

Candidates should submit their

application or resume to:

Kendall Appraisal District

Attn: Human Resources

118 Market Ave

Boerne, Texas 78006

OR

Email: dianne.mcgee@kendallad.org

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REAL ESTATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given that the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Boerne, Texas will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, February 4th, 2019 at 6:00 PM, in the City Council Chambers, located at the Boerne Police/Municipal Court Complex, 124 Old San Antonio, Boerne, Texas, to discuss the following:

Public hearing:

a. To consider the proposed permanent zoning of 11.219 acres at 35 Cascade Caverns Road (KAD 12245) and 45 Cascade Caverns Road (KAD 24328) from R-A, Single-Family Residential – Agricultural District, to B-1, High-Density Residential and Neighborhood Commercial District (Currey Creek Baptist Church of Boerne).

b. To consider the proposed permanent zoning of 9.865 acres at 38 Cascade Caverns Road (KAD 46739) from R-A, Single-Family Residential – Agricultural District, to B-1, High-Density Residential and Neighborhood Commercial District (Hill Country Daily Bread Ministries).

c. To consider the proposed rezoning of 2.992 acres at 1025

Medium-Density Single-Family Residential District to R-3, High-Density Residential District (Pfeiffer Thomas C & Julia Lee).

All interested parties are encouraged to attend.

NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT THE PUBLIC MEETINGSThe Police / Municipal Court Complex is wheelchair accessible. Access to the building and special parking are available at the front entrance of the building. Requests for special services must be received forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting time by calling the Planning Department at 830-249-9511.

REAL ESTATE Bartlett Cocke General Contractors, Construction

Manager-at-Risk, is requesting Competitive

Proposals from subcontractors and suppliers

for the BISD Security Vestibules project, located

in Boerne, Texas. Proposals will be received via e-mail to bidsat@bartlettcocke.com or by fax 210-655-1337 no later than 2:00 PM on February 5th, 2019. Any proposal received after this time will not be accepted.

There will be a Pre-Proposal Conference held

at Boerne ISD Facilities Conference Room on

January 22, 2019 at 2:00 pm. The address for

Boerne ISD Facilities Conference Room is 235

Johns Road, Boerne, TX 78006 . This meeting is

not mandatory.

Proposal Documents may be obtained from

Bartlett Cocke. They may also be viewed at the

AGC –San Antonio, the Builders Exchange of

Texas, Building Connected, or Bartlett Cocke’s

San Antonio office. Please contact Scott Temple

at (210) 655-1031 or stemple@bartlettcocke.

com to make arrangements to get bid documents.

All firms are encouraged to submit proposals on

this project. Bartlett Cocke is an equal opportunity

(EEO) employer.

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K e n m o r e Intuition canister vacuum cleaner, $250. 830-537-4841 or: rff@gvtc.com.

FOR SALE: 55 gallon ink drums $10, wood pallets $5 and end rolls $10. Call Granite Printing, 512-352-3687, or come by 2675 CR 374, Circleville, TX.

The Sisters Attic Thrift Store, 216 W Highland, open Monday-S a t u r d a y . Donations gladly accepted. Lots of great stuff at great prices!

270 Greyhawk, Spring Branch, S a t u r d a y , 8 a m - 1 p m . Furniture, décor, electronics, etc.

FORD RANCH, Brady, Texas, 32,000 acres has a MLDP permit. Needs to harvest 200 does. $700 = 5 does (family and friends can share). You use our permits, not the tags on your license (you must have a license). Hunt January 11-13 or January 18-20. ford ranchhunt ing .net, fordranch@hotmail.com or 325-286-4572.

Fischer Upright Antique Piano with player, 10 rolls music. $850. 830-305-4806.

Home Check In! Let me drive you to your Dr. appointments, fill your pill box, take you to buy groceries. I can check in on loved ones to see that they eat, take their meds, or are just alright. Call Peggy, RN, 210-269-6095.

Tree Service & Removal, mowing, tilling, t r a s h / b r u s h hauling. 30 years experience. 830-995-2782, 830-377-7548.

Bo’s Small Engine Repair. 123 E Frederick St, Boerne. 830-331-0060.

Mike’s Affordable Painting and R e m o d e l i n g . Free estimates. R e f e r e n c e s available. Call 830-522-0600, 210-749-4262.

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TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ABOVE ESTATE:

WHEREAS, on the 29th day of November, 2018, in the County Court of Kendall County, Texas, the undersigned duly qualified as Independent Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Roe Shouse, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Administration on this estate were granted and this it to notify all persons having claims against this estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.

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Estate of Kenneth Roe Shouse, Deceasedc/o Uhl, Fitzsimons, Jewett, Burton & Wolff, PLLCAttorney Harry W. Wolff, Jr.4040 Broadway, Suite 430, San Antonio, Texas 78209

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Wollschlaeger Dr.

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N. Main St.

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fresh interior paint,

charming wooden

floors. $590,000. Call

Mary for a private

showing! 210-722-

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