March 25, 2015 Issue

The Blanco County Commissioners Court designated April as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" during regular session on Tuesday, March 24. In 2014, there were more than 3 million child abuse cases reported in the U.S. and with more than 65,000 in Texas alone. In Fiscal 2013-14, CASA for the Highland Lakes Area served Child Protective Services (CPS) cases involving 386 children. Kristen Harris, the Executive Director CASA for the Highland Lakes Area, thanked commissioners for their efforts to combat ...

There were plenty of smiles to go around during the annual meeting of the Old Blanco County Courthouse Preservation Society (OBCCPS) annual meeting, held Thursday, March 19 in the historic courtroom on the second floor. The reason for the optimism is the progress made on the ongoing renovations to the historic facility, which was constructed in 1884.

The Blanco City Council allotted three local non-profit beneficiaries of hotel/motel occupancy tax (HOT tax) collections during special session Thursday, March 19, allotting a total of $31,637.50 to three local entities — the Blanco Chamber of Commerce, the Blanco Courthouse and Wild Woman Weekend. "There are a couple of organizations that have made commitments but have not received the money yet for the first quarter because the people who remit the money for the HOT taxes and give it to the ...

Grab your golf clubs and head for Delaware Springs Golf Course in Burnet for the Hill Country Area Crime Stoppers Fundraiser Golf Tournament this Friday, March 27. There will be a shotgun start at 1 p.m. In addition to Blanco County, Crime Stoppers serves Burnet, Llano, Mason, Lampasas and San Saba, as well as 11 independent school districts including Blanco, Burnet, Marble Falls, Llano, Johnson City, Mason, Lampasas, Lometa, San Saba, Cherokee and Richland Springs — the same geographic regio ...

Project Graduation will be hosting the annual Project Graduation Golf Tournament held at Vaaler Creek Golf Club in Blanco on April 12th, 2015. We had a great turnout of Sponsors and Players for this event last year and we are hoping that you will once again support our Blanco High School Seniors at this event by sponsoring a hole, donating a gift for our golf tournament raffle, or by playing in the tournament.

The Blanco High School baseball team won six games to capture 1st place in the Blanco County Tournament held Thursday March 12 through Saturday March 14. The Panthers posted their first win on Thursday, March 12 defeating the Lampasas Badgers 3-2. Pitcher Jake Breeding picked up the win in relief of Ty Preiss.

The Lady Panther softball team overwhelmed the Ingram Lady Warriors 20-1 in their first district game of the season on Tuesday, March 10. However, on Friday, March 13, the Panthers fell to the Florence Lady Buffaloes, 4-10. Against the Warriors, Skylar Wiseman hit 3 for 3 with 3 singles and 4 rbi.

Every year the Blanco Pioneers Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) hosts an essay contest for Blanco County fourth and seventh graders. This year there was one and only one winner in the person of Townes Reed Curbow, the fourth grade son of Christopher and Courtney Curbow of Blanco. On March 21 at the regular monthly meeting of the Chapter that was held at the Johnson Settlement in Johnson City, Townes was presented with a check in the amount of one hundred dollars for his w ...

Grab your golf clubs and head for Delaware Springs Golf Course in Burnet for the Hill Country Area Crime Stoppers Fundraiser Golf Tournament this Friday, March 27. There will be a shotgun start at 1 p.m. In addition to Blanco County, Crime Stoppers serves Burnet, Llano, Mason, Lampasas and San Saba, as well as 11 independent school districts including Blanco, Burnet, Marble Falls, Llano, Johnson City, Mason, Lampasas, Lometa, San Saba, Cherokee and Richland Springs — the same geographic regio ...

Project Graduation will be hosting the annual Project Graduation Golf Tournament held at Vaaler Creek Golf Club in Blanco on April 12th, 2015. We had a great turnout of Sponsors and Players for this event last year and we are hoping that you will once again support our Blanco High School Seniors at this event by sponsoring a hole, donating a gift for our golf tournament raffle, or by playing in the tournament.

Proverbs 3:5-7 says, "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. (6) In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (7) Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil." This week, we will continue our series on the heart of man.

Read 1Kings 2:1-4. King David, on his deathbed, told his son Solomon to be a man; to keep God's judgments, commandments, statutes and testimonies and walk in His ways in truth with all his heart and soul. Today, we are going to discuss "All the heart". I found in an ancient Eastern Christian text this simple definition of the heart: "Not simply the physical organ, but the spiritual center of man's being, man as made in the image of God, his deepest and truest self, "I called with my whole heart ...

"41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation:the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matthew 26:41 In Romans 7:14-25 Paul said "14 For we know that the law is spiritual:but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not:for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

"Now I make known to you brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures...(I Corinthians 15:1-3). The wages of sin is deat ...