April 13, 2016 Issue

The Old Blanco County Courthouse and the Blanco Chamber of Commerce are hosting a Candidates Forum, Monday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Courtroom, upstairs in the Old Blanco County Courthouse. This is a great opportunity to become familiar with the individuals who will be representing YOU on the Council and School Board.

The Keep Blanco Beautiful 17th Annual Trash-off and 10th Annual River Clean-up will be held Saturday, April 16 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at Bindseil Park. This city-wide clean-up follows the recent clean-up efforts made on Town Creek by Keep Blanco Beautiful, Lower Colorado River Authority, the City of Blanco, Pedernales Electric Cooperative volunteers, and residents.

A large number of Blanco FFA and Jr. FFA members exhibited livestock at this year’s San Antonio Livestock Exposition with several qualifying for the premium sale. Headlining this year’s accomplishments by local students is Blanco Jr. FFA member Caleb Meyer, who exhibited the Grand Champion Doe in the Jr. Breeding Boer Goat Show.

The Lady Panther softball team beat the Ingram Lady Warriors 19-3 on Tuesday, April 5 and defeated the Georgetown Gateway Lady Gators 12-5 on Friday, April 8. Playing at the Ingram High School field, the Panthers went six innings with Andrea Calzoncit pitching five and Taylor Boss going one inning. Calzoncit faced 17 batters with one hit and four strike outs.

The Panther baseball team grabbed an 8-2 win over the Ingram Warriors on Tuesday, April 5. Tyler LaRue picked up the win in relief of Garrett Seales, going 3 innings of “no hit” ball. Eddie Calzoncit and LaRue had the big sticks for the night with each getting 2 hits and driving in 2 runs.