August 16, 2017 Issue

The August 8 meeting of the governing body of Blanco began with Mayor Martha Herden introducing Clay Rosenbaum, the new superintendent of the Blanco Independent School District. Rosenbaum said that his goal is “to be a role model for a positive outlook.” He comes to Blanco with 28 years of experience as a math teacher, coach, and assistant principal (See Blanco County News July 5, 1917.) Amber Newby, who will be working in the BISD and the community with a Drug-Free Communities grant, als ...

The Lady Panther volleyball team started their season with a win in five sets over the San Antonio Christian School Lady Lions on Tuesday, August 8. In a match played in the SACS gym, set scores were 16-25, 25-19, 25-22, 14-25,15-9. Senior Kendall Brock fired in ten kills to lead the Panthers.

The first day of school is fast approaching, Tuesday, August 29. There are children in the Blanco school district, who for several reasons, will start school without their needed supplies. Here is your chance to help your community grow with pride. On Saturday, August 19, The Blanco Lions Club will sponsor “Stuff the Bus” from 9am-2pm This a community wide effort to help those kids in need of school supplies.

Jim Stanley, Texas Master Naturalist and author, has published his third book, Hill Country Ecology: Essays on Plants, Animals, Water and Land Management. For the last 7 years Stanley has written the Hill Country Naturalist column for the Kerrville Daily Times, and for the last 10 months. For this book, he has selected a little over 200 of the 350 or so columns, collected them into 8 major sections and 25 subsections by topic, and edited a few as necessary.

Texas Tech University is holding a Red Raider Hill Country Orientation on Tuesday, Aug 22, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., for any TTU students attending classes in the Hill Country this fall. The orientation is for new and returning students, and attendance is mandatory. Students can attend in person at the following sites: Highland Lakes Campus, 806 Steve Hawkins Parkway Marble Falls, Texas, Fredericksburg Campus, 2818 East US Hwy 290, Fredericksburg, Texas Students can also elect to attend ...

Christmas comes but once a year. Except at the Blanco Good Samaritan Center, which will host its first-ever “Christmas in August” sale this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 17-19. Shop early at the thrift store for best selections of Christmas trees, Santas, holiday collectibles, decorations, lights, outdoor décor, and lots more. “We’ve got everything from Christmas bags and paper to Christmas villages,” said Kathi Ulbig, store coordinator. Proceeds from the center’s non ...

August is the month to plant late fall vegetables and prepare for garden soil. Remove old plants and weeds. Add a healthy amount of compost to your garden and flower beds. You may prepare the planting areas several days before planting. Just add a small amount of fertilizer in the bottom of each hole.

Hill Country Memorial will host a free “Eat Well, Age Well” seminar at Gem of the Hills Community Center (2233 Hwy. 281 N.) in Blanco on Tues., Aug. 22. A complimentary lunch will be provided at 11:30 a.m. with the presentation to follow. The presentation will describe how the body’s dietary needs change over time and will include a question-and-answer session with HCM’s registered dietitian Chelsea Edwards. “Based on community feedback, we are bringing information and experts ...

If you would like to have a really great day, try starting it out by reading God’s Word in the morning. If I don’t start out my day reading God’s Word I will have a crazy, confused day. But, when I begin my mornings centered on Jesus, I have blessed days!

The Bible is the bestselling book year after year, with over 2 billion copies in print. It was completed 2,000 years ago and stands today as the as the best preserved literary work of any book in antiquity, with over 24,000 ancient New Testament manuscripts discovered. The second best literary work is Homer’s Iliad with 643 preserve manuscripts.

William Wilberforce lived in England more than two centuries ago and the consuming passion of his life was to end the slave trade in the British Empire, but most saw him as one of the most unlikely persons of that painful period to do so. Wilberforce was in poor health, suffering from such physical distress and deformity that a journalist of that time wrote of his “twisted body”.

While serving as Director of Fine Arts for a school district, I had the opportunity to accompany students to various art galleries and art museums, many of which featured the works of internationally renowned artists. I remember admiring a very large painting from across a room. It featured a quaint Italian city reflected in the waters of the Mediterranean.

AUSTIN— Attorney General Ken Paxton today intervened in a property tax lawsuit against Dumas Independent School District, stating that the district violated state law and the Texas Constitution when it reduced the district’s local option homestead exemption. Attorney General Paxton filed similar interventions against the White Deer and Kilgore Independent School Districts in September 2016. The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 1 and Senate Joint Resolution 1 in May 2015 with near un ...

STONEWALL, TEXAS – Make plans to join Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park and Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site in celebrating the 109th anniversary of President Johnson’s birth. Saturday, August 26 The National Park Service will show the HBO film All the Way at dusk on the LBJ Ranch on August 26 as part of its “Movies Under the Stars” series.