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May 26, 2021 Issue

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Pat Dildine Recognized for Continued Community Work
At her last city council meeting on May 4, there were goodbyes, congratulations, applause, a cake and balloons, and hugs as the City thanked retiring City Council member Pat Dildine for the indelible mark she has left on the community. Grant Developer Gandalf Burris said of Dildine, “Pat Dildine manifests the values of Johnson City of friendliness and cooperation.
Piano instructor Beverly Voron held a recital for her students last Saturday at Community Church of the Hills. Pictured in the back row, left to right: Logan Morlino, Bella Olesen, Rosaleigh Christensen, Cecil Kershaw, and Ivy Swafford. Middle row, left to right: Nate Phillips, Luke Fountaine, and Mrs. Voron Front left to right: Lilli Phillips and Elizabeth Fountaine.
Blanco County is in good financial shape, according to its annual audit issued by Neffendorf & Blocker, P.C. of Fredericksburg. The county commissioners were told at Tuesday’s meeting that its audit received an unqualified opinion, which means the firm found that the county’s financial statements are fairly and accurately represented for the fiscal year ending Sept.
Blanco County’s unemployment rate continues to lead the nine-county Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area in numbers released late last week. Blanco County’s unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent for April and is the only county in the region below 4 percent. The Blanco County unemployment rate was 4.1 percent for March. The state’s unemployment rate for April was 6.3 percent, while it is 5.7 percent nationally.
State Capital Highlights
Texas lawmakers will adjourn the regular session on Monday — Memorial Day — but Gov. Greg Abbott has already indicated he will call a special session in the fall to grapple with redistricting after detailed census results are finally released. Last week, Abbott told lawmakers he would put them in charge of deciding how to spend nearly $16 billion in federal money the state received for COVID-19 recovery efforts.
Pajama StoryTime Wear your pajamas, enjoy a story, and do a fun craft just in time to get home for bed! For children pre-school to 2nd grade age at the Johnson City Library on May 27, starting at 6:30 p.m. LBJHS Graduation Graduation will be held on Friday, May 28 at Eagle Field at 6 p.m. Jurassic Experience Travel back to the time of dinosaurs at Jurassic Experience on Saturday, May 29!
While most of us think of leather as cowhide, Erwin Itz of Fredericksburg made leather out of just about every animal hide you can imagine – from a rabbit to an elephant. He could turn cowhide into chaps, deerskin into gloves and the hide of a bear into a floor rug, with a head or without. Tanning is the process for transforming animal hide into leather.
Van Horn, Texas, 1982. I had made it through my first year as a high school principal—almost. Now I had to get through graduation. As the end of the year approached, the senior class sponsor handed me a paper and said, “This is the program for this year’s commencement exercises.” I thanked her and told her I would look it over.
A few years ago it was fashionable for people, wanting to sound familiar with the then-new theory in mathematics and physics called the “Chaos” theory, to talk about how a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could be the cause of a tornado in Texas. This was not really a serious thought but rather an attempt by some to explain a complex theory for laymen, the theory being that small changes in initial conditions could result in large changes far removed in time and space, and weather p ...
Pajama StoryTime Wear your pajamas, enjoy a story, and do a fun craft just in time to get home for bed! For children pre-school to 2nd grade age at the Johnson City Library on May 27, starting at 6:30 p.m. LBJHS Graduation Graduation will be held on Friday, May 28 at Eagle Field at 6 p.m. Jurassic Experience Travel back to the time of dinosaurs at Jurassic Experience on Saturday, May 29!
George Stanley Weik, known to us as Stan, was born October 10, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas. Stan left this world to go home to our Lord on May 14, 2021. Throughout his years, he lived in many areas of Texas, but he called San Saba home where he served as City Manager since December 2007.
State Capital Highlights
Texas lawmakers will adjourn the regular session on Monday — Memorial Day — but Gov. Greg Abbott has already indicated he will call a special session in the fall to grapple with redistricting after detailed census results are finally released. Last week, Abbott told lawmakers he would put them in charge of deciding how to spend nearly $16 billion in federal money the state received for COVID-19 recovery efforts.
While most of us think of leather as cowhide, Erwin Itz of Fredericksburg made leather out of just about every animal hide you can imagine – from a rabbit to an elephant. He could turn cowhide into chaps, deerskin into gloves and the hide of a bear into a floor rug, with a head or without. Tanning is the process for transforming animal hide into leather.
Van Horn, Texas, 1982. I had made it through my first year as a high school principal—almost. Now I had to get through graduation. As the end of the year approached, the senior class sponsor handed me a paper and said, “This is the program for this year’s commencement exercises.” I thanked her and told her I would look it over.

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