When frustrated by the negativity in the national media last year, Blanco resident Dave Lageman consider what he could do to make things better.
“I thought of kindness and went to the internet and found the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation,” he said. “I enlisted a friend, who agreed with the approach and soon we had four people making decisions to form a group.”
By last October, one person had completed a “major” act, according to Lageman.
The Deike brothers from Hye, Texas took sibling rivalry to another level. In August 1935 they left their regular jobs on the farm, at the store and at the cotton gin to battle the Stanczak brothers from Waukegan, Illinois for the All Brothers Baseball Championship.
Baseball was big stuff in the Texas Hill Country so it was natural that Fritz Deike’s 9 sons, ranging in age from 13 to32, would form a family baseball team.
Hill Country baseball was a social event in those days - part athle ...
On my way to El Paso in January, I stopped at a place called Tornillo, a small town on the Texas border with Mexico. At the time, it was the site of a tent city that housed children--asylum seekers from Central America--who had crossed the border unaccompanied by an adult.
It was a cold, windy day in January when I stood outside the fence.
I made another trip to the border a couple weeks ago, this time traveling to McAllen to volunteer with Catholic Charities at its Humanitarian Respite Center. Conversations about my trips to the border have revealed much confusion about the people crossing the border. Based on my limited but first-hand experiences, they are men, women, and children fleeing violence from drug gangs in Guatemala and Honduras.
Did you know it is legal for an undocumented person to cross into into the United Sta ...
Most of us don’t appreciate rocks. Take it from a guy who has dug his share of West Texas postholes. Only an artist with uncommon imagination sees beauty in boulders. Our world is fortunate that Frank Teich, the Sculptor of the Hills, did not share my myopic foresight and puny artistic vision.
Frank Teich was born in Lobenstein, Germany on September 22, 1856.
Les Goates said that he would never forget the autumn of 1918, “that terribly climactic year of World War I during which more than 14 million people died of that awful scourge ‘the black plague,’ or Spanish influenza.
“Winter came early that year and froze much of the sugar beet crop in the ground.
I WENT TO A NEW DENTIST a few weeks ago and was impressed by what I received after my initial visit, apart from the good news that I had no new cavities or tooth problems. They gave me a gift bag with all sorts of cool stuff in it: toothbrush, toothpaste, a custom coffee cup and a few more items.
Tourism is definitely on the rise by witness of our increase in tourist counts at the Visitors Center. Visits so far this year are up to the same period last year by 16.9% and to the same period in 2016 by 55.9%.
Market Days vendor participation, and the ensuing revenue that comes from booth rentals, is up to 2017 by 63.9% and to 2016 by a whopping 156.2%!
Our national flag has quite a history--perhaps not the one we learned about in school, but just as colorful. In truth, it is remarkable how little evidence has survived about the early flags of our nation. The modern spirit of American patriotism did not exist then, and the affection of citizens was primarily for their own colonies.
THE PHONE RINGS. IT’S A LOCAL NUMBER. YOU ANSWER.
A few seconds of silence, then a recorded message. Arghhhh! You’ve been Robo-called. You’re not alone. In the first five months of 2018, 16.3 billion of those irritating, grating, inconveniencing nuisance calls were made to Americans. But, I have the secret to redeeming them if not stopping outright.
Back in the day, like two years ago, you would actually get a live person on the other end of the line, ready to deliver you a sales pi ...
