November 18, 2015 Issue
The Llano City Council had a short agenda for their regularly called meeting held on Monday, November 16.
Requests for use of city facilities for festivals were granted to Llano Crawfish Open, Inc for the use of Robinson Park for the weekend of April 10-17, 2016 and to the Llano Chuck Wagon Cook-Off Committee for the Chuck Wagon Cookoff in October 2016.
Council also approved the use of Badu Park and Town Lake by the Christmas Lighting Committee to hold jet-ski races on July 2, 2016.
BANDERA—It was a fast and furious first quarter. The Jackets had a couple of trick plays and gained command.
It was one after another—literally—and Llano owned an 8-0 advantage. The Friday the 13th bi-district contest was 17 seconds old. 47 minutes and 43 seconds later, the Jackets held aloft a gold football after a convincing 42-26 victory over Crystal City, the school’s first gridiron playoff win since 2008.
“We thought we had a big shot at that play,” a beaming head coach Craig S ...
NEW YORK & LAKEWAY—This begins as a sports’ story, but that won’t take long.
Jack Crabb is the son of John and Kimberley Crabb of Lakeway, and I’m Kim’s dad.
John and I are huge sports fans, so we had plans for Jack a few hours—maybe a few days—after October 24, 2002.
He did try.
Llano county officers arrested a Richland Springs man, Landon Vogel, 32, on November 14, according to a press release from Llano County Sheriff, Bill Blackburn.
Deputy Ryne Van Pelt was dispatched to investigate a reported suspicious vehicle stopped in the roadway on Hwy 16. The officer located the car stopped in the southbound lanes north of CR215, and found the driver asleep with the engine running.
A warrant check found that Vogel was wanted out of Blanco County.
K Wendt , children’s author, was the featured speaker at the Woman’s Culture Club at their November meeting. Wendt shared her journey as an up and coming author. Her journey began at Llano High School when she submitted a poem for publication and it was published. During college, a marriage, and motherhood, she continued to write, but never shared her work. Several years ago she wrote her first children’s book, Duney. Then she ne ...
Barbara Jeanne Rentz- Hockett, 85, of Kingsland, Texas, passed away on November 3, 2015. She was born to Wayne and Arlene (Rowan) Pickett on May 30, 1930 in Albion, Michigan.
Barbara had her own tax and accounting business, which she greatly enjoyed. She also enjoyed crocheting, flowers, her dogs and was an avid bird watcher.
She is survived by her son, Sidney Roy Rentz and his wife, Elaine of Cody, Wyoming; three granddaughters;six great grandchildren as well as four step g ...
Douglas Shane Reese, 36 passed away on Friday, November 13, 2015. Shane was born May 5, 1979 and resided in Kingsland, Texas most of his life.
He is survived by his maternal grandmother, Margaret Francks; father, Alfred Reese; sister, Fawn Reese; two brothers, Timothy Reese and Kevin Reese; five nephews, Sylis Bolen, Zaiden Bolen, Alex Reese, Kyle Reese, and Hunter Reese; two aunts, Lori Francks and Pam Wyatt and husband, Jim, and three cousins, J.S.
The majestic two-story home of early Llano County leader, Robert F. (Bob) Rowntree, located approximately 20 miles from the town of Llano on RR2323, is one of few structures in the county that adequately reflects Nineteenth Century architecture at its finest. Its construction stands as a reminder that an area of Texas that had long been part of the wild, untamed frontier had come to an end.
I lost quite a few things in life, but weight has not been one of them.
I see these commercials on TV where people lost tons of weight and invite me to join their program. Investigating some of the programs I discovered all you really lose is money every month. If there is one thing I do not want to lose it is money.
I never took losing weight very serious.
We’ve become an angry people.
Reasons for our anger range from the fear of another terrorist attack, becoming the victim of a violent crime or to what some see as the maddening loss of the American dream.
Anger is a dangerous emotion that affects every area of life; some being more serious than others.
Committee Charged with Improving Texas’ Approach to Treatment
Last week, the Speaker of the Texas House formed the House Select Committee on Mental Health in order to take a comprehensive view of how to improve the state’s behavioral health system for children and adults. Among those members appointed to the select committee was Representative Andrew Murr (R-Junction), whose district includes Kerr County, home to one of the state’s twelve mental health hospitals and the Hill Country Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MHDD) Centers Administr ...
Texans are more likely to have a deer collision this year, according to State Farm claims data. The odds drivers will hit a deer in Texas are 1 out of 297; the national odds are 1 in 169. Texas ranked 39th in the nation in deer collision claims. State Farm estimates insurers will receive 52,000 deer collision claims in the Lone Star State in 2015.
November is the month drivers are most likely to collide with a deer; followed by October and December.
With the list needing maybe a third of a page, he’s one of the greatest football players to emerge from Llano High and the Hill Country.
The prosecution’s case won’t take long: Ken Gray was selected to play in seven Pro Bowls in the National Football League, 1958-’70. Injury limited his participation to six.
We won’t pursue a case—now—that he deserves to be in the NFL Hall of Fame, but he has been elected to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame; he’ll be inducted in February.
“It’s ...
Although we all appreciate the rain, its timing was bad, interfering with the end of the Blanco Youth Soccer Association's season: games for the last two weekends of play were rained out. Some of the rained out games were made up, with the last game of the season, between the two U12 teams made up of kids from Banco, being played Saturday afternoon the 8th.
Despite losing a couple of games to the much-needed rain, kids from ages 4 to 12 played on between 10 and 14 games this season, in Blanco, ...
BANDERA—It was a fast and furious first quarter. The Jackets had a couple of trick plays and gained command.
It was one after another—literally—and Llano owned an 8-0 advantage. The Friday the 13th bi-district contest was 17 seconds old. 47 minutes and 43 seconds later, the Jackets held aloft a gold football after a convincing 42-26 victory over Crystal City, the school’s first gridiron playoff win since 2008.
“We thought we had a big shot at that play,” a beaming head coach Craig S ...
With the list needing maybe a third of a page, he’s one of the greatest football players to emerge from Llano High and the Hill Country.
The prosecution’s case won’t take long: Ken Gray was selected to play in seven Pro Bowls in the National Football League, 1958-’70. Injury limited his participation to six.
We won’t pursue a case—now—that he deserves to be in the NFL Hall of Fame, but he has been elected to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame; he’ll be inducted in February.
“It’s ...
Barbara Jeanne Rentz- Hockett, 85, of Kingsland, Texas, passed away on November 3, 2015. She was born to Wayne and Arlene (Rowan) Pickett on May 30, 1930 in Albion, Michigan.
Barbara had her own tax and accounting business, which she greatly enjoyed. She also enjoyed crocheting, flowers, her dogs and was an avid bird watcher.
She is survived by her son, Sidney Roy Rentz and his wife, Elaine of Cody, Wyoming; three granddaughters;six great grandchildren as well as four step g ...
Douglas Shane Reese, 36 passed away on Friday, November 13, 2015. Shane was born May 5, 1979 and resided in Kingsland, Texas most of his life.
He is survived by his maternal grandmother, Margaret Francks; father, Alfred Reese; sister, Fawn Reese; two brothers, Timothy Reese and Kevin Reese; five nephews, Sylis Bolen, Zaiden Bolen, Alex Reese, Kyle Reese, and Hunter Reese; two aunts, Lori Francks and Pam Wyatt and husband, Jim, and three cousins, J.S.
The majestic two-story home of early Llano County leader, Robert F. (Bob) Rowntree, located approximately 20 miles from the town of Llano on RR2323, is one of few structures in the county that adequately reflects Nineteenth Century architecture at its finest. Its construction stands as a reminder that an area of Texas that had long been part of the wild, untamed frontier had come to an end.
I lost quite a few things in life, but weight has not been one of them.
I see these commercials on TV where people lost tons of weight and invite me to join their program. Investigating some of the programs I discovered all you really lose is money every month. If there is one thing I do not want to lose it is money.
I never took losing weight very serious.
We’ve become an angry people.
Reasons for our anger range from the fear of another terrorist attack, becoming the victim of a violent crime or to what some see as the maddening loss of the American dream.
Anger is a dangerous emotion that affects every area of life; some being more serious than others.
NEW YORK & LAKEWAY—This begins as a sports’ story, but that won’t take long.
Jack Crabb is the son of John and Kimberley Crabb of Lakeway, and I’m Kim’s dad.
John and I are huge sports fans, so we had plans for Jack a few hours—maybe a few days—after October 24, 2002.
He did try.
Texans are more likely to have a deer collision this year, according to State Farm claims data. The odds drivers will hit a deer in Texas are 1 out of 297; the national odds are 1 in 169. Texas ranked 39th in the nation in deer collision claims. State Farm estimates insurers will receive 52,000 deer collision claims in the Lone Star State in 2015.
November is the month drivers are most likely to collide with a deer; followed by October and December.