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June 1, 2016 Issue

Each year at sunrise on Memorial Day, the flags are placed carefully into the ground at the Llano Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center.
Special Education services have been available in schools since the passage of PL94-142 in 1975. By 1995 the number of students with disabilities served in Special Ed in the U.S. was around 5 million. In the next decade, those numbers would rise to over 6 million. The number of school-aged children with disabilities fell to a low of 5.67 million in the fall of 2011. However the most recent statistics available (2014) shows a definite upswing to 5.83 million.
The Llano County Historical Museum has announced the winners of the Llano River Photography Contest. Winners in each division are: Nancy Bardouche, Senior Division; Christy Haggerton, Adult Division; Heather Speckels, Teen Division; and Kyndall Rabb, Youth Division. The winning photos, along with all the photos submitted, are on display at the museum.
Residents of Llano County should watch out for higher water levels this week. Water levels in the Llano River and the Highland Lakes will continue to be higher than normal as additional rain is expected to continue this week. Tuesday brought several road closures in Llano County. As of 1:45 p.m., Johnson Creek at Rio Llano was closed, in addition to 2323 (Prairie Mountain Road), County Road 152 at the Llano city limits and CR 307 (Kingsland slab).
The Llano Rodeo is back for its 81st year this weekend. The event, which started in 1919 and has only been canceled by flood or war, will be held Friday and Saturday. Gates open at 5 p.m. with performances at 7:30 p.m. each night at the John L. Kuykendall Arena. Tickets are available from the rodeo queen contestants, at the Llano Chamber of Commerce and at the gate. Mutton Bustin’, a thrill for participants and spectators, will open the rodeo each night.
It almost seems that Llano and Ronald Burton became intertwined by chance. Burton, a Mississippi native, was first in Llano to perform at its annual rodeo just a few short years ago during the filming of ‘Man in the Can,’ the film covering his journey as a rodeo clown. Llano embraced Burton and the film, and the two are now intertwined.
I wrote about this tragic situation last week before Art Briles was fired — and now Athletic Director Ian McCaw has stepped down. There are pieces of the aftermath I want to address now in what should be my last comment on a subject with an infinite amount of observations by numerous writers. I briefly indicated that Baylor lost often before the Art Briles era, and it would lose again, and Bears’ fans and followers like myself could and would handle that. The new coach, Jim Grobe from ...
He claims to have a humble background. We’ll accept that, since we didn’t know him at Edison High in San Antonio in the mid-1950s, but after graduation he would author a background that would last longer to examine than the NBA playoffs. Say hello again to Rudy Davalos. You may know him as president of the Horseshoe Bay Sports Club, but long before he started that organization he established a resume that has earned him the Lamar Hunt Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Texas Sport ...
HORSESHOE BAY — One golfer is a consistent threat to crash the leaderboard party on the PGA Tour. The other last won in 2010 — his ninth career title — and remains a solid influence. They joined a pair of LPGA pros for a friendly match-play contest on the Slick Rock Golf Course, May 23. Jason Kokrak and Kathleen Ekey edged Stuart Appleby and Katie Burnett on the 18th hole, one-up. The 31-year-old Kokrak — a birthday boy 24 hours earlier — has collected $1.2 million of tournament money ...
You might have to go all the way — oh, maybe to Denmark — to find someone who’ll say something negative about Louie Nyeland. Denmark is the home of the Llano High School “One and Done” Exchange Student-basketball player. He didn’t graduate, May 27, but he saw his Jacket friends get their diplomas. “Fantastic,” Louie said of his school-year-time spent away from the Danish town of Herlufmagle.
The Llano High School Class of 2016 celebrates graduation with the time honored tradition of tossing their caps as junior class representatives ring the bell. Graduation was held on Friday night at the LHS Auditorium, and there were 107 graduates.
John Irving Landon passed away Saturday, May 28, 2016 in Llano, Texas at the age of 89. He was born January 12, 1927 in Menard, Texas to Frankie Eugenia (Poole) and John Newmarch Landon. After graduation from Menard High School at age 16, John enrolled into the University of Texas at Austin where he was a proud member of the Showband of the Southwest playing the trumpet, a passion he continued throughout his life.

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