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After five years of investigating the best method to bring advanced, specialized medical care to the area, the Llano County Hospital Authority entered into a contract to merge the Llano Memorial Healthcare System into Scott & White Healthcare System (now Baylor Scott & White) in September 2010. The agreement required Scott & White to continue to operate the Llano Memorial Hospital for at least 10 years after the merger date.
By Briley Mitchell
He is Risen
Ingenuity – “the quality of being clever, original, and inventive”. In this time of COVID – 19, Ingenuity is popping up all around Llano, whether it’s a business or restaurant, or even a church, this has been a time to put on the thinking caps. Easter services are usually the most attended church meetings each year, the holiest day on the Christian Calendar.
Easton Morris, a Llano Elementary student in Mrs. Sarah Bucklin’s 1st grade class, was generously gifted by Lowe’s Market for his handwritten thank you letter to the grocery store.
Easton and his sister Denver have started a letter writing campaign during their time of COVID-19 home schooling, writing letters to friends, family, community businesses and first responders, thanking them for their service.
This is the week many have been waiting for—the week the first wave of stimulus checks are to be delivered. According to an article on Fox News, the majority of eligible Americans will receive their coronavirus aid payments no later than April 15. We know these are coming at a time when folks are hurting from being laid off or had a drastic cut in wages since this crisis began.
Chloroquine phosphate, when used without a prescription and supervision of a healthcare provider, can cause serious health consequences, including death. Clinicians and public health officials should discourage the public from misusing non-pharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate (a chemical used in home aquariums). Clinicians should advise patients and the public that chloroquine, and the related compound hydroxychloroquine, should be used only under the supervision of a healthcare provider as p ...
The Hill Country CattleWomen (HCCW) presented the Hill Country Veteran’s Center Food Pantry in Kerrville with a $500 gift card they can use to purchase beef for veterans and veteran’s families in need. The HCVC Food Pantry has a large commercial freezer and a regular home-size freezer so using the gift card to purchase 1-pound packages of hamburger they can distribute easily made sense.
A ribbon-cutting and party in 2013 officially opened the “Hill Country Veterans Center” for busin ...
Well, here we are, all tucked safely inside our little nests. It’s not easy; change is always difficult. It’s a lot of adapting, but we can do it. While it is a big adjustment to make, I’ve found that many are enjoying having some family time to reconnect and appreciate each other and what they have—because compared to a lot of places, we are sitting pretty.
I’m reminded of the original settlers here.
Jack Wayne Derington (73), born September 24, 1946 on a Naval Base in San Diego, California, passed away Monday, April 6, 2020 of heart related complications. Jack began his career years, first as a Texas Highway Patrolman, and an Air Martial, then was recruited to the US Drug Enforcement Administration as a founding member, in 1973.
Christina “Tina” Haukevina Hellbusch Umfrid, a resident of Llano, TX, passed away peacefully Thursday the 9th of April 2020 at Clarkson Mt View Health Care in Rapid City, SD. She was 98 years old.
Tina was born on December 18, 1921 in Clay County, TX, the oldest of three sisters. She lived and worked with her father and mother, Herman Fred Hellbusch and Margaretha “Gracie” Christina Tammen Hellbusch on the Hellbusch family ranch until she met Edmund Umfrid while visiting family in L ...
It’s always best to start at the beginning, and in this case, that place is Germany. The Germany of the early 1840s was in upheaval. Slowing industrial expansion and aggravating urban unemployment was leading to a severe economic recession. Born of this growing concern was the Adelsverin, the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants.
As a favorite swimming hole, fishing spot and kayak landing, Schneider Slab is hard to beat, and though a great way to preserve the family name, it hardly tells the whole story...
Heinrich Ludwig Schneider was born in 1815 in Langenbach, Herzotum, Dutch of Nassau, Germany. In September, 1845 he and his wife Anna Catherina, her daughter Mina Hissgen, and their two sons, Christian and Wilhelm, sailed for Texas, arriving in December, 1845.