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Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper Since March 1, 1853 Semi-Weekly Since Sept, 5, 1977
Volume 154, Number 18
Bastrop, Texas
20 pages in two sections plus insert
ednesday storm b acks out Bastrop
Storm damage includes
smashed roofs and cars
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By Terry Hagerty
Staff writer
The Bastrop Advertiser photo/Terry Hagerty
Bill Vear checks out the tree that smashed through the roof of his Perkins Street house and into his bedroom Wednesday
morning . He had just gotten out of bed and escaped injury. Power was out in parts of Bastrop until Wednesday eve-
ning. See more photos, Page 3A.
Bill Vear stood in the bed-
room of his Perkins Street
home Wednesday and looked
up at the sun shining through a
large hole in the roof.
Part of his bed was covered
with roof support beams and
ceiling material.
"Well, the dogs, cats, kids
and rabbits are safe, so it's
okay," Vear joked.
A central Texas storm,
which rocked Bastrop early
Wednesday morning, knocking
out power in most of Bastrop,
uprooted a massive tree that
fell on Year's roof.
Vear said he had gotten up
moments before to look out his
back window at the storm.
"I'm seeing branches com-
ing down and hail," Vear
recalled. "I could hear the tree
crashing in on the roof by the
bed and I ducked down as the
drywall started coming down
on my head."
Luckily the roof did not
completely collapse.
Fortunately for the rest of
Bastrop there were also no
serious injuries and no persons
were transported to hospitals,
said Michal Hubbard, admin-
istrative assistant to Bastrop
Police Chief David Board, who
was the emergency coordinator
for the storm incident.
An Emergency Operations
Center was established at the
Bastrop Fire Dept. shortly
after the brant of the storm had
passed.
Nearly 100 personnel with
the Bastrop fire and police
departments plus Sheriff's
Office and DPS personnel
worked together and with util-
ity crews.
"There were live wires on
the ground and a lot of trees
and debris down, but there
were no injuries due to the
storm." Hubbard said.
However, some vehicles,
homes and business were
See STORM, Page 3A
City, schoo l board
voting starts Monday
By Davis McAuley
Editor
Early voting begins Monday
for city council and school
board seats across Bastrop
Comity, as well as a number
of special issues and the first
election for a governing board
for the new Bastrop-Travis
County Emergency Services
District No. 1 for the Elgin and
McDade area.
The early voting peri-
od extends through May 8.
Election day will be May 12.
Closely watched issues
include a $98 million bond
election to build a second high
school in the Bastrop school
district plus a new sports stadi-
um and performing arts center.
Elgin school trustees have
also called a bond election to
expand and add facilities.
Depending on where resi-
dents live, they could face as
many as four separate ballots.
Early voting in the county
election on a change in the
local stock law and a pro-
posed amendment to the Texas
Constitution will take place at
the Bastrop Courthouse Annex
at 804 Pecan St., the Elgin
See VOTING, Page 2A
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Esther Wright celebrates 90th birthday.
Page 12A
WEATHER! INDEX
□ Saturday's forecast:
Mostly cloudy,
rain chance
High: 80°
Low: 62°
Rain: 20%
■ Last week:
High Low Prec.
Weds. 84 62 0.74"
Thursday 80 55 none
Friday 79 59 none
■ Provided by the KXAN School
Weather Network.
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The Bastrop Advertiser photo/Dana Lachman
The Estrellitas, a Mexican folklore dance group made up of Lost Pines Elementary
students, will represent Bastrop's Mexican heritage during Yesterfest, a cel-
ebration of the area's early pioneers. They will perform at the Bastrop Opera
House on Saturday for the festival, and will perform Sunday for their own pro-
gram. See story and more photos, Page 14A.
I gin city
hopetu s
talk area
growth
By Terry Hagerty
Staff writer
The Elgin City Council candidate
forum held Tuesday night at the
public library considered rezoning
issues, how to attract businesses and
the city's "most valuable resources."
Scott Mackay and Anthony
Ramirez are vying for Ward 2 after
incumbent Delores Cantu did not
seek another term.
W.C. Estes and Sue Bashar are
vying for Ward 3 after incumbent
Lori Markham did not seek another
term.
See ELGIN, Page 2A
ESD board candidates are ready for the task
By Terry Hagerty
Staff writer
When the forum of candidates for
the Bastrop-Travis County Emergency
Services District was concluded Thursday
night there was sustained applause from
the audience gathered at the Elgin Public
Library.
Seven of eight candidates had made
their appearance and the audience's reac-
tion was a response to candidate L.B.
Hall's comment, "I don't know a thing that
would put me above any of these fellows
here. They should make the board out of
who all are here."
Hall's statement came after an audi-
ence question asking the candidates why a
ballot should be cast for them.
The other candidates had responded
the same way. Candidate Damond Doss
said, ""I'm going to have difficulty myself
choosing which five to vote for — your
citizens are lucky to have this group."
The candidates are Theodore Cody,
Liston Crim, Damond Doss, Jerry Edmon,
L.B. Hall, Rick Harkins and David
Musgrave. (Shane Harris was not able to
make the forum.)
The candidate and audience response
had mirrored an evening in which there
was cooperative discussion and a consen-
sus that a large task awaited the board in
evaluating what the ESD would need in
terms of personnel, equipment and a bud-
get as well as the relationship between the
district and members of the current volun-
teer fire departments.
There were a few differences on some
issues, for example, on fire department
response times to near and far distances.
In response to the question what would
be "the number one duty" of the board,
Musgrave said, "completely structuring an
emergency sendees district from a blank
piece of paper. We need to determine
what the capital equipment and personnel
requirements are going to be." Musgrave
also recommended a long-range plan of
five to 10 years after the district gets
going.
Doss said the first requirement will be
determining a budget in order to set a tax
rate "as low as possible but a rate with
which the fire department can operate.
Fie said board members should visit
other emergency sendees districts "to talk
See ESD, Page 5A
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 28, 2007, newspaper, April 28, 2007; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth252369/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.