The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 25, 1997 Page: 5 of 6
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Page 5 The Harper Herald March 25,1997
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For those of you who took the time out during the first week of
December to attend any of the three performances of the
Nutcracker, at the Municipal Auditorium in Kerrville, you know what
a real treat it was. For those of you who missed it, please plan on
attending next year. This Christmas classical ballet by Peter
Tchiakovsky brings back the magic of Christmas past through
music, costumes and dance, The students of PAWS under the
direction of the talented Melissa May, and members of the Kerrville
Performing Arts group really outdid themselves this year. Kudos to
all involved.
Cali Griffith, granddaughter of Herbert and Foy Gamel made her
third appearance in The Nutcracker. This year Cali danced the part
of a soldier and a dragon. Cali is the ten year old daughter of Griff
and Dhela Griffith of Stonewall and is a fifth grade student at St.
Mary's in Fredericksburg. She is anticipating what roles she will
audition for in next year's performance!
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COMMENT
U.S. SENATOR
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
Summer Workshops
The Hill Country Arts Foundation will be hosting an exciting year o.
visual and performing art workshops. If you've always wanted to
learn to paint or sculpt, or have always wanted to become involved
in theater, this will be the year of opportunity. We will have an array
of workshops for students and adults, throughout the year.
Our visual Arts department has almost 40 classes planned for the
spring and summer. Eight of these art classes are designated for
youth, ages 8-18, and will take place June, July and August. These
classes provide the perfect opportunity to cultivate a young persons
love of art and stimulate their creativity. Some of the classes
include Cartooning for Youth,XheYouth Art Sampler, and Youth
Studies of Hispanic Art.
Adult art workshops cover those for the beginner, who would like to
explore hidden talents, to the advanced artist, who wants to
fine-tune his or her technique. Currently scheduled classes are
planned for early April through October. Classes include techniques
in watercoler, oil painting, pastels, colored pencil and monotypes.
There will be sculpting classes in ceramics, concrete and clay.
There are craft classes in leather artistry, glass bead making, rug
making, and jewelry making. There are also specialty classes like
Handmade Tiles and Mosaics and Folk Art and Decorative Painting.
This year the Hill Country Arts Foundation will also include an
agenda of theater workshops. Kicking off an exciting summer for
area youth the Youth Theater and Performance Camp, for ages
13-18. This workshop will encompass acting, improvisation, and
working as a group to develop and design an original piece, which
will be performed at the Point. Proposed dates are June 23-July 18.
For the younger theater buffs-to-be there will be the Performing Arts
Day Camp, for ages 8-12. This workshop will include creative
dramatics, acting exercises, improvisation and developing "skits"
which can be showczased to family and friends. Proposed dates
are August 18-29. The Hill Country Arts Foundation will also be
conducting a Creative Arts Day Camptor ages 6-10. This camp
involves creative dramatics, clowning, painting, crafts, dance,
movement and is process oriented. Proposed dates are July
21-August 1.
In the fall, the Hill Country Arts Foundation will be offering theater
classes for both students and adults. There will be two after school
programs, Art Time and Youth Ensemble. Art Time is two hours
each day after school and will expose children to different areas of
the arts each week. Youth Ensemble is designated for high school
students and meets once a week. Evening Acting classes for adults
will be offered and end in a showcase performance. There will also
be a Business Communication & Public Speaking evening classes
offered to adults. Specialty classes will include a video technique
class taught by Andy Pickard and a scenic design class taught by
Linda Messina.
For more information or questions call the Hill Country Arts
Foundation at 210-367-5120 for art workshops and 210-367-5126
for theater workshops.
Hill Country Cattle Women
Ag Day
"Farm family agriculture has withstood the test of time and
competition. It has made this country the envy of the world and
American farm production the greatest production miracle in the
history of mankind."
Those words were given tous by former Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freemann — a strong statement and a true one.
Most of us can trace our roots to farming - after all, only two
decades ago 90 percent of all Americans were employed in
agriculture. Perhaps it was our grandparents or our great
grandparents who grew crops and raised animals to feed their
children and others. Regardless, their way of life centered around
the family and their values. They took pride in nurturing the land,
just as they took pride in nurturing each other. While their methods
— much long and arduous labor and little mechanization — made for
little free time, they instilled something that is still an integral part of
today's farming - teamwork. Children and parents working and
enjoying the rewards of that work together.
Today, like every other industry, the face of American agriculture
is vastly different. We've risen to the call of families—yours and
mine to produce the higher quality, safer food. And we have
provided more choices for our customers, people like you and me.
To do that we use new machines and technologies less than two
percent of us do the job it took ninety percent to do 200 years ago.
We're using tools like satellite technology to help us be precise with
our growing tools and ensure our environments health. Just like our
neighbors who live in the city, we use computers so we can be
efficient at record keeping. Our farms sport cellular phones, tractors
with hundreds of horse power and ever improving seed and plants.
These tools help us put family first, producting ever improving safe
and healthy food for our own children and yours.
While farmers and ranchers are increasing production efficiency,
.........they a|SQ gre reps0ncjjng to consumer demands. Farmers and
percent leaner than produced 20 years ago, resulting in retail cuts
Taking the Bite Out of Crime
"T" ust when you think you’ve heard every last method of scamming Uncle
I Sam, along comes news of another way that leaves you breathless.
Item: Last week the General Accounting Office reported that thousands
of convicted criminals nationwide have continued to participate in the federal
food stamp program despite being confined to jail or prison.
In its study of four food stamp programs across the country, the GAO
determined that 12,138 inmates or their families fraudulently received $3.5
million in food stamps during fiscal year 1995; that year, $ 1.5 million in food
stamps were erroneously granted to 5,690 inmates in Texas prisons. Talk
about double-dipping. Prisoners who already receive free room and board
are, in effect, dining twice at public expense.
This is an especially pernicious practice, given that it has been so hard
to enact entitlement reform to ensure that people who truly need help can
receive it. The food stamp program provides a badly needed safety net for
millions of desperate people.
We must not allow fraud to undermine the entire program.
As outrageous as prisoners receiving food stamps may be, I am proud to
report that Texas has taken the lead in ferreting out and eliminating this abuse.
Since January, our state has been cross-checking the names of individuals
receiving food stamps with the names of convicts in Texas prisons.
In addition, Texas authorities now require food stamp recipient families
to verify the number of people in their households every three months rather
than every six months, as was the case the in past.
Earlier this month, I introduced legislation to encourage all states to
follow Texas’ lead and initiate procedures to end this fraudulent practice
across-the-board.
Currently we reward states that take steps to recoup food stamp overpay-
ments that occur as a result of fraud or error—such as payments to prisoners.
My bill would reduce this reward system for states that do not cross-check
food stamp rolls with prison records, the way Texas is doing.
I am happy that Texas took the initiative on this matter, pointing the way
for other states to do the same, without waiting for the federal government to
act. Cross-checking prison records with food stamp eligibility lists is an
inexpensive, non-intrusive method of determining whether families receiv-
ing food stamps are accurately stating the size of their households.
American taxpayers, who are footing the bill, deserve no less.
PROPERTY TAX EDITORIAL
BY: BOB STALLMAN, PRESIDENT
TEXAS FARM BUREAU
It's only natural, I suppose, that the debate over Governor Bush's
property tax relief proposal is being framed in terms of "winners and
losers." That, however, misses the point.
Often overlooked is the fact that the property tax will not be able to
carry the burden of funding Texas schools much longer. From 1984
to 1994, property taxes more than doubled, while the property tax
base actually declined. The property tax is close to being "tapped
out" as a viable source of funding.
If we stick with the property tax it will not be many years before the
Legislature will have to raise the $1.50 cap on tax rates. Many
homeowners and business owners with a lot of capital investment
feel property taxes are already outrageous. Can you image the
outcry if taxes continue to go up at this alarming rate? It seems to
me that a better choice would be to fix the system right now.
I served on Governor George W. Bush's Citizen's Committee for
Property Tax Relief. The 14 publis hearings held by the committee
convinced me that Texas has a property tax crisis. Homeowners
are worried that another doubling of the tax in the next decade could
be more than many of them can pay. Farmers and ranchers are
concerned that the tax bite could force the next generation of farm
families from the land. Many first time homeowners fear that
excessive property taxes will rob them of their dream of home
ownership. Many capital intensive businesses are seeing profits
and jobs disappear to excessive taxation.
Some Texas businesses that have not been paying very much in
the way of taxes to fund our schools would very much like to keep it
that way. Those that have been paying the tax would like to spread
the burden around a little better.
Farmers, ranchers, capital intensive businesses and homeowners
havyebeen paying this tax for decades. Service-oriented businesses
with little capital investment except buildings and office equipment,
doctors, lawyers, accountants, lobbyists and other non-incorporated
businesses have long avoided paying very much to fund education.
A new tax, the Texas Business Tax, has been proposed by the
governor, but a tax break for an overburdened group goes along
with it.
The Texas Business Tax in Governor Bush's proposal is a tax that
tracks the economic activitiy of the state. The property tax just
doesn't do that very well. It never has. Texans clearly don't want
an income tax, and the Texas Business Tax looks like the best
option for long term, healthy and dependable support for Texas
schools.
The program assists attorneys from all types of practice, from all
different parts of the state and from ;all age groups. The majority,
however, are males in their 30's and 40's who are in solo practice.
Matt, who now is a volunteer, beliieves the program serves as
useful function in getting attorneys into treatment and helping them
get their life back on track. "The program addresses the problem in
a caring way and gets the attorneys the help they need," he said.
As for Matt, he's been sober seven yeairs and countina
that are 15 percent leaner. Leaner beef cuts are also being
produced; meat with 27 percent less fat reaches the retail case than
in 1985. Farmers have also met consumer demands for ethnic
foods, such as corn chips and tortillas, by increasing production of
food grade corn. Through biotechnology consumers can now enjoy
a fresh tomato that is tasty -- even when out of season.
What's coming down the pike for us food producers? More and
better technology, more precise farming methods, more
sophisticated growing tools. Our customers, men, women and
children just like us, will see more choices and higher quality
products. Our environment will remain our top priority, because we
want the next generation and the next and next to be able to nurture
it just like we have.
In 1790 American farming and ranching wasn't just a business. It
was a way of life. The methods, the out put, and the times have
changed dramatically since then. But some things haven't changed.
Quality. Family. Values. It's not just a business. It's a way of life.
And the future? Continuing the legacy. Better than ever.
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