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Pearls of Youth
gallery goes online
Community shows
support for grads
can be found through the
Elgin ISD website at www.
elginisd.net/Page/1346.
During their first online
meeting on Monday, May
McDade ISD
celebrates seniors
Thank a
veteran or
a military
person every
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to America!
By Julianne Hodges
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• Farm & Ranch
• Land/Lots
• Residential
• Commercial
• Property Management
Post commander Chuck Swain delivers a speech
about the significance of Memorial Day.
By Julianne Hodges
julianne.hodges@elgincourier.com
By Julianne Hodges
julianne.hodges@elgincourier.com
to accommodate upcoming
growth.
The entire presentation
and report from PASA is in-
cluded in the agenda packet
for the May 18 school
trustees listened to a pre-
sentation summarizing
population growth in the
district.
Representatives from Pop-
As of Monday evening, Bastrop
County has confirmed 173 pos-
itive cases of COVID-19, accord-
ing to the county’s dashboard.
The Texas Department of State
Health Services (DSHS) reports
that 53 people have recovered
from the illness in Bastrop
County; two people have died.
On Monday, May 18, the coun-
ty’s total number of cases was
132, with 51 recoveries.
According to data from DSHS,
51 percent, or 88, of the cases
are in males, and 49 percent of
the cases, or 83, are in females.
One case is a person nine years
old or younger, 11 cases are peo-
ple between 10 and 19 years old,
22 cases are people in their 20s,
40 cases are people in their 30s,
32 cases are people in their 40s,
36 cases are people in their 50s,
22 cases are people in their 60s,
five cases are people in their
70s, and two cases are people
80 years or older.
Out of the three cities in Bas-
trop County, Elgin still has the
highest number of cases with
52 confirmed cases; Bastrop has
four cases, and Smithville has
ten cases. The remaining 107
cases are from residents who
live in unincorporated areas of
the county.
Looking at the county data bro-
ken down by zip code, Elgin’s re-
gion has a total of 74 cases in
Bastrop County, with 22 cases
from the unincorporated part
of the 78621 zip code area. Ac-
cording to the City of Austin’s
COVID-19 dashboard, the 78621
After 13 years, former
Elgin teacher Delia Perez
Meyer was able to re-
connect with four of the
students from her first
kindergarten class in
2007.
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her teaching career with
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Photos by Julianne Hodges
On Sunday morning, the Elgin 19 precautions. Instead of feet apart from each other.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post breakfast, the VFW offered just Post commander Chuck Swain,
6115 hosted their annual Me- coffee and donuts to attendees, along with other leaders of the
morial Day ceremony, despite and the outdoor Memorial Day post, delivered a speech hon-
a few differences from their ceremony was held in front of a oring those who lost their lives
usual event caused by COVID- couple of rows ofchairs spaced while serving their country.
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Meyer, now retired, got These students from her
her first teaching posi- first kindergarten class
tion in Elgin in 2003 and in Elgin are now about to
taught here for 14 years, graduate high school and
She taught a variety of move on to the next stage
in their education during Delia Perez Meyer has lunch with her former stu-
a time of uncertainty for dents, Edith Plancarte, Kayla Arines and Ruben
Vega, after finding them through the Elgin Adopt A
Senior program.
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Hodges, Julianne. Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 27, 2020, newspaper, May 27, 2020; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1555574/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Elgin Public Library.