The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 2000 Page: 1 of 22
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Hometown of Kim Meuth
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Published Since 1906
Friday, September 1, 2000
Boerne, Kendall County, Texas
22 pages
BRIGHTS
Consultants recommend CPS Site 5
E-MAIL ADDRESS
CHANGE
The Boerne Star has changed its
e-mail address. Send e-mails to
boernestar@boernenet.com
GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE
A blood drive will be conducted
Saturday, Sept. 23, from 8 a.m. to
1 p.m. at 915 N. Main St. Please
call 249-6112 to sign up so that
enough staff members and equip-
ment will be on site. However,
walk-ins are always welcome. This
blood drive is sponsored by
Davison Insurance in conjunction
with University Health System
Blood Bank. For more information
call Bobbie French at 981-4568
or Patrice Davison at 249-6112.
• BY Hal Braswell_____________
— Staff Writer
FAIR OAKS RANCH - A consult-
ing firm hired by San Antonio City
Public Service has recommended
Site 5 - about half a mile from the
intersection of Deitz Elkhorn and
Ralph Fair Road - as the preferred
location for a new electric power
substation, although CPS officials
say a site decision isn’t likely to be
finalized until an Oct. 23 board of
directors meeting.
Scott Smith, of the CPS Strategic
Planning and Environmental Policy
office, said the designation as the
preferred site was based on a list of
criteria that included land use as
well as aesthetic and general envi-
ronmental considerations among
other factors.
In a separate study, Smith said pre-
liminary results show costs of all tion from parents and community
three finalist sites would be within leaders - mainly because of con-
10 percent of one another. Those cerns that children and staff mem-
cost figures, he said, do not include bers could be adversely affected.
underground options for transmis- The proposed substation would
sion lines. serve the I-10 corridor starting at
Of the preliminary sites first pro- Loop 1604 and extending north to
posed and then narrowed down to the Kendall County line. The service
three, Site 5 is the location nearest area would extend from Camp
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School Bullis in the east across I-10 West to
and has drawn substantial opposi- near the Medina County line.
CPS customers in northwestern
Bexar County are currently served
by a substation near the intersection
of I-10 and Loop 1604. CPS offi-
cials note the rapid growth north of
Loop 1604 has made another substa-
tion necessary, and say since Fair
Oaks Ranch is centrally located
within the I-10 West corridor, the
Please see CPS, page 10A
Boerne's strong wall
LIGHTS ARE ON
LADYBIRD
The Boerne Library Gala is Sept.
23 featuring author Jan Jarboe
Russell and her book about first
lady Mrs. Johnson, titled Ladybird.
A stellar "Night of Native Stars"
at Tapatio Springs Resort will ben-
efit the children's book budget for
2000, and co-chairmen Kay
Doyle and Kay Orth promise
another sellout.
Contact the Boerne Library at
249-3053 to purchase tickets now
- your support is needed and
appreciated.
WANTED
This person sells drugs to anyone
and/or
Sells alcohol to our minor children.
1. Parent drop-off for
middle school students
arriving via Old San
Antonio Road.
2. Bus drop-off for all
middle school students.
3. Bus drop-off for all
Kendall Elementary stu-
dents.
4. Parent drop-off for
all elementary students
arriving by car.
5. Parent drop-off for /
middle school students l((
entering from Cascade
Caverns Road.
6. Traffic to Kendall
Elementary should be in
right lane entering from
Cascade Caverns Road.
Middle school traffic
should be in left turn
lane.
2
Old San Antonio Rd.
For information which leads to
the indictment of drug sellers and/or
the arrest of person who sell alcohol
to our minor children, and help your
community to be safer, healthier,
happier.
You may also receive cash rewards
for information leading to the
arrest/conviction of persons for
criminal offenses such as: Recovery
of stolen property, the advertised
Crime of the Week, arson, robbery-
burglary theft, narcotics, auto theft,
hit and run, indecency with a child,
child abuse, shooting, vandalism,
animal cruelty.
Your identity will not be revealed.
No one (but you) knows the identity
of the person who reports the crime.
Kendall County Crime Stoppers
1-800-348-LEAD
HAPPY...
... BIRTHDAY
Sept. 1: Melvin Werner, Ronald
Bauer, Peggy Baker
Sept. 2: Bobby Uhl, Pat Little,
Cathy Weidner
Sept. 3: Harry Davis
Sept. 4: Joan Bindseil, Thekla
Henson
... ANNIVERSARY
Sept. 1: Kenneth and Marie
Hicks
INSIDE
Business
Community Calendar
Classifieds
Mary Alice’s Potpourri
Religion
Sports
Viewpoints
9A
10A
1-8B
8A
7A
11-12A
4A
Volume 95 • Number 70
Star photo/Blake Lacewell
Stephanie Locke, left, and Katy Guttery, block a shot during the Highlands match at San Antonio Reagan Tuesday
night. For details see page 11A.
No Friday Middle School tour
BOERNE - Parents and students
will be unable to tour Boerne
Middle School South Friday as orig-
inally planned and announced dur-
ing orientation sessions.
Instead, all students will report to
the cafetorium by 8:05 a.m. Tuesday
(the first day of classes), with prin-
cipal Sandra Radtke conducting a
school-wide assembly.
Parents who would like to tour the
campus may visit from 4-5:30 p.m.
during the first week of school.
School representatives attempted
to contact parents by telephone ear-
lier this week to inform them about
the change in plans.
Since the final building inspections
are scheduled through Friday after-
noon and in order to give contractors
and staff members more time to pre-
pare for opening day, school offi-
cials decided not to make the school
Mother, daughter share common Kendall title
straps, she said. “Anytime I needed flowers, I
was to let her know,” she said.
Wall’s duties were to attend parades in the
surrounding towns including Fredericksburg,
Blanco, Kerrville and New Braunfels. When
the court did not ride on the float, they rode in
convertibles. “It wasn’t as vigorous or as elab-
orate as our daughter was when she was queen
in ’74,” Wall said.
David Epperson III, or Poncho as he was
nicknamed, was Wall’s crown bearer.
Once her reign was finished, Wall said she
By Jennifer Fierro________________________competition.”
Managing Editor So Wall went home and asked her parents if
Being at the Kendall County Fair and Rodeo she could try out. They agreed. But at that
this weekend will bring back a lot of memo- time, girls did not have to interview forjudges,
ries for Doris Vadnais Wall. Wall served as the be involved in a large pageant, or even be seen
third Kendall County Queen when she was before the start of the fair.
crowned in 1951. Wall jokingly said she believes she was cho-
In 1974 her daughter Regina Wall Tripp also sen because someone drew her name out of a
won the prestigious crown. The two are the hat. “The queen was elected by the fair’s exec-
first mother-daughter duo to each be named utive board and their wives,” she said.
Kendall County Queen. The former queen said she was surprised to
“I didn’t decide to run,” Wall said about why win the crown, because it took so long for her
she in the contest. “I had a fair director’s wife to be given the results. "I put it out of my
ask me about a month and a half before the mind,” she said. “So when I was told, it was a
accessible to the general public
today.
Wednesday, teachers and staff
were on the campus setting up furni-
ture, supplies and equipment in
preparation for the opening of the
school and the school year.
. Essentially, city approval for occu-
pancy of the new school is being
granted on a section-by-section
basis. While cosmetic work does not
have to be completed for a section to
be approved, sections of the school
must pass electrical, plumbing and
safety requirements before classes
may be conducted.
Most of the actual construction
work now under way involves the
gymnasium and seven classrooms
on the south side of the school.
From the outset, school district
officials have known all construc-
tion on the two new campuses
would not be completed by opening
day, but have been most concerned
about Boerne Middle School South.
A gymnasium and about seven
classrooms will not be available on
opening day. Instead, the gym is
being used to warehouse furniture
that has been arriving. The new fur-
niture, in turn, is being unboxed and
placed in the appropriate locations.
Clifton Schmitt, BISD director of
planning and administrative ser-
vices, said other than the two gyms
and seven upstairs classrooms, the
middle school would be ready to go
for the opening of classes.
“We traded off so that eight class-
rooms that wouldn’t have been
ready are now ready,” Schmitt said.
“Instead seven classrooms upstairs
in the gym area won’t be ready. That
Please see TOUR, page 10A
complete shock.”
The night of the results, Wall said Mrs. Al
Gray came by her parents’ home to give her
the good news. “I was crowned during a rodeo
break,” she said.
Wall said she did not know how many other
girls were vying for the same crown, but her
court consisted of a princess, duchess and
Miss Congeniality. The queen was always
dressed in a formal gown complete with a
scepter, crown and train. A family friend, Mrs.
Betty Mae Uecker, owner of The Flower Shop,
always put flowers on Wall’s dress or made a
chain of flowers or put flowers on her dress
BOERNE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
KENDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
&
MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTH
Traffic flow plan
set for new schools
— By HAL Braswell_____________
• Staff Writer
BOERNE - With two new schools
.scheduled to open Tuesday morning
along with other BISD campuses,
school officials are hoping to mini-
mize traffic problems.
Around the site of the new schools,
law enforcement officials will be on
hand to help direct traffic, which
often is particularly congested dur-
ing the first week or two of classes.
School district officials are urging
parents to have their children ride
Cascade Caverns Rd.
school buses whenever possible, in
order to reduce the number of indi-
vidual vehicles entering and exiting
the site of the new schools.
Access to the site is via a loop road
connecting Old San Antonio Road
and Cascade Caverns Road. The
major thoroughfare loops north of
the new middle school and south of
the elementary school, with several
small loops leading to drop-off
points.
Please see TRAFFIC, page 10A
Please see QUEENS, page 10A
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Keasling, Edna & Fierro, Jennifer. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 2000, newspaper, September 1, 2000; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1626596/m1/1/?q=%22Texas+Press+Association%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.