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THE TIME FOR FALL
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Friday, October 27, 2000
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City Council hears news on rain, water level
FINDING THE ANTIQUE KEY
Eighth Annual Key to the Hills
Antique Show Saturday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Kendall
County Fairgrounds. Admission is
$3 for both days, parking is free.
It is sponsored by the Greater
Boerne Chamber of Commerce.
Call 1-888-842-8080 for more
information. This fall visit Boerne
for one of the Hill Country's top
antique shows. With indoor pavil-
ions and a large outdoor venue,
this juried show features an elab-
orate array of collectibles,
antiques, jewelry, rare books, vin-
tage linens and clothing, primi-
tives, glass and much more. Come
and enjoy this fall in Boerne.
ADOPT A PET MONTH
The Boerne Animal Shelter is
sponsorinq Adopt a Shelter Pet
Month with an open house every
Monday in October from 5-7 p.m.
For more information call 249-
2456.
October is Adopt A Dog month
and the kennel on Esser Road has
several dogs that need new
homes. If you adopt a dog in
October please bring your adop-
tion papers in and BoerneNet
located at 624 N. Main, Suite
105, will supply the collar and
leash.
WANTED
. This person sells drugs to anyone
and/or
Sells alcohol to our minor children.
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
Oct. 27: Doris Zellner, John
Eddie Vogt
Oct. 28: Victoria Smith, Marvin
Kneupper, Pauline Herbst
Oct. 29: Raymond Gass, Maxie
Zinsmeister, Minday Ingram
Oct. 30: Kaylie Morgan
INSIDE
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Volume 95 • Number 86
— By Joni Simon______________
• Staff Writer
Boerne City Councilwoman Eva
Mitchell may have reflected other
area residents’ feelings when she
observed that the 100-year flood is
coming every two years. Mitchell
made the remark during a council
meeting Oct. 24, a day after heavy
rains caused the Emergency
Operations Center to open and area
schools to close.
It doesn’t snow in south Texas, but
when it rains, it pours. Now, the
Boerne Independent School District
is looking at April 13 or June 7 as
make-up days. For youngsters,
that’s the bad news.
The heavy precipitation brought
with it good news to a drought-
stricken area. Wells have filled up,
meaning Stages 1 and 2 water
restrictions can be lifted soon, possi-
bly as early as next week, City
Manager Ron Bowman told Boerne
City Council Oct. 24.
Bowman said Boerne Lake is full
— up two feet — and the wells have
come up, although the official mea-
surement still hadn’t been counted
by Oct. 24.
“This was the first time I’ve seen
water come up on Johns Road at
Cibolo Crossing,” Bowman said.
The volume of rain, some 8.7
inches of it, was a surprise, he said,
“The city fire trucks and every-
body were out there. It was a very
good feeling to see people on the
scene, responding the way they did.
Three workers had to rescue a gen-
tleman who was wrapped around a
utility pole, but we didn’t lose any
lives,” the city manager said.
Bowman, recounting the early
morning hours on Oct. 23, said there
were electrical problems during the
night.
The city manager said the water
came up fast and went down fast,
but left a few problems in its wake.
He told the council to expect issues
$2,
adding the biggest problem was the - concerning cracks and potholes in
NX
amount of traffic and not knowing the streets as well as drainage prob-
how high the water was going to __________________________________The rushing water at River Road made officials close one of the main roads
rise. Please see WEATHER, page 10A during the rain storm Monday. For details see page 8A.
------------------------- Commissioners told
dual duties are legal
Star photo/Susie Morgan
The fire left residents of Amber Apartments scrambling for new homes.The roof on the other building to the left
is caved in. If you can help, call the American Red Cross at 224-5151 or (800) 775-6803.
■• I • 1 ■ 10 I
-ire leaves residents seeking shelter
Eight Comfort families were left
homeless after a fire at their apart-
ment building Monday night.
Comfort Fire Chief Danny
Morales said one apartment in the
Amber Apartments, 105 Amber
Dr. in Comfort, was destroyed. All
eight apartments had smoke and
water damage.
“The fire traveled through the
attic. That was our problem, get-
ting it out. The wind was blowing
through the common attic and
moved the fire,” the fire chief said.
Morales said his firefighters
fought the blaze, then after an
hour when they were getting tired,
he called for assistance from the evening at Comfort Elementary
Waring and Boerne fire depart- School to house 20 adults and five
ments. The Sisterdale Volunteer children. On Tuesday evening,
Fire Department recharged the air nine people remained in the shel-
bottles with their mobile air sys- ter.
tem, he said. The Kendall County Red Cross staff and volunteers
EMS also made the scene. from Kendall County have provid-
"It’s under investigation right ed food, clothing and financial
now, but we think the cause was assistance to the 11 families
an electrical system in a refrigera- whose apartments were destroyed,
tor,” he said. Taking the next step in helping ■
The American Red Cross New those families affected by the fire,
Braunfels office has been offering Red Cross damage assessment
assistance since Monday to the
residents of the burned-down
apartment building. A Red Cross
shelter was opened Monday
teams have been at the scene of
the fire since Tuesday to calculate
Please see FIRE, page 10A
The court tabled an action item
that would have separated the Cow
Creek Conservation District’s funds
from the county general fund. The
commissioners held off voting on
the matter after heavy rain Oct. 23
prohibited Kendall County Attorney
Pamela K. McKay from attending
the meeting.
“Whether a district is created
depends on the state legislature.”
Lindler said.
At nn temnorarv directors until Senate Bill 1911, enacted in 1999,
the water district is established. That calls for ®e creation of the new
transition process is legal according groundwater conservation districts
to Texas law,” Attorney Patrick ----------------------------------
Lindler said. Please see COMMISSION, page 10A
« BY JONI Simon______________
• Staff Writer
A water board in the Cow Creek
Conservation District should be per-
manent after next year’s election,
the Kendall County Commissioner’s
Court said this week. Currently the
commissioners have been wearing
two hats, serving on the court and
the board - something they say is
perfectly legal.
“The Commissioner’s Court was
AACOG shows series
egion air proposals
Get ready for the government to
stick its nose up your tailpipe.
The Alamo Area Council of
Governments (AACOG) Wednes-
day unveiled a series of proposals
designed to clean up the region’s air
which include mandatory emissions
testing to be part of annual state
vehicle inspections.
“This would be an additional kind
of inspection that we’d all go
through every year, if our cars are
anywhere from two to 24 years old,”
said Patrick Heath, mayor of Boerne
and chairman of AACOG. “That
inspection would be what’s called a
‘two speed idle test.’ Simply, at two
different speeds of the engine, it
measures what’s coming out of the
exhaust pipe, to measure how clean
or how dirty it is. That would deter-
mine what kind of repairs we might
need.”
Heath said motorists whose cars
and trucks did not meet clean aii-
specifications would be required to
fix them up before they could pass
inspection. AACOG members said a
program would be established to
assist people who could not afford
Please see AACOG, page 10A
We're right - they're wrong
By Joni Simon_____________________________to give a balance,” she said.
Staff Writer Grissom said she particularly likes one of
‘Fighting the good fight’ was the gist of the President Clinton s lemarks when he was tes-
message Coleen Grissom conveyed during her tifying during the Monica Lewinsky hearing.
— for the most part — impromptu speech to "He said, it depends on what your definition
the Kendall County Democratic Women’s An- of is is. ... .
nual Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner Saturday. One On the more serious side, in preparing for
of the newer Hill Country residents entitled her talk before the Democratic women, she
her address, ‘We’re Right, They’re Wrong.’ examined the Republican Party Platform on
“The speech is about how I grew up to be an the Internet.
enlightened person and in my view, what a I pointed out the inconsistencies and leaps
Democrat is,” Grissom said. “It’s rough being of logic, she said. . ,
a Democrat in this part of the state.” Most of all, Grissom said, when she s asked
She peppered her speech with humor, draw- to give political speeches, she tries to inspiie
ing from the book entitled ‘The 67 Stupidest her audience to have enough courage to
Things A Republican Ever Said.’ remain faithful to their beliefs.
She planned to poke fun at her own party as I try to inspire them with quotes to fight the
well good fight, even though they may have an —__
“You turn that book over and it says The 67 _____________________________________________Dani Vollmer, left, and guest talk to Alice Braly, member of the Kendall County Democratic Women,
Stupidest Things A Democrat Ever Said. I try Please see WOMEN, page 10A and Dr. Colleen Grissom, keynote speaker of the annual Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner._____________
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