The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 2001 Page: 1 of 26
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Friday, May 25, 2001
Boerne, Kendall County, Texas
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Memorial Day
program planned
Veterans of Foreign Wars Bruno
Phillip Post 688, the VFW Ladies
Auxiliary, and American Legion
Post 228, will conduct a special
Memorial Day ceremony at the
Boerne Cemetery, noon, Mon.,
May 28.
Guest speakers will include
Hailey Frantzen, this year’s Post
688 Youth Essay Winner, who will
present her winning composition,
“What Does It Mean to be Pat-
riotic?” Also, Marguerite Richard-
son, this year’s VFW Post 688
Voice of Democracy Winner, who
advanced in the competition and
placed first in the district, will read
her essay concerning “What Price
Freedom?”
Honored guests will include Fair
Oaks Ranch Mayor Boots Gau-
batz. Assisting in the ceremony
will be the American Legion Color
Guard, the VFW-American Legion
Rifle Squad rendering a 21-gun
salute, and Dr. Kenneth Herbst
playing “Taps.” The public is
encouraged to attend and is re-
minded to bring lawn chairs.
Helping in making the Boerne
Cemetery look magnificent during
Memorial Day, scouts from Boy
Scout Troop 18 will assist mem-
bers of the VFW and American
Legion by placing flags at the
graves of Boerne’s Veterans. The
placement flags will begin Mon-
day morning, at 8 a.m.
In conjunction with the Mem-
orial Day services, members of
VFW Post 688 and the Ladies
Auxiliary will conduct Buddy
Poppy sales throughout the city of
Boerne, Saturday, May 26, starting
at 9 a.m.
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 properly, 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
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... BIRTHDAYS
May 28 - Haley Van Wagner,
Cheryl Crow, Paula Glasser
... ANNIVERSARIES
May 28 - Don and Anita Herndon
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Volume 96 • Number 42
School board approves pay
raises for BSD employees
Stylin’ in Duck
The Boerne School Board has approved all rec-
ommendations made by one of its sub-commit-
tees for across the board pay increases for district
. employees.
The salary and benefits sub-committee also rec-
ommended the implementation of a bonus type
scheme, to award teachers for high-performance
level teaching, Chairman Kevin Jeffries said.
“It would be base pay, and if you perform at a
high level, you win. In the business world, this is
very common,” Jeffries told fellow board mem-
bers.
Recommendations approved May 21 include:
• A pay raise of 3.25 percent for each classifica-
tion of employee.
• Development of a performance incentive plan
during the 2001-2002 school year — for imple-
mentation the following year.
• Minor changes in pay scales, i.e. raising regis-
trars to the next highest rung on the pay scale.
• Approval of stipend schedules.
• Possible future consideration of additional
compensation to district counselors.
• Expansion of the lead teacher program to two
new areas — technology and fine arts with asso-
ciated committee stipends.
The board also approved considering next
month additional. compensation for teaching
assistants, who actually perform regular teaching
duties.
“Given that Joe Davis, Kevin Jeffries, Mike
Schultz and Danny Buck all served on the Salary
Committee, the recommendations come to the
board with a quorum already in support,” Jeffries
wrote.
Local artist helps raise money
for children with cancer
— By Joni Simon____________
“ Staff Writer
Her living room in Fair Oaks
Ranch resembles an art gallery
or a place of worship. The
paintings are mostly of women
— Madonnas — dressed in
Medieval type outfits.
The talent is obvious, yet,
Elizabeth Steving says she
rebelled against becoming an
artist and took up guitar instead.
As the old saying goes, you can
run, but you can’t hide. Fainting
coursed through her veins, a tal-
ent she may have inherited from
her grandmother or her mother
or both.
“My grandmother was an
artist and my mother was an
artist,” Steving said.
Her mother had quite a fol-
lowing.
“Lady Bird Johnson has one
of her paintings,” Steving said.
It wasn’t until years later that
Steving developed a following
■ of her own. First, she was a
musician, playing her guitar as
a duo in Dallas and at the
Kerrville Music Festival.
Evidence of her early music
career, a guitar in a worn black
case, sits by the front door,
almost as if Steving is ready, at
any moment, to leave on a gig.
It was her financial situation
that led her back to art.
“I was divorced at 28, and
with three young daughters, I
had to find something I could
do to make a living. I am really
blessed to sell. I’ve had so much
luck. I have great collectors,”
Steving said.
Now remarried, Steving says
she’s primarily focused on her
children. She hopes this year,
for the first time, an art gallery
will handle her work. Currently,
her work is drawing interest by
being displayed in the homes of
her high profile clients. Their
friends and acquaintances see
Steving’s work and often con-
tact her, wanting a painting —
or paintings — of their own.
Steving recently participated
in a fund-raiser. The Delta Delta
Delta and Kappa Alpha Theta
Alumnae Organizations of
Austin netted $35,000 at this
year’s Spring Fare and Fashion
Show fund-raiser, which took
place at the Austin Country
Club on April 5.
“They contacted me. They
wanted a Texas artist and jewel-
er.” Steving said.
The third participant was fash-
ion designer Susan Dell.
Known for her simple but ele-
gant designs, Dell’s ready-to-
wear and custom fashions have
been featured in “Harper’s
Bazaar,” “W,” “Town and
Country,” and “Women’s Wear
Daily,” to name a few. Last
year, she opened her first retail
store in Austin, Texas.
The exquisite jewelry cre-
ations of renowned jewelry
designers, Lucia Lyle, a mother
and daughter design team from
Wichita Falls, Texas were also
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Courtesy photo
Liz Steving, local artist, with her painting, “Letting Go.” The other painting is called “Exposing Dreams.”
Courtesy photo by Jan Wrede
The Boerne High School prom had a new twist this year with four students
attending in formal Duck Tape attire! Two couples (from left) Durim Lama,
Ashley Portman. Sarah McFarlen and Fielding Posson entered a contest
sponsored by the Duck Tape company. By wearing their Duck Tape cloth-
ing to the prom, they became eligible to enter a contest for the most cre-
ative Duck Tape formal wear.
The students also presented a Duck Tape Boerne Greyhound to BHS
Principal Sam Champion. Contest winners will receive a college scholar-
ship and the Duck Tape company will donate $2500 to the winning high
school. Good luck to both couples!
ity employees come
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_ BY JONI Simon____________________
• Staff Writer
The amount of debris blowing around
during the storm last Sunday night that
toppled some of the biggest trees and
caused staff to work well into the night
amazed at least one city official.
“Crews were out at 12:30 a.m. until 9
p.m. the next night. I was very proud of the
team effort. I was amazed at how fast they
worked,” City Manager Ron Bowman told
city council May 22, a day after the storm.
Employees did a good job out in the field
as well as in the office, he added.
“There was no griping from the staff.
Everyone was asking, ‘what can I do to
help?’” the city manager said.
Just answering the telephone was a
chore. City Hall received 761 calls and the
police department received 555 — all
relating to the storm. On a normal day, the
city receives about 200 calls, City
Secretary Linda Zartler said.
Bowman further commended Kendall
County for its help in grinding the brush
for the city. An official letter thanking the
county will be sent.
City crews will be picking up other brush.
“If it’s something that happened during
the storm, we’ll pick it up, but we don’t
ring storm
want people to abuse this offer,” Public
Works Director Michael Mann said.
City staff will receive a debriefing today
at the police department to explore how
things can run even smoother next time,
Bowman said.
In other business, council awarded a bid
for the Crosspoint Drive reconstruction
project to AFC Paving for $81,000 and
$1,000 for the alternate base bid.
“That’s $1,000 more than budgeted, but
$7,000 less than the next bid,” Mann said.
He told the council the alternate is need-
ed.
“We’d have a 35-foot road if we didn’t
perform the alternate,” Mann said.
Wider is better on that stretch of road,
especially for truck drivers, who are forced
to back into Sears driveway, the public
works director told the council.
“This would be alleviated with this
work,” Mann said.
The council also approved a variance
request to the sign ordinance for Jay
Hester.
“The sign ordinance as written doesn’t
permit an individual to place a sign in the
public right-of-way. Mr. Hester is asking
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