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DEMOCRATS TO
POLL-WATCH
The Kendall County De-
mocratic Club and the
Kendall County Area Demo-
cratic Women will meet
Tuesday at 7 p.m. Nov. 5,
2002 at Alice Braly’s home
at 5 Sharon Drive, Boerne
for a Poll Watch Party.
Everyone is invited and
guests are welcomed. Bring
a finger food to share and
your own beverage. This
will take the place of the
Kendall County Democratic
Club Nov. 7 meeting. The
Kendall County Area Demo-
cratic Women will meet on
Nov. 14 as scheduled. For
more information, call (830)
981 4971.
PRAISE SERVICE
Community of One, a con-
temporary ecumenical wor-
ship celebration will be held
at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 at
Haven in the Hills Christian
Fellowship, 28715 IH-10
West 981-5708. A nursery
will be provided.
The community celebra-
tions are held several times
a year at various churches.
WILDFLOWER FESTIVAL
The first Texas Wildflower
Planting Festival is planned
Nov. 2-3 at Guadalupe
River Ranch Resort Spa
and Conference Center.
Tickets are $30 per day or
$50 for both days, and can
be purchased at the door.
Parking is $5 per car. Reser-
vations can be made by call-
ing (800) 460-2005, email-
n
g
activities@grranch.com, or
by visiting www.guadalu-
periverranch.com.
TURKEY DINNER
The Boerne Band Boost-
ers will hold their annual
Turkey Dinner Sunday at
the Boerne High School
Cafeteria. Turkey and all the
trimmings will be served
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Take-
out orders will be available
and a drive-through area
provided as well for diners
on the go. Tickets $5, pro-
ceeds support the band pro-
T A DDV
... BIRTHDAYS
Oct. 25: Nora Pressler, Ellen
Nicholls, Judy Rackley
Oct. 26: Chas Boemer, 3rd
Oct. 27: John Eddie Vogt,
Doris Zellner
... ANNIVERSARY
Oct. 25: Joe & Mary Jane
Morrison
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Volume 97 • Number 86
Local handwriting expert analyzes sniper
— By VALERIE Collins__________
• Managing Editor
Sharon Tschirhart has ana-
lyzed handwriting from a
rogue’s gallery of characters
ranging from the serial killer
Son of Sam to special prosecu-
tor Ken Starr. This week she’s
been called on to analyze the
wording of notes left by the
sniper that’s plagued the Wash-
ington D.C. area for the last
three weeks.
While preparing to appear on a
spate of television news pro-
grams Wednesday night,
Tschirhart predicted police
would nab their man by Friday.
Law enforcement officers ar-
Java Jazz
addresses
noise concerns
• BY Christianne Young
• Staff Writer
Adamant concerns about the
noise level along South Main
Street were expressed to
Bourne City Council Tuesday.
But most of the comments
were not from residents con-
cerned about the noise level,
they were by concerned Java
Jazz supporters and restaurant
owner Francis Frost.
Frost began Java Jazz as an
outlet for musicians like her-
self.
“The place was established
for music,” Frost said. “There
are not very many places for
musicians to play in the area.”
Musicians are required to
keep the music below 70
amps. Only once did the
music rise over 85 amps, and
the band was immediately
pulled from the stage, accord-
ing to Frost.
Boerne resident Bob Brown
believes Java Jazz provides a
safe place close to home for
Boerne kids to go for enter-
tainment.
“Especially when it comes
to the youth in this town,
there’s so very little for them
to do,” Brown said. “These
young kids are going to go
somewhere.”
Brown believes by not pro-
viding places in Boerne for
the youth, the youth are
Horses in Fair Oaks, Bandera have West Nile
• BY MATT Bartosh__________
• Staff Writer
A second area horse, stabled
off Fair Oaks Parkway, has been
confirmed as having contracted
the West Nile Virus. Also, labo-
ratory tests by the Kendall
County Equine Clinic on Oct.
18 confirmed that a horse in
Bandera County, off Bump Gate
Road, has contracted the virus.
The first confirmed case of an
infected horse was reported on
July 3 in Harris County, Barn
Manager Natalie Ippolito of
Kendall County Equine Clinic
said.
rested two suspects early Thurs- clues for profilers.
day morning while they slept in “A person who rambles on for
a car at a roadside park. three pages is someone who has
The Associated Press reported a real need for control. He is
that federal authorities have told angry and needs to express his
President Bush they were rea- anger in words. He is also most
sonably sure the case had been likely bragging,” Tshirhart said,
solved. “He wants to be sure that they
The sniper’s boastful natures know what he has done, why he
and powerful needs for control is doing it, what his demands
and to express his anger helped are. He is orchestrating the di-
lead investigators to him. rective for his demands and
“It seem like they were not as what will happen if it is not
intelligent as we thought,” done HIS way,” she said.
Tshirhart said. “They were de- In one of the messages, the
tailed but very lucky.” sniper attempts to prove to the
The three-page letter left be- world he’s all-powerful. It
hind at the scene of one of the
final shootings offers many
See ANALYSIS, Page 8A
Courtesy photo
Downtown debates
Revised plaza plans
presented to council
Java Jazz’s live music at 308 N. Main has cause some homeowners
to raise noise complaints to City Council. Java Jazz supporters told
City Council they are not to blame for disturbances in the area.
forced to make a dangerous
drive into San Antonio.
“Live music is a real draw to
young people, and old. On any
Wednesday night you can go
down to the First Baptist
Church. (There’s always) 200-
plus kids there, and if you step
inside, you find that the noise
level is quite loud, but it is one
of the things that draws them. It
keeps them in a good place, a
safe place. The Methodist
Church is the same way. Every
Wednesday night a huge crowd
of young people flock there for
the message and for the music.
“I have young kids myself. It’s
a great thing if we can keep
them here,” Brown said.
Homeowner Shirley Wilson
who lives at the top of a hill on
Highway 46 said she can hear
the music at times.
“When it carries that far, it
“Since then, there have been
over 700 laboratory-confirmed
equine cases in Texas as of
Oct.18, and that number grows
every day,” said Ippolito. “I
spoke with a doctor at the
TVMDL Laboratory in College
Station, who told me that last
week alone they had over 200
tests come back positive for
West Nile.”
She said processing confirmed
equine West Nile cases into
Texas statistics takes about two
weeks.
“In other words, current num-
bers are not really current num-
Star photo: Christianne Young
must be pretty loud,” Wilson
said to City Council.
Sharon, the employee at Java
Jazz who monitors the music,
walks through the neighbor-
hoods near Java Jazz to make
sure the music is not too loud.
“I did walk to some of the ad-
dresses where they say they are
hearing the music. I do not hear
the music. I hear the dogs bark-
ing. I hear the gentlemen play-
ing baseball in the yard with his
child. I hear the ping of the
metal bat.
“I do not hear the music in the
sense that you can understand it.
I don’t think it’s that loud. I am
trying to monitor it and keep it
under control, so people have a
place to go. Local people want
somewhere to go where they
don’t have to drive with the deer
See MUSIC, Page 8A
See PLAZA, Page 8A
“... There have
been over 700
laboratory-confirmed
equine cases in
Texas as of Oct. 18
and that number
grows every day. ”
Natalie Ippolito
Kendall County Equine Clinic
. By Christianne Young tending around the gazebo will
■ Staff Writer be removable.
Tippett and architect Dan
The city’s most recent Main Ochoa are currently trying to
Plaza renovation plans were create a roof line a little steep-
presented to Boerne City er than the one in current plans,
Council Tuesday. in order to prevent the gazebo
Joe Tippett, assistant director from looking “squatty.”
of finance for the City of "We want the onion to stand
Boerne reported that city staff out, but we don’t want it to
members have made several look like it’s just pushing it
revisions to a plans presented (the gazebo) down to the
to council Sept. 10. ground,” Tippett said.
“We received comments both "I’m not at all comfortable
from that meeting and then with how squatty it looks,”
later at the Landmark Commis- Ochoa said. “It needs some
sion meeting on some things work. It’s a little too top-heavy
that the citizens really would in my opinion ... I want to turn
prefer to have us consider, so this not just into an icon but a
we’ve taken those ideas and very well executed one.”
hopefully we’ve incorporated The raised platform in previ-
them all into the same design ous plans presented to council
that you approved previously,” has been removed from revised
Tippett said. plans.
The “onion dome” — the “We’ve decided we really
nickname bestowed on the don’t need to go with a raised
dome resting on top of the platform, but what we would
gazebo by locals — will be like to do is put in some addi-
placed on a new larger gazebo, tional pavers,” Tippett said.
“(This will) give it that look Where the plans had included
which was referred to as araised platform at the back of
Boerne’s icon,” Tippett said. the plaza, additional pavement
The city wants to create new will be added to cut down on
gazebo columns made of con- landscape upkeep, according to
crete or steel that would re- Tippett.
quire minimal upkeep. If a larger performance areais
“We could do some design needed, the street between
cut-outs in the columns, forex- Main Plaza and the currently
ample musical notes. With in- standing firehouse could be
terior lighting at night, that temporarily blocked off and
would be a real nice feature,”
Tippett said. The railing ex-
bers,” she said. “They are out-
dated when they are reported.”
The West Nile Virus is carried
by more than 70 species of
birds,, particularly migratory
birds, she said, whose paths nor-
mally cross the Texas Hill
Country in winter. The disease
is transferred from bird to mam-
mal via mosquitoes, who con-
tract and then spread the dis-
ease.
“Unfortunately, there is no
vaccine for humans,” Ippolito
said, “but there is a vaccine
available for horses.”
Justin Henesey, public health
Sharon
Tschirhart ex-
amines a hand-
writing sample
at her home in
Lake County.
She is a court-
qualified foren-
sic document
examiner and
behavioral pro-
filist with more
than 35 years of
professional ex-
perience.
officer of Texas Department of
Health, said that less than 1 per-
cent of infected people will get
severely ill. And, he said people
with low-immune systems are
most susceptible to the virus.
Horses are dead-end hosts,
which means they cannot trans-
mit the virus, Henesey said.
However, once infected, Ip-
polito said, “There is no cure for
the disease, and the only treat-
ment available is supportive
treatment to help keep the horse
comfortable and possibly supply
See WEST NILE, Page 8A
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