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The Boerne Star & Recorder
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Star Editorial ...
Bumper stickers not
a true show of support
Ask almost any American and they will very likely tell you with-
out hesitation how much they support troops.
The real question isn’t if they support the troops, but how.
Unfortunately, supporting the troops has become a campaign slo-
gan. It’s one that we’re likely to hear a lot more in the next year as
the presidential race heats up.
Political speeches don’t support the troops. Neither do bumper
stickers on the back of cars.
People being shot at thousands of miles away don’t have much
need for either.
There are lots of ways people can support the troops, and last week
the local Boerne Sunrise Rotary club demonstrated real support
through a donation of Wii video game consoles to aid in the reha-
bilitation of injured U.S. Marines at the Brook Army Medical
Center bum unit.
For those who are not familiar with the latest game system from
Nintendo, the controls for the Wii are remote and are operated by
hand and arm movements instead of button-pushing. Playing tennis
on the Wii requires the user to stand up and swing their arm in the
same manner as if they were actually on the court.
The designers of the Wii probably did not intend for it to be a reha-
bilitation aid, but this is certainly a great use of modern technology.
Of course, the Marines at the Brook Army Medical Center aren’t
the only troops in need of support. Since the beginning of the war in
Iraq in 2003, an estimated 27,000 U.S. troops have been wounded
in combat.
Some of those were able to return to duty, but many more returned
home badly wounded and scarred for life. And while those may
seem obvious, others will return physically unharmed but scarred
just the same.
There also are family members waiting at home for the return of
soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Sometimes knowing that
their loved ones are being looked after can be the best support for
troops oversees.
There are lots of ways to show support for the troops. The
Department of Defense launched America Supports You in 2004 to
help people send messages to the troops.
To find more ways to support the troops, visit the Web site at
www.americasupportsyou.mil.
The Boerne Star
Online Poll
Do you support the City’s denial of a rezoning
request for S. School Street to commercial?
■ Yes, traffic is already too heavy - 50%.
■ No, commercial zoning tits the master plan -
35.7%.
■ No opinion — 14.3%.
Results of 42 votes cast as of Monday morning,
Sept. 17 at 11:23 a.m.
Visit www.boernestar.com and cast your vote today.
Worth Quoting ...
"We must use time wisely and
forever realise that the time is
always ripe to do right."
- Nelson Mandela
Bible Verse ...
"The grass withers and the
flowers fall, but the word of
our God stands forever."
- Isaiah 40:8
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Contributing Photographers
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Contributing Writers and Columnists
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L eW points
Hurricane strikes 3 Texas counties
AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry
on Sept. 13 declared Orange,
Jefferson and Galveston coun-
ties a disaster area resulting
from Hurricane Humberto.
Gov. Perry ordered state
agency and military resources
and personnel to the area
before the storm hit. Relief
workers delivered generators,
water and ice to stricken areas.
Humberto took only 18 hours
to develop from a tropical
depression into a Category 1
hurricane with sustained wind
CAPITAL HIG H U G HTS
Ed Sterling
TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
O’Connor, Maverick County
Sheriff Tomas S. Herrera,
Secretary of State Phil
Wilson, Texas Commission on
Environmental
Quality
Commissioner Buddy Garcia
and
Public
Safety
speeds in excess of 85
and heavy rains.
No tropical cyclone
mph
on
record ever reached the inten-
sity of Humberto at a faster
rate near landfall, the National
Hurricane Center reported.
After striking Texas, the
weather system moved across
The Texas Department of
Insurance urged residents
affected by the hurricane to call
the consumer hotline, 1-800-
252-3439 for answers to storm-
related insurance questions.
BORDER SECURITY
COUNCIL IS FORMED
Gov. Perry appointed 11
members to the newly created
Texas Border Security
Council to serve at his pleas-
ure.
The council was created by
Senate Bill 11 of the 80th
Louisiana and Mississippi and Legislature. The council’s job
into Alabama.
Entergy Texas, a major
power provider in 26 counties
including the
three in the disaster zone,
reported power outages to
118,019 customers.
Seventy-two hours after
Humberto struck the coast,
Entergy said power restoration
to customers was almost com-
plete. A widely reported early
estimate of damages caused by
the hurricane came to about
$500 million.
will be to devise performance
standards, reporting require-
Commission member Allan
Polunsky.
Three private businessmen,
Fred Burton of Austin, Scott
A. McLaughlin of El Paso,
and Robert Braxton Holt of
Midland, also were appointed
to the council by Perry.
“Texans understand there
can be no homeland security
without border security,” said
Perry. “The members of the
Border Security Council will
play an important role in rein-
forcing the state’s efforts to
strengthen the safety and
security of Texas.”
MORE MINORITIES
TAKE AP EXAMS
standards, reporting require- The Texas Education Agency
ments, audit methods and reported minority students
other procedures for home- represented 52 percent of all
land security fund allocation Advanced Placement test tak-
and use. ers in Texas in 2007.
Council members include Fifty percent of those who
the presiding officer Cameron took the test in 2006 identified
County Judge Carlos Cascos themselves as minorities. In
of Brownville, Brewster 2002, the figure was 45 per-
County Judge Val Clark cent.
Beard, High school students who
Hudspeth County Judge score highly on AP exams can
Becky Dean-Walker, Victoria earn college credit for cours-
County Sheriff T. Michael es, saving their families thou-
H! :
sands of dollars in tuition
costs and giving students a
head start on a college educa-
tion, the TEA reported.
WILSON VISITS NYC
FOR TEXAS
Texas’ new Secretary of
State Phil Wilson, on the job
since July 1, took a trip east to
drum up business for the Lone
Star State.
He had this to say: “During
the trip we visited the New
York Stock Exchange and dis-
covered that Texas has 216
companies worth $2.42 tril-
lion that are publicly traded
on the exchange - the most of
any state in the nation.
“This is proof that the Lone
Star State truly is ‘wide open
for business’ and has the
potential to remain an eco-
nomic powerhouse for years
to come.”
Wilson makes trips like this
for Texas One, an outreach
program to promote Texas as
an attractive place for busi-
nesses to relocate.
CITY DEDICATES
RICHARDS BRIDGE
The city of Austin on Sept. 7
officially renamed and dedi-
cated the former Congress
Avenue Bridge as Ann W.
Richards Congress Avenue
Bridge. Richards served as
governor from 1991 to 1995.
She died Sept. 13, 2006.
VD ue oU eN
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Wanna be an astronaut? Read on
The ninth annual High School
Aerospace Scholars program is
an excellent opportunity for
high school juniors to “space
out” and even receive high
school credit for doing so.
Sponsored by the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration’s (NASA)
IN THE TEXAS SENATE
L Jeff Wentworth
1 STATE SENATOR
R-SAN ANTONIO
Johnson Space Center, students
accepted into this year’s pro- Houston for a six-day residen-
gram will be able to explore and tial experience, which includes
become a part of NASA’s plan tours, field trips, astronaut brief-
for space exploration, which ings and hands-on engineering
will send humans back to the activities.
moon, then on to Mars and The fully funded program pays
beyond. for students’ transportation,
During the school year, stu- housing and meals during the
dents chosen as aerospace summer session.
scholars will participate in Web- Through a combination of
based activities that include state, federal and private sector
space exploration studies, links funding, the scholars program
to virtual reality models and helps Texas high school juniors
online conversations with explore the exciting possibility
NASA engineers and scientists. of careers in science, technology
Next summer, the selected stu- and engineering at no expense to
dents will journey to the students or their school districts.
Johnson Space Center in Upon completion of the pro-
gram, students may receive sci-
ence elective credit toward grad-
uation as approved by the Texas
Education Agency.
The state of Texas, Rotary
NASA, the Houston Livestock
Show and Rodeo and the
University of Houston System
support the program.
Texas legislators nominate stu-
dents for consideration by the
Johnson Space Center.
Applicants must be United
States citizens, at least 16 years
of age, and Texas residents who
are currently high school juniors
interested in math, science,
engineering or technology.
Students also must have Internet
access and agree to complete a
series of Web-based assign-
ments during the school year.
Nov. 2 is the deadline for sub-
mitting applications. They
should be mailed to: NASA
Johnson Space Center, Attn:
Jessica Cejka, 2101 NASA
Parkway, Mail Code AE2/TAS,
Houston, Texas 77058.
To submit applications online
and for more information about
HAS, log on to aerospace
scholars.jsc.nasa.gov/ or e-mail
aerospace.scholars@jsc.nasa,
gov. Interested students also
may call 281-483-4112 for
information.
Since the program began in
1999, more than 1,750 students
from across Texas have become a
part of NASA’s vision for space
exploration. Each year, scholars
from Senate District 25 have been
selected for the High School
Aerospace Scholars program, and
I am both happy and proud that
they chose to participate.
I encourage high school jun-
iors, including homeschooled
students and students attending
private schools, to apply for
this year’s program. Texas stu-
dents who are accepted into the
program will be able to experi-
ence space without leaving
earth.
WRITE ’EM!
KENDALL COUNTY
JUDGE GAYLAN
SCHROEDER
204 E. San Antonio
Boerne, Texas 78006
249-9343
Commissioners
ANN REISSIG
GENE MIERTSCHIN
DARRELL LUX
KENNETHRUSCH
204 E. San Antonio
Boerne, Texas 78006
249-9343
CITY OF BOERNE
MAYOR DAN
HECKLER
402 E. Blanco
Boerne, Texas 78006
249-9511
BOERNE ISD
Superintendent
JOHN KELLY
123 W. Johns Rd.
Boerne, Texas 78006
830-357-2000
COMFORT ISD
Superintendent
JOHN CHAPMAN
232 High
Comfort, Texas 78013
995-3664
STATE LEVEL
GOVERNOR
RICK PERRY
State Capital, Room
200, Austin, Texas
78701
(512) 463-2000
STATE BOARD
OF EDUCATION
District 5
205 W. Travis
Fredericksburg, TX,
78624 • 830-997-
9759
STATE REP.
NATHAN MACIAS
District 73
P.O. Box 2910,
Austin, TX 78768-
2910
Office512-463-0325
Fax: 512-463-5899
STATE SENATOR
JEFF WENTWORTH
District 25
1250 NE Loop 410 St.
FEDERAL LEVEL
PRESIDENT
GEORGE W. BUSH
White House, 1600
Pennsylvania Ave.,
Washington, DC
20000
REP. LAMAR SMITH
Congressman Lamar
Smith | 2409 Rayburn
House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
20515-4321 |(202)
225-4236
San Antonio Office
Guaranty Bank
Building , 1100 NE
Loop 410 Suite 640
925, San Antonio, Tx San Antonio, TX 78209
78209
(210) 826-7800
210-821-5024
210-821-5947 fax
lamarsmith.house.gov
U.S. SENATOR
JOHN CORNYN
Russell Bldg. Rm. 179,
Washington, D.C.
20510
(202) 224-2934
KAY BAILEY
HUTCHISON
703 Hart Senate
Office Building
Washington, D.C.
20510
(202) 224-5922
San Antonio Office
145 Duncan Dr.,
Suite 120
San Antonio, TX 78226
210-340-2885
210-349-6753 (FAX)
MEETING TIMES
BOERNE
CITY COUNCIL
7:30 p.m. second and
fourth Tuesday of the
month, City Hall, 402 E.
Blanco
KENDALL COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
9 a.m. second and fourth
Monday, Kendall County
Courthouse,, 204 E. San
Antonio, Boerne
BOERNE ISD
Board Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
third Monday, BISD board-
room
COMFORT ISD
7 p.m. second Monday
of the month
at the board offices
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