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Boerne graduate Kyle
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Kansas State University. Hi-
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School record holder in the
300 hurdles.
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Volume 102 • Number 65
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City water could help Tapatio Springs
by Dave Pasley_________
• Staff Writer
It looks like the Kendall County Util-
ity Company has finally made the city of
Boerne an offer it cannot refuse.
A long-discussed, water-sharing arrange-
ment between the two entities will be
on the city council’s agenda tonight. The
agreement would allow water from the
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s Can-
yon Lake pipeline to be “wheeled” from a
delivery point on Cascade Caverns Road,
through the city’s distribution pipes, and
delivered to the KCUC distribution system
near the Ranger Creek neighborhood.
Kendall County Utility Company seeks agreement with Boerne
that could put the green back on the golf course
City background information suggests
that KCUC owner Jay Parker is seeking
the 90-day deal to get water to the Tapatio
Springs Golf Resort, which he and other
investors also own.
Tapatio Springs’ request for a variance to
irrigate the golf course with groundwater
was denied last week by the Cow Creek
Groundwater Conservation District, which
Parker has said threatens the very exis-
County. However, the deal comes at a significant
The deal with the city will provide cost to KCUC and substantial benefit to
112,500 gallons of water to KCUC per day. the city.
Because it is surface water from Canyon For more than two years KCUC has
tence of the oldest golf course in Kendall , drought breaks.
Lake, Cow Creek drought rules will allow
the utility to sell the water to the resort to
irrigate the golf course. Parker estimates
50,000 to 70,000 gallons of water per day
are needed to irrigate tees and greens on
the golf course, keeping them alive until the
been paying about $13,000 per month to
the GBRA for 225,000 gallons of water it
cannot take delivery of because there is no
pipeline connection between Ranger Creek
and the delivery point on Cascade Caverns
See WATER,page 2
Donated 'stuff' sometimes turns into a
pain-in-the-dumpster for local thrift shops
BY ELENA Tucker
Staff Writer
Whether donated items are
good-for-nothing or true trea-
sures, the people who drop
things on the unattended
property of local charities are
breaking the law.
It’s not that the thrift stores
don’t need the contributions,
Hill Country Animal League
Thrift Shop manager Larry
Warren said. The foundation of
the store’s inventory is made up
of worthwhile donations. But
too many people just use the
area behind the facility on West
Bandera Road as a dumping
ground, he said.
When asked about the prob-
lem, Warren said, "I tell you
what, “why don’t you walk
back there and smell?”
It’s a convenient place to
get rid of discards for people
who don’t want to drive to the
county dump to throw things
away. But, taxpayers and the
Animal League end up paying
the price, he said.
Warren personally takes at
least three, 14-foot trailer loads
of garbage to the county dump
every month, in addition to the
two perpetually overflowing
dumpsters that the facility pays
to have emptied each week.
“Yesterday I took two loads of
stuff out to the dump,” Warren
said. “A lot of people just bring
their junk.”
Jesse Aguirre with Boerne’s
Code Enforcement Office said
he could not comment about
the dumping at the Hill Coun-
try Animal League because the
city had not received any for-
mal complaints.
“If they would complain, we
would look into it,” he said.
The manager of neighboring
Sonic restaurant also declined
Owner says
deal reached
to continue
bridge work
NO DUMPING
DONATIONS
ACCEPTED |
TUESDAY SATURDAY
9:30am 4:00 pm |
PLEASE RING BELL
FOR ASSISTANCE
YOU ARE BREAKING :
THE LAW i
ORDINANCE #87.23 |
Star photo by Anya Maltsberger
Despite signs noting when donations are taken and that it is illegal to dump there,
employees at the Hill Country Animal League on West Bandera Road often find
people leave unwanted household items on their doorstep.
to comment regarding the area,
although he did conunend the
charity’s workers for working
hard to try to keep up with the
mess.
“I do see them out there dur-
ing the day trying to clean it
up,” he said.
He also said that he seldom
sees folks dumping illegally,
agreeing with Warren’s assess-
ment that folks come by in the five vets and three techs, Black-
middle of the night to leave son said, and because of this,
their broken-down charitable funds can be “a little tight.”
“donations.” The charity would prefer to
The thrift store exists to fund dedicate its resources to the
low-cost spaying and neutering needs of local animals, rather
services. According to HCAL than in cleaning up piles of
Administrator J.J. Blackson, unusable rubbish, she said.
the organization has paid for Although Warren regularly
almost 7,400 spay or neuters in tracks down the identities of
two years. This involves paying See DUMPING, page 2
By Dave Pasley _______
• Staff Writer
Another chapter in the saga
of Upper Cibolo Creek Road
unfolded at the Commissioners
Court meeting Monday as land
owner Rodney Yates broke a long
public silence.
Yates said he had reached an
agreement with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service for the protec-
tion of endangered species habitat
on his ranch, but he revealed lit-
tle about his intentions for the
property.
“No one knows what I am going
to do,” Yates said.
He also lashed out at critics who
have opposed his plans.
“I do not intend, after this
date, to be crucified by anyone,”
Yates told commissioners and an
audience that included several
neighbors who have objected to
his plans to build a bridge across
Upper Cibolo Creek.
The comments were set off by
an agenda item to consider an
application filed with the county
requesting that Upper Cibolo
Creek Road west of Jamison
Road be taken over as a county
road and then classified as a Class
III roadway.
The item was tabled pending
the outcome of legal disputes
between Yates and Tana Kehoe, a
neighboring property owner who
has opposed Yates’ plans. The dis-
putes are expected to be taken up
in local courts in late August and
early September.
Last summer, at the urging of
some area property owners but
See COUNTY, page 2
Comfort High School seeks water for football field
BY Dave Pasley__________enough groundwater to make the school’s
• , w football field safe for play this fall.
Star Writer "I had a much bigger spiel planned,”
Comfort Independent School District Chapman said, adding that he was per-
Superintendent John Chapman recently suaded to cut his request after watching
got a crash course in Kendall County the Tapatio Resort proceedings.
water issues. “I’m smart enough to know it was going
Chapman came to the Cow Creek to get smacked into left field,” he said.
Groundwater Conservation District Board He said the school district could find a
meeting Wednesday seeking variances way to put in the new sod after the drought
that would allow the school district to ends, and he said he would let the grass
use groundwater to irrigate new sod at a on the baseball field go dormant.
construction site, as well as watering the Instead, he requested just enough
athletic fields at Comfort High School. water to irrigate the football field twice
But after watching the Tapatio Springs a week.
Golf Resort’s request for a similar vari- After discussion, the Cow Creek board
ance to the Cow Creek drought rules of directors voted unanimously to table
go down, Chapman jettisoned his origi- the request to the next regular monthly
nal request and pleaded instead for just meeting.
In the interim, Comfort school officials School comes from a well, the district’s
were asked to provide the Cow Creek other facilities, including an elementary
staff with more specific information school, a middle school and administra-
about the amount of water that would be tive offices are all served by Kendall
needed to irrigate the football field and to County Water Control and Improvement
provide documentation about the state’s District No. 1.
guidelines for the condition of playing The high school was built 10 years
fields. ago about a mile north of Comfort on
Chapman, who has been superinten- U.S. Highway 87. The high school is not
dent for 15 months, said he and other within the area served by WCID No. 1.
school officials did not know they were The other district facilities are located in
subject to the Cow Creek rules until they Comfort, within the service boundaries
received a recent notice of violation from of WCID No. 1.
the district for irrigating in drought Stage “I honestly did not know we were in
5, which prohibits most outdoor irriga- Cow Creek,” Chapman said. “We have
tion with groundwater, including golf always just followed (WCID No. 1)
courses, hay fields, parks, public proper- rules.”
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