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Champions
Deer pose dilemma for Fair Oaks Ranch
By Dave Pasley "We sent samples to Texas A&M board” for the committee, which Canyon Lake. Rubin also reported that two of
•----------.-------------------and they said there was a high may not be appointed until Febru- Aldermen also approved entering his officers have returned from ser-
Staff Writer concentration of acorns, but no ary or March. into an agreement with the Bexar vice in the U.S. Navy. Their return,
The Fair Oaks Ranch City Coun- poison.” In other matters addressed at County Elections Administrator coupled with the recent hiring of a
cil has put off until next year Alderwoman Cheryl Landman Thursday’s 22-minute meeting, for services for the May 2010 new animal control-code enforce-
forming a committee to explore said a resolution establishing a aldermen voted 5-0 to pay M&S elections. City Secretary Carole ment officer, brings the department
options for dealing with the city’s Deer Ad Hoc Advisory Commit- Engineering $23,500 to design a Vanzant estimated the cost at less to its full staffing for the first time
burgeoning deer population. tee was pulled from Thursday’s water line extension to serve two than $3,000. in many months.
Police Chief Scott Rubin said city council agenda because more newly annexed developments, Oak City Administrator Roy Thomas Trash pickup in the city will
about one deer per day meets its time is needed to put together Bend and The Enclave. reported that construction of a new be adjusted for the holidays. For
demise in the city, most after being background information. The Public Works Director Ron concrete fence around the perimeter residents normally scheduled for
struck by automobiles. Rubin also committee is expected to be asked Emmons said developers have of the wastewater treatment plant is trash pickup on Friday Dec. 25, the
said reports recently aired on a to look into all aspects of the previously committed, through expected to begin in January. trash and recycle pick up was yes-
local television station suggesting vexing problem of managing the agreements approved by the city While Kendall and Bexar Coun- terday. Trash and recycle pickup
that deer in the city may have been estimated 2,500 deer that roam council, to pay for the costs of ties will not be prohibiting fireworks will be Monday, Dec. 28, for resi-
poisoned proved false. the city. expanding the city’s water sys- displays this holiday season, shoot- dents normally scheduled for trash
“The poisoning rumors were not Landman said the' background tern, including bringing additional ing fireworks in Fair Oaks Ranch is pickup on Friday, Jan. 1.
true,” Rubin said of the reports, information will serve as a “spring- water through a pipeline from illegal at any time, Rubin noted.
For a special feature hon-
oring the Boerne Champion
High School boys national
championship in cross
country, see today’s Boerne
Star sports, pages 9A-13A.
000
...Birthday
Dec. 22
Linda Escobedo
Michelle Horstman
Marvin Moreau
Dorothy Schweizer
Emma Spoor
Joe Swinger
Dec. 23
Bill Allen
Corenia Arguelles
Bill Huskins
Mary Ingram
Joann Strube
Dec. 24
Jimmie Davis
Rebbecca Radosavlevici
Betty Sudin
Lynne Vasquez
Reminder
Holiday trash
collection schedule
Due to the Christmas and New
Year holidays, City of Boerne Utili-
ties residential customers who
have Friday garbage or recycling
collection will need to put their
containers at the curb on Christ-
mas Eve and New Year's Eve,
Thursdays, Dec. 24 and Dec. 31.
J (
IS
Louise Virginia Felps
James Palmer Rogers
For complete obituaries, see
page 2. See the latest obituar-
ies at www.boernestar.com.
Index
At the Trail
Boerne ISD Report
Bookworm
Breath of Fresh Air
Capital Highlights
Classifieds
Crossword
Focus on the Family
Off the Main
Faces & Places
Records
Service Directory
Sports
Sticks & Stones
Viewpoints
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Brightening
the holiday
Christmas wonderland-
scapes like this one on
North Wagonwheel in
Boerne are an annual
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attraction throughout the
Hill Country. This Friday,
the Boerne Star will feature
the winners in this year's
Parade of Lights contest.
Photo by Reuben Maltsbarger
Wounded warriors to visit Boerne during Christmas holidays
More than 20 wounded service in San Antonio and Fort Hood ing them for outdoor activities, officials to visit and thank them she said. “We will have some of
men and women and their families near Killeen, some just days concerts, and other events, and for their service,” said Patti Tim- our staff there to entertain the
will be spending the holidays in returned from Iraq, will be stay- helps them transition out of the blin, vice president of sales and children while the soldiers and
Boerne later this week, thanks to ing in Boerne Saturday through military into successful employ- marketing for Ye Kendall Inn. their spouses are enjoying the
several organizations including Ye Tuesday. ment, Kinser said. At 6 p.m., the inn will host a wine dinner.”
Kendall Inn. the Boerne Conven- “These are people not able to go On Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m., dinner in their honor. Timblin said more sponsors are
tion and Visitor Bureau and the home for theholidays due to treat- Ye Kendali Iin will host an open “We will have a buffer dieted necaeu to sfsare the sucos of
Military Warriors Support Foun- ment issues,” said Josh Kinser house in honor of the wounded and entertainment that evening,” the event.
dation based in San Antonio. of the Military Warriors Support warriors and 100 recent returnees Timblin said. “On Sunday, we will “Anyone who wants to do any-
The soldiers, Marines and Foundation. The foundation helps from Iraq and Afghanistan. have an ‘AWEsome Wine Dinner’ thing for the soldiers would be
Airmen from Brooke Army Medi- wounded military personnel get “The event is open to the com- at the Inn and the wounded war-
cal Center and Randolph AFB back into the community by host- munity for residents and public riors are invited as our guests,”
See WARRIORS, page 2A
No winners
Victim Leon Denver Poe seems forgotten during long, emotional murder trial
By Elena Tucker
Staff Writer
Susie Haynes sounds tired and she has
every right to be. Her house burned down
this past summer and just after Thanks-
giving she was diagnosed with advanced
kidney cancer.
The first week of December, she spent
lodged in an unfamiliar town sitting
through the days-long trial of a man named
Karl Hodson, Jr.
Hodson is the now-convicted murderer
of Haynes’ son Denver Poe, killed two
and a half years ago on a stretch of south
Boerne road.
After his father
“How good he was. Every time somebody Specific - or odd - as it may seem, Poe’s
got up and said something about him I “passion” happened to be lawnmowers,
wanted to pop right up and say something according to his mother.
about (Denver). But I just had to sit there “He just liked to tinker with lawnmow-
and listen.”
Even if the law had allowed testimony
about the victim, it would still be hard to
put a life and a value, a past and a purpose
to the name because Denver Poe was a
young man who always lived in something
of a transient world, the sort of world where
frequent moves and rapid job turnover
make it difficult to track down teachers or
co-workers or supervisors who recall him,
who he was and what he was like.
His mother, though, has a heart load of
died, she basically ‘‘He was a hardworking boy who
raised the boy alone, would gjve the shirt off his back to
sometimes living in 69
Hamilton, sometimes p anybody." .
in Hico. Her son is - Susie Haynes mother of
now buried in Hico, Leon Denver Poe
in what Haynes calls
“Maw-maw’s family
plot” while Haynes and her husband live
with family in Hamilton, a rural hub whose
spokes radiate toward places like Sunshine,
Fairy, Pancake and Schoolerville.
Due to her illness, Haynes is unable to
work her nursing home job. She’s sched-
uled kidney surgery soon. She has a lot
on her mind these days, most significantly
the lingering sadness over the fact that
Hodson’s recent trial had everything to do
with the murderer’s “good character,” and
nothing whatsoever to do with virtues that
her only child possessed.
Somehow in the legal process, the person
of Denver Poe - aged 27, father of two very
young girls and a gifted mechanic - was
utterly overlooked.
“It was all about (Hodson),” Haynes said.
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memories. Her son’s
greatest hold on fame
was his first-place
finish in the Ste-
phenville 4th of July
lawnmower races.
That, she recalls with
pride, took place in
the summer of 2006.
ers,” Haynes said. “He could get a broken
one running in no time at all.”
Also it seems the young man had an
affinity for electronics.
“He could find a computer in the trash
and get it back to working just like it was
new,” Haynes said.
The mother of Poe’s little girls says the
same thing.
“He taught me how to fix up comput-
ers,” Jessica Relfe said. “I learned about
mechanics from him.”
In fact, Poe had been accepted to Waco’s Relatives said Denver Poe
Texas State Technical College at the time changed little from this high
of his murder. school photo.
“He died before we had a chance to tell
him,” his mother said.
The two women agree that Poe had both a
harmless and generous personality.
“He was a very passive person,” Haynes
said. “He never caused any trouble. He was
Then in 2007, just a hardworking boy who would give the
three weeks before he was murdered, Den- shirt off his back to help anybody.”
ver Poe traveled with his daughters to “He was a sweetheart,” Relfe agreed.
Stephenville to try for another trophy. His However, all of their positive memories
mother was there, too, and that was the last meant little on the seats of a courtroom
time she saw him. where all attention goes to the character of
“We all went to the lawnmower races the defendant. Not surprisingly, the murder
together and they gave him a third-place trial challenged Haynes on several differ-
trophy - he didn’t place first because his ent levels.
lawnmower broke down,” Haynes said. “At first when I walked into the court-
The lawnmower races are also a fond room, I wanted to just walk up and slap the
memory of Poe’s aunt, Nellie McCann. *--* out of him,” Haynes said, apologizing
“Denver was a good kid. I never saw instantly for her choice of words. “But I
him angry,” she said. “He never spoke bad knew I couldn’t do that because I knew I
of anyone, and he befriended all kinds had to be respectful.”
of people. He loved his mother and his Instead Haynes sat through what’s repeat-
daughters. He said ‘I love you’ every time
he talked to you.
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