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ROB MCCORKLE, TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
experience for our visitors and
blends perfectly with the natural
area's mission and purpose," says
Chris Holm, Government Canyon's
superintendent. "Having this type of
primitive campground in such close
proximity to a major metropolitan
area is a real treasure."
The natural area, which opened
in 2005, now offers overnight camp-
ing on Fridays and Saturdays only in
its front country, walk-in tent camp-
ground. Tent campers can choose
from 23 individual campsites, rent-
ing for $18 per night, and two group
campsites, costing $40 a night. Reg-
ular entry fees will apply.
Vehicle parking is nearby with
pedestrian trails leading to the camp-
sites. Water faucets and two self-com-
posting toilets are centrally located
within the campground. For more
information, www.tpwd.state.tx.us/
state-parks/government-canyon. To
reserve a campsite visit www.tpwd.
state.tx.us/business/park reservations
or call (512) 389-8900.
I E TEXAS Department of
Transportation is accepting
applications through Nov. 16
for the federally funded Transpor-
tation Enhancement Program to
aid communities across the state
with much-needed improvements
for bike trails, landscaping, preser-
vation and more.
Up to $70 million is available to
fund the improvement of areas that
include pedestrian and bicycle trails,
the rehabilitation of historic railroadGovernment Canyon State Natural Area (its visitor center shown
here) opened its first campground on Oct. 5.facilities, landscaping near roadways
and preventative care to protect wa-
ter resources from highway runoff.
Qualifying projects must demon-
strate a relationship to the surface
transportation system and involve
at least one the following categories:
" Pedestrians and bicycles facilities
" Safety and education activities for
pedestrians and bicyclists
" Acquisition of scenic easements
and scenic and historic properties
" Scenic or historic highway pro-
grams (including providing tourist
and welcome center facilities)
" Landscaping and other scenic
beautificationWhere are the
best golf courses
* in Texas?
(Find the answer on the last page.)
" Historic preservation
" Rehabilitation and operation of
historic transportation buildings,
structures or facilities (including
historic railroad facilities and canals)
" Preservation of abandoned rail-
way corridors (including conver-
sion and use for pedestrian and
bicycle facilities)
" Control and removal of outdoor
advertising
" Archaeological planning and
research
" Environmental mitigation to ad-
dress water pollution because of
highway runoff or reduce vehicle
caused wildlife mortality while
maintaining habitat connectivity
" Establishment of transportation
museums.
Projects that are selected will be
eligible for reimbursement of up to
80 percent of costs, with the entity
nominating a project being responsi-
ble for the remaining cost share, in-
cluding cost overruns.
Applications should be submitted
to local TxDOT district offices.
For information, visit www.txdot.
gov/business/governments/te.htm.THIS MONTH, the Holocaust Mu-
seum Houston will dedicate
the completion of its perma-
nent memorial to the 20,000 Jew-
ish communities that were oblit-
erated, along with 6 million Jews who
were killed, during the Holocaust.
The completion marks the addition of
more than 300 new communities to its
Destroyed Communities memorial.
"Here, locally, we focus on
Houston-area Holocaust survivors'
destroyed communities, with more
than 300 of them being added to the
slope outside our building. It is im-
portant that we learn about them, re-
member them and spread the aware-
ness of their prior existence so we can
leave this legacy for our descendants,"
says Holocaust survivor Edith Minc-
berg and co-chair of the project for
Holocaust Museum Houston.
Ellen Trachtenberg, another co-
chair of the effort and a founding
member of the museum, says it is
"vital to know about the history, cul-
ture, activities of Jewish life in these
towns, because that is the only way one
can truly understand what was lost, the
true extent of the tragedy perpetrated
on the world by the Nazis. The syna-
gogues, schools, orchestras, theaters,
newspapers, businesses-everything
that made the lives of the Jews so vi-
brant, so fulfilling-were destroyed.
"These stones will serve as a re-
minder not only of the 6 million Jews
who were murdered, but also the
beautiful Jewish communities that the
victims had created, that had thrived
for hundreds of years," she says. These
stones will help personalize the trage-
dy by showing how the Jews were mur-
dered, town by town by town by town."
The Destroyed Communities
project began even before the open-
ing of the museum in March 1996.
It was finally completed thanks to a
gift from Hymann Penn and his fam-
ily who honor the memory of Penn's
parents, Linda and Morris I. Penn,
and grandmother Riva Kremer, who
all were Holocaust survivors.
Ceremonies, which are free and
open to the public, begin at 2 p.m. on
Sunday, Oct. 14, outside the museum's
Morgan Family Center. The Penn
family, along with other survivors and
their families, will be on hand.
For more information about the
museum, call 713-942-8000 or visit
www.hmh.org.M AG AZ IN E A WA RD S
EXAS HIGHWAYS took home five awards
at the 2012 International Regional
Magazine Association conference
in Scottsdale, Arizona on Oct. 1.
The magazine received a Gold in the Culture
Feature category for its "Road to Freedom"
story by LaDawn Fletcher; a Silver for its
companion website, www.texashighways.
com; and a Bronze in the Historical Feature
category for "Retracing the Goodnight-
Loving Trail" by Julia Robinson.
Additionally, Texas Highways received two Awards of Merit-one for
Gene Fowler's feature "Eddie World Headquarters" and another for the
magazine's Postcards department based on representative stories, "Right
Up Your Alley" by Barbara Rodriguez, "A Collecting Obsession," by Gene
Fowler, and "2100 Postoffice Street" by Charles Lohrmann.
Editor Jill Lawless says, "The Texas Highways staff is honored by the rec-
ognition and ever-grateful to our amazing team of freelance contributors."
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