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Texas’ Oldest Weekly Newspaper Since March 1, 1853
Semi-Weekly Since Sept. 5, 1977
Volume 160, Number 20
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013 $1.00
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SPORTS
Cedar Creek takes down Connally.
—Page B1
SPRING!
And hearts turn to baseball,
renewal.
—Page A4
BENEFIT
Last weekend’s benefit for Cheryl
Klaus drew quite a crowd.
—Page A3
CALENDAR
Tuesday, April 9
■ 6:30 p.m. - “Texas
Cottage Gardening”
presented by Deena Spell-
man of Bastrop Gardens
Organic Garden Center
and sponsored by Lost
Pines Garden Club at Bas-
trop Public Library, 1100
Church St. Learn how to
make a cottage garden us-
ing Texas natives and well-
adapted plants to make
your garden as water wise
and beautifully carefree as
possible.
Thursday, April 11
■ 4:30-6:30 p.m. - Ra-
bies clinic sponsored by
Rockne 4-H Club at VFW
on Texas 20 in Rockne by
the baseball fields. Dr.
Schroeder from Bastrop
Veterinary Hospital will
be there. $10 rabies shots
with other vaccines also
available. Call 303-6969
for more information.
■ 7 p.m. - The board of
directors of the Pine
Forest POA, and the ar-
chitectural control com-
mittee, are proposing new
covenants, conditions and
restrictions to replace
those that were adopted by
the original developer of
Pine Forest back in 1979.
The board will host an
owners’ meeting at in the
upstairs community room
at First National Bank
Building, 118 Highway
71 W (across Hasler Blvd
from HEB) in Bastrop
to vote on the proposed
OCR’s. Details on website
at PFPOA.org.
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They are the champions
Erin Green/Bastrop Advertiser
The Bastrop High School Robotics Team, the BearTecs, or FRC 4610 as it’s called in competition, includes Garrett Geenen, Seth Bissett, Lisa Ballard, Isabella Fer-
ranti, Kyla Patterson, Briona Miller, Derek Blanton, Camila Munoz, Adam Gibson, Antonio Napolitano, Miller Riemenschneider and Chris Stradling. Faculty advisors
Marguerite Shaffer and Chris Choma are also pictured, as is retired machinist Keen Schoonover, who assisted the team technically. Team members not pictured are
Tyler Kirshy and Zak Chambers.
BHS Robotics Team
earns trip to St. Louis
BY ERIN GREEN
egreen@acnnewspapers. co m
Winning, which always feels
good, feels even better when the win
comes from a first-time endeavor.
Bastrop High School’s FIRST
Robotics Team 4610 — popularly
known as the BearTecs — was part
of the first-place, three-team win-
ning alliance at the Dallas Regional
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recog-
nition of Science and Technology)
competition March 23.
This means the team — which
has never competed in FIRST be-
fore — is going to the FIRST World
Championship competition in St.
Louis April 24-27.
Being among the newcomers
to the “field” — both literally and
figuratively, since the robots com-
pete on a carpeted arena known as
a “field”— was a little intimidating
in a competition that includes ele-
ments of both “Survivor” and the
See ROBOTICS, page A2
HELP THE TEAM
■ From 2-6 p.m, April 13,
the FIRST Robotics Team
will be holding an Ultimate
Fundraising Tournament at
1602 Hill St., next to Erhard
Field at Bastrop High School
Cost is $5 for an individual
for $30 fOr a team of five
players. Winners will receive
Team 4610 T-shirts and
bragging rights.
■ From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m,
Saturday, April 20, Lost
Pines Toyota on Texas 71 in
Bastrop will host a benefit
to help send FIRST Robotics
Team 4610 to St. Louis for
the World Championship.
Come out to Lost Pines
Toyota tor one of the three
opportunities to help raise
money:
1) Standard oil change &
tire rotation for $29,95 will
net FIRST Robotics Team
$10
2) Standard hand car wash
& vac for $29.95 will net
FIRST Robotics Team $10
3) Have Bastrop's FIRST
Robotics Team members
wash your car for $15
Contact 512-303-1200,
sales@L ostpinestoyota. com
or call or text Bfiona at 512-
718-0636 to RSVP.
BASTROP SCHOOL DISTRICT
COMMUNITY
More than the dress
BY ERIN GREEN
egreen@acnnewspapers.com
It’s all about the dress.
Discussing her black satin,
off-the-shoulder dress with
shimmering lace around the
bodice and glints of green,
brown and gold showing as
the light changes, Cedar Creek
High School junior Anna Lisa
Ramseyer’s dress is definitely
a one-of-a-kind.
The dress is something of
a family heirloom, too, as her
grandmother made the dress
for her mother’s senior year
high school prom in 1991.
Now, Ramseyer is thrilled to be
wearing it — albeit with some
alteration — to her own junior
prom.
The event is a special oc- Erin Qreen/Bastrop Advertiser
casion foe any high school stu- Anna |jsa Ramseyer tries on the dress she will wear to Cedar Creek High
School’s very first prom. The handmade creation was first made and worn by her
See PROM, page A2 mother, Priscilla Ramseyer, at Priscilla’s high school prom in 1991.
COUNTY: MUSIC
Princeton Runaway on a roll
BY TERRY HAGERTY
thagerty@acnnewspapers.com
Princeton Runaway is an
assured group of young tal-
ented Bastrop-based musi-
cians. They recently released
a four-song demo that flows
from milder to sturdy rock
with blues tangents woven
all in between.
“I consider us an Ameri-
“We have a whole lot of chemistry.”
- BEN ZUNIGA, LEAD GUITARIST
can rock and roll band, and Avery Delamar round out the
we all know that rock came talented trio,
from the blues,” said Ben The band is quickly land-
Zuniga, the band’s founder, ing gigs - mainly through
lead guitar player, singer Zuniga taking on the booking
and songwriter. Bass player
Richie Alea and drummer See BAND, page A6
Bastrop
County
lawman
honored
BY SARAH ACOSTA
sacosta@ac7inewspapers.com
Captain Earl Pence, a
life-long resident of Bas-
trop County, retired in
February after dedicat-
ing more than 30 years to
Texas law enforcement.
Pence was recently ac-
knowledged at the 83rd
Texas Legislative Ses-
sion in Austin, where
State Representative Tim
See PENCE, page A6
Sarah Acosta/Bastrop Advertiser
Captain Earl Pence won third place
with his elk chili made for the chili
cook-off to benefit Cheryl Klaus on
March 30.
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