The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 160, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 27, 2013 Page: 1 of 12
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Texas’ Oldest Weekly Newspaper Since March 1, 1853
Semi-Weekly Since Sept. 5, 1977
Volume 160, Number 25
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013 $1.00
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CITY: PLANS
Water the focus at
Bob Bryant Park
INSIDE
SPORTS
Baseball scores upset over
Georgetown.
—Page B1
CANDIDATES
Two forums are planned for the
public on open spots for BISD’s
board of trustees.
—Page A2
SNAKES!
John Gosselink provides his view
on snake behavior.
—Page A4
CALENDAR
Saturday, April 27
■ 8:30 a.m. to noon -
Free legal forum for all
U.S. veterans at Bastrop
County courthouse, second
floor annex.
■ 9 a.m. - Yesterfest
in downtown Bastrop.
People come from far and
wide to celebrate culture,
history and community.
■ 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. -
Spring fish fry fundrais-
er at Mina Masonic Lodge,
601 Main St in Bastrop.
■ 11 a.m. - The L. A.
Turner Chapter, Bas-
trop and the Margaret
Howell Davis Chap-
ter, Austin of the United
Daughters of the Con-
federacy, will co-sponsor
a Confederate Memorial
Day Ceremony at Upper
Cedar Creek Cemetery.
Sunday, April 28
■ 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. -
Cowboy Breakfast, 921
Main St.
For more events, see page A2.
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BY TERRY HAGERTY
thagerty@acnnewspapers.com
The beefing up of Bastrop
water supply sources contin-
ues at Bob Bryant Park, City
Manager Mike Talbot recently
BY ERIN GREEN
egreen@acmiewspapers.com
Decked out in her red and
purple hat, purple dress, red
scarf and gloves and glittery
red platform heels, Flora
Branton poured a bit more
water for herself.
She then poured another
BY ERIN GREEN
egreen@acnnewspapers. co m
If you ever wanted to know
anything about trees, Juan
Perez is the go-to guy.
The Cedar Creek Elemen-
tary School fourth-grader
happily shared his knowledge
about trees Monday during the
school’s Arbor Day celebration.
“Trees are really important
because they give us oxygen
and they give us shade and
sometimes they give us food,”
Perez said. “Trees give us pa-
per and they give us pencils
and some of the wood we can
use to make houses.”
The youngster, along with
his fourth-grade peers at not
only Cedar Creek Elementary
School but also Bluebonnet El-
ementary School, were among
the 700 students across the
Bastrop school district taking
part in the celebration in which
the students became Fourth
Grade Foresters.
Sponsored by the Lions
Club’s youth organization,
Mufasa Central LEO — LEO
stands for Leadership, Experi-
reported to the city council.
The city’s contracted com-
pany for the project - Archer
Western - is closing in on a
plant/well start-up within one
to two weeks, Talbot said.
The workers have in-
small cupful of water for her
friend, Judy Seymour, who
was similarly dressed in pur-
ple pants and shirt, a red vest
and a red hat.
The pair of women, gig-
gling like schoolgirls, took
sips of water, leaned over the
fence and spit.
They were doing it be-
ence and Opportunity — Club
of Austin, the Fourth Grade
Foresters project aims to re-
vitalize celebrations of Ar-
bor Day in schools across the
United States and specifically
across Central Texas.
The project also aims to
provide a simple and inexpen-
sive way for individuals, busi-
stalled the air/vacuum re-
lief valves on the discharge
pumps and made the last
tie-in to the main water line.
The groundwater storage
cause they could.
The duo — members of
the Golden Girls of Bastrop
and the Scarlett O’Hatters
of Smithville chapters of the
Red Hat Society, respectively
— were having a gloriously
good time at the organizations’
nesses or organizations to help
provide a 12- to 18-inch ever-
green tree sapling of their very
own to take home, plant and
care for.
“This project is made pos-
sible because a community ser-
vice club like the LEOs raise
See ARBOR, page A3
BASTROP SCHOOL
DISTRICT
Seniors
think of
future
BY SARAH ACOSTA
sacosta@ac7inewspapers.com
Graduation and prom
are near, with just a month
left of school, and many
Bastrop
High
School
seniors
have
their
minds
made up
about
their
academ-
ic and
career
plans.
“I’m
plan on
majoring
in the-
atre stud-
ies at UT
Austin
to later
become a
working
actor, as
well as a
teacher,” said senior Corey
Shewell. “This degree will
help me achieve my teach-
ing certification, as well as
develop my acting skills.”
Shewell aspires to in-
tern at the New Movement
Theater in Austin while
holding onto his current job
at Chicken Express in Bas-
trop.
“I’ll probably be using
most of my money on gas,
but I do have a few sum-
mer trips planned, such as
going to Montana to visit a
friend, to Florida to visit my
sister and also taking a trip
to my friend’s mountain
See BHS, page A3
COUNTY: TRIAL
Man gets
40 years
for plot
BY ERIN GREEN
egree7i@ac7i7iewspapers.com
A Lee County man
convicted of criminal
solicitation of capital
murder Wednesday will
spend 40 years in prison.
The
seven-
man,
f i v e -
woman
jury
spent
about
two hours deciding
whether Dale Erwin
Arldt, 53, of Giddings,
was guilty of trying to
hire someone to kill his
then-wife, Wendy Arldt
Maas and her friend Ste-
ven Maas, in January
2012.
See TRIAL, page A2
See WATER, page A8
COUNTY: EVENT
Erin Green/Bastrop Advertiser
Flora Branton of the Red Hat Society’s Golden Girls of Bastrop chapter spits water into the Colorado River from the Old Iron
Bridge. Members of the Red Hat Society from around the state gathered in Bastrop Wednesday for the club’s annual bridge
spit in celebration of the organization’s birthday.
Annual bridge spit held
Red Hat Society members celebrate organization’s birth
See BRIDGE, page A8
BASTROP SCHOOL DISTRICT
bung trees for young hands
Erin Green/Bastrop Advertiser
At Cedar Creek Elementary School, Christina Juarez, Vanessa Jaimes, Kenney
Wylie, Hailey Smith and Noemi Hernandez examine the Afghan pine seedlings
they received to take home and plant as part of the school’s celebration of Arbor
Day Monday.
PETER CLEARY
DALE ARLDT
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Wright, Cyndi. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 160, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 27, 2013, newspaper, April 27, 2013; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth649819/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.