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News Briefs
Thrift shop sale
helps food pantry
In connection with
United Way’s Martin
Luther King Day of
Caring, the Coat of Many
Colors Thrift Shop,
located in gym behind
old Taylor High building
at Seventh and Davis,
will hold a sale to benefit
Shepherd’s Heart Food
Pantry will be held on
Jan. 17-18.
The hours for the sale
will be from 8 a.m. until 2
p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m.
until 5 p.m. Saturday. All
proceeds from Thrift Shop
are used to purchase food
for the pantry.
Though the sale will
take place on Friday and
Saturday, United Way
volunteers will be on hand
Monday morning to help
finish up the sale, sort and
store everything away.
The shoppers are welcome
to stop by on the MLK
Holiday to see if there is
anything they’d like to
have at an extra good bar-
gain.
Library arranges
blind dates
-witha book
The Taylor Public
Library is again provid-
ing the “Blind Date with
a Book” program, starting
Jan 13 until Feb 28. Staff
members have selected
many good titles, perhaps
some authors that are not
as well-known but just
need to be discovered.
Some books were selected
with Valentines in mind.
Library Aide Jaboa
Matoska is in charge of
this program. Books are
wrapped in brown paper,
so you don’t know what
book you have selected
until you get home.
Patrons have the ability
to add their own reviews
of these books to the
Library’s catalog.
See LIBRARY • page 2
Inside
Chris Frank
Taylor boys, girls
post more wins
Taylor boy’s and girls
basketball teams get the
best of College Station.
That and recaps of other
District 18-3A games are
featured in Sports, Page 3.
Top options for old school outlined
Top ideas for Seventh Street campus include college or city facility, senior housing
JASON HENNINGTON
lifestyles@taylordailypress.net
The Seventh Street
Campus committee, formerly
known as the task force, held
a public meeting Tuesday to
present the findings of their
ideas for repurposing the
campus to the community.
The meeting was a look at
what the committee has been
working on the past three
months. SSC chair Janetta
McCoy explained that the
presentation is not a final
decision.
“The presentation is a
progress report, it is not a
definitive answer to any-
thing,” she said. “Our charge
from the mayor was, “help
Photo by Jason Hennington
Seventh Street Campus com-
mittee leader Janetta McCoy
explains the research and
options the committee has been
working on since September.
us figure out or give us some
proposal, give us some ideas
about what could be the pur-
pose of maintaining the old
Seventh Street high school
building.”
She gave brief description
of why the committee was
assembled, and how mem-
bers have worked to gener-
ate uses for the building.
“We had three open com-
munity meetings, and we
asked the question, what
should the property be, what
use could it serve, what it
could include,” she said. “We
never did ask what it should
not be.”
On Jan. 23, SSC will give a
report to the city council on
how the building should be
repurposed. McCoy said the
floor would be opened for
questions at the end of the
presentation.
“We are going to give the
city council some recommen-
dations, and we would like to
know if there is any kind of
community support or what
kind of community support
might exist for the options
we are going to present,”
McCoy said.
The community’s response
to the presentation will be
taken into consideration dur-
ing the final stages.
“Based on your feedback,
we will be finalizing a report
we will be presenting to the
city council,” McCoy said.
“We will take time and ener-
gy and retention to take your
feedback, and make a better
See SCHOOL • page 2
Taylor school board calls May 10 election
JIMAANSTOOS
news@tayiordaiiypress.net
Taylor voters will have an
opportunity to add at least
one new voice to how their
public schools are run in the
upcoming general election in
May, with two of seven seats
on the Board of Trustees up
for election and one known
vacancy.
After serving three terms
covering the past nine years,
current Taylor School Board
President Brad Moss has
indicated he will not seek
re-election for a fourth term
to his “at-large” seat. “I’ve
decided it’s time for me to do
some other things and to let
someone else have an oppor-
tunity to serve,” Moss said of
his intentions.
Shorty Mitchell, whose
single-member district Place
1 term will also expire this
year, has announced his
plans to seek re-election. “I
feel there are some things
we have started that I’d like
to see through to comple-
tion,” he said. Mitchell has
also served three terms on
Taylor ISD
school board
President
Brad Moss
said he won't
seek re-
election to a
fourth term
in the may
10 election.
the board.
Taylor ISD Elections
Administrator Larry Robbins
officially announced elec-
tion-related deadlines as fol-
lows:
Jan. 29: First day to file
application for a place on
General Election ballot.
Feb. 28: Deadline to file
Board of Trustees applica-
tion.
April 10: Last day to reg-
ister to vote in the May 10,
2014 Trustee Election
April 28: First day of early
voting for Trustee Election
May 6: Last day of early
voting for Trustee Election
May 10: Election Day, also
See ELECTION • page 2
AgriLife Extension photo
Experts speaking at the Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic in Milano urged beef cattle producers to
be cautious when thinking about restocking herds this year.
Caution urged in restocking
beef cattle herds this year
BLAIR FANNIN
b-fannin@TAMU.edu
Even though parts of
Texas have received ben-
eficial rainfall, experts urge
cattle producers to be cau-
tious when thinking about
restocking herds.
Dr. Larry Redmon, Texas
A&M AgriLife Extension
Service state forage special-
ist, told beef producers at
the recent Central Texas
Cow-Calf Clinic in Milano
that 71 percent of the state
is abnormally dry.
“We are in pretty good
shape here in the Brazos
Valley, but if you look at the
data, about half of the state
is in some type of drought
conditions,” Redmon said.
“This cycle started in 1995.
These cycles last 22 to 25
years and we may not be
out of this dry cycle until
2020. If you do the math,
we’ve still got some poten-
tial for dry weather. You
might want to be cautious
about restocking or buying
a bunch of cattle.”
Just like the dipstick to
check the oil in an automo-
bile, a soil test checks to see
what nutrients are present
and which are needed to
grow forages. He advised
producers to have a soil
test taken on their pasture,
especially with the price of
fertilizer.
“We can’t do anything
about the price of fertil-
izer, but we can do some-
thing about how efficiently
we use those nutrients,”
Redmon said. “Spend the
$10 to get a soil test.”
Redmon said if you don’t
fertilize Bermuda grass, it
takes almost 20 inches of
water to produce a ton of
grass, but if you properly
fertilize you can cut that
amount of water almost in
half.
See CATTLE • page 2
4-H, FFA youth
preparing for
livestock show
JASON HENNINGTON
lifestyles@taylordailypress.net
The Taylor 4H and FFA
Booster Club is gearing up
for the Williamson County
Livestock Show Jan. 20-25, at
the Georgetown Livestock Barn
in San Gabriel Park.
In previous years, the show
has been held in November, but
has been changed to January.
The Taylor 4H and FFA Booster
club would like to invite every-
one out to attend.
“The community does a lot
for us, and we want to say thank
you and come out and support
our kids,” said Pamela Vrabel,
FFA Booster club member.
Along with the Taylor group,
students from Granger, Thrall
and other communities will be
participating.
“The surrounding areas
will go to this show,” she said.
“Some of the kids will go on to
major shows, but most of them
will show in this county show.”
Vrabel is unsure exactly how
many students will be showing
from the area, but said there
are around 20students from
Taylor.
Poultry and rabbits will be
shown Jan. 20, hogs will be
shown Jan. 21, lamb and goats
will be shown Jan. 23, heifers
and steers will be shown Jan.
24 and the premium sale will
be Jan. 25, beginning at 1 p.m.
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