Helotes to have a new park

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THE AREA’S LEADING COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1961
Helotes to have a new park
City officials announced
the selection by the Texas Department of Transportation as
a matching grant winner to
establish a new park inside
the City limits. According
to Cynthia Massey, “We on
the Helotes Economic Development (EDC) had hoped for
years to develop City property
in Old Town Helotes into a
linear park.”
In 2013 TxDot announced
the selection of Helotes grant
application, City officials
quickly went to work to have
Terra Design Group create a
plan to develop City land into
a linear park along the creek
bank of Helotes Creek.
Although, the City website
claims that the City of Helotes
owned all property for the
project, this was not the case.
To connect the park from
Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church to the bridge located near Helotes Country Club,
City officials needed to secure
easements from property owners near the bridge. Those
property owners have refused
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Vol. 54 No.24
to provide those easements.
According to City plans, the
park would consist of a large
concrete walkway that would
travel along the flow of the
Helotes Creek bed. The park
would start from Our Lady of
the Guadalupe Church and
travel northbound until the
creek meets the large bluff.
The path then would be constructed across the creek bed
and then travel northbound
from the other side of the
creek until the two creeks converge. There the path would
stop and the park would turn
and travel back to Our Lady of
the Guadalupe Church.
There will be no fences
erected along the path of the
park to delineate between
park property and public
property. There will be signs
designating the park, there
will be way finding, trash receptacles, benches, and nodes
along the park for people traveling to take a moment and
rest or just relax and see the
surroundings.
The Helotes Fire Depart-
ment and Police Department
have been working with the
design group to provide access
points along the park for patrols and to allow emergency
personnel to access the park
in case of an emergency or an
extraction is needed.
City officials hope the linear park would provide more
park space for the Citizens
of Helotes. A need the city
said was expressed by in a
survey conducted by the EDC
in 2006.
The EDC hopes the creation of the park will bring
more individuals and individuals who are unfamiliar with
Old Town into to the Helotes
area.
Local businesses in Old
Town are hoping the creation
of the park will bring more
customer traffic to their businesses.
The EDC must spend at
least $150,000 for their part of
the matching grants to create
the park. The ECD was also
Park, continues on page 4
Leon Valley to receive award, discuss
pool and Old Mill Subdivision
The Leon Valley City Council will meet for the first meeting of April on Tuesday, April
5. The meeting will take place
at City Council Chambers located at 6400 El Verde Road.
The meeting starts at 7pm.
Council will have three
presentations before the start
of the meeting. The first is
the 2015 Project of the Year
between $5 and $10 million
for the design of City Hall,
the Forest Oaks Community
Pool Committee will address
Council and the Leon Valley
Neighborhood Renewal Program will discuss the Old Mill
Subdivision.
During the consent agenda Council will consider approving the March 15 City
Council minutes; consider an
ordinance to implement and
enforce the Texas State Rule
on locally enforced motor vehicle idling limitations.
During the regular agenda Council will consider the
Citizens Police Advisory Commission report; consider water
and sewer fees; discuss the
water well; discuss the Evers
bridge project; discuss the
Leon Valley Community Pool;
adopt the Leon Creek water
shed master plan; discuss
building regulations; remove
fee for plumbers; sign request
for The Precinct Academy and
Daycare; designate 78238 as
the only zip code for Leon
Valley; approving a Mayor on
the SAWS board; increasing
travel allowance for Council
and City Manager; and reports from the different city
officials.
The meeting is open to the
public and the citizens of Leon
Valley are encouraged to attend.
First Choice ER celebrates grand opening;
donates to O’C High School Orchestra
Lewisville, Texas (March
25, 2016) – First Choice Emergency Room opened its new
Helotes facility at 7am today.
The new facility is located
12285 Bandera Road, Helotes,
Texas and is open 24-7.
«We are pleased to bring
a facility to the Helotes community and look forward to
delivering the highest qual-
ity emergency medical care
here,» said Dr. Dean, Facility Medical Director of First
Choice Emergency Room San
Antonio-Helotes.
To celebrate the opening,
First Choice Emergency Room
made a donation to Sandra
Day O›Connor High School
at First Choice Emergency
Room›s ribbon cutting with
the Helotes Area Chamber of
Commerce and North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Following the ribbon cutting,
First Choice Emergency Room
hosted a medical community
open house.
First Choice Emergency
Room facilities are equipped
First, continues on page 4
Readers’ Poll Results
Do you think the City of Helotes (Helotes EDC) should spend in excess of $150,000
to create a linear park (concrete walkway) through Helotes Creek from Our Lady of
Guadalupe Church to the existing bridge in Old Town Helotes?
No
Yes
The Helotes EDC will use a matching grant award from
100%
100%
TxDot to construct the park
90%
90%
80%
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70%
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60%
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50%
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40%
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35.09%
The park will be constructed on City property or
property whose owners gave an easement
61.40%
City says it will provide patrols and regulate park
Homeowners are concerned about trespassing or
people doing mischief in the park
40%
30%
30%
20%
20%
10%
10%
0%
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See comments from readers on page 4
(Next week poll question Leon Valley’s Natural area)
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REGULAR MEETINGS:
call Edwin at 710-0786
Helotes City Council,
each second and fourth
Thursday at 7 p.m. at
12951 Bandera Rd.
Girl Talk’s weekly meeting
is every Wednesday
during the school year,
6:30 p.m., at Shadrock
Williams Masonry at 10047
Floore Drive. For more
information, call Wendy
Thiery at 210-872-1976.
Helotes Planning and
Zoning Commission,
the first Tuesday of
each month at 7 p.m.,
12951 Bandera Rd.
Helotes Economic
Development
Corporation, each third
Wednesday of the month at
7 p.m. at 12951 Bandera Rd.
Leon Valley City Council
meeting, each Second
and Third Tuesday at 7
p.m., 6400 El Verde Rd.
The Helotes Lions Club
holds its regular meetings
on the first and third
Tuesdays of the month at 7
p.m. at the club on Bandera
Road near Scenic Loop.
The Helotes Festival
general membership
meets the first Monday
of each month at 7pm, at
the Helotes Lion’s Club.
Masonic Family – The
Helotes Masonic Family
is composed of four
organizations and all meet
at the Helotes Masonic
Lodge at 11740 FM 1560S.
The Helotes Masonic
Lodge meets on the third
Thursday of each month
at 7 p.m. Adah Chapter 49
O.E.S. meets on the first
and third Tuesday at 7:30
p.m. For more information,
call 210-646-1429.
The Helotes York Rite
Chapter/Council meets
on the second and fourth
Wednesday at 7 p.m. The
International Order of the
Rainbow for Girls, Helotes
Assembly 377 meets on the
first and third Wednesday.
For information on any
of these organizations,
call 210-656-1429
Northwest San Antonio
Al-Anon Family Group,
meets every Wednesday
at 7pm at Zion Lutheran
Church Fellowship Hall,
located athe corner of Loop
1604 and Braun Rd. For
more information, please
The Northwest Senior
Citizens Center at 6427
Evers Rd in Leon Valley
holds its monthly luncheon
and meeting at 11 a.m.
every fourth Wednesday,
Lunch is $5 or bring a
covered dish. Center
hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
For more information,
call 210-522-9966.
The Helotes Humane
Society meets every
fourth Tuesday of the
month at 14398 Bandera
Road, at 6:30 p.m.
The Knights of Columbus
Council 8306 meets the
first Wednesday of the
month at 7:00 pm in the
Parish Hall at Our Lady of
Guadulupe located at 13715
Riggs Rd., Helotes. For
more information contact
Don Rios at (830) 426-4121.
The Historical Society
of Helotes, founded in
1966, was incorporated in
2010 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit
organization. The purpose
of the HSH includes the
discovery, preservation,
and dissemination of
knowledge about the history
of Helotes, Texas, and the
surrounding area. General
meetings of the Society
are held quarterly on the
first Tuesday in February,
May, September, and
November at a time and
place designated by the
President. We welcome all
individuals interested in the
history of Helotes to attend
general HSH meetings
and to visit our booth at
MarketPlace in Old Town
Helotes the first Saturday
of every month. Please
visit our website: www.
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The Altar Society of Our
Lady of Guadalupe meets
on the first Wednesday
of each month at 7pm in
the Guadalupe Room at
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Church located at 13715
Riggs Road, Helotes.
For more information
please call Nancy Keffer
at (210) 695-2675.
The Elks Lodge of San
Antonio/Helotes meets
on the 1st & 3rd Tuesday
@ 8 PM. We host an Open
House/Burger Night @
6PM for the public the
first Wednesday of the
month. We are located @
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News from Casa Helotes
Casa Helotes cannot say
enough about how special it
was for us to welcome Ms.
Renee Blache, Extension Assistant with the Texas A&M
AgriLife Extension Services Better Living for Texans, this past Friday. We so
enjoyed her four part series
about healthy living we can’t
wait to have her back.
Mr. Jef Martin from the Maverick Library will be here on
Tuesday, April 5th, at 11:30
a.m. to speak with us about computer classes, genealogy, and
many of the other services the
library offers. Be sure to pick up
one of our unique Casa Helotes
– Maverick Library bookmarks!
The San Antonio Food Bank
will be here Friday, April 15th,
at 1:00 p.m. for their Gardening Class. They have all sorts of
great information about getting
those gardens going and sometimes bring us seeds and plants.
Mr. Caleb Rackley of the
Rackley Law Firm is stopping
by to speak with us about estate planning, wills, and trusts
on Thursday, April 22nd, at
11:30 a.m. Mr. Rackley holds
degrees in Political Science, Law
and Christian Ministry. As an
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Wednesday, April 27th, from
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. to present information regarding shingles and shingles vaccinations.
Shingles is a viral infection that
can cause a painful rash anywhere on the body. Vaccines can
help to reduce the risk.
Finally, Cornyval is starting April 28th through May 1st.
We will be there selling bottled
water to raise money for Casa
Helotes. We also invite you, your
friends, and your family to signup for the 5K Fun Run/Walk
on Saturday, April 30th, at 8:40
a.m. To register or for additional
details, visit http://solerssports.
com/2016-helotes-cornyval-5k/.
Some of the proceeds from the
run go to support the Casa.
If you are planning a luncheon, dinner, conference, party,
benefits have to pay taxes because of
disability and survivor benefits, as well
as income that is in addition to Social
Security.
You’ll need your benefit statement
(Form SSA-1099), which you likely received in January, to calculate whether
you need to pay taxes. This document is
similar to a regular Form 1099 in that
it’s used to send information about your
income to the Internal Revenue Service.
The amount listed is what you received
the previous year.
Specifically, if your benefits and
any additional income exceed $25,000
(or $32,000 for a married couple filing
jointly), you’ll have to pay tax. Depending
on your income, you might be taxed on
up to 50 percent of your benefits. You’ll
never pay taxes on more than 85 percent
or simply need a larger space
to hold any type of event, keep
the Casa in mind. Our website
includes additional information
about renting our facility.
Casa Helotes is a non-profit
organization that is primarily
supported by donations and fundraisers and in part by AACOG.
There is no fee for membership
and all of our classes and activities are free for our senior community to enjoy. We are actively
seeking contributions from our
community to meet and maintain the growing demand for our
programs and services now and
into the future. All contributions
are tax deductible. Serving our
seniors serves us all.
The Casa is open from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and we’re located on Leslie
Rd. across from O’Conner High
School. We serve a congregate
meal daily at noon. Please try to
call by 10 a.m. the morning of to
let us know if you will be joining
us for lunch. Call us at (210)
695-8510 for more information
or find us on the web at www.
facebook.com/casahelotes and
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birth certificate, an updated
immunization record, and
proof of residency (such as
the current and prior month’s
electric bill, water bill, cable
bill, or landline phone bill).
A social security card is optional.
Most elementary schools
throughout the District will
hold special Kinder Roundup
events so that children and
their parents can tour the
school and meet staff members. Click here for a complete
school-by-school schedule for
the Roundup.
“If the children have never
been in a school setting before,
it’s a great opportunity to visit
the school,” said Pat Mesquiti,
Instructional Specialist for
Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten programs.
Students will not be assigned to a class until the
summer, but parents will have
plenty of opportunities to ask
questions.
Many schools hand out
packets of information to let
parents know what they need
to do to prepare their children
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responsible for the design and
environmental study needed
to complete the start of the
project.
The environmental study
identified a possible impact
on Karst Invertebrates and a
slight impact on the Golden
Cheek Warbler. The design
firm believes these impacts
will have a negative impact on
the construction of the park.
Homeowners along the proposed park have expressed
concerns. Many do not have
fences along their backyards
because their property lies in
the flood plain and you cannot
construct anything in the flood
plain. Therefore there is nothing to keep people traveling in
the park from wandering onto
private property in search of
the perfect photo or just accidently exploring other areas
not aware they have left the
park and now are in someone’s
yard.
Another concern shared by
property owners is pets in the
park. Some are worried that
pets will escape their owners and will attack or antagonize their dogs that cannot
be fenced in the backyard because of the flood plain issue.
Helotes Creek also serves
as home to many different
wild animal species including feral hogs, bobcats, and
snakes. Some express concern
what will happen when you
mix humans with these wild
animals who are not subject
to daily contact with humans.
Others in the community
have expressed concern about
clean up costs and reconstruction costs when Helotes Creek
should flood. City officials
claim the construction designs
call for the part that will cross
the creek to be anchored into
the bedrock at a depth of six
feet.
Homeowners near the disc
golf course complain about
people walking in the park
after hours and some have
even been locked into the park
after closing time. Some of
the young people found in
the park have been caught in
minor criminal activity.
The homeowners along the
linear creek are worried that
this behavior will continue in
the new park but made only
worse because this park will
not be fenced in like the park
along FM1560.
Homeowners remind City
officials that even if the property is posted no trespassing,
any accidents or injuries that
happen on private property
leave the property owners liable for damages. Many do not
appreciate having to assume
this liability since the City
will not be providing barriers
between their property and
the park.
City officials claim that officers will be provided with
ATV’s to use for patrolling the
park space and they will patrol the new park just as they
patrol the current park.
Included in this project is a
pedestrian bridge to cross over
Helotes Creek. The pedestrian bridge will be constructed
along side the current bridge
crossing Helotes Creek.
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Kinder roundup coming to
Northside schools soon
Once again, Northside is
expecting a large kindergarten enrollment for the upcoming school year, making it all
the more critical that parents
register their children during
Kinder Roundup in order to
secure a seat at their neighborhood school. More than
7,500 kindergarten students
are expected to enroll for the
2016-17 school year.
Northside’s annual Kinder
Roundup will be held April 4-8
to give next year’s kindergarten students and their parents
an opportunity to pre-register
for school, meet teachers, tour
classrooms, and to help ensure
there is a space for the child at
the neighborhood school
Visit the NISD School
Boundaries Information System, at the boundaries and
buses website, to determine
your neighborhood school.
To be eligible for kindergarten in 2016-17, children must
be 5 years old on or before
Sept. 1, 2016. To pre-register
a child in kindergarten, parents must bring: a certified
(original) copy of the child’s
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for school.
“Parents who can’t attend
during a school’s scheduled
Kinder Roundup may register
their child any time beginning
April 4th during school hours
through the end of the year,
Mesquiti said.
“No more than 22 students
can be assigned to each classroom, and once all the classes
in a school are filled, children may be sent to a cluster
campus, Mesquiti said. Transportation will be provided for
these children.
“By participating in Kinder
Roundup, parents can assure
a seat for their child when
school starts in August”, she
said. “And all their paperwork will be done and ready
to go.”
about Kinder Roundup, call
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Yes, the Delegates Can
Decide
--Donald Trump has made his
first threat to sue over the procedures for selecting delegates
to the Republican convention.
It surely won’t be his last.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Ted Cruz may come
out of Louisiana with as many
as 10 more delegates than
Trump, even though the mogul
narrowly beat Cruz in the
popular vote there. In a tweet,
Trump pronounced it “unfair,”
and worthy of litigation.
The Louisiana delegate picture isn’t evidence of anything
untoward. Trump and Cruz
both won 18 delegates on election night. Marco Rubio, since
dropped out, won five, and another five are uncommitted.
The Cruz campaign has done
the nitty-gritty work to see that
those delegates are likely Cruz
supporters.
The only scandal here is that
the Cruz campaign, built on
grass-roots organizing muscle,
knows the process and is working hard for every advantage.
Trump’s plaint is a little like
showing up at a cricket match
and crying foul because the op-
posing team knows the rules
and all you know is that you
swing a bat.
The Louisiana flap is a
window into the intricate,
state-by-state process of picking delegates to a convention
in Cleveland where the allegiance of every last delegate
might matter. If there is an
open convention, Trump will
argue that the voters should
rule, not delegates no one has
heard of, selected at obscure
precinct, county, district and
state meetings. He will, in
short, declare the entire exercise of a contested convention
illegitimate.
Is it? We are used to the
voters directly deciding, and
should Trump perform strongly
enough to win a majority of
delegates, 1,237, they, in effect,
will. But if he falls short, the
delegates enter the picture.
If Trump has only won a
plurality of delegates, a badly
divided party would be nominating a candidate who couldn’t
reach a majority and, so far,
has shown no general-election
appeal. In this circumstance,
delegates would be justified in
looking to someone else better
suited to win an election and
protect the party’s interests.
It’s not unheard of for top
vote-getters in America to fall
short of the top prize. Otherwise, there would have been a
Gore administration. Al Gore
won the popular vote in 2000,
but still fell short of George W.
Bush, who won the Electoral
College.
If you count Michigan,
where Barack Obama’s name
didn’t appear on the ballot, Hillary Clinton very narrowly won
the most votes in the 2008 primaries. That was good enough
for an appointment as secretary of state -- under President
Obama, who understood the
delegate-allocation rules much
better.
Trump has thrived so far
without an extensive, traditional political operation. But
politics isn’t only about TV interviews and big rallies. There
is a reason that the system also
rewards candidates who can
motivate and muster people
to do the grass-roots activism
involved in winning small victories at local meetings. This is
literally getting people involved
in the process, and it could take
on an outsized significance in
deciding the immediate future
of the Republican Party.
Trump would be well-served
to complain less about the
rules, and learn more.
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and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become
radicalized.” A spokesperson
later elaborated that police
“all have divisions that target threats like drugs, gangs,
human trafficking and organized crime.” Apparently
Cruz has decided that Islamic worshipping is the
equivalent of “drugs, gangs,
human trafficking and organized crime.”
Of course, our way of life
is supposed to include freedom of religion, but hey, let’s
not quibble.
The point is that the two
leading candidates for the
Republican nomination are
shamelessly pandering to our
harsh, simple-minded anger
by panicking the voters they
aim to impress. They are not
just demagogues, but dangerous ones, because they stoke
the fears that can lead to violent vigilante action against
fellow
countrymen
and
-women who simply want to
practice their faith.
Perhaps all this spousal
playground bullying is useful
because it’s relatively harmless. In this case, their wives
are the collateral damage. If
their husbands ever get the
chance to implement their
terrorism policies, millions
would be. Ultimately, we’d
all be.
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Wives and Other Candidate Victims
---What a presidentialelection choice we have,
America! That is if you enjoy
political tactics that are so
low, they would be better
suited for a limbo contest
than a campaign. We are
choosing many candidates
who, instead of representing
our aspirations, are demonstrating our asinine worst.
For once, the latest example wasn’t started by Donald Trump. In fact, this one
is from an anti-Trump PAC,
“Make America Awesome.”
It’s not officially connected
to the Ted Cruz organization, but that’s a distinction
without a difference. Who
among us believes there’s
truly no coordination just
because it’s illegal? Judge
for yourself with this socialmedia ad that features the
now-famous, very revealing
photo of Melania Trump posing for GQ magazine back
in her days as a model. It’s
accompanied by text that
reads “Meet Melania Trump.
Your next first lady. Or, you
could support Ted Cruz on
Tuesday.” That was the Utah
primary, a state dominated
by Mormons, of course, with
their strict rules of modesty.
That ad is a cheesy cheap
shot. Cruz ritualistically denied any connection to the
group that put it out, but
he’s no stranger to sewage
politics. So the Trumpster
ignored the claims of innocence to throw some Twitter
trash right back: “Be careful,
Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the
beans on your wife!”
He may or may not have
been referring to a 2005 incident where Heidi Cruz was
taken into custody by the
side of a road during an episode of depression. Trump
didn’t let up, so Cruz, seeking any campaign advantage
he could, worked up some
outrage: “Donald, you’re a
sniveling coward,” he thundered for the cameras, “Leave
Heidi the hell alone.” Whoa!
Pitiful, right? But it didn’t
compare with the reactions
of the same candidates to
the deadly terrorist attack in
Brussels. In this case, they
demonstrated how both dangerously play to our worst
instincts. Trump, as he has
before, advocates torture,
telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
that the newly captured mastermind of the Paris attacks
might have been persuaded
to “talk a lot faster with the
torture.”
Cruz had his own brutality in mind, with his statement that law enforcement
should single out, “patrol
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Community Calendar
Storybook Houses—Botanical Gardens San Antonio
March 5 - July 10, 2016
See kid-sized, family-friendly Storybook Houses in this spring exhibit opening March 5. A
partnership with AIA San Antonio, this engaging playhouse exhibit is the fourth collaboration
between the Garden and area architects and designers. Sponsored by Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and
Helen C. Kleberg Foundation, Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation, Inc, The USAA Foundation, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Dickson-Allen Foundation. San Antonio Public Library cardholders enjoy $1 off admission.
Grey Forest
Grey Forest Community Education Organization is a non for profit educational organization
free to all residents of grey forest. The GFCEO’s first educational presentation is a “Sounds of
Night” presented by the Nyta Brown, Texas Parks and Wildlife Superintendent of the Old Tunnel
Bat Cave on April 16th at 7:00 pm. The program will include a presentation of the sounds of owls
and other night animals of South Texas followed by an echolocation demonstration.
John Igo Library
Narjis Pierre, co-founder of the San Antonio Muslim Women’s Association and participant for
many years in the Tri-Faith Dialogue of San Antonio, will present a basic introduction to Islam
and the Muslim Community.
Thursday, April 7, 2 PM
Helotes Area Community Band
First spring concert of the year will be held on Sunday, April 3 at Marshall High School. The
concert will start at 3pm and conclude at 4:30 pm. Admission is free and open to all.
Marshall High School is located at 8000 Lobo Lane, San Antonio TX 78240
Greater Ms Helotes Pageant
The Greater Ms Helotes Pageant will be held on Saturday, April 9 at Brandeis High School
Auditorium. The pageant starts at 2pm and will conclude by 5:30. The contest is for young ladies
age 2 to 25. Tickets may be purchased at the door
Old Town Helotes
Old Town Heltoes will the place for the monthly Marketplace. Over 140 vendors will set
up shop in Old Town Helotes starting at the traffic circle and will continue down the street
to Floores Country Store. There will be hand made items, arts and crafts, antiques, and any
other item you might be searching. Marketplace starts at 10am and closes at 5pm. Food vendors will be on site for those who are hungry.
Miss Helotes Pageant
The 5oth Anniversary of Miss Helotes will be celebrated when the Texas Festival Association
holds the 50th Miss Helotes Pageant at O’Connor High School on April 9. This is the original pageant to Helotes and has been around for 50 years and is scholarship pageant with over $10,000
being awarded to the winners.
Helotes Historical Society
The Helotes Historical Society will hold a wine tasting at Grey Moss Inn on Monday, April
11. Susan Bevin will be the guest speaker. Cost is $25 pay at the door. The tasting begins at
6:30 pm. To reserve your seat call 210.695.5328
Weekly Devotional
Surely I have stilled
and quieted my soul, like
a weaned child with his
mother, like a weaned child
is my soul within me. Psa.
131:2 WEB
Thunderstorms in the
deep south can be terrible, especially for children.
Blackened skies, winds
that down trees, walls of
rain that you cannot see
through, bolts of lightning that hit the ground
and sound like an artillery shell. Once a bolt of
lightning that struck in the
yard set off an EMP and
caused all the electronic
devices in the area to lose
their settings.
When I was little and
a bad thunderstorm would
come up, my Dad would
gather all the kids around
him, and sit us on his lap
with him on the couch. If
the storm got really bad,
he would always take us
out to his truck. My stepmom cursed like a sailor
and he was afraid to be in
the house with her when
things got bad lest she be
taken. Come to think of it,
everyone distanced themselves from her when the
weather got rough.
Even in the worst storms
with the wind howling, the
lightning striking, and the
thunder booming, we felt
perfectly safe there with
Dad. His presence seemed
to calm everything inside
of us. We always made it
through the storm.
Sometimes the Lord
does not calm the storm
that we are facing, but He
will calm His child. When
his happens, relax and rest
knowing that He is with
you and that the storm will
soon pass. It is not forever.
Try to keep a good attitude
while waiting.
‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control’ (Galatians
5:22).
A baby wants everything
right now or it cries and
screams. A child that is
weaned learns to wait until
the meal is ready. David
said that his soul was like
a weaned child for he had
learned to wait on the Lord.
You are not alone there
and what you are facing is
not a surprise to God. You
will come through this, and
even if you didn’t, you will
get to walk on streets of
gold. So the worst thing
that can happen is not all
that bad. Naked we came
into this world, naked we
will go out, and all that we
are striving for will be left
behind. Set your priorities
in light of that.
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The Echo
March•April
18- March
Helotes author releases new book Bexar County investigating a fatal
shooting in outer limits of Helotes
HELOTES, Texas — Author Lesli Hicks depicts a
young orphan’s struggles in
finding a loving family in her
emotional, new book, “Slow
Takes a Long Time: A ‘Special’ Orphan’s Meditation on
Love and Appreciation.” It will
be released nationwide this
week.
In “Slow Takes a Long
Time,” readers will be able
to meet Dang Guole. Found
in a Chinese market in 2001,
he was one of thousands of
babies, mostly female, abandoned due to the government’s
one-child policy. The boy’s
path temporarily led to an
abusive foster mother before
he was shuttled among other
caregivers in his home country. Across the world, a couple
awaited a second adoption delayed by bureaucracy they had
not experienced the first time.
Finally agreeing to accept an
older child — a boy, rather
than a girl — they had no idea
what lay ahead. After all, he
had disabilities unnoted in the
documentation.
“Slow Takes a Long Time”
documents Dang Guole’s remarkable journey. Combining
uncommon journalistic and
literary techniques, author
Hicks pieces together the boy’s
past and present, re-imagin-
ing how he might fully tell his
story. Her sources were his
expressive reactions, emerging language skills and a host
of loving teachers.
Published by Tate Publishing and Enterprises, the book
is available through bookstores nationwide, from the
publisher at www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore, or by visiting barnesandnoble.com or
amazon.com.
March 13 started out as
a normal day for Elaine Wilbanks and Jenny.
Jenny
burned off energy by playing
with the neighbors and returning home waiting for the
next adventure.
Jenny came into Elaine’s
life 2 years ago when she
cannot forget what she saw
that day. This has affected
her tremendously.”
That day, Jenny and I were
playing ball. I would throw
the ball and Jenny would
catch it and bring it back to
me. Ball seemed to be one
of her favorite games. Jenny
when we heard a gunshot. Everything went running. Jenny
turned and ran out of the
neighbors yard and came running to me. She dropped her
ball. I could tell she was hit.
I reached down and my hands
came back covered in blood. I
called for one of the guys who
brought her home. “I had reservations at first because she
had so much energy,” added
Wilbanks. “Yet the moment I
saw her, I fell in love.
She was so smart. She
was quick to learn any task
and she followed directions
so well.” Elaine invites me to
walk with her. Slowly, methodically we start the walk to
the crime scene.
The day is breezy with the
temperature pleasant. Much
like the last day Jenny and
Elaine spent together. We
make our way through the
gates, Elaine pointing out
different places Jenny loves
dearly. We continue our trek
down past the neighbor’s
house. Elaine seems to tense
as she walks past the home.
Our intended destination
is a small cabin that Elaine
rents to a lady. “My renter
works for Homeland Security,” added Wllbanks. She has
spent many years in law enforcement and she told me she
would always have a ball beside her.
The neighbor dogs came
out and down the yard. They
too wanted to play with Jenny.
Soon the game became a game
of keep away. Jenny or one of
the others would grab the ball
and run and keep it from one
another.
“My renter got my attention,” choked Wilbanks. “She
said he has a gun. As I looked
down the road, I noticed my
neighbor standing near a post
with a gun by his side. I heard
him whistle and his dogs ran
into his yard. Jenny followed.
I didn’t think anything of it. “
Soon Elaine’s world would
become very different.
“I
never thought about guns, or
the use of guns. Now its all I
can think about.”
“I watched as Jenny continued to play with the Chihuahua. Jenny was down shaking her backside daring the
Chihuahua to take the ball,
work on the place for me to
bring the truck.
We raced Jenny to Mission
Emergency Hospital where
they tried to stabilize her.
After further examination we
learned her injury was too
drastic to save her life, and I
had to make the decision to
put her down.”
According to Bexar County
Sheriff’s records, a deputy was
dispatched to the 18000 block
of State Highway 16 just after
2pm for an animal shooting.
When the deputy arrived a
witness notified him that the
complainant had rushed her
German Shepherd to Mission
Veterinary Hospital.
The deputy then approached the suspect and
asked him if he had indeed
shot the dog. According to the
report the suspect allegedly
said, “Yes, I shot the dog.”
Bexar County Sheriff’s office is continuing to investigate the incident.
Hicks is a former journalist who teaches history in
Helotes, Texas, where she
lives with her husband and
their two children, including
Dang Guole.
Holmes JROTC team to compete at
Nationals
On April 10
Our CyberPatriot team is
the first Air Force JROTC CyberPatriot Team in the State
and 2nd in the Nation in the
Air Force Association (AFA)
CyberPatriot National Com-
petition. This competition is
organized in association with
Northrop Grumman Foundation. Over 3000 teams entered the competition and only
the top 28 teams in the nation
progress to Nationals. The CyberPatriot Program
Office is holding a media competition and the team with the
highest quality and creative
coverage will win a special
prize.
Letter to the Editor
To the Editor;
Dear Sir,
On three different occasions our publicity chairman
Ms. Diane Pina forwarded to
the Echo information concerning our upcoming Spring Concert on Sunday Apr. 3rd, at
John Marshall High School.
Since our beginning eight
years ago, our mission was to
be ambassadors for the City of
Helotes, doing what ever we
could to bring culture and fine
musical entertainment to this
beautiful little City.
Our band has grown from
7 to 70 in these short eight
years, and we are beginning
to be recognized as one of the
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finest symphonic community
bands in this area.
To support this claim, the
band was asked in 2015 to perform a concert in the Rotunda
of the State Capitol. Since we
are The Official Band of The
City of Helotes, this concert
brought recognition to many
of the State Legislatures and
those visiting that day that
Helotes is far more than just
a Sleeping Burg. Our City has
also been designated as #1
Small City in America to raise
a family.
Having said all this, it’s
very difficult for me to understand why The Echo chose not
to find space to bring attention of this concert event to its
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The band members, many
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find that notice of their concert has been over looked.
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Thieves help themselves to goods outside Ooh La La
Over the recent Easter Holiday, an unknown number of
“shoppers” helped themselves
to items stored outside Ooh
La La. According to Laura
Curtis, “I noticed a pail sitting
on my steps when I came to
the shop. When I went out
Help Wanted
to check things out, I noticed
lights missing, a statue missing, other objects missing, and
they even took some of my
fish.
I called Helotes PD and
they recommended I move my
stuff inside. I know I should
have chained everything down
in the front of the building.”
If you have any information about the missing items,
please contact Helotes PD at
210.695.8877.
Community Wide sale in Triana
Household goods, tools, clothes, children’s items, furniture,
too much to list.
The City of Castroville is currently accepting
applications for:
Lifeguard/Swim Instructor
Swim Program Director
Additional information and instructions for
completing an application can be obtained at
the City’s website: www.castrovilletx.gov or
at City Hall, located at 1209 Fiorella Street,
Castroville Texas.
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ECHO Pets & Outdoors
Pet of the Week from Helotes Humane Society
She is house trained,
but you must listen to
her when she asks to go
out side. She does not
like thunderstorms and
may want to climb in bed
with you (she does that,
sometimes, even without
a storm). She likes to be
lazy on the sofa and does
not mind making herself
at home if there is room.
When she is not relaxing
on the sofa, she enjoys
time in the backyard,
nose the the ground, exploring and protecting.
No need to say that she
will be a great addition
to the right family. [email protected]
A classic basset hound
through and through.
Gwennie is a well loved
7 year old female basset hound who came to
Helotes Humane Society
as an owner surrender
after her elderly, disabled parents could no
longer care for her. She
is a sweetheart. She
loves people and children. Other dogs are
OK if they treat her
right. She has had a
relationship with a cat
that ended in the dogs
favor, everyone is OK.
Gifts That Aren’t Appreciated
--DEAR PAW’S CORNER:
My mother has a 3-year-old
mixed Shi-tzu/poodle. He is
very spoiled and loves to go
with her everywhere. The
problem is that when she
leaves him (it doesn’t matter
what house he’s left at), he
leaves a large, smelly “present.” I can see this is in defiance, but what can we do?
Please reply; I’m desperate.
-- C.L, via email
times, bringing him along
on most of her errands, as
well as to your house, where
she occasionally leaves him
while she runs out.
The length of time she is
gone doesn’t matter. When
your mother leaves Fluffy
behind, he becomes very
anxious. Like many anxious
pets, he engages in destructive behavior -- in this case,
soiling. Some pets chew up
their owners’ shoes or destroy the living room.
Yelling at Fluffy, rubbing
his nose in his own mess or
confining him will not stop
the behavior. His anxiety has
to be addressed.
Fluffy needs independence
training, possibly combined
with an anti-anxiety drug.
The veterinarian is the first
step in the process. An obedience trainer can put together
a regimen that gradually increases Fluffy’s ability to be
left alone.
If your mother follows the
vet’s (or trainer’s) program
faithfully, Fluffy will improve immensely. And your
carpet will look much, much
better.
DEAR C.L.: Your first
move should be to erase the
word “defiance” from your vocabulary. Yes, your mother’s
dog (let’s call him “Fluffy”) is
getting upset when he’s left
behind, but he’s not being
angry or defiant or petulant.
The term here is “separation
anxiety,” and many pets suffer from it.
Fluffy is very attached to
your mother. And your mom
keeps the dog close by at all
Send your questions or
tips to [email protected].
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--* “Spring sports are in full swing for us, and we definitely still use the slow cooker. I often double
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Weekly fishing report for lakes
around Texas
BRAUNIGW a t e r
stained. Black bass are good
on small spinnerbaits around
structure. Striped bass are
fair to good on chicken livers.
Redfish are good on live perch
and tilapia. Channel catfish
are fair on shrimp and stinkbait. Blue catfish are fair on
shrimp, stinkbait, and nightcrawlers. Yellow catfish are
slow.
CALAVERASW a t e r
stained. Black bass are good
on chartreuse soft plastic
worms and minnows around
reed beds. Striped bass are
good on shad and silver
spoons. Redfish are good on
perch and shrimp on the bottom. Channel and blue catfish are fair on nightcrawlers,
shad, and stinkbait. Yellow
catfish are slow.
CHOKE CANYON
Water murky; 60–64 degrees;
22.86’ low. Black bass are good
on swimbaits and jerkbaits
early. White bass are fair on
minnows. Crappie are good on
minnows and white tube jigs
at night under lights. Channel
and blue catfish are good on
doughbait and nightcrawlers.
Yellow catfish are fair on live
bait.
COLETO CREEK
Water murky; 68 degrees in
main lake; 0.22’ high. Black
bass are fair on soft plastics
and Rat–L–Traps in 8–15 feet.
White bass are slow. Crappie
are fair on minnows and white
tube jigs in 10–15 feet. Channel and blue catfish are fair
on perch, liver, and shrimp.
Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines baited with perch and
liver.
FALCONW a t e r
murky; 68–72 degrees; 16.66’
low. Black bass are very good
on watermelon red spinnerbaits, Brush Hogs, crankbaits,
and magnum flukes. Crappie
are excellent on minnows and
tube jigs under bridges. Channel and blue catfish are excellent on cut bait, especially in
the upper end of the lake. Yellow catfish are slow. Everyone
in a boat must have a Mexico
fishing license (if fishing the
Mexico side) whether fishing
or not.
BROWNWOOD
Water stained; 60–64 degrees;
0.01’ high. Black bass are fair
on chartreuse Bass Hogg spinnerbaits and jigs, craw colored
crankbaits, and watermelon
soft plastics. Hybrid striper
are slow. White bass are slow.
Crappie are good on Li’l Fishies and minnows over brush
piles. Channel catfish are
slow. Yellow catfish are slow.
BUCHANAN
Water murky; 58–62 degrees; 4.20’ low. Black bass are
good on white/red Terminator
spinnerbaits, blue/chartreuse
tailed Whacky Sticks, and watermelon soft jerkbaits along
points in 5–10 feet. Striped
bass are fair to good vertically jigging silver Blade Runners and on live bait in 25–35
feet. White bass are good on
Li’l Fishies, watermelon Tiny
Traps, and live minnows in
18–25 feet. Crappie are fair to
good on live minnows. Channel catfish are fair on live bait.
Yellow and blue catfish are
fair on juglines baited with
live bait.
CANYON LAKE
Water murky; 59–63 degrees;
0.54’ high. Black bass are good
on pumpkin Whacky Sticks,
yellow Terminator spinnerbaits, and watermelon jerkbaits along stickups in 5–12
feet. Striped bass are slow.
White bass are fair on minnows. Smallmouth bass are
good on smoke/red tubes, blue/
green flake curl tail grubs, and
watermelon Whacky Sticks
over rock piles in 10–20 feet.
Crappie are fair on minnows
upriver in 6–12 feet. Channel catfish are fair upriver on
minnows. Yellow and blue catfish are fair on juglines baited
with live bait.
GRANGERW a t e r
high. Black bass are fair on
black soft plastic worms and
white spinnerbaits upriver.
White bass are fair on Li’l
Fishies and minnows upriver.
Crappie are slow. Blue catfish
are good on prepared baits on
rod & reel, and on juglines
baited with Zote soap. Yellow
catfish are fair on live perch.
LBJ Water stained; 61–65
degrees; 0.58’ low. Black bass
are fair on blue/green spinnerbaits, chartreuse Whacky
Sticks, and soft plastic jerkbaits in 4–10 feet. Striped
bass are fair on green striper
jigs early. White bass are fair
on green/blue Tiny Traps and
Spoiler Shads early. Crappie are good on minnows and
chartreuse tube jigs in 4–8
feet. Channel catfish are fair
on live bait and stinkbait. Yellow and blue catfish are fair
on trotlines baited with live
bait.
TRAVIS
Water murky; 60–64 degrees; 0.15’ high. Black bass
are slow. Striped bass are
slow. White bass are slow.
Crappie are slow. Channel
and blue catfish are slow. Yellow catfish are slow.
WALTER E. LONG
Water murky. Black bass are
slow. Hybrid striper are slow.
White bass are slow. Crappie
are slow. Channel and blue
catfish are slow. Yellow catfish are slow.
AMISTADW a t e r
low. Black bass are fair on
Rat–L–Traps, crankbaits, and
soft plastics. Striped bass are
good on slabs, white grubs,
and small crankbaits. White
bass are good on slabs, white
grubs, and small crankbaits.
Catfish are good on cheesebait, shrimp, and nightcrawlers. Yellow catfish are fair on
trotlines and droplines baited
with live perch. Everyone in
a boat must have a Mexico
fishing license (if fishing the
Mexico side) whether fishing
or not.
NORTH SABINE
Most of the north end of the
lake is fresh.
SOUTH SABINE
Sheepshead, redfish and black
drum are fair to good at the
jetty on live shrimp. Redfish
are fair on the surf on crabs.
BOLIVAR Trout
are
fair to good on the south
shoreline on soft plastics and
plugs. Black drum and redfish
are good at Rollover Pass.
TRINITY BAY
The
Trinity River continues to
pump freshwater in the bay
from recent rains. Most of the
bay is fresh.
EAST GALVESTON BAY
Trout are good on the south
shoreline on Catch 5s, MirrOlures and Catch 2000s. Whiting and sand trout are good on
the edge of the Intracoastal on
fresh shrimp. Black drum are
fair to good in the Ship Channel on crabs.
WEST GALVESTON BAY
Trout are fair to good for
drifters working shell on live
shrimp. Trout, sheepshead,
redfish and black drum are
good at the jetty on shrimp
and croakers. Redfish are good
in the back lakes on shrimp
and Gulps.
TEXAS CITY Redfish are
fair to good in Moses Lake on
shrimp. Trout and black drum
are good on the reefs on live
shrimp.
FREEPORT
Trout are fair at San Luis
Pass on live bait. Sand trout,
trout, redfish and sheepshead
are good on live shrimp on
the reefs in Christmas Bay
and at the jetties. Bull redfish
are good just off the beach on
sardines.
EAST MATAGORDA BAY
Trout are fair to good over
deep shell on Gulps and live
shrimp. Trout are fair for
drifters in the back lakes on
live shrimp. Redfish are fair to
good on the edge of the Intracoastal on crabs and mullet.
WEST MATAGORDA BAY
Trout are fair for waders tossing Down South Lures and
Soft–Dines. Redfish are fair
to good on the edge of Oyster
Lake on shrimp and crabs.
Black drum and redfish are
fair to good at the jetty on
crabs.
PORT O’CONNOR
Trout and redfish are fair on
soft plastics over sand and
grass. Trout and redfish are
fair for drifters working the
back lakes with live shrimp.
Trout, black drum and redfish
are good at the jetty on mullet.
ROCKPORT
Trout are fair to good in
Morris–Cummings Cut on
free–lined shrimp. Black drum
are good in the Lydia Ann
Channel on crabs. Redfish are
fair to good on the Estes Flats
on mullet and crabs.
PORT ARANSAS
Black drum are good in the
Shrimpboat Channel on crabs
and finger mullet. Redfish,
trout and sheepshead are fair
to good at the jetty on shrimp.
Red snapper are good in state
waters.
CORPUS CHRISTI
Trout are fair to good on the
edge of the spoils on Gulps
and live shrimp. Black drum
and redfish are fair to good in
the channels on crabs. Trout
are good in Oso Bay on topwaters for kayakers.
BAFFIN BAY
Trout are good over sand
and grass on Bass Assassins,
Gamblers, Down South Lures
and topwaters. Black drum
are good in the Land Cut on
crabs. Trout are fair to good in
the Land Cut on live shrimp
and soft plastics.
PORT MANSFIELD
Trout are fair to good on
topwaters around sand and
grass. Redfish are fair to good
while drifting pot holes. Black
drum and redfish are good on
crabs at East Cut.
SOUTH PADRE
Trout are good around the
spoil islands and channel
edges on DOA Shrimp and
live shrimp. Black drum and
redfish are fair to good at the
jetty on shrimp cracked blue
crabs.
PORT ISABEL
Trout are good while wading
bars and guts on DOA Shrimp
and Gulps. Redfish are fair
to good on DOA Shrimp and
live shrimp while wading back
bays.
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27-6A teams shine in round one
of soccer playoffs
By Pat Turner
Round two of the Class
6A playoffs begin Friday
and a presence from District 27-6A will be felt.
All four girls teams will
be there, along with three
boys’ squads following their
success in bi-district..
Some got there in dominating fashion and others had close calls. Three
even had to work overtime.
Whatever the case, they’re
still playing and looking to
continue that journey.
District 27-6A girls’
champion Brandeis (18-21) plays Johnson, O’Connor
(14-5-3) takes on Clemens,
which pulled off a stunning 4-3 win over Region
IV favorite Reagan, Brennan (15-4-4) takes on MacArthur and Clark (15-6-2)
battles Smithson Valley.
In the boys’ round, Clark
plays Lee, Jay (14-5-3) tangles with Reagan and Stevens (16-4-3) faces Smithson Valley.
Brandeis and O’Connor’s
girls came up with the most
dominating performances.
Brandeis rolled to a 5-0
win over Corpus Christi
Carroll with another wellbalanced showing of of-
fense and defense. While
the Broncos’ defenders silenced the Tigers, the offense made their chances
count, especially Samantha
Palomino, who kicked in
two goals and dished out
two assists. Alyssa Blankenship also had double
success, putting in a goal
and setting up another.
Libby Wirebaugh and
Diana Gassaway also contributed to the scoring.
The top showing of the
bi-district round came from
O’Connor’s Alexia Maldonado, who booted in four
goals with an assist in the
Panthers’ 7-0 waxing of
Corpus Christi King.
Maldonado
helped
O’Connor put the match
away during the building of
a 5-0 lead in the first half.
From then on, the Panthers
were in cruise control.
Goals also came from
Monet Martinez and Juliette Lincon. Sarah Turner
provided plenty of support
with three assists.
Brennan had to work
extra to pull out a 2-1 win
over Southwest.
Although scoring opportunities were few, the
Bears did enough to win,
thanks largely to a sound
defense.
Clark didn’t have to go
to OT but the Cougars were
put to the test while carving out a 1-0 win over East
Central.
Alexandria
Theriot’s
pass set up a goal for Alex
Garcia in the first half.
Although that was it for
the Cougars in the scoring
department, the Clark defense made it stand.
The Cougars came up
with stops, steals and
blocks, with a major lift
coming from goalkeeper
Natalia Fuentes, who had
seven saves.
In the boys’ playoffs,
27-6A champion Clark used
goals from Luis Carlos Garcia and Andee Herrera for a
2-0 win over Corpus Christi
Ray.
The Cougars were also
sharp on defense, allowing
one shot on goal.
Jay (14-5-3) and Stevens
(16-4-3) came away with
2-1 wins in overtime.
Jay pulled off its magic
against East Central and
Stevens earned its victory
against King.
Brandeis lost a 3-0 decision to Southwest.
Holmes, O’Connor staying
strong in 27-6A
By Pat Turner
Holmes and O’Connor
keep finding ways to pull
out victories.
The rewards for coming
up with steady pitching and
clutch hitting are plentiful,
especially in competitive
District 27-A. The effort
has enabled the Huskies
and Panthers to not only
improve their playoff situation, but their shot at a
district title.
Going into Friday’s contests, Holmes (10-5, 8-2)
and O’Connor (10-7, 8-2)
lead the pack, with Clark
(11-5, 7-3), Marshall (115, 6-4) and Brandeis (9-7,
6-4) close behind as the district heads down the final
stretch.
Holmes and O’Connor
helped their cause this past
Tuesday.
Holmes squeezed out a
4-2 win over Brennan (5-10,
3-7).
The Bears owned a 2-1
lead in the fifth, but a bases-loaded walk enabled the
Huskies to tie the score.
Holmes jumped ahead in
the sixth.
Jacob Trevino walked
and Jonah Holladay was
hit by a pitch. However,
the Bears came back with
two strikeouts, putting a
damper on Holmes’ threat.
Just when it seemed the
Huskies runners would be
stranded, Aaron Arevalos
roped a two-run single to
center.
Pitcher Tyler Dick then
sealed the victory getting
through the seventh inning
with little trouble.
O’Connor and Brandeis
were locked into a tight
pitching bout with the Panthers getting their strong
outing from Bo Gonzales
and Sam Kuhn doing the
honors for the Broncos.
Gonzales allowed five
hits and struck out six
though six innings, before
Reese Biela closed out the
victory with a solid seventh.
Kuhn surrendered four hits.
Hits and baserunners
were few as both teams followed their pitchers’ cue
with sound defense.
Finally, O’Connor got
enough going in the sixth
inning to produce the eventual winning run.
Zach Barrera was hit by
a punch and moved into the
scoring position with Sterling Malish’s sacrifice bunt,
before August Ramirez
lined an RBI double to
right.
The two try to remain
at the head of the class this
week. Holmes plays Jay
Friday and faces Brandeis
Wednesday. O’Connor goes
against Warren Saturday
and plays Taft Tuesday.
Marshall (11-5, 6-4)
knocked Clark (11-5, 7-3)
out of its share of the 27-6A
lead with a 6-1 thumping.
The teams were locked
in a scoreless battle, before
Marshall broke through
with six runs in the sixth
inning.
Two errors helped Marshall, along with two-run
singles from Chase Gordon
and Josh Gill, along with
an RBI single from Jordan
Thompson.
Marshall also received a
sharp pitching performance
from Enoc Rodriguez, who
allowed four hits.
Clark struck for a run in
the seventh, but that was
all the Cougars could muster.
Warren (6-8-2, 5-5) kept
its playoff possibilities alive
with a 9-6 win over Stevens
(7-9, 4-6).
The Warriors were looking at a 4-1 deficit before
erupting for four runs in
the third and following with
two runs in the fourth. Stevens staged another rally,
but a two-run seventh enabled Warren to clinch the
victory.
Tristan Gutierrez (3 for
4), Ricky Garcia (2 for 4),
Seth Pruett (2 for 3) and
Matthew Valague, who
drove in three runs while
going 1 for 4, sparked the
Warriors.
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Softball playoff picture taking Northside students advance to
regional academic contes
shape
By Pat Turner
Things are falling into
place in District 27-6A’s
battle for the four softball
playoff positions.
Brennan (16-3, 10-1) is
at the top. Holmes (15-5,
9-2), Warren (13-6, 8-3)
and Brandeis (11-7, 8-3)
are looking like sure contenders. At the same time,
O’Connor (11-7, 7-4) is making things tighter in the
playoff race with ith its recent leap. Despite an upand-down beginning, wins
over Brandeis (5-3) and
Warren (7-2) has the Panthers back into the swing
of things.
There’s still more ground
to cover but the Panthers
appear to be on the right
track.
In the win over Brandeis,
O’Connor only came up
with four hits against Melissa Newberry, but it was
enough to register a win.
The Panthers took a 1-0
lead in the first on Khylea
Davila’s run-scoring single
and pushed across two more
in the third on Lorraine Palacios’ two-run double.
Brandeis came back
with a run in the fifth, but
O’Connor countered with
a tally in the sixth with
Delani Sipila’s single.
Kelsie Stone provided
the extra touch for the Panthers by limiting the Broncos to six hits.
O’Connor pounded Warren for 17 hits.
Stone did her part by
driving in three runs during
a 2 for 3 showing. She also
shined on the mound with
another six-hitter.
Maddie Rodriguez also
had a big at the plate, going
4 for 4.
Brandeis recovered from
the loss with a 3-0 win over
Taft.
Pitching was a big key
as Newberry silenced the
Raiders with a six-hitter,
while striking out seven.
Brandeis got all its offense during the fourth inning.
Ashley Schaefer and
Maria Delgado, who went 3
for 3, got things going with
base hits. Kaitlyn Hawkins
followed with a two-run
single and eventually came
home on an error.
Brennan rolled to a 7-0
win over Clark as Clarissa
Hernandez tossed a onehitter and struck out 13
batters.
Holmes followed last
week’s 5-3 come-frombehind win over Brandeis
with a 13-1 hammering of
Jay/
Jalissa Alicea hurled a
two-hitter with offensive
punch coming from Hannah
Rebar, Destiny Rodriguez,
Denise Rosas and Savannah Bustos.
The ten Northside High Schools recently participated in the UIL Academic Contests
and those placing in the top three from each event and the top team advanced to Regional
Competition to be held later in April. Those students who finish in the top three at the
regional meet will advance to the State tournament to be held the first weekend in May.
Those students who qualify for the State tournament are eligible to apply for over $1.5
million dollars in scholarships.
A complete listing of the results are included below:
Event
Place PointsSchoolName
Accounting
1 15
Holmes H S San Antonio
E Whiddon
2 12
Roberto Garza
3 10
Brandeis HS San Antonio
DANIELLE LIPSEY
4 8
NAOMI ALYAFEI
5 6
Olivia Whiddon
6 4
Warren HS San Antonio
Isaac Buitrago
Calculator Applications
1 15
Jay H S San Antonio
Valeria Munoz-Gonzalez
2 12
Marcos Salamanca
3 10
Lloyd Donelan
4 8
Jay H S San Antonio
Ryan Chapoco
5 6
Jay H S San Antonio
Luis Irigoyen
6 4
Brennan H S San Antonio
Brian Tulaba
Current Issues
1 15
BRANDI BRAGGS
2 12
Lucas Gonzalez
3 10
Jay H S San Antonio
Sarah Woeppel
4 8
Sammy Gonzales
5 6
Yousef Rafati
6 4
Jay H S San Antonio
Ian Flynn
Computer Applications
1 15
Justin Graham
2 12
Jay H S San Antonio
Juan Lopez
3 10
Marshall HS San Antonio
John Ojo
4 8
Angelo Lomeli
5 6
Brandon Edwards
6 4
Stevens H S San Antonio
Fabricio Zuniga
Computer Science
1 15
Clark HS San Antonio
Xinyu “Lucy” Zhao
2 12
O’Connor HS Helotes
John Thomas
3 10
Michael Perce
4 8
Jay H S San Antonio
Martin DeLaTorre
5 6
Zachary Flores
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The Echo •April 1- April 7,, 2016• 13
The Echo’s Pharmacy Column
The Zika Virus: Another
Serious Flaviviral Threat
(Part 1 of 2)
Nature’s new concern,
seeming to appear of of nowhere in the last few months,
comes in the form of a mosquito-borne virus that may
have devastating effects upon
a developing fetus, although
many of those infected only
experience a short-lived flulike syndrome. How is this
virus so different from others, and what can we do to
lessen our risk from it? Recent
data, and two articles in a recent New England Journal of
Medicine(NEJM) have provided more information on this
potentially devastating infection. In this article, we will examine the history of this virus
and a new case report fresh
from this respected medical
journal.
Zika virus (ZIKV) is
a flavivirus (FV) carried
by Aedes mosquitoes, was
isolated in a primate species
in 1947, and was associated
with a mild disease with fever
and rash in tropical Africa
and some regions of Southeast Asia. Several outbreaks
have occurred outside of these
areas: in 2007, in Micronesia;
2013 & 2014 in French Polynesia, and in 2015 in South
America, where ZIKV had not
been identified before now.
Asian lineages have caused
the outbreaks in the Pacific
and the Americas. As with
dengue and chikungunya viruses, urban Aedes mosquitoes transmit ZIKV to humans. One tropical medicine
expert has noted the emergence and spread of viruses
previously limited to small,
remote locations due in part
at least, to globalization and
urbanization.
As of the end of March,
there were 312 cases of travelassociated Zika virus disease
(ZIKD) in the U.S., but no
locally acquired cases. Of the
312 cases, 27 were pregnant
women, 6 were sexually transmitted, and one had Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS),
a ��
rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune
system damaging the peripheral nervous system. With US
territories, those numbers are
3 travel-associated, 349 locally
acquired, 352 total, 37 pregnant women, and 1 GBS. So
far, no cases acquired locally
have been diagnosed in the
contiguous states.
The apparent increased
risk of intrauterine or perinatal transmission of the virus,
along with the increase in microcephaly (reduced cranial
size) reported in a number
of Brazilian newborns, is the
most striking and concerning
effect of this infection. A recent
study indicated that 29% of fetuses with mothers with ZIKV
infection during pregnancy
showed fetal abnormalities on
ultrasound, and 17% had microcephaly, cerebral atrophy,
or brain calcifications. Due to
the association between ZIKV,
microcephaly, and other neurologic disorders, the World
Health Organization (WHO)
has declared this epidemic a
public health emergency of international concern.
A recent WHO meeting
that involved 130 experts
from 27 countries attempted
to exchange insights, identify
knowledge gaps, and develop
a plan for quickening the pace
of product development and
evaluation in order to control
the spread of ZIKV, but most
of the knowledge required to
do so is lacking. Or 313 articles about Zika found in a
literature search on PubMed,
25 were published in the
57 years from its discovery
through 2009 (the first year
ZIKV appeared outside Africa
& Asia); 225 of these were
published in 2016. Hampering this understanding is the
complex immune response to
flaviviruses (which include
dengue (DENV), yellow fever,
and West Nile et al.), as it can
be protective in most cases
and harmful in some, with
some cross-reactions possible;
cross-reactive antibodies may
make it difficult to determine
which FV is causing the current illness in a given patient,
and the underlying immune
mechanisms at play are not
well understood.
Surprisingly, the information presented at the WHO
meeting indicated that any
recent vector-control interventions, including large-scale
insecticide use, had any effect on DENV transmission;
major gaps exist still in spread
of FVs in general and ZIKV
in particular. Imperative in
this is developing a vaccine
to protect pregnant woman
and their babies. Developing
a vaccine against DENV has
been difficult because of the
four different serotypes of this
virus, although there is now
available a DENV vaccine.
The current draft for developing a fast-track ZIKV vaccine
favours greatly a non-live (inactivated) vaccine, especially
with its initial use being in
pregnant women, and because
of what appears to be an association with GBS; diagnostic
tools for ZIKV disease still
need to be standardized. The
recent Ebola outbreak has
taught world infectious disease specialists best practices
for international collaboration, and a number of these
commitments are already in
place. In addition, the speed of
data sharing, to include realtime posting of some data, has
been touted as a major advance over the Ebola response.
The WHO meeting has fostered understanding the critical need for collaboration instead of competition to combat
this new viral threat.
Although there appears to
be more unanswered questions than answers about
ZIKV, the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) has issued a
travel advisory for pregnant
women (http://www.cdc.gov/
zika/pregnancy/index.html),
advising them not to travel to
areas with Zika, and if they
must, to follow strict guidelines to prevent being bitten
by mosquitoes. On the day
prior to my Friday deadline,
an article was published
in NEJM that detailed a recent case of congenital ZIKV
infection and subsequent findings in this patient’s pregnancy, which was terminated at
21 weeks of gestation. During
a couple’s holiday in late November (during her 11th week
of gestation) of last year, they
visited Mexico, Guatemala,
and Belize, and recalled being
bitten by mosquitoes, par-
ticularly in Guatemala. One
day after their return to their
residence in Washington, DC,
she experienced eye pain, body
aches, and a mild fever, with a
rash appearing the next day.
Serologic analyses performed
4 weeks after this indicated
no dengue or other FV infection, but were positive for
IgG and IgM (two types of
immunoglobulins, or immune
proteins) against ZIKV, findings compatible with recent or
current ZIKV infection. Fetal
ultrasounds performed at 13,
16, and 17 weeks of gestation (her symptoms resolved
around week 12) indicated no
evidence of microcephaly or
intracranial calcification (calcium/bone deposits inside the
skull). From 16 to 20 weeks,
however, fetal head circumference decreased from 47th to
24th percentile. After 16 weeks,
flavivirus was detected in her
blood, with genetic testing
showing identity to the Central American strains of ZIKV.
At 19 weeks, ultrasound indicated marked intracranial
abnormalities which were further defined and elucidated
the next week by fetal MRI.
In light of the grave prognosis,
the patient elected termination of her pregnancy the following week.
Some of the cogent findings noted that the highest
viral loads were found in fetal
brain tissue, the placenta,
and umbilical cord. Although
the mother was serologically
negative for ZIKV after about
a week, the fetus became a
reservoir for the viral infection, and its neurological development was arrested quite
markedly; ZIKV seemed to
have a predilection for human
neural lineage cells, suggesting viral adaptation to growth
in the fetal brain, arresting
development in this case between the 16th and 20th week
of gestation. Latency periods between infection of the
mother, ZIKV infection of the
fetal brain, and detection were
noted to be prolonged, with
negative
ultrasonographic
imaging being falsely reassuring. Serial ultrasound imaging of head circumference
may be useful in predicting
potential effects of ZIKV infection, with fetal brain MRIs
offering the greater sensitivity
to virally-induced changes in
brain development. As tragic as this was, it served to
provide invaluable insight as
to the mechanism by which
this virus causes the profound
damages that it does; it is,
however, just one case report
and its findings have not yet
been validated sufficiently to
draw definitive conclusions.
On a personal note, I would
like to thank the Echo editor for welcoming me & my
column back after nearly a
year’s hiatus. As some may
have heard, we all suffered a
devastating loss when Julia,
my beautiful wife of over 22
years, passed away suddenly
last May. I’d like to thank our
family, friends & fellow professionals who reached out to me,
as they have been – along with
my faith – the foundation that
has supported me since then.
The second part of this article
will discuss prevention strategies for this and other mosquito-borne diseases, along with
tips on avoiding being bitten
by these insects. As always,
if you have any questions or
comments on this or any other
topic covered in the Echo,
please contact me through this
paper, Tweet me @RPh_elps,
or ask your pharmacist.
St. Phillips College ends lock down
Early on Friday, April 1 officials with St. Phillips College placed the campus on lock down because a person reported to the campus police a suspicious person was on the main part of campus
carrying a long rifle.
Police quickly placed the campus on lock down and investigated the situation. Police learned
the person thought to be carrying a long rifle was in fact carrying a long umbrella.
By 9:15am Police had sent the all clear and ended the lock down. The campus is open for
normal business now.
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contestants
This year, 22 young ladies will compete for different titles in the Greater Ms. Helotes Pageant. Sweetheart
contestants are from ages 4-6, Princess is from 7-9, Teen contestants are from 13-17, and the Greater Ms.
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The Echo and her staff wish all the contestants good luck as they compete for their respective title.
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