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Vol. 53 No. 21
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Helotes Band plays the Austin Capitol
The Helotes Community Band performed Friday, March 6, in the Capitol Rotunda of the
Texas State Capitol in Austin. The band plays their Spring Concert at John Marshall High
School Sunday, April 12, beginning at 3 p.m.
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Hike & Bike Trail still in tug-of-war
By James Henry Frazar
Right now the Leon
Valley Hike & Bike Trail
that would go through the
Huebner-Onion Natural Area
is still on. But everyone is
waiting for the election and
a possible change in council
composition for the vote to
change.
Another attempt to
bring up discussion of the hike
& bike trail at the March 9
meeting of the Leon Valley
City Council, was headed off
by a motion by councilmember
Paul Biever to table discussion on the matter until the
April meeting when work on
the trail’s budget is complete.
The initial vote was 3-2 with
Biever, Abraham Diaz and
Richardo Ruiz voting for the
delay and Carmen Sanchez
and Bennie Martinez against.
However, in a procedural ruling, City Attorney Charles E.
Zech said the vote had to be
a 2/3 margin and the voting
ratio didn’t make it. The majority was one vote short.
In further discussion Sanchez suggested holding the discussion in April,
with a decision in May. Martinez suggested delaying the
vote until the second meeting in May. Martinez apparently was anticipating that
the council composition would
change after the May 9 election and then the usual 3-2
council vote on continuing the
hike & bike trail would be different.
On the next vote,
majority ruled and with the
same 3-2 vote, the discussion
was postponed until the April
meeting.
In other action, the
council unanimously approved returning to two council meetings a month. That
starts in May with council
meetings being on the first
and third Tuesday of the
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will be Tuesday, May 5. That
will have the current council members on the dais. The
third Tuesday meeting will be
May 19. That will be the first
council meeting after the May
9 election.
council set town hall meetings
to help explain the new city
charter. A copy of the charter
has been mailed out to all
6,000 registered voters. There
is also a factsheet explaining
the charter that went out in
the February city newsletter
to 3,000 households.
The city council set
a town hall session Saturday,
March 28, on the charter. This
would be during the monthly
council coffee session. The city
council also set a town hall
meeting Thursday, April 9, at
7 p.m. for a discussion of the
proposed charter in the Leon
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The Leon Valley City
Council gave its first approval
to a go ahead on the Silo
Pocket Park in the 7500 block
of Huebner Road. The Leon
Valley Parks Commission has
proposed a small park on the
property that the city owns
and that park would be more
for the neighborhood rather
than the entire city, as is Raymond Rimkus.
The comments the Parks
Commission brought to the
discussion indicated that people wanted something that
was useful, but wouldn’t attract a huge crowd of people.
Parks Commission Chair
Bert Thomas said the city’s
master plan calls for pocket
parks in all four areas of the
city and they’ll be developed
as the city is able to find the
land to do it.
He also said that by its
very nature, you can’t put a
lot of things in a pocket park
Thomas said they’ve kept
the Silo Park, which is not its
final name yet, to be simple,
small, natural and open for
free play. That’s the commission’s intention and that’s
what the input of the citizens
has said.
There has been a lot of
input about having the park
being dog friendly, with doggie waste bag stations. That
of course, means having trash
cans in the park. But any
place you’d have people, you
are going to need trash cans.
Another amenity is to
have fitness stations along
what would be a trail and
also benches and maybe picnic
tables.
The commission also proposed a Phase 2 for the park
that would involve a gazebo
and playscape. But that is definitely further down the road.
Comments from neighbors
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wind around the park and
would most likely be made
of a permeable material – no
concrete. Mayor Chris Riley
suggested that the trail be
a dirt trail, much like the
Huebner-Onion Natural Area
trail is now.
A big issue is parking.
There is no public parking
next to the park and there
is none available anywhere
nearby. The nearest parking
lot belongs to the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. Since their parking lot
is right next to the proposed
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parking by people who’d like
to use the park.
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to put a landscape fence instead of the hardscape fence
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Clubs & Organizations
Regular meetings:
Helotes Lion’s Club.
Helotes City Council,
each second and fourth
Thursday at 7 p.m. at
12951 Bandera Rd.
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. meet the first
and third Tuesday at 7:30
p.m. For more information,
call 210-646-1429.
Helotes Planning and
Zoning Commission,
the first Tuesday of
each month at 7 p.m.,
12951 Bandera Road.
Helotes Economic
Development Corporation,
each third Wednesday of
the month at 1 p.m. at
12951 Bandera Road.
Leon Valley City Council
meeting, each second
Monday 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 7 p.m., at the
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 AlAnon Family Group, meets
every Wednesday at 7 p.m.
at Zion Lutheran Church
Fellowship Hall, located
at the corner of Loop 1604
and Braun Road. For
more information, please
call Edwin at 710-0786.
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.
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,
Bring a covered dish
and $2 or bring $5 w/o
a 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 pm in the
Parish Hall at Our Lady
of Guadulupe located
at 13715 Riggs Road.,
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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Four Chaplains ceremony conducted
by American Legion
In the early days of World
War II, four men of God made
the ultimate sacrifice for four
other soldiers. These four
chaplains were remembered
by American Legion Post 336
in Leon Valley Feb. 17 at Leon
Valley Elementary.
As the story was recounted
in the program, the U.S.A.T.
Dorchester was sailing from
the United States to an American base in Greenland Feb. 3,
1943. It and two other transports were escorted by three
Coast Guard cutters.
The Dorchester was a luxury coastal liner converted into
a troop transport with 902
men aboard.
Only 150 miles from their
destination, the German submarine, U-223, spotted the
small convoy and took aim
at the Dorchester. The U.S.
was only three months into
the war. The submarine fired
torpedoes which struck the
Dorchester on the starboard
side, amid ship, far below the
water line.
The shot was devastating
and the order was given to
abandon ship.
Panic and chaos set in. Men
were dead and others seriously wounded. Men jumped
into lifeboats to the point of
capsizing them. Other rafts
that were tossed into the
ocean drifted away before men
could get into them. The CGC
Comanche rescued 97 survivors. The CGC Escanaba rescued 132 other crew. The CGC
Tampa continued to escort the
other two remaining transports.
It was during this pandemonium that four Army chaplains remained calm and decided to bring a little light into
the darkness.
Lt. George L. Fox, a Meth-
odist minister; Lt. Alexander
D. Goode, a Jewish rabbi; Lt.
John P. Washington, Roman
Catholic priest; and Lt. Clark
V. Poling, a Dutch Reformed
minister spread out among the
soldiers. They tried to calm
the frightened, tend to the
wounded, and guide the disoriented to safety.
One witness, Private William B. Bednar, found himself
floating in oil-smeared water
surrounded by dead bodies
and debris. “I could hear men
crying, pleading, praying.”
Bednar said. “I could also hear
the chaplains preaching courage. Their voices were the only
thing that kept me going.”
With most of the men topside on the sinking ship, the
chaplains opened a storage
locker and began distributing
life jackets, but there weren’t
enough. Without any more life
jackets, the four chaplains removed theirs and gave them
to four frightened young men.
They didn’t seek out men
who were of their own religion,
but rather to the next man in
line.
As the ship went down, survivors in the nearby rafts could
see the four chaplains, arms
linked and braced against the
slanting deck. Their voices
could also be heard offering
prayers.
The Distinguished Service
Cross and Purple Heart were
awarded posthumously Dec.
19, 1944, to the next of kin by
Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell,
Commanding General of the
Army Service Forces. A posthumous Special Medal of Heroism, never to be given again,
was authorized by Congress
and awarded by the President
Jan. 18, 1961.
In February of 1951, the
Chapel of the Four Chaplains,
an interfaith memorial chapel,
was dedicated in Philadelphia.
Officers of the Audie L. Murphy American Legion Post 336 light a candle for each of the four chaplains who
sacrificed themselves to save others in the World War II sinking of the Dorchester. Pictured are Bill England, left,
Tony Mendiola, Sgt-at-Arms Cindy Wise, Mike Gilmour, Post Commander Walter Geraghty, and Post Chaplain
Irv Barath.
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its General Meeting every
second Monday of the
month at 7 p.m. at 8795
FM 1560 N San Antonio.
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The Altar Society of Our
Lady of Guadalupe meets
on the first Wednesday of
each month at 7 p.m. 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 first and third Tuesday
at 8 p.m. We host an Open
House/Burger Night at
6 p.m. for the public the
first Wednesday of the
month. We are located at
15650 Market Hill, San
Antonio (near La Cantera
Mall). 210-697-3331, www.
sanantonioelks.com
South Texas Area Farm &
Ranch
Meets the third Thursday
of every month (except
Feb) at 11:30 a.m. at Aggie
Park, 6502 West Avenue,
San Antonio.
V.F.W. Post 7108 holds
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Valley Conference Center. Additionally, the Saturday, April
25, coffee meeting will also be
a follow-up charter discussion
in addition to discussing other
additional city topics.
city council set a candidate
forum for all candidates running in the city election May
9. The date for the forum will
be Monday, April 27, and the
location will be the Leon Valley Conference Center. It will
be hosted by the League of
Women Voters. A time is not
yet set.
In other action, council heard from Leon Valley
City Manager Manuel Longoria Jr. who told the council
that three issues remain to
complete the agreement with
the builder of the Department
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church to discourage people
from crossing from the parking lot. If it's too hard to cross,
maybe they won't park there.
With trees and shrubs in the
way, people won't park in
church's parking lot.
The church has indicated
they would prefer not to be
parking spot for the park, especially on Sunday.
The church has also expressed an interest in having
some of their sponsoring organizations, such as the Boy
Scouts actually doing projects
to improve the park.
There was some discussion
on the two silos that are next
to city property near the site.
However, the silos are actually on private property that
is due to be developed into an
office building.
Citizen interest indicated a
desire to keep the silos since
they have historic sentiment.
Leon Valley City Manager
Leon Springs Business
Association, holds regular
monthly meetings,
typically on the third
Thursday of every month.
Check their website or
facebook at www.facebook.
com/LSBATX for contact
information and to RSVP.
Leon Springs Trail
Foundation, holds regular
monthly meetings,
typically on the fourth
Thursday of every month.
Please contact Leon
Springs Trail Foundation
for time and location. Visit
the Leon Springs Trail
Foundation on facebook.
The Leon Valley Historical
Society board of directors
meets the third Thursday
of each month at 6:30 p.m.
at the Leon Valley Public
Library, 6425 Evers Road.
Members and visitors are
always welcome.
The Return of the
Clinton Scandals
The grim forced march to
a Hillary Clinton coronation
just got a little grimmer. The
Hillary email scandal -- on top
of the revelation of continuing
foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation while she was
secretary of state -- is a nice
reminder for Democrats about
what they are signing up for.
The Clinton Restoration
will require routinely defending the indefensible. It will
require recalibrating all legal
and ethical standards to suit
the personal and financial interests of the Clintons. It will
require a willingness to use
these phrases with a shameless abandon: “old news,” “everybody does it” and “not technically illegal.”
Usually the advantage of
having been around national
politics forever is that there
are no surprises lurking in the
background. But what should
be the most vetted couple in
the world always needs just a
little more vetting.
The Clintons come from
the Frank Underwood school
of politics. What unites Bill’s
roguish charm and Hillary’s relentless determination is an eye for the main
chance, with adherence to
the rules optional.
Hillary Clinton’s selfserving email arrangement
is not the worst example,
but it is textbook. Pretty
much anyone in government knew that if you used
your private account for
official business, you had to
copy your government account
for record-keeping purposes.
But Hillary didn’t even have a
government account.
For this to have been an
innocent oversight, we’d have
to believe that Hillary -- intimately familiar with the workings of government since at
least 1979, when Bill became
governor of Arkansas, and
with the federal government
since at least 1993 -- didn’t
know how government email
worked.
And that she happened to
set up her own private email
account with a server in her
own house, registered under a
pseudonym, in a fit of technological absent-mindedness.
As The Associated Press
notes, homemade servers are
inferior to professional facilities that “provide monitoring for viruses or hacking
attempts, regulated temperatures, off-site backups, generators in case of power outages,
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now she says she wants them
released. But it is her flunkies
who decided what to give the
department. This is transparency Clinton-style.
The defense from Clinton
world has been that everyone
conducts official business on
private email, so what’s the
big deal? But her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, and her
successor, John Kerry, both
managed to use government
accounts.
The legal debate is now
whether she merely violated
the spirit of the law or actually
broke it, the perpetual question with the Clintons.
If Democrats have liked
what they’ve seen from Hillary the past couple of weeks,
they should relish the prospect
of the next two years, when
any revelation can instantly
put them back in Clinton scandal-defense mode. This is the
future they are choosing, apparently without even bothering to consider an alternative
with less baggage or higher
standards.
Rich Lowry is editor of the
National Review.
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“The cover-up often is
worse than the crime.” How
many times have we heard
variations of that quote? Usually, it’s trotted out in the
context of a political scandal,
one that wouldn’t really be a
scandal if the principal had
just gotten past an obsession
with secrecy so severe that he
or she acted suspiciously.
In this case, it’s a “she”
we’re talking about, Hillary
Clinton, who repeatedly gets
entangled in her fetish for
privacy. It’s impossible when
living such a high-profile life,
with all the attendant perks,
financed by the taxpayers.
She is about to embark on
that most public endeavor,
running for president, trying to get elected to enter
the White House bubble. Of
course, she’s been in the fishbowl before, as “wife of,” and
never could get used to the
idea that her life, to a large
degree, belonged to everyone.
That’s what makes the
matter of her conducting business as secretary of state on a
camouflaged, private
email account such
a big story. It’s true,
as her enforcers have
fanned out to argue,
that others have done
the same thing -- Secretary of State Colin
Powell, for example.
And there is no real evidence
that her behind-the-cloak
communications were hiding
anything improper or illegal.
But we don’t really know. We
can only suspect. She makes
it so easy.
Her problem is that this
clandestine approach is nothing new. As someone who covered all the Clinton scandals,
and even nonscandals like
Whitewater, I got used to the
daily parsing of words to try
to avoid simply coming out
and dealing with the embarrassment of the moment. The
nearly covert way that Hillary
conducted the effort to reform
health care ultimately had a
lot to do with the final plan
going down in flames.
So now we have a situation where she has told the
world that she’s willing to not
stand in the way as the State
Department publicly releases
emails she turned over to the
government. What we don’t
know is just what she turned
over, or more importantly,
what she didn’t turn over,
Manuel Longoria said that the
silos would probably not survive a move to city property.
Even if the city got permission
to move the silos, it would be
very expensive to move them
and the move would probably
destroy them. As far as buying
the property the silos are on,
that would be very expensive.
Because of liability insurance,
the property owner would
likely take the silos down.
Councilmember
Benny
Martinez moved to proceed
with development of the park
but limit that development to
the $20,000 that's currently
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the next budget year.
Moritz will work out a budget, which will include using
city workers to do the planning, and give the budget to
council to approve.
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Garden Center Plant Sale set March 20-21
The 2015 Garden Center Plant Sale will be held Friday and Saturday, March 20-21, from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Offered will be bedding plants, drought tolerant perennials, native plants, herbs and daylilies.
There will be quality plants from local growers at great prices.
The San Antonio Garden Center is located at 3310 N. New Braunfels at Funston in front of the
San Antonio Botanical Garden.
Call 210-824-9981 or email [email protected] for more information.
Leon Paul Perysn
November 19, 1942 - March 7, 2015
Leon Paul Persyn, age 72, passed away on
March 7, 2015.
He was born on November 19, 1942, in San
Antonio, TX. to the late Joseph Leo Persyn
and Mary Van De Walle Persyn. He graduated from La Salle High School in 1961 and
Helotes Hustle Global Awareness 5K run set March 21
The Helotes Hustle Global Awareness 5K run will begin Saturday, March 21, at 8 a.m. beginning at El Chaparral in Helotes.
Zion Lutheran hosts the annual 5k run/walk to raise funds for community outreach projects.
The funds support the church’s ongoing global missions in Central America, Africa and South
Texas.
Entry fees are $25 by March 10, $30 from March 10-20, and $35 Race Day March 21.
Sign up for the event at https://www.athleteguild.com/running/helotes-tx/2015-helotes-hustleglobal-awareness-5k.
Volunteers are also needed for the event. Contact Christina Lutz at 210-383-7212 or email
[email protected], or call Jim Meadows at 210-332-2632.
Chicken and dumplings fundraiser set March 21
An all you can eat chicken and dumplings fundraising meal will be served up Saturday, March
21, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Helotes Masonic Lodge at 11741 FM 1560 North located south
of Helotes.
The meal also comes with green beans, green salad and iced tea. Tickets are by donation at $8
for adults and $4 for children. Desserts are available for an additional charge.
There will also be a drawing for a Footprints in the Sand wall-hanging.
The fundraiser is conducted by Adah Chapter #49 of the Order of the Eastern Star. Proceeds
will benefit the Adah OES scholarship fund.
Sikh Family Day set March 21
In connection with the exhibit, “Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab,” the Institute of Texan Cultures
Saturday, March 21, will offer an exploration of Sikh heritage and culture in Texas through family
activities from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There will be photo opportunities for guests to put on traditional Sikh clothing and turbans.
Guests can join members of the Sikh community in dances, get their names written in Sikh script
and participate in other crafts and activities.
Admission to the grounds is $8 for adults and $6 for children. The ITC is located at 801 E. Cesar
E. Chavez Blvd., at the corner of Chavez and Tower of the Americas Way (formerly Durango and
Bowie). It is easiest to access from Southbound I-37, via the Chavez exit.
IlluMen returns to Zion March 21
The IlluMen, a professional men’s chorus, will present a spring concert at Zion Lutheran
Church Saturday, March 21, at 7 p.m. The title of the concert is, “New Directions.” This group
does a wide variety of music and has been well received in the past.
They are a all-professional choral group of men. IlluMen is truly extraordinary, as it is composed of vocal coaches, choir teachers, opera singers, and other musical professions.
Tickets will be on sale at the door. Ticket prices are $10 for adults, $5 for students and military;
children age 12 and under are free.
Learn more about IlluMen at www.illumensings.net.
Greater Helotes Ms. Pageant set for March 21
The Greater Helotes Ms. Pageant will be held at NW Vista Palmetto Center for the Arts Saturday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m.
The Palmetto Center is located on the campus of Northwest Vista College located at 3535 North
Ellison Drive in San Antonio.
married his high school sweetheart, Kathleen Purcell, on August 4, 1962. Married
for 52 years, they worked to care for and
provide for their six daughters. Beyond the
boundaries of home, Mr. Persyn worked for
his brother, Gerald Persyn, building custom
homes. He also worked for the City of San
Antonio as a nurseryman, utilizing his farming background to add beauty to the Sunken Gardens and other surrounding parks. In 1967, he began working for City Public
Service as a lineman. He eventually became a Supervisor of System Protection
where he designed and implemented safer procedures for testing and installing
electrical systems. After a thirty-five year career with CPS, he retired in 2002. He
was then employed by Power Engineering Services, Inc. as a Senior Field Services
Technician, with his final retirement from PES in 2013. Though he worked the “9to-5” for about forty-five years, he had many “side projects” that occupied his time
– adding a second story to the family home, designing and building a new family
home in Helotes (with the help of his family and friends), fishing the Gulf Coast,
planning the next “Extreme Camping Experience”, and helping out extended family
and friends. To those that knew him well, he was “Bigger than Life”. His intelligence,
Two members of the four-member Serendipity craft guild were at the the Northwest
Senior Center Rummage Sale March 14 at the Leon Valley Community Center. There’s
Angela, Dian, Gerry, and Marynell, but on March 14 it was Angela Rainwater and Dian
Coleman, both of San Antonio and the two of them were showing Dian’s items. She
had handmade ruffle scarves, collected buttons from her mother, and miscellaneous
collectibles. Angela usually has handbags for sale, but not today.
strength, love of family, Belgian work ethic, determination, and a desire to give his
best every day was an inspiration to anyone who knew him. He was preceded in
death by his daughter, Donna Persyn Clark, parents, brother, Gilbert Persyn, PhD.,
and sister, Josephine (Josie) Waddell. Leon Persyn is survived by his wife, Kathleen
Persyn, daughters, Denise Persyn Carr, Darla Persyn Harlos, DeeDee Persyn Balch,
Danette Persyn, M.D., Deborah Persyn, and son-in-law, David Clark; 11 grand-children, Luke, Bethany, and Paula Carr, Christopher Harlos, Lauren Balch, Natalie, Nathan, and Leon Clark, Hannah Hassoun, Brandon Breaux, and Jack Callaway. He
is also survived by his mother-in-law, Marie Purcell, brothers, Frank, Gerald, Don,
Richard, and Laurence Persyn; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Celebration of Life
SA Mayor to host open meeting March 25
San Antonio Mayor Ivy R. Taylor will host an “open office hours” meeting at the Igo Branch
Library Wednesday, March 25, from 5-6:30 p.m.
“Meet the Mayor: From Potholes to Policy” are community meetings that will be held in each
City Council district over the next few months. The public is invited to share comments, questions or concerns with the Mayor. The City’s representatives from the 311 Call Center will also
be available to submit any concerns or provide additional information regarding City services to
community members. A member of the Mayor’s staff will also be present.
The Igo Branch Library is in District 8 and is located at 13330 Kyle Seale Parkway, San Antonio. The phone number there is 210-207-9080.
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ECHO Pets & Outdoors
ers Association (www.cfa.org)
has a website with lots of good
information on the basics of
cat shows, like how to enter,
rules of competition, tips on
caring for and grooming your
cat, and a list of upcoming
events. The International Cat
Association (http://tica.org/) is
another good resource, with
lots of information and a robust show calendar.
It’s important to be sure
that George is up to the stress
of being shown. Is he a friendly, well-socialized cat who is
OK with being petted and
picked up by strangers? Can
he stay relaxed in a strange,
noisy environment near several other cats? Is he in good
health? Are his vaccinations
up to date?
Finally, attend one or two
cat shows near you, without
George, to see how they are
conducted and decide if you’d
like to make your cat a competitor.
Pet of the Week from Helotes Humane Society
Entering the
World of Cat
Shows
DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I
think I have the most beautiful cat, and I’d like to enter
him in a cat show to see if he’d
win. How can I get “George”
into a show? --Tracey B., via
email
Name: Buckley
Buckley’s
Story:
Breed: American Staffordshire
Terrier/Border Collie Mix
Gender: Male
Age: About 1-2 years old
Size: Large
Weight: 47 pounds
Coat: Short hair
Color: Black with white
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Notice of Public Hearing
The City of Helotes Planning and Zoning
Commission will hold a public hearing on April
7, 2015, 7:00 p.m., and the City of Helotes City
Council will hold a public hearing on April 9,
2015, 7:00 p.m., at City Hall Council Chambers,
12951 Bandera Rd, Helotes, TX to give all
interested persons the right to appear and be
heard on a request from First Choice ER, LLC
to vacate and re-plat an approximate 3.588
acre tract of real property located, generally,
at Cedar Trail and Bandera Rd, zoned Overlay
District (B3-OD), real property more particularly
described as CB 4478B Blk 19 Lot 1A Helotes
Crossing Com’l Sub’d. Visit www.helotes-tx.
gov to see a map of the subject property.
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CATS 120
CATTLE 230
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GARAGE/ESTATE SALE 300
AUCTIONS 310
FOR SALE 400
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Two riding mowers for sale
John Deere riding mower, Model D105 Auto
42-inch cut, 17.5 HP, $1,200. Model LA114
Hydrostatic trans. 42-inch cut, 19.5 HP, $1,400.
Low hours, well-maintained. No reasonable offer
refused. Call 210-734-2209.
Murray riding mower with rear bagger for sale.
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MISCELLANEOUS 490
DOGS 110
FARM & RANCH 200
LEASES 210
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Buckley is active and energetic. He would love to be your
constant companion. He loves
people! Buckley wants to play
with other dogs. He is doing
well with cats. He walks well
on a leash but tends to pull a
little, but he’s getting better.
He’s crate and house trained.
He loves to play with
squeaky toys and likes to fetch
(but not return) a ball. He
knows the sit command and
Retired Veteran. Texas
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friendship, movies, possibly dancing. race and age
open. If interested, please call 715-874-7172. Leave
name, number and a message for a return call.
A/C & Heat
Call Sam Longoria at 210.679.7447
HOMES FOR LEASE 630
Helotes Hideaway
Single dwelling cottage. One bedroom, living room
w/fireplace. Kitchen w/appliances. No smoking, no
pets. Firm. $750.00 plus deposit. One year lease.
Available early April. 210-884-2888
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advance. Additional about 4 acres & old 2 stall barn
available 900.00 month for both
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HOMES FOR SALE 640
RV/BOAT/TRAILERS 800
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Stephen Whitaker
San Antonio got to see
a different opponent in the
Spurs first game after the
Kyrie Irving show made a
stop in San Antonio last
thursday and laid 57 points
on the Alamo City hoops.
On Sunday the Spurs
welcomed a team living
at the opposite end of the
NBA standings when the
14-50 Minnesota Timberwolves came to town. The
Wolves were without six
of their players who were
battling injuries. As it was
the Wolves had only eight
players available.
“There’s not much to
say,” Minnesota Head
Coach Flip Saunders said
after the game. “You saw a
team that is on the verge of
trying to win a championship (against) a team that
is still trying to find their
identity.”
San Antonio had no body
injured before the game but
that changed during the
game as Manu Ginobili and
Aron Baynes had injuries
befall them in a game that
the Spurs won 123-97.
“He will be out a good
week, I’m sure,” Spurs
Head Coach Gregg Popovich said of the Ginobili. “A
week to 10 days.”
Before he went down Ginobili had scored 11 points.
He was part of a balanced
Spurs attack. Eight Spurs
finished in double-figures.
Kawhi Leonard had his run
of 20 point games ended
at six but he still led the
Spurs with 15 points to
go along with six rebounds
and 5 steals.
“Each game I go out
there with a focus of getting my game going defensively and letting it all fall
into place,” Leonard said
Spurs fall to Cleveland Cavaliers
in overtime as Kyrie Irving scores
57 points against San Antonio
Stephen Whitaker
The Spurs have had
some wild games in the
AT&T Center this season
but none come close to
the atmosphere or the action of the game between
San Antonio and the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers
on Thursday night. For
48 minutes the two teams
battled with the intensity
usually seen in a playoff
or NBA finals game. The
Spurs had a double-digit
lead slip away as the Cavaliers came back to force
overtime before winning
128-125.
The story of the night
might have been the battle
between the two teams but
one man stole the show and
scored more points than
anyone had before as an
opponent in San Antonio.
That player was Cavalier’s guard Kyrie Irving.
Irving finished with 57
points on the night which
tied a record for points by a
Kawhi Leonard drives to the hoop in the Spurs game
against MInnesota on March 15. The Spurs finished their
first home stand after the rodeo with a 5-1 record.
Photo Courtesy of San Antonio Spurs
of his second game with at
least five steals.
The other Spurs in double figures were Marco Belinelli (13 points), Danny
Green (13), Tiago Splitter
(12), Tony Parker (11), Tim
Duncan (10) and Cory Joseph (10).
San Antonio as a team
had 38 assists with Parker
leading in that category
with eight.
“We are getting to the
Spurs opponent set by Purvis Short in Golden State
back in 1984. Irving was
first to score 50 or more on
the Spurs in San Antonio.
“Everybody is gearing
up for playoff basketball, it
was a great test for us, I’m
glad we got the win,” Irving
said following the game.
Irving’s 57 was nearly
stopped at 46 points. Were
it not for Kawhi Leonard
missing two free throws in
the last five seconds the
Spurs would have pulled
out the win and Irving
might not have even attempted the three that
ended up tying the score
at 110 as regulation ended.
Despite the missed free
throws, Leonard pushed
his career-long streak of
20-point games to six with
24 points. That put him in
a tie for second among the
Spurs with Danny Green.
Tony Parker led the Spurs
with 31 points.
“It was a great game, a
lot of great performances,”
Tony Parker said. “If that
is what it takes to beat
us then we are in a great
place.”
Until the final few minutes of the game the Spurs
looked like they would pull
out their seventh straight
win and fifth straight at
home. But the Cavaliers,
namely Irving got hot down
the stretch.
Irving got 27 of his 57
points in the fourth quarter
and overtime as the Cavaliers scored three pointers
on eight straight possessions stretching from the
last 30 seconds of the fourth
quarter into overtime.
“Kyrie Irving was unstoppable,” Spurs Head
Coach Gregg Popovich said.
“He did a hell of a job. He
really went to a new level
tonight.”
It was a level that will
not be reached by a Spurs
opponent for a long time.
San Antonio Scorpions fall to Austin
Aztex 4-1 in inaugural Hill Country Derby
rhythm where we want to
be,” Duncan said of the assists. “We want to move
the ball, we want to play off
the pass, collapse defenses
and make shots.”
San Antonio definitely
made the shots on Sunday
evening. The Spurs were
58.3 percent overeall, 54.5
percent from three point
range and 86.7 percent
from the free throw line.
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is working on come, stay and
down. He is food motivated.
He rarely barks and when he
does, it’s an alert.
He enjoys rides in the car
and enjoys looking out the
windows. He needs a home
where he can be taken for long
walks or runs to release some
of his puppy energy.
He has been assessed by
our trainer and found to be
a good dog with service dog
potential. He’s just a bit too
young to be in such a program so now he is looking for
his permanent home. Since
Buckley is still young he needs
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Buckley was found as a
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his neck from an embedded
collar. Despite that, he was
affectionate and happy.
DEAR TRACEY: The first
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Read up on cat shows, how
they’re conducted, what breed
groups are typically shown,
what judges look for, and so
on.
Don’t worry if you’re not
sure of George’s breed: Many
shows have a “Household Pet
Class” that doesn’t have a specific breed standard.
Where’s the best place to
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To win and lose in the Alamo City
The San Antonio Rampage took on the Lake Erie Monsters last Friday and Saturday night
and earned a split of the weekend with a 4-0 loss on Friday and 5-2 win on Saturday.
Photo by: Stephen Whitaker
San Antonio Scorpion midfielder Rafael Castillo brings the ball up the field during a
friendly against the Austin Aztex in the first annual Hill Country Derby. Castillo scored
a goal in the 74th minute but by then the Aztex led 4-0 en route to a 4-1 win over the
defending NASL Champion Scorpions.
Photo by: Stephen Whitaker
San Antonio Rampage end weekend with split in two-night homestand against Lake Erie
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San Antonio entered as the
fourth place team at 34-195-1 (74 points) and were only
four points back of third place
Utica when the night began.
“It’s over with, we are forgetting about it and moving
on,” A frustrated Rampage
Head Coach Tom Rowe said
after the loss. “They played a
great road game, At this time
of year everybody should be
desperate and they are desperate to make the playoffs,
their whole team played a
great game.”
The Monsters scored their
first goal with some controversy near the end of the first
period. Ben Street shot the
puck into the back of the net
with one second left and it appeared to have gone in after
the horn had sounded marking the end of the period. The
referees huddled and reviewed
the video evidence and decided
that the goal would stand giv-
ing Lake Erie a 1-0 lead at the
first intermission.
San Antonio had their
chances as they outshot the
Monsters 31-30 on the night
but every single one of their
shots ended up clanking off
the pipes, going wide or being
saved by Monsters’ goalie Calvin Pickard.
Lake Erie added their second goal in the second period
on a shot by Ben Youds with
15:20 elapsed in the frame.
Street assisted along with Andrew Agozzino who had assisted the first goal as well.
Kenny Ryan and Trevor
Cheek would double the score
for Lake Erie in the third period as the visitors skated off
with the easy win.
“We had shots but we
just couldn’t get something
through,” Rampage winger
Mark Mancari said. “This
late in the season you got to
look at this game and build
on it, these are the games
that sit and really eat at you.
Guys were playing hard and
we were putting the puck (on
goal) but sometimes it doesn’t
come and those are the most
frustrating.”
The Rampage rebounded
from the loss to Lake Erie
by defeating the Monsters on
Saturday night by a score of
5-2.
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First Baptist Helotes
Dr. Clifton Perry has been
called to be the Senior Pastor of First Baptist ChurchHelotes. This follows the re-
tirement of Dr. Earl Belver.
Since Dr. Belver’s retirement, the interim pastor has
been Dr. Robert Gibbs. There
was overwhelming support
for Dr. Perry following fellowship and sermon March 1. Dr.
Perry will commence his ser-
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Dr. Perry is currently a
Southern Baptist Convention (North American Mission
Board) endorsed pastor to the
United States Air Force Chaplain Corps serving at Lackland
Air Force Base. In this capacity, he supports the spiritual
care, ethical leadership, and
religious freedoms for over
20,000 airmen serving at 70
locations around the world.
Dr. Perry began serving as
a chaplain in 1986 and has
pastored thousands of airmen,
supervised chapel staffs, and
directed hundreds of volunteers at 10 Air Force bases,
including 3 overseas locations.
Prior to entering the service he was the senior pastor
at Hillcrest Baptist Church
in Tuscola, IL, for two years.
He graduated from Southwest
Baptist Theological Seminary
with Doctor of Ministry and
Master of Divinity degrees,
and from Boston University with a Master of Sacred
Theology. His credentials
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of Professional Conservative
Chaplains, Prepare Enrich Instructor (premarital/marriage
counseling), Critical Incident
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and Life Coach Advisor/Mentor.
Pastor Perry is married
to Brenda and they live in
Helotes. They have four children and one grandchild.
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Smart electric meters are
coming to Helotes. The earliest you’ll see this change is
in 2016. That’s the word from
City Public Service, which
supplies electrical service to
Helotes.
The “Smart Grid Initiative”
is first a conversion from analog meters to a digital system.
The advantage for the consumer is the meters will tell
CPS when the power is out
and the advantage to CPS is
they will no longer have to
send people out to read the
meters, either physically or
with their drive-by truck system, Raiford Smith of CPS
Energy said at the March 12
Helotes City Council meeting.
With these new digital
system meters, CPS can turn
power on and off and consumers can find out their usage
online.
CPS already has 100,000
smart meters installed in the
San Antonio metropolitan
area and they expect to be
complete by 2018. However,
when work begins in Helotes,
it should be done in a few
months.
Now if a consumer doesn’t
want a smart meter, they can
keep their old meter but they’ll
have to pay a $20 monthly
charge to have someone come
out to read it.
As far as CPS employees
are concerned, there won’t
be a mass layoff, but rather
they’ll be repurposed. “There’s
plenty of activities for them to
move into,” Raiford said.
The cost of the new meters
is already built into the CPS
electrical rate charge, so bills
won’t go up because of the new
meters.
Some people have expressed concern that the new
meters are a radiation hazard
because they send out a signal. Raiford said you’d have
to stand next to a meter for
250 years to get the same
amount of radiation as you get
from using a cell phone for 15
minutes.
to try to get personal information. Or, even more
brazen, they set up fake
mobile clinics and entice
seniors to provide their
Medicare information.
* Reverse mortgage
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home equity to scammers or
even be conned into aiding
the scammers in stealing equity from a flipped property.
Beware reverse mortgages,
and don’t sign anything without expert advice. Be wary
of investment seminars, even
those hosted by churches.
* Funeral and cemetery
scams: Scammers read the
obituaries and pounce on the
spouse to try to collect money
that the deceased didn’t even
owe. Or, shady funeral-home
operators will try to pad the
bill.
* Telemarketing: Seniors
make twice the average number of purchases over the
phone, so we’re a handy target. Don’t buy anything from
anyone who calls you. If you
want something, make the
call yourself.
* Charity scams: Especially after a natural disaster,
the scammers are looking for
money. If you want to donate
to an organization, make the
call yourself.
Clip this column and share
it with your friends the next
time you get together. Maybe
you’ll keep one potential victim away from the scammers.
To read about more senior
scams, go online to www.fbi.
gov/scams-safety/fraud/seniors.
The 2015 Veterans Summer Sports Clinic is coming
up soon. According to a Department of Veterans Affairs
newsletter, all eligible veterans are being encouraged to
sign up and participate.
The clinic will be held Sept.
13-18 in San Diego and is
for veterans with traumatic
brain trauma, poly trauma,
loss of limb and spinal-cord
injuries. Call it rehab or call it
recreation therapy -- lives are
changed at these clinics
when injured veterans
learn new skills that
lead to a more active
lifestyle.
Sports and activities at the clinic will
include kayaking and
cycling (hand and tandem), track and field,
sailing and surfing. Locations
for the events include Mission
Bay Yacht Club, U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula
Vista, La Jolla Shores and
others. Even the accommodations sound posh: the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San
Diego.
The deadline to sign up
is May 1, 2015. See www.
summersportsclinic.va.gov
for more information and the
full application packet. (You’ll
need a medical exam, so don’t
forget that form.) Be sure to
get the checklist, because it
has to be sent in as well.
The webpage also includes
videos from previous events,
as well as a community-based
adaptive sports program directory, broken down by state
and city.
If the clinic isn’t for you
but you want to participate
in other adaptive sports, see
the 2015 national events
schedule at www.va.gov/adaptivesports. There are Golden
Age games for older veterans, creative arts festivals,
TEE (Training-Exposure-Experience) tournaments that
include kayaking, horseback
riding and other adaptive
sports workshops), wheelchair
games and valor games.
For adaptive sports clubs
around the country, including
Paralympic sports clubs, see
www.va.gov/adaptivesports/
va_clubFinder.asp and search
by state or ZIP code.
Also the meters can’t tell
what devices are on in your
house. It measures gross consumption of electricity.
In other action, the Helotes
City Council held a public
hearing at both their Feb. 26
and March 12 meetings on annexing four 20-30 acre parcels
south of the city and that are
generally along Galm Road.
The four parcels currently
do no have anyone living on
them. All four parcels are in
the city’s extra territorial jurisdiction.
No one spoke to the issue at
either meeting. The city is expected to annex the property
at their next meeting March
26.
In other action, the Helotes
City Council sent two resolu-
tions to the Texas Legislature
at their Feb. 26 council meeting.
One was to include General
Law cities in legislation that
allows cities to issue building
permits in their extra-territorial jurisdiction. That’s been
happening in Helotes for some
time. However, the Fourth
Court of Appeals has ruled
that only Home Rule cities can
issue permits in the ETJ.
The second resolution was
in opposition to proposed legislation that would lower the
maximum a city could raise
its tax rate from the current
eight percent to four percent.
Currently, if the city raises
the property tax rate to above
eight percent, citizens can petition to have an election to de-
cide to reduce that rate. Under
the proposed legislation, that
rate would be four percent,
making it easier for rollback
elections to happen, which
would make it harder for cities to raise their property tax
rate above four percent.
The council was unanimous
in its opposition to the proposed legislation.
Mayor Tom Schoolcraft
said this legislation could effect the revenue the city could
get in the future.
Councilperson
Cynthia
Massey said the state is trying to take away local control.
Councilperson Bert Buys
said the state is on a misguided attempt to control property
taxes.
Don’t be a Sucker
The FBI website has a list
of scams that are aimed at seniors. Many of these swindles
have been going on for years,
and the scammers still are
finding plenty of victims.
Why do they target seniors?
Because they think we have
money. Because they think
we won’t report the crime.
Because we were raised to
be polite to callers. Here are
some examples:
* Medicare and insurance
fraud: Scammers posing as
Medicare representatives call
Summer Sports
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Helotes Cornyval set April 30 to May 3 Brisket Shoot set to benefit Helotes
Festival Assoc. March 28
The 50th annual Cornyval
will be celebrated on the Festival Grounds at 12210 Leslie Road Thursday, April 30
through Sunday, May 3.
The event includes live
music, fun and games, food,
arts and crafts. There will
be plenty of entertainment
throughout the four days of
the festival.
The HFA Rodeo Committee
will celebrate its 27th year
anniversary with three PRCA
rodeo performances, Thursday
through Saturday. The HFA
PRCA Rodeo was honored in
2012 by the WPRA and named
“Small Rodeo of the Year” and
has received the “Justin Boots
Best Footing Award.”
Alamo Attractions will
present a full carnival midway, including thrilling rides,
a super ferris wheel, games
and amusements.
Twenty
dollar armbands, good for
hours of unlimited rides, will
be available Thursday and
Sunday. Special prices will be
available on Friday and Sat-
urday. Approximately 75 food
and craft booths will fill the
grounds with sights, sounds,
and smells that will wet your
appetite and fill your tummy.
Events and offerings will
include a corn-eating contest,
petting zoo, swimming/racing pigs, tropical birds, Ron
the Magician and Gator the
Clown.
Entertainment Thursday
will include The Countrymen
at 7 p.m. on Stage 1.
Enterainment Friday will
include “The Survivors” Darrell McCall, Tony Booth &
Curtis Potter at 8 p.m. on
Stage 1.
The River City Kings will
play on Stage 2 beginning at
7:30 p.m.
On Saturday, Aaron McDonnell will play on Stage 1
from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. The
Fire on the Mountain Cloggers will perform at 3:30 p.m.
Danny Acosta & Q-VO
Band will perform on Stage 1
from 4:30-8:30 p.m. followed
by “Moe Bandy and the American Band” with Kenny Orts
and No Chance from 9 p.m.
to 1 a.m.
The Corn Eating Contest
and Chicken Bingo will be
held from 2-3:30 p.m. on Stage
2. The Island Texas will play
from 3:30-7:30 p.m. The Meyer
Anderson Band will play from
8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
The Rebels of Texas will
play Stage 1 from noon to 8
p.m. The “rebels” include East
Texas Ramblers-Jason Allen
& Jody Booth with Tim Nichols; Gabe Garcia; and Mario
Flores & The Soda Creek
Band.
Stage 2 will host the Little
Miss Corn Silk Pageant from
noon until 3 pm. Then the
Hector Aguilar Band will play
from 3:30-7:30 p.m.
Gates will be open Thursday from 5-11 p.m., Friday
from 5 p.m. to midnight, Sat-
urday from noon to 1 a.m., and
Sunday from noon to 8 p.m.
Events in the family area
Saturday and Sunday include
the HEB Catfishing for Kids,
the Medicine Wagon & T-Bone
the Longhorn Steer, Diamond
W Gunslingers, Happy Tails
Animal Entertainment,
Helotes Non Profit Corn
Eating Contest, Swifty Swine
Pig Racing, Chicken Bingo,
T & D Aviary Bird Exhibit,
Jump Ropers, Signing Princess of San Antonio, Tractor
Town Peddle Power Tractors,
Gator the Clown, Magician
Ron Wilson, and Wade Henry
Unicycle.
Thursday night admission
is free and the carnival armband is $20 with the rodeo
being an additional $10. Friday and Saturday grounds admission is $10 with the rodeo
being an additional $10. Sunday admission is free and the
carnival armband is $20.
Visit: www.cornyval.org for
more information.
A brisket shoot will be
held Saturday, March 28, at
the gun range across from
Gavin Steel in Helotes located at 18593 Bandera Road.
The hours are noon until 5
p.m. It’s the Helotes Festival Association 2015 Kickoff
to Cornyval and PRCA Rodeo
Brisket Shoot.
The cost to shoot is $10
per target. Shooters will shoot
30 targets in a 10 shooters
at a time sequence. After 30
targets have been shot, a winner will be determined. Each
target will be a one-inch star.
The star that is cut out the
most will win. There will be
two designated judges and the
judges’ decision is final.
You can buy back in to
shoot again for another $10.
There will be a total of 20
brisket rounds.
Food and drink will be
available.
Safety is of the upmost concern. No alcoholic beverages
will be allowed in the shooting
area. No shooter may load a
gun until instructed by the
range manager. No shooter
will shoot until instructed by
the range manager.
Bring your own gun. However, you must shoot shells
provided by the sponsors. 12-,
20-, and .410 gauge shotgun
shells will be available.
Call David Gray at 21-3730012 for more information.
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Global Priority Security donates training equipment to AACOG’s Alamo Regional Law Enforcement Academy
AACOG’s Alamo Regional
Law Enforcement Academy
recently accepted a donation
of law enforcement training
equipment from Global Priority Security (GPS), a Zachry
Corporation subsidiary, and
entered into a new lease
agreement for the former GPS
training facilities, located at
12625 Wetmore Road, Suite
436, San Antonio.
The new 20,700 square foot
training facility will house the
Academy, as well as AACOG’s
Homeland Security, Regional
9-1-1, and Criminal Justice
Planning programs. The facility includes six classrooms, 13
offices, two reception areas, a
break room, three police training simulators, restrooms
with showers, storage space,
a gym-weight room, a closedcircuit camera system, a fully-furnished mock apartment
for scenario training, a mock
holding cell for tactics training, a mock police dispatch
operations center, a “sally
port” garage area for outdoor
and low-light scenario training, and parking spaces for 65
with the potential for more.
The training equipment is
state-of-the-art and is valued
at $1.2 million. Other office
items, facility improvements,
and the finish-out of the facility bring the total value of the
donation to more than $2.5
million.
“We were very honored
when GPS contacted us re-
garding the donation of this
high-tech training equipment.
The equipment will enable us
to increase the level of training we are able to provide and
to continue the training mission GPS initially set out to
provide in the Alamo region,”
Diane Rath, AACOG Executive Director, said.
“Zachry is encouraged that
AACOG views law enforcement training as a priority,
and that our vision of supporting law enforcement officers
with critical training will continue in our hometown community - with state of the art
technology at a state of the art
facility,” Tara Snowden, public affairs director for Zachry
Corporation, said.
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Major
Style
Prom
dresses
Although prom is a couple of
months away, it’s never too early to start
thinking about it. Not to mention you
have no idea how long it will take you to
find that perfect dress. It’s always better
to shop early than too late just incase you
can’t find what you want.
Of course there are a few things
that you need to consider while shopping.
For instance, the type of dress you want
to purchase. If you want a strapless dress
make sure it fits perfectly so you aren’t
constantly having to pull it up all night
while you’re on the dance floor. It might
be cute while taking pictures but having
one hand in the air like you just don’t
care and one hand on the dress might not
be as attractive. If you don’t want to have
to worry about that at all, find a dress
that’s not strapless. You’d be surprised
teen
with how cute some of those dresses could
be. Plus there will be more room for a
very cute top.
Speaking of fitting perfectly, also
remember that when you get the dress
altered it’s not to long or too short. You
want it where it’s just short enough that
you wont trip and can see part of your
amazingly cute shoes. You don’t want it
too long that you trip or too short that
the dress looks like it’s at an awkward
length.
It’s one thing to find the perfect
color but making sure the dress fits perfectly is just as important. Happy prom
dress shopping!
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Let’s get
ready for
summer
Alright so spring break just ended…
you know what that means right? Summer is
right around the corner! That means swimsuits, tanning, pool days, and beach vacations
are just around the horizon. Of course that
means you want to look your best and feel your
best when summer actually begins.
If you add what you eat with a simple
workout, you’ll feel your best even before summer time rolls around. If you aren’t sure how
your diet is start writing down everything
you’re eating. if there is a ton of junk food on
the list, start taking some of it out! put some
carrots in replace of those M&Ms.
As for the workout just got for a quick
run. Run about a mile to at least warm up your
body. Once you’re done, do and ab workout and
maybe an arm workout.
You don’t have to work yourself silly
to see results. It’s all about determination and
trying your best. Good luck and have fun!
Thank you, Friends & Neighbors!
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12377 Alta Tierra Helotes, Texas 78023
Fabulous custom built Home... beautifully maintained. Huge kitchen w/
numerous special cabinets..See size of Master...& Game Room... Storm
windows & doors..Open floor plan with lots of Light..... 2-CAR oversized
garage plus additional enclosure for your boat, trucks, etc.....County living
yet minutes away from 1604/!H-10, La Cantera, UTSA, Medical Center....
Must see this one! Dog Run, enclosed garden area, covered patio...
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$399,000
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10350 Bandera Rd. Old
Prue, Suite 300
(Town and Country Offices)
www.SanAntonioEars.com
210.695.2861
14239 OLD BANDERA, HELOTES, TX 78023
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bedroom makes the perfect office with its own private bath. Custom cabinets through out with many closets. Truly
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To schedule a private showing Call Jan Lares at 210.912.2276
3/3.5/2 plus Casita $699,900
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1.23 acres per BCAD, View Property,
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Helotes park Estates $97,500
1 Acre, Mature Trees, All utilities on site
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5/4.5/3 $535,000
Sonoma Ranch
2 Living Areas , Master Down
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3/3/2 Stillwater ranch $269,500
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3/2/2 Shady Meadows $149,900
Tile floors, open layout
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Bandera Rd
$90,000
Bandera Lot 4.57acres per BCAD
3/2.5/2 Mico, TX $345,000
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Hwy 1604 & Bandera Rd.
Inside HEB
13438 Bandera Rd . Sute 105A
Helotes, Tx
Hwy 281 & Evens
Inside HEB
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4126 Pond Hill Road Suite 200 San Antonio, TX. 78231
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