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June 9, 2010 Issue
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Last week, Barry Smitherman, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, asked the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to “thoroughly re-evaluate the need for the Gillespie to Newton transmission line” that has been proposed to carry wind energy generated in West Texas to population centers along the I35 corridor.
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The auditorium at Llano High School was packed with family and friends of 108 graduating seniors for the 2010 Commencement Exercises. Entering to the music of “Pomp and Circumstance,” the successful students were greeted with thunderous applause from administrators, teachers and the audience. A display of flowers at the podium honored the memory of classmate Kassie Mae Zavadil, who died in an accident two years ago.
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Hundreds of rodeo fans enjoyed the hugely successful Llano County Rodeo this past weekend. Ryan Feller, president of the Llano County Community Center Association, said final numbers were not yet available, but this year’s rodeo had “the best attendance in a long time.” The crowded bleachers and lines of people all around the arena backed up Feller’s appraisal.
“Cadillac Rodeo Company did a great job with the rodeo, and the stock was phenomenal,” Fe ...
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A team of historic preservation professionals toured Llano last week to assess the progress of Llano’s Main Street program. Led by Debra Farst, state coordinator for the Texas Historical Commission’s Texas Main Street Program, and including experts hired through a Main Street grant from the federal “Preserve America” initiative, the group evaluated many factors in a 24-hour visit and presented their initial findings at a public meeting Thursday evening.
While l ...
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Mayor Mike Reagor has issued a proclamation honoring one of Llano’s most illustrious citizens; this Thursday, June 10, has been declared “Darrell Staedtler Day,” and the public is invited to an “Evening with Darrell Staedtler” at 7 p.m. at the Fuel Coffee House on East Main Street, to be hosted by W.C.
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The 75th Annual Llano County Rodeo Parade celebrating this special anniversary year has successfully made its way through the streets of Llano, around the courthouse square, and into the history books. The 2010 Rodeo Parade on June 5th was sponsored by the Llano Chamber of Commerce, Ratliff Chevrolet, Texaco / Rusche Oil Company, and Town & Country / Stripes.
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Llano musicians Jenny Taylor and Manny Duarte helped provide entertainment following the annual Great Castell Kayak Race. This yearly event raises funds for Chemo Sabe, an outreach program seeking to benefit those afflicted with cancer. It also raises awareness of cancer prevention and treatment options. With the latter in mind, Aim at Melanoma had representatives available, providing information.
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Cheyenne LeJeune was crowned 2010 Llano County Rodeo Queen on Saturday night, June 5. Cheyenne, a graduate from Marble Falls High School, won the tickets sales, interview, and horsemanship. Cheyenne is the daughter of Gerney and Tracy LeJeune was sponsored by Tres Rios Silver and One Trick Pony in the Rodeo Queen competition.
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Voluntary water use restrictions are now in effect for residents and businesses within the City of Llano. The City enters stage 1 water conservation on June 1 of each year with a goal of reducing the amount of water used by 5%. Residents are encouraged to water on specified days, even number addresses on Thursday and Sunday, odd number addresses on Wednesday and Saturday.
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If you happen to notice hundreds of teen-agers committing “random acts of kindness” all around Llano this weekend (actually, from Saturday, June 12 to Friday, June 18), don’t be alarmed! It’s MPACT, a remarkable event in which young people pay for the privilege of showing God’s love through hard work.
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Lone Grove is one of the oldest communities in Llano County; it got its name from a grove of pecan trees between Dreary Hollow and the Little Llano River, about eight miles northeast of where the town of Llano would be built a few years later. John Coggin opened a stage stop and store there in 1852, and a short time later the Carter brothers (George, Doc and Ben) settled nearby.
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Darrell Royal once said—although he later claimed he was kidding a writer—that three things can happen when you throw a pass, and two of them are bad. His colleague, David Yeager, would have amended that, June 1. He would have said, “Four things can happen, and THREE are bad!”
7-on-7 was only about 10 minutes old at Marble Falls High School.
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He was fired from one of the most prestigious jobs in sports 14 months ago—he’s ready to go back to work. Billy Gillispie was in Horseshoe Bay, June 2, to address the recently-formed Sports Club. Gillispie, from 2002 to 2009, was the head basketball coach at UTEP, Texas A&M, and Kentucky.
“This past year I watched a lot of practices of NBA and college teams,” Gillispie told the Llano News, “and I attended high school games.
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There are Old-Timers’ games; there are reunions, in person and on TV; there are alumni gatherings, if you’ve been out of school from oh, say, three months to 100 years. And there are alumni games—baseball, softball, basketball, soccer (oh, not at Llano)—such fun, and there are also football contests between the old grads.
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The more important part of this story is next, but I thought if it were first you’d think no one but Blackie Sherrod could write anything better, so you’d skip the back half. What a shame that would be!
With that waste of time wasted, here we go. I think what’s really been overlooked in Armando Galarraga’s most perfect of non-perfect games ever is this: that play at first, the first hit instead of the 27th out, was close—I mean real close.
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