April 21, 2010

Monday night’s school board included honors for state Color Guard competitors and a number of routine business items, but the main event was a spirited continuation of the debate on the CSCOPE curriculum. The meeting opened with a presentation to Felicia Patterson (who took first place in the state color guard Rifle Solo competition) and Gwen Popejoy, who placed second in Sabre Solo).

Just when you thought it was safe to tuck that voter registration card back into your wallet, another round of participatory democracy is launching for Llano County voters. Early voting begins Monday, April 26 in four Llano County elections. Three of the seven positions on the Llano Independent School District Board of Trustees are up for election this year, but only one position has a contested race.

Mayor Mike Reagor opened the city council meeting Monday night with a proclamation designating May 7 & 8 as “Relay for Life Days” in Llano. The city has a team organized to participate in the event, which raises money for cancer research, and encourages all interested citizens to participate in this year’s relay.

Feral hogs are becoming more and more of a problem in Llano County and surrounding counties. Are you tired of fixing fences, replanting fields, repairing water troughs, losing baby calves, fawns, lambs, and kids? Experts say that to control the hog population, 70% have to be harvested each year. To my knowledge, we are not making that mark, so the hog population is growing out of control.

The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) in Washington, D.C., is planning to bring a group of approximately 20 state policymakers to Austin on May 10-11, 2010, for a fact-finding trip focusing on Promoting College and Career-readiness for English Language Learners (ELL). The AYPF is a nonprofit organization that provides professional development and learning opportunities for policymakers at the state and federal levels on issues related to education, workforce development, and youth de ...

The Llano High School Yellow Jacket Symphonic Band completed the 2009-2010 UIL competition year by earning its twenty-second consecutive UIL Sweepstakes Award at the Region VII Concert and Sight-Reading Contest. The Llano Bands and Band Boosters hosted 33 high school and junior high bands during the two-day competition on April 14 and 15.

Yes, yes, the distance guys each won a gold and a silver at the 8-3A District Track Meet, April 14-15, and we’ve got plenty to say about them, but let’s catch up with the speedsters, who aren’t so easy to catch up with. Charlie Durham, who figures his glove and bat might slow him down, left those in the car, and he motored his way past Burnet’s Joe Brown on the anchor leg of the 4x200-meter relay.

The search is almost over for one Llano High School basketball coach, while questions are outnumbering answers for another. The Llano News has learned that the committee, headed by athletic director David Yeager, has interviewed nine of about 50 applicants for Shannon Taylor’s job. Taylor was reassigned recently, which translates to, he can return as biology teacher and freshman football coach, but he won’t be back as head coach of the varsity basketball team.

“Rain, rain, don’t go away,” was the cry of Llano’s Terry Wootan and trainer Heath Reed, April 17, in Oklahoma City. Wootan’s quarter horse, Llano Teller, gave no quarter in a sensational duel at the wire and won the $596,000 Remington Park Futurity. The two-year-old Teller, it turns out, is quite a mudder, so soften the track as much as you like.

This past week Llano High School hosted 34 area high school and middle school bands for Contest and Sight reading. Each band plays three songs they have practiced, and then plays a new piece of music they haven’t seen before. The bands are rated on how well they play in both sections of the contest. The Llano Varsity Band got Sweepstakes by obtaining a 1 from all three judges in contest and three judges in sight reading.

U8 Kyle Hawkins coaching the blue team won 3-0 against Shannon Wootan’s green team. The blue team’s MVP was Izzy #6, Sportsman: Kenneth Perry #1. Green MVP: Makenzie Woolson #6 Sportsman: Tanner Inge #8 U12 Rosie Valdez coaching Green won 3-0 over Aaron Hogan’s Yellow. Green MVP: Diego Garcia Sportsman: Sydney Owen U14/16 Black team won 5-1 over Orange. Black MV ...

Olivia Hutto had 50 meters to turn a bad 50 meters into a dash to Lubbock. Allie Rostron ran the 200 of her life, and Amanda Lopez posted her best-ever in the 400. A couple of throwers, not built like throwers, tossed their metals into the region ring, and all of the aforementioned emerged from the 8-3A District Track and Field Meet with credentials to take the next step or steps.

It almost didn’t seem like a track meet. It was like one youngster went to one house, another to the next-door neighbor, and they rounded up guys to run and jump and throw against each other. Not that this is done very often, but three-team meets aren’t the norm, either. Here they were, though: Llano and Fredericksburg knocked on Marble Falls’ door and said, “We’re here to play a little track—in your yard, okay?” Okay. Cara Mack opened ...

This is the time to peak, coaches say, and fans are smart enough to add, “Well, sure, it’s almost playoffs, get it in gear!” All well and good, to use an old-timer’s phrase, which is fine, because an old-timer is using it. There’s a minor problem on the horizon: the Lady Jacket softball team is plunging, not peaking; amazingly, postseason is still a possibility, but right now democratic congressmen seem to have a brighter future. The trouble began ...

“My name is John, and I am a photoholic.” I’ve never actually been to a meeting of Photoholics Anonymous, but that’s pretty much the way I “picture” it (a little photoholic humor there!). My problem is, that after twelve years of taking pictures almost everywhere I go, I just can’t seem to help myself; in fact, taking pictures has become almost a way to justify my existence (or at least to justify my presence anywhere I go), and the low-cost convenie ...

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS–R2–ES–2010–N017; 20124–1112– 0000–F2] Lower Colorado River Authority Transmission Services Corporation; Construction, Operation, Maintenance, and Repair of Competitive Renewable Energy Zone Transmission Lines and Related Facilities AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,Interior. ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a draft ...

On April 5, 2010, an application was filed with the Federal Communications Commission for consent to the assignment of license of FM radio station KAJZ, 96.3 MHz, Llano, Texas, from Rawhide Radio, LLC to Bryan King. Assignor Rawhide Radio, LLC is an indirect subsidiary of Broadcast Media Partners Inc., the ultimate parent of Univision Communications Inc.

Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary for the Estate of Rachael Husted Fillmore, Deceased, were issued on April 15, 2010 in Cause No. 06524 pending in the County Court of Llano County, Texas to David Henry Fillmore, Jr. David Henry Fillmore, Jr., Indenpendent Executor of the Estate of Rachael Husted Fillmore, has chosen that all claims be addressed in care of his attorney, JOHN H.

CITY OF HORSESHOE BAY, TEXAS PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The City of Horseshoe Bay Planning & Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing at a Special Meeting on a recommendation to City Council for amending Chapter 14 Zoning Section 14.02.002 of the City Code to establish definitions for boat dock, boat slip and day dock, and amend the definition for boat house, and to delete Section 14.02.402 (b) (14) regarding boat houses, and amending S ...

CITY OF HORSESHOE BAY, TEXAS PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The City of Horseshoe Bay Planning & Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing at a Special Meeting on a recommendation to City Council for an amendment of the Zoning Map for Zone 4A Horseshoe Bay Proper, Lot No.

Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of ANN DECKER, Deceased were issued on March 29, 2010, on Cause No. 06,506, pending in the County Court of Llano County, Texas, to BETTE DECKER FEMENELLA, as Independent Executrix. Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the Estate as follows: Representative, Estate of ANN DECKER Yates Law Firm A Professional Corporation Attorneys at Law P.O.

NO. 06,526 ESTATE OF DOROTHY FAWNETTE PIKE INGRAM, DECEASED COUNTY COURT OF LLANO COUNTY,TEXAS NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Dorothy Fawnette Pike Ingram, Deceased were issued on April 16, 2010, in Cause No. 06,526, pending in the County Court of Llano County, Texas, to Pamela F.

NO. 06,520 ESTATE OF DEAN E. STEELE , DECEASED COUNTY COURT OF LLANO COUNTY,TEXAS NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Dean E. Steele, Deceased were issued on April 16, 2010, in Cause No. 06,520, pending in the County Court of Llano County, Texas, to Mary A.

NO. 06529 ESTATE OF JEWELL BRADY LANDES, DECEASED IN COUNTY COURT OF LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Jewell Brady Landes, were issued on April 15, 2010, under Docket No. 06529, pending in the County Court of Llano, Texas to Spencer Harlan Landes. Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the Estate addressed as follows: Spencer Harlan Landes

ORDINANCE NO. 1157 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LLANO , TEXAS . AMENDING SECTION 38-9. MUNICIPAL COURT CLERK CITY OF LLANO MUNICIPAL CODE PROVIDING THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF A CITY COUNCIL APPOINTED MUNICIPAL COURT CLERK, THE CITY SECRETARY SHALL BE EX OFFICIO CLERK OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT AND SHALL PERFORM SUCH DUTIES AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY LAW AND ORDINANCE. Passed and approved this the 19th day of April, 2010. s/Mike Reagor, Mayor, ...

A public hearing will be held on May 10, 2010 at Llano County Commissioner’s Court to place a stop sign at the corner of Cottonwood and Woodforest in Kingsland Texas.

A public hearing will be held on May 10, 2010 at Llano County Commissioner’s Court to place a stop sign at the corner of Lovers Ln and Reeder Rd. in Kingsland, Texas.

There will be a Public Hearing on May 25th 2010 at Llano County Commissioner’s Court to place 35mph speed limit signs on Glass Rd in Kingsland, Texas.

There will be a public hearing at the regularly scheduled Llano County Commsioners court meeting on April 26, 2010 concerning the replat of lots 200 and 201 in Comanche Rancherias Subdivision in Llano County.

The owners of Lot 316, a 40' x 25' tract and a 25' x 37' tract, Lakeside Heights Unit 2, will submit a replat of the said property to be known as Lot 316A, Lakeside Heights Unit 2 in a regularly scheduled Commissioners Court meeting on May 17, 2010.

THE STATE OF TEXAS THE STATE OF TEXAS: To all unknown heirs of the Estate of MINNIE MOZELLE WIMBERLEY, Deceased Cause No. 06536 You and each of you are hereby cited, required and commanded to appear before the County Court of Llano County, Texas, to be held in the County Courtroom in the Courthouse of said County in the City of Llano in said County, such appearance to be at or before ten o’clock A.M.

Eunice Argretta “Gretta” Lucas 92 years died at her residence in Kingsland on April 15, 2010. A native of Middleport, Ohio, born July 30, 1017 to Clarence and Rilla Hudson Stephenson. Following her schooling she had resided in Tipp City, Ohio. She was married to John “Herb” Lucas on March 18, 1950 in Dayton, Ohio.

Eva Louise Lance, 68 years of age died at her residence in Kingsland on April 14, 2010. A native of McAllen she was born September 10th, 1941 to Howard B. and Geneva Polk Courtney. Eva worked in the Music business for several years. Survivors include sons and daughters-in-law: Kenneth and Dedra Lance of Willis; Steve and Angela Lance of Kingsland; grandchildren: Carlene, Natasha, Alison and Melissa; sister and brother-in-law: Betty and LeRoy Howard; brother: Howard B.

Marcos Limon, Sr., 83 years of age died at his residence in Kingsland on April 16, 2010. He was a native of Weslaco; son of Apolonio and Anita Gonzalez Limon born on April 27, 1926. He had been a farm laborer for many years and had been a resident of Kingsland since 1982.

The old “Red Top Jail” is one of Llano’s greatest historic treasures, and one of the most dramatic remaining evidences of the boom town that exploded out of the “wild, wild west” in the early 1890s. But to Crime Stoppers Coordinator Janie Prew, the Llano County Jail was also a wedding chapel, a workplace and a home. Janie married Ken Rhoades, whose sister and brother-in-law (Ben and Betty Graham) were the jailers, in 1970.

A week before the grand reopening of the newly and extensively renovated Albert Dance Hall, the Texas-born Easley family, which purchased the historical Hill Country hamlet last fall, has invited locals to bring their branding irons to a party to make their marks on the new bar in the 88-year-old structure. Doors open at 5:00pm Saturday, May 1, to those who want to burn their brand into the bar in the Dance Hall, which has been sided with unfinished cedar, updated with sound, lights, ...

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Llano County will hold a garage sale on April 24, 2010 from 8am-2pm at Mom’s Cafe 910 W. Young. Rain or shine! All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society. Purchase your Luminaria for only $5.00 In Memory or In Honor of those who have battled with Cancer. Come join us on May 7th and 8th at the Llano Jr.

Llano County has been represented well this spring at the major shows across the State of Texas this year. There were a number of Llano County youth that participated in the major livestock show. They worked tirelessly and had a very successful year. The shows started at Kerrville, then ran through Fort Worth, San Antonio, San Angelo, Houston, and ended up in Austin.

The Llano Livestock team won the District Championship and was second in area at the Area IV livestock contest held at Texas A&M University in College Station on April 10th. Individually, Sterling Jameson was 3rd, Taylor Osbourn was 4th, Vance Bauer was 16th and Clay Tarter was 54th. The second place finish at area qualifies the team for the Sate Livestock Contest on Saturday, April 24th in College Station.

On the banks of the San Antonio River is a house museum which offers a step back in time to an era of elegance and grace. Members and guests of the Llano Woman’s Culture Club toured the Steves Homestead in the King William District of San Antonio. This lavishly furnished three-story mansion was built in 1876 by Edward Steves, founder of the Steves Lumber Company, a family owned-business that still flourishes today.

Kevin Higgins, multi award-winning singer-songwriter and founding member of the popular Texas band, The Dust Devils, will be performing at Fuel Coffee, 106 E. Main Street in Llano on Tuesday, April 27 at 7pm, along with wife/bandmate Barbara Malteze, and reknown bassist John Gammill. Higgins, a previous New Folk finalist at the 2000 Kerrville Folk Festival, is celebrating the release of his recent CD, Find Your Shine, which is enjoying international critical acclaim from music journal ...

Grill Day was enjoyed on Wednesday at the Llano Senior Center. Our Sponsors Miillers Meats, Super S, HEB and Porky Wesley Franks are very much appreciated. Thank you to all who made it such a special day and to Corrine Fowler, Doris Rainwater, Curt Brumm, Mary Jane Smith, and Ruby Irene Fullmer. Call and sign up for the free “Balance Classes” beginning this month, sponsored through Area Agency on Aging CAPCOG, who will send two coaches from Austin to conduct the fun ...

The reservation deadline is fast approaching for this year’s Survivor Dinner, honoring cancer survivors. Hosted by the Relay For Life of Llano County event committee and the American Cancer Society, the event will be held at the Dabbs Hotel on May 4, 2010, beginning at 6 p.m. Llaneaux Seafood House and Cooper’s Barbecue are providing food for this year’s dinner.

The South Llano Watershed Alliance, in partnership with the Nueces River Authority, will hold a Riparian Workshop on May 3rd at the Texas Tech University Center in Junction. This free workshop will run from 8am to 4pm; lunch will be provided. “We are very fortunate that the Nueces River Authority has graciously allowed the South Llano Watershed Alliance to host one of their highly regarded workshops on the South Llano,” said Scott Richardson, Alliance board member.