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GREEN WATER covers a large span of property
causing concern for local residents on Taylor Lane.
Service and Compassion from
a family that genuinely cares.
SYNCHRONICITY OF COLOR’ has brought many
accolades to Elgin artist Margo Sawyer, who may turn
the remnants of her fallen building into more for Elgin.
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American
were some
the naming of Texas
Poet Laureate Carmen
Tafolla of San Antonio,
the conclusion of our
lives we will no longer
be saying, ‘We must,’ we
will find solace in our
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in Elgin.
Thank A
Veteran
And A Military
Person Every
Day For Their
Service To
America!
Residents
raise concerns
before City
Council
CANDY ROQUEMORE, Randy Feuge, Jan
Feuge and friends warned traffic in Elm Creek
to slow down now that school’s out.
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The top two students
graduating with the
Class of 2015 Saturday
night both gave heart-
ful speeches to their
fellow classmates.
Valedictorian James
Stanesic implored his
class to not be closed-
minded and to question
everything.
He disdained today's
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in May, where she was
honored at both the Sen-
ate and House in the
State Capitol.
That honor included
See Birthdays, Page 3.
To add your birthday or a
friend’s birthday to the list,
please call the COURIER at
512-285-3333 or stop by 105
North Main Street.
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Jack and Rose Scott
Wilma and Clarence
Helgren
June 13
Gaylan and Sonja Dodd
June 15
Rev. August and Pauline
Hannemann
June 16
Wayne and Rhonda
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Mark and June Parfitt
June 17
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flow. I have had my
house leveled four times
in the last 15 years. It
needs to be cleaned up,”
said Nash.
“I am begging you all
to take a good look at
what’s going on down
there. People could lose
their lives - it’s not just
about water - it looks
like a jungle,” Freddie
Nash said to Elgin City
Council members last
Tuesday.
Nash was one of four
people who spoke re-
RECENT WEATHER
- From June 1 through 7,
the Elgin Cotton Oil Mill
recorded a high of 910 on
June 3 and a low of 640 on
June 1. No rainfall reported
for the week.
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• Property
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• Rentals
Coloring tragedy for best
By PATTY FINNEY
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achieve anything in
life," Stanesic said.
"If something does
not pass our fundamen-
tal rational filter, it
must either be dis-
missed or investigated
further, but most defi-
nitely not accepted and
promoted," he said.
garding the issues they
were having with flood-
ing. Nash lives in the 200
block of Kennedy Street
near a drainage ditch
that overflowed with the
recent barrage of rain.
“The drainage situa-
tion is nothing new. We
talked about this over in
the library years ago.
They came out and put
up yellow flags and then
they just sat around,”
said Nash. City Council
members addressed the
issue approximately 15
years ago, according to
Nash.
“They talked about
putting in a bridge and
instead put in two
drainage pipes that over-
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able justifications for
not being able to
George Prieto lives in
the same block.
“The drainage from
half of Elgin goes
through there. We were
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told as soon as the city
was done with the Sec-
ond Street project they
would start on drainage.
Brenham Street gets
flooded, too. We want to
get a culvert through
there,” said Prieto.
He added that just 2
inches of rain will flood
his house.
Planning and Zoning
Department Director
Gary Cooke estimated
the current drainage
channel, which is all on
private land, was built in
the mid-1908s.The chan-
nel reduced the 100-year
flood plain to a 25-year
flood plain, which helps
landowners with their
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hard-earned ability to
say that, ‘We did.’ Con-
grautlations Class of
2015," he concluded.
Stanesic attended
Elgin schools his whole
educational career and
has developed a wide
range of hobbies and
goals.
Stanesic’s first pas-
sion for the majority of
his life before high
school was baseball.
Baseball was an op-
portunity to develop
friendships and to es-
cape everything for a
couple of hours each
day. Most importantly,
his participation in ath-
letics in general has
See “GRADS”, Page 12
of the reasons he said,
"It is said that we are
the first American
generation to be given
a U.S. in worse shape
than our parents
had."
"If we strive to walk
amongst the kings, at
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excuses such as gender
inequality, ethnic mi-
nority discrimination,
and students not being
held to the same stan-
dard behavoir due to
ADD, ADHD or
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Turning tragedy into
beauty is the work of an
award-winning artist
who lives right here in
Elgin.
Margo Sawyer, a pro-
fessor of sculpture and
installation art at the
University of Texas at
Austin since 1988, suf-
fered through criticism
and adversity when her
building on Central Av-
enue collapsed in 2013
due to a storm.
She took the remnants
of the tragedy, such as
the bricks from Elgin,
and made what would
have become trash into
a sculpture exhibit ti-
tled “Reflect” that
showed at Umlauf
Sculpture Garden and
Museum in Austin for
about three months dur-
ing the spring of 2014.
Her most recent ac-
knowledgements in-
clude being named the
2015 State Three-Di-
mensional Visual Artist
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