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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Thursday, July 27,1995
Issues & Opinions
City Manager
seeks initiators
for youth clubs
Dear Editor:
The City of Bastrop has been
approached regarding the
possible creation of a Boy's &
Girl's Club of America
organization in Bastrop. The
purpose of the Boy's & Girl's
Club is to provide a positive
place for kids to go that offers
all kinds of recreational,
instructional and social
activities. ,
Trained workers provide
guidance in helping boys and
girls to, for example, discover
their needs, enjoy their interests,
nurture their talents and set their
goals. The Boy's and Girl's Club
is for all boys "^nd girls and
assures that all children can
afford to belong.
The first step toward forming
this type of club is to hold a
meeting of those individuals
interested in the formation of a
Boy’s & Girl s Club. The need
for such an organization in the
Bastrop community will be
determined and guidelines will
be provided for how to proceed.
A steering committee will be
formed to handle preliminary
organization work.
If you are interested : *
learning more about the Boy's &
Girl’s Clubs of America, or if
you are willing to serve on the
steering committee, please
contact City Manager Michael
Talbot at 321-0329 prior to
Friday, August 11. Your name
will be added to the meeting list
and discussed at a future city
council meeting.
Thc£ establishment of a Boy's
& Girl's Club usually starts with
one ' or two interested
individuals who initiate the idea
and interest others. The first
step for our youth may be taken
by you!
Michael Talbot
City Manager
Kolache baker
sought by fan
Dear Editor:
I know you are not Elbe
Rucker but I am hoping that you
will publish this letter so I can
find someone. About a year ago,
Kolaches-R-Us went out of
business. They were located in a
small shop right before the
bridge.
The daughter baked the best
kolaches. I am interested in
buying some more of those
kolaches.
My home phone number is
512-247-5651 if someone could
let me know if she is still selling
kolaches and where.
Thanks
Kay Penny
Del Valle
iTIic Editor's
Mother takes up for daughter
Dear Editor:
I, too, read Mrs.
Witherspoon's letter and I was
glad to see a parent stand up for
their rights. I didn't feel the
letter blamed the school for her
children’s behavior. Instead, she
addressed the injustice of the
way the punishment was
handled.
Ms. Walter had no right to
question the way Mrs.
Witherspoon raises her children.
She has no idea how they are
raised, nor does she know Mrs.
Witherspoon or the
Witherspoon family.
As for "popping"" out kids
for no reason, I found this to be
a totally appalling statement.
Ms. Walter obviously read
another letter, because she
seemed to have missed the point
and meaning of the letter she
read.
All of us have lost our
parental rights in one way or
another. Mrs. Witherspoon is a
working mother who has
supported her children, gotten
involved with their teachers and
tried to head off potential
behavior problems. She wants
the best for her children and
cares about their education.
Mrs. Witherspoon realizes how
hard teaching can be and
respects teachers for die job
they do. Her grandmother was a
teacher for 25 years in the
California school system and
she admired her a great deal. It
is not the business of Ms.
Walter to pass judgment on
another person, that is in the
hands of a higher power.
The federal government has
passed a mandatory course for
all the school districts and
police force to take part in, so
the .rising violence can be
addressed. If society wants to
continue to cover a growing
problem, it will only get worse.
The school has a responsibility
to our children as they have
them more out of a day than we
do. If Ms. Walter is one of the
fortunate parents who can be
home all day and not have to
work, my hat's off to her. I hope
and pray her children will make
it through school without ever
getting into trouble.
Not only did the State of
California pass a mandate
workshop, it was also passed
nationwide. The CounterAct
Program gets the school
officials, parents, and police
together to address the violence
in our schools. They learn how
to respond to trouble rather than
react This mandate legislation
includes The Safe and Drug
Free School and Communities
Act IV of the Improving
America's School Act If
Bastrop isn't aware of this
program, they can contact the
Hazelden Organization for more
information.
It is unfortunate that the
children involved in the
Witherspoon incident couldn't
have been the recipients of the
training that the Federal
Government Act IV has
mandated. The need to educate
and train everyone should be
first on our list. Our children are
precious gifts and they are the
future of the human race.
As we learn through our
children, from their
misbehavior, we often see our
own mistakes. As I stated
earlier, it is not the business of
Ms. Walter to pass judgment on
another person. I personally
know Mrs. Witherspoon, what
kind of wife she is, what kind of
mother she is and what kind of
woman she is. After all, she is
my daughter.
May God Bless You in every
way.
Sincerely
Robin Wax
Sunland, CA
FCC accepting input for programming
BISD changes
meeting time
The regular meeting of the
Bastrop Independent School
District board will now start at 7
p.m.
The board has changed its
regularly scheduled meeting
time to 7 f).m. on the third
Tuesday of every month.
The August meeting has been
rescheduled to 7 p.m. Aug. 22.
Literacy Volunteers
of America
To leant to read or
rohmteer to help someone
learn to read
Call 321-6686
Surveys have shown that
children under the age of 18
spend thousands of hours each
year glued to their television
sets. Children as young as two
watch TV more than 23 hours a
wejek, a figure that remains
amazingly consistent until they
turn 17.
Some experts now say many
infants are propped in front of
the TV to be dazzled by the
sight and sound.
Federal Communications
Commission, the government
agency that regulates the
television industry, is studying
ways to ensure that an adequate
supply of education and
informational television
programming is available to
children. The FCC also is
asking that this programming be
clearly identified for children,
their parents and care givers.
From now until September 14
the FCC will be receiving
comments and suggestions and
will consider adofttng new rules
to improve children's TV
programming. The pate to reply
to comments was extended to
October 16.
There will be many
comments from the
broadcasters, from the people
who produce the programs,
from lawyers and from
professional children's
advocates. But the Commission
would also like to get comments
from kids, their parents and care
givers.
Because it found that
broadcasters were not providing
enough educational
programming for children,
Congress in 1990 enacted the
Children's Television Act to
ensure such programming was
available. The FCC was charged
with overseeing this effort
Based on the results an FCC
1993 inquiry and a 1994 hearing
on the effectiveness of its
children's television
programming regulations, the
FCC proposed to make changes
to assure that broadcast station
license holders comply with the
Children Television Act and to
implement the Act more
effectively.
In developing the proposed
changes, the Commission has
followed three principles: (1)
judgements about the quality of
programming, educational or
otherwise, are best made by
audiences, not the federal
government; (2) the
Commission's rules must be
dear, simple and fair; and (3)
broadcasters should be guided
by market forces, in
determining whether they meet
viheir programming obligations.
Specific proposals suggest
that stations identify programs
as educational and informational
at the time they are aired and
provide identifying information
to publishers of programming
guides.
Stations would publicize the
availability of their children's
programming, perhaps by
announcing their existence and
air time.
So-kids and parents-sit
down at your kitchen table, at
your desk, on the floor,
wherever you are comfortable,
and let the FCC know what’s
right about the way educational
programs come into your home,
if there's enough available,
what's wrong with it, and how it
should be identified so you'll
know when to tune in.
Comments to: Federal
Communications Commission
Office of the Secretary
1919MSL, NW
Washington,DC 20554“
Also, so the FCC will know
what you're sending comments
about, please write "MM
Docket 93-48" on the first page.
Readers seeking more
information can obtain the 50-
page Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking via internet by
anonymous ftp (either .txt or
.wp) from pufa/Bureaus/Mass
Medi ^Notices/ FCC954143.
UNEASY
CHAIR
By Davis Me Ah Icy
County, city face
financial pitfalls
Bastrop County commissioners are struggling
with an ugly set of developments as they work
on a budget for the coming year. Put simply, the
need for law enforcement, roads and other costly
services continues to grow with the county's
population. But a major revenue source-an
overabundance of non-county jail inmates-ap-
pears threatened.
Officials worry that with the state clearing out
its prison-bound felons, jail revenue this year
will fall short of expectations and could account
for as much as $500,000 less spendable cash in
the year which begins October 1.
Sheriff Fred Hoskins says he's busy boosting
the number of inmates from federal agencies and
looking for additional prisoners from outside
Texas. But clearly he's reluctant to promise to
deliver the kind of revenue stream die jail has
produced in previous years.
Should general fond revenue fall by
$500,000, commissioners will be hard pressed
either to cut spending by that much or to find
that much new money from any other source.
But commissioners are not alone in being
forced to face unpleasant realities. Perhaps the
Bastrop City Council will be the next to go eye-
ball to eyeball with a financial and political
dilemma
There seems little hope the council can make
a new budget without a hard look at the state of
the city's water and sewer system. On the coun-
cil dais, perhaps the only thing less popular than
adding to the city staff is raising water and
sewer rates.
But the dilemma is this: either the rates must
rise or the city must give up hope for doing
much more than patching up the most serious
breaks. That is, no more upgrading rotten, an-
cient lines so they'll deliver enough water, no
more added fire hydrants and so forth. You get
the picture.
For some years now, the city has largely fi-
nanced such improvements with revenue bond
money. But that well is now dry, and bond pay-
ments now equal almost a third of the city's wa-
ter and sewer revenue each year.
That means almost nothing left over, beyond
minimal maintenance and repair, to fix decaying
parts of the system before they collapse utterly.
It's not an attractive choice: raise rates or
neglect basic sectors of the city's infrastructure.
But we elect councils to make just such hard
choices wisely.
Pastrrrp JVbfrertiser
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