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Volume 54, No. 11
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Oct. 17, 2013-75C
More game room regulations discussed
By Tim Delaney
County Press Editor
WOODSBORO - The Woodsboro
City Council reviewed proposed amend-
ments to the city’s ordinance regulating
game rooms Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Proposed amendments include
a 1,500-foot distance between game
rooms.
Currently, game rooms abut each
other, and those game rooms would be
grandfathered in. However, if they let
their permits lapse or cease business,
the new regulation once passed would
be enforced.
Another proposal was requiring no
locked doors.
City Secretary Ruby DeLaGarza said
the “no locked doors” proposal is a fire
safety concern, especially during the
game rooms’ operating hours.
Another proposed amendment would
require game rooms to clearly display
their address and name of business.
The council also is considering
increasing the distance a game room
can be from churches, schools and day
care businesses from 300 to 500 feet.
Still another proposal is to require
(See Game rooms, 3A)
Tim Delaney photo
Game rooms line the north side of Woodsboro's town square on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Proposed
amendments to the game room ordinance would prohibit future establishments to be next to each
other if approved.
Woman,
By Tim Delaney
County Press Editor
REFUGIO - Many
TV fans won’t remem-
ber the 1950s series
“Sergeant Preston of
the Yukon” because the
show was a long time
ago.
The character, Sgt.
Preston, was a member
of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, and he,
his horse Rex and his
dog King, always got
their man.
As kids back then,
we loved the defenders
of the law, the mount-
ed police we called
“Mounties.” These
Mounties - in their
bright red tunics, mid-
night blue pants, and
their campaign hats -
sat atop beautiful hors-
es and totally captured
our imaginations.
But kids back then
weren’t the only ones
who were impressed
with Mounties.
Law enforcement in
the United States and
other countries watched
the Mounties, those
extraordinary individu-
als who brought law
and order to the vast
western territories of
Canada - a job that
seemed impossible on
foot or in a vehicle.
Stories of high values,
heroism and guarding
the law became synony-
mous with Mounties.
Soon, mounted police
units began springing
up all over the world.
Today, mounted
police can be found in
different “vast territo-
ries” known as munici-
palities.
In Texas, mounted
police units are estab-
lished in Austin, Fort
Worth, Houston,
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horse become mounted police unit
Lisa Brown photo
Teresa Lucich stands by her horse, Lady. Lucich and Lady trained with the Dallas Mounted
Police, and she is one of two mounted police officers in Corpus Christi. She and her husband,
Ron, live on their ranch in northern Refugio County.
Lubbock and Dallas.
The latter is where
Teresa Lucich of
Refugio trained seven
weeks to be one of
two mounted police in
Corpus Christi’s first
ever mounted police
unit.
The mounted police
unit in Corpus Christi is
the city’s first such unit.
Lucich, who lives on
a ranch in northern
Refugio County with
her husband Ron, who
owns Tejas Barbecue
in Refugio, said her
mounted police train-
ing was from July 22
through Aug. 30.
She was already a
police officer with the
Corpus Christi Police
Department.
“The training
was with the Dallas
Mounted Patrol in Fair
Park, behind the Cotton
Bowl,” she said.
“It was roughly four
hours of bareback,” she
added.
Riding bareback, she
went through an obsta-
cle course - first at a
trot and then at a can-
ter.
“What we went
through was the same
training as the Dallas
Mounted Police,” she
said.
At first, Lucich
trained on draft cross
horses, which are bigger
horses. She said riding
on them was rough on
the back and behind.
“I just got bad blis-
ters on my hands. I had
to really rein him in to
tuck his head,” she said.
Every day at 6 a.m.,
Lucich and other train-
ees would get up and
work with the horses
till 2 p.m. Then they
would groom the horse,
wash and walk them
to dry them, feed them
and put them up.
The training, she said,
was preparing rider and
horse for athletic move-
ment.
“It’s not western rid-
ing where they learned
this from - it was from
the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. It’s
more like dressage,” she
said.
Lucich said they had
helpers who would
clean the stalls.
After bareback train-
ing ended, Lucich rode
her horse, Lady, for the
final two weeks, includ-
ing a seventh week of
field training.
Lady, a quarter horse,
endured fireworks,
bales of hay on fire and
billowing smoke.
“We did different
things to where our
horses wouldn’t react,
plus we shot a gun
while mounted - blanks
- to the right and to the
left,” she said.
“My horse did really
well. She’s pretty calm.
The trainers were sur-
prised,” Lucich added.
The last part of
the training involved
maneuvers to hone the
muscle memory of rider
and horse.
Lucich said sud-
den movements then
become more instinctive
for the horse and rider.
The training ended
with a written test and
riding exam.
The written test
had 59 questions, and
(See Mountie, 3A)
Herring
places
second
By Tim Delaney
County Press Editor
REFUGIO-Refugio High
School head coach Jason
Herring came in second
among eight Texas coaches
selected by USAToday to be
a candidate for best high
school coach in Texas.
Herring’s votes in round
one totaled 21,526. He was
outvoted by Phil Danaher,
head coach at Corpus
Christi Calallen, who gar-
nered 38,856 votes.
Danaher will advance to
the next round of voting
and is one of 51 coaches
across the country up for
the best coach title.
“He is like a legend
over there,” Refugio
Superintendent Jack
Gaskins said of Danaher.
“But with all due respect to
the other fine coaches in the
competition, Refugio ISD
believes that Jason Herring
is the best coach in Texas,”
Gaskins said.
“And we are proud that
he is here working with our
children,” he added.
Herring said he was “tick-
led pink to be one of the
eight coaches picked” from
Texas and he felt honored.
“I believe Texas has the
best coaches in the country.
To get more than 21,000
votes, I just want to say
thank you to everybody,”
he said.
Here’s a list of the eight
Texas coaches and votes:
Phil Danaher, Calallen,
Corpus Christi, 38,856;
Jason Herring, Refugio,
21,526; Tom Nolen, Lamar,
Houston, 18,785; Gary
Joseph, Katy, 14,815; Jim
Streety, San Antonio,
Madison, 6,143; Joey
McGuire, Cedar Hill, 5,779;
Rusty Nail, Mart, 3,915;
Randy Allen, Highland
Park, Dallas, 96.
Council votes to tear down
playground equipment
By Tim Delaney
County Press Editor
AUSTWELL - The Austwell
City Council approved tearing
playground equipment down in
the city’s park for safety rea-
sons at its Monday, Oct. 14
meeting.
City Councilwoman Nadine
Garner said caution tape would
not do any good because kids
wouldn’t be able to read it or
understand it.
“There are some boards that
are unsafe ... some broke in two.
I’d rather it just come down if it
is not usable,” she said.
The council voted to tear the
playground equipment down
and haul it off on the first
Saturday everybody is avail-
able to help.
In a related item, the coun-
cil voted to have a playground
equipment fundraiser on Nov.
9 at the city park.
The event will begin at 4
p.m. with brisket sandwiches -
donations will be asked for the
brisket, chips and drinks.
Mayor David Cann said
$4,000 is the goal to raise,
which is 10 percent of a $40,000
matching grant for the play-
ground equipment.
The council also acknowledge
a letter from building inspec-
tor Mike Henry announcing his
resignation as of Jan. 31.
“Mike Henry has been our
building inspector for the last
five or six years,” Cann said.
(See Austwell, 3A)
NEW CHAMBER WEBSITE
Tim Delaney photo
Several members of the Refugio County Chamber of Commerce attended an
informational meeting at the Williamson Senior Center about the Chamber's
new website on Monday, Oct. 14. The new website was launched Monday, as
well. Visit the website at RefugioCountyChamber.org, or phone the Chamber at
361-526-2835 for more information on how to post events.
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