The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1997 Page: 1 of 16
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Llano, Texas 78643
Volume 110, No. 1
Llano News
500
Thursday, October 16,1997
Deer Capital of Texas
16 pages in 1 section
Annual Heritage Day packed with history
Organizers of the 8th Annual Llano Heritage Day
Festival are getting excited about the prospects of this
Saturday's event.
1 , Some great exhibits, great food and great enter-
tainment will be.-just part of the fun taking place on
the courthouse square.
Live music and dance performances run continu-
ously on two stages while living history demonstra-
tions, old fashioned children's games, gun fights, arts
and crafts exhibits and free historic tours round out
the day of fun and excitement V ' *■
Some 65 booths will cover the square featuring ev-
erything from hand crafts to wood crafts, children's
toys to horseshoe and rope items and; from western v
photos to dream catchers.
As with apy good historic festival, food will be a
i big part of the day and several tantalizing items will
be available including jerky dried sausage, breakfast
tacos, jambalaya, tamales and mexican sweets, grilled
chicken and lots more. „ v
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas will be
holding a rummage and bake sale at the old jail house
just east of the square while other tours indude the
Llano County Museum, the Dabbs Hotel and the qld '
Southern Hotel. There will be a vintage clothing dis-
play at Schneider's Badu House.
Displays scheduled include quilting and horseshoing
along with a silversmith who xyill make all sorts of
interesting items. v ’ /'
Also, tne Bumct Gunfighters will stage battles on.
the streets and on the square at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. .
The fun will last into the evening as Opry Night at
the Lan-Tex Theater gets underway at 7 p.m. The
Spirit of Texas will come alive with America's
W hat: 8th Annual
Llano Heritage
Day
W hen: Sat.,.Oct.
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W here: Uanb
Courthouse
Square
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Singing . Cowboys performing songs of the west
albng With great picking and fiddling. v
Tickets for Opry Night are available at Packsaddle
Tack and Temptations on the square in Llano.
/ At the American Legion Hall, the Auxiliary will
host a steak supper from 4-8 p.m. followed by a
dance. V
The following is a schedule of entertainment that
will take place throughout the day:
..<• • On the east side of the square.
9 a.m. Bruce Rhonstock and Tyson Broad; 9:30
a.m. Charleston Dancers; 10 a.ijp.- Cotintry Cuzzins
Square Dancers; t\ a.m. Hill Cdlfcge Band; 12 noon
Boots Simpson and the Old Time Playprs; 1 p.m.
Hill Country Hallelujah Band; 2 p.m. Performance,
Inc.; 3 p.m. Studebak&rs and 4 p.m. Johnny Cole-
man. * -' • - * ■
• On the west side of the square.
9 a.m. Alvin Pavey Band; 10:30 p.m. Marvin
McBee, Jr.; 12:30 p.m. Alvin Pavey Band; 2 p.m.
Boots Simpson and the Old Time Players; 3 p.m.
Charlie Justice Back Porch Pickers and 4 p.m. the
Volunteer Band.
FALL DECORATIONS Sarah Franklin, Glenda Brumley, Winnie Myers'and Karen Cook
hang miniature scarecrows around the square In preparation for Heritage Day Saturday.
The Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Fall Decoration contest in honor of Heritage Day.
Residents and business owners are asked to decorate with a fall theme and then call the
chamber at 247-5354 to enter the contest. '
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County
approves
JP #1
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expansion
Llano County commissioners
approved a new contract for Justice
of the Peace Precinct #1 offices at
$750 per month for three years.
: The J.P. offices will be expanded
to include a courtroom so that trials
came be held at that location.
Monday the court also approved
several street name changes in
Kingsland to conform with 911
guidelines: extended Wood Forest
Lane and delete the name Carnation
Street; Daisy Street in Rose Hill
Subdivision will become a continu-
ation of Joe Street; and added
Oakwood Lane and Eunice Lane.
In other action the court:
♦Approved a motion to apply for
a municipal solid waste grant.
♦Reappointed Commissioner
Randy Leifeste to a two year term
to the Capital Area Finance Corp.
♦Approved, in a split vote, an
expenditure of $916 to expand and
finish a storeroom in the Lakeshore
Library. Voting for the motion
were County Judge J.P.Dodgen and
commissioners Duane Stueven and
Keith Faulkner. Voting against the
motion were commissioners Randy
Leifeste and Marc Miller.
♦Approved a damage release on
the Llano County school lands
Tom Green County and accepted
$ 1,000 per well for damages.
♦Accepted the resignation of Bill
Simmons from the Llano County
Child Welfare Board.
♦Accepted road materials for the
county from Horace Oestreich.
♦Approved several salary changes
in the Llano County Sheriffs
Department.
Plan to attend the
Llano vs. Wimberley
game Friday. Come
early to the Farm Bu-
reau Steak Supper
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MAJOR ACCIDENT .... Fortunately, the driver and passenger in this pickup were unhurt
when they were hit broadside by a Bronco on Young Street last Thursday. The impact of
collision sent the pickup into a cement culvert.
EMS staff to increase
Llano Memorial Hospital's
emergency medical staff will in-
crease by 50 percent over the course
of next two months according to
hospital administration.
The current staff of 12 will be
increased to 18 by the end of the
year. Adding six full-time
paramedics will go a long way to
not only decreasing the amount of
overtime currently being paid, but
also in cutting down on burn-out of
current employees according to
hospital administrator Eamie Parisi.
In 1991, EMS responded to
1,147 calls. Over the next five-year
period, that number increased al-
most 50 percent to 1,630.
"We've had a safety problem that
we re trying to correct," Parisi said.
"We need to see our crews on 24-
hour shifts and right now, we're
having some working 48-hour
shifts."
Currently, the hospital is seeing
an average of 100 hours of overtime
per week with the 12-member EMS
crew. The plan is to return the
shifts to a 24-hours-on and 48-
hours-off schedule. In order to do
that, the hospital must add two
people to each staff in Llano,
Kingsland and Horseshoe Bay.
"Horseshoe Bay pays for its own
EMS but the estimated cost for
staffing the other two (Llano and
Kingsland) is about $112,000 a
.year," Parisi said. "That’s not going
to be paid back in any way, it's just
an expense well have to cover out
of our budget"
For some time, Llano has had to
contract out for some transfers to
other hospitals. With the increased
staff, the Llano EMS will be able
to handle transfers, which Parisi
says does bring in some income to
the hospital.
"A lot of times, we've had to
seek assistance for transfers simply
because we couldn't spare the per-
sonnel,” Parisi said.
Parisi blames burnout as the rea-
son EMS director Kelly Oestreich
has tendered his resignation from
that position.
"He's still going to remain on the
EMS staff, he'll just no longer be
the director effective as soon as we
can find somebody else," Parisi
commented. "I hate to lose him,
but I can certainly sympathize with
his situation."
The hospital board is hoping that
the additional personnel will help
alleviate some of the burn-out
throughout the staff. Llano County
EMS covers a 934.8 square mile
territory.
Even with the new additions, the
EMS will still utilize volunteers
and first-responders in the area, es-
pecially in the Buchanan Dam and
Tow area.
Although the goal is to hire six
new people by the end of this year,
it will not be an easy task.
"It's not hard to attract people to
Llano, but it’s very difficult to find
sufficient housing," Parisi said.
Tx. Water Development
Board to hold hearings
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The Texas Water Development For copies qf the initial draft
board (TWDB) will hold public guidance documents and the initial
meetings in October to receive draft regional water planning area
pdblic comments on the initial draft delineations with a description of
state and regional water planning *how the boundaries were drawn,
guidance documents and the initial please contact Diane Burr, phone:.
, .. —• 512/475-2075, e-mail:
dburi@>twdb.state.tx.us, write: Texas
Water Development Board, P.O.
Box 13231, Austin, TX 78711-
3231.
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draft delineation of 14 regional
water planning areas, which were
released on October 1.
Senate Bill 1 (SB1), the
comprehensive water bill that Was
passed during the legislative session
ending in June, requires the TWDB
to designate regional water planning
areas and approve regional water
plans, which will be incorporated
into the next state water plan.
SB1 requires cities, counties,
water districts and other local
entities to map out how they will
conserve water supplies and respond
to future droughts in their planning
areas and requires regional water
planning groups, comprised of
representatives of the various
interests in an area, to plan how the
area will meet future water supply
needs.
Planning areas are required to
submit regional water plans to the
TWDB for approval every five years
beginning September 2000.
The TWDB will incorporate
approved regional water plans into
the next comprehensive state water
plan, which is due September 1,
2001.
Public meetings to discuss the
initial draft planning guidance
documents and regional, water
planning areas will be held from
6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday,
November 3, in Austin at the
Stephen F. Austin Building, Room
118. 1700 North Congress.
As intended by SB1, the TWDB's
development of rules and water
planning areas will be the result of
local effort, "driven from the
bottom up."
The TWDB will provide financial
and technical assistance to the
regional water planning group
representatives in the development
of their regional water plansjmd
will resolve disputes between
regions. After 2001, TWDB
financial assistance may be provided
.only to projects in areas with
approved regional water plans and
for projects that meet needs in a
manner that is consistent with the
approved regional water plan.
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Deaths:
Helen Danes
Margaret Strachan
Eleanor Bickett
Gertrude Grote
Kathryn Wilkinson
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1997, newspaper, October 16, 1997; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140155/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.