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Heritage Day Festival,
Chuck Wagon Cook-Off
scheduled in October
Bridges not
off the
By Sarah O. Franklin
Put Oct. 19-20 on your calendar, as it is time for the Heritage
Day Festival and Llano River Chuck Wagon Cook-off which
will be held on and around the courthouse square and on the
banks of the Llano River.
The Sesquicentennial year has passed, but our goal will be
to continue focusing on the heritage of our area by providing
re-enactments, living history demonstrations, family history
displays, good food, tours and lots of good music. Everyone is
encouraged to wear period clothing.
The Promotion Committee of Main Street will again spon-
sor “Fall Pride in Decorating” encouraging all merchants to
decorate with hay and pumpkins. If anyone has comstalks left
in their garden, please save them. The family history display
was a huge success and will be held in the library this year.
We are excited to have the Sabinal Badland Rangers returning,
with their re-enactments at the Red Top Jail, which will be open
for tours, and hope to have other re-enactment groups, as well.
Because Llano is known na-
tionwide as the home of world
champion ropers and cowboys,
the centeipiece of the facility will
be a new covered arena suitable
for rodeos, ropings, barrel races
and cutting horse events.
However, it will be much more
than just a roping arena. The flex-
ibility of the facility will allow for
the hosting of any number of
events ranging from antique
shows to motorcycle rallies. The
arena will be outfitted with a large
portable stage with professional
sound and lighting, suitable for
concerts and other performance
events that can accommodate up
to 3,500 people.
A full backstage area with
dressing rooms and rehearsal area
will also be included. Permanent
and portable stalls and pens will
allow for the hosting of livestock
shows and auctions, while con-
cessions will be available at sev-
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eral points of service for patron
convenience.
Plans for the complex also in-
clude an air-conditioned exposi-
tion building that can host virtu-
ally any community event, from
citywide garage sales, family re-
unions and wedding receptions to
corporate retreats and indoor
expos like garden shows. Land-
scaping will provide a park-like
environment and encourage visi-
tors to stroll about the grounds.
Ancillary facilities at the Llario
complex will include a large bam
with stalls and portable panels, an
outdoor exercise arena for equine
participants, and RV and trailer
hook-ups. Parking for more than
1400 vehicles is also planned.
Also located near the main arena,
but constituting its own separate
venue, will be a covered outdoor
pavilion that can accommodate
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More than 1,000 people filled
the First Baptist Church of
Kingsland last week for a memo-
rial to Michael Jay Allred, the
first to die in a shooting rampage
that started in Llano County on
August 24 and ended on Long
Island, New York less than four
days later.
Allred's alleged murderer, Paul
G. Devoe III had been a live-in
handyman at a home in Wild
Oaks Acres, before a history of
larceny and assault began to
clearly emerge. The woman who
hired him, Sharon Wilson, told
reporters that he held a gun to his
head before threatening her,
spraying her home with bullets
and leaving for his first fatal en-
counter at O’Neil’s Bar in Marble
Falls, where Allread was
bartending.
At the end of a trail that left
FORECAST
Wednesday Night: Mostly
cloudy, with a low around 74.
South southeast wind be-
tween 5 and 10 mph.
Thursday: A 20 percent
chance of showers and thun-
derstorms. Mostly cloudy,
with a high near 93. South
wind between 5 and 15 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy,
with a low around 76. South
southeast wind around 10
mph.
Friday: Partly cloudy, with a
high near 92. South wind be-
tween 10 and 15 mph.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy,
with a low around 75. South
wind between 5 and 15 mph.
Saturday: A 20 percent
chance of showers and thun-
derstorms. Partly cloudy, with
a high near 94. South wind
between 5 and 10 mph.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent
chance of rain and thunder-
storms. Some of the storms
could produce heavy rainfall.
Mostly cloudy, with a low
around 73. South southwest
wind between 5 and 10 mph.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance
of showers and thunder-
storms. Mostly cloudy, with a
high near 93.
Sunday Night: A 20 percent
chance of showers and thun-
derstorms. Mostly cloudy,
with a low around 72.
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Murder suspect Davoe
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Volleyball
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WEATHER
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The Creatures..,
The Jacket Creatures ran out of the new inflatable tunnel Friday to help kick off the football season as the Jackets
topped Marble Falls. (See story on Page 9) Photo by Tom Suarez
Texas death sentence that caused
Devoe’s change of heart, and he
told the reporter that the chai- Castell maintained this year when
Allred dead, four dead in
Jonestown, Texas and another in
Pennsylvania, Devoe repeated
the impulse to put the gun to his the deficient rating' about four
percent, compared to a 12 percent
national average.
The TXDoT report stated that
own head on August 27. A joint
task force of U.S. Marshals and
Suffolk County, N.Y. Police ar-
rested him at his home in Shirley, a bridge is structurally deficient
"if significant elements of the
COUNTY LIBRARY
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TX 7864 5 .’O’-
When the Llano County Com-
missioners Court convenes
Thursday for a special called
meeting, the subject will be sav-
ing tax dollars in infrastructure
repair, but not repair on bridges.
Nine local bridges were listed
as deficient in a report made by
the Texas Department of Trans-
portation to Lt. Gov. David
Dewhurst last month. Dewhurst
called for the report after the col-
lapse of the Interstate 35 bridge
over the Mississippi River in
Minneapolis-St. Paul.
None of the local bridges is so
seriously deficient as to be closed
to traffic.
"But any bridge in our county
that is deficient is something to
be concerned about," said County
Judge Wayne Brascom.
Brascom has been a strong sup-
F porter of a Wirtz Dam bridge be-
2 tween Marble Falls and
Kingsland to handle traffic to and
from the Horseshoe Bay area.
"I think it is a security issue,"
said Brascom Tuesday.
The judge said that the
commissioner's court meeting on
Thursday will be a consultation
with a company called Grant
Works to explore ways to meet
the 25 percent local funding re-
quired on FEMA projects.
"We want to find grants and
identify in-kind work we can do
to meet local funding require-
ments to make as little impact on
taxpayers as possible," he said.
FEMA is reviewing requests for
damage to public facilities and
roads, but it would be almost im-
possible to determine if local
bridge problems could be tied to
June flooding alone, said
Brascom. Only two of the defi-
cient bridges identified by
TXDoT are maintained by the
county but many bridge repairs
are made as part of a program of
cost-sharing with TXDoT.
The Roy B. Inks Bridge on SH
16 across the Llano River was
one of the bridges listed as defi-
cient. It lies within the city limits
of Llano and is maintained by
TXDoT, but it carries a heavy
load of traffic in the county,
Brascom noted.
TXDot said that 2,024 of the
state's 50,000 bridges received
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Rain Fall:
Rain thia weak: .79
Rain in August: 2.52
Total for 2007 35.88
Data collected by Luke
Rogers, Wolf Mountain
Ranch, Llano, Texas.
LEDC moves on plans for multipurpose complex
The Llano Economic Develop-
ment Corporation (LEDC) has
announced plans for the proposed
construction of a modem multi-
purpose events center complex.
After conducting a feasibility
analysis and researching similar
facilities in other communities,
the LEDC is proposing a complex
that will complement Llano’s ex-
isting strengths to hopefully at-
tract a large variety of events and
functions.
N.Y. after he lowered the gun.
When he appeared before Judge bridge are deteriorating or dam-
Joseph Santorelli in district court aged, (if there is) extreme restric-
in Suffolk County he had been tion of |Oad carrying capacity or
expected to waive extradition, but the adequacy of the waterway
surprised everyone with another opening under the bridge is ex-
last minute change of heart. tremely inadequate.
In a story in News Day Suffolk - a structurally deficient bridge
District Attorney Thomas Spota should not be confused with an
speculated that it could be the unsafe bridge," the report also
stated.
That was what residents of
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Stephenson, Jimmy. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2007, newspaper, September 5, 2007; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1243879/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.