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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016, 2016
ELGIN COURIER - ELGIN, TEXAS
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The Academy consists of an 11-week class which meets every
Thursday Night beginning on Sept. 26, 2016. Each class
consists of a two-and-a-half to three-hour block of instruction
from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The Academy is held at the Elgin
Independent School District trainingroom, on thesecondfloorat
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Graduates of the academy are encouraged to share their knowledge and
experiences with others in the community as the opportunity arise. Everyone
benefits from enhancing citizen understanding of the role and function of the
Academy and their police department.
The purpose of the Citizen Police Academy is to foster better communication
between Citizens and the police through education. The academy creates a core
of well-informed Citizen who possess greater insight into police practices and
services.
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The Elgin Police Department knows that education is the most effective tool
in gaining understanding and support from the community. The Citizen Police
Academy offers Citizens insights into how police officers perform their duties and
how the department serves the community.
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7. Licensed for Wall Street
10. Belonging to us
11. Anger
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13. Ribonuclease
15. Former AC/DC singer
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16. Fate
19. Hall of Fame forward
21. Omission
23. American state
24. Not sunrises
25. British school
26. The boundary of a
surface
27. Young women
30. Sitting
34. Canadian cheese
35. Aussie TV station
36. Resembles rummy
41. Baked good
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• Patrol Procedures • Criminal Investigations • Narcotics Investigations • Traffic
Enforcement/DWI • Community Policing • Crime Scene Processing • Communications
• Domestic Violence • Trip to the Firing Range for Those Students Who Wish to Participate
A vital part of the Academy is participation in a variety of "hands-on" learning experiences.
Students will also have the option, on a voluntary basis, to "Ride-a-Long" with a patrol
officer during his/her shift, or sit with a communication center operator.
Applications can be downloaded from the City of Elgin website or can
be picked up at the Elgin Public Library, Elgin Courier, or at the
Police Department. Call 512-285-5757 for more informaton.
Applications are due to By Sept. 20,2016.
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take a lesson from that
frame.
Little did I know I
would sample both
Zane Grey’s Arizona,
and my own trip
through what the Na-
tive Americans have
protected for cen-
turies. On Mother’s
Day, my unexpected
adventure began with
a sighting of a bird
sanctuary up the road,
so binoculars in-hand,
my dear husband and I
traversed the twisted,
winding road to what
appeared to be a
wastewater treatment
plant, but was actually
a fish hatchery. Now
we are talking excite-
ment! It is called Bub-
bling Pond Preserve,
noted as an import-
ant birding area, and
is part of the Arizona
Fish Hatchery that
includes a mesquite/
hackberry bosque.
We traipsed through
the broughs and en-
tered a bird paradise of
mulberry-laden limbs;
ripe, purple fruits that
littered the ground,
squished underfoot
and trees that echoed
and shook with calls of
birds of bright yellow
with shocking patterns
of black and white tail
feathers. Then, a Na-
tive American-looking
man appeared from
nowhere; he started
past, but I stopped him
to ask if he had seen
the cuckoo. He replied
that perhaps his wife
had seen one, and then
he disappeared - like a
spirit.
We found his wife,
Joan, further up the
trail, happily filling a
storage back with mul-
berries. She said her
husband has to walk
this trail every day
but few people seem
to know about the
berries. My husband
plucked some from up
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2. Eskimo dogs
3. Bishop
4. People of Libya
5. In favor of
6. Origins
7. Ingredients
8. Trumpets and
trombones
9. Large nest
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14. Leavened bread
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high and gave them
to Joan. She shared
how as a child, she and
her family would lay
sheets on the ground,
give the limbs a good
whack, and then
gather the berries for
eating.
Being amongst the
multitude of mulber-
ries reminded me that
when we left Texas,
the wild dewberries
had ripened. When we
returned, the domestic
blackberries were full
and sweet, a wild food
that was not lost on my
dog, Louie, who pulled
berries off with his
teeth and begged for
more from my bowl.
At a last camp site, on
the way home, in what
seemed to be nowhere,
Bowie, Arizona; a cou-
ple gave us an arm-
load of red peppers
gleaned from an eigh-
teen wheeler broken
down in the highway.
I gleefully roasted the
pepper on open flame,
then plopped it in a
bag to loosen the skin.
We added it to the
baked potato dinner
and relished the color
and flavor it provided.
What is more memo-
rable of our trip to The
Grand Canyon? Grey
described it perfectly
in a timeless passage
of a sunset, “burnish-
ing the desert to red
and gold - too late for
the artist’s work but
not too late for his
soul.” The scenery, the
sheer scale of the can-
yon was amazing, hum-
bling, and stimulating
to imagine the peoples
who settled that area
and eked out a living;
using plants for foods,
dying cloth, and medi-
cine to survive.
Wild food and old
Americana. Definitely
a tour of a different
kind.
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I usually start a
travel adventure with
books, especially if I
am lucky enough to be
a passenger as my dear
husband drives. In the
case of our Grand Can-
yon tour, the Elgin
Library supplied a
great cross-section
of resources start-
ing with the National
Geographic’s Driving
Guides to America
for the Southwest. It
has tons of itineraries
that we did not drive
because of time con-
straints and insights
such as “the giant
saguaro cactus can
grow more than 40
feet - those with sev-
eral arms are usually
over 150 years old.”
Pretty juicy stuff. I
also grabbed a large
pictorial, Arizona,The
Land of the People, by
Tom Miller as an after-
thought, and Arizona
Ghost Towns and Min-
ing Camps, a travel
guide history by Philip
Varney. Starting with
a general idea of land-
ing at the Grand Can-
yon, with a side order
of Native American
country, one does not
expect to find an oasis;
but that is what can be
found if one is open to
the wild side of Amer-
icana.
When we drove
down the steep cliff
into the Lo Lo Mai,
Page Springs camp-
site outside of Sedona,
Arizona, it was like
dipping into a cool,
leafy tropical forest
in the desert. Ancient
cottonwoods on a
creek created a fairy
tale setting. Children
were running amuck,
riding bikes, exploring
the shoreline natural
spring, while parents
tried to catch up.
Once settled, we pre-
pared the simplest
meal of tacos el nopal-
itos con pico (prickly
pear cactus tacos),
true Arizona cuisine
carried from Texas.
At the Elgin Farmers’
Market, I was inspired
to buy the prickly pear
pads (nopales) from
Martin Rodriguez,
whose mother had
done the hard work of
removing the spines,
thorns and glochids.
Furthermore, I found
pecan meal from
Yequa Creek Farms.
It seemed fortuitous
that I had purchased
the new book by Jef-
frey Greene, (uncle to
local artist and writer,
Margie Crisp) In Pur-
suit of Wild Edibles: A
Forager’s Tour, prior
to the trip. Flashing
back to another time
he referred to, "back-
to-the-land idealism”
wondering if there is
a deep nostalgia driv-
ing our interest in wild
foods, or “a belief in
the purity of early na-
tive customs.”
At Greene’s book
signing, there had
been a sampling of
delectable pie crust
made from pecan meal
and no butter, then
filled with loquat pre-
serves. I was set for
a new kind of road
food. Even if the car-
bon footprint was 1000
miles, I experienced a
deep primal satisfac-
tion.
What is the number
one wild edible food
gathered to this day?
Pecans - the Native
Americans planted the
nuts as they traveled
guaranteeing a supply
for the future, one can
22. Methaqualone pill
(slang)
27. Medical practitioner
28. Alias
29. Someone
31. 007’s creator
32. Martial artists wear one
33. Midway between north
and northeast
37. Edible mollusk
38. up: quit a substance
39. Taiwanese city
40. Make an effort
41. Fielders
42. Restrain
43. Herb
44. Agonized
47. Time zone
48. Abandoned European
money
49. Plays video games
51. Hit well in baseball
(slang)
52. Expresses good wishes
53. Congressman (abbr.)
58. Small constellation
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Debbie Wahrmund admires a very tall saguaro in Arizona. She learned about the Sonoran
desert and the local people and wild plants from several books available at the Elgin Li-
brary.
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