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The Boerne Star
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
And then there were three:
BMSN campus officer adopts a child
Jennifer Sabo and children, Valentin, 12 and Ashley, 9 (10 next month).
Bv JONI Simon___________________________
Staff Writer
The Boerne Police Department white pickup
truck with “K-9 unit” painted in red lettering
parked in the driveway is the first indication of
what the inhabitant of the cozy mobile home nes-
tled in the Hill Country does for a living.
Dressed in blue jeans and a T shirt, BPD School
Resource Officer Jennifer Sabo, her blonde hair
brushed back in a ponytail, has transformed from
police officer by day to single mother by night.
She mops the linoleum kitchen floor while she
talks. It’s only 4:30 p.m. and yet there’s evidence
she’s accomplished much since she and her two
children have been home from work and school.
The washing machine is in the final spin cycle.
“You should be here on Sunday. That’s when we
really do housework,” Valentin, 12, said.
His brown eyes sparkle so, it’s evident he does-
n’t mind chores around the house.
Sabo and her son met during her days as a
D.A.R.E. officer at Kendall Elementary while he
was residing at Meadowlands. She expects the
finalization of her adoption of Valentin to occur
early next year.
“I’ve always been interested in adoption and
I’ve always wanted a son,” she said.
The miracle of adoption is not unlike the mira-
cle of birth. In the case of Sabo and her son, they
were in the right place and found each other at the
right time. The courts had just terminated
parental rights and Valentin was legally free.
The adoption was unusual in that the two of
them chose each other.
“You don’t usually pick your own kids. They
generally pick them for you,” Sabo said.
Sabo began working in the D.A.R.E. program in
1997.
“I taught kids at all the elementaries in the
Boerne school district about drugs and violence,”
she said.
She is now a school resource officer at Boerne
Middle School North. The Air Force trained
Sabo, a native Missourian, in law enforcement
during a two-year stint in the Philippines. She
came to Brooks Air Force Base in 1994 and
stayed in the area because of job opportunities,
■ first in Balcones Heights, then in Hill Country
Village, finally settling in Boerne, where she
lives with her nine-year-old daughter Ashley and
Valentin.
Single parent adoption is no longer an anomaly,
Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory
Services Information Specialist Bill Whipple
said.
Although single mothers are more common
than single fathers, there have been incidences of
the latter. The buddy factor is often the reason
men may want to adopt.
“Those adoptions usually work out well. A few
years ago, a man adopted two boys, 12 and 14.
He took them fishing and hunting,” he said.
The need for adoptive parents for school age
children, six and older, is great, according to
Whipple. The placement for most children up to
the age of 10 is quick, he added.
“The younger the kids, the more the competi-
tion,” he said.
It’s more difficult to find adoptive parents for
children Valentin’s age.
“Once they get into the double digits, they have
more trouble. And teenagers? Most people won’t
even consider them,” Whipple said.
Adopting teens has its advantages. If the ado-
lescent is 14 or older, when they’re ready for col-
lege, tuition at state schools is free.
“They need a place to come home for the holi-
days,” he explained.
The number of special needs children ready for
adoption in Texas is up slightly from last year,
according to Whipple, who said approximately
200 children are usually available at any given
time. Special needs encompasses Anglo children
six years and up; minorities, two years and up;
sibling groups of any age;.or children of any age
who have medical or emotional conditions.
To learn more about becoming an adoptive or
foster parent, interested parties may call PRS at
1-800-236-7896.
Mudding gets
teens in hot water
Area teens are discovering the “mudding” craze can get them in a lot of
hot water.
Fair Oaks Ranch Police Chief Suzanne Martin came to the rescue of two
minors who were stuck in the mud on Dec. 18 in the 31,000 block of
Keeneland and she says it is not the first time this year.
“This area has been known for young people to drive into to go parking
or mudding. This is the fourth tow of the year from this area,” Martin
said.
A walk-in complainant arrived at the Fair Oaks Ranch Police station at
2:25 p.m. and advised that two teens in a black Ford Taurus were stuck
where the street dead ended.
The owner of the vehicle requested a wrecker service be called to pull
the vehicle out of the mud.
It hasn’t been just kids who have gotten stuck. Earlier this year, a man
totaled his vehicle, pulling his wife, who was in her 30’s, out of the mud
after she got stuck “mudding.”
“Mudding” is also a craze in Boerne. On Dec. 17, Police Chief Gary
Miller spotted a vehicle stuck after “mudding.” And although mudding
itself isn’t illegal, leaving the roadway is. An officer issued a citation to
the 19-year-old man for driving off the roadway.
Also in Fair Oaks Ranch last week, on Dec. 18 at 12:41 p.m., an officer
arrested a passenger in a vehicle during a traffic stop. The 22-year-old
man had two outstanding warrants for failure to control speed and viola-
tion of a promise to appear. He was jailed after stating he was unable to
pay the $565.50 fine. 38
FOR and Boerne join together
in the fight for lake water
The cities of Fair Oaks Ranch and Boerne are in
the Canyon Lake Water project together. So much
so, the Ranch council authorized Mayor Boots
Gaubatz Dec. 20 to enter into a cost-sharing
agreement with the city of Boerne to retain legal
services.
On the other end of the deal, Boerne City
Council authorized City Manager Ron Bowman
Dec. 11 to intervene on behalf of the city and to
take any action that would expedite the GBRA
contractual bonds to build the Western Canyon
Regional Water Supply Project.
According to the resolution passed by Fair Oaks
Ranch City Council, the joint legal counsel will
prepare and file an intervention or other appropri-
ate action into an anticipated lawsuit or declarato-
ry action the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority
plans to file to expedite the approval, issuance
and sale of GBRA contract revenue bonds
(Western Canyon Regional Water Supply Project)
authorized by a resolution of the board of direc-
tors on Oct. 17.
Boerne and Fair Oaks Ranch are relying on the
water treatment plant and the pipeline to provide
them with water in the future, according to a
GBRA official.
“In order to treat the water and send it to Fair
Oaks Ranch and Boerne, we’re going to build a
water treatment plant. In order to finance that
construction, we need to be able to sell bonds. We
cannot sell bonds until the litigation has been
resolved,” GBRA Director of Water Quality
Services Debbie Magin said.
The actions the two councils took last week will
help resolve the lawsuit the Friends of Canyon
Lake filed, she added.
“They want to support GBRA through the liti-
gation process to resolve that lawsuit. They want
to get the water supply up and running,” Magin
said.
The Ranch resolution sets the limit on the price
of legal services at no higher than $10,000.
In approving the resolution, the council also
authorized the mayor to withdraw from this
action at any stage “wherein withdrawal is judged
appropriate by the mayor.”
The council also authorized Gaubatz to arrange
funding by Fair Oaks Ranch Utilities as con-
firmed by their board.
In a related matter during the Fair Oaks Ranch
meeting, the council authorized the mayor to sign
an agreement between the city and HDR
Engineering, Inc. for a project that includes inter-
facing with the Canyon Lake water project. HDR
plans to have the work completed in 120 days, a
company spokesman said.
Concerning other water issues, Councilman Dan
Kasprowicz said water use in the city for the
month of December was “quite low.”
“There was plenty of water in the test well
today. We usually tell our citizens to conserve,
now we need some revenue, so the message is
‘buy water,’” he said.
BPD takes steps to comply with racial profiling policy
The Boerne City Council at its Dec. 11 meeting, approved the Boerne Police
Departments proposed racial profiling policy. Earlier this year, the 77th Texas
Legislature passed Senate Bill 1074 which mandates that each law enforcement
agency in Texas have in place a racial profiling policy no later than Jan. 1, 2002.
The Councils action allows BPD to meet that deadline.
The Boerne Police Department realizes that there will be disagreements, from
time to time, with individuals that come in contact with our officers. We realize
that confusion, different perceptions or possibly the timeliness of information
could result in information that may produce different accounts of the same
incident. These disagreements between citizens and officers need to be
addressed. We trust that the majority of contacts between citizens and officers
are conducted in a positive, professional manner. The relationship between the
community and our officers is based on confidence and trust. We cannot be
effective without both the community and our officers working together to
achieve this goal.
Citizens feeling they have a legitimate concern may make a formal complaint
to the Boerne Police Department at any time by contacting any member of this
department for information on the complaint process. Additional information
about this process may be obtained by calling us at 830-249-8645. Ask for Chief
Gary Miller or Lieutenants Ron Marquis or Jim Kohler.
The Boerne Police Department would also like to know about positive con-
tacts. Please write the Chief a letter or note to let him know about a positive
contact with our officers. Chief Miller will let the officer know about your let-
ter and a copy will be placed in the officer’s personnel file.
Kendall Co. Consistencies
★ Agricultural Heritage Center, Inc.,
open Sundays and Wednesdays, 1:30-
4:30 p.m., tours available by appoint-
ment, 249-2814.
★ Alcoholics Anonymous, Meets
Monday through Friday, 8 p.m., First
United Methodist Church, Boy Scout Hut,
corner of James and Turner Streets. Open
meetings, non-smoking.
★ Alcoholics Anonymous, (Spanish
Speaking) Meets Wednesday and Friday,
8 p.m., First United Methodist Church, Boy
Scout Hut, corner of James and Turner
Streets. Open meetings, non-smoking.
★ Alcoholics Anonymous, Tuesday
and Thursday, noon, First Baptist Church,
School Street and Highland, building
behind church. Open meetings, non-smok-
ing.
★ Alcoholics Anonymous, Open dis-
cussion, St. Helena's Episcopal Church,
410 N. Main St. Non-smoking, Sunday, 8
p.m.
★ AL-ANON meetings, 7 p.m., Mondays
and Thursdays, behind St. Mark
Presbyterian Church on Water Street in the
mobile home.
★ Alzheimer's Support Group meets
third Thursday of the month at Town and
Country Manor main lobby, 6:30 to 8
p.m. For more information call Pam at
249-3085.
★ American Legion meeting, 7:30
p.m., third Tuesday of each month, Old
Lower Balcones Schoolhouse, Boerne
Stagecoach Road, 249-2197 or 249-
3692.
★ Boerne Alpha Beta Tau (ABT)
chapter of Beta Sigma Phi meeting, 7
p.m., second and fourth Monday of the
month, 537-41 14.
★ Boerne Area Historical Preser-
vation Society Meets the third
Wednesday of each month at 9 a.m. in
Faith Hall at St. JohnLutheran Church.
New year of meetings begins in
September. For more info, call 249-
2030.
Health & Wholeness Center, 336-3101.
★ Bike Boerne 26-46-mile rides, 1:30
p.m., Sundays, 802 E. Blanco Rd.,
816-2305. .
★ Boerne Lions Club meets on the sec-
ond and fourth Wednesday of the month
at 7 p.m. at Caverns Restuarant. For more
information call (830) 249-8090.
★ The Boerne Shrine Club meets the
third Wed. ea. mo. at the American Le-
gion Hall, 121 Scenic Loop Road at 6:30
p.m. All Kendall Co. Shriners are invited
and encouraged to attend. The Hall is ★The Kendall County Democratic
located 1 1/2 mi. west of IH-10. For Club meets the first Thursday of the each
information call Charles Davenport at month at 7 p.m. at the Boerne Independent
210-493-5434 or Al Grey at 830-537- Administrative Building, 123 Johns Rd.,
9137. Boerne, Texas. Call 981-4971.
★ Boerne Sunrise Rotary Club, ★Kendall County Public Trans-
meets every Tuesday from 7 to 8 am. at portation, 204 E. San Antonio Suite 24
the Limestone Grill. For more information, in the Historical Courthouse. This trans-
call Ken Hoerster at (830) 981-5640. portation system isL for all ages. Call 816-
★ Boerne Women's Club meets at 10 1707 Monday through Friday from 8
A t i a.m. to noon tor information or leave a
a.m. the second Monday of every month. AL
Location will be announced. For more • Konaan County kepublican Wo-
information, contact Club President Bobbi men meet at 9:30 a.m. the 2nd Tuesday
Haleat 830-981-9529. in the month. Call Toni Anne Dashiell at
★ Chamber of Commerce Small 6373760
Business Counseling, second and fourth * Kuhlmann-King Historical House,
Thursday of each month, 249-8000 for Graham Building and Museum Store
appointment, behind City Hall, open Sundays, tours
★ Comfort Lions Club meets on the available by appointment.
first and third Thursday of the month at 6 * Ladies Auxiliary V.F.W. Bruno
p.m. at the Double D Restaurant. phi||ip Post 688 meets at St. Helena's
★ Comfort Volunteer Fire Depart- Episcopal Church in the intermediate room
ment meets the second and third Tuesday on the third Thursday of the month at 2
of the month at 7 p.m. at 224 W. Hwy. p.m. ^ew members are needed. Call Joan
473 behind the Super 'S.' at (830) 816-7899
★ Curington Elementary PTO • MOPS, Mothers of Preschoolers,
board meetings are conducted the first meets the second Monday of every
Wednesday of every mo. at 2 p.m. the month, except school holidays, from 9-
PTO Portable Building. For more info call 1 1:30 a.m. Cost is $3 per mom and chil-
Maria Clark, sec., at (830) 816-9200. dren are free. For more information call
★ Fair Oaks Ladies Bible study, Sheri Morger at 249-2316.
9:30-11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, Jackie at 981- ★ Native Plant Society of Texas,
4453, Marji at 981-4169. Boerne chapter, meets on the first
★ Hill Country Hikers meeting, 7 p.m., Tuesday of each month at 6:30 at the
second Tuesday of every month, Cibolo Nature Center. For more informa-
Kronkosky Tower at the Benedictine tion, log on to www.npsot.org or call
Convent, 899-3439. Suzanne at 249-7550.
★ Hill Country Sq. CAF meeting at * The Navy Officers Wives Club
1:30 p.m. the third Sunday of each month, (NOWC) meets the first Thursday of each
Boerne Stage Airport. For information call month. Contact Jean Robitaille at (830)
249-8687. . . 981-4971 for more information about
★ Hill Country Women in Business monthly hostess and location. New mem-
meeting, first Thursday of every month, call bers and guests are welcome.
Suzann Woodword at 249-4159 or Gayle • Newcomers General Meetings,
Eason at 981-9641 . . foe second Monday of each month at dif-
★ Hill Country Writers Guild meets ferent locations beginning at 10 a.m. For
the last Tuesday of the month at the Boerne information, call Kim Dunn at (830) 755-
Community Center, Room 201 at 7:30. In 4452.
addition to the writers who meet the group, ★ Newcomers Anitaue Group meets
the guild also hosts the Young Musicians the 4th Wednesday of each month and
Coalition that produces the local Battle of visits different antique shops. For infor-
the Bands ana the Screenwriters of Texas mation call Judy Showalter 830-981-
that works in conjunction with the . 9778.
Documentary Film Project and the Young
Filmmakers Program. For more information
call the guild at 830-537-5906. Meetings
open to all members and non-members.
★ Newcomers Book Club is a new
★ HOPS, High School Organization of
Parental Support meeting, noon, second
Thursday of the month, Boerne High
School home economics building, 816-
2492.
group this year. For information call
Kitty Dewey 830-981-2364
★ Newcomers Canasta meets month-
ly for both ladies daytime and couples
evenings games. For ladies daytime
information call Dale Flashberg 210-682-
4806 or couples call Judy McMillan 830-
536-6303
★ Newcomers Koffee Klatch will
meet every third Monday from 10 a.m. to
noon. For information call Ruth Cannon at
(210) 698-9424. Jeanne Gerlach at
(210) 698-6086.
★ Newcomers Lunch Bunch meets
every fourth Tuesday at different loca-
tions. For information call, July Olendar
(830) 755-5105 or Debbie Baum (830)
981-8327.
★ Newcomers Mah Jong meets the
1st and 3rd Thursday. For information
call Vicky Holdswortn 830-981-5626
• Newcomers Restaurant Group
meets once a month in the evening at dif-
ferent restaurants. For information call Iris
Johnson at (210) 698-5089.
★ Newcomers TGIF meets every fourth
Friday of the month from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
For information call Gisela Hallermann at
(830) 981-8151.
★ Sisterdale Vol. Fire Dept, meeting,
7 p.m., third Tuesday of each month,
1207 Sisterdale Rd., 324-6737.
★ Square dancing lessons, Fridays
from 6-8 p.m. For more info call, 997-
1355.
★ The Texas Department of Public
Health, Boerne, is in charge of moni-
toring and reporting communicable dis-
eases, offers HIV and STD testing, vision
and hearing screenings for children, pro-
vides vaccines for children and adults,
helps with resources and referrals to need-
ed services, provides community outreach
and education on public health-related
subjects. For more information call (830)
249-3511.
★ US TOO meeting, a prostate cancer
support group, 5:30 p.m., first Monday of
each month, Ecumenical Center, 249-
9027.
★ VFW Post 688 meeting, 7:30 p.m.,
second Tuesday of each month, Boerne
Church of Christ, 1 Upper Balcones Rd.,
981-4971.
★ You can help make a difference in
the life of a young adult in foster care! The
Mentor Program at Baptist Children's
Home Ministries needs committed, caring
adults to serve as friends, role models and
trusted advisors to young adults aged 16
to 21. If you are interested in guiding a
youth (from Boerne or San Antonio)
through a successful transition to adult-
hood, call Laurie Bell Scantlin at (210)
224-9966 for more information.
★ ★ Water Aerobics at the Health and
Wholeness Center for 55 and older on a
regular basis. For more information con-
tact Mary Anderson at (830) 816-8470.
FAIR
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heard Guadalupe Valley Telephone
Communication’s plans to trench
streets in the Fairways to upgrade
service.
The company plans to complete
the project, contracted to H.B.
Zachary, in four or five months,
according to GVTC Director of
Plant Engineering Malford Jost.
“I feel confident it will go as
smoothly as possible,” Jost told the
council.
The director of engineering said
construction workers will stop
before dark.
“What’s left will be plated and
barricaded off at that time,” he said.
The company plans to start the
work in the middle of January. The
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small dioxin shaped cookie-cutter.
This added variety to the treats.
The dog treats are made basically
like Christmas cookies. The dough
is mixed, rolled, cut, placed on
cookie sheets, baked, and set out to
cool. It takes the girls three hours to
make a batch. Mixing and cutting
takes one hour, baking takes the sec-
ond, and letting the cookies cool
takes the third.
“Usually we make 120 of the
small ones [dioxins and biscuits]
more but 60 of the bones,” said
Malorie.
Recently the girls’ business
expanded beyond the neighborhood.
“We sell our treats at the South
House Market,” said Malorie.
“The mom of a guy in my class
owns it,” said Alexa, who is in 4th
grade this year.
“She had some extra room over
there, so we decided to put it there,”
said Malorie. South House Market
is at 128 W. Blanco next door to Ye
Kendall Inn.
Just for Christmas, the girls are
selling their treats in dog stockings.
“I had the idea of going and buy-
ing a regular stocking,” said
Malorie, but the girls decided to
make stockings in the shape of dog
paws and bones.
Each paw stocking is the size of a
large human glove, and each bone is
around 12 inches long. The paw
crews will work between 7 a.m. and
5:30 p.m.
“If we see there’s a problem with
traffic and congestion, we can work
around that,” he said.
The council could take no action
on the construction of a communi-
cations tower just outside city lim-
its.
“Fair Oaks Ranch and City Public
Service have nothing to do with it,”
the mayor said.
According to Gaubatz, seven or
eight vendors are involved in the
erection of the tower to be located
near Dietz-Elkhorn and Ralph Fair
roads.
“They are going to be putting the
thing up by the end of the week,”
Thomas said.
“It’s too late to protest,”
Councilman Gary Younglove
added.
stockings are made of red felt with
patches of white felt arranged as
paw pads. The dog bone stockings
are also made of red felt and have
rubber-stamped green paw-prints on
the front of each one.
Both stockings are made from the
girls’ own patterns. The girls care-
fully cut out and glue each stocking,
taking the girls about half an hour to
make each one.
“People come in once a month and
get their little dog treats,” said
South House Market owner Kathy
Miner. “Everybody notices them.”
A small label on each bag reads
“Dog ’on Treats made with love in
Boerne, Texas.” The treat-filled
stockings sell for $13.95 each,
while a package of eight treats pack-
aged in cellophane costs $6.50.
The South House Market has sold
around 10 stockings and 30 cel-
laphane bags of treats.
“All of the ingredients are natur-
al,” assured Mrs. McDaniel.
Malorie and Alexa are two serious
business girls, excited that their
venture has done well.
“We are putting the money we
earn for a mutual fund for college,”
said Malorie.
“They have talked about doing dif-
ferent holidays,” said Mrs.
McDaniel. “They’ve brainstormed,
kind of talk about different ideas.”
Alexa said she “wanted to do
Easter.”
Whatever method they go about it,
these girls are sure to go straight to
the top.
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