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Friday, October 28, 2005
The BOERNE Star & Recorder
PAGE 13A
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melted away to - no pun intended. Some of
the drivers told stories of being loaded up and
gone, then turned back to places like Fremont,
Nebraska. Last time I looked, I can’t recall too
many hurricanes hitting the great state of Ne-
braska.
One of the other reports that I read says the
government has a contract with a company
called LAP to provide 20 tons of ice for
$12,000. That’s delivered, but then the cost
With any luck, this will be my last column
on stupid government stuff. Then again, per-
haps not.
There always seems to be a plethora (I love
that word) of things to keep on writing about.
Diamonds for the mining, so they say.
The FEMA hurricane disaster relief effort
has given all of us plenty to write about for the
years to come, but then that would be boring
after awhile, don’t you think? In any event it’s
LETTERS FROM NORTH AMERICA
Peary Perry
'FINANCE BALANCE OF ‘7,500, 48
still tempting to examine, isn’t it? more substantial than a motel room, especial- goes up by $2.60 for each mile beyond and
It always amazes me that people with au- ly if it saves the taxpayers some moola? $900 a day additional “waiting costs.”
thority in high places can’t seem to figure out Then there’s the deal with the ice trucks. The Stay with me here. Using our old $2 per
things that you and I deal with each and every report says they have spent or are about to 10-pound bag at the store’s pricing struc-
day of the year. spend some $100 million of our bucks on ice, ture, you get 40,000 pounds of ice (20 tons)
For example, it came out the other day that most of which will never be delivered where divided by 10-pound sacks (what you and I
the government was spending $4 million a it can do any good. pick up at the store) and you get 4,000 bags
day to pay for 70,000 hotel rooms to house The story goes kind of like this ... the good of ice which you and I can buy for $2 a bag
some of the victims of the hurricane. Now, old U.S. government ordered 91,000 tons of all day long.
simple math tells me that dividing $4 million ice at a cost of $100 million to be used during But what does the U.S. government pay for
by 70,000 gives me an average hotel rate of the Katrina tragedy. this load of frozen water? Over $3 a bag if it
close to $60 a night. Now, get your calculator out and do the gets to the original destination and isn’t di-
Now, if we multiply this by 30 days in a math on this one-91,000 tons is 182,000,000 verted to some other place like Alaska where
month, we’d get $1,800. I can’t think of too pounds of ice. Ice is generally sold in 10- they always need more ice.
many cities (outside of New York City) where pound bags so this would be 18,200,000 bags I always thought the more you paid for
you couldn’t find a nice, furnished, apartment of ice if we were headed down to the local something the cheaper it got, not the other
for less than that amount. Stop N’ Rob to pick it up. They might not way around - unless you are dealing with the
I bet your average family of five being have this much, but that’s not important. government, I guess.
cooped up inside of a two-bed motel or hotel Anyway, most of the places around here sell I just wonder if those 70,000 hotel rooms
room would love to be able to have a kitchen ice for about $1.69 for 10 pounds, but let’s have an ice maker down the hall? Looks like
and more than one bathroom. It might even just say it costs $2 a bag for this ice - then they could be putting those babies to work
feel more like home, don’t you think? we’d be spending what? About $36,400,000. and save some bucks - your money and mine.
Besides, here we are going on two months That sound about right? Ain’t it great?
into this fiasco and shouldn’t we be looking at So I guess what I’d like to know is: where
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putting these folks into something a little has the other $60 million taxpayers ‘dollars Comments go to pperry@austin.rr.com
BHS hosts Texas Academic
Decathlon regional competition
Boerne High School will play individual academic competition. at an overall team score.
host to about 180 students from Each student competes in 10 A new theme is established
20 high schools competing in the events - Economics, Essay, Art, every year with topics relevant,
Texas Academic Regional con- Interview, Language and Litera- current and challenging. This
test. ture, Math, Music, Speech, Sci- year’s theme is the European Re-
BHS needs community help to ence and Social Science, with the naissance, and the Super Quiz
make this meet a success. The Science or Social Science topic portion of the competition focuses
speech and interview events on used for the Super Quiz. on the Renaissance from a social
Friday, Jan. 20, will require at The Super Quiz format differs sciences perspective.
least 100 judges. Volunteers from the other subject areas. Students will compose an essay
judges will be trained at the high While students take one written based on a prompt which incorpo-
school beginning at 2 p.m. with test in each of the other subjects, rates information related to the
the events beginning at 3:30 they will take two tests in the current curriculum. Students will
p.m.and ending about 7:30 p.m. Super Quiz subject - one written also perform both prepared and
Help is also needed to proctor and the other oral, impromptu speeches and be inter-
events on Saturday. No experi- The oral relay portion of the viewed before a panel of commu-
ence is necessary to judge or to Super Quiz is the only part of the nity volunteer judges.
proctor. actual testing that is open to the Gold, silver, and bronze medals
“This is an excellent opportuni- public, and is inevitably one of the are awarded for individual events
ty to give something back to your most exciting parts of the Acade- and total scores. Overall individ-
community and to interact with mic Decathlon competition. ual winners are recognized as are
some our leaders of tomorrow. A unique aspect of the Academ- champion teams.
This will truly be an experience of ic Decathlon is that it includes Teams advance through local,
a lifetime!” said Ashlie D’Spain, students from all academic abili- regional and state levels with the
BHS Decathlon sponsor. ties and achievement levels. Each state champions competing at the
For more information, contact nine-member team consists of national finals. This year’s nation-
D’Spain at 830-357-2268 or three “A” (Honor division), three als will be April 26-29 in San An-
email ashlie. dspain@boerne- “B” (Scholastic division), and ertonio. *
isd.net. D’Spain needs commit-
ments by Dec. 9.
three “C or below” (Varsity divi-
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However, team scores are calcu-
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Glowing luminarias will fight and folk art to jewelry, clothing,
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Night Out on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Antiques on High, Antiquities,
Merchants throughout the his- Etc. & Folkart Gallery, Blackbird
toric district and along Highways Antiques, Comfort Antique Mall,
87 and 27 will decorate their Comfort Stampede, Comfort Vil-
shops with luminarias from5 to9 lage Boutique & Bier Garden,
p.m. to welcome shoppers and High’s, Sweet Comfort and The
many will serve light refresh- Comfort Common. Seventh
ments and offer special door Street shops which will partici-
prizes throughout the evening, pate are Faltin & Company, Mon-
Holiday musical entertainment tye’s Antiques, The Heart Cottage
also is planned, and Wilson Clements Antiques.
“With the luminarias, our mer- On Highway 87, participating
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Cartwright, Brian. Boerne Star & Recorder (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 79, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 2005, newspaper, October 28, 2005; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1663410/m1/13/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.