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All-Star player
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uate Dereck Wright gets
ready to make a tackle dur-
ing last week’s Texas High
School Coaches All-Star
game at the Alamodome.
Wright had six tackles and
a fumble recovery for the
victorious South squad.
For more info about the
game, see Sports, page 8.
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July 29
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Emergency response comparisons show effect of drought
BY CANDACE E. VELVIN Cirn donartmonto hauo fowor arocofirgo nitio oid nolle thio voor
• Managing Editor----FTTC Gepar UTTCTIS Have ICWCT yidoolliuoj IllUlUdl odlls CTTTS yodT
While preparing for budget workshops, Of the 2,042 calls in 2009, 1,087 calls responded to 222 grassfires while there have tract of property into two tracts. The divi-
Kendall County Commissioners heard six- were in Boerne and 942 were in the county, been only 44 in the first half of this year. sion resulted in a 6.99-acre tract with 60
month reports on activities and revenues Of the 1,117 calls in the first half of 2010, Along with the number of grassfires, the feet of road frontage (less than the 250 feet
from several departments at Monday’s court 57 have been in Boerne and 523 have been mutual aid calls are down dramatically. required for a tract of more than 6 acres) and
meeting. in the county. “Last year, we had 102 mutual aid calls, a 6.01-acre tract with 352 feet of frontage.
“Having the Boerne Methodist ER here has In some instances, 911 calls coming to this year we’ve had eight,” Fincke said. “This works in a rural area, but it would
decreased the need for three or four ambu- Boerne-Kendall County dispatch are from Fincke said collections were also about not work in a development,” Commissioner
lances (in service) at the same time and cut locations that are actually outside the even or slightly better than last year. Precinct 3 Darrel Lux said. “We have not
our out-of-service time 1 EMS Director Jeff county.
During Development Director Richard granted a relief for a development.”
Fincke said in his report comparing 2009 “This happens on I-10 and FM 1376,” Tobolka's rep 4, t was noted that while Tolbolka, who also serves as parks direc-
statistics with the first half of 2010. Fincke explained, adding that the EMS also $50,000 revenue was forecast this year tor, said the contractor had agreed to his
Not having to transport patients to San has some interlocal agreements with other in subdivision permits, due to the drop in proposed changes in the contract to renovate
Antonio also “slows the need for another counties. activity, only about one-tenth of that is and expand an existing building at Joshua
fulltime crew,” despite a volume that appears Last year, there were 10 runs outside the expected. Springs Park for use as a conference center,
to be slightly higher than last year, Fincke county. So far this year, there have been 15 “There was no new subdivision activity in “I sent the revised contact to the county
said. out-of-county calls, Fincke said. June,” Tolbolka said, adding two subdivi- attorney for final review before we bring it
In 2009, the county EMS answered 2,042 Fincke also reported statistics for the sions are currently active in the county. to the court for approval,” he said.
calls, including 268 vehicle accidents and county’s seven volunteer fire departments. “Permits are reflecting the weather and Also during his parks report, Tolbolka dis-
in the first six months of this year, there Due to last summer’s near-record drought economic conditions,” Tobolka said, “but cussed planned road construction, a restroom
have been 1,117 calls, including 174 vehicle conditions, the biggest difference in fire the good news is, we are trending upward.” construction project and Texas Commission
accidents. department calls and expenses between this In a development-related matter, the court on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) rule
“It looks like we might be as many as 96 year and last year is the number of grassfires, approved a request for relief to minimum changes that may affect structures on the
runs ahead of last year,” Fincke said, he noted. In 2009, county fire departments road frontage for landowners dividing a Joshua Creek.
A historic stone building on the Sisterdale Dance Hall property is the subject of an archeological dig this
summer. Researchers hope to date the building and learn its original use. (Photos by Paula Jungmann)
Archeology team digs into Sisterdale history
By PAULA JUNGMANN
Contributing Writer
An archeology team headed
by Kendall County resident
Alexandria Miller is conduct-
ing a dig at the stone structure
on the Sisterdale Dance Hall
property that was recently pur-
chased by Sisterdale resident
and attorney, Wayne Wright.
Miller and her team, Boerne
residents Mark and Jennifer
Barlow, are digging for arti-
facts and structural evidence
within the outer area and dirt
floor of the stone structure
located at the rear of the prop-
erty. They hope to establish the
date the building was erected
and also to determine its use.
Descendents of Sisterdale
settlers Nicholas Zink, Ernst
Kapp, George Frederick
Holekamp, Dr. Rudolf Wippre-
cht, Ottomar von Behr, Julius
Dresel, Andreas Langbein,
Edward Degner, Dr. Adolph
Donat, Emil Dresel, Rudolph
Dresel, Dr. W.L. Runge,
August Siemertig, Baron Von
Westphal, Rudolph Carstanjen,
Louis Von Beritenbach, Adolph
Neubert, Otto Neubert and
Louis Von Donop can assist
this effort by checking their
old family records, journals,
family Bibles and pictures for and earned a Master’s degree exhibit at the Witte Museum in
settlement and building dates at Arizona State University. A San Antonio, teaching children
of the structures in the area and resident of the Siserdale-Luck- about the aquifers and water
consider allowing the research- enach area of Kendall County systems in the San Antonio
ers to review and possibly take for two years, she has traveled area.
photos of the documents to add extensively doing archeologi- To share historical docu-
to the historical records of the cal work in Belize, Nicaragua, ments or for more information
Sisterdale community. Thailand and other countries, on the project, contact her at
Miller is a graduate of the uni- She was the archeologist in 210-542-0808 or email at ais-
versity of the Incarnate Word charge of the World of Water foralex@aol.com.
Mark Barlow carefully moves dirt from the base of a wall in the historic stone
building on the Sisterdale Dance property.
Wentworth urges
PUC to put power
line route on hold
BY CANDACE E. Velvin__________
Managing Editor |
As property rights advocates and landowner
groups are hiring lawyers to fight the pro-
posed route for a power transmission line
through the Hill Country, State Sen. Jeff
Wentworth (R-San Antonio) is urging the
Public Utilities Commission to stop the con-
tentious process and let the legislature address
it in the upcoming session.
LCRA Transmission Services Corporation
will present proposed routes for the McCa- J
mey D-to-Kendall-to-Gillespie transmission
line project to the PUC on Wednesday.
Three transmission line projects intended to
carry renewable wind power from West Texas
to more populated areas of the state have
drawn opposition from landowners and con-
servation groups as well as city and county
governments along the projected routes.
After hearing what he called “vociferous
objections” from his District 25 constituents,
including a group of 40 landowners he met
with in Comfort two weeks ago, Wentworth
said he is urging the PUC “to put this on the
back burner” and let the legislature address it.
He said he is joined by District 24 Sen. Troy
Fraser, who represents Kerr and Gillespie
counties.
Wentworth said he agreed with angry land-,
owners that the proposed route does not follow
existing rights-of-way to the extent they could
be used and that more consideration should be
given to existing residences when mapping a
route outside the rights-of-way.
“I would encourage the use of route selec- :
tion policies that are more respectful of
property rights and look forward to the oppor-
tunity to address that matter in the upcoming
legislative session,” Wentworth said.
Several Hill Country cities along the pro-
posed route and the Kerr County and Mason
County Commissioners Courts have passed
resolutions urging the PUC to choose routes
that follow existing rights-of-way that have
already been approved for use as highways
or other transmission lines, limiting fur-
ther destruction of critical habitat and water
resources. Local governments and landowner
groups also oppose the 18-story-tall steel lat-
tice structures LCRA TSC plans to construct.
Landowners and conservation groups say
200-foot easements would be clearcut along
the routes, destroying miles of pristine Hill
Country land and diminishing property
values.
“I believe there is enough controversy
around the proposed route to delay selection
until the 82nd Legislature convenes in Janu-
ary and is given the opportunity to review the
parameters for route selection,” Wentworth
wrote in his letter to PUC Chairman Barry
Smitherman and members of the PUC and
to Chairman Rebecca Klein and directors of
the LCRA.
A route has been selected for the first of
the three transmission line projects. Another
proposed line has been on hold since June
when the PUC asked the Electric Reliability
Council of Texas to review whether the proj-
ect was still needed.
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