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Texas’ oldest weekly newspaper since March 1,1853 Semi-weekly since Sept. 5,1977
Saturday, August 10,2013
Vol. 160, No. 51
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INSIDE
SPORTS: Counting down
the district’s best offensive
linemen. B1
CLEAN UP: City crews and
firefighters had a mess to
clean up after a rollover. A3
MYTHS AND TRUTHS:
Carolyn Banks remembers
the strangeness of youth.
A4
CALENDAR
SATURDAYAND
SUNDAY, AUG. 10
AND11
VFW Post 12104 firstchili
cookoff at American Legion
Post 533,3003 Loop 150
East in Bastrop. Fundraiser
for VFW Post 12104. Entry
fee $20 Saturday, turn in
time 2 p.m. $18 on Sunday,
turn in time at 1 p.m.
Saturday night cook’s party.
Meal is $7, begins at 4 p.m.
on Saturday. Silent auction,
raffle and a 50/50. Looking
forjudges. Call Crystal Dear
at 512-844-6668 or Brandy
Bryant at 512-997-8087
for more information or to
volunteer or donate.
TUESDAY, AUG. 13
7 p.m. - Tahitian Village
Property Owners
Association has invited
Carly Blankenship, program
manager of TreeFolks to
speak at a forum that will
take place in the meeting
room of the Water District
building located at 106
Conference Drive in Tahitian
Village (behind Walgreen’s).
Blankenship will speakabout
the longterm reforestation
program TreeFolks has
launched for Bastrop County
property owners affected
by the 2011 Bastrop fires.
She will also speak about the
Fire Wise & Fuel Mitigation
Workshop coming in
September. This forum is
open to all Bastrop County
residents affected by the
fires.
COMMUNITY
VFW searches for a new home
‘We would definitely take a land
donation or a good deal on land or a
building — or both.’
Rick Dear
Post commander
Chili cook-off benefits
Bastrop VFW Post
12104 this weekend.
By Terry Hagerty
thagerty@acnnewspapers.com
The proceeds from a chili
cook-off today and Sunday at
American Legion Post 533 will
help a Bastrop VFW post find
a new home.
Rick Dear, commander of
VFW Post 12104, said mem-
bers are looking for land to
build a new building and
close their current site at FM
1441 and Hwy. 21 East.
“Our lease expires soon
and we are just looking for a
more affordable place,” said
Dear, who served in Vietnam
in 1967 as a helicopter crew
chief with the 196th Light In-
fantry Brigade.
Also, the post will seek a
new direction - getting away
from the “bar business,” Dear
said.
“We will do everything to-
wards helping the community
with our fundraising support,
but we won’t be a bar any-
more,” Dear said. He added
that “too many people were
just showing up to drink” but
not to help support the fund-
raising efforts of the post.
“We are trying to turn ev-
erything around and will sup-
port veterans’ causes better,”
Dear said.
Some of those efforts in-
clude helping veterans at ar-
ea nursing homes, supporting
the Wounded Warriors pro-
gram and seeking local mid-
dle and high school students
for the Voice of Democracy
essay-writing competition.
Land search
Dear said VFW members
would welcome a land and/
or building donation from the
area community, but they are
not necessarily counting on
that scenario and are
continuing with their
VFW continued on A6
FUNDRAISER
Bowling to support their brothers
6th annual Battle of the
Badges offered a fun
time for a good cause.
By Erin Green
egreen@acnnewspapers.com
Arriving early, the blue knit
polo shirt-clad duo of Gabriel
Martinez and Jason Roschetz-
ky took their time.
Mentally preparing them-
selves for the battle they and
their teammates on the Feder-
al Correctional Institution’s FCI
Pin Heads bowling team - com-
prising not only themselves but
also Jeff Gray and Claude Spann
- were about to have, the pair
changed their shoes and sized
up the competition.
It was bound to be a fierce
competition, they agreed,
right down to the wire. But,
of course, it was all good-na-
tured and all for a good cause.
The FCI Pin Heads were
one of 16 teams competing in
the sixth annual Battle of the
Badges Tuesday evening at
the Schulman Theatres Lost
Pines 8 Movie-Grille-Bowl.
“It’s fun to get together and
compete against other law
enforcement agencies,” Ro-
schetzlcy said, while waiting
for Gray and Spann to arrive.
Martinez agreed, expanding
on what his teammate said.
“I think it’s pretty neat,” he
said of his participation in the
event - his first time bowling
in the tournament, actually.
Bastrop County Commissioner Precinct 1 Willie Pina checks the scoreboard while Jarret and Jared Namken
pause between turns at the Battle of the Badges Tuesday, erin green /bastrop advertiser
“I think it’s important that lo-
cal law enforcement agencies
get together and contribute to
a good cause.”
Roschetzlcy agreed, noting
it’s also a good excuse to have
a good time.
That, they did.
Sponsored by the Bastrop
County Sheriff’s Office, the Bat-
tle of the Badges bowling tour-
nament originated as a friend-
ly competition between the po-
lice and sheriff’s departments.
But the event has grown tre-
mendously since its inception,
including teams Tuesday eve-
ning from not only the police
and sheriff’s offices - compet-
ing for bragging rights and a
trophy for the winning depart-
ment - but also the Bastrop
Fire Department, the Feder-
al Correctional Institution and
the Travis County Sheriff’s Of-
fice, as well as from the com-
munity.
The tournament is a fund-
raiser benefitting the Bastrop
Citizens Police Academy Alum-
ni Association and the Bastrop
County Citizens Sheriff’s Acad-
emy Alumni Association, orga-
nizer Vicki Lyn James said.
James said the money raised
through the event - half of the
event’s proceeds go to each of
Badges continued on A2
CITY COUNCIL
COMPLEX FIRE
Stops to control Farm Street speed
THURSDAY, AUG. 15
11:45 a.m.-Charles J. Mazac
with Edward Jones will host
a free seminar open to the
public at Bassano’s Italian
Restaurant. Lunch will be
provided, therefore RSVP is
required by Aug. 13. Seating
is limited to 25. Women
& Investing presentation
will provide strategies to
help women investors take
greater control of their
financial future.
547vehicles travel 5-plus
mph over speed limit.
By Terry Hagerty
thagerty@acnnewspapers.com
Drivers on Farm Street will
be slowing down a bit more
after the Bastrop City Council
recently approved three stop
signs along that much-trav-
eled avenue. The street,
which runs east/west behind
the Bastrop Convention Cen-
ter, is also the locale of the
“historic chicken sanctu-
ary,” established by the coun-
cil after a recommendation
from council member Kay
McAnally and residents.
The council approved the
stop signs at its July 23 meet-
ing at intersections along
Farm Street after a traffic
study conducted by the Bas-
trop Public Works Depart-
ment, and supervised by di-
rector Trey Job, showed a
high traffic volume.
The study, conducted ear-
lier this year, used traffic
counters that were deployed
in several areas along Farm
Street. Job told the coun-
cil that there were a total of
23,515 vehicles that traveled
Stop signs continued on A3
WEATHER
Saturday forecast
High: 100
Low: 75
Sunny
INDEX
News
A2-A6
Obituaries
A2
Sports
B1
Classifieds
B3
Newsroom: 51 2-321 -2557
©The Bastrop Advertiser
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EDUCATION
District gets good news from state
By Erin Green
egreen@acnnewspapers.com
State accountability rat-
ings released Thursday con-
tain great news for the Bastrop
school district. After falling be-
hind in previous ratings for
the past two years, the school
district is now at the top of the
class.
The Texas Education Agen-
cy’s results show the Bastrop
school district not only met,
but exceeded, the state’s new
accountability standards.
According to the TEA,
more than 1,200 school dis-
tricts and charters, compris-
ing more than 8,500 campus-
es statewide, received ratings
this week under the new ac-
countability standards in the
four areas it measures - stu-
dent achievement, student
progress, closing performance
gaps and postsecondary read-
iness.
The ratings are based on
measures that TEA officials
hope will better account for
the complexities and challeng-
es schools face in preparing in-
creasingly diverse and low-in-
come student populations, the
TEA said.
“Under the new account-
ability system, these designa-
tions recognize outstanding
work at the campus level that
would not be acknowledged in
previous years,” Commission-
er of Education Michael Wil-
liams said in a statement re-
leased by the TEA. “The 2013
ratings confirm that the vast
majority of districts and cam-
puses are meeting the state’s
standards and providing a
quality education for our stu-
dents.”
Check Thursday’s issue of
the Advertiser for more details
on the scores.
Contact Erin Green at 512-321-
2557.
2011 fire
damage
fundraiser
on Sept. 3
The Bastrop County Long
Term Recovery Team has
rebuilt 75 homes.
By Sarah Acosta
sacosta@acnnewspapers.com
It’s been almost two years
since the Bastrop County
Complex Fires of September
2011 swept through the coun-
ty, destroying 1,691 homes, 38
businesses, taking two lives
and inflicting an estimated
$325 million of insured prop-
erty damage.
To commemorate the an-
niversary, the Bastrop Coun-
ty Long Term Recovery Team
will host their second annu-
al fundraiser, “Tribute To Re-
covery” on Sept. 3 at Hyatt
Regency Lost Pines Resort.
The event starts at 6 p.m.
and will feature a dinner ca-
tered by Hyatt, with music
by the Chubby Knuckle Choir
and local musician Hannibal
Lokumbe.
The national director for
Fire continued on A3
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