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A2 The Bastrop Advertiser SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2013
LOCAL
COUNTY
Commissioners hire new engineer for county
Previously served
as an engineer for
Texas DOT.
By Sarah Acosta
sacosta@acnnewspapers.
com
Bastrop County com-
missioners recently hired
Blake Dommert as the
county’s new engineer,
replacing Ronnie Moore
who left for a new job in
July.
Born in Sulphur, La.,
Dommert graduated from
LMU with a bachelor of
science in civil engineer-
ing. He and his wife, Don-
na, have two grown sons,
Mike and Kent, and have
lived in the county since
1994.
He previously served
as assistant area engineer
for Texas Department of
Transportation from 1987
to 2012.
His extensive back-
ground in highway main-
tenance and county road
infrastructure has led
him to many good work-
ing relationships with
other developmental de-
partments.
“I believe my work ex-
perience with TxDOT, in
Bastrop County and most
of the counties around
Austin, will be useful in
not only the highway
maintenance and con-
struction experiences I
have gained, but also in
the many professional re-
lationships I have devel-
oped with state and lo-
cal agencies and many
private engineering and
development firms,” he
said.
Dommert said he will
assist the Bastrop Coun-
ty commissioners with
the planning necessary
for maintaining county
roads in a cost effective
manner.
“I hope to have a good
relationship with de-
velopers as they work
through our develop-
ment services depart-
ment to bring responsible
growth to Bastrop Coun-
ty,” he said.
Housed at 806 Water
St., he can be reached at
512-581-7176 or by email
at blalce.dommert@
co.bastrop.tx.us.
Contact Sarah Acosta at 512-
237-4655.
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Blake Dommert is Bastrop County’s newly hired engineer, erin green /Austin community
NEWSPAPERS
Award-winning author coming to speak
Baron de Bastrop
Chapter to host
Western writer
James Haley.
Texas author James Ha-
ley will speak at the Bar-
on de Bastrop Chapter’s
Sept. 13 meeting at 11 a.m.
in the upstairs confer-
ence room of First Na-
tional Bank in Bastrop.
Haley will talk about
his most recent book,
published by the Univer-
sity of Texas Press: “The
Texas Supreme Court: A
Narrative History, 1836-
1986.” Not a history of
Texas laws, it shows how
the Texas court helped
to tame the frontier, lead
other states in such areas
as women’s rights and
fashioned an absolute-
ly unique jurisprudence
by blending its ancient
Spanish civil law heritage
with the common law of
the United States. The
public is invited to hear
this wonderful author
speak.
At the Aug. 9 meet-
ing, treasurer Kay Valen-
ta stated that the trea-
sury had never looked so
good, with a balance be-
yond anything that the
chapter has ever had in
the past. Registrar Ju-
dy Sien reported that she
is helping more than 30
people find papers on
their ancestors that will
allow them to join the or-
ganization. Former regis-
trar Evelyn Wolfe said “I
still help a little bit.” She
does more than that and
both she and Judy are
very active in researching
ancestors.
Chaplain Emily Dil-
lon, chairman of the ed-
ucation committee, an-
nounced
that pack-
ets for the
scholarship
commit-
tee and es-
say contest
committee
have been
printed and
sent out to some Bastrop
County counselors and li-
brarians. The committee,
consisting of Janet Nam-
lcen, Patsy Trigg, Mar-
iann Laughlin and Dil-
lon, will be contacting
Bastrop County fourth-
and seventh-grade teach-
ers about the essay con-
test, as soon as school
begins. Senior counsel-
ors are also being con-
tacted about the schol-
arship, which will have
a deadline in December
and will be awarded at
the Feb. 14 Valentine Tea.
If you need information
on either of these con-
tests, contact Emily Dil-
lon at ejd718@yahoo.
com (scholarship) or Jan-
et Namlcen at janetnam-
ken@att.net (essay con-
test). They are open to all
Bastrop County students
in grades 4, 7 and 12.
Before the close of the
meeting, vice president
Alyce Ferguson gave a
talk on the flags of Texas.
“I’m a flag nut,” Fergu-
son admitted.
Back in the old days,
“everybody had a flag,”
Ferguson said. “If you
were going somewhere
and doing something,
you got a stick and a
piece of cloth and flew a
flag. It was a way to iden-
tify yourself.”
The Texas flag took ma-
ny turns before finally
evolving into the one we
use now.
“The De Zavala flag
was gorgeous,” Ferguson
said, “but was never offi-
cially used.”
Texans had the “Come
and Take it Flag” with a
cannon on a white back-
ground that flew over the
Battle of Gonzales. “The
Bloody Arm Flag” flew
over La Bahia when Tex-
ans first said, “We want
to be independent.” The
Alamo flag had the year
1824 on it, because many
people just wanted to go
back to the earlier Mex-
ican constitution before
Santa Anna overthrew it.
But the red flag Santa An-
na flew outside the walls
of the Alamo meant “no
quarter.” The flag that
flew at the Battle of San
Jacinto now resides in the
Texas House of Represen-
tatives, but the flag of the
New Orleans Greys, be-
lieved to be the only one
captured at the Battle of
the Alamo, is still in Mex-
ico despite repeated ap-
peals to get it back.
Because Texas was
once its own country, the
state is allowed to fly the
flag at the same height as
the U.S. flag.
“Red means bravery;
blue means loyalty; white
means purity,” Ferguson
said. “Flags are import-
ant and should be treated
with respect.”
Contact Sien for infor-
mation about joining the
Daughters of the Repub-
lic of Texas at cairnsrob-
by@hotmail.com. Associ-
ate memberships are also
available for those who
have an interest in Tex-
as history and want to be
part of the chapter’s ac-
tivities. Associate mem-
berships are $20 annual-
ly. At present, the chap-
ter has nine associate
members.
James Haley
COMMUNITY
PPLT will seek Land Trust Alliance accreditation
Volunteers on Pines and Prairies Land Trust and the
Industrial Asset Management Council service project
committee are growing a native plant demonstration
garden at the Colorado River Refuge near Tahitian Village in
Bastrop. It’s just one project PPLT has undertaken recently.
CONTRIBUTED
Review will show
how group meets
highest standards.
Pines and Prairies
Land Trust (PPLT) was in-
corporated in 2001 as a
501(c)3, nonprofit orga-
nization formed to pro-
tect natural and cultur-
al resources and pro-
mote sustainable agricul-
ture through education
and preservation of open
space in Central Texas.
PPLT does this by holding
conservation easements
on significant private
property and by owning
land.
PPLT’s Board of Direc-
tors has always believed
that the Land Trust must
conform to the most rig-
orous standards in all its
undertakings, not only to
ensure the permanence
of its work but also in or-
der to preserve the trust
of its supporters and do-
nors. PPLT is a mem-
ber of the Land Trust Al-
liance, the national um-
brella group of land
trusts and has adopted
LTA’s Standards and Prac-
tices.
Pines and Prairies
Land Trust is now ap-
plying for accreditation
with the Land Trust Ac-
creditation Commission.
The Accreditation Com-
mission, an indepen-
dent program of the Land
Trust Alliance, will con-
duct a lengthy, in-depth
review of PPLT’s poli-
cies, programs and prac-
tices to ensure that PPLT
is adhering to the LTA’s
strict national standards
for conducting the com-
plex and important work
of preserving significant
open space in perpetuity.
The Accreditation
Commission requires
PPLT to invite public in-
put and accepts signed,
written comments on
pending applications.
Comments must relate to
how Pines and Prairies
Land Trust complies with
national quality stan-
dards, both ethically and
technically in its business
transactions and its day
to day operations, as re-
lated to LTA’s indicator
practices.
For the full list
of standards and
practices, see
landtrustaccreditation.
org/tipsandtools/
indicatorpractices.
To learn more about
the accreditation
program and to submit
a comment, visit
landtrustaccreditation.
org or email your
comment to info@
landtrustaccreditation.
org.
Comments may also
be faxed or mailed to the
Land Trust Accreditation
Commission, Attn:
Public Comments, 112
Spring Street, Suite 204,
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
12866 or (fax) 518-
587-3183.
Comments concerning
Pines and Prairies Land
Trust should be received
by the Accreditation
Commission no later than
Oct. 15.
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CORRECTION
A headline on a front-page
story of the Aug. 17
Advertiser on the
proposed Bastrop
property tax rate - stating
a rate hike is “likely” - was
incorrect. The city council
has not yet decided on the
initially proposed rate of
59.5 cents.
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