Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1995 Page: 1 of 12
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| The 17th annual Texas Fisherman's Festi- auction and also purchase
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seafood harvest, will be held from 11 a,m,-5 auction, ,«
am. Saturday (Dec. 2) at the Palacios Recre- Proceeds from the annual
^jon Center, the Matagorda County Marin
In addition to a super Matagorda Bay sea- arship Fund for area youth,
food feast, the Fisherman’s Festival will also
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a variety of unique arts and crafts ami oysters—along with all the trimmings— A free
, as well as exhibits. In addition, the will be served from 11 a,m.-3 p.m. The cost is Airport'
will have the opportunity to bid on a $6 per plate. for the .
i’s Treasure Trove” of items duimg the The aits and crafts booths will be open in ,, shuttle service, cal! 972-2387
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Teen Court to
be held Thursday
at County Annex
The next session of Teen
Court will take place at 6
p.m. Thursday (Nov. 30) at
the Maugorda County An-
nex building in Palacios.
The court is open to the
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, meeting Dec. 4 at
PHS field house
T: The Palacios Athletic
hBooster meeting will be
•‘held at 6:30 p.m. Monday
(CNec. 4) at the Palacios
[.High School field house.
1 ■ Birding Trail
. benefits discussed
by TPWD official
Madge Lindsay of the
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Dept, will discuss the eco-
nomic benefits of the Cen-
tral Coast Birding Trail at 2
>s p.m. Dec. 5 and 6 at the
I Trull Foundation Office,
I 404 Fourth Street Also to
I be discussed is the upcom-
ing Dec. 18 bird count
All those interested are
invited to attend.
■ Pearl Harbor
Day ceremonies
scheduled Dec. 7
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CP&L rate hike request
Request now goes to Public Utilities Commission
BY LBTA HOOPER
quest receive automatic representation at PUC
hearings at no cost to the city.
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p»i»olo» Bmoon smB Writf_^ cp&l representative Erwin Janszen said
. Centtai Power and light's (CP&L) request residential rates have decreased since 1991 due
Pearl Harbor Day re-1 w raise ^ rates was mmed down by council to the company s success in negotiating for
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■, CP&L has filed * a peti- schedule, the earliest any increase would gp ;h
n n tL palVrin. nav.Tion Palacios CounciL
• Structuring of I miUion, or approximately a 4.6 percent in- in late 1996. mutf*
youth basketball •SSaSfcrtn-im ^
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. COUNCIL BRIEFS
Daniel Lee Pounds was hired and sworn in
at 972-6226 so that struc-
turing of the league can
begin, i ’f?
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j m if es'l ? n for fomer en^loyees, A one-time fee of $50
ultimately rase wilt be charged to the city if an employee aj/
#s irni'-f,/ chooses io' go on;COBRA after leaving city
employment. ~
Slioi^i^^ork
ogt nwy. 55 to
star! next week
Palacios-to-Blessing stretch earmarked
area engineer for the Texas Department of
.DOT), has announced plans to reconstruct
> from Blessing to Palacios,
will provide two eight-foot surfaced shoulders
fmS S Iff tone,, Inc. in W(*n*cr for
°COT^roctlon signs were scheduled to be put into place
Monday (Nov. 27) with construction starting Dec. 4.
Under this project, the existing shoulders will be scarified and
reshaped with additional base material. The entire roadway travel
lancsand shoulders, will be sealed with asphalt and aggregate. To
accommodate the additional width of the shoulders, the center-
line drainage box and pipe culverts will be widened and safety
end treatments (sloped ends) installed where ajroropriate.
In addition to the shoulder work, a safety end treatment will be
places on each end of all driveway pipes. In some areas the exist-
inTdilch will be cleaned thus requiring several driveway pipes to
be reraoved and replaced. All driveways will have base material
addedsnd then sealed with asphalt and aggregate.
t)eadUne Dec* 14th
for PhlaciosBeacon
“ Letters To ” \
Santa Claus is beginning to make his list and will be checking it
twice as Christmas Day rapidly approaches. Now is the time for
youngsters to let Santa know what they would
lilce to see under their Christmas tree on
Christmas morning.
One way to do that is to write “Letters to
Santa” for publication in the Pala-
cios Beacon’s holiday edition to
be published on Dec. 20th.
In order to have their letter
f appear in tte “Letters to Santa”
section, youngsters need to sub-
mit their letters to the Palacios
Beacon no later than 5 p.m.
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lie: fegibly printed and include the child s first aiid lasfname.
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Cities such as Palacios that deny CP&L’s re-
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Free Oiristmas Concert, PHS Ait Show in Fine Arts Bldg.; Palace Singers perform at turkey dinner
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West, Nicholas M. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1995, newspaper, November 29, 1995; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth724794/m1/1/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.