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Volume 53, No. 2
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Arsenic
levels up in
Woodsboro
By Kenda Nelson
Editor, County Press
WOODSBORO —
Arsenic levels rose
slightly above the
state’s guidelines for
municipal water sup-
plies this quarter.
New samples were
taken two weeks ago
and the public works
director is awaiting the
results.
Woodsboro’s newest
water well remains
shut down. Water from
the new well was sup-
posed to be blended
with the town’s other
two wells to lower the
arsenic levels.
“We’re waiting for
our engineers to come
up with something,”
said Gabriel Thomas,
public works director.
“We’ve done every-
Kenda Nelson photo
New well — unusable water.
thing they told us to
do.”
LNV Engineering,
the town’s engineering
firm, has brought in
Joe J. Vickers of The
Wellspec Company
in Dripping Springs.
Vickers is a hydrolo-
gist hired to study the
depth, the tests done
on the well, and all the
records from when the
well was dug, Thomas
said.
In other matters the
council voted unani-
mously to go up on
gaming machines from
$300 to $500 from this
point on.
“We don’t want to
price ourselves out of
the market, we need
all the revenue we
can get,” said Mayor
George Hernandez.
(See Game, 16A)
Burn ban presses on
By Kenda Nelson
Editor, County Press
REFUGIO — The com-
missioners court extend-
ed the burn ban another
60 days Tuesday morn-
ing.
“The only reasonably
damp area is in Tivoli and
Deaths
Morris Donald “Bubba”
Clawson
Gladys Green
Allison Eugene Payne
Carrie Bell Tyler
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School Page 11A
Community Page 3 A
Church Page 6 A
Obits Page 2A
Sports Page 10 A
that
will
di s -
appear also,” said Sheldon
Wiginton, chief deputy.
“We have not received
any of the rain we were
expecting.”
The court also rejected
a request from a Tivoli
man to move River Road
to one side of his prop-
erty.
Larry Landgrafs
request was countered
by another resident who
lives along the road —
Sharon Walker who has
lived near the road for 33
years.
“I’ve never seen a prob-
lem,” Walker said. “Once a
year the traffic gets heavy
but I don’t see many bird
watchers. I don’t think we
need a new road at the
taxpayers’ expense.”
Part of Walker’s objec-
tion related to the design
of the new road which she
said is straight and then
makes a sharp turn near
her home.
Commissioner Rod
Bernal said the new pro-
posed road would have
had two curves.
“I don’t want that,”
Bernal said.
The court also approved
a request from Ida
Ramirez, county clerk, for
a new records system.
“We’re running out of
room,” Ramirez said. “It’s
my intent to go paper-
less.”
Under the new system,
people will be able to
access land records from
the website and purchase
copies as needed. The sys-
tem will cost $400 less
than the current one with
more records.
The court also agreed
to a rent hike for the for-
mer AEP building which
now houses the extension
office. The monthly rent
including utilities will be
$767.80 compared to the
previous rent of $750.
“I drove around and
looked at options,”
Commissioner Stanley
Tuttle said. “The rent is
more expensive plus utili-
ties.”
The court also approved
a request from Boardwalk
Field Services to bore a
pipeline under West
Ranch Road and Kelley
Road.
Reinstated
City worker’s termination rescinded
By Kenda Nelson
Editor, County Press
A city employee who
was terminated by Mayor
Rey Jaso four days ago
will be reinstated with
pay following Tuesday
night’s council meeting.
Rene Reyna, who has
worked for the town for
15 years, told the coun-
cil he wanted his appeal
to be heard in the open
meeting - not in execu-
tive session behind closed
doors.
Reyna’s termination
was spurred by a let-
ter from a woman who
claimed “he looked at me
in a way that made me
feel uncomfortable.”
The employee put on
the same sunglasses he
was wearing the day he
allegedly made her feel
uncomfortable, and asked
the council how someone
could perceive a look from
behind the dark sun-
shades.
Reyna said he came
off his break and went
to Commons Street where
he and another employee
were picking up brush.
When the woman drove
by, Reyna said, “I asked
her one simple question.
Would her husband be at
the shop later?”
Reyna told the coun-
cil the woman’s husband
owed $750 in back rent
and had been avoiding
him and would not return
his calls.
“I don’t charge that
much; the rent is only
$125 per month,” Reyna
said.
On Aug. 7 at 11:30 a.m.,
according to the woman’s
letter, “Rene Reyna went
Heat snu s out life
of Bay side man
By Kenda Nelson
Editor, County Press
BAYSIDE — Heat stroke is believed
to be the cause of a Bayside man’s
death last week.
Morris Donald “Bubba” Clawson, 46,
was alive but unresponsive when depu-
ties and EMS paramedics found him
lying on a road at Mission River Oaks
on Aug. 6.
Several residents who live in the rural
area along the banks of the Mission
River called the sheriffs department to
report a man staggering and walking
“loopy.”
Deputies Ron Ramirez and Glen
Grashamwere dispatched to investigate
and found Clawson unconscious but
breathing. His temperature was highly
elevated. Clawson was transported to
Refugio Memorial Hospital before being
transferred to a Victoria hospital.
“My first concern was how he got
from Woodsboro, where he was working
as a carpenter, to Mission River Oaks,”
said Sheriff Robert Bolcik.
Investigators at the sheriffs depart-
ment began to track his movements.
“We had eye witnesses who saw
him at 1:36 p.m. on Wranosky Road,”
Bolcik said “He was also seen going into
Morris Donald "Bubba" Clawson of Bayside was
found unconscious on a road in Mission River
Oaks on Aug. 6 but later died in a Victoria hospi-
tal. A heat stroke is being blamed for his death.
Haertig’s where he bought a beer. Two
eye witnesses saw him walking into
Mission River Oaks at about 2:30.”
The Clawson family is heartbroken
with unanswered questions. Denesa
Reni Clawson, Bubba’s sister, is
(See Clawson, 16A)
Kenda Nelson photo
Rene Reyna, 15-year city worker, was reinstated by unanimous
decision by the Refugio City Council.
to my house on Commerce
and left a letter.” He did
not see or talk to anyone.
Street. That’s
property.”
not his
'I think she was
mad at you and I
think your super-
visor wanted you
out of there/
“I think she was mad
at you and I think your
supervisor wanted you out
of there,” said Councilman
Frank Hosey. “That’s my
opinion.”
— Frank Hosey,
councilman
The woman claimed
Reyna should “not come
to our house on Commerce
“No, sir, I don’t,” coun-
tered Kevin Shreckengost,
Reyna’s supervisor.
Shreckengost claimed
that he did not terminate
Reyna. The mayor did.
“I followed the policy,”
(See Reyna, 16A)
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