The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 62, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1984 Page: 3 of 32
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NOW..........
an opportunity
for trust services
in Bastrop
Charles Maddox, vice president and
trust officer for Victoria Bank & Trust
Co., will be at Citizens Bank Thursday
night, October 4, to meet you.
From 7 to 9 p.m. in the bank lobby Mr.; Maddox will
answer questions and describe the trust services
now available through Citizens Bank’s association
with Victoria Bank & Trust.
Please accept the invitation. It could be very impor-
tant to the future of your family.
Call Margaret Hanna or Pat Calvert at 321 -3973 for a
reservation.
Jojn us in supporting the Slide Busters drive for a new playground
at Bastrop Primary School.
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Drop off your donations at the American Legion for the big
Garage Sale Saturday, October 6, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. benefiting the
playground drive.
For more information call 321-2546 or 321-6042.
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Citizens Bank of Bastrop
Member: Victoria Bankshares, Inc.
Member FDIC
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Thursday, October 4, 1984 YhE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
Section I, Page 3
Bryants buy ambulance firm
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Dining Room or To Go
by Paula Gibson
Bastrop Ambulance Service was
officially sold Tuesday to a man
and wife licensed emergency med-
ical technician team with several
years of experience in ambulance
service management,
Terry Bryant and his wife Mil
will be assuming responsibility for
the service. Both received their
original EMT certification from
San Jacinto College in Houston in
1980, and are required to be recer-
tified every two years. Mi! is also
a licensed vocational nurse. The
Bryants worked five years as am-
bulance technicians and managers
of the ambulance service in Day-
ton, about 45 miles east of
Houston. They have been em-
ployed by the Bastrop Ambulance
Service since November 1983.
“The county we came from was
a very violent area, so coming to
Bastrop was a pleasant change for
Monday
CHICKEN PLATE
V2 Chicken
Potato Salad, Beans
Bread, Pickles, Onions
$2.69
Loop 150 bridge open
‘until it’s hit again’
us." Bryant explained. “It has al-
ways been one of my dreams to
own and operate my own am-
bulance service since I became in-
terested in the program fresh out
of high school."
According to Bryant, the am-
bulances themselves have to pass
stringent regulations each year to
be recertified by state inspectors
from the Texas Department of
Health. "We need to obtain another
ambulance stretcher, some porta-
ble suction units, various sizes of
blood pressure cuffs and some
other equipment to pass inspec-
tion," he commented. "As soon as
we get on our feet, we will secure
these items. In the future we hope
to either get another ambulance or
replace outdated supplies on the
standby ambulance we have
now. "Bastrop Ambulance Service
currently has two vehicles on call.
"We also hope to send a couple
of persons to school. It's hard to
do this since we’re on call 24 hours
a day and we have to get other peo-
ple to cover the students so they
can attend school." Bryant com-
mented. "We have to have some-
one else to alternate calls with."
Bryant said that the ambulance
service is privately owned and the
name of the business might be
changed in the future. The number
to reach the service will remain
321-2577.
Tuesday
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Bread, Pickles, Onions*
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Fri Sat Sun
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Repairs to the Loop 150 bridge
are complete after it was hit Satur-
day by a pickup truck.
Highway Department workers
closed the structure all day Mon-
day and Tuesday morning to fix
damage to the concrete guardrail.
"It’ll be open til they hit it
again," Mark Goertz, maintenance
supervisor with the Highway
Department, said.
The I930s-vintage bridge has
“taken a beating recently” having
been struck at least three times in
the last few weeks, Goertz said.
The latest incident happened
Saturday morning when a truck
driven by Mark Ross Collison, 24,
struck the guardrail. Collison was
eastbound on Loop 150 driving a
dual-axel pickup owned by Big Red
Bottling Co. of Austin when the
one car accident happened. Police
said the truck was demolished.
Collison was charged with
failure to control a motor vehicle
and with driving with a suspended
license.
Guide offered localites
on restoring houses
Better street bids hoped
Wednesday
HAM PLATE
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Potato Salad, Beans,
[Bread, Pickles, Onions)
$2.69
Thursday
BEEF PLATE
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At Our Drive-Through Wind
321-4344
Bastrop city officials are hoping
bids for street and drainage work
for a project on the northwest side
of town will come in at below the
bids the city received for the same
work two weeks ago.
The new bids will be opened
Oct. 23 at City Hall.
City council plans to pave three
streets in the northwest part of
town, but when City Engineer Joel
Wilkinson designed the project he
discovered the city will need to
provide drainage for the streets in
order for the project to be
successful.
Two bids were opened two
weeks ago and the street work
came in at about what Wilkinson
estimated. But the drainage portion
of the project was bid $135,000
more than his estmates.
The the two bids were only a few
hundred dollars apart: Dean &
Keng bid $409,397 for the work
and Austin Road and Bridge bid
$409,791.
The council rejected both bids.
In the second round of bidding
the street work has been separated
from the drainage work so the ci-
ty can accept the best street bid and
hopefully get a better bid on the
drainage work.
Wilkinson estimated the project,
including $60,000 for the drainage
work, at $275,000.
The project calls for paving
Wilson Street from the M-K-T-
tracks to Mesquite Street, Pecan
Street from Linden Street to Mes-
quite Street and Linden Street bet-
ween Carter and Wilson streets.
Wilkinson said a 48-inch
drainage pipe is needed to keep
water runoff from destroying the
street work. The pipe will run
along Laurel Street between Main
and Wilson streets and then north
aong Wilson to Piney Creek.
Bastrop will be turned into a liv-
ing laboratory of historic renova-
tion and design Saturday, Oct. 13.
GRW Enterprises, Dr. Gerald
Wagner’s company, is offering a
one day seminar free to Bastrop
County residents who make reser-
vations.
The unusual program—believed
to be the first of its kind ever
offered in the county-will include
a walking tour of buildings and
homes currently being restored.
Wagner, who has a large num-
ber of restoration projects under-
way in the city, said he believes it’s
a citizen’s duty to share informa-
tion and try to encourage improve-
ments and that’s why he is
sponsoring the seminar.
Each person attending will be
able to able to attend four differ-
ent sessions.
Lunch at The Pink Lady is in-
cluded in the day’s events.
Clay Terrell, president of Resto-
ration People Inc., will conduct the
tour of projects in progress in Bas-
trop’s historic districts.
Steve Johnson, antique collector
who specializes in Texas furniture
and pottery, will speak on identify-
ing Texas pottery. Bobbie Terrell
of Bastrop, manager, Lost Pines
Antiques, will lecture on traditional
qpilts.
Frances Rickards of the Texas
Historical Commission will discuss
how to obtain historic markers for
buildings.
Bill Mahoney, master craftsman
of Texas Furniture Manufactory in
Bastrop, yvill give tips on restor-
ing furniture. Buie Harwood of the
University of Texas will discuss
decorative painting in Texas from
the 1840s to 1940s.
Reservations can be made at 928
Main in Bastrop.
Well bids
to be opened
Oct. 18
Bids on a backup water well to
serve the city in case supplies from
the city’s source at the Camp Swift
Military Reservation are cut off
will be opened Oct. 18.
The city drilled an unsuccessful
well at the city water storage facilty
near the American Legion Post on
Loop 150. City Council decided to
try again at the same site, but at a
shallower depth.
The unsuccessful 900-foot well
was abandoned because of high
levels of sodium and chlorides in
the water.
The new well will be drilled to
the 600-foot level.
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