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Hondo merchants
invite you to their
Christmas Extravaganza
Hondo merchants have planned a
Christmas Extravaganza downtown
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dee.
2-34. At the top of their Christmas
list arc great savings and many dis-
counted items.
They will also offer longer hours.
Unlike Christmas events in the
past, there will be no booths in the
streets downtown. Plenty cf parking
will be available.
Anyone, age 13 and up, may sign
up for free gift certificates which
merchants will be giving away.
Drawing of winners' names will be
held live on Radio Station KRME
Monday, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m.
Certificates must be used at any
Participating merchants'
ads appear on pages 7
thru 9 of this issue.
participating store by Dec. 24. Each
certificate may be used at one store
for the full amount. Credit can be
given for unused portions, but no
cash will be given as change.
On Saturday, Dec. 4, Santa will ar
rive in Hondo on a fire truck. He will
be escorted around the neighbor-
hoods before stopping at City Hall to
visit with children. Santa will have
candy for children who visit him
from 10 a m. to 1 p.m
Hondo school bands
plan Christmas concerts
PHOTO BY FRANCES GUINN
THE BIRDS... Like in the old Alfred Hitchcock movie, thousands of birds flocked into trees in the alley behind the Armstrong Hotel Monday
evening. After congregating in the trees for a while, alternating between chirping loudly and sudden silence, they scattered in a flurry, headed
in every direction. Several hundred of the birds have claimed trees in the area as their nighttime home for much of the summer.
County Health Unit receives $25,000
to start primary care!services project
No commodities
Commodities will not be distrib-
uted for the month of December
due to a shortage of items, accord-
ing to Beverly Lutz, assistant di-
rector of the program.
Commodities will be given out
in January. The exact time and date
will be published later.
Anyone desiring further infor-
mation may contact Mrs. Lutz at
426-2395,oral808A HarpcrSlrcct
on the Hondo airbase.
Choirs to perform
The Hondo High School Choir
will perform in a Christmas Concert
Sunday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m. at the First
Baptist Church, Hondo.
The Baptist Church Choir and
Children's Choir will also perform.
The Hondo High School Band will
hold its Christmas Concert Monday,
Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., in the high school
Activities Center. The Jazz. Band will
also perform.
The program will present a variety
of music, "a little bit of everything",
according to Band Director Kenneth
Ersch, including Russian Christmas
music.
ThcMcDowcll Junior High Band
will travel to San Antonio's Interna-
tional Airport to perform a concert
for travelers on Dec. 8. This is the
third time the band has been invited
to perform for passengers in the ter-
minal area.
On Thursday, Dec. 9, the 5th, 6th,
Junior High bands will have their
Christmas Concerts at the McDowell
gym, beginning at 6:30p.m. The Jr.
High Jazz Band will also perform.
The high school Activities Center
was not available for the concerts.
Due to the limited seating in the
McDowell gym, band directors are
asking that parents and students not
stay for performances in which they
do not have a band member partici-
pating.
The Texas Dcparuneni of Health
awarded a $25,000 grant to the
Medina County Health Unit to start a
community oriented primary care/
primary health care services project.
The effective date of the grant is Dec.
1, 1993.
Judy Williams of the county health
unit presented the commissioners
court with a letter from John H. Dom-
broski, Texas Department of Health
Primary Health Care Services Pro-
gram Director, to Dr. John Meyer,
director of the county health unit,
explaining die requirements that had
to be met to implement the grant.
Williams said that 18 to 20% of die
grant could be used for administra-
tive costs. County Judge Donald E.
Campscy asked Williams to find out
if part of die administrative cost
could be paid to the county to cover
the county's cost of administering the
h'bWW l'ic county treasurer. Wil-
liams agreed to do so.
Williams said she would use
Delma Arcos, who is currently work-
ing with indigent health applicants, to
screen applicants for the new primary
health care funds.
Alter further discussion, the court
unanimously approved the grant.
Democratic chairman
submits resignation
Jim Ferguson resigned as the
Medina County Democratic Party
chairman.
Wednesday, Ferguson declined to
give the Hondo Anvil Herald his
reason for resigning.
The Hondo Radar Station reports the follow-
ing weather information for this past week:
Rep. Nieto seeks appeal
to recent aquifer ruling
Date
High
Low
Rain
Tue., Nov. 23
77
52
.00
Wed., Nov. 24
75
47
.00
Thu., Nov. 25
47
33
.09
Fri., Nov. 26
48
29
.00
Sat., Nov. 27
59
20
.00
Sun., Nov. 28
66
23
.00
Mon., Nov. 29
71
30
.00
Tue., Nov. 30
74
32
.00
Total rain for past week: 0.09
Total rain for November: 0.73 in.
Total rain for 1993: 16.39 in.
Rainy days in 1993: 67
Avg. high temp, for the week: 64.6°
Avg. low temp, for the week: 33.2°
High temp, for 1993: 99°,
on July 23 and July 30
Low temp, for 1993: 20°, on Nov. 27
Rain in 1992, thru Nov. 30: 43.99 in.
Rain in 1991, thru Nov. 30: 28.78 in.
In a letter to Texas Attorney Gen-
eral Dan Morales, Rep. Pedro Nieto
urged the State to appeal the recent
ruling regarding the regulation of the
Edwards Aquifer. The U.S. Justice
Department recently ruled that the
newly created authority's appointed
board does not satisfy the voting
Righls Act of 1965.
"As the State Representative for
Uvalde and Medina Counties, 1 am
urging you to use whatever means
necessary to appeal this objection,"
Nieto said in the Nov. 24 letter to
Morales.
"Under the existing elected Ed-
wards Underground Water District,
Uvalde and Medina citizens, who
represent the majority of landowners
using the Aquifer, have little or no
voice in the governance of the Ed-
wards Aquifer. However, under the
proposed Edwards authority created
by S.B. 1477, citizens of Uvalde and
Medina County have an equal voice
in regulating the Edwards Aquifer,”
Nieto further states in this letter.
"White I fully understand the pur-
pose of the Voting rights Act of 1965
and its validity in giving minorities
an equal vote, an elected board will
discriminate against Uvalde and
Medina Counties, because although
we have most of the water in our two
counties, we only have a small per-
centage of the population in the re-
gion," Nieto concludes.
PHOTO BY FRANCES GUINN
JOINT MEETING... Arthur Sanchez of Bexar Metropolitan Water Dis-
trict and John Ward of Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Water Control and Im-
provement District No. 1 are pictured at a joint meeting of the two boards
Monday, Nov. 29, in Castroville. Among other business, the boards
were briefed jointly by their respective legal counsel and staff on the
status of BMA's pending application to amend their Certificate of
Adjudication and on the hearing before the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission (TNRCC) on Wednesday, Dec.1. BMA,
which owns Medina Lake, seeks to sell a portion of its unused irrigation
water allocation to BexarMet for human consumption. Medina Lake
area residents say they plan to protest the requested change and to ask
for a public hearing on the matter.
Survey seeks
to determine
number of
unemployed
Plans arc in ihc making for con-
ducting a survey in Hondo during the
week of Monday, Dec. 6, to deter-
mine the number of residents in the
labor force and the number of unem-
ployed.
Information gathered will be used
in an effort to change the boundaries
of the established Enterprise Zone.
A survey team member will go
house-to-house in the northeast
quadrant of the city, bounded by
Ave. M on the west and Hwy. 90 on
the south.
Residents of the area are encour-
aged to contact the City of Hondo if
the^i have questions.
The survey is sought by Medina
Economic Development Foundation
which expects to use the information
in an effort to recruit additional
apartment construction in the city.
Juvenile detention center sees increase
in income, participants over last year
PHOTO BY FRANCES GUINN
THANKSGIVING BOUNTY... Two local families were adopted by officers and employees of the Torres Unit
in their latest community service project. Encouraged by Warden David Stacks and Assistant Warden Oscar
Mendoza, the gathering committee received approximately $200 worth of cash donations and food items
from fellow employees to distribute to the two families. The committee, consisting of (l-r) Jackie Bank, Diana
Viera and Sylvia Ontiveros and Chaplin Ed Gates (not pictured),purchased and delivered the foodstuffs for
Thanksgiving Unused funds will begin the employees' drive for a similar Christmas project, they said. The
recipients were selected from lists supplied by the schools. "This is a small way for us to give something!
back to the community for the support they have shown us," said the committee members.
County juvenile probation officer
Glenn Muennink briefed the
commissioners court Monday on
detention statistics for the period OcL
1 toNov.29,1993, which he received
from program coordinator Irvin R.
Sail.
Collections for the period, which
totaled $51,545, were $11,093 over
budget. Collections result from hous-
ing out-of-county juveniles. Muen-
nink said the county detention center
has had to tum down children be-
cause of insufficient room to house
ihn-
For the period of Jan. to Nov. 1993,
the center has had 517 participants in
tic "nl-risk" nrtnlpsrr.nl nrnornms
For 1992, the programs had a total of
424 participants.
The programs include first offend-
ers, parenting classes, youth counsel-
ing, parent counseling, drug testing,
drug awareness presentations, drug
education, and assessments.
Assessments result in referrals to
the listed programs and to the Texas
Children's Mental Health Program
and child protective services.
Muennink also asked the court for
authorization to advertise for bids for
a two-way radio system, for an addi-
tion computer to add to the current
computer network and to add a room
and restroom to the present detention
center.
He said he was told the center
needs a smoke alarm and a place to
locate juveniles if there is a fire.
Muennink said the new addition
could serve that purpose as well as a
classroom.
Muennink said the center has
about $17,0(X) in performance re-
ward money which must be spent by
Dec. 31,1993, or be lost. He said the
money could be spent for capital
outlays if the expenditures can be
shown to prevent delinquency. He
said he felt his requests met that re-
quirement.
After discussion, the court author-
ized Muennink to advertise for bids
for the three items he requested.
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