The Harper News (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, November 14, 2008 Page: 2 of 10
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The Harper News
November 14, 2008
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From the Editor
Congratulations to the
Wild Ride Ministries upon
their fifth anniversary!
They have accomplished a
lot in the last five years and
grown to be one of the
largest churches in Harper.
i also celebrate the fifth
birthday/milestone of The
Harper News. With this
issue we begin the sixth
year, it has been an inter-
esting time as Harper has
experienced many
changes. Lots more people
have moved in as evi-
denced by the growth of
the Harper schools. This
year the school is classified
as 2A. We also have new
enterprises in town—the
Harper Library and its
resale shop and new busi-
nesses such as the Diamond
C and Rags 2 Rhinestones.
This time period has seen
the rise of Harper Youth
Baseball, a cross country
program at school, a quilt-
ing and an appliqu§ group
and the purchase of three
new vehicles for the fire
department.
With growth has also
come the probability of
huge transmission lines
crossing our area and sev-
eral new subdivisions on all
sides of Harper. This trans-
lates into more traffic and
lots of problems.
I must take time to say
thank you to the many
people who make it possi-
ble to publish the paper
twice a month. First,
thanks to Peggy Ernst, the
Ole Mechanic and Gene
Bode. Their regular
columns help to attract and
keep readers. I also thank
Karen Conway, Dennis Link,
Pam Watson, and Bill White
for their writings. I appre-
ciate the Harper Schools
including Nicole White, Gina
Lumpkins, Royce Lumpkins,
Melissa Herring, Will Reid,
Cody White, Melanie
Parker, Raydean Borchers,
Jay Harper, Chris
Stevenson, Jan Townsend,
Doug Townsend and others
who continue to send me
pictures and stories about
their students. ■LH'-
I thank all those who
submit pictures and stories
of interest. They add a lot
to The Harper News. And
finally, I thank all you who
subscribe and read the
paper. Without your sup-
port, there would not be a
paper. I thank the follow-
ing businesses who sell the
paper for me: Dauna’s,
Bodes Feed and Supply,
Sanders Farm and Ranch
Center, the Longhorn Cafe,
and Waldos.
No paper could survive
without advertisements. I
appreciate those whose
advertisements help pay
for each issue. Their busi-
nesses are more easily
accessible to the public.
New businesses are given
an introduction in the
paper and others are
profiled here.
This paper was started to
promote unity and to
record history for Harper.
It was a collaborative effort
by the community. Its goal
is to continue that cover-
age for, by, and about the
people of Harper.
Thank you for five won-
derful years.
Due to the
Thanksgiving
Holidays, the next
paper will not be
published until
December 5.
The deadline
for the next issue
is Monday,
Dec. 1,2008
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Padre Island 1984
Howdy!! Did you ever
hunt at Padre Island? Boy is
that an experience. Hang
on—let me tell you about it.
You know I am always
looking for a new place to
hunt. I reckon it’s a chal-
lenge and I like to see dif-
ferent country. I have a
desk drawer full of
brochures and letters about
hunting all the way from
polar bears to ground
squirrels.
Anyway, I read in the San
Antonio paper about this
exciting nilgai hunt on
Padre Island. So I packed up
and headed southeast
(that’s a change, ain’t it?)
Got down to where Hwy.
77 comes into IH 37, just
north of Corpus Christi and a
gasoline tanker truck had
turned over and burned
and all traffic stopped on
IH37 South for two hours.
There were kids going to
Friday nigh football games
and people everywhere just
walking around. No cars
moving until the crane from
the seaport got there and
moved it off the highway.
Finally, got into town
and called and made
arrangements to make the
hunt in the morning.
Loaded up and drove down
the beach, about thirty
miles inside the water
causeway. Got to the land-
ing and each hunter (there
were three of us) got a
four-wheeler. Mine gave it
up, so, I just stayed close to
our boat.
The guide said I could
have another run at hunting
later. The other two
hunters didn’t get anything
and got back about sun-
down. We loaded up and
started back.
Got in a thunder storm.
Got lost and after being
soaked, we finally made it
back to the four-wheel
The Busine
Sea Change - Political
Sea Change
Recall that we started
these “sea change” series of
columns to address the
changes occurring outside
of our businesses - changes
over which we have no real
control. The first of these
were addressed to the
major changes that were
taking place in the financial
environment. We have
studied and reported on
these changes so that we
might have a chance to
dodge the bullets.
The election results of
last week represents a new
major sea change in our
business world. If Obama is
able to institute all the
changes he has “promised,”
the results will likely
change small business for-
ever. Like all politicians, he
is indebted to various con-
stituents who backed his
campaign. Some of these
debts include:
• higher taxes on small
business, making it easier to
unionize a business by elim-
ination of the secret ballot
(aka “card check”) penal-
ties for failing to provide
medical insurance for
employees,
• insuring higher gasoline
prices with continued
restrictions on domestic
drilling igniting trade wars
with high import tariffs and
quotas to help “bring the
jobs home”
Political promises
are made to be broken
when reality sets in and the
promising politician faces
the status quo in congress
and the general population.
This best hope for dodging
the bullets may not be
enough if the world-wide
recession seriously takes
hold. This is the time when
hurts are high and the
political leaders feel they
“must” do something -even
if it screws up the situation.
A brief review of the histo-
ry of serious depressions
(there! we used that dread-
ed word), shows that politi-
cal interference is usually
the culprit in making a
depression longer and
deeper than it would other-
wise have been.
What is the watch word
for us as small business
owners? Actually no change
from our previous position.
It is too early to think we
are at a bottom. The sea
changes are still changing.
Our best pathway is as
before - avoid new debt,
pay off old debt, don’t start
any new long lasting com-
mitments - there is proba-
bly more unpleasantness to
come. Stay abreast of these
changes as they occur so as
not to be blind-sided.
Above all, keep the
faith! Our country will sur-
vive and so will your busi-
ness - we just must play
defense for a while longer.
PS —Stay up to date. Go
to www. chanae.aov.
Bill White
thebusinessadvisor@earth-
iink.net
South Texas Regional Pecan Show
Gillespie County pecan
producers are invited to
participate in the South
Texas Regional Pecan Show
held on Wednesday,
December 10,2008
at River Hills Mall in
Kerrville. The pecan show is
an opportunity for
commercial producers and
homeowners to enter their
2008 pecan crop for
judging.
Rules and general infor-
mation:
1. Entries will be accepted
until 5:00 p.m. on Thursday,
December 4,2008 at the
Texas AgriLife Extension
office located at 95
Frederick Road in
Fredericksburg or until 5:00
p.m. on Friday December
5, 2008 at the Texas AgriLife
Extension service office
located at 3655 Highway 27
in Kerrville.
2. An entry will consist of at
least 35 pecans in a small
paper sack labeled with the
variety, producer’s name,
address and telephone
number, plus county name.
3. Each exhibitor may enter
as many varieties as desired,
but only one entry per
exhibitor per variety is
allowed.
4. All pecans entered
should be from the 2008
crop.
Processing for the South
Texas regional Pecan Show
will begin at 9:00 a.m. on
December 9 at River Hills
Mall in Kerrville. Judging
will begin on December 10
at 9:00 a.m. and should con-
clude by noon.
Educational programs of
Texas AgriLife Extension
service are
open to all people without
regard to race, color, sex
disability, religion, age or
national origin.
Resolution
(Continued from page 1.)
transmission lines on your
property and their subse-
quent devaluation.
Another question arose
about the environmental
impact study? Is this neces-
sary?
At this point, Suzie
Stewart talked about get-
ting the petitions back to
her by Nov. 15. The steering
committee will be copying
these and taking them to
state officials after
that date.
The meeting adjourned.
However, on Monday, Nov.
10, the Gillespie County
Commissioners passed a
resolution opposing the pri-
vate transmission lines.
This resolution appears
below.
Resolution
Whereas, the State of
Texas is pursuing an aggres-
sive strategy to increase the
electricity generating
capacity from renewable
energy technologies; and
Whereas, the Public
Utilities Commission (PUC) of
Texas designated five
Competitive Renewable
Energy Zones (CREZS) in
which renewable wind
energy resources and suit-
able land areas are suffi-
cient to develop generating
capacity from renewable
sources; and
Whereas, a plan was
developed by the PUC to
construct transmission
capacity to deliver generat-
ed power from the CREZs to
electric customers in the
metropolitan areas, and
plan containing transmission
lines that cross the land
area of Gillespie County; and
Whereas, the PUC
adopted and is pursuing a
deliberate process to select
the transmission service
providers to construct and
operate each segment of
the transmission line in
Western Gillespie County;
and
Whereas, these trans-
mission lines with their 180-
foot wide cleared right-of-
way and tall towers consti-
tute a permanent disfigure-
ment of the scenic Texas Hill
Country landscape, and will
devalue property; and
Whereas, the Gillespie
County Commissioners Court
favors the pursuit of renew-
able energy sources and
recognizes
the need to deliver the
energy to market, the
Court, nevertheless, strictly
opposes the development of
multiple transmission routes
where one route already
planned by the PUC and will
provide adequate capacity.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED BY THE COMMIS-
SIONERS COURT OF GILLESPIE
COUNTY:
That the Gillespie
County Commissioners Court
supports the transmission
plan adopted by the PUC and
opposes the use of addition-
al routes to move electric
energy through Gillespie
County.
Further, the
Commissioners Court urges
State regulators and trans-
mission companies to
respect the input of the
citizens of the Hill Country
and act as responsible stew-
ards of our Texas landscape,
which includes utilization of
existing electric right of
ways and minimization of
visual impacts to the maxi-
mum extent possible.
Passed and approved
thel 0th day November,
2008.
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drive buggy and back to
Corpus about 10:00 that
night.
Like a real dummy, I put
my new gun inside my case
and the next morning, the
salt water had really left its
mark. You know—like
ruined.
Made it back home safely.
Was really thankful to the
good Lord for one more
time. Never did get back
down there again. The
guide even called me one
time for another run.
Stay well and healthy.
See you next time.
(Editor’s note: This is
mt
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mIiL
only one of Gene’s hunting
stories. All the rest are
available in his new book,
Me and My Old Winchester
270: A Lifetime of Hunting
Stories with Pictures. They
are on sale at Bode’s Feed
and Supply.)
essence of the prohfem is about consump-
tion, recognizing that a society that consumes
one third of the worfcC’s resources is unsustain-
ahfe. This ieveh of consumption requires con-
stant intervention into other peophes’s hands.
T’hat’s what (sgoing on”
hy Winona LaT)uhe,
TCative ‘American,, Writer
and Tnvironmentahist.
(Note: You are invited to submit your favorites.)
Wienecke Deer Processing
Open 8 a.m.- 8 jp.m.
‘May cad for appointment after hours.
James Wienecke; Owner
4640 Klein Branch M.
Harper, TX 78631
(830) 864-4381
Beef Salami, sausage,
and jerky available.
Custom Seasoning
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The Harper News
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The Harper News
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P. 0. Box 577, Harper, TX 78631 -0577
Martha Stevens - Editor/Publisher
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