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Fitness View

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Try Tamales | 71

All About

Forward and Onward | 34

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Take tamales over the top with creative fillings

Leo and Vivian Wood reflect on four decades in Georgetown

Rising Stars

Healthy View

Get ting To Know

One Hundred Years and Counting | 40 See Georgetown’s past through centenarian Anita Rode’s stories

d e partments Live and Learn

In the Kitchen

Eye on the Future | 46

Sinking Spell | 74

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Life with Relish, Please

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Whooping Cranes on a Local Lake | 80

What will your favorites list reveal about your life? How’s That Work?

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Endangered birds overwinter at Granger Lake

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Inspiring Tomorrow’s Scientists | 11

What’s in a day’s work at Dyer Dairy?

Zion Lutheran science teacher is a STAR

Greetings | 6

Musings for Moms

Extra View

A Stone’s Throw

Measuring success as a mother

“We Don’t Rent Pigs” | 16 Mosey to the Lonesome Dove exhibit at Texas State CREATE

An Eye for Murder | 21 Investigate mystery novels with author D.A. Featherling View From the Top

Georgetown Legends | 26

Success Comes Quietly | 58 Giving

Pedal Power | 62

Golfer’s Corner

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Georgetown Live | 73

Learn from the Best | 69

Teacher journeys to Inner Mongolia

Meet three RecognizeGood honorees from Georgetown

A Safe Place to Lead | 76 Behind a young leader: Georgetown Boys and Girls Club

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When I was eight, my family moved from a small farming community in the Texas Panhandle to the Tall City—Midland, Texas. I missed the country, but oh, the city was like a candy shop in which I could indulge my passions: ballet classes, art lessons, giant public swimming pools, and a downtown city library that seemed as big as the whole town I’d come from. When my husband (also from Midland) and I take our son back there to visit relatives, we drive around to check on our memories. “Looks like that old mulberry tree finally fell over,” I’ll say as we cruise by my old—and somehow shrunken—house. “When I went to that elementary school, we didn’t have air conditioning,” my husband will inform our son, to whom such a thing is unthinkable. Always, there are changes since the last time we visited. Change has happened in Georgetown, too. In this issue, we look back at many of the changes through the eyes of those who’ve witnessed, if not propelled, many of them. Writer Emily Treadway shares entertaining tales about early Georgetown and the surrounding area told to her by Anita Rode, who was born in a nearby German-speaking community one hundred years ago. Writer Nancy Bacchus faced a challenge after she interviewed former mayor Leo Wood and his wife, Vivian, who retires this year as Williamson County Treasurer. Leo and Vivian have been a part of Georgetown’s transformation from a struggling town to a vibrant city, and oh, the stories they have to tell. No way could Nancy cram them all into one article! As you drive around Georgetown after reading these stories, you might tend to see things you didn’t see before: farm families coming to the Square for dry goods and soda waters, a handful of volunteers laying the stones to form a flower garden in San Gabriel Park, a crew pouring concrete for a public pool on Williams Drive. Look around at the vibrant city Georgetown has become, imagine its rich past—and envision the future that awaits you here.

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these cause the most zapping when the program checks their work. “That’s going to take a long time,” Mariann said. “But it’s fun!” they replied. She was surprised when, the next day, the boys came back having completed ten times the number of elements assigned. For the first time, Mariann had to tell her students to stop doing homework so that they could move on to something else. She smiles. “That’s the joy of teaching, to me, to find something like that where they’re learning, excited, and engaged, and it makes them want to keep doing it.” Mariann Brown discovered the NOVA app last June while attending the Siemen Teachers as Researchers (STAR) program.

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They’re just starting to really decide what they’re interested in. … I feel really strongly about trying to get them excited about science.” Hands-on learning tools, Mariann believes, get students jazzed about science. With grant money from STAR, Mariann plans to purchase robotics materials to help students discover engineering outside their textbooks. She hopes the materials will engage them even more than the NOVA app about the periodic table. Mariann also hopes to teach students that they don’t have to wear lab coats to be scientists or engineers. “I want them to know that they don’t need to be Albert Einstein or Madame Curie to go into science if they like it,” she says. “They picture the crazy scientist with the big test tubes boiling over. But I try to teach them about all the different career choices and different things they can do with science. They could one day design things that we can’t even think of right now.” Or they could go on to become worldclass scientists. “We’re going to have to have some very smart scientists and engineers to help us” address important world needs and issues in the future, Mariann predicts. And where else will those professionals come from but the classroom? Whatever her students do with their knowledge as they choose careers, Mariann hopes that they leave her classroom with a good understanding of—and perhaps a passion for—science. 

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Mariann partnered with a high school physics teacher from Roscoe, Texas. They were assigned to the Fuel, Engines, and Emissions Research center to measure vehicles’ fuel emission and efficiency at certain speeds. She also toured the other facilities and networked with teachers. During networking sessions, she learned about other research taking place at the program and new resources teachers used back in their classrooms. Mariann said these connections were among the most valuable assets she gained from the experience. “I don’t have a science department at my school that I can bounce ideas off of,” says Mariann, who is the only science teacher at Zion. “To have the other teachers offer ideas and resources was very helpful. Even since we’ve gotten back, we’ve been emailing each other with ideas and questions.” Reigniting a Spark The trip refreshed Mariann’s interest in science and engineering and inspired her to continue working to instill that passion in the next generation. She often tries to motivate children to pursue these fields by sharing her own work experiences at NASA and at the U.S. Geological Survey. “The kids love listening to stories about the work that I did at NASA and the application of science and engineering, instead of just reading it in a book,”

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uring an average work day, novelist Dorothy “D.A.” Featherling may take care of marketing tasks, speak at a civic club, work on manuscript revisions, attend a book signing, and draft a chapter of her current novel. Dorothy has published five novels in multiple genres, including mystery, romantic comedy, and futuristic suspense. She shares with the View how she crafts a good mystery, murder and all. As a writer of mystery novels, what do you think makes for a good mystery? I’m a mystery fan. It’s what I most like to read … so I’m picky about what constitutes “good” for me. I think a good mystery has to have authenticity as to its setting, characters, and the unfolding of the story in a logical sequence. A book has to have appealing characters involved in situations that evoke sympathy and … empathy. I read for the sweep of the novel— the setting, the action, the characters. … I like to be surprised with the ending.

Where do you begin when writing a mystery, or any book for that matter? For some reason, whatever I write, I have to have my title first. … [And] since I do enjoy writing humor, as in my romantic comedies, sometimes my book and series titles have a bit of pun involved, or humor, as in the series title It’s Murder at the Office and its double meaning. Sometimes the title comes to me and then I unfold a story from that; other times, the storyline is in my head and the title comes up after I’ve mentally chewed on how I want it to end.

writing and see what happens. That works okay for some kinds of fiction, but I’ve discovered, when you write a mystery, you need to have a logical train of events that led up to the crime and then follow through for the solution to the crime. I may start writing, [but] after a few chapters in which I establish my characters and setting and the crime is committed, then I do start outlining in my head and eventually noting on paper what can be the sequence of events the hero or heroine must go through to reach a successful conclusion. 

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How do you develop your plot, before you write or while you are writing? There are two kinds of writers— those who outline books chapter by chapter or use a similar arrangement and those known as “seat of the pants-ers” (SOTP). They start

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Dorothy’s first book in the It’s Murder at the Office series, It Adds Up to Murder, was published in March 2013. Contact Dorothy Featherling at dafeatherling@gmail.com or call her at 512-663-1407 about speaking to civic groups or clubs, church groups, schools, book clubs, and for book signings. Find her online at www.dafeatherling.com.

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How do you develop compelling characters—including the murderer—in a novel? You have to have believable characters. Your hero or heroine needs to be someone people can relate to, and your villain someone they love to hate. Of course, your villain needs to evoke a little sympathy, but the reader needs to feel satisfied that villains deserve to be caught and punished for their crimes. Tradition says “the butler did it,” but

real life shows that many people kill, and many others are affected by the ripple effect such a crime has. What can be challenging about writing a book that centers on a crime? A challenge any mystery writer faces is accuracy. You have to be accurate with things like your murder weapon of choice, with police (or detective) procedure, and with how people really act and react to crime and its intrusion into their normal life. I want to make sure I’m as accurate as possible, so I find experts who will advise me. I’ve found that law enforcement folks are generally extremely helpful. Sometimes the quest for information can be a bit humorous, too. When I was researching police procedure for my futuristic suspense Time Out, I called a metropolitan police department [about] … the procedure they went through when someone went missing. The person on the other end of the phone listened to … [my] request for information, then very coldly informed me, “Ma’am, it’s not a crime to be missing!” I thought that was a great line and actually used it in my novel.

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What do you find enjoyable and rewarding about writing mystery novels? Throughout my life, reading has been my “retreat” for a short time, after which I’m able to deal in a refreshed manner with what’s going on [in my life]. The main reason I started writing … was picturing someone reading a book written by me. If, as they closed the back cover, they were smiling, then I felt I would have done a very good thing. I know from some readers that my books have given them escape from some pretty huge issues in their lives [and] have helped them recharge to face whatever their reality is. That’s a worthwhile reason to write. 

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ing in the Community Center, and oversaw construction of Georgetown’s first swimming pool available to all citizens. During a casual park inspection years ago, Leo, an inveterate “good Samaritan,” saw an older lady stranded in the park with a flat tire. After changing the tire, he discovered that her husband directed Texas Parks and Wildlife grant programs. She closed their brief encounter by saying, “If you ever need a grant for your park, let me know.” Later, he did just that, as park amenities were expanded. While Leo worked as city manager, Vivian plugged into the town’s heartbeat on the Square. In the early seventies, she served as secretary of the fifty-member Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber office at 810 Main Street also housed the Georgetown Credit Bureau and Western Union, so Vivian’s job included diverse duties like checking credit status on request and conducting property searches. Vivian recalls that Southwestern’s president at the time, Durwood Fleming, communicated extensively by Great American Main Street award on the square. telegram, “something really significant steps forward: the southern different from today’s electronic world.” boundary set between Round Rock and Hardly a day passed without his secreGeorgetown, a dam on the North San tary calling to dictate a message. Gabriel River, runway expansion at She also enjoyed a few years in retail the airport following tornado damage, at Gold’s Department Store until she the new Westinghouse facility, plans became office manager at Heritage for a future road loop, new schools, Printing, dealing directly with a crossexplosive growth in subdivisions, and, section of Georgetown citizenry at of course, revitalization of downtown each business. She gained marketing through the Main Street Project. They expertise at both companies as they saw it all. The town expanded, and sought customers beyond Georgetown. efforts continued to promote “GeorgeThis skill, along with Vivian’s friendly town as a great place to live and visit.” personality and her previous Chamber “I can remember in the early eighties work, prompted the Chamber search not being sure Georgetown was going committee to approach her about to make it,” Vivian says. “The economy interviewing for executive director. Leo had just flattened out, local merchants encouraged her as well, and Vivian held were really hurting. But everybody just the position over ten years. The Woods stepped up. Additions came in, lifted were sensitive to the unique alignment this part up, strengthened that part. … in their public duties, but both “made The good fortune [we had] far outsure [the] personal relationship did not weighs the bad.” affect the business relationship.” Leo will never forget a particular exDuring those first fifteen years in ample of generosity that occurred when Georgetown, the Woods were part of

Georgetown built the Olympicsized pool on Lakeway. After securing grants and matching city funds, the city still lacked $45,000. Leo approached a local businessman, who wrote a check for the full amount, saying, “Here, Leo, go get your pool. And this is anonymous. Don’t be talking about it.” Not all of the city’s anticipated projects came to fruition, but when Leo resigned in 1985, he left the city coffers with over five million dollars in reserve funds. From the mid-eighties through most of the nineties, Leo worked in management for the City of Austin water and wastewater utilities. Vivian left the Georgetown Chamber to become manager of special projects in nine counties for the Texas Association of Private Industry Councils. Both, however, found time for service through numerous boards and civic organizations. In 1992 Leo successfully ran for mayor, serving until 1997. He describes the recruitment of Sun City during his mayoral service as “the icing on the cake.” In 1994 Vivian was approached by then District Judge John Carter to seek the position of Williamson County Treasurer. Again, Leo was supportive, along with other local leaders and friends. For eighteen years, she’s been an effective steward, overseeing the county’s financial obligations. Vivian’s duties became more challenging during the past five years, as Wilco growth soared to second place nationally. Feeling blessed that all three sons live in Williamson County, Vivian is retiring this year to spend more time with the grandchildren, but Georgetown can still count on her friendly presence and dedicated effort. Leo says, “I’m not stopping. … I’m committed to Union State Bank, to my consulting firm, to this town.” Their spyglass view of Georgetown, like their stories, has depth and breadth and color, and they smile at each other as Vivian modestly admits, “There are things we haven’t told.” 

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nita Rode remembers a time when Christmas and birthday parties were less about the presents and more about the family and friends who came to share the day. Gifts were simple: a stocking filled with fruit, nuts, and candy, and one useful present—perhaps a new dress. On Anita’s twelfth Christmas, she received a comb and mirror set that she still has today. Anita cherished that gift because it represented “a big Christmas.” Anita believes most holidays are overdone today. When she was young, she recalls, “if someone in the neighborhood had a birthday, you went there with sandwiches or cake. And you shared. The men would play dominoes or cards, and the ladies would visit, and the children would play. That’s the way it was.” In her lifetime, Anita has had her share of birthday parties. This past fall, more than 150 family and friends came to a catered event at the Walburg Community Center to celebrate Anita’s 100th birthday. They came to celebrate a woman whose memory offers a peek into the Georgetown area’s past. Anita Rode was born Anita Wolbrueck to a German-speaking

family on September 23, 1913. Like many people of her time, she was born at home on her family’s farm, which is located between Weir and Jonah. Anita lives on the same land today, although not in the same house. All but five years of her life have been spent on that land. As a child, Anita attended Jonah schools, but only until she mastered the basics of reading, writing, addition, and subtraction, which was all the education her family considered necessary. She was also sent to German school for six weeks every summer for three years. The school met at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Walburg. “I can still write in German!” she exclaims. Her family spent their week working on the farm, but Friday afternoons they would go into Walburg, a predominantly German community, to the Doering Store, which is now the Walburg German Restaurant, for any necessities. They could buy new tools, or if tools were broken, they went to the blacksmith shop in the back for repair. These trips were also social occasions to catch up on the news with neighbors and friends. A visit to Georgetown only occurred about once a month, and Anita and her siblings didn’t

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always get to go, “but if we did, Mama and Daddy gave us each a nickel to spend for soda water or ice cream; that’s what you could buy for [that amount] in those days.” Many times Anita wouldn’t spend her nickel on treats. She’d save it to put in the Sunday school collection plate. Anita has always been a strong, God-fearing woman. During most of her younger years, she attended St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Walburg, where she was involved with the Lutheran Church League, a youth group of about sixty members. On Sunday evenings, the Lutheran Church League took turns hosting parties. “We kind of rotated houses,” Anita says. “Everyone was welcome, and we’d clean out the room and we’d dance with music furnished by a Victrola. … We played bunko, we [square danced], and we’d all sing and promenade.” Anita met her husband, Rupert Rode, through the Lutheran Church League in the late 1930s when a church in Doss, Texas, a farming community north of Fredericksburg, invited the Lutheran Church League for a visit. In 1938 Anita and Rupert married and moved to his family’s farm outside of Fredericksburg, an area Anita refers to as “up yonder.” Initially, Anita was unhappy moving to Fredericksburg and admits to crying in the beginning of her marriage. “The difference between Georgetown and Fredericksburg was like day and night,” she says. Georgetown was considered a very progressive community, and Fredericksburg was not. By the time she and Rupert married, Anita’s parents had electricity and an Electrolux refrigerator. “Up yonder, it was … dark,” she laughs. “When I moved to Fredericksburg, there were no lights, no telephone, no mail routes, nothing.” Anita and Rupert lived there five years before they moved back to the Wolbrueck farm. Generally, married women of Anita’s generation stayed home and tended to their families, but Anita and Rupert were not blessed with children. Anita worked outside the home. Despite her lack of formal education, Anita proudly declares, “I was never without a job!” She was a hard worker whose employers thought highly of her. Anita often worked at Key’s Variety Store

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in Georgetown. Key’s stocked diverse goods, from dresses to coffeepots to Easter baskets. “I always had a job with Miss Keys,” Anita says. “I could leave her to do something else, and she would always take me right back if I asked her.” Miss Keys recommended Anita for her job at Neuman’s Department Store, which was located on the west corner of 7th Street on the Square. Neuman’s was later bought out by Gelman’s, and Anita worked for them, too. She recollects that the Square was also home to a men’s clothing store called Hoffman’s, and on the south side of the Square there was a barbecue café where one

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could buy a plate of barbecue and a cup of coffee for thirty-five cents. Georgetown’s Square today is a hub of the community, but during the late 1960s, Anita remembers, Georgetown wasn’t very busy at all. “It was empty,” she says. “Not like it is now. … I went to work, and if I met three or four cars going to work, that was all. … There wasn’t a car around the Square. It was dead. My boss, Mr. Neuman, would walk to the front door of the store and look out at the courthouse and say, ‘The courthouse is a tombstone this afternoon.’” Anita drily adds, “I heard that more than once.” Anita hasn’t worked out of the home in many years, but she still keeps busy. She does her own laundry and her own cooking and cleaning. Much of her time is now spent crocheting and embroidering. Anita has crocheted more than seventy afghans, and she embroiders cup towels as gifts for her church, family, and friends, all of whom have remained the one constant in her century of life. Anita’s friends and family know she is a gift to them as much as they are to her. She sets an example of how to live an admirable, faith-filled life. And she’s not done yet. 

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eep an eye out for Georgetown High School graduate Jonathan Barerra. This twenty-twoyear-old grad student has big plans for himself—and for the world. If all goes according to plan, you may someday read about how this go-getter is shaping international policies to promote a cleaner, healthier earth. “My dream would be to work with the UN or a similar organization to get environmental policies enacted in countries,” says Jonathan, who earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University.

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Initially, Jonathan pursued biology as a stepping-stone to medical school, but that plan changed. Extensive traveling and a formative semester studying marine biology at Hopkins Marine Station in California made him aware of the environmental issues around him. “Take Guatemala,” says Jonathan, who spent last summer visiting the country in Central America. “In the countryside, there are some very beautiful, pristine places. And then you see the city. The river that runs through the city is absolutely polluted. There’s trash everywhere, and it’s just getting worse.” Jonathan, whose family is originally from Guatemala, found himself repeating a single thought as he observed the country: Something must be done. “A country like Guatemala has such a beautiful environment. It would be such a shame to lose something like that,” he says. But Guatemala isn’t the only place in dire straits. For an example that hits closer to home, Jonathan points to Texas’s Corpus

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Christi beach. “You’ll notice how much algae there is,” he says. “That’s from pollution from agricultural runoff that goes into the Gulf of Mexico. These fertilizers that farmers use for crops on the mainland end up in the water, and that fertilizes the algae that grow there.” “Those are just a couple of examples, but once you destroy the environment, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to restore it to its natural state,” he points out. At twenty-two, Jonathan does not yet have enough clout to influence international policy, but he’s taking proactive measures to ensure that he’ll be able to bring about positive global change in the future. First on his list is learning as much as possible about environmental and ecological issues at play as he seeks a master’s degree in environmental earth science at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. “Germany as a whole is very good at working to enact environmental policies—at least better than the US is,” he says. “For example, here in Germany, ev-

erybody here recycles and knows how to recycle. Even here at my apartment complex, there are seven different [disposal bins]—there’s one for compost, brown glass, white glass, green glass. There’s one for cardboard and paper, one for plastics, and one for trash.” Additionally, Germany’s “melting pot” environment provides him with a chance to live among and communicate with other cultures, preparing him for a future in international diplomacy. Environmental issues are vast and complex; they affect everyone either directly or indirectly, Jonathan believes. “I think that, for the coming world, it will be a very important topic that will engage many people,” he says. Though there are many pieces to the environmental puzzle, Jonathan suggests a partial solution to preserving our natural environment: “We need to strike a balance between modernization—continuing to live in a developing world—and lessening pollution, which is currently a byproduct for maintaining our modern lives. That may be recycling; it may be renewable energy; it may be preventing deforestation.” Whatever the solutions may be, Jonathan hopes to join others who are forging the way. 

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everal years ago, while perusing Facebook, catching up on the lives of long-lost friends and distant relatives, I came across a post by one of my most ambitious and creative friends, Tory Tompkins. (You might recognize her from this year’s American Idol series.) In a creative writing exercise, Tory had compiled a detailed list of 100 things she loves—things like bonfires, rooftop gardens, and Cheshire Cat-grin-shaped crescent moons. When I finished reading her list, I was so inspired that I immediately made my own, scribbling down things like squirrels, bright lamps, and long kisses in the warm summer rain. Some things immediately came to mind—sushi, coconut M&Ms, and Libby’s pumpkin pie—while others took more digging. I added things like the burning smell of a heater cranked up for the first time in winter, toothpaste squeezers, electronic dictionaries, and

the crumpling sound virtual trashcans make when emptied. In the end, I listed 101 items, which I posted publicly as a note on my Facebook account, tagging friends who I thought would enjoy creating similar lists for themselves. One fun thing about this activity is the variety of ideas people have. No two people are exactly alike; thus, their lists reflect their originality. Sure, there’s overlap— Tory and I both included lilies and some rendition of “seeing my friends succeed” on our respective lists—but the rest of our items revealed what makes us, well, us. “This list sounds just like you,” a friend commented when he saw my post. “I laughed in recognition of a few—like semicolons.” Over the years, I’ve participated

in an array of creative writing exercises, yet somehow this one has stood out. I vividly remember how it energized me, prompting me to become more aware of the world around me, while teaching me more about myself in the process. At its original 101 items, the list was far from exhaustive, though it was a valid representation of my personality and values. I’ve continued adding to the list since then, making note of past and new favorites—the things I love. Today I have the list pinned to my office bulletin board to read in moments when I’m down, uneasy, or overwhelmed. As I reflect on simple pleasures like lunch dates with friends and sleeping on soft, clean sheets, I smile with relish at the things in life for which I’m deeply grateful. 

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andy Dyer comes from a long line of farmers. Her parents and grandparents farmed, and now she and her husband, along with her son and his wife, make a living off the land. Recently, she took a short break from farm chores to share what it takes to bring fresh food to Georgetown. How many people work at the

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beef, too, we can run out really easily. So we work together with other local farmers so that we can always provide a variety of fresh foods to the public. Do farmers truly work sunrise to sunset? Definitely! [Laughs] It’s a 365-days-a-year kind of job. If you’re dealing with animals, you have to be there. It’s not like you can take off for vacation for a few days. What’s your favorite part of farming? Taking care of livestock. I like to garden, but I’ve learned since we’ve lived here that soil is very different depending on where you are. Raising an animal is just about the same anywhere. 

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easuring success is easy. A leader receives the Nobel Peace Prize. An Olympic swimmer wears a gold medal. The best singers compete to standing ovations on nationwide television. These are the tangible ways we measure their success. But what about moms? How do we know when we’re successful? The answer is easy, yet complicated. When my daughter was a year old, a former employee invited me to lunch. We hadn’t seen each other for a while, and I wanted to catch up with

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dred, she’s got this mom thing in control, too,” I imagined her thinking. I nodded to my friend to imply, “Yes, I’m in control, just like in my big boss days.” It’s said that moms have eyes in the back of their heads. This is true, but toddlers are also gifted with extra body parts. They possess hidden antennae that can sense just when to humiliate their mothers. As I put a forkful of fettuccine Alfredo into my smug mouth, my daughter began throwing green peas across the restaurant. As any parent knows, there’s nothing more humiliating than kids who are bent on embarrassing you. They know that throwing a Tonka truck at the pastor’s forehead or green peas across a restaurant is powerful ammunition for gaining attention and control. I grinned sheepishly at my friend. “Kids do the most unpredictable things,” I said, holding my daughter’s wrist and sliding the

plate away before she remembered that she had another hand. All the while I was thinking, “That’s it. Now my friend knows I’ve been reduced to powerlessness. My cover has been blown. She’s probably lost all respect and admiration for me.” My daughter is now in college, and I’ve learned a few things about success as a mother since that day in the restaurant. I’ve learned that a woman’s need for appreciation, admiration, and respect doesn’t disappear when she brings a baby home. Just the opposite! She needs to know that what she is doing matters and has value. These are the things I longed for when I became a mom. This is what I longed for that day in the restaurant. What I’ve come to realize is that success for moms is not measured in the moments of tantrums and flying Tonka trucks. Success is realized when we love, teach, and nurture our children in the mundane moments of the day and night. Success is measured not in buckets of accomplishments but in teaspoons of perseverance. Motherhood is a venture of faith because the rewards often come slowly, quietly, and without fanfare. They don’t always come in tangible ways that we can hang on a wall or deposit in a bank account. Rather, they come with every small step our children take toward growing and maturing. 

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or some, a vision of retirement includes a front porch and a rocking chair, but not for members of the Sun City Cycling Club. Their vision includes a lifestyle that promotes health. Though members are in their “golden” years, they train hard, cycling as much as a hundred miles a week. Several Sun City couples train not just for personal health but also to support a good cause. They represented Sun City in the BP MS 150 bike ride last year. The team, which raised more than $2,400, included Sally and Alan Graham, Kathy and Larry Lorimor, and Bonnie and Rolf Trautmann. Sally explains that the event is a stellar fundraiser. “Every rider is responsible for raising about $400,” she says. “So the event raises millions. It is phenomenal, and we raised about $800 a couple.” The event is the third major cycling event for Sally and Alan, who just celebrated

their fortieth wedding anniversary. The race, says Sally, “offers great camaraderie between couples” and allows them to “do something more than you ever thought possible.” Visitors from around the world attend the two-day BP MS 150 bike ride to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Stretching from Houston to Austin, the route spans the ruggedly diverse hills and plains of the Texas countryside. Breakpoints for riders are stationed at eight- to ten-mile intervals, and a supply and gear (SAG) wagon, staffed by volunteers, sticks close to riders for

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extra support, from water to the tools needed to fix a broken bike. Sun City residents Mary Jane and Dave Berry traveled with the Sun City riders, giving them additional SAG support, including transporting bikes to a bed and breakfast at the halfway point. They were a huge help for the team. Sally comments, “Though there were accommodations for all 16,000 riders at the fairgrounds in La Grange, I don’t camp! But I do love bike riding!” Sally offers good advice for future riders. “Just bite the bullet and train hard,” she encourages. “The finish line is amazing. You come into the [state] capital, and people who have multiple sclerosis are along the way, blowing bubbles and saying ‘Thank you.’” For Kathy, the ride is a personal challenge that lends itself to helping others fight for life. “You really get motivated by the cause,” she explains. “You feel like you are part of a bigger organization. It just grabs you.” 

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As the anniversary of their death draws near Our mind & hearts are still in tears We miss them each and everyday Time to us has gone ... by the way Their love for each other was oh so much It showed just when we saw them touch Their life was great with wedding plans The dress was bought with loving hands The church was booked & reception planned Friends were going to bring their band Rings were ready to promise their love Their life was set just like a glove But as we know in a blink of an eye Our life can change and we ask why Cole and Lacey died Easter Day With shock and sadness started to pray The life of two families changed that day Now to plan a funeral ... And no wedding day The numbers of people that they had touched Showed up in hundreds and gave so much With faith and love we made it through But each day after are oh so blue We pray each day and it is true They are with our Lord and happy too So our life will never be the same But faith and love has set our way Their love for life is truly missed Each day we see them in our mist.

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ooking for new sights, interesting people, and cultural immersion? How about Inner Mongolia? Travel time from Austin to Beijing runs about twenty-four hours. Then, if weather precludes flights to Tongliao, take the thirteen-hour rail option. Snow still covers the ground in March, so bring fur-lined pants. Americans here number fewer than ten among 500,000, so be prepared for (friendly) curiosity. Marguerite Overs (MO) completed this trek in 2012 to join 1,700 or so staff at Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities.

She came after much prayer and after mission projects in Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, Ukraine, and China, with support from First Baptist Church, Georgetown. Sponsored through The Amity Foundation, a Chinese Christian organization, MO came, like any careful traveler, with proper paperwork: a visa and, in MO’s case, certification to teach English as a second language. However, preparation for Tongliao also meant selling her house, her car, and most other possessions. She brought clothing, computer, projector, speakers, and a Nook. She and a younger teacher, Emily Minter, took a tiny apartment and began their adventure. MO felt she was “the oldest person on campus … suspended in an oasis of youth.” MO faced frustrations such as undecipherable symbols on hot-plate knobs, “awful bathroom conditions” (the less said, the better), endless cold and clouds, brown water from the sink faucet, and intense traffic. MO also experienced successes: mastering chopsticks, “leaping over the firewall” after a month to access her

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blog, losing weight from all the walking, getting Internet at her apartment, moving confidently on ice, learning ever more Chinese words, and seeing new members baptized at Kerqin Church. After eight months in Tongliao, she taught her students the word commitment, saying she’d felt “hungry, angry, tired, cold, lonely, joyful, scared, troubled, happy, and devoted” to her chosen mission. When students ask why she came to Tongliao, MO replies, “God sent me here to meet you.” MO’s eager, competitive students cherish time with “Teacher” outside the classroom as they practice conversational English, pose for pictures, discuss cultural differences, and watch American films. She teaches freshmen, sophomores, and Chinese teachers of English. One particularly busy semester saw MO interacting with as many as 700 students! As a special joy, MO claims two young Pakistani medical students as “adopted sons.” She believes that “love does not confine itself to a boundary.” Integrating her different worlds is challenging, but for now, Tongliao is home. 

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Masa Dough

Chicken Tamales

Yields 12 tamales

Yields 8–10

Ingredients: ½ cup milk 1½ cup corn kernels 1 cup masa harina 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt

Ingredients: Masa dough ½ pound shredded cooked chicken ¼ cup unsalted chicken stock ½ cup green onions, chopped 4 cloves garlic, roasted and minced ½ tsp salt ½ tsp pepper 1 tsp chili powder 1 tsp dried Mexican oregano 8–10 corn husks, soaked until pliable, dried

Preparation: 1. In a sauté pan, simmer milk and corn about 10 minutes. 2. Strain corn, reserving one cup of the kernels.. Then puree the remainder with the milk. 3. Add the puree to the masa harina and mix using a whisk. 4. In a mixer, using a paddle attachment, combine butter, baking powder, and salt, until light and fluffy. This step can also be done in a mixing bowl by hand using a wooden spoon. 5. Slowly add the masa mixture, little by little, until incorporated. 6. Mix on high speed for 2 minutes. Do not over mix, as this will make the dough tough and sticky.

Preparation: 1. Season the chicken with salt, pepper, chili powder, and oregano. 2. In a sauté pan, heat chicken stock. 3. Add cooked, shredded chicken and allow the stock to be absorbed, about 5 minutes. 4. Add green onions and cool the mixture. 5. Spoon 2 Tbsp of masa and then 2 Tbsp of chicken mixture onto a corn husk. 6. Roll and tie the husk. Repeat with remaining husks. 7. Steam for 30 minutes.

Black Bean and Cheese Tamales

Scratch Chorizo and Green Chile Tamales

Serves 8–10

Serves 8–10 While you can purchase premade chorizo at most grocery stores, I prefer to make my own. Start a day ahead so that the chorizo ingredients can marinate overnight.

Ingredients: Masa dough 4 oz. bacon 2 cloves garlic, roasted and chopped 1 cup cooked black beans ½ cup Monterey Jack cheese ½ tsp salt ½ tsp pepper 8–10 corn husks, soaked until pliable, dried Preparation: 1. Cook bacon until crispy, and then add garlic. Cook for 5 minutes, taking care not to burn the garlic. 2. Remove bacon and garlic with a slotted spoon, and then puree with the beans. 3. Add puree back to hot rendered bacon fat. Turn heat to low/ simmer. 4. Cook mixture for 10 minutes, stirring to keep from burning. 5. Fold in cheese and allow mixture to cool. 6. Spoon 2 Tbsp of masa and then 2 Tbsp of bean mixture onto a corn husk. 7. Roll and tie the husk. Repeat with remaining husks. 8. Steam for 30 minutes.

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Ingredients: For the chorizo: Preparation: 2 pounds ground pork 1. Combine all chorizo 1½ tsp cinnamon ingredients in a stainless 1 Tbsp smoked red chile powder steel bowl and marinate 1 tsp Mexican paprika overnight. 1 tsp dried Mexican oregano 2. In a sauté pan, cook onion 1 tsp dried thyme until soft. Add chorizo ¼ cup cider vinegar mixture and cook until For the tamales: browned. Marinated chorizo mixture 3. Add green chiles, and then 1 cup chopped onion cool mixture. 4 green chiles, roasted, peeled, 4. Fold in cheese, salt, and seeded and chopped, or 2 pepper. small cans diced green chiles 5. Spoon 2 Tbsp of masa and ½ cup Oaxaca cheese then 2 Tbsp of chorizo ½ tsp salt mixture onto a corn husk. ½ tsp pepper 6. Roll and tie the husk. Repeat 8–10 corn husks, soaked until with remaining husks. pliable, dried 7. Steam for 30 minutes.

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Sinking Spell A severely low thyroid pulls one woman under By

Meg Moring

Photo by Nadia Morales

ebra McGarry settles on a stool at the Red Poppy Coffee Co. with yoga-like poise. The fingers she wraps around a steaming cup of green tea are both soft and strong from her years as a licensed massage therapist. Her gaze, as she leans forward to talk, is frank. “I thought I needed to go to a psychiatric ward,” she admits. Debra, now sixty, shudders as she recalls the time when her body went crazy and her brain “seemed to have a mind of its own.” She’d just turned fifty when her symptoms began, symptoms that her doctor diagnosed as premenopausal. Little did she know that those symptoms were also those of a malfunctioning thyroid gland. As her hypothyroidism (low thyroid) went untreated, Debra

was plunged into a frightening ordeal. Nightmares appeared first— dark dreams set in her childhood—followed by depression and increasing claustrophobia. Anxiety attacks left her struggling to calm her pounding heart. Her body puffed up; bags appeared beneath her eyes. Her skin, she remembers, became “like snake skin,” and she “felt cold from the inside out.” The second year, Debra’s brain seemed to dwell in constant fog. “I began to feel like I was a third person looking into me,” she says. She lost her thoughts mid-sentence, and she couldn’t comprehend what others were telling her, either. “My thought process wouldn’t connect. It was horrible. It was embarrassing.” Maintaining her massage therapy practice got harder as she swelled all over, her energy plummeted to “hardly anything,” and she could barely walk. “I felt like my legs weren’t connected.” Alarmed, Debra went back to the doctor yet again. The nurse had trouble finding Debra’s pulse, and Debra’s blood pressure was extremely low. She was driving home after a blood test when her

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cell phone rang. “You’re thyroid is really low,” the doctor said. “Come back tomorrow so we can test it again.” The next day, blood work revealed that her thyroid level was .05 mU/L—barely functioning. Normal adult thyroid levels range from 0.4–4.2 mU/L. “I was just hours from being in a coma,” Debra says. Debra’s doctor immediately put her on the thyroid medication Levothyroxine. “It took about a year to get back to feeling like my old self,” she says. As her body returned to normal, so did her mind. It was a great relief, she says, “to know that I wasn’t going crazy!” 

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A Safe Place to Lead

Boys and Girls Club gives young leader wings Story by

Mikaela Cain

Photos By Rudy Ximenez

The Boys and Girls Club runs after-school and summer camp programs at two locations in Georgetown, Stonehaven and Park Lane. For more information or to volunteer, visit www. bgcgeorgetown.org.

he Georgetown Boys and Girls Club awarded fifteen-year-old Carmen Wain the Youth of the Year award in 2013. Carmen, a high school freshman, frequents the Boys and Girls Club after-school program. During her time there, she has grown as a leader and found a second home. Why did you join the Boys and Girls after-school club? I was hanging out at home before coming here because my mom, Holly, and her partner, JoDee, both work. They’re the ones who raise me. Last school year, my brother and sister came [to Boys and Girls Club], but I didn’t want to Carmen’s Youth of the Year award

because I thought I was too old. But it was really different than I thought it would be. I like being with little kids and helping them, I get my homework done here, and I like the staff. Tell me about the volunteers and staff. Millie is probably my favorite staff member. If we have a concert or anything, Millie makes sure that she experiences it to support us. I really like that about her—that she will make time for everybody. She’s been to almost every choir concert I’ve had. Why were you chosen as youth of the year? Probably because I am the president of our leadership club. It’s called the Torch Club. We do community service projects. We’ve gone to the Wesleyan nursing home to play board games and interact with the elderly people. We’ve also had a couple of bake sales.

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What have you learned by leading the Torch Club? I’ve learned that it takes effort to achieve great things because you won’t get anywhere without trying. Our bake sale last year, at first, didn’t go so well. But then we worked hard to advertise. We had bright colored signs, and everybody made more stuff. Did you sell more? Yes! With the money we raised, we got to go to Mel’s Lone Star Lanes bowling alley, and all the kids got to have fun. They learned that if you work hard, it pays off. What do you like best about the Boys and Girls Club? There are lots of good things! It’s probably how everyone comes together as a family. I’ve had a lot going on at home in my life, and when I come here, it’s a safe place where I don’t have to worry about things. Everyone is just together. Whatever the kids need, it just fills that. 

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Whooping Cranes on a Local Lake Citizen scientists help track endangered birds By

Christine Switzer

Photo BY Paula Engelhardt

If you’re interested in training as a citizen scientist to assist with observing the whooping cranes, contact Texas Whooper Watch at 512-389-TXWW (8999).

fter a long afternoon armed with only a pair of binoculars and a notebook, a citizen scientist on the trail of whooping cranes will call the day a success if she sights one bird or perhaps a small family of three. The largest birds in North America, these rare cranes— which number fewer than 500 in the world and fewer than 400 in the wild—have been listed as an endangered species for more than fifty years. But their populations are growing, and over the past few years, Central Texas sightings of the five-foot-tall waders, replete with red crowns and black “moustaches,” have increased. Mark Klym, information specialist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, explains that some of the birds have been overwintering at Granger Lake since the winter of 2011–2012. Mark explains, “Given the migration route, they may have stopped over in the area historically, but it is not documented anywhere. Granger Lake is a new location for these

birds to be spending the winter. … We are interested in [whatever] may help us to better understand why.” Mark helps train a small but growing cadre of citizen scientists to observe the cranes’ movement and behavior without interfering with or spooking the birds. Why these rare birds are choosing to winter in Central Texas, hundreds of miles from their historic winter habitat, is a puzzle. Mark explains that, in addition to questions about food sources, experts are interested in finding out how the birds “are thriving in an area where waterfowl hunting is present. How are landowners responding to the presence of an endangered species on or near their property, and what are the habitat features that determine whether or not these birds will use an area?” Because the birds are an endangered species, strict guidelines— set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—govern people’s interaction with the birds. These guidelines include keeping a distance of

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at least 2,000 feet from the birds, so as not to spook them. For Gail McAdoo, a member of the Good Water Master Naturalists and one of the citizen scientists who has observed the cranes in nature, the opportunity makes the careful training more than worthwhile. “They are incredibly beautiful birds,” she says, “both in flight and on land.”  To learn more about whooping cranes, Mark Klym recommends the following websites and books: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department at www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/ wild/species/whooper International Crane Foundation at www.savingcranes.org/whoopingcrane.html Kathleen Kaska’s The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The Robert Porter Allen Story (University of Florida Press, 2012) Linda Campbell’s Endangered and Threatened Animals of Texas: Their Life History and Management (Texas Parks and Wildlife Press, 1996)

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