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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 7 No. 35
INSIDE REAL COUNTY and DISTRICT COURT RESULTS ............................ Page 5
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HARVEY
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by Elaine Padgett Carnegie
How do you capture the big spirit of a people in words? Where did that spirit come from and how does it persist in a world where others are repeatedly trying to tear and divide it? It’s Texas! I had to write this article. Just look at Texas! After weeks that have just broken my heart with the divisiveness of a Nation… will you just look at Texas? I guess today I think we have every right to believe that we are “Different” than anywhere else! Different in a great and wonderful way! Harvey did not give us enough time to safely evacuate all of those that needed to be evacuated considering the rain event…so everyone pitched in! I saw article after article…page after page of people with boats helping the stranded and endangered, as well as and in assistance to a sizeable but overwhelmed First Responder Force. I am so proud of you Texas, as this picture depicts; we are tattered but
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The Texas National Guard during World War I ............................ Page 13
INDEX Legals/Jail Register ... . Page 3Community News ......... Page 4-7 Feature Story ............... Page 8-9 Obituaries ...................... Page 10 Classifieds ..................... Page 14
Today’s Weather
High: 87° Low: 62°
not broken. Texas, got help. People came from everywhere, as far away as New York to help us save our people from the ravages of this storm! A nation that pulled together? Imagine… as you cast your memory back to Charleston. Hard times, disasters bring out the best in most people… and this was no exception. At this writing, Tuesday afternoon the forecast offered some light at the end of the tunnel as
Harvey meandered back into the gulf and headed Northeast at 3 mph. Rain still pelted battered South Texas as emergency teams, aided by a growing contingent of citizen-rescuers plunged into flood water seeking people stranded by historic flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. In all the devastation only 9 lives have been lost so far. It is a small number for the affected population, of course one is too many however, it is a tribute to our state that more were not lost, as first
Somewhere in the West REAL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE WANTED PERSONS AND FUGITIVES
August 30, 2017
responder and rescue teams from everywhere worked right beside regular people pulling survivors from the murky, rising waters. Forecasters are still saying that up to 20 inches of additional rain could fall on parts of Texas and Louisiana by Thursday. Harvey flooding will get worse before it gets better, reservoirs were opened to release water to relieve the stress the downpour has caused in the region, the dams are all open and Lake Livingston is pouring out a record 110, 604 cubic feet per second into the Trinity River dam. which has seen 40 inches of rain in just a few days. continued page 4
LEAKEY ISD STARTS A GREAT YEAR First day enrollment for Leakey School was 5% more than first day last year with 310 students. The 310 students included two students stranded here from Rockport with a damaged community and school to return to. Dr. Skipper said, “We were happy that we could accommodate them here during this difficult time in their lives.” Students started at 8:00 a.m.Monday and finished at 3:45 p.m. under the watchful eye of principal, DeeAnna Blanton, and counselor, Pat Sewell. Mrs. Blanton could be seen with maintenance staff throughout the day checking on classrooms and ensuring enough desks were added to accommodate the school’s growth. Special thanks go to Jim Couvillon, Jeff Bobo, Magdelana Sosa, and Maribel Hernandez for getting the classrooms cleaned and ready for the new school year. Some renovations were also started this summer on the library building. The old circulation desk was removed and the circulation desk passed to Leakey School from the city Library when they were renovated was put in place. A librarian work room was carved out of the existing space. New bookshelves have been ordered. Eventually the full library building will be opened up for library books and technology. One of the classrooms already has computers in it for library use. Last year, the schools site base committee made up of Barbara Skipper, Gerald Lugaresi, Pat Sewell, Lorri Gonzalez, Kelly Douglas, Leslie Rodriguez, David Allen, Juanita Buchanan, Linda Massmann, Rick Davis Amy Springer, Leticia Rodriguez completed campus/district goal setting. Recommendations from the site-base committee that were implemented this year were a campus
nurse (Angela Downum) funded out of the district’s REAP Grant (Rural Education Achievement Program), the return of the tutorial period, continued page 4
JOIN IN ON THE FUN Labor Day Weekend September 1, 2, 3 2017 8:00 PM Comic Melodrama ROSIE’S GOODTIMES SALOON The American Legion Hall The Frio Canyon Players are looking forward to sharing the unusual goings on at Rosie’s Goodtimes Saloon. Some “very interesting” characters show up at Rosie’s, and bizarre doesn’t even begin to describe what unfolds. Tickets are available at the door $10.00/ each – doors open at 7:30 PM. A. G. Hood will serve as the emcee and The Groovy Gals will also be there. L to R Back Row – Kathie Graustein, Hy Rabon, Donna Blazek, Pat Power, Helen Stephens; Front Row – Priscilla Kirkpatrick, Linda Power, Blyth Cave