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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 7 No. 48
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College Christmas Event Draws Large Crowd Uvalde, TX, – SWTJC hosted the fourth annual Christmas at the College event, which drew approximately two thousand attendees on Tuesday (Nov. 28) in Uvalde. Derek Sandoval, vice president of administrative services who served as master of ceremonies for the evening, introduced Dr. Hector Gonzales, college president. Gonzales thanked everyone for showing their support and commented on the success of the event. Gonzales went on to commend the numerous individuals who contributed to decorating the campus. College employees Ismael and Savanna Martinez and family received special recognition during the evening’s festivities for their hard work and the countless hours devoted to preparing the campus for the event. Highlighting the evening’s festivities was the arrival of Santa Claus in a short parade with the participation of the Uvalde High School band, a float filled with SWTJC students from Powers & Kirchner Child Development Center (SWTJC Daycare), the Uvalde County 4-H Club and the SWTJC Law Enforcement Academy. Santa was available throughout the evening for pictures; an estimated 600 children
and adults took pictures with Santa Claus. Photos with Santa are available for download at swtjc.edu at no cost. Local school choirs provided musical entertainment. Choirs included Knippa ISD Choir, directed by Tammie Brown; Robb Elementary School Choir, directed by Elaine Valenzuela; St. Phillips School Choir, directed by Becky Caet and Uvalde Classical Academy Choir, directed by Camille Sanders. Other schools who participated were Flores School Choir, directed by Liza Elizondo; Sacred Heart Catholic School Choir, directed by Kassie Alejandro; and the Morales Junior High School Mariachi, directed by Veronica Ramirez. The Uvalde High School Mariachi performed during Las Posadas later that evening. Schools received a $200 donation from Southwest Texas Junior College as a token of appreciation for taking time to participate in the college event. Shortly after the choir performances “Las Posadas” began, but
not before Fernando Lombraña, Catholic club sponsor gave a brief description of the significance of the Christmas tradition. The Las Posadas procession began in front of the Rodolfo R. & Dolores Flores Student Services Build-
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ing and followed a route through the SWTJC campus, which ended at the MSC Ballroom for a dinner of tamales, rice, beans, and desserts. Children were treated to piñatas as part of the celebration.
Friends of the Library 2018 Benefit Gala - “ Vintage, Vino and Vuola” by Pam Gasper
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The 2018 FOL Benefit Gala on March 3, 2018, celebrates our community treasure, the Real County Public Library Leakey. Please join us as a Gala Sponsor and enjoy the many benefits of Sponsorship! All Sponsors receive reserved seat
tickets to the Gala PLUS
· event signage and program inclusion · media acknowledgements · recognition on the FOL and Library Facebook pages · introduction from the podium at the Gala.
Each level of sponsorship below
receives unique benefits in addition your reserved seats. Benefit details are available upon request! Platinum ($800) 10 reserved seats Gold ($640) 8 reserved seats Silver ($300) 4 reserved seats Bronze ($150) 2 reserved seats
Reserved seat sponsorships are limited. Single non-reserved seat tickets are $40.00 and will go on sale in January. For more information please contact Mary Forman at rcplea.maryforman@g mail.com or 232-4439/386-734-3534.
Huajilla Members Visit Historic Rio Frio in November
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INDEX Legals/Jail Register ... . Page 3Community News ......... Page 4-7 Feature Story ............... Page 8-9 Obituaries ...................... Page 10 Classifieds ..................... Page 14
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by Lewis Stroud. The pledges to the American and Texas flags was followed by the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner. After introducing the officers, members were referred to the printed minutes made available and make corrections as necessary; minutes will be filed after corrections are made. The Treasurer’s Report from Sam Dubberly was presented and accepted for filing. Dubberly also read a letter from TRTA Foundation acknowledging receipt of the donation from Huajilla Unit. Public Relations Chair Kathy Carlson reminded members to pick up their yearbooks, sign up for door prizes and purchase Charles Carlson presents an appreciation gift of Huajilla Honey to Ms. Virginia Davis, on behalf of the Huajilla Unit Retired Teachers group. Ms Davis, from El Progreso Library in Uvalde, presented a program on “Strong Texas Women” a chance on the framed profesbased on several books written by and about women in early Texas. sional photograph donated by Charles Carlson. The income The Huajilla Unit of Retired Teachers traveled to hisgenerated by this raffle will benefit the scholarship toric Rio Frio on November 27, 2017 for its monthly fund. Lola Hill informed the group of the unit’s memmeeting. President Irene Dubberly welcomed the 43 members and guests, followed by an opening prayer led bership numbers. Currently, the State lists Huajilla
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with over 228 members, however, the local unit paid membership totals 149; an additional 34 have joined the State only, but have not joined the Huajilla Unit. The remainder have not renewed State membership at all, but still appear on the Huajilla roster. A shocking fact is that about 50% of state TRTA members do not belong to a local unit such as Huajilla. Hill also reminded members to start totaling their Community Volunteer Service hours and provide their number of hours in early January since her report is due in mid-January. Hill and her Book Project Committee have begun to clean, label and package the books to be presented to the various groups previously selected, at the unit’s December meeting in Castroville. President Dubberly informed the members that announcements are posted on Facebook; the website is still not up-to-date. There are handouts for members on Informative and Protective Services and on Health Care issues. These can also be sent to members by email. Callers will be informed of any membership changes by email as these changes occur. Bruce Simpson again offered his challenge to members for the TRTA Foundation contributions. Members were reminded that there are many retirees in need of monetary assistance in view of Harvey, and more recently, the Southerland Springs tragedy. continued page 4
Real County Jr. Livestock Show Association The Real County Junior Livestock Show Association is proud to announce the 70th Annual Livestock Show and Sale scheduled for Thursday and Friday, January 11-12, 2018 at the E. E. Bushong Show Barn located at 534 Ranch Road 337 West in Leakey. This year we have 118 exhibitors signed up and our entries are: 57 pens of rabbits, 70 breeder rabbits, 78 meat goats, 35 breeder meat goats, 34 lambs, 34 swine and 20 pens of broilers. The horse division will not show this year due to lack of entries. Exhibitors are to bring
their animals to the show barn between 8:00 AM and 11:30 AM on Thursday. The animals will be sifted, classified and weighed. Judging of the rabbits will begin at 1 PM followed by broilers, breeder meat goats and finishing with the meat goats. On Friday at 9:00 AM judging will begin with the lamb class followed by the swine class. We will provide a full concession on Thursday and Friday, as well as our traditional hometown barbecue lunch served Friday at 11:30 AM. Trophies and special awards will be presented Friday at 12:45 PM, followed by the auction beginning at 1:00 PM. You won’t want to miss the entertainment of the sale hosted by our long-time supporters, Southwest Livestock Exchange, of Uvalde, Texas!
ORDER OF SHOW THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 – 1:00 P.M. BREEDER RABBITS Buck Rabbits CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Doe Rabbits CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION RABBIT DIVISION Pen of Three Rabbits GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION BROILER DIVISION Pen of Three Broilers GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION BREEDER MEAT GOATS Doe Kid Lightweight Heavyweight CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Aged Doe CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION MEAT GOAT DIVISION Lightweight Division Class 1 Class 2 CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Mediumweight Division Class 3 Class 4
CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Heavyweight Division Class 5 Class 6 CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018 - 9:00 A.M. LAMB DIVISION Finewool Lambs Lightweight Heavyweight CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Crossbred Lambs Lightweight Heavyweight CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Mediumwool Lambs Lightweight Heavyweight CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION SWINE DIVISION Lightweight CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Mediumweight CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION Heavyweight CHAMPION & RESERVE CHAMPION GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION Mark your calendars and join us in supporting the youth of Real County! Hope to see everyone there!