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Tri-Canyon’s Only Weekly Newspaper!
Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 7 No. 27
www.hillcountryherald.net
July 5, 2017
editor@hillcountryherald.net
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2017 LEAKEY JULY JUBILEE PARADE SEE MORE PICTURES PAGE 2
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REAL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE WANTED PERSONS AND FUGITIVES
Caddel-Smith Chapter Awards Every two years a new Board of Management is installed at the Annual Convention of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. It is always sad to bid farewell to our President General. It is a big job to manage an organization of over 7,000 women. We all wish Dr. Betty Edwards well and appreciate all the hard work she put in for our organization. Our new President General will be Barbara Stevens from Kingwood, Texas. Barbara had a great love for Texas, Texas, History, and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She has always enjoyed doing family research and her President General’s Project will be an IT project to make researching our records easier. Carolyn Rainey is our new President General Elect.
Carolyn has served the board in various offices including History Chair in charge of Texas History Essays and as Recording Secretary. The Caddel-Smith Chapter received several awards at Convention. We received a 1st place in Publicity. We are grateful to all our local papers for putting our articles in their papers. Our History Book received a 2nd place. The Caddel-Smith Chapter also earned awards for Volunteer Hours, Achievement, Attendance, and Texas History. We received a President General’s Award. The convention will again be in Dallas next year on May 17. The history book competition was eliminated, but the publicity and the essay contests will be continued.
by Elaine Padgett Carnegie
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Jack Young, driver of the 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck that killed 13
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Today’s Weather
High: 95° Low: 71°
New Board of Management Installed
LEAKEY RESIDENT INDICTED ON 13 COUNTS OF INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER
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by Billie Nast
members of a New Braunfels Church near Garner State Park on March 29, 2017, has been indicted on 13 counts of intoxication manslaughter and manslaughter. A Uvalde County grand jury heard the case on Monday, June 26th and issued the indictment on Wednesday, June 28th. In total, Young is facing 28 felony charges. He is charged with manslaughter and intoxication manslaughter for each of the 13 victims who died in the crash. For the one victim who survived the crash, Young is charged with intoxication assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The preliminary investigation report showed that Jack Dillon Young, 20, crossed over the solid white line of his northbound lane 37 times, entered the grass roadside at least five times, crossing over the double yellow
centerline 19 times and at one point was driving completely on the wrong side of the road before the crash. Young left the northbound lane and crossed into the southbound lane, crashing with the front left corner of the medium-sized bus. The impact of the crash at around 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29 killed 13 of the 14 people on board, including the bus driver. According to reports by KXAN AUSTIN, Court records indicate Young had taken prescription medication before driving and had marijuana in his truck. An affidavit seeking a blood test says Young also told a trooper he had taken prescription medication including clonazepam and the generic forms of Lexapro and Ambien. Young allegedly acknowledged after the crash that he had earlier consumed two pills of Clonazepam — which he said make him sleepy
— and the generic forms of the prescription drugs Ambien and Lexapro, the trooper wrote, as reported by the Chronicle. An unidentified pharmacist quoted in the affidavit said that combination of drugs could have impaired a driver by causing drowsiness or inducing sleep, the newspaper reported. Another trooper quoted in the affidavit reported finding two intact marijuana cigarettes in the center console of Young’s truck along with five partially smoked joints. No field sobriety test was conducted on Young in the aftermath of the crash given the severity of his injuries, but a warrant to test his blood for intoxicants was subsequently secured, according to the report. Young was discharged from the hospital but court records suggest he may have been further impaired. His next court date is scheduled for July 20.
Sabinal First United Methodist VBS Has Large Crowd
by Billie Franklin
This past week, Vacation Bible School was held each morning with the closing on Friday at 11:15. The heaviest day was Wednesday when there were 135 children, both helpers and children, came. This was a joyful week for the teachers as well as the students. Last Sunday, an ice cream social was held to welcome back the Reverend Glenn A. Luhrs. Beginning this Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. there will be a summer reading program each Friday during July. Lunch and assistance in reading are on the agenda. It is open to all children. On Friday, July 14 at 6:30 p.m. the summer family movie night will feature “Trolls”. The event is free as are all the snacks and drinks. Join in on the fun. Canned food continues to be collected with the request be for canned meats such as chicken, chipped beef, salmon, sardines, Spam, tuna, and Vienna sausages. All donations are accepted. The foods are distributed through Team Focus and the project is sponsored by the Sabinal Chamber of Commerce.