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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 9 No. 12
INSIDE
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COUNTY CITY WIDE CLEAN-UP ........................... Page 8
JUST FOR GRINS
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REAL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE WANTED PERSONS AND FUGITIVES ............................ Page 3
March 21, 2018
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FIRE VISITS THE DEVIL’S SINKHOLE STATE NATURAL AREA A tractor being used to reduce the Ashe juniper (cedar) at the Devil’s Sinkhole State Natural Area caught fire mid-afternoon Monday and despite careful soaking of the affected machinery and other property, some sparks managed to get away. Just before 6 P.M., the sheriff’s office was alerted and contacted Devil’s Sinkhole volunteer Dennis Piper who passed along our gate combination and notified park staff. Deputy Ibanez responded along with the first of four fire trucks and things appeared fairly contained, but the fire increased somewhat by 8 P.M. The fire trucks had to replenish their water supply at least twice, first draining the 5000 gallon tank that is at the windmill on the Devil’s Sinkhole State Natural Area and refilling from Edwards County’s new water truck brought up to the fire by workers of the county road department.
The fire department finished about 2 A.M. Park rangers monitored the remains of the fire and were still patrolling the state natural area with the Kickapoo Cavern State Park fire truck to make sure nothing started up again. The park staff and the Devil’s Sinkhole Society express their thorough gratitude to firefighters Oscar Arredondo, Katie Ashmore-Prather, Matt Dietes, Eddie Franco, Tata Ortiz, Joel Reyes, Steven Sifuentes, and Brandon Torres. Thanks also to Road Department personnel Jason Arp, Eladio Rocha, Jerry Sifuentes, and Michael Simpson. Further thanks go the Sheriff Elliott and her deputies and dispatchers and to Emergency Management Coordinator Jon Elliott. Park staff report that there is no damage to any of the state natural area’s key features. Approximately 15 acres were burnt of the 1836 acre state natural area.
Water News and River Flows Flows at all crossings on the Frio River were taken on March 16, 2018. Fulgham’s Crossing just south of the Alto Frio Baptist Encampment had a flow of 14,083 gpm (gallons per minute) in February and now has a flow of 12,634 gpm; this is a 10% reduction in flow. The Leakey Springs crossing had a flow of 3,581 gpm last measurement, and a flow of 3,530 gpm this reading; about a 1% reduction in flow since the last measurement. This crossing has remained very constant since last summer with only slight variations from one measurement to the next. The Mill Creek Crossing showed a slight increase in flow this measurement of about 3%; there are culverts on both ends of this crossing that have no flow. This crossing has a flow of 8,609 gpm this measurement which is up from the last measurement of 8,375 gpm in February.
by: Joel Pigg, General Manager, RECRD
On the west prong of the Frio River, conditions are very similar with flows decreasing since the last measurement. The Rancho Real crossing had a flow of 5,438 gpm in February compared to a flow of 5,559 gpm this measurement increasing the flow by 2%. The Kent Creek crossing showed an approximately 6% increase in flow since the last measurement; to a flow of 1,258 gpm this month up from a flow of 1,180 gpm last measurement. The Nueces River flows were taken on March 16, 2018 with both of crossings showing an increase in flow. McDonalds Crossing was flowing at 16,695 gpm last measurement and increased to a flow of 19,565 gpm this measurement or approximately a 15% increase. This crossing has several culverts that are reduced in flow at this time with gravel clogging the pipes. continued page 7
KERR SIGNS TO PLAY FOOTBALL AT SOUTHWESTERN Leakey ISD senior, Coleman Kerrson of John and Kim Kerr, has decided to attend Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, and play football for the Pirates. Kerr will graduate from high school with a 3.9 gpa, and 33 college credit/hours. As a quarterback for the Eagles, Coleman threw or ran for 44 touchdowns over 32 starts. The family is very proud of his academic and athletic achievements, and look forward to seeing him in uniform next fall. “Coleman is a natural born leader with a relentless work ethic. We preach discipline, effort, toughness, and honor, but Coleman lives those characteristics every day. I’m proud to have been his coach.”- Coach Josh Stacey Thanks to Coach Stacey and Leakey ISD for this memory and ceremony to celebrate this milestone. The Southwestern Pirates football team represented Southwestern
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INDEX Legals/Jail Register ... . Page 3Community News ......... Page 4-6 Feature Story ................ Page 7 Community Events.........Page 8-9 Obituaries ...................... Page 10 Classifieds ..................... Page 14
Today’s Weather
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April in the Republic of Texas Daughters of the Republic of Texas have established twelve Honor Days in keeping with the DRT Objec�ves to perpetuate the memory and spirit of men and women who achieved and maintained the independence of Texas, to encourage historical research and to promote the celebra�on of Texas Honor Days. April 21 is marked as San Jacinto Day. As the month of April is in sight today, so the republic’s independence was visible in 1836. On April 21 of that same year in present-day San Jacinto, General Sam Houston and the Texas Army defeated General Santa Anna’s troops, winning independence for Texas in a ba�le that lasted only 18 minutes. Shortly before noon on April 21, 1836, Houston held a council of war with Edward Burleson, Sidney Sherman, Henry Millard, Alexander Somervell, Joseph
University in National Collegiate Athletic Association. (NCAA) intercollegiate football competition from 1908 to 1950. After a brief period of prominence during the Second World War, the school disbanded its football program in April 1951 because of budgetary constraints. On October 28, 2011, The Southwestern University board of trustees voted to reinstate the program. The Pirates football team resumed play in the Fall of 2013 as part of the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. In 2016, the final year that the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference sponsored football, the Pirates posted a perfect 6–0 record in becoming undefeated conference champions. As a part of the championship the Pirates swept the conference’s major post-season awards.
by Judy Burleson
Benne�, and Lysander Wells. Opinions differed. Houston made the decision to disperse his forces in ba�le order about 3:30 p.m., during the a�ernoon siesta. Without posted lookouts and with trees screening their movements, the Texans formed ba�le lines. Edward Burleson’s regiment took the center, Sherman’s the le� wing, ar�llery under George Hockley on Burleson’s right, infantry under Millard on the right of the ar�llery and the cavalry under Mirabeau Lamar on the extreme right. The Twin Sisters were wheeled into posi�on and Sherman’s men sprang forward on the run with the cry, “Remember the Alamo!” “Remember Goliad!” Houston’s official report was 630 Mexican casual�es
and 730 taken prisoner. Only 9 of the 910 Texans were killed or mortally wounded and thirty were less seriously wounded. Houston’s ankle was sha�ered by a musket ball. A search party found Santa Anna hiding in a grassy area, dirty and wet and dressed as a common soldier. He was not iden�fied un�l a Mexican prisoner addressed him as “el presidente.” An inscrip�on on the exterior base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: “Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive ba�les of the world. The freedom of Texas from Mexico won here led to annexa�on and to the Mexican War, con�nued page 7