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Current Weekly News for Leakey, Camp Wood, Sabinal, Utopia and Surrounding Areas Vol. 6 No. 21
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REAL COUNTY JUNIOR HORSE CLUB ANNOUNCES 2016 GRAND MARSHALL ............................ Page 9
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR ............................ Page 3
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INDEX Legals/Jail Register .... Page 3-4 Community News ......... Page 5-7 Feature Story ............... Page 8-9 Obituaries ...................... Page 10 Classifieds ..................... Page 14
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May 25, 2016
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Real County Appraisal District Sends Out New Notices of Appraised Value The Real County Appraisal District (RCAD) has mailed the 2016 Notices of Appraised Value last Friday. Of nearly 10,000 accounts that the District appraises, approximately 2,000 notices were sent out. As required by the Property Tax Code, a District is required to notify property owners if their value increases over one-thousand dollars. The key points of the Notice will be the Appraised Value and the estimation of taxes. The Appraised Value is the total of the land and the structure/ improvement (any buildings on site) that the taxing entities asses taxes on. Below the values grid are the estimation of taxes for each taxing unit a property is located in. The tax estimate is based
off of the previous year’s tax rate. If a taxing entity raises or lowers their rate, then it will be reflected when property owners are billed in October. Property owners have until June 20, 2016 to contest their value. The protest form comes with the Notice and may be mailed or dropped off at the Appraisal District. The Appraisal District office is located on second floor of the Real County Courthouse. After filing the protest, owners will be able to have an informal visit with Michael Mann, the Chief Appraiser. Informal staff reviews are first come first serve, and Mann will make every effort to explain particular sales situations in areas of value increase. “One area of value change
Veterans Project Kanisorn “Kid” Wongsrichanalai and Christine M. Lamberson, both Assistant Professors, along with Kathryn A. Ostrofsky, an instructor; all from Angelo State University’s history department, who came to Uvalde to the El Progresso Library last Tuesday to video, document, and record veterans and families of veterans about their experiences, artifacts, and items, as well as their stories that they wish to share with posterity through a digital archive. Because of my work with veterans, it was arranged for me to met with them, along with veterans Garland Armstrong, Rodney Reagan, Milton Woolf all of Uvalde, and J.
came from structure values that that were corrected from an overriding flat, or nominal value, to the actual adjusted appraisal value. Many of these properties had been previously appraised by the Eagle Appraisal group, and their values had not been applied by the District,” said Mann. “Also, land values may have changed as I analyzed sales in different areas of the county.” Mann noted that there are many structures that are unaccounted for throughout the county and encourages property owners to make sure their own property accounts are accurate. Owners may search the District website at www.realcad.org to see what structures they are being appraised for. Moving forward, RCAD will seek
by Billie Franklin
W. Young of Reagan Wells. Stories of World War II and Korea were recorded. Other veterans may have also come, and I apologize for any omissions of names if so. The trio of historians promised that they would return to the area and I promised to help them get in touch with veterans from Sabinal at that time. If you want to be included, please contact me at 830988-3258; 830-275-1834; or write to me at P. O. Box 1245, Sabinal, Texas 78881-1245 and I will add you to the list. Pictured: Veteran J. W. Young interviewed by Angelo State University professors.
CHISUM GRADUATES WITH HONORS Ensign Billy J. R. Chisum was born on February 19, 1994 in Kerrville Texas to Melanie Chisum and the late Billy Ray Chisum. Ensign Chisum graduated from Leakey High School in the Spring of 2012 and began attending Texas A & M University Galveston in the Fall of the same year. At the same time he joined the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps. (NROTC) as a college programmer. In the Summer of 2014 Ensign Chisum was selected for highly competitive NROTC Advanced Standing Scholarship. Again in the Fall of 2015 he was service selected as a Naval Aviator. Throughout his four years in the NROTC program Ensign Chisum has held various leadership billets such as division officer, physical training officer, executive officer, and commanding officer. Ensign Chisum holds a degree in Maritime Administration with a minor in Economics. Ensign Chisum is excited to pursue his life long dream as a naval aviator upon commissioning where he is due to report to naval flight school in November 2016.
Water News and River Flows By: Joel Pigg, General Manager
As I sit here to update the flow readings and check the forecast I see that we have a few chances for showers over the next week to ten days. At least a 20% chance of showers every day this week and even bigger chances for the Memorial Day weekend. Flows at all crossing were taken on May 20th. Fulgham’s Crossing just south of the Alto Frio Baptist Encampment had a flow of 24,498 gpm last measurement and now has a flow of 25,215 gpm; this is an increase of about 3%. The culverts on the south end of this crossing are still flowing, hope it lasts all spring and summer. The Leakey Springs crossing had a flow of 4,491 gpm last measurement and a
Fire On The Frio The Frio Canyon Chamber of Commerce held it’s 2nd Annual Fire on the Frio BBQ Cookoff on May 14th, 2016. Despite the rainy weather 13 teams competed for the coveted trophies! Several categories were added this year including two drink categories, Margaritas and Bloody Mary’s. Here are the results: Ribs 1st Grin and Bear
to maintain fair and equitable property values in relation to the area’s sales prices. This will be done by property inspection and reviewing all sales data provided. “Establishing more accurate property values will not be an overnight job, but the end result will help our county and schools as they prepare their budgets in the future. I will remind everyone, that our office has a lot have work ahead, but we will always make time to talk to tax payers. I recognize that many folks just do not understand a lot of the appraisal process and I hope to explain the details and answer any questions they have. And, if I don’t know the answer, I’ll go find it,” concluded Mann.
It cookers, 2nd The Misfits, 3rd Metierra BBQ Team Brisket 1st Happy Hollow Team #1, 2nd Happy Hollow Team #2 3rd Swine Wine & Bovine team Fajita 1st TNT Cookers 2nd Grin & Bear It Cookers 3rd Swine Wine and Bovine team Sauce 1st Happy Hollow
Team # 2 2nd Deaf Dawg Cooking team 3rd TNT Cookers Chicken 1st 2nd TNT Cookers 3rd All about the Baste Dessert 1st All about the Baste 2nd Happy Hollow #2 3rd Nothing But a “G” Thing Babie Beans 1st Smoking B’s
by Julie Becker
Bloody Mmary 1st Happy Hollow Team # 2 2nd Grin & Bear It Cookers 3rd TNT Cookers People’s Choice The Misfits Margarita 1st Swine Wine and Bovine 2nd Deaf Dawg Cooking Team 3rd Grin and Bear It Cookers Site decoration 1st Grin & Bear It
flow of 4,751 gpm this reading; increasing about 5% since the last measurement. This crossing still has a plugged culvert. The Mill Creek Crossing showed a 25% increase in flow since the last measurement; there are culverts on the south end of this crossing that continue to have no flow. This crossing has a flow of 16,234 gpm this measurement up from the flow last measurement of 12,150 gpm. I also took the flow measurement at Frio River Place this time and it is very similar to the reading taken a couple of weeks ago that flow was 31,519 gpm and the flow this week was 34,613 gpm or an increase in flow of about 9%. continued page 11