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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
RUNOFF ELECTIONS
Biedermann, Schmidt, Olfers win Buckingham tops King in Senate race to replace Fraser By Ken Esten Cooke Kyle Biedermann rode a tea party-backed wave of antiincumbent sentiment and scored a huge upset against three-term District 73 State Rep. Doug Miller in Tuesday’s runoff elections. In county races, Vicki Schmidt defeated sitting county tax assessor-collector Marissa Weinheimer and Charles Olfers outpaced Dennis Behrends to win the runoff for Precinct 1
County Commissioner. “I started this campaign as a grassroots challenger knocking on thousands of doors and meeting tens of thousands of voters,” Biedermann said in a news release Tuesday night. “I have been blessed to live in Texas for the past 30 years and I have been working as hard as I can to provide for my family and serve my community. Tonight was a great win for the taxpayers and conservative grassroots.”
Biedermann, who was not available for comment by press time, stated he will not be beholden to entrenched interests when he gets to the State Capitol. “It was a tough fight, but this fact also means that I do not owe the Austin lobby, the entrenched interests and the capitol power brokers anything when I arrive in Austin,” he said. “My votes as a representative will be cast based upon rock solid conservative prin-
VOTE TALLIES Biedermann 55% Miller 45%
ciples and doing what is right and just for the people in this district and our great state.” The race was called for Biedermann just after 9 p.m. as the challenger kept a consistent 55 percent to 45 percent lead as precincts reported. This marks the first time in 65 years that a Gillespie County resident has represented the district in the State Capitol. In the Texas Senate District 24 race to replace longtime
Buckingham 61% King 39%
Biedermann
Schmidt
Schmidt 67% Weinheimer 33% Olfers 55% Behrends 45%
Olfers
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BACCALAUREATE SERVICE
Buckingham
BOX-BY-BOX TOTALS Gillespie County runoff totals by box on page A/B4.
PURPLE
HAZE See CITY ▶ A2
INVESTIGATION With a smile and wave, Fredericksburg High School senior Sloane Guthrie exits St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Sunday evening following baccalaureate services for the Class
of 2016. More photos from the event, sponsored by the Gillespie County Ministerial Association, on C1. — StandardRadio Post/Yvonne Hartmann
GILLESPIE COUNTY
HOLIDAY WEEKEND
Public health nurse addresses Museum will Tuberculosis case, safety seats honor war By Scott Allen
During Monday morning’s Gillespie County Commissioners Court, Rebecca Patterson, the Public Health Nurse for Kerr and Gillespie counties, presented the 2015 health report for Gillespie County. “First of all, we did have an active case of Tuberculosis in Gillespie County in 2015,” Patterson said. “I’ve been actively involved with treating this case and I’m happy
INSIDE COURTS • Pretrial hearing set in indecency case of daycare worker ▶ A11 MEMORIAL DAY • Veteran council events, closings listed for holiday ▶ A/B3 SMALL TOWNS • Jobs, innovation concentrating in metro areas ▶ D2
to say that we are almost finished with treatment, we should finish up on Thursday. I’m happy to say this case is almost closed up.” Additionally, Patterson said she has been going to the area high schools and talking about youth suicide prevention. “Anything that we can do to raise awareness and prevent this will be a good thing,” Patterson said. Car seats to strap young
dead Monday
Pinch some tails at annual Crawfish Fest
National Museum of the Pacific War will host its annual Memorial Day observance at 10 a.m. Monday, May 30, in the Memorial Courtyard. The museum is at 340 East Main Street. This observance, free and open to the public, honors all of those who have lost their lives serving in the United States armed forces.
Come rain or shine, the three-day Fredericksburg Crawfish Festival returns Friday through Sunday, May 27-29, at Marktplatz. “It’s rained on us the last three or four years,” said Joshua Buss, president of the Fredericksburg Jaycees. “It’s kind of a tradition. People seem to like to eat crawfish in the rain.” “Unless an act of God happens, we won’t shut it down,”
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WEATHER
Tuba player Jake Wiemers, in a stylish bowler hat, performs on the “George Washington Bicentennial” score by John Phillip Sousa at last Thursday’s Fredericksburg High School Band Spring Concert at the FHS Auditorium. Wiemers was part of the FHS Wind Ensemble. See more photos on page A/B5. – Standard-Radio Post/Ken Esten Cooke
CHILD CARE
May 17-23, 2016 Rainfall this week 3.21 Rainfall for May 3.60 Rainfall for 2016 19.30 Normal for Date 10.40 Same Date Last Year 15.92 Low — May 18,19 57 High — May 21,23 84
Closing of daycare facility trims options
High Low Rain Tuesday 79 60 2.25 Wednesday 79 57 0.96 Thursday 79 57 Friday 81 62 Saturday 84 69 Sunday 83 60 Monday 84 69 Total Rain 3.21
One local daycare facility will shut down tomorrow after an employee was indicted for inappropriate behavior. (See page A/B11.) Parents of young children will have fewer daycare options in a crowded market. In Fredericksburg, there
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IT’S ON!
Background checks, inspections come into question after indecency charges, indictment By Sandra Lane
are 14 licensed daycares, four located in churches (which will drop to three after Thursday), one operated by a nonprofit organization and nine privately run facilities. One of the privately owned daycare facilities will close in a few days because the owner is retiring. Beginning in June, there
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will be 12 daycare centers in Fredericksburg. Background checks In order to get a daycare license, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), the state’s daycare licensing board, requires that facilities
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CHART Leaders at the Child Care Center at FUMC have said they will close to regroup. Another facility is closing due to a retirement. See a chart of the town’s 12 remaining daycare facilities and their inspection records ▶ A/B8
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