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PIT BULLS ENLISTED FOR SERVICE IN METROCOM Heaven Sent Pit Bull Rescue changing breed’s image

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IVE OAK – Divorced, raising three children and battling a serious condition caused by a head injury, Sherise Davila needed a new lease on life. And that’s where man’s best friend came to the rescue.

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“I was having seizures, it was a really bad time in my life and me and my kids were trying to rebuild our lives,” Davila said.

Then, along came Pluto, a pit bull terrier she adopted from a shelter.

“We had Pluto trained for my seizures, and it changed my entire world,” she said.

Pluto can sense several minutes in advance when an attack is about to occur, and Davila can now go out in public in a way she couldn’t before, she added.

“We could go to the movies; I could go to my kids’ school plays. It just became such a gift, and so my kids said, ‘Mom, this is heaven-sent.’”

The sentiment became the name of Davila’s nonprofit, Heaven Sent Pit Bull Rescue, located in Live Oak. The organization not only adopts and places pit bulls as pets, but after training and testing,

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Converse EDC committed to attracting more businesses PG. 05 City hires Retail Coach, OKs funds to expand roads

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ommunities and residents across the Metrocom on July 4 will participate in parades, cookouts and fireworks displays celebrating our nation’s 238th birthday.

While doing so, we should also remember another recent observance – the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on June 6.

It was touching to see our World War II veterans returning to Normandy, France, where many of the 160,000 Allied soldiers who stormed Omaha, Utah, Juno, Gold and Sword beaches paid with their lives.

During the observance the surviving vets, all now in their late 80s and early 90s, eagerly recounted what happened during the invasion against entrenched German forces – which took days to complete – by sharing their tales with journalists and schoolchildren.

The kids, who can’t quite fathom the possibility of a similar experience happening today, were attentive and spellbound.

We sometimes forget our country was forged through such battles, fought before and after the fall of the Third Reich. We’ve since fought in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other countries when needed.

According to Veterans Affairs, of the 42 million men and women who served in war and peacetime from 1775 through 1991, there were 1.2 million deaths and an additional 1.4 million wounded.

Statistics are incomplete for the Global War on Terror that began in 2001.

We’ve set aside Memorial Day and Veterans Day to honor those sacrifices made here and around the globe.

As we celebrate our independence – proclaimed on a hot July day in Philadelphia in 1776 – we should again remember the price of freedom.

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JUNE 2014

LOCAL LOWDOWN Take a quick look at what’s new in the community from opening and closings to news tidbits.

Open and Opening Soon CIBOLO SMALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL, 3929 Cibolo Valley Drive, Suite 200 in Cibolo, offers affordable veterinary services for small animals and pets.

Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more, call 651-1384, go to www.cibolosmallanimalhospital.com or visit CiboloSmallAnimalHospital/ Facebook. (See story on page 12)

YOUZ GUYZ SOUTH PHILLY CHEESESTEAKS, 316 Pat Booker Road

in Universal City, is rated one of the best places in the area for a Philly cheesesteak.

Open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more, call 6598930 or visit youzguyzcheesesteaks. com. (See story on page 13)

SANTIN AUTOMOTIVE, 9170 FM 78 in Converse, offers auto and truck diagnostics, repairs and maintenance with aroundthe-clock roadside assistance available.

Open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For more, call 659-7931 or visit www.santinautomotive.com.

IN OTHER NEWS THE GREATER RANDOLPH AREA YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION held a World

Cup-themed closing ceremony for the spring season at River City Community Church in Selma on May 17. Hundreds of players, parents and coaches attended the event, where teams comprised of players ages 4-8 played their final games and were

awarded participation medals and trophies for first- and second-place finishes by the San Antonio Scorpions. Kids and family enjoyed playing on the jumping castles, trips to the dunking booth and a hot-dog lunch. GRAYSA organizers also thanked volunteers Emery Kelly, Nora Kelly, Larry Hickman, Rose Prieto, Tanya Easterling, Rick Santa Cruz, Dee Santa Cruz, Kaeli Barber, Caleb Sanchez, Savannah Sanchez, Tony Morales and Selma City Councilman Jose Silva for their support this season.

MORGAN’S WONDERLAND TO HONOR SPECIAL-NEEDS VOLUNTEERS, setting

an Aug. 1 deadline for nominations for its 2014 Walk of Fame. “These remarkable individuals serve those with special needs in many different ways. In doing so, they embody character traits such as determination, caring, achievement, sacrifice and inclusion,” said Ron Morander, Morgan’s Wonderland general manager. Walk of Fame honorees will be recognized during a “Free to Soar Gala” on Sept. 19 at Morgan’s Wonderland, with their names added to a Walk and Roll Path, which encircles an eight-acre lake at the special-needs theme park. A committee comprised of members from Morgan’s Wonderland, The Gordon Hartman Family Foundation and advisers to both organizations, will review nominations of not more than two typewritten pages submitted to WalkofFame@MorgansWonderland. com. Instructions are available at the park’s website, www.MorgansWonderland.com.

Sponsorship information and other details about the Free to Soar Gala are available from Becky Thomas at 493-2811. For more, call 495-5888 or toll-free at 877-495-5888.

WAGNER HIGH SCHOOL Fashion Design

Cibolo Small Animal Hospital recently relocated to 3929 Cibolo Valley Drive, Suite 200 in Cibolo, offering a full range of veterinary services for dogs and cats. Photo by Josh Michael

and Advanced Fashion Design students featured their creations during a program at the school cafeteria on May 16. “The Fashion Future on the Runway” displayed futuristic clothing designs of 66 students, worn by 112 models. The clothing reflected an array of fabrics, some with recycled materials. Metzger Middle School pupils created recycled bags for the benefit, which designated 25 percent of proceeds towards college scholarships for senior Fashion Design students. A Judson Independent School District release said six recent Wagner graduates are pursuing various degrees in the fashion industry.

THREE JUDSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT students traveled to Europe to

perform in the 70th anniversary ceremony of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, on June 6. Judson High School sophomores Fiona Neil and Taylor Hockley and Judson Middle School eighth-grader Alicia Ford performed with the Texas Children’s Choir during the international event, commemorating the service and sacrifices

of Allied troops on June 6, 1944, which eventually led to victory in World War II.

MEALS ARE BEING OFFERED AT SEVERAL JUDSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT campuses during the summer as part of the Summer Food Service Program. Breakfasts and lunches will be provided to youths 18 and under without charge, and regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability.

Meals will be provided at Judson High School through July 24 and Coronado Village Elementary, Elolf Elementary, Candlewood Elementary and Judson Middle School through July 31. All locations will be closed July 4. For more, including meal times, visit the JISD website at www.judsonisd.org or contact the JISD public information office at 945-5414.

THE RENOVATED STONE CHASE APARTMENTS, 7914 Ray Bon Drive, recently reopened to offer one- and two-bedroom apartment homes, following a $3 million revamp. Stone Chase offers five floorplan options, with one- and two-bedroom

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open-concept living spaces ranging from 557 square feet to 939 square feet. Available interiors include granite countertops, in-suite fireplaces, custom-wood cabinetry, full-size washers and dryers, and energy-efficient lighting. The community is managed by Alliance Residential Co. “Stone Chase is another positive addition to Walzem Road to assist the overall redevelopment and growth of the city and the Windcrest area,” said John J. Curry, principal with Harvest Equities Inc., a real-estate investment firm.

“We believe strongly that the area is making a comeback with the continuing addition of companies joining nearby Rackspace, and now with the availability of high-quality, first-class housing for new residents.”

A RECENT REPORT released by Communities In Schools of South Central Texas cited the organization’s involvement in improved graduation rates for students in Comal and Guadalupe counties. CIS, which mentors and aids at-risk students, serves 12 area elementary schools, seven middle schools and four high schools. During the 2012-13 school year, CIS said it aided 20,180 area students, with more than 18,000 receiving Level One support (school-wide prevention services) and 2,180

students receiving Level Two support (targeted and sustained interventions). Its report said 98 percent of high school seniors who received CIS targeted and sustained interventions graduated, and 95 percent of those served by the program were promoted to the next grade. The report, titled “Changing the Picture of Education in South Central Texas,” was released as part of the organization’s national public-awareness campaign featuring youths from around the country who graduated from high school as a result of Communities In Schools involvement.

“CIS has the most amazing people working in our schools to change lives every day,” said Chris Douglas, CIS South Central Texas executive director. “Our community cannot afford to allow our focus to move away from doing whatever it takes to help these kids. They are our future and because of the influence of CIS, I think the future looks amazingly bright.”

THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION and the Children’s

Hospital of San Antonio recently celebrated the creation and appointment of an endowed chair, named after late pediatric pioneer Dr. Howard A. Britton. The Britton Endowed Chair in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology was awarded to Dr. Timothy Griffin, who will serve

as the new section head of the hematology/ oncology division at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. Griffin came to the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio from the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he served as pediatrician-inchief since 2010. Britton, who died in March, first met Griffin in 1990. Griffin is currently working to build the hematology/oncology program at the Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and recruiting faculty and staff for the Baylor College of Medicine.

AREA CORNER STORES THROUGH JUNE are holding a 20th annual Miracle Balloon fundraiser benefiting 32 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, including the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. The “Put Their Money Where The Miracles Are” campaign offers hospital bracelets for customers to wear to stand in solidarity with sick and injured kids who wear them while being treated at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. The icons will be available for donations of $1 or $5, with the special yellow hospital bracelets available for $1. Each donation includes savings coupons for goods in the stores. Last year’s area campaign raised $563,000 to support the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio.

Reader Comments BIGOTRY IS ALL AROUND US EDITOR: I am writing to comment on

your “Bigotry” column of May 2014.

While you and I agree that bigotry has no place anywhere, I find it interesting that you only commented on the two recent news stories regarding Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling — two white men who said some bigoted words.

Where were your condemnations when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright preached his “Black Theology” hatred and railing against “rich white folks”?

I also did not hear you condemn reverends Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.

Jackson has used an anti-Semitic slur referring to New York City’s Jewish population, and Sharpton with his Tawana Brawley hoopla. Both have fanned the flames of racial hatred and class envy regarding the trumped up

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Interstate 10, FM 1516 expansion plays into overall goal

by WILL WRIGHT

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ONVERSE – Convinced a number of residents are spending their retail dollars outside the city, the Economic Development Corp. is taking steps to entice them into keeping that money at home.

Entering into a partnership with The Retail Coach, a national retail development and consulting firm, is the latest move to make that happen, according to EDC members.

The EDC board is now full, though earlier this year its longtime president and several board members stepped down.

Executive Director Kate Silvas said the nonprofit is recommitted to bolstering the city’s tax coffers – and the first step comes with wooing retail businesses

into an improved infrastructure.

“Our primary goal in working with The Retail Coach is to launch an aggressive campaign to attract retail investment to Converse,” Silvas said. “If we can capture a portion of those sales taxes that Converse residents already spend elsewhere, there is a significant amount of good that we can accomplish for them in their own hometown.”

Silvas said in 2013, an analysis performed

by University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute for Economic Development indicated at least $138.7 million in retail sales left Converse each year.

“The Retail Coach believes that number is actually very conservative,” Silvas said. “We have a lot of shoppers but not enough stores to meet their needs, and that’s what we’re trying to correct.”

The City Council on May 13 approved $35,000 to hire Retail Coach, which has assisted local governments, chambers of commerce and economic development organizations in 250 cities across the United States during the past 15 years.

“It is well-known for its solid reputation in terms of retail coaching for communities seeking to increase their tax base and provide a better quality of life in the community,” Silvas

The Converse City Council recently voted to issue $4 million in certificates of obligation to help fund a $10.5 million expansion of FM 1516 (above) and other road improvements throughout the city. Photo by Josh Michael

said. “I have had experience with them previously, in Seguin, and they have serviced many others in the area.”

Aaron Farmer, Retail Coach vice president, said his organization has assisted several San Antonio-area communities through the years, and currently has projects in La Vernia, Helotes and Selma.

“We were hired (by Converse) to do a retail retention and recruitment strategy,” Farmer said. “We’re going to be identifying who the Converse customer

is, where they are coming from and the missing retailers and restaurants that can eventually serve them.”

The firm will perform a “retail leakage analysis,” which will determine products and services city residents buy away from the city. It will also complete demographic and psychographic studies to identify which regional and national retailers and developers might be a

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JUNE 2014 OUR GUIDE TO YOUR MONTH

HAPPENING LOCAL

Plan your month with our calendar of upcoming events in the community.

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Teams from the Greater Randolph Area Youth Soccer Association staged a mini-parade similar to teams competing in the FIFA World Cup during season-ending ceremonies May 17 at River City Community Church.

Photos by Will Wright

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VFW 4676 SUMMER GOLF CLASSIC Veterans

of Foreign Wars Post 4676 in Universal City will host its annual Summer Golf Classic, beginning with an 8 a.m. shotgun start at Northcliffe Golf Club, 5301 Country Club Blvd. in Cibolo. The $60 entry fee includes green fees, skins, mulligans and other prizes. An awards luncheon follows the event at the post, 202 W. Aviation Blvd. For more, call 658-9163.

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UC VETERANS VICTORY RUN Runners, walkers,

families and pets are welcome at the third annual Veterans Victory Run through Universal City. The event, featuring 5K and 10K runs, begins at 8 a.m. at Universal City Park, 305 North Blvd. Registration is under way; military discounts are available. For more, visit www.UniversalCityTexas. com/Run or call 619-0721.

Universal City Public Library, 100 Northview Drive, will host the following events in June and July. For more, call 659-7048: “Basic Internet Use,” free seminars on navigating the Internet, will be held 10-11 a.m. June 21 and July 19. Adults must accompany children under 12. Contact the library for registration details.

A free afternoon movie will begin at noon July 12. Bring a lunch or snack; call the library to find out which movie will be featured. Senior Social Days are held 2-4 p.m. each Monday. Book Club for Adults will meet at 6:30 p.m. July 16. A list of reading selections can be found at www.universalcitytexas.com/bookclub.

The library reserves seven copies of each book for members, distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Each Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friends of the Universal City Library hosts a used-book sale at their bookstore behind the library. It features a wide selection of books, nominally priced by the inch. On Aug. 6, the group will host a charity auction for painted chairs slated to go to local businesses.

JUNE/JULY

TRI-COUNTY CHAMBER EVENTS The Tri-County

Chamber of Commerce, formerly the Randolph Metrocom Chamber of Commerce, will hold its monthly mixer from 6-8 p.m. June 26 at the chamber offices, 8211 Agora Parkway, Suite 112 in Live Oak. The organization will also participate in Universal City’s Veterans Victory Run on July 5. For more, call 658-8322 or visit www.metrocomchamber.org.

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RANDOLPH METROCOM ROTARY EVENTS The

Randolph Metrocom Rotary Club meets Mondays at noon at the Olympia Hills Golf and Conference Center, 12900 Mount Olympus Drive in Universal City. For more, visit www. randolphmetrocomrotary.org.

EACH MONTH

CONVERSE LIBRARY CHILDREN’S STORY TIMES

are held 10:30-11:30 a.m. each Wednesday at the Converse Public Library, 601 S. Seguin St. The free event gives toddlers an early start to literacy through book readings, music, and arts and crafts. Parents are urged to arrive on time; children must be supervised. For more, call 659-4160.

THIS SUMMER

UC MOVIES IN THE PARK

The city of Universal City will begin its free Movies in the Park series with “Frozen – a Sing-ALong,” June 21 at Universal City Park, 305 North Blvd. Activities for the kids begin at 7 p.m. with movies beginning at sunset. Other films are scheduled for July 5, July 19, Aug. 2 and Aug. 16. Guests may bring lawn chairs, blankets and snacks; some concessions will be available for purchase. For more, including activity details and movie schedules, visit www. universalcitytexas.com or call 619-0721.

ONGOING

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YMCA and San Antonio Metropolitan Health District are offering a pair of free programs geared to preventing diabetes. The YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program is open to adults 18 and older with a body mass

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index greater than 25; it is a supportive 12-month mix of classes and monthly maintenance sessions. The Y Living Program, for families, offers information in a 12-week series of holistic wellness classes. Both are offered at the Walzem Family YMCA, 5538 Walzem Road.

Call 924-8858 or 656-5577 for more.

FIGHTING HUNGER TexasMobilePack and Feed My Starving Children are seeking volunteers to help pack 4 million meals for hungry children overseas during a six-day event Sept. 25-30. The goal is to line up 20,000 volunteers to work two-hour shifts at two local sites. More on the organizations and their goals can be found on links at texasmobilepack.org. and www.fmsc.org.

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ON THE HORIZON LIVE OAK NATIONAL NIGHT OUT The Live Oak Police

Department is registering neighborhoods and residential groups for block parties in conjunction with National Night Out observances. For more information and to register, call 945-1700.

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Defends actions leading up to re-election bid

by WILL WRIGHT

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ONVERSE – City Councilwoman Renee Paschall is firing back at critics who claimed she meddled in the affairs of the city’s Economic Development Corp.

Paschall, whose involvement with the EDC began in 2008 as a concerned resident and continued after her election to the council in 2009, was removed as the council’s liaison to the EDC by Mayor Al Suarez in March.

In Texas, most EDCs are nonprofits promoting economic development in a city, often working with a local chamber of commerce. Board members are usually appointed by the council.

In April, Suarez said Paschall’s involvement in EDC affairs led to the resignation of former EDC board

Comments continues from pg. 05 case of the rape of a black woman by the Duke University lacrosse team.

Nor have I heard you condemn the Rev. Louis Farrakhan for calling whites “the devil.”

Where is your outrage at these black men – powerful public figures – constantly stirring the pot of racial hatred?

Mr. Wright … if you really want to improve race relations … speak out against men like Farrakhan, Wright, Jackson and Sharpton who preach racial and economic division, distrust and hatred.

Actions have consequences, both good and bad.

CHARLIE BARR

DON’T RELY ON STEREOTYPES TO DISCUSS RACISM EDITOR: Your column last month

upset me greatly. Why take a couple (of) elderly people who are obviously a result of their breeding and ignorant generation? For what purpose does

President Roy Schauffele, whose January exit preceded and followed departures of several board members.

Paschall, unavailable for comment when LOCAL Community News in April published a story about the EDC, today says her queries focusing on transparency in EDC operations concerned her so much that it became a platform during her run for the council.

“I had questions – there seemed to be a conflict of interest in that certain appointments and procedures followed a system set up by men who were all in agreement about how things were run,” she said.

Paschall said she questioned what she perceived as a “good ol’ boy” system at the EDC, and took issue with the appointment of a councilman as the EDC board chairman, labeling it a conflict of interest.

“The bottom line is that they were thinking no one else had ever before asked these questions, so why was I bringing it up?”

Paschall, the wife of then-Judson Independent School District board member Johnny Harris, lost her re-election bid in 2011.

your point serve, but to stir issues of a dying breed? Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and those racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

You use the word bigotry.

The meaning is a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially, one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.

Is there not a sample of bigotry in every environment?

Then you use generalization and stereotype polls to support your summary that we are a melting pot that still needs to work for the inclusion of everybody. Are not generalization and stereotypes assigned to a group damning to the individual? However, to take the actions of the two individuals and attempt to apply a generalization or stereotype to a group is ignorant, such as your statement, “We as a country would like to believe we’ve gotten past the days of old.”

I am not against reporting on racism any more than I am against reporting on genocide or slavery, but I am so tired of the generalization of the word racism. There is no more work to be done on racism, other than crushing it if it arises. We need to work on bigotry, generalization and stereotypes, but even these are three separate things and must be addressed as such. However, this is not addressed under “political correctness,” which is by its own nature bigotry.

Truly how many generations must pass before one can be just called an American? How long must one live in America before one will carry an American flag in protest or celebration?

How can we ever become a melting pot when labels and emblems will always be used to drive division instead of simply being a symbol of culture or heritage?

How many generations must pass before we will label racism for what it is and not a tool to be used to divide?

My challenge to you is to use your public forum to further education, even when it is not politically correct to do so.

JIM PHIPPS

Converse City Councilwoman Renee Paschall denied charges she interfered with the functions of the city’s Economic Development Corp. while serving as the council’s liaison to the EDC. Photo by Josh Michael

She ran and won another bid for a seat on the council in 2012.

Paschall said her EDC involvement ebbed and flowed during that period, but said she remained committed to questioning transparency issues. When

Suarez asked for a council member to be a liaison in 2012, she volunteered.

The council approved her appointment.

The councilwoman wanted the EDC

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STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS REGARDING SERVICE DOGS

Organization seeking funding for improved facility a percentage become service, therapy, and search-and-rescue animals, including some that specialize in water assistance.

“It’s a new concept (to) take (dogs rescued from shelters) and train them as service dogs, and it’s an even newer concept that you can do this with pit bulls,” Davila said.

Service dogs can cost thousands of dollars, but Heaven Sent instructs and pairs them with the disabled for free.

Training, veterinarian fees, visits from volunteers who walk or play with the dogs, chew toys, crates, bedding and grooming are complimentary, too.

Edwin Patterson is one of Heaven Sent’s beneficiaries. While serving in the Army, he lost the use of his left eye and was partially blinded in his right, due to an infection he contracted

TEXAS DISABILITY LAW

• Requires public facilities and common transportation carriers to admit a person with a disability accompanied by a service dog for assistance and also to admit a trainer of service dogs accompanied by a dog for training purposes.

• Requires evacuation, transport and temporary shelter of service animals in a disaster.

• Provides a criminal penalty for those who deny access to people with disabilities because of an assistance animal.

• Provides full and equal access to housing accommodations for people with disabilities with assistance animals.

• Provides that people with disabilities may not be charged extra compensation for assistance animals; however, any damages caused by an assistance animal are the responsibility of the person with a disability using the animal.

Heaven Sent Pit Bull Rescue transformed Langton, a pit bull puppy, into a reliable service dog for disabled Army veteran Edwin Patterson. Photo by Josh Michael

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while on a United Nations’ mission in Macedonia. Patterson, who left the service in 1996, was living in San Antonio two years ago when a mosquito bite resulted in West Nile encephalitis.

“It almost killed me,” Patterson said.

“I spent three months at Brooke Army Medical Center on a ventilator in the ICU, then two months in rehab hospital.

When I was released, I couldn’t move anything from the neck down.”

Patterson has since improved, but still needs an electric wheelchair for mobility. In addition to his disabilities, Patterson was struggling – living alone after 29 years of marriage.

Then, Langton — a pit bull — showed up. “(He’s) meant everything in the world to me,” Patterson said. “I’m completely alone here now and he came at the perfect time.”

The doggie had been roaming around Patterson’s apartment complex.

“It was about eight months ago; he was just a little puppy,” Patterson remembered, adding that he wanted to keep the dog.

However, the breed made others wary.

Owning a pit bull in San Antonio is legal.

However, many apartment complexes, including Patterson’s, disallow pit bulls.

Patterson, looking on the Internet for someone to care for the pup, found Heaven Sent’s Facebook page. When

he called, Davila asked for an emailed photo of Langton. Within an hour, Davila was at Patterson’s apartment.

She said she took the pup to Heaven Sent’s facility. When Langton learned a few manners, such as not soiling the floors, Davila explained to the apartment manager that Langton was being trained as a service dog, and by law could not be excluded from housing or public places.

“I think sometimes things just happen for a reason,” Patterson said, “because I wound up getting him back.”

Langton and other Heaven Sent service dogs are taught by volunteers such as Morgan Gale, a caretaker for some of the hundreds of prospective service dogs at Lackland Air Force Base, where most military dogs are trained.

She said properly trained, pit bulls are no more dangerous than other dogs.

“A dog is a dog is a dog,” said Gale, who works with Patterson and Langton, and four other owner-dog tandems at Orsinger Park each Wednesday.

When Langton is fully trained, he will be able to “retrieve out-of-reach Trainer Morgan Gale works with pets at Heaven Sent Pit Bull Rescue, which not only strives to train pit bulls as domestic pets, but also as service, therapy, and search-and-rescue dogs.

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objects, such as medicine bottles, groceries off of a shelf, items from another room, or if something falls … such as a pencil,” Davila said.

“He’s only been to two training sessions,” Patterson said. “He’ll sit, he’ll walk … with no tightness on the leash.

They tell me by the time he’s done, he’ll be able to go to the fridge and get me what I want to drink,” he added, laughing.

Training can take six to 24 months, depending on what is needed.

Even with volunteer trainers and Davila using her home as a center, veterinary bills, medications and food costs continue to mount and funding is difficult. Although the organization received a financial boost from the nonprofit The Big Give S.A. in early May, Davila hopes to spur revenue through a reality show featuring Heaven Sent.

“It’s going to be called, ‘Pluto’s Canine Platoon.’ We look at our dogs as if they are a military squadron.

They are going out to important jobs.

There has to be discipline,” she said.

Davila said more funding will be needed for Heaven Sent to realize its next project.

Plats have been drawn and the Live Oak Planning and Zoning Commission has given preliminary approval for Davila to build a training facility at her home.

Davila said such a place is needed for trainers to conduct agility and waterrescue exercises with the dogs. Currently, the organization must rent pools and transport animals to other locations.

Heaven Sent officials say their daunting task is to change the public’s image of pit bulls. Although the breed comprises about 6 percent of the total dog population in the United States, pit bulls caused more than 78 percent of dog-bite related fatalities in the country in 2013, officials said.

Patterson said he is looking forward to Langton’s graduation as a fullfledged service dog so he can take him on buses, into restaurants and to his physical-therapy appointments.

“I’m really looking forward to having that companionship with me,” he said.

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Also as part of the process, Retail Coach said its staffers will collect and catalog license-plate samples from consumers shopping in Converse at selected retailers.

A search of those addresses will help the firm determine how far consumers travel to shop or dine in Converse. Staffers also plan interviews with city retailers, business leaders and city officials to assess the area’s current retail environment.

“A primary goal is to help existing retailers and restaurants increase their business,” Farmer said. “With an understanding of the spending patterns and purchasing behaviors of consumers, owners and managers can better target their marketing and offer more of the products currently missing.”

Silvas said Retail Coach will also glean information from the city’s recently finished strategic plan. She said the timeline calls for the process to be completed by December, with results presented sometime in January. After the initial project wraps, The Retail Coach will assist the city an additional 12 months.

“We will continue to work with the EDC to make sure the process

is successful,” Farmer said.

Silvas said the EDC’s other major recent move involves a commitment to the city’s expansion of FM 1516. The City Council recently voted to issue $4 million in certificates of obligation toward the $10.5 million project.

Two years ago, the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization approved $8.4 million for the project.

Mayor Al Suarez said the shared cost — $2.8 million by the city and $1.2 million by the EDC – will cover any financial overruns, with the remaining balance designated for road improvements in the city.

In addition, the Texas Department of Transportation is working on the $23.5 million expansion of Loop 1604 from Lower Seguin Road to Interstate 10. Improving and adding infrastructure there, the planned expansion of FM 1516, and the city’s investment in The Retail Coach are all part of the EDC’s vision of increasing the city’s allure to new businesses.

“I believe we have a perfect opportunity for investment in Converse that will, in turn, revitalize portions of our community and make development in Converse that much more attractive,” Silvas said.

Flap continues from pg. 07 to hire a marketing director to assist Executive Director Kate Silvas, but it didn’t come to fruition, Paschall said. Key EDC personnel seemed to lose interest in the idea, she added.

“The reason for the hiring delay (for a marketing manager) was a practical business decision,” Schauffele said in an email to LOCAL. “Revenues for the EDC were up and down during the late summer and fall of 2013.

As a practical business philosophy, you don’t hire personnel when the funding for that position is not stable. That is it in a nutshell.”

It’s not known whether the EDC is still searching for a marketing director.

Paschall also indicated her efforts to help recruit more EDC board members hit a brick wall.

A few months later, emails sent by Paschall caused a stir, including a message about whether to support a bank with city funds depending on its involvement with the EDC and school district projects. Another sent to Schauffele criticized his

comments to the EDC board about San Antonio’s Eastside Promise Zone Initiative, which could compete with Converse for federal grant money.

Paschall’s latest moves – along with the increasing number of EDC board resignations – came as the last straw for her critics, who urged Suarez to replace her as EDC liaison.

The mayor appointed Councilman Steve Brown to fill the position.

“I don’t take responsibility for the EDC board members leaving because of that,” Paschall said. “I don’t blame them for leaving, but I won’t take responsibility for them, or even Roy leaving. Roy made his own choice.”

Suarez declined to comment for this story.

Paschall – who plans to run for reelection this fall – said she just wanted to make the EDC more transparent.

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