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his February, butterflies in stomachs will finally stop fluttering when area high school coaches find out their teams’ destiny for the next two years.

At 8 a.m. on Feb. 3, the University Interscholastic League, the state’s governing body for extracurricular public school activities, will release its lists of competitive football and basketball districts for 2014-15 and 2015-16. For the first time, schools with the largest enrollments will align into a new Class 6A, while elevating current six-man football schools into the Class A ranks.

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he Texas Department of Transportation finally opened the long-awaited FM 3009 northto-south turnaround lane on Dec. 20. That’s good news for beleaguered drivers and businesses, as both have waited months to see congestion relieved at the critical intersection.

Much more needs to be done at that intersection, such as 3009’s south-to-north turnaround lane that officials hope to see completed before the end of March.

And, there’s the upcoming closure of the northbound 3009 exit ramp, which is shut down for three weeks for lane expansion.

TxDOT has taken a lot of heat the past several months for delays plaguing the $24 million Interstate 35 expansion project, which is now coming together and should be finished this year.

TxDOT on Jan. 7 announced plans to spend over $800 million for major road projects in the San Antonio area, as well as tolled connector ramps at the Interstate 10/Loop 1604 interchange.

There are other plans for traffic improvement in the area. It now seems that the I-35 project is only the start of achieving that goal.

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A new year’s resolution: Practice compassion by susan yerkes

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elson Mandela was a man of fierce compassion.

When the world mourned his death in December, I recalled meeting him at an International Women’s Forum Conference in Johannesburg a few years ago.

Mandela’s battle against the injustice that shamed his homeland led him, before his imprisonment, to endorse violent resistance. But instead of growing bitter in prison, he grew stronger in the belief that only compassionate change could save his country. And he led that change after his release.

The word "compassion" is cropping up everywhere. A network of organizations across this area are working to earn San Antonio the formal designation of an internationally recognized “Compassionate City.”

I learned about the movement at the Dialogue Institute of the Southwest’s ninth annual Dialogue and Friendship Dinner and Awards in December.

I also met Compassionate San Antonio volunteer Narjis Pierre, who works with the Peace CENTER, a nonprofit that created a website and serves as a reference point for the initiative. She told me about the Charter for Compassion, created in 2008 by author and teacher Karen Armstrong, whose best-selling book, “12 Steps Toward a Compassionate Life” was a springboard for the idea.

Armstrong describes it like this: “A compassionate city is an uncomfortable city! A city that is uncomfortable when anyone is homeless or hungry; if every child isn't loved and given rich opportunities to grow and thrive… when as a community we don't treat our neighbors as we would wish to be treated….and where many of its citizens and leaders joyfully embrace

a vision of what compassion will look like in their community.”

The sacompassionNET.org website has proved a powerful tool for creating awareness and consensus-building, and also distributing a calendar of events.

Pierre said supporters can sign the charter online, or at one of many local events the group organizes or helps promote. Earning the formal Compassionate City designation will require the City Council to endorse the document. That has already happened in a number of cities.

On Jan. 26, the Peace CENTER will hold its annual interfaith Blessing of the Peacemakers and name a new San Antonio Peace Laureate, and it’s organizing a major conference on compassion in March. A rapidly growing number of groups are hosting events focused on compassion.

“People respond well to the word compassion,” Pierre said.

As the new year begins, I’m putting “More Compassion Action” on my resolution list. I hope you’ll join me.

May we all enjoy the best one yet!

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

Open and Opening Soon PHO 4 STAR NOODLE HOUSE, 2921 Pat Booker Road, Suite 120B in Universal City, offers a variety of Vietnamese, Thai and other Asian food. Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more, call 659-2568 or visit www.phonoodlehousesa.com or Pho-4-Star-Vietnamese-Noodle-House/ Facebook. (See story on page 13)

BRAIN BALANCE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO, 1742 N. Loop 1604 East, Suite

121, brings hope to families of children who suffer from behavioral, social and academic challenges by offering programs at specialized achievement centers, officials said. Staffers use a drug-free, multifaceted approach. Hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.

By appointment only on Saturday, closed Sunday. For more, call 6207378 or visit www.brainbalancecenters. com/. (See story on page 12)

IN OTHER NEWS FOLLINS NAMED NORTHEAST LAKEVIEW PRESIDENT – The Alamo

Colleges’ board of trustees on Dec. 17 named Craig T. Follins as the next president of Northeast Lakeview College.

Follins, president of Olive-Harvey College in the City Colleges of Chicago system, was among four finalists who participated in committee interviews and public forums in October and November. He previously served in various leadership positions at Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland, Ohio), Victoria College (Texas), and Houston Community College.

Follins earned his doctorate in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin, and has an undergraduate degree in sociology. “We look forward

to the new opportunities that Dr. Craig Follins will bring to Northeast Lakeview College,” said Sabrina Hammel, president of Northeast Lakeview’s faculty senate.

“His leadership experience at several other community-college systems allows him to relate to our students and their challenges and understand how the community college can help them accomplish their educational goals.” In March, Follins will succeed outgoing president Eric Reno, who retired in January. Reno, in 2008, became the first president of the nearly 6,000-student facility, the newest of five in the Alamo Colleges’ system. Thomas Cleary, Alamo Colleges’ vice chancellor for planning, performance and information systems, will serve as interim president.

SCHERTZ CHAMBER FETES MEMBERS – The Schertz Chamber of Commerce

presented several awards during its second annual Member Appreciation and Awards banquet at the Schertz Civic Center on Nov. 15. The event, sponsored by the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, was highlighted by a routine from comedian Cleto Rodriguez. Awards included: Mixer of the Year, Schertz Parkway Physical Therapy; Corporate

Business of the Year, H-E-B on FM 3009; Small Business of the Year, Abel’s Diner; and Ambassador of the Year and Ambassador’s Choice Award, Angie Kellar of mycommunitycoupon.com.

Board Member of the Year went to Bob Cantu of Schertz; Young Professional of the Year was awarded to Karen Lizcano of Rodan and Fields; Mr. Congeniality was Schertz City Councilman David Scagliola; and Ms. Congeniality was Dawn Vernon of O’Haver Contractors.

BOOKER, FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE APPROACHING – Feb. 1 is

the application deadline for the Andre Terrell Booker Scholarship and The 34 Foundation Scholarship. The Booker scholarship is open to students at Clemens, Randolph and Steele high schools; the 34 Foundation scholarship is open to area students. Both are $500 grants awarded for the 2014 fall semester. Scholarship recipients will be announced during the Andre Booker Banquet and Benefit Dinner, 6:30 p.m. March 27 at Harmon’s Bar-B-Q, 100 N. Main St. in Cibolo. The event will include a silent and live auction to raise additional scholarship funds.

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ARDEN RIDGE – Bob Doerr used to be a military special agent. Now he writes about them.

Following a 28-year career in the Air Force specializing in criminal investigations and counterintelligence, Doerr, 63, and his wife, Leigh, settled in Garden Ridge for an unassuming retirement. Instead, he started a second career as an author.

After penning five mystery thrillers and a middle-school novel, Doerr, who retired as a colonel in 2008, was named the Military Writers Society of America’s Writer of the Year during its annual conference in September. The MWSA, based in Pennsylvania, encourages writing for veterans and their families as a way to understand the complexities of military life.

The organization has selected a distinguished author each year since 2008.

In addition, his fifth book in the Jim West series, titled “No One Else to Kill,” was named first runner-up in the commercial fiction category for the 2013 Eric Hoffer Award for short prose and independent books.

“He’s a great writer,” said Dwight Zimmerman, MWSA president. “There (are) a certain criteria we look for before selecting the writer of the year. We also look at their contribution to the organization, like attending the conference or hosting workshops. This is important because many of our members are first-time writers and interested in writing their memoirs. It’s important for our authors of the year to help in what can be an intimidating process (to get published). It was very difficult for us to make the selection (out of the three finalists). Bob simply stood out. We’re very proud to have him as author of the year.”

West, the main character in Doerr’s mystery series, is a former Air Force special agent and “reluctant detective” who keeps stumbling into cases of murder and mayhem. Doerr said he based West’s character on his own experiences in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

“It seems like every time he turns around, he gets sucked into murder,” Doerr said, chuckling, “but I am not Jim West. We

have similar backgrounds, but he is a figment of my imagination. He has a much more exciting life than I ever did.”

Bruce Moran, publisher of the series by Total Recall Publications, based in Friendswood, said Doerr’s style is simple but direct.

“Bob writes complex characters,” Moran said. “None are as complex as Jim West.

Bob’s storytelling style will keep the reader interested from scene to scene. (His) books are complex, but easy to read. The Jim West character is a modern-day Holmes, with (Doerr’s) attention to detail.”

Doerr said he has fans all over the world and the hardest part of his job is marketing his novels. He spends his mornings writing and saves the afternoon for the social aspect of his job, promoting his novels by setting up book signings and sending out press releases.

In addition to his mystery-book series, Doerr has written a novel for middle school students titled “The Enchanted Coin.” It’s a science fiction/adventure tale in which teenagers find a magic token and have an adventure through time.

Doerr wrote the story with his oldest granddaughter, Caiden, and the two are working on a second novel.

“I wanted to write a book my five grandchildren would like and really just wanted to do a project with Caiden,” Doerr said. “I would do a chapter at a time and she would read and give me ideas and tell me what to do next. It was a lot of fun to work together.”

In the book, part of the Mouse Gate series developed by Moran, children travel to any place or time and return almost instantaneously with no one realizing they were gone.

Moran said Doerr’s imagination, which has conjured up a variety of scrapes for West in the mystery series, has improved with each of his novels.

Doerr’s next book, “The Attack,” a political thriller about an international terrorist attack at an airport, will introduce a new secret-agent character and is scheduled for release in April.

“There’s five in the Jim West series, but I just wanted to do a separate book for ‘The Attack,’” Doerr said. “I’ll have a new Jim West book by next year.”

Doerr’s books are available through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Booksellers and Books a Million. If the book is not available in stores, it can be ordered and delivered. His novels are also available in area libraries, including the Schertz and Garden Ridge branches. For more, visit www.bobdoerr.com.

Financial Resolutions For the New Year About 45% of Americans usually make New Year’s resolutions, according to a survey from the University of Scranton. But the same survey shows that only 8% of us actually keep our resolutions. Perhaps this low success rate isn’t such a tragedy when our resolutions involve things like losing a little weight or learning a foreign language. But when we make financial resolutions — resolutions that, if achieved, could significantly help us in our pursuit of our important long-term goals — it’s clearly worthwhile to make every effort to follow through.

So, what sorts of financial resolutions might you consider? Here are a few possibilities:

• Boost your contributions to your retirement plans. Each year, try to put in a little more to your IRA and your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plans. These tax-advantaged accounts are good options for your retirement savings strategy.

• Reduce your debts. It’s not always easy to reduce your debts, but make it a goal to finish 2014 with a smaller debt load than you had going into the new year.

The lower your monthly debt payments, the more money you’ll have to invest for retirement, college for your children (or grandchildren) and other important objectives.

• Build your emergency fund. Work on building an “emergency fund” containing six to 12 months’ worth of living expenses, with the money held in a liquid account that offers a high degree of preservation of principal. Without such a fund, you might be forced to dip into your long-term investments to pay for emergencies, such as a new furnace, a major car repair, and so on.

You might not be able to finish creating your emergency fund in one year, but contribute as much as you can afford.

• Plan for your protection needs. If you don’t already have the proper amounts of life and disability insurance in place, put it on your “To Do” list for 2014. Also, if you haven’t taken steps to protect yourself from the considerable costs of long-term care, such as an extended nursing home stay, consult with your financial professional, who can suggest the appropriate protection or investment vehicles. You may never need such care, but that’s a chance you may not want to take — and the longer you wait, the more expensive your protection options may become.

• Don’t overreact to market volatility. Too many people head to the investment “sidelines” during market downturns. But if you’re not invested, then you miss any potential market gains— and the biggest gains are often realized at the early stages of the rally.

• Focus on the long term. You can probably check your investment balance online, which means you can do it every day, or even several times a day — but should you? If you’re following a strategy that’s appropriate for your needs, goals, risk tolerance and time horizon, you’re already doing what you should be doing in the long run. So there’s no need to stress yourself over the short-term movements that show up in your investment statements.

Do whatever you can to turn these New Year’s resolutions into realities. Your efforts could pay off well beyond 2014.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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THE SCHERTZ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will hold its

monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 21 at the Schertz Civic Center, 1400 Schertz Parkway. Chamber President Maggie Titterington will give the “State of the Chamber” address. The Chamber will host its January BizEd class, Social Media 101, from 7:30-9 a.m. Jan. 23 at the Schertz Chamber/Visitor Center, 1730 Schertz Parkway. Breakfast is free to Chamber members; $10 for nonmembers.

The Chamber’s February mixer is 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 12 at the South Texas Radiology and Imaging Center, 5000 Schertz Parkway, Suite 500. The Feb. 18 Chamber luncheon, highlighting upcoming developments in Selma, Schertz and Cibolo, will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Schertz Civic Center. The Schertz Chamber Toastmasters meet at the Comfort Inn & Suites meeting room, 5571 Interstate 35 North in Selma, each Monday at 6:45 p.m. All meetings are open to the public. For more, call 5669000 or visit www.schertzchamber.org.

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HEALTH AND WHOLENESS FAIR, sponsored by the city of

Schertz, Schertz Chamber of Commerce and presented by Pawderosa Ranch Doggie Play and Stay, is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Schertz Civic Center, 1400 Schertz Parkway. The event covers health wholeness: nutritional, physical, mental and spiritual. More than 55 vendor booths have been sold, with a capacity of 70 available.

Vendors will offer free health screenings for blood pressure, glucose levels, vision, body-mass index, cholesterol and will calculate the risk for stroke and heart attack.

Free massages, food samples and flu shots will be given, as well as information from medical, dental, therapeutic, nutritional, vision, wellness and health-assistance providers. For more, call 566-9000.

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Feb. 9. A free Cowboy Breakfast, featuring biscuits and gravy, will be served between services Sunday morning. There will also be pony rides for the kids. For more, call 6519090 or visit www.triumphantlutheran.org.

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to 1 p.m. at the Garden Ridge Community Center in the city’s Municipal Complex, 9500 Municipal Parkway, three miles west of Interstate 35 off FM 3009. The event features more than 60 tables inside and outside the facility. Admission is free. For more, call event coordinator Dave Frazier at 710-6398 or email dave@geosolutionsinc.com.

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Mayor wants residents to stay involved by eric j. weilbacher

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IBOLO –– The November 2013 elections left the city with a drastically changed local government – a new mayor and a pair of new council members, while two others lost seats to recalls.

The City Council appointed two new members to fill those empty spots during its Dec. 10 meeting. Jay Hogue took over as the District 6 councilman, and James Doty Jr. assumed the District 4 spot. Both intend to pursue full terms when their one-year appointments expire in November, they indicated.

Hogue, who runs Powerhouse Retail Services Southwest, a retail-consulting business, said “bringing businesses and tax dollars to the city would be a primary goal.”

A resident since 1995, Hogue

said development of businesses and infrastructure, especially along the undeveloped portion of FM 78, is his top priority. He noted although FM 1103 is under the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Transportation, he believes the council can work with TxDOT to expand it.

“It was built for country traffic,” he said.

Doty, who served 32 years in the Army and retired as a brigadier general, now performs a civilian role with the military as director of plans for the Army Installation Management Command. Since coming to Cibolo, Doty spent two years on the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission and also helped write the city’s Uniform Development Code.

“The reason I stepped up to become a councilor is because I really wanted to get out there and find out what’s on their (voters’) mind, what’s important to them and to represent them,” Doty said.

Doty noted only 200 of District 4’s 2,500 eligible voters participated in the recall election. Doty also said he wants to work for balance and smart growth in the city, including expansion of 1103.

“If we continue to put hundreds of homes along 1103, we are going to have a real quality-of-life issue,” he said.

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“It’s been a long-standing goal of the city to diversify our tax base,” said Herrera, who added Cibolo has relied too heavily on property taxes derived through single-family dwellings. He said commercial and industrial developments, in appropriate locations, would help create a better tax portfolio for the city.

New Mayor Lisa Jackson said the city seeks to move past tumultuous issues – such as the Walmart location that led to recall petitions and divided the community. Jackson said she wants to keep residents engaged in local government.

“The (city) staff is working hard to make sure that whatever we do, the people of this community (are informed),” Jackson said, noting residents will see more newsletters, as well as communityfriendly events such as barbecues.

More than 200 people showed up for what was slated to be a small Cajun-style cook-off in December, she said. Another barbecue is set for Feb. 22, and about a dozen people have already signed up to cook.

“The community is really coming together,” Jackson said.

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Uncertainty is common until February announcement The last time the UIL bumped up the classification range was in 1980 when the largest division, Class 4A, became 5A. “I was at a Class B school for a number of years and eventually those schools wanted to be called an A,” said Jerry Comalander, North East Independent School District’s athletic director. “There’s really no change other than in the naming. Class B became Class A, and A went to 2A and so on. Now, the six-man league has petitioned to do the same. So they will be in Class A and everything moves up a notch.

“The divisions will be the same – it all just boils down to terminology.”

In an unprecedented move, in December, the UIL announced enrollment cutoff numbers, which are usually kept secret until the usual February redistricting announcement. Those figures, based on average daily membership, or ADMs,

compiled by district superintendents in October, serve as a base for the process.

Schools with ADMs above 2,100 students will be in Class 6A, followed by 5A (1,0602,099), 4A (465-1,059), 3A (220-464), 2A (105-219) and A (104 and below). Schools in 4A through A will separate into two divisions for regular and postseason play, while 6A and 5A will wait until postseason to do so.

While most Metrocom schools will compete in 6A, several could be affected by enrollment shifts of schools located north and south – which always creates apprehension.

It will be less stressful this year, since the UIL released classification numbers three months ahead of the realignment announcement.

“It allowed the coaches greater flexibility, especially those in football, in doing some preliminary planning of their schedules,” said Mark Cousins, UIL athletic director. “It would be easier for them to do that if they knew which conference they would be in, and for those who thought they might be on the bubble between one conference and another.

“Number two, with the change in the rules as to how we classify charter schools, it gives those who were moved up in classification the chance to get their appeals heard before the districts are set. And third, it increases transparency in the overall process.”

Madison’s Ja’ Michael Brown gains yardage during the Mavericks’ victory over the Judson Rockets in December.

Both schools will be in the UIL’s Class 6A next year. Photo by Josh Michael

Although redistricting will ultimately affect academic, band, choir and other competitive sports, it’s all about football – which reigns supreme in Texas. What happens to schools in a neighboring district could drastically impact others, creating increased travel time and costs.

“In the last realignment, we thought we’d be competing with the NEISD schools or with the Comal, New Braunfels and Converse schools,” Steele football coach Scott Lehnhoff said. “But, when (the news) came out, I thought they’d left us off the

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list. Then, I looked to see that we were with East Central, Southwest and South San in the Corpus Christi district. It never even occurred to me that would be a possibility.”

With Clemens jumping from 4A to 6A, both Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District schools are assured of competing in the same district – but which one? Hays and Lehman, both 4A schools in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, are slated to

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UIL continues from pg. 09 advance to 6A. San Marcos, which competed in 5A, should remain unchanged.

“You never know what you’re going to get, and I think that’s the exciting thing about realignment,” said Matt Monzingo, Comal Independent School District athletic director. “Smithson Valley and Canyon will be in the same district regardless of which way we go. There’s speculation we could be in with Hays, Lehman along with Steele and Clemens, and possibly New Braunfels.”

That scenario doesn’t include Judson and Wagner, both Judson Independent School District schools that competed in the same league with Steele, Smithson Valley, Canyon, New Braunfels and San Marcos the past two years.

JISD communications director Steve Linscomb said his district would cope with possibly competing with Corpus Christiarea schools when the time comes.

“For us, there’s no difference,” he said. “We will do whatever we have to do – travel-wise or anything else, so it makes no difference to us.”

Lehnhoff hopes Steele and Clemens will compete closer to home.

“I don’t know if I’m really hoping

that, because that would be a strong (competitive) district,” he said. “But, I think that’s the way it’s going to go – with us, Clemens, the Hays and Comal schools, and New Braunfels. But, what do I know? What does anybody know?”

Comalander’s seven NEISD schools should remain unaltered.

“We think (it will be the same), but it’s hard to tell right now,” he said. “Although I’m not sure how it’s going to play out, I’m pretty sure our seven will stay in the same district. There’s a possibility we could have one or two more, but we’ll just have to see.”

With Brennan making the move into 6A, all 10 Northside Independent School District high schools will likely stay in place.

That, however, could depend on where the UIL puts Corpus Christi Ray and Eagle Pass Winn, both on the bubble to shift from 4A into 6A, and Mission Sharyland and Donna, both projected to remain in 5A. “We’re just all looking forward to the day they’re going to release it,” Comalander said. “Everybody’s scrambling for games right now, trying to fill non-district schedules, and you’re kind of shooting in the dark. You don’t know what to plan for, but one thing’s for sure – you better plan ahead.”

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“It’s going to open up development on the I-10 corridor and hopefully we’ll see very successful growth like we had on I-35,” said Sam Willoughby, Schertz’s public works director.

Willoughby said the Schertz City Council has given City Manager John Kessel the go-ahead to negotiate interlocal agreements to move the project forward. Partners would be the city of Cibolo and the Cibolo Creek Municipal Authority, or CCMA.

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Herrera said attorneys representing Cibolo, Schertz and CCMA are still working out details of the interlocal agreement, which will be presented for approval by the city councils in February.

“Once the legal groundwork comes around, the respective city managers will look at the final draft before presenting it to the city councils,” Herrera said.

CCMA already operates one regional wastewater treatment plant that serves the I-35 side of Schertz, north of FM 78.

“Essentially, we would be constructing and operating a second regional wastewater plant to treat the area between I-10 and FM 78 in southern Schertz and southern Cibolo,” Ellis said.

So what’s next?

“The next steps would be to get everybody contracted; get the two cities, the two paying parties, happy with the business arrangements; select a site and get the site purchased, and get the permitting done,” Ellis said.

He said planners are discussing a bond issue “in the $7 million range. We’re looking at a construction cost of around

$5 million, plus additional (financing) to cover contingencies, design, land acquisition, easement acquisition.”

One question is how the two cities might share costs.

“We haven’t gotten that far yet. We just don’t know what that breakdown’s going to be yet,” Ellis said. “We’re still looking at potential sites. We’re in the preliminary engineering phase, trying to secure funding, making sure everybody’s on the same page, before we all move forward with this.”

Willoughby said the partners would also look into trying to incorporate reuse water – wastewater treated to where it’s safe for watering landscapes but not drinking – into their plans.

The reuse water could be utilized for parks and other green spaces and would help conserve drinking-water supplies now used for landscape watering.

The would-be partners hope to have the plant online in mid- to late 2016, said Willoughby.

“But a lot of factors could influence that,” Ellis said.

Those issues include obtaining permits from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and responding

to whatever on-site constraints might be encountered when the partners actually find and purchase a plant site.

Preliminary plans call for the first phase to be a 500,000-gallon-per-day plant.

“We’re projecting that should get us to about 2019-20,” Ellis said. “We’re thinking that if development keeps going the way it is, we’re going to use up that first phase pretty quickly. The second phase would be an expansion … to bring us to a total of 1 million gallons per day.”

CCMA’s current plant, which has a capacity of 6.2 million gallons a day, is in the process of being expanded to 10 million gallons a day, he said.

Ellis said the new plant project got its start with long discussions involving CCMA and Schertz on how to best serve the wastewater needs of the Crossvine development. For now, CCMA is operating a small “package plant” to service the Crossvine’s wastewater needs.

“When we looked at long-term costs and the future build-out of that FM 78/I-10 area of the two cities, it appears – and our engineers confirm – that the most cost-effective approach would be to install a second plant,” Ellis said.

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he market for houses in San Antonio continues to get tighter as inventory of houses available for sale shrank to 4.2 months supply, the lowest it has been since December 2006.

A housing boom in 2005 and 2006 saw builders trying to keep up with demand in the San Antonio area, but fallout from the 2008 meltdown of the economy pushed the number of houses for sale up, slowed building and depressed property values.

The San Antonio Board of Realtors reported that in the first 11 months of 2013, there were 21,607 home sales in the area, a 17 percent increase over the same period in 2012 and the highest since 2007.

A SABOR analysis of data from the Multiple Listing Service found the average year-to-date median price for single-family housing in the area was up 7 percent to $207,650 and the median was up 6 percent to $170,200 for 2013 through November.

For the month of November, compared to the same month in 2012, the average price rose 10 percent to $214,677 and the median price rose 6 percent to $172,100.

Total sales for the month were up slightly to 1,634, according to SABOR. The organization points to studies showing San Antonio as one of the top cities in job creation and retention as reasons for the continued

housing market recovery.

In the neighborhoods to the northeast of San Antonio, along the Interstate 35 corridor from Selma to Cibolo, houses are mostly moving faster.

Median prices declined in two of the four ZIP codes as two others climbed, according to data gathered from the Texas Market Trends Report.

In the 78108 ZIP code, the median sold price in November dipped 6.1 percent to $170,000 and the number of closed sales for the month dropped to 27 from 43 in November 2012.

But the average amount of time spent on the market for the houses sold was much faster, going in 82 days compared to 144 the same period a year earlier.

Closed sales in 78132 declined by five to 19 in November, but sold in an average of fewer than three months, compared to being on the market for 222 days the previous year. The median price was fairly flat, dropping 2.5 percent to $277,500.

The median price in 78154 rose 7.2 percent to $178,500 and closed sales were one higher at 33. Those houses sold in an average of less than three months, down from four months the previous November.

The median sales price in 78266 rose a hefty 30.2 percent to $405,000 and closed sales nearly doubled, to nine for the month.

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PROPERTY LISTINGS Street Address

List Price

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Year Built

BR

FB

505 Wayward Pass

$149,900

1,543

1996

3

2

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310 Sea Headrig

$269,000

3,025

2010

5

3

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141 Carnousty Dr

$220,000

2,495

2005

4

2

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606 Sea Headrig Dr

$264,000

2,731

2008

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3

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132 Brookbend

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3,357

2004

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212 Lakota Ct

$209,900

2,450

2004

4

3

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1,881

2006

3

2

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2,385

2013

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2

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2013

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2

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2014

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3

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78132

78154

78266

Median sold price

NOV-12

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$284,500

$166,500

$311,000

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$170,000

$277,500

$178,500

$405,000

New listings

NOV-12

49

25

41

15

NOV-13

58

23

31

5

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NOV-12

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222

120

140

NOV-13

82

86

88

188

Closed sales Under contract Months supply of inventory

NOV-12

43

24

32

5

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27

19

33

9

NOV-12

37

22

30

10

NOV-13

29

19

27

8

NOV-12

4.2

6.8

5

10.8

NOV-13

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10.5

3.9

4.3

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SUNDAY MORNING 09:30 AM Bible School- all ages 10:45 AM Children‘s Church 10:45 AM Morning Worship Service SUNDAY EVENING 4:45 PM Evening Worship Service 5:45 PM TREK - 7th & 8th grade ages 5:45 PM JOURNEY/YOUTH - 7th to 12th grade ages 5:45 PM AWANA - children's class 3yr old to 6th grade WEDNESDAY SERVICE 9:00 AM Prayer Group - all are welcome 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting Worship Service 7:30 PM Choir/Orchestra Practice -nursery always provided / no charge-

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(210)658-0525 Pastor Jeff Roman www.cibolovalleychurch.org