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The Voice of Seguin Today
United Way to help more Guadalupe County postpones ordering charities in 2020 By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
of burn ban
(Seguin) -- Thanks to contributions collected during the 2019 United Way Campaign, even more charities will benefit from a piece of the pie. That's according to Mary Hargrave, the local By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera executive director of the Guadalupe County (Seguin) -- Guadalupe County United Way. officials have chosen to hold Hargrave says successful campaigns organized off on ordering an outdoor burn by industrial partners such as CMC Steel Texas ban for the unincorporated have helped to make this year's campaign even areas of the county. more successful. Commissioners on Tuesday She says the steel mill's contribution of $50,000 voted 3 to 2 against the order. is just an illustration of the plant's continued sup- That vote ultimately postpones port of the program and the families that it serves. the decision for a little while longer. Voting against the ban, "A lot of it probably has to do with the manage- however, came after Patrick ment there. I've already been there twice to give Pinder, Guadalupe County fire presentations to employees but they are very open marshal and emergency manto employees caring about the United Way agement coordinator, publicly because there are a lot of people that don't have proposed that the court take an idea of what the United Way does and that the some action and implement the money that we raise in Guadalupe County stays ban. here. We are not affiliated with any other United Way and this is a large contribution that they have According to Guadalupe made and it's because so many people -- Mr. County Judge Kyle Kutscher, (William) VanderWaal (director of mill opera- ordering the ban is always a tions), he comes to speak at events a lot and he's hard decision to make espevery passionate about all the work that the United cially if it's made when current Way does and CMC, they also do a lot of volun- conditions are wet or signifiteering on their own but we are very happy to get cant rain is in the immediate them because with Minigrip, we were able to add future. five new agencies this year to our roster of partCommercial Metals Company's steel mill completed its United Way ner agencies taking that up to 45 and so that's a Kutscher says the court's decicampaign in November 2019. Company officials say they very proud big accomplishment and that's all due to our cor- sion has nothing to do with Pinder's findings but more with to announce that their employees and company contributed $50,000 to porate donors," said Hargrave. See UNITED, page 2 his own ability as judge to issue
help support the Guadalupe County United Way.
an emergency order to implement a ban should conditions worsen. Pinder says the tool used to determine the trigger point of implementing a burn ban is over the threshold typically used to warrant a ban. However, he stated his suggestion for a ban was only a proposal and that the court had the final say.He says grass fires are still being reported in the area and wanted to make sure the court knew about any and all threats that currently existed. Plus, with no commissioners court meeting scheduled for next week, Pinder wanted to again bring the item to the table for consideration. Among those who also hesitated in ordering a burn ban was Commissioner Pct. 1 Greg Seidenberger. Seidenberger says he knows, firsthand, the personal impact that ordering a burn ban has on those in the county. See BURNBAN, page 2
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