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Families invited to rope in all the fun Lake Dunlap may be saved at this year's Guadalupe County Fair By Darren Dunn By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) -- Family fun continues these next three days during the annual Guadalupe County Fair and PRCA Rodeo. The fair runs through Sunday at the Guadalupe County Fairgrounds. Friday's schedule kicks off with the annual fair parade. The parade begins at 10 a.m. and will travel south on Austin Street. Boats and lakes residents have been invited to serve as this year's parade marshals. The residents are being recognized for their ongoing efforts to stop the draining of the area hydro electric lakes by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority. Parade Chairman Gail Damerau says the fair association is excited about everyone who has chosen to be a part of this year's event.
Finding new friends at the fair Sawyer Hall, a first grader at Rodriguez Elementary School, enjoys a sneak peak of the animals at this year's Guadalupe County Fair and PRCA Rodeo. Hall was among the thousands of area elementary age students who were invited to tour the fair and this year’s Baby Barnyard.
"Entry wise, we've got a little bit of everything. We've got several different horse groups, 4H clubs. We do have the bands entered and playing so all three Marion, Navarro and Seguin bands will be in our parade and we just want to encourage everybody to come out and watch it. That's an important part. Come and watch it. We work hard to try to get all these entries and get everybody in it and we announce downtown at the fountain at the square so that's a good spot to head to and listen but you can line up and watch the parade anywhere from College Street on down to the fairgrounds and we'll have all different kinds of entries -- old cars, horses, a little bit of everything this year," said Damerau. Fair gates open at 11 a.m. See FAIR, page 19
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(Seguin) -- There's reason for hope when it comes to the future of Lake Dunlap. The Preserve Lake Dunlap Association (PLDA) has announced that it has reached an agreement with GBRA that will allow the failed dam to be replaced.
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Working together was crucial to coming up with the plan.
PLDA Board Member Doug Harrison says there are still many details to be worked out, but he says they are pleased to announce the agreement.
Harrison says GBRA is going to continue to own the dams, but the taxing district will be a key part of helping to provide the necessary funding to cover the dam replacement costs.
"The deal we announced is a partnership. It's a proposed partnership. There's a lot of heavy lifting. (There's) a lot to do, (and) a lot of details that need to be ironed out, but it's a partnership between GBRA and a tax district that is yet to be created of all the waterfront property owners around Lake Dunlap. The partnership would be that the GBRA would help us to obtain the debt. They would obtain the debt. We would enter into a contract with the new taxing district to pay the debt service on that debt to rebuild the dam, and then because that district is going to be paying the debt service -- GBRA would donate hydroelectric revenues
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from the Lake Dunlap dam back into the district, which will help fund the district going into the future. So that we not only can fix the dam today, (but also make sure) it's here for the next 100 years, 500 hundred years. (Ensuring that) it has some perpetual ongoing funds to make sure it's around for future generations," said Harrison.
"The dam and the hydro electric facilities are all theirs and it will remain theirs. The proposed WCID, which is a Water Control Improvement District, is a quasi-government taxing district, which would be created really for the sole purpose of raising funds to pay for the current rebuild of the dam, and acquiring a sinking fund for future long term capital rebuilds or maintenance of the dam. But everything else, as far as ownership and control of the dam, would still lie with GBRA," said Harrison. See LAKE, page 9
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