July 8, 2010

Christmas J.O.Y. Annual Meeting All Interested Parties Must Attend! 6 p.m. Park Building July 14th

We are pleased to welcome the association of RON BACON with HOME RANCH REALTY. He graduated from San Houston University with degrees in Criminal Justice and a minor in Business Administration. Ron, Victoria and family moved to Johnson City in 2001 from Monroe, Louisiana where he completed a long association with a national chain in the retail industry. Ron Bacon was licensed in 2002 as a Realtor and the following year added the appraiser license to his resume.

Please join the Johnson City Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, July 10th at 10am for the grand opening ribbon cutting for RamPaige Salon. RamPaige Salon is the newest full service salon to open in Johnson City. RamPaige offers the following services: women’s and men’s haircuts, color, highlights, styling including updos for weddings and prom or any other special occasion, full service waxing, jewelry and gifts.

Whittington’s Jerky & General store has gained a reputation for featuring local and Texas made products. So Hodgee Apparel is a perfect fit. Hodgee Apparel is a t-shirt and cap company owned by local girls Sierra & Sheridan Hodge. The Hodge twins started the company two years ago as a way to make some extra spending money while in college and it has grown into a viable business. Susan Whittington suggested carrying Hodgee Apparel products in the general store du ...

Diane Burke, President of JC Woman’s Civic Club, gives donations to the JC Volunteer Fire Deptartment (Roy Burdett, left) and the North Blanco County EMS (Ben Oakley, right).

I will begin by saying I got dressed and drove to town to pick up my friend to go and watch the fireworks with me. Passing by the courthouse, I wondered why there was no candy in the street left over from the parade. Then I thought, "Boy this new group of people promoting Johnson City is really on the ball, they have already cleaned up the streets."

Well, here we are with a new month. I hope everybody had a nice July 4th. I became a great, great, grandmother once again. Her name is Samantha Charlene and she was born @ midnight on June 30, 2010. I hear that she is really beautiful. Despite continuing heavy rain in portions of southern Texas and northern Mexico, Alex was expected to dissipate Thursday night over Mexico’s high terrain.

Of course, life’s not fair, who ever told you that it was? I have told my kids this a million times. "That’s life", not to put them down or discourage them, but to prepare them for what is to come. You have to work hard to get what you want and sometimes that’s not good enough. My 16-year-old son came to me the other day upset about something that had happened to him.

Thimbleberries Quilt Class is always fun to go to but this week was a little different. We had our 5 at the Hive class first which is the $5.00 class. You start the first month by paying $5.00 for your block and each month after you get your block free if you have your block from the previous month finished.

*****4-H’ers from Blanco County placed in the D-10 Horse Show held in Gonzales, Texas on June 15 & 16. Rebecca Harlin placed 3rd in Grade Mares. Elizabeth O’Day placed 8th in Poles and 7th in Barrels. Amara Yachimski placed 7th in Hunter Showmanship. Rachel Harlin placed 5th in Hunt Seat Equitation.

Sergeant Gary Lee Weaver of Johnson City, a highly decorated disabled Vietnam Veteran was presented with a beautiful July 4th cake just before the parade on Sunday by several members of the American Legion Memorial Highway Auxiliary Unit 352 of Blanco. The red, white, and blue cake with a large American flag read "Thank You Sergeant Weaver".

There’s been a lot of excitement in the air, as the Youth Community Assistance Program has been vigorously working on renovating their new home at the old Cox Ford Motor Company building at the corner of Nugent and Hwy 290. YCAP is a Blanco County, non-profit organization based out of Johnson City.

The world changed a bit for another Johnson City resident last week. The lady was confined to a wheelchair after breaking her hip, making getting in and out of her home hard as well as hazardous. The Change-the-World team from the First United Methodist Church showed up with lumber and tools, and two days later she had a 27-foot ramp that allowed safe, easy access.

LIBRARY HOSTING A BUSY SUMMER! A group of patrons from the Johnson City Library took a Geology course taught by David Hamm. David taught us Geology 101, Hill Country Geology, and a field trip though the Hill Country. This was a great course, thank you David for being an excellent teacher!

This DVD, along with others produced by the Oral History Committee, is now available for check out at the Blanco Library. Laura Lindeman Caza and Charlene Lindeman Singleton recount growing up on the ranch their grandfather established in Blanco over 100 years ago. They lived the life of typical farm girls, helping with the harvest, milking cows, observing "wash days"

W.A. "Cotton" Hudson March 28, 1930– June 22, 2010 Cotton Hudson, age 80 of Johnson City formerly of Bee Cave passed away Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Cotton was a member of Masonic Rambo #426 & Johnson City #561. He served in the U.S. Army and retired from LCRA. He was preceded in death by his son, Allen J.Hudson and granddaughters, Heather and Cassie Hudson. Survivors are his wife, Dot Hudson; children, Albert & D ...

Dear Editor: I grew up in Blanco and wanted to take my family back home for a small-town Fourth of July celebration. I was excited to find out that Johnson City was having an all-day event to celebrate Independence Day, so we went. Unfortunately, the short parade left much to be desired for my five-year-old, but we took a detour to Pedernales Falls and enjoyed the cool water and beautiful scenery. When it was finally time for the fireworks to begin, I reall ...

Dear Editor: We live in Austin, but we always enjoy visiting Johnson City. We enjoyed Spange Dangle very much. The food was great, the band was great, the parking was great, the weather was great, and the FIREWORKS were GREAT! We’ll be back next year! Thank you for another wonderful visit! The Thompsons

Blanco County Sheriff’s Office Reports These reports were filed between Jun. 25 and Jul. 1. Jun. 25 • 1623 West of the High School. 2:00 AM. Animal Complaint • Collector’s Highway across from Bowling Alley. 2:10 AM. Suspicious Person • Burnet County. 7:03 AM. Prisoner Transfer • 101 Mountain Loop . 9:58 AM.

The year was 1929 and J.C. Penney was a patient in the Kellogg Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. He was broken in health and filled with despair. Getting out of bed one night, he wrote farewell letters to his wife and son, saying he did not expect to live to see the dawn, but the next day brought an experience that changed Penney’s life and restored his health. When J.C.

The Pedernales Electric Cooperative Board of Directors confirmed General Counsel Luis Garcia as acting general manager during a special meeting Friday, July 2. The Board also appointed Aisha Hagen to act as general counsel while Garcia leads the Cooperative. "Working as the General Manager of this Cooperative, in this interim capacity, is a great responsibility to the PEC employees, Board, members and communities, and it is one I do not take lightly,"

Hill Country Memorial’s Cancer Resource Center (CRC) will present a series of free programs designed to help those who are caring for a loved one. Instructors will be professional medical personnel who care for patients through HCM’s hospital, home care and hospice organizations. They will include registered nurses and a physical therapist, occupational therapist, registered dietitian, master’s level social worker and massage therapist. The needs of cancer p ...

In the mid-1930s, just as the newly created Lower Colorado River Authority was setting up shop, the Colorado River experienced the basin’s three worst floods of the 20th century. Photographs and news accounts of the floods that occurred in 1935, 1936 and 1938 are still powerful in their depiction of Colorado River floodwaters: farmlands swept clean of buildings, livestock and families; Austin citizens watching as the river splits their city in two. In fact, o ...

As part of Pedernales Electric Cooperative’s ongoing commitment to the environment, PEC is now offering free recycling of compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs). Members can bring unbroken CFLs to any PEC office where they will be stored safely and recycled. PEC’s Green Works campaign encourages conservation and environmental responsibility, and one of the Green Works initiatives has been to educate members about the benefits of CFLs, which are one of the easiest and most ...