Community News

A work day to set up pens, clean the show barn and make other additional preparations for the upcoming Blanco County Youth Show is scheduled for SATURDAY JANUARY 14, 2012 AT 9AM at the County Livestock Show Barn in Johnson City. ALL PARENTS OF EXHIBITORS, 4-H & FFA MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO COME AND HELP GET THE BARN READY FOR THE 2012 SHOW.

“Keep refrigerated?” No problem! The temperature was only in the 20s when the volunteers arrived to unload the delivery truck and divide the food into family boxes at the Johnson City Christian Food Pantry last week. Jim and Peggy Aldridge were among the refrigerated volunteers who spent a couple of hours working in the unheated metal storage barn behind the former county annex.

It may look ordinary to us, but it was a miracle to the students at the Flores School in Río Bravo, Mexico, east of Reynosa. The school’s water supply was stored in open drums, until the First United Methodist Church of Johnson City raised $5,000 to drill a water well on the school grounds.

At their regular meeting on January 10, County Commissioners selected Saturday, April 21, for the Annual Blanco County Trash-Off Day. It was decided that this year County residents would be able to unload tires, appliances (washers, dryers, refrigerators, etc.), electronics (old computers), automotive and rechargeable batteries (no alkaline household batteries), and scrap metal and scrap iron such as motors, bed springs, tin and wire.

The Blanco County Economic Development Corp (BCEDC) Board invites you to attend the first meeting of 2012 at the Johnson City Library on January 18 at 9:30 a.m. This month’s speaker, Tom Koch, a Blanco County resident and water engineer professional will present development and water issues in Blanco County.

According to Fathering in America, a 2009 study done by the National Center for Fathering, “7 out of 10 people surveyed agree that the physical absence of fathers from the home is the most significant family or social problem facing America.” The study goes on to state that only half of those surveyed give most fathers credit for knowing what is going on in their children’s lives.

North Blanco County EMS received an amazing in-kind donation from the Lighthouse Hill Ranch this week. Eric Meyertons, who owns the Lighthouse Hill Ranch with his wife, Kathy, made the priceless donation of renewing a tower lease agreement between North Blanco County EMS and the Lighthouse Hill Ranch for an additional five years, at no cost to EMS.

Please join us for snacks and fun on Monday, January 23rd at the North Blanco County (Johnson City) EMS — 6:30-7:30pm Tables will feature information on the upcoming Relay For Life, including team registration, survivor, registration, luminarias, committee recruitment and much, much more! You may also visit and sign up @ www.relayforlife.org/blancocotx To RSVP and for more information about the Relay For Life of Blanco County please contact : Franciela Marin-Smith - Event Chair at (210 ...

On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 the city council met for their regularly scheduled meeting. They began by hearing petitions from the public. However, nobody was present to speak up. After this the council moved on to consider a request from Mark Mayfield on behalf of the Texas Housing Foundation Phase 1 for a reduction in fees for in-kind services.

When a Blanco resident comes home from the hospital, she’ll discover Santa was there in her absence, and left a 66-foot wheelchair ramp under her tree. The volunteers who build the ramps for low-income residents spent two days last week putting up the structure in Blanco. “We had planned on a one-day job,” said build-boss David Hamm, “but the slope of the ground made the ramp longer than expected, and the holidays took away some of our volunteer help, but the weather ...