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The Bastrop Advertiser (USPS045-020)
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Texas Press Association
South Texas Press Association
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Since March 1,1853
Semi-Weekly Since Sept. 5,1977
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Sports editor: Jason Suchomel
Staff writers: Kitty Kent (news),
Ellen Moore (features, events)
Contributing writers: Ernest Simmons, Joe Allison,
Donald Williams, Joan Russell
Contributing photographers: Charles Bell,
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fund balance rebuilt to about $2
million. The value of that finan-
cial cushion has been demon-
strated over the past year as the
county paid out more than
$250,000 for a capital murder
trial and more than $500,000 to
repair damage from floods in
October
Federal payments are ex-
pected to cover 75 percent of
the flood repair cost.
The judge listed other high-
lights of her four-year term, in-
cluding establishing a county
purchasing office, a central
permits office and an animal
control department; reorganiz-
ing the county recycling center,
industrial development board
and water council; bringing all
ambulance operations for cities
and rural areas under a single
contract with the county.
Judge Walicek was also a key
player in organizing the regional
Bluebonnet Trails Community
Center to deliver mental health
and mental retardation services.
Walicek was elected county
judge after she had retired fol-
lowing 20 years as clerk of the
district court in Bastrop County.
She did not seek a second term
as judge this year.
School —■
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on Cedar Street will become an
extension of Bastrop High
School following a $300,000
renovation job scheduled for
summer 2000, according to
Walch.
Beginning next spring work
will also begin to renovate the
current Bastrop Central Ap-
praisal District office on Cedar
Street which will become the
new home for about 100 Gene-
sis High School students. Work
will begin as soon as the ap-
praisal district can move into its
new quarters near the Bastrop
County Law Enforcement Cen-
ter.
Bond projects already com-
pleted include additions at Mina
and Hill Street Elementary and
most of the $3.9 million in ad-
ditions and renovations at Bas-
trop High.
Work at the high school
awaiting completion includes
replacement of the heating and
cooling system which officials
say will be done in phases be-
ginning next summer.
Pete Quitta, building trades Instructor at ths Federal Correctional Institution, helps Judge Don
Calvert load a mountain of wooden toys made by Inmates on route to Pink Santa.
Inmates help spirit of Christmas
by making wooden toys for kids
On Friday, Dec. 18 the an-
nual Federal Correctional In-
stitution Toys for Tots effort
culminated in the distribution of
hundreds of wooden toys for
needy children of Bastrop,
Smithville and Elgin.
Every year for the last eight,
each of the cities and the Family
Crisis Center have provided the
inmates with an order for toys
and the wood to complete them
early in the year, according to
Pete Quitta, building trades in-
structor. For the last seven
years, Quitta has been involved,
working with the inmates to
create the unique toys.
The program, which is coor-
dinated through the prison's
Community Relations Board
began in a facility in Sheridan,
Oregon several years ago, ac-
cording to Tim Stewart, Execu-
tive Assistant to the Warden.
“They sent out information to
other bureau prison facilities
around the country about their
idea. Bastrop prison contacted
local community leaders and
they were enthusiastic,” Stewart
said, explaining how the local
program came to be.
Similar toy-making projects
are in place in a lot of prisons
around the country, Stewart
said.
"The inmates feel that they
are giving something back to the
community,” said Stewart
The 1998 Bastrop distribu-
tion will be through Pink Santa.
County
with state bidding laws, ac-
cording to county purchasing
agent Mallissa Jackson.
In other business Monday,
commissioners decided that in
the future money from the
county's general fund will be
used to pay the local share for
rural bridge replacement pro-
jects carried out by the Texas
Department of Transportation.
The required match is 10 per-
cent of construction costs. Each
commissioner has been ex-
pected to cover the cost from
precinct road and bridge funds.
But that can be a problem,
according to Commissioner
GL. Hanna. The match for a
planned replacement of a bridge
on County Road 108 will be
about $43,000, said Hanna. That
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and other planned bridge pro-
jects in his precinct alone will
cost him almost $100,000, he
said.
Sanders said matching funds
for the upcoming state bridge
projects should come out of a
special account commissioners
set up in this year's budget fbr
paving. They expect almost $1
million to accumulate in the
fund this year from jail revenue.
Cedar Creek
Methodist Church
Rev. William B. Krieg
Christmas Cve Services
5:30 pm & 7 pm
Communion/Candlelight
sss
Service
Cedar Creek Child Care Center
6:15 am * 6:15 pm
303-7471
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The Bastrop County Emergency Food
Pantry wishes to thank Bastrop County
citizens for your sharing and caring for
some how - not only at Christmas but the
long year through, the joy you give to
others is the joy that comes back to you.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND GOD’S GIFT OF A HEALTHY AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!
CHRISTMAS APPRECIATION
CELEBRATION!
Ladies of Charity
many families in
Bastrop County
who have been
helped during the
past year, the
On behalf of the
wish to thank the Bastrop community for the
continuous and overwhelming support which
enables us to assist those who come to us in
need.
A happy, holy Christmas and a
blessed New Year to everyone.
County inaugurations
to be held Dec. 31
fnai^iiration ceremonies for
county officials elected in
November will take place De-
cember 31 at 2 p.m. in the dis-
trict courtroom on the second
floor of the Bastrop County
Courthouse.
District Judge John Placke
will administer the oath of of-
fice to county judge-elect Ron-
nie McDonald and other new
and returning office holders in-
cluding District Attorney
Charles Penick, County Court at
Elgin
a developer into the area.
In October, the council re-
zoned a 270-acre tract of land
off FM 1100 near the new high
school site to be used for the
Shenandoah Subdivision. De-
veloper Randy Morine plans to
build 74 homes on 60 acres of
the land when the infrastructure
Law? J4dg« Benton Eskew,
Treasurer Bobbie Gilmore, Dis-
trict Clerk * LaNelle Hibbs,
County Clerk Shirley Wilhelm,
Commissioners Lee Dildy and
Charles McKeown and Justices
of the Peace Judy Evans, Katie
Warnke, Katherine Hanna and
Larry Dunn.
Bastrop Intermediate School
Principal Roderick Emanuel
will act as master of cere-
monies.
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is completed.
Officials have said that the
remaining 210 acres will proba-
bly be used to expand the sub-
division.
The homes will range from
1,100 to 1,600 square,feet and
cost between $70,000 and
$95,000.
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