For nearly a year, our church had been preparing for a week-long youth outreach headed by a well known speaker. Then, shortly before the kick-off date, I discovered there was another event scheduled in our community on the same dates as our planned
youth meetings. Concerned that this conflict would slash attendance and reduce the impact on the youth we wanted to reach, I called the speaker to alert him to the problem.
This time of the year, my thoughts drift back to memories of my maternal grandmother. The Thanksgiving season brought all her special culinary talents to the forefront.
My grandfather had the most important part — he stayed out of grandmother’s kitchen. I have always appreciated that quality of my grandfather.
As November made its debut, everyone in my family eagerly awaited Thanksgiving Day.
One year, contrary to her usual good sense, grandmother allowed grandfather to watch the turkey whi ...
SAN ANTONIO—If you win a state championship, playing in your final high school game is not a difficult time. The tears and remembrances will be put on hold for days, maybe months. But they will come at some point. Of course it is tougher when they are coupled with a no-playoff season or even one that ends after a bi-district or area contest.
Such was the case for Llano.
SAN ANTONIO—The score was lopsided, and the better team won and may beat a few more folks in the next couple of weeks, but the emotional and dignified farewell comments by the Llano High seniors showed how this sport can transcend its tough character on the gridiron. Please check that out in a companion story.
“{We} knew they were extremely good,” acknowledged head coach Craig Slaughter, discussing Sinton, the last foe for 2015.
The Lady Jackets have concluded the pre-Thanksgiving schedule with four losses in four games. Three were not too close, but the defeat to visiting Harper, November 17, was painful because the Longhorns, who won 49-44, were never in front till the fourth quarter.
“We don’t know how to play with a lead,” lamented head coach Joe Downey.
CANYON LAKE—Already there’s improvement and a fire upon which to build. The Llano basketball boys made one impressive comeback and stayed close for a while but dropped a 59-40 decision to the Hawks, November 23. It was the last athletic contest for the school before December 1.
“Played well in spurts,” said first-year head coach, Blake Sieck.
On Wednesday, November 18, a Llano County Jury found 60-year-old Bruce Denis Young guilty of sexually assaulting a child under the age of six. The victim was a four-year-old child who was acquainted with Young through her mother, who had known the defendant since her childhood. The assault occurred at Young’s residence in Kingsland, where he had lived for approximately eight years since moving to Texas from Michigan.
On November 17, Hill Country Memorial was recognized as a “Top Performer” by The Joint Commission for outstanding performance in surgical care. As the accrediting body for U.S. health care organizations, The Joint Commission analyzed how well hospitals performed across 49 quality measures.
This marks the third consecutive year HCM was recognized among the best hospitals in the nation for quality and safety in surgical care.
By Judy Miller
Board members of the Llano County Historical Museum, led by Charles Wendt, recently met to discuss new and exciting changes coming to our local museum. Denise Kennedy, head of the newly formed planning committee, presented several choices to the board concerning a traveling exhibition to be showcased at the museum in January.
The Llano City Council had a short agenda for their regularly called meeting held on Monday, November 16.
Requests for use of city facilities for festivals were granted to Llano Crawfish Open, Inc for the use of Robinson Park for the weekend of April 10-17, 2016 and to the Llano Chuck Wagon Cook-Off Committee for the Chuck Wagon Cookoff in October 2016.
Council also approved the use of Badu Park and Town Lake by the Christmas Lighting Committee to hold jet-ski races on July 2, 2016.
