Dear Editor,
I very much appreciate Winnie J. Tate-Morgan for her letter from last week concerning the Llano Special Opportunity Center and the Llano Recycling Opportunities.
The Llano Special Opportunity Center is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization which pays the bills for the Main Street Center and the Llano Recycling Opportunities. Our recycling drop-off facility was opened in September, 1996.
Here’s one of these critically important essays that elicit the responses: “Don’t you have anything better to do? Is there something more important in your life about which to worry?
Thank you. Answers: No and No.
I have had back trouble recently — aren’t you sorry you made fun of me? — and it has caused pain in my left leg.
Dear Editor,
About Llano Recycling Opportunity and Llano Special Opportunity Center, a reminder, that though somewhat connected, these are two separate entities.
At present, Llano Recycling Opportunity (LRO) is in desperate need of a new baler for the facility and is actively seeking funds and community support to continue operation. It is a non-profit organization and contributions are fully tax deductible.
Dear Editor,
If you missed the bylined article on page 5 in last week’s Llano News, count yourself lucky.
The wandering and incoherent diatribe by Nick Ford of Massachusetts entitled “Mass Murder is Just a ‘Mistake’ for Empire” tries to make the case that the U.S. is guilty of mass murder. He refers to the U.S.
Dear Editor,
Over the last five years Llano’s golf course has lost about $975,000. That works out to over $300 for each man woman and child in this city. But the fact is the golf course is an asset, and like the airport it brings in people and other intangible benefits to us all.
At the same time the city won’t put in the infrastructure for a developer like Mike Hazel.
Dear Editor,
The Llano Recycling Opportunities was opened September 1996. Last week it was reported that the 20-year old baler needs to be replaced.
In the last week we have received two donations with one as a pledge of $1,000 and one for $25. We need your help to purchase a new baler for $15,000.
On the south side of the LRO building a storage area for cardboard is just about full, as is the storage area for sorted recyclables inside the building that are waiting for baling and shipment.
Dear Editor,
Concerning the letter from Mr. Jim Long of Horseshoe Bay opining that Kingsland is not paying its fair share, I would like to point out several statements in error in his letter, as follows:
1. According to the U.S. Census data of 2010, the portion of Horseshoe Bay located in Llano County had a population of 3,426 not 5,900.
I have always enjoyed a good quote - or at least those that I think are good. There may be a huge difference in the two at times, but I may or may not be willing to admit that.
Even when I was a kid, I had a thing for quotes.
Dear Editor,
This is in response to County Judge Mary Cunningham’s call for community input while the county budget is considered.
First, some data:
Population of Horseshoe Bay: 5,900
Population of Llano: 3,232
Population of Kingsland: 5,600
Population of Sunrise Beach: 800
Police budget of Horseshoe Bay: $1,787,500
Police budget of Llano: $811,818
Police budget of Kingsland: $0
Police budget of Sunrise Beach: $323,468
Per capita cost in Horseshoe Bay: $302.97
Per capita cost in Llano: $251.1 ...
Dear Editor,
It would have been a good idea for the City of Llano to require the sand contractor to report to the city how many loads of sand is taken out of the river each week and then the total up to that date.
I seem to remember the city was to be paid $0.12 a ton.
