March 18, 2010

The City of Horseshoe Bay honored Police Officer T.J. Cox for his professionalism and exercise of exceptional judgment which resulted in saving a man’s life. At Tuesday’s City Council Meeting, HSB Police Chief Bill Lane described the events on the night of March 4, 2010. The Police Department received a call alerting them to a possible suicide attempt, most likely in the vicinity of the Ferguson Power Plant.

Llano County voters will be kept busy at the polls this spring. Besides the two local Republican Party primary races to be determined at the April 13 run-off election, four other local governing bodies will hold elections on the regular May 8 general election date. Incumbent Llano Independent School District Trustee Becky Robinson is being challenged by Brad McCasland in the Place 6 LISD race. Robinson, a retired administrator with Southwestern Bell Telephone and eleven year re ...

The mood is “haute”. Elegant, but with the requisite Horseshoe Bay ingredient — relaxed. The Seton Gala planners want guests to feel welcome, well cared for and a bit pampered. So while the tuxedoed servers circulate with silver platters, guests may take in serene vistas of the lake, soothing melodies from a Grand piano, and effervescent aperitifs in champagne flutes.

The Library at Cottonwood Shores is hosting a spring food drive benefiting the Cottonwood Community Church Pantry. Every child who brings in a canned good during this food drive will get to choose an Easter egg off the special Easter egg Tree. Prizes will be awarded according to the type of egg selected. A raffle will be held to award some over the top Easter Baskets to children who bring in donations of canned goods.

The Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Burnet County is offering the Do Well, Be Well with Diabetes course beginning in April. The course will be offered every Tuesday beginning April 6 and will conclude May 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. The cost is $5 total per person. The course will be held at the EMS Building in Marble Falls. The Do Well Be Well with Diabetes program is open to anyone with type II diabetes and their family members or support team.

Holy Week includes the final week of Lent, runs from Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday, and includes Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. In 2010, Holy Week runs from March 28 until Easter on April 4. Holy Week is the part of the Church Year commemorating Jesus’ final days. PALM SUNDAY On the sixth Sunday of Lent, Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem is commemorated.

Work has begun on the 2010 – 2011 Horseshoe Bay phone directory published by the Horseshoe Bay Property Owners’ Association. Email addresses will be included for those wishing to do so. With the variety of internet providers in this area, many residents are making changes to their service and are reminded to call the POA office if their email address changes.

Last month’s windfall sales tax allocation for the City of Horseshoe Bay was followed up with a strong March allocation. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs sent $45,580 in sales tax allocation to HSB last week representing local taxes collected on sales made in HSB during January 2010. The allocation is a 50 percent increase over January 2009 receipts. R.J.

The members of the International Club enjoyed an entertaining presentation and a scrumptious pot luck lunch on Sunday, March 14. Kay and David Rose and their former exchange student from Albania, Daniel Kristo, gave a presentation about Albania. David gave the history highlights of this small Balkan country. The members listened intently as he took them through the various forms of leadership: dictatorship, a long period of the Communist regimes, and Marxist-Leninism. David turned the ...

On Wednesday, March 24, the Texas Friendly Hospitality Training Program will be offered at 10 a.m. at the Burnet Chamber of Commerce conference room and at 1 p.m. at the Marble Falls Chamber of Commerce conference room. The Texas Friendly seminars are part of a program directed by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the instructors are certified though Texas A&M University. Tourism and service industries are important contributors to the economic health of many local communit ...

Census forms are being delivered in person in many non-urban areas, including Horseshoe Bay. In recent weeks, Census workers have walked miles and miles of Texas, going door to door to deliver the 2010 Census forms. While most of the country’s population will receive their Census form in the mail, less densely populated areas like the Texas Hill Country – and about everywhere outside a major metropolitan area – will receive the Census form in person from a pleasant Census w ...

Jeff Robinson is out of state, and I will report on the City Council meeting on Tuesday but cannot come close to his entertaining writing style. Dr. Pete Christy, Senior Pastor of the Church at HSB, gave the invocation which set a good tone for the meeting. We welcomed our new City Attorney - Rex Baker, who is an experienced attorney from Dripping Springs. Al Morgenroth, Field Operations Supervisor, was congratulated and thanked for ten years of outstanding service to ou ...

A friend of mine sent me a box full of quotes shortly after my fall (you know, the one where I toppled over backwards on my bathroom floor). I was reading them recently and one stuck with me: “People will not remember what you said or what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel.” Wow.

I don’t remember the first calf fry I ever ate, but it was probably soon after I was able to digest solid food. Nothing was ever wasted on our place when I was growing up. Chicken down was saved for pillows, manure was scooped up from the cattle pens and taken to the garden, leftover milk was fed to the hogs and zippers, buttons and hooks were removed from worn out clothes before they became rags for the tractor shed. Everything had value, so it was no mystery to me that ...

Recent sunny days with bluebonnets popping out of the warming earth remind us that the time has come to plan some outdoor excursions, perhaps even an outdoor art class. The Wenmohs Ranch is a great place to get away for a few nights with family and/or friends. It is a 435 acre working cattle ranch that has been in the Wenmohs family for eight generations.

CITY OF HORSESHOE BAY, TEXAS PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING ZONING RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NEWLY ANNEXED LAKE AREAS, ALL IN LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS The City of Horseshoe Bay Planning & Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing at its regular meeting on a recommendation to City Council for establishing a new Zone 16 Lake Areas and a new Zoning Classification of LA Lake Area for the following newly annexed area, as required by Section 14. ...

CITY OF HORSESHOE BAY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL REGARDING A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO EXHIBIT F SHOPPES AT HI CIRCLE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT OF CHAPTER 14 ZONING OF THE CITY CODE The City of Horseshoe Bay Planning and Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing to receive public comment and take action on a recommendation to City Council on April 6, 2010 as part of its regular Public Meeting agenda that will commence ...

CITY OF HORSESHOE BAY, TEXAS PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING A REVISED ordinance amending the chapter 14 zoning OF THE CITY CODE TO Add A NEW SECTION 14.02.406 (i) (10) Development Standards for Manufactured Homes TO BE PLACed ON LOTS CLASSIFIED m-1 MOBILE HOME in Zone 4B Horseshoe Bay South The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Horseshoe Bay will conduct a public hearing on April 6, 2010 as part of its regular Public Meeting that w ...

CITY OF HORSESHOE BAY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL REGARDING A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 14 ZONING OF THE CITY CODE TO ADD A DEFINITION FOR BAR, TO ELIMINATE ZONE 4B HORSESHOE BAY SOUTH AS A ZONE WITH LAND CLASSIFIED AS C-2 GENERAL COMMERCIAL, AND TO CHANGE ON-PREMISE AND OFF-PREMISE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES BY ALLOWING A BAR IN THE C-2 GENERAL COMMERCIAL CLASSIFICATION IN ZONE 4A HORSESHOE BAY PROPER ONLY WITH APPR ...

Dear Editor: In the March 11 Beacon, the Mayor Lambert maintains “Your mayor and all members of the city council consider communication with the community very important”. I and I know many others certainly agree with the need for good communications, but must respectfully disagree with the methods the mayor and council rely on.

This quotation from the legendary Dorothy Parker says it all when it comes to figuring out what to do with leftover ham, a situation I was confronted with recently when I miscalculated and ended up with over half a spiral-cut ham after hosting the cast party for the Hill Country Theatre’s last production. In my experience, it is inevitable that the amount of leftover ham and ham dishes I have stored in my refrigerator and freezer grows in inverse proportion to the amount of ham ...

Saturday, March 20 HSB POA Annual Meeting-Quail Point. Refreshments 9:30 a.m., meeting 10 a.m. All HSB property owners are invited to attend. New POA board members will be announced. The Elder Care Fair-9 a.m. to 12 noon, Saturday, March 20, Boys & Girls Club in Marble Falls. FMI call Michael Steele 512-756-6093. Kingsland House of Arts and Crafts-demonstration on the craft of beading, 2 to 4 p.m., House of Arts and Crafts.