New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (Newspaper) - January 9, 1998, New Braunfels, Texas FRIDAY Unicorn football recruiting notes Page 1B 50 CENTS New Braunfels Running back Ricky Williams will return for senior year ULl 18 pages in 2 sections Friday January Serving Comal County and surrounding areas for more than 145 years Home of Veronica Yvette Saenz Vol 146 No 41 Inside School Dear Stammtisch Birthday wishes from the The New Braunfels Herald Zeitung extends birthday wishes to Julia Cardena Veronica Yvette Saenz 4 Barbara Haupert Paul Waggener Sat Susan Custer 25 years Robert Braune Sat Lisa F Brucks Satur Jason Bloch Benjamin Sanchez Jr Lisa Rep ka Sterling Handrick 11 years and Ashley Camereno 3 To have a birthday or anniver sary listed here call 6259144 I Pollen Count Mountain Mold 323 Pollen measured in parts per cubic meter of air Information provided by Dr Frank River Information Comal 335 cubic feet per sec ond Tuesday down 35 from Edwards Aquifer Panther Canyon Well feet above sea level Tuesday up 07 from Thursday Canyon Dam discharge 967 cfs Canyon Lake inflow 471 cfs Canyon Lake level feet above sea level Conservation New Braunfels Utilities NBU reports pumping million gal lons of surface water Thursday and no well water UP Nice today but cold weather coming Friday Mostly sunny Highs in the upper 60s to around 70 Friday night mostly clear lows around 40 Hill Country to 40s south central Saturday Mostly sunny Highs around 70 Lows in the 40s Hill Country to 50s south central Sunday Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or show ers Highs in the 60s but turn ing colder late in the day Monday Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or show ers Lows in the 30s to lower 40s Highs in the 40s and 50s Tuesday Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or showers Lows in the 30s to lower 40s Highs in the 40s and 50s Corps increases reservoir release SEGUIN The release from Canyon Reservoir was increased from 600 to mately cubic feet per second at Thursday and will continue at this rate until further notice according to the River Authority Wednesday deadline for arts dinner tickets The 18th annual Dinner with the Arts will be Jan 18 at the New Braunfels Civic Center Tickets are with Arts League and no tickets will be sold after Wednesday Tickets are avail able at the New Braunfels Art League Gallery and the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Com merce Christmas trees have second life The city of New Braunfels and New Braunfels Utilities sponsor the 11 th annual Christmas tree recycling pro gram Residents can drop off live trees at a specially marked area in the Olympic Swimming Pool parking lot at Landa Park Drive and Golf Course Road in Landa Park through Jan 19 Comal County Cowboys Probably not but officials have toured Smithson Valley By TOM ERICKSON and DONNA COLTER Staff Writers file photo The Cowboys are looking for a new summer home and a San Antonio city councilman has suggested Smithson Valley High School as a replacement for St Edwards University in Austin Thousand Oaks Austin Smithson Valley The west Comal County high school is a possible site for the next Dallas Cowboys training camp according to San Antonio city councilman The Dallas Cowboys will conduct training camp in a new location in 1998 after spending the last eight years at St Edwards University in Austin Switzer resigning Page 1B With several cities in Texas trying to court Americas Team San Antonio city councilman Jeff Webster said he thought Smithson Valley High School was the best site this area had to offer the Super Bowl champions But Webster admitted Thursday that the chances of the Cowboys coming to Comal County werent good at least in the next 12 months Turn out the lights City loses money on holiday lights but plans change for next Christmas BY SUSAN JAKOBSEN Staff Writer Holiday River of Lights organizers plan to light displays during next years event as revenues brought in less than overall city expenditures City officials said they didnt expect to reap enough money in the first year to cover startup costs Animated displays illuminated Cypress Bend Park during 51 days in November and December during which city officials say approximately peo through park gates to view lights in various array Officials estimated in November between and people would pass through the park Some of those visitors were 300 season pass holders who had unlimited access to the event said Mike Shands city man ager The park opened to the public in midNovember only eight weeks after city officials adopted the Holiday Riv er of Lights program which previous ly was in the hands of Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce The Holiday River of Lights was originally brought to us at a cost of said Michael president But when it bal up to we didnt feel like we could spend that much of the Chamber budget Meek said photos by Jacob As Gregory Schmidt removes Christmas lights from the River of Lights city officials make plans to turn a profit on next years display The project lost this year So the project found a home with the city and a threeyear lease agree ment was negotiated by Shands with Brandano Displays a NewYork based company on July 14 The park had to be under con struction by late said Don Ferguson assistant to the city man ager which allowed little time for construction or news releases City and New Braunfels Utilities workers performed an electrical upgrade for about which included additional transformers and underground wiring A grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority about helped offset some of those upgrade costs Shands said We had to move quickly because the grant was going to said Shands Approximately brochures were printed for about and distributed throughout the Hill Coun ty for said Ferguson Other wise the citys promotion of the event was virtually said Fergu son We tried to use every free way we said Ferguson Newspapers radio and even television helped the city plug the event he said The display park opened to the pub lic Nov 14 In conjunction with the light display scores of volunteers turned out for the Sharing the Spirit program in which a local nonprofit organization staffed the display on one of four weeknights in return earn ing 50 cents per vehicle that passed through the event for their organiza tion Local emergency communication personnel staffed the park at night for Turn to Lights page 2A Stoked for livestock Annual show starts with todays weighin DONNA COLTER Staff Writer The Comal County annual live stock show has arrived and 260 members will be vying for champion and reserve champion honors in five different divisions The show will begin at 8 Saturday at the Comal County Fairgrounds 801 E Common St Contestants will weighin all entries from 7 to 9 tonight Judges will begin Saturdays tion evaluating lambs followed by goats steers heifers and swine Each division is broken up into two age ranges juniors for club members 813 and seniors for club members 14 and Marty Gibbs Comal County Exten sion agent for agriculture said that the swine division has garnered the most entries with 125 Joe Ed Wise from Santa Anna who is a past extension agent and current dent of Santa Anna National Bank will judge all divisions Ernest Mayfield of Bandera will be the showmanship judge A showmanship trophy will be awarded in each division In each age range in each division the champion will receive a belt buckle and the reserve champion will receive a jack et All buckles and jackets were donated by local businesses Because of this weeks rain Gibbs said many farmers would not be able to work in the fields so the show was expected to draw about 200 spectators A concession stand will be available for those who attend the show and it will serve prepack aged food The exchange club is sponsoring the concession stand There will be no admission charge Coffee culture Coffee Its more than a drink and a jump start Lets go for coffee is the late 90s version of have a nice Whos drinking coffee in New Braunfels Where are they drinking it What is going on as they drink Convincing the Cowboys to come to San Antonio might be hard to pull off this he said Maybe next Several obstacles stand in the way including the lack of hotel rooms and dormitories in the area near SVHS and the distance from San Antonio Inter national Airport The Cowboys also are considering setting up camp at St Marys University in San Antonio The team sent a group of marketing Turn to Cowboys page 2A State will rule on day care disclosure Casteel Law requires county to avoid ID of hepatitis A locations BY SUSAN JAKOBSEN Staff Writer Citing statues designed to protect individual privacy Comal County Judge Carter Casteel has asked the Texas attorney generals office to decide if the county must identify day care centers that have hepatitis A cases Casteel of the Texas Health and Safety Code which says information relating to cases or suspected cases of health conditions are not public informa under the Texas Open Records Act Casteel also referred to Open Records Decision 577 in which the attorney generals office ruled that an individuals right to privacy was more important than the publics right to know However the ruling goes on to say that information may be released for statistical purposes if no one is identified Four daycare centers in New Braunfels have confirmed cases of hepatitis A within the child adult population at each facility Fortyeight cases of hepatitis A have been confirmed by Comal County Health officials since Oct 3 The filed a request under the Texas Open Records Act seeking the names of the affected day cares Two of the day care oper ators have confirmed having at least one case Casteel wrote to the attorney gen eral that the county is concerned that names of individuals may be easier to determine if the day care centers are whether the day care centers may be considered third party persons with privacy or property interests that may be involved as defined by Section Texas Government and the possible consequences for Comal County that it is mandatorily prohibited from According to the Open Records Decision 577 We conclude that the conditions placed on the release of medical or epidemiological infor mation are designed to protect indi vidual privacy since this information may be released if each person iden in the information gives con sent or for statistical purposes if no one is Getting a response from the attor ney generals office could take up to 80 days according to attorney gen spokeswomen Sonya Sanchez Doug Toney editor and publish er of the said the countys response in requesting an attorney generals opinion was expected A parent should have the right to make informed decisions concerning Turn to Records page 2A Epiphany celebrates manifestation of God Page
