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Newspaper
Wilson County News
Location
Floresville, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1981
Page
1
A Sunday turkey shoot benefit for LaVernia EMS is set for July 12 from 1:00 p.m. until dark at the LaVernia Chamber of Commerce grounds. Participants may shoot for a dollar a shot using factory loaded ammunition and their own gun as volunteers support the area’s only ambulance service.
The event, sponsored by KKYX and 7-Eleven, runs noon to midnight on Saturday July 18 at Facrere five miles north of Loop 1604 on Bandera Road. headlined by Red Steagall and the Coleman Country Cowboys with Barbara Fairchild Jimmy Peters and the Texas Juke Box Band among others. A United Fiddler's Association Contest is also featured with Miller Brewing Company participation.
A charity event starts at 3 00 p m headlined by Frenchie Burke with celebrity judges and chili entries from Texas teams. Arts crafts exhibitors from Texas will display work and hot air balloon rides are planned weather permitting. Admission is 3 00 with all proceeds to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. For details contact Gayle Backer at 733 6154.
City Park seeks volunteers every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to dark to build baseball fields. Community assistance requested to provide facilities for youth baseball programs and improve local recreation.
The LaVernia Christian Teaching Center breaks ground south of LaVernia on Highway 87 as a 200 seat worship facility. Billy Moore leads the project, stressing energy efficiency with brick walls thermo pane windows and central heating. The center plans nightly activities and outreach to missionaries while housed in the LaVernia Hermann Sons Lodge building. Citizens Against Drugs meet July 27 1981 at Floresville Library.
Readers get a roundup of parish and community festivals across Texas. St. Anthony's Elmendorf hosts a pre festival dance July 19 with Countrymen at 3 dollar tickets. Floresville Sacred Heart gears for July 12 parish festival. Seventh Annual Texas Polish Festival runs July 18 and 19 in San Antonio with Masses and a street dance.
Despite Conoco plans to suspend the Falls City Conquista uranium project, Chevron near Panna Maria in Karnes County remains secure with a long term contract. About 160 workers currently at the site could see operations mothballed early 1982 with a maintenance crew kept to guard readiness.
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