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Newspaper
Wilson County News
Location
Floresville, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 2002
Page
10
The Floresville event on Labor Day weekend drew strong support for the Sidewalk Sale. Main Street activists led by Mary Helen Tieken canvassed shoppers and sellers, gathering praise for the day and calls to repeat the event multiple times yearly.
Mary Helen's report praises western swing fiddler Alvin Crow for 44 presentations across Floresville in seven days. The residency committee led by Monica Flores organized 44 gigs in classrooms and venues, with strong community support and a moving national anthem moment for veterans.
Cora Moehrig Boening Lois Temple Wolfshohl and Edna Kretzschmar Schroeder, the first-year pupils at Black Hill School, recently visited the Black Hill Grange. The building, kept after consolidation for community use, was built in 1920 with one teacher and eight pupils and moved in 1951 to meet enrollment. Edna still lives in the community, Lois in a San Antonio retirement home, and Cora in Loma Vista.
Texas Lutheran University hosts Lisa O'Brien Ph.D. for a seminar on West Nile Virus biology and mosquito control. The free talk Friday at 1 30 p m in Kroft Building Room 209 Seguin discusses her Army zoology work and entomology Ph D from UC Riverside.
The Kicaster Volunteer Fire Department received a $150 donation from the Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies as thanks for work on E. C. Gambill property. The grant funds the department’s loss prevention program to reduce fire risk and prevent fires.
A planning committee met August 25 at Sacred Heart Church Floresville to organize the Junior Catholic Daughters of the Americas. Attendees included Dora Garza Carolyn Hill Gracie Trevino Jo Ann Munoz and Carolyn Malik who spoke on goals and activities for juniors and juniorettes ages 8 to 18. Registration forms are available at the church entrance and the next meeting was set for September 29 at the Knights of Columbus Hall. The Columbian Squires also held a membership drive on September 23.
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