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The Daily Report 9.3.10
Weather
This Afternoon: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. North northeast wind between 15 and 20 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. North northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.
Police
- Lampasas Police Dept. report a burglary of a vehicle in the 1100 block of W 1st St. On the arrest log was a 33 year old Lampasas man, charged with DWI, driving while license invalid, and failure to ID/giving false information. Also arrested was a 34 year old Lampasas woman, charged with harboring a runaway child.
- Lampasas Sheriff’s Dept. arrested a 29 year old Corpus Christi woman for bond forfeiture in a forgery case and a 26 year old Safford man on an arson case.
Late night heavy rain
Lampasas FFA
The Sulphur Creek 4-H Club will have their first meeting on Tuesday September 7th at 5:30pm at the Farm Bureau office on US HWY 281 North.
Anyone interested in joining 4-H and getting involved with a great kid’s organization is invited.
For more information call the County Extension office at 512-556-8271.
Funeral Notices 9.3.10
Charles L. Finnell, age 81 of San Antonio died Aug. 26th in a San Antonio nursing home. He was born in Lampasas and seven of his brothers and sisters preceded him in death. He joined the New Hope Baptist Church at an early age under the pastorship of Rev. B. B. Johnson, graduated from Lampasas High School and went on to become a deputy sheriff in Ft. Worth, where he retired after many years. Charles joined Mt. Zion First Baptist Church in San Antonio and was an usher until his health failed.
He leaves to cherish his memory and celebrate his home going his children Kenneth, Charles Jr., and Connie Finnell of Ft. Worth and Jacqueline Finnell of Houston, Kelly and Tony Finnell of Los Angeles; a adopted son Randy Sims, 15 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild, two sisters Mildred Wilson and Shirley Knotts, and host of other relatives and friends. A memorial service will be 11am Saturday at Sneed Funeral Chapel.
Alfred Edwin Faubion, 80 passed away August 28th at S&W Hospital in Temple. He was born in the Chadwick Community, graduated from Evant High School and served in the National Guard and Army Reserves as a Staff Sergeant. He worked for the Lone Star Gas Company for 41 years in Ft. Worth and Waco and retired to the family ranch in the Evant/Adamsville community. He was a Director on the Central Texas Telephone Coop Board.
Mr. Faubion is survived by two sons Alfred Faubion Jr and David Faubion, and by 3 grandchildren. A visitation will be held Saturday from 12-2pm at Briggs-Gamel Funeral Home with services to follow afterward.
Oakalla Community Center plans maintenance program
A committee for the Oakalla Community Center met on Monday and laid plans to help preserve the old school building that was built there in 1944 and closed in 1959. Some of the playground equipment is to be replaced and the building needs termite control and roof and electrical repairs.
Dove season kicked off
In spite of our Radiogram story, that erred in saying the bag limit included only two whitewings (should have said whitetips), the dove season for 2010 kicked off in Central Texas.
A TPWD news release tells something about the hunting results in the central part of the state:
Central Zone Dove: Shoots were fast around San Antonio. A few mourners flew early, but the brunt of the flight was whitewings about 30 minutes after sunrise. Cut corn was the ticket near Castroville and Pleasanton. Sabinal, Hondo and Uvalde saw good shoots as well. Afternoon hunters sawCity of Lampasas and Kempner Water Supply ask for water conservation
The City of Lampasas has notified customers, system wide, that it will be performing maintenance and cleaning work its storage tanks during the next ten days. As a result the city
No decisions yet,
but it seems likely that the LCRA wind power electric transmission line that was planned to run from Fredericksburg to Lampasas will never be built.
The line is just one segment of the network, or grid, of electric lines that has been planned to help deliver the windmill electricity generated in west Texas to the LCRALampasas cattle auction
Yesterday 1,112 head came through the ring at the Lampasas Auction and compared to last week feeder steers were $3-$6 lower, feeder heifers were steady to weak, instances were $2-$3 lower, slaughter cows and bulls were $4-$5 lower and trade and demand was good.
Slaughter cows made up 14%, slaughter bulls made 1% and replacement