Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been having a hard time dealing with my family. We have never been close. My mother played favorites and never showed me any affection. My siblings followed suit, and I always felt like an outsider. My father was wonderful and loved me very much, for which I am forever grateful.
A Travis County judge temporarily blocked the Texas Education Agency from releasing this year's annual school ratings after finding that the state’s new rating system–which was to debut this fall–is unlawful and would harm districts across the state.
Beverly Penn instructs her class at Texas State University
Daily Record photo by Shannon West
Top, cast succulent and critters by Gerlyn Friesenhahm. Above, Student Sarah Carter pours the investment [plaster] in the mold for lost wax casting.
Daily Record photos by Shannon West
Art uses a variety of different mediums to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. One of its forms involves fire and molten metal and is certainly not for the faint of heart. Texas State University has a metals program in their fine arts department and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Beverly Penn is teaching art students to utilize a torch in order to make precious metals even more appealing.
It took dozens of volunteers of all ages on Saturday, Oct. 14, to assist in the creation and packing of 14,000 meals that will be shipped out of the port of Houston to an as yet to be identified destination where famine is present. The event was the third annual Rise Against Hunger gathering sponsored by the Rotary Club of San Marcos.
Daily Record photos by Barbara Audet
Volunteers wear red hair nets and carefully measure rice and soy to build meals that are destined to travel around the world. Rotary President Peter Baen and Richard Dang of Rise Against Hunger help fill the boxes with the 14,000 bags created by volunteers.
Daily Record photos by Barbara Audet
Volunteers come together to pack 14,000 meals to share
Members of the Hays County Commissioner's Court dedicate Oct. 24 to Michael Hernandez who is leaving to take on new duties in Williamson County.
Photo by Hays County
The Hays County Commissioners Court honored one of the community’s favorite son’s by proclaiming Oct. 24 as Michael Hernandez Day of Service.
At the next meeting on Nov. 1 of the Rotary Club of San Marcos, the guest speaker will be Dr. Daniel Wescott, professor of Anthropology and director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University.
Recently, 30 AFJROTC Cadets from San Marcos High School attended the 16th Annual IT Symposium at Texas State University. This year over 300 faculty and students from 12 different state-wide high schools participated in the daylong event. Cadets participated in breakout sessions, competitive events, robotics demonstrations, and interactive Virtual Reality/Artificial Intelligence demonstrations and campus tours. Cadet Demetrius Pastrano took Top Honors in the Microsoft Excel and Access Database Competition. Demetrius is a senior at San Marcos High School and is the Cadet Corps Commander in his Air Force JROTC Unit. Additionally, he is captain of the TX-921 CyberPatriot Team. This is the third year in a row that an AFJROTC cadet from San Marcos High School has won the competition.
Photo by AFJROTC
CADET HONORED
Hocus Pocus is the theme of these Halloween pumpkins.
Daily Record photo by Barbara Audet
Area families and children will be able to have a truly old-fashioned Halloween on Tuesday at the San Marcos Police Department is sponsoring a Public Safety Trunk or Treat at the headquarters located at 2300 S. I-35 Frontage Road.
In the next few days, we at KZSM will bring True Community Radio to your FM dial at 104.1 FM. As we complete this process, we will look back on the history of community radio in San Marcos in this column and the next one.
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