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CONTACT US: Advertising 210-683-1109 Subscriptions 361-343-5226 Classified 361-343-5202 News 830-254-8088 MAILING INFORMATION HERE MORE ONLINE INSIDE SouTex my .com SouTex . com THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020 A sister publication with FEATURE WEEKLY FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD FALLS CITY RUNGE 56 20 KENEDY REFUGIO 0 41 Page 3B – Back in the ring with Blessed Hands Page 2A – Study Club Two Sections | 20 Pages | 75 cents Vol. 129 | No. 43 | MySouTex.com Sign up online at cattle.mysoutex.com to get your first year FREE! CURRENT LOCAL LIVESTOCK REPORTS AND NEWS KCISD asking voters to pass two bond propositions by Chris Filoteo Editor KARNES CITY – The op- portunity to construct a new elementary school, along with new softball and baseball fields, without increasing taxes is here for area families. “Based off bond capacity, the school board was conservative in asking for what they deemed necessary,” Karnes City ISD Su- perintendent Hector Madrigal said. “The bond capacity was $52 million and we came in un- der to make sure we continue to having the lowest taxes in the county.” The current area ISD’s tax rates include: • Falls City- $1.4700 • Runge- $1.4300 • Pettus- $1.3354 • Floresville- $1.3350 • Poth- $1.3009 • Karnes City- $1.0932 Karnes City ISD has two bond propositions on the ballot for voters that include Proposition see KCISD, P. 10A County forced to reprint ballots by Chris Filoteo Editor KARNES COUNTY – As early vot- ing has kicked off, the county was able to provide a sample ballot after some bumps in the road for voters casting a ballot in person. Sarah Perez, Karnes County elec- tions administrator, said last month she learned about a decision by the Texas Supreme Court that forced a delay in the sample ballot printing process. “Thankfully our vendor was aware of the issue going on and hadn’t sent our programming through the printers just yet” Perez said. “So we didn’t have to face the reprint fee. The reason for this Escondido Creek Parkway focuses on sustainability by Chris Filoteo Editor The Escondido Creek Parkway has many amenities, but sustain- ability with low impact development (LID) fea- tures is an educational tool for every attendant. The San Antonio River Authority imple- mented LID interpre- tations throughout the park. “There are two LID features,” Collen Brownlow, SARA En- gineer said. “First is a bioretention pond locat- ed closest to Highway 181 near the splash pad. It’s a depression near the edge of the Escon- dido Creek with runoff from storms. The wa- ter filters into the pond with native vegetation, gravel sand and then discharges after layers of filtered clean water into the creek.” This process helps with runoff from storms throughout the park. “It will slow down the flow from the run- off in the parking lot,” Brownlow said. “All of the oils, grease and pol- lutants from the runoff is filtered. The pond stores 8,000 gallons of storm water runoff.” The pond itself is larger than other SARA parks, which was de- signed intentionally to help sustainability. “If the water over- flows at the retention pond it will run into the creek,” Brownlow said. “The most important thing about filters is catching the first flush of storm runoff. The dirtiest water is when it first rains and that ends up in the filter. We know that area floods. Based on the amount of drainage from the park- ing lot and size of park- ing lot at ECP, we made it as large as we could.” The second LID fea- ture at the ECP is a rainwater collection system at the pavilion. “We will collect wa- ter runoff from the pavilion and funnel it into guttes into cisterns inside 1,000 gallon sys- tems,” Brownlow said. Karnes County Elections Administrator Sarah Perez goes through the many sample ballots for the general election. Perez encourages voters to call the elections office with any questions since the ballots will not be uploaded to the county website. (Photo by Chris Filoteo) see VOTE, P. 10A see ECP, P. 10A Sheriff investigators find Bluetooth card skimmer at gas pump by Chris Filoteo Editor KARNES COUNTY – If you have pumped gas at Neal One Stop Exxon on the hill recently, check your credit card history. Karnes County Sheriff inves- tigators found a Bluetooth skim- ming device used to compromise customer credit cards Oct. 15. “We had three complaints from citizens that had their cards compromised at that store,” Karnes County Deputy Chief Robert Ebrom said. “They were targeting Exxon credit cards and not other ones. We went to A credit card skimmer was found by the Karnes County Sheriff’s Of- fice after complaints from customers at the Neal’s One Stop Exxon on the hill. (Photo by contributed by KCSO) see SKIMMER, P. 10A
