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Views From Around Town

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CJ Larremore works on a science project at the community center’s science camp for kids this week. He is testing how much water can fit on top of a penny before it rolls off. (Photo by Dalton Sweat)

 

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Powell exposes Wimberley to the world

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Cindy Powell welcomes the visitors to Wimberley. (Photo by Tom Wiley)

Tom Wiley
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Today's travelers know they can immediately access information about a destination online. For most folks, however, there's nothing like having a real person-to-person conversation with a local resident to learn about a new town. Cindy Powell is part of a team of volunteers who love to share their knowledge with guests at the Wimberley Visitor Center.
Powell made the long trek to Wimberley from Minnesota. 
“We would come down every year to see my husband's mother in Houston,” Powell said. “A friend of ours told us, 'You need to go to Wimberley.' That was about 30 years ago. And, we went to Wimberley and kept coming back.” 

 

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Auditions for the second competitive season of the Black Diamond Dance Team

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Dance team members with previous production “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” Isabelle Hodge, Genevieve Hodge, Siva Schwartz

From Staff Reports

Lee Colee’ Studios auditions for the Black Diamond Dance Team, under the artistic direction of Callie Hardman are scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 9 at 2 p.m.  Versatile dancers ages 10 and up are encouraged to try out. Candidates should dress in leotard, tights  and appropriate shoes. Hair should be clipped back off of the face. 

 

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Famous Black’s BBQ to open in San Marcos

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Kent Black poses next to his new indoor Kent Blacks’ BBQ sign at the new San Marcos location.

Candice Brusuelas
Daily Record Staff
 
Kent Black has a secret recipe, but he’s not sharing. 
“I do (have a secret recipe), but none that I could tell you about,” he tells me at Kent Black’s BBQ’s new location on Grove. “We’ve got secrets. Trademark stuff.” 
The place is still partially a dusty old warehouse that was used to store cotton, but is transforming into a first-rate barbecue joint. There’s rustic painted aluminum art on the walls, a new 17-foot pit inside, an indoor-outdoor patio bar beaming sunlight into one of the main seating areas and a new deck and handicap accessible walkway in the back.

 

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Good Sam keeps learning alive in summer

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Students from Camp Good Sam Wimberley enjoy a recent field trip to St. Edward’s University in Austin. Some 100 elementary-age students spent five weeks of the summer in enrichment programs sponsored by Good Samaritan Community Services and Wimberley ISD in an effort to combat the “summer slide” that many students experience before entering the next grade. Additional field trips included visits to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin and the EmilyAnn Theatre and Jacob’s Well Natural Area, both in Wimberley. The camp, with a Wizard of Oz theme, was headquartered at Jacob’s Well Elementary School.

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Chiapas offers exotic birds and much more

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By Jerry Hall

If you would like to see lots of exotic birds, shop for native handicrafts, visit Mayan archeological ruins and soak up the colorful culture of foreign country, you might be interested in a March 7-17 trip to Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico.
You can obtain detailed information on this region from Brock Huffman, speaker at the August 11 meeting of the Wimberley Birding Society, where his topic will be “Birds of Chiapas.” Set for 10 a.m. in the Wimberley Community Center, the presentation will cover the birds and people of San Cristobal de las Casas, situated in a scenic mountain valley at 7,300-foot elevation and surrounded by pine and oak forests.

 

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Keep Wimberley Beautiful: The Pride of Barbados

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By Jacie Mattice
 
You know summer is here when the bright orange and yellow flowers of  Pride of Barbados (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) bloom.  It will continue to bloom on through the fall until we get a frost.   All of my Prides froze to the ground last winter, but every one of them returned.  The plant I have had the longest blooms first and each year it gets bigger.  There is a lovely specimen behind the fence of the Wimberley Visitor’s Center facing the Brookshire Brother’s  parking lot.

 

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EmilyAnn host Shakespeare Under the Stars

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Caitlin Iliff, Cody Claussen, Aleah Petmecky from Shakespeare Under the Stars in 2012. (Photo by Scot Brinkley)

By Logan Giberson
Special to the View
 
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Wimberley’s Volunteer Fire Ants to play again after seven-year hiatus

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By Sue Sweat
Special to the View

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RR12 Mural finished, Mayor calls it ‘success’

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Mayor Steve Thurber and artist Sharon Carter.

By Dalton Sweat
Editor

The mural on the wall along Ranch Road 12 in front of the Senior Thrift Shop has been completed, and Wimberley Mayor Steve Thurber issued a proclamation thanking the artist Sharon Carter and Keep Wimberley Beautiful for the contributions.
“Sharon was out there in the hot sun for days and days and did a wonderful job,” Thurber said.

 

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