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This Week
In addition to meetings today, on Tuesday the City of Kempner will have its regular City Council meeting in the City Hall at 7pm.
Wednesday Night Live (WNL) will again be at Toupsie's Restaurant on the covered patio. This week's plans call for appearances by singers Will Carter, Brett Hendrix and Luke Robinson. All three singers are currently listed with songs in the top 100 on the Texas and Regional Radio music charts.
Summer begins for all LISD students when school lets out on Thursday at 12:30pm.
Graduation Day is Friday, with current plans calling for the Commencement ceremony to take place at Badger Field. Start time is 7:30pm with open seating, with the exception of special seating for handicapped folks inside the gate area.
If it looks like rain, the ceremony will be held at the High School Competition Gym. There, limited seating will cause each senior to receive 7 tickets for their family members and guests. Everyone must have a ticket. Overflow seating will be available in the cafeteria, where a live video feed will be seen.
Saturday is the first day of the three day Memorial Day Holiday Weekend.
Sheep & Goat Market
On Friday at the Mills Co. Commission Co. in Goldthwaite there were 1,989 head through the ring, down from the previous week’s 2,909. Light kids, slaughter nannies and medium-heavy Barbado lambs were steady to $5 higher; slaughter kids and wool lambs were $5 higher; replacement nannies were $10-$15 higher; and light Dorper lambs were $5 to $10 higher.
Wool lambs 50-70lbs brought $180-$235/cwt, 70-90lbs brought $150-$185 and 90-110lbs brought $130-$165/cwt. Slaughter ewes were $$60-$125 and bucks were $85-$125.
Dorper-Dorper Crosses
40-60lbs. $190-$250/cwt Slaughter Ewes $70-$120/cwt 60-75lbs. $175-$230/cwt Slaughter Bucks $90-$130/cwt 75-90lbs. $150-$185/cwt Replacement Ewes $150-$240/cwt
Barbado-Barbado Cross
35-50lbs. $190-$235/cwt
50-70lbs $175-$230/cwt
70-90lbs $150-$210/cwt
Boer-Spanish Cross
30-45lbs. $270-$315/cwt Slaughter Nannies $85-$220/cwt
45-60lbs. $270-$300/cwt Slaughter Billies $140-$225/cwt
60-70lbs. $240-$295/cwt
70-90lbs. $185-$265/cwt
Daily Report 5.23.16
Boys & Girls Club Fundraiser
The Annual Boys and Girls Club Fund Raiser auction and barn dance at Lee and Kathleen Blumel Hoffpauir's barn on Saturday was a huge success. The live auction and various raffles and silent auction items, along with the $100 ticket cost brought a huge amount of cash for the operation of the local Boys and Girls Club.
Total funds-raised numbers are not available yet but we heard someone say the number will go well above $100 thousand.
The local club is depended on by many working mothers of school age children, not only for affordable child care, but for help with school lessons and for sports and mentoring activities.
Buckle Up, Please!
The 15th annual Click It or Ticket Campaign starts today.
The campaign reminds Texans to buckle up every time they get in a vehicle. Buckling up saves lives, and can protect motorists from receiving a citation for not wearing a safety belt.
Lampasas Police Department will be joining forces with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) and other police departments and sheriff’s departments across Texas to save lives on Texas highways by working to increase seat belt use. From May 23 to June 5th officers with the Lampasas Police Department, along with other law enforcement agencies, are stepping up their efforts to ticket anyone who isn’t wearing a seat belt.
The Weather
High yesterday was 84° The low this morning was 71°
- Today: A 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy with a high near 85° and a south-southeast wind 10-15mph, with gusts as high as 20mph.
- Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a low around 71° and a south-southeast wind 10-15mph.
- Tuesday: Partly sunny with a high near 87° and a south-southeast wind 10-15mph, with gusts as high as 20mph.
- Rest of the Week: Warm and partly sunny on Wednesday, then rain chances increase for Thursday through Saturday.
The Blotter
- Lampasas Police responded to a total of 31 calls on Saturday.
- No accidents were reported, but there were 2 arrests made. A 41 yr old Copperas Cove man was taken into custody at 2:21pm in the 20 block of Del Norte for violation of a protective order and a 25 yr old Lampasas woman was arrested at 6:51pm in the 400 block of S Pecan St. for possession of a controlled substance and theft under $100.
- Sunday was a quiet day with no accidents and no arrests.
- Lampasas Sheriff’s Dept. blotter shows a disturbance out in the county on Saturday, along with shots fired reports in the county and in Kempner, along with 23 miscellaneous calls.
- No arrests were reported on Saturday.
- Sunday’s blotter shows 2 disturbances out in the county, along with a suspicious activity report in Kempner and 20 other miscellaneous calls.
- One arrest was made Sunday as a 49 yr old Killeen man was taken into custody for a 3rd DWI.
The Burn Ban in Lampasas County is lifted until June 12.
Monday Meetings
When Lampasas County Commissioners met in the courthouse this morning, they handled some pretty routine business. On the agenda was a request for bids on aggregate road materials and for gas and diesel to be delivered. There were to be reports from the Treasurer on Investment Policy and an employee matter on a donation of personal time from county employees to other county employees. A subdivision clarification was to be requested by a landowner, and the Central Texas Council of Governments is wanting to address some more Private Roads. We'll have the complete report in our Tuesday news.
Lampasas City Council will meet this afternoon at 5:30pm and go into executive session to discuss litigation with the Kempner Water Supply Corp. and an un-named economic development deal with a prospective business.
In a workshop that follows the group will discuss the City's Capital Improvement Program for FY 2017 thru 2021.
In regular session there is a property rezoning public hearing that would create commercial zoning on an acre of land at Mills and Brown street that is currently listed as agricultural.
Other matters include reports and discussion and possible action on architectural plans for the Old City Hall building and a resolution approving a change in ATMOS (natural gas) rates for customers in Lampasas. Among the routine items are the purchase of two Ford pickups with utility beds, a new John Deere commercial Ztrak mower, a new Kustom in-car camera/recording system and a change in internet service.