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Demographics: Boerne Area Chamber of Commerce; Kendall County Economic Development Corp.; Kendall County; City of Boerne; U.S. Census, Texas Comptroller’s Office

Photography: Boerne Star Staff: Elena Tucker, Frank Shubert; Boerne Area Historical Preservation SocietyHistorical Information: Boerne Area Historical Preservation Society, Col. Bettie Edmonds

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THINGS TO SEE & DO Agricultural Museum..................................53Attractions.........................................53Calendar of Events.......................14-17, 36-39Cibolo Nature Center..................................52Comfort...........................................40-42, 55Entertainment, Events...18-21, 26, 28, 46, 51Haupstrausse..............................................59Kendall Courthouses...........................24, 25Main Plaza..................................................29HISTORIC INTERESTNamesakes..................................................35Family History Place..................................47

SELF-GUIDED TOURS, MAPSDowntown walking tour.......................30-31Kendall County driving tour................44-45Portraits of the past...............................32-34ABOUT BOERNE, KENDALL COUNTYBoerne welcomes new residents, tourists..63Facts & Figures...........................................23Frequently Called; Emgncy Num...............12Schools.......................................................27Library........................................................56Churches..............................................50, 54 Senior Center.............................................49Police Department......................................49Fire Department.........................................48

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The Texas Hill Country: More than a state of mind

Welcome to the heart of the Hill Country!

Boerne is both liter-ally and fi guratively

an entryway into one of Texas’ most beautiful regions, the Texas Hill Country.

While just a couple of decades or so ago, Boerne (pronounced Bur-nee) could easily have been

considered “forgotten,” today it is a town where technology and times past enjoy equal balance.

Boerne is recognized across the United States as a desirable place to live. Listed by the U.S. Census Bureau as one of the country’s fastest growing regions, the area’s rapid expansion has meant numerous new housing subdivisions as well as

an infl ux of industry, business, and tourism.

Boerne strives to hold on to its warm, small-town origins. Oak trees still grow together in canopies above many city streets while a trip to the grocery store almost guarantees an encounter with friends and neigh-bors.

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The surrounding countryside is lush and arid, dramatic and pastoral. Streams and rivers soften the sharp-edged limestone topography. Roost-ers and goats, still raised within city limits by a few old timers, may wander about under cell phone towers that have risen within the last few years.

Established by a young group of Germans who considered them-selves classical philosophers - or Free Thinkers - Boerne originally didn’t allow churches inside the city limits. Today, however, the town is home to numerous religious congregations.

Also enormously important within the ranks of the city’s population is its volunteerism; citizens selfl essly donate countless hours not only to religious matters, but to social, edu-cational, environmental, political, and historical causes as well.

The crown jewel of Boerne’s his-tory is its quaint Main Street. Also called Hauptstrasse, it is lined by

many of the build-ings that formed the vibrant core of the county’s “city life.”

These structures, although admired by tourists, are still thought of as home by the town’s octo-genarians. “That’s the house where I grew up,” one might point out, or “there’s the hospital where I was born,” or “the dry goods store that sold us fabric for our dresses.”

And it’s not only long-timers and newcomers who are drawn to Boerne’s old structures apparently. Ghosts, it seems, are drawn to the buildings as well. For example, the lovely, ornate Joseph Dienger build-ing on Main Plaza has an offi cially certifi ed other-worldly occupant be-lieved to be the building’s original owner, Joseph Dienger himself.

Whether it’s shopping, visiting the area’s beautiful caves, explor-

ing the local nature center, enjoy-ing historically-authentic exhibits, birding, cycling, hunting, or hiking, Boerne provides the ideal blend of the urban and the rural. At one close hand is an international airport, the Alamo, the San Antonio Riverwalk, Seaworld of Texas, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, the San Antonio Zoo and numerous concert and museum venues. At the other close hand is the unique and sought-after beauty of the Texas Hill Country.


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EMERGENCY.........................................911 Crime Stoppers .............1-800-348-LEAD BOERNE: City Offices ......................... 830-249-9511 Boerne Police (non-emerg) 830-249-8645 Public Library .................... 830-249-3053 Swimming Pool ................. 830-249-3969 Community Center ............. 830-249-2811 Visitors Bureau ................... 830-249-7277BOERNE ISD: Administration ................... 830-357-2000 Boerne High School ........ 830-357-2200 Champion High School .... 830-357-2600 Middle School North ......... 830-357-3100 Middle School South ........ 830-357-3300 Curington Elementary ...... 830-357-4000 Fabra Elementary .............. 830-357-4200 Fair Oaks Ranch Elem ...... 830-357-4800 Kendall Elementary .......... 830-357-4600 Cibolo Creek Elementary ... 830-357-4400 COMFORT ISD: Administration .................... 830-995-6400 High School ....................... 830-995-6430 Middle School .................... 830-995-6420 Elementary School ............ 830-995-6410FAIR OAKS RANCH: City Offices ........................ 210-698-0900 Police Department ............. 210-698-0990KENDALL COUNTY: County offices ................... 830-249-9343 Sheriff office ..................... 830-249-9721 EMS Office ....................... 830-249-3721 Extension Agent ............... 830-249-9343 Justice of the Peace offices: Precinct 1 ......................... 830-249-9343 Precinct 2 .......................... 830-249-8404 Precinct 3 ......................... 830-249-2820 Precinct 4 (Comfort) ........... 830-995-2031 Drivers’ License office ....... 830-249-6335UTILITIES: Bandera Electric Coop ..... 830-995-2824 Boerne (elec, gas, water)... 830-249-9511 Central Texas Coop ........... 830-997-2126 Lone Star Gas .................. 830-997-2177 Pedernales Electric Coop .. 830-868-7155 SA City Public Service ..... 800-870-1006 OTHER: The Boerne Star ................ 830-249-2441 Chamber of Commerce .... 830-249-8000 Hill Country Family Srvs .... 830-249-8643 Bus Station ........................ 830-249-3233 Post Office ........................ 830-249-2414 Kendall Appraisal District .... 830-249-8012 Boerne Methodist ER.......... 830-331-3000

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April7Cibolo Nature Center’s “Mostly Native Plant” SaleApril 7, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PMHardy native trees, shrubs, vines and fl owers. All kinds of accessories to make your landscape more beautiful, comfort-able, fruitful, relaxing, enjoyable. Experts on hand to answer questions about a variety of garden-ing and conservation topics such as composting in the Texas Hill Country; bird box design, mount-ing and predator preven-tion, and wildscapes. A demonstration garden highlighting native plants that attract butterfl ies and hummingbirds. Kids Cor-ral is a fun place for kids to learn about plants and fl owers and take home some seeds to grow.

Boerne Art League Art Show & ReceptionApril 7, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ Boerne Visitors CenterHill Country Spring Art Show. The Art Show will be ongoing from April 2-26, and there will be a reception Saturday, April 7 from 10am -noon.

10 Live at the LibraryApril 10, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Boerne Public LibraryZydeco Blanco 13 Boerne Parade of ArtistsApril 13 - April 15 throughout the galleries in Boerne.A self-guided tour of the galleries and other art walls throughout Boerne. Friday evening will in-clude an art preview with

wine and hors d’oeuvres. Saturday is an all day art tour. Sunday some galler-ies will provide brunch. Sponsored by the Boerne Professional Artists As-sociation.

14 & 15 Boerne Market DaysApril 14, 10:00 AM - April 15, 5:00 PM @ Main PlazaMarket Days has become synonymous with great shopping in an outdoor setting with artists, crafts-men and vendorsshowing their creative talents and wares tothe background music of some of Texas’ best home-grown musicians.

2nd Saturday Art & WineApril 14, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Galleries and ‘Other Walls’ throughout Boerne.On Second Saturdays the galleries and “Other Walls” of Boerne host joint openings. Come out and enjoy a glass of wine and the latest off erings on the Boerne Art Scene. Park your car and take the free trolley to see the “Best Art East of Santa Fe”.

21 Boerne Wild West DayApril 21, All Day @ En-chanted Springs RanchA fun-fi lled day of family entertainment and educa-tion. Attractions include live music, cowboy roping and bull riding, pony rides, stagecoach and hayrides, a kiddie corral, a petting zoo, storytelling, gunfi ght reenactments, and much more.

Texas Corvette Associa-tion Open Car ShowApril 21, All Day @ Main PlazaOver 30 classes and hun-dreds of cars on display at the 20th Anniversary of this Car Show. Corvettes

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The Green Bullf i n e j e w e l l e r y c o u t u r eT h e U l t i m a t e E x p r e s s i o n s o f L o v e

from 1953 to the present and other fabulous sports cars will be show-cased. Lots of activities for the entire family including music, items of special interest to car enthusiasts, food vendors and more! Main Street will be closed to other vehicles from Rosewood to Blanco.

Brandon’s RevueApril 21, 5:30 PM - 11:30 PM @ Cibolo Nature CenterCome for a Texas Singer-Songwriter Showcase! This Benefi t concert is in memory of Brandon Gallagher Manning (1979-2001). The “Bran-don Fund” administered by the San Antonio Area Foundation provides fi nancial support for the Cibolo Nature Center and their Songs & Stories Concert Series each year. Bring your lawn chairs, food and beverages (small ice chests permit-ted). Food, water and sodas avail-able for purchase. FEATURING:Guy Forsyth, Susan Gibson, Matt Harlan, Art & Lisa (with John Inmon)

22Clifton Jansky ConcertApril 22, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ Kendall County Fairgrounds

235th Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser benefi tting Christian Job Corps of Kendall CountyApril 23, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM @ Fair Oaks Ranch Golf Course & Country Club 27Earth Day Drum Circle before the Movie In The ParkApril 27, All Day @ Main PlazaEarth Day Drum Circle promotes well-being through rhythmic expression using drums and percus-sion. All visitors to Main Plaza are welcomed to join in regardless of age, ability, and previous musical experience. Feel free to BYOD (Bring Your Own Drum) or other percus-sion instruments if you have them.

Movie in the Park. “The Dolphin Tale”April 27, All Day @ Main PlazaMovies start at DARK on Main Plaza & are FREE! Come out early pick your spot, get a movie snack or two and hang out and enjoy a free juggling lesson with the Boerne Gymnastics Center, moon bounce fun with the Boerne YMCA and meet some excit-

ing new exotic friends with Happy Tails Entertainment! April 27- The Dolphin Tale- PG, Earth Day Drum Circle, Co Sponsored by Natural Awakenings & Tambo Rhythms.

28The Boerne Garden Club’s Annual Plant SaleApril 28, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM @ Main PlazaThe Boerne Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale on Main Street in downtown Boerne at the gazebo on the main plaza from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Many bargains can be found in a variety of plants such as perenni-als, native plants, cacti, many succu-lents, herbs, etc. All proceeds will go to the beautifi cation of Boerne. You will be greeted by friendly members of the Garden Club who can help you with your choices of plants.

Kendall County Sesquicentennial CelebrationApril 28, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM @ Kend-all County Historic CourthouseGerman food, family fun, beer tasting, opening sesquicentennial ceremony, courtroom trial re-enact-ment, German music, book signings, historic displays, heritage passports.


Messiah Lutheran ChurchThe members of Messiah Lutheran Church invite

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Sunday Worship Opportunities We have two Services each Sunday. Our early service begins

at 8:00 am and our second service begins at 10:30 am.

Monday Worship Opportunities We also have Services on the 2nd and 4th Mondays at 7:00 pm for those who are unable to attend on Sunday.

We offer Sunday School for the children as well as opportunities for Adult Bible Study beginning at 9:15 a.m.

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May5 Hauptstrasse QuiltfestMay 5, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM @ Main Plaza and Downtown BoerneCome and enjoy all that Downtown Boerne has to off er while admiring the handy work of our quilting com-munity. Event Maps will be available in the stores Downtown. Live Music, Educational Craft Presentations, Window Display Contest, Shopping, Craft Vendors in the Plaza and more.

Boerne Volunteer Fire Depart-ment Fish FryMay 5, 4:30 PM - 10:00 PM @ Boerne Fire StationA great time will be had be all with Live Music provided by the True Texas Band. Raffl e tickets for many great prizes are $10. And Live and Silent Auctions will be held. There is a requested $10 donation for a Fried Fish Plate and drive-thru service is available for those who are unable to stay for the event.

Best of BoerneFestMay 5, 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM @ Main Plaza & the Downtown Trails

8 Live at the LibraryMay 8, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Boerne Public LibraryMariachi “L” 12 Art in the ParkMay 12, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM @ Cibolo Nature CenterA fun, family event that takes place under the oaks, on the patio and throughout the center. There are art demonstrations from Boerne artists, entertainment from local groups and hands-on art projects for the kids. Boerne Market DaysMay 12, 10:00 AM - May 13, 5:00 PM @ Main PlazaMarket Days has become synony-mous with great shopping in an outdoor setting with artists, crafts-men and vendors showing their creative talents and wares to the background music of some of Texas’ best homegrown musicians.

2nd Saturday Art & Wine

May 12, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Galleries and ‘Other Walls’ throughout BoerneOn Second Saturdays the galleries and “Other Walls” of Boerne host joint openings. Come out and enjoy a glass of wine and the latest off er-ings on the Boerne Art Scene. Park your car and take the free trolley to see the “Best Art East of Santa Fe”.

Cibolo Songs and StoriesMay 12, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM @ Cibolo Nature CenterBring a chair or blanket and a picnic. Enjoy live music under the Oak Trees at the Cibolo Nature Center.

19Family Campout at Boerne City Lake ParkMay 19 - May 20 @ Boerne City Lake ParkBoerne City Lake Park does not regularly off er camping so take advantage of this special occasion and make great memories with your family that will last forever! All families are welcome.

22The Boerne Village Band’s Abend-konzerte


May 22, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM @ Main PlazaConcerts in Main Plaza every other Tuesday evening during the sum-mer. The Boerne Village Band is the longest continuously playing Ger-man Band in the world outside of Germany! Regulars to the concerts come early to grab their favorite spot at the Plaza, to hear the ooom pah pah of their favorite tunes and watch the kids do the chicken dance! Concert goers bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnics.

25Movie in the Park. Puss in BootsMay 25, All Day @ Main PlazaMovies start at DARK on Main Plaza & are FREE! Come out early pick your spot, get a movie snack or two and hang out and enjoy a free juggling lesson with the Boerne Gymnastics Center, moon bounce fun with the Boerne YMCA and meet some excit-ing new exotic friends with Happy Tails Entertainment! May 25- Puss in Boots- PG

26Boerne Concert BandMay 26, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM @ Main

PlazaCome early, bring your lawn chair or a blanket and hang out. This group of volunteer musicians is proud to present a wide variety of music to entertain audiences of all ages. If you love live musical entertainment, please join us for an evening of musical enchantment.

Cibolo Songs and StoriesMay 26, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM @ Cibolo Nature CenterBring a chair or blanket and a picnic. Enjoy live music under the Oak Trees at the Cibolo Nature Center.

June2Child/Adult Team Fishing at

Boerne City Lake ParkJune 2, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ Boerne City Lake ParkThis is the perfect opportunity to introduce a child to the skill of fi sh-ing! Register your team in advance with Boerne Parks & Recreation. Free fi shing pole to the fi rst 100 regis-

tered youth team members to arrive at the event. The fi rst Saturday of June is the Texas Parks & Wildlife Fish without a license day so adult team members will not need to have a license to participate. A limited number of poles & gear are available to check out if you need them. Each Team must have one child and one adult. Register online. Forms can be faxed to 830-331-9652 or dropped off at 1017 Adler Rd http://www.ci.boerne.tx.us/index.aspx?NID=629 for more information and to down-load a registration form.

5The Boerne Village Band’s Abend-konzerteJune 5, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM @ Main PlazaConcerts in Main Plaza every other Tuesday evening during the sum-mer. The Boerne Village Band is the longest continuously playing Ger-man Band in the world outside of Germany! Regulars to the concerts come early to grab their favorite spot at the Plaza, to hear the ooom pah pah of their favorite tunes and watch the kids do the

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Since its incep-tion as an ice

cream social in 1967, Berges Fest is a Fathers Day weekend tradition in Boerne - and an anticipated Hill Country event celebrating the area’s German heritage.

Each year, the fes-tival has grown and attracted thousands of visitors to Boerne. This year’s Berges Fest, scheduled June 15-17, is destined to carry on the tradition of great German food and folklore.

Officers and direc-tors gathered with Chamber of Com-merce members for a ribbon cutting cere-mony in April kicking

off pre-festival events, including a tail gate cook-off fund raiser.

On Friday eve-ning, June 15, the Berges Fest Pageant opens the weekend’s festivities with the crowing of a new court, including young ladies from elementary through high school - as well as a Little Mr. Berges Fest - all model-ing folk costumes featuring dirndls and lederhosen. The Boerne Village Band, the oldest continuing German heritage band outside of Germany, performs for the pag-eant annually.

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will be featured in the Berges Fest parade at 10 a.m. Saturday. The huge parade through the historic district is another popular festival attraction with entries ranging from historic marching groups

and antique tractors to musical groups and clowns.

Activities settle on Main Plaza for the rest of the weekend for scheduled events. games, carni-val rides, contests, tractor races,

concessions, dances, the famous Dachshund races and a musical entertainment line-up that’s sec-ond to none.

With a wide variety of bed and breakfast inns, historic and modern hotels, plus excellent restaurants and a unique shop-ping venue, Boerne is always a busy place on summer weekends - but Fathers Day weekend is the best time for visitors and tour-ists to experience the best of Hill Country hospitality. For more information go to bergesfest.com.

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Each Labor Day weekend, the Kendall County Fair supplies home grown fun in a Carnival, Rodeo and Livestock Show as well as Home-stead Heritage Exhibits. It also supplies multitudes of food booths, craft booths, live music, clowns, children’s activities and much more. Each evening is capped with a

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The Kendall County Fair Association pro-duces the Annual Labor Day Kendall County Fair, Stock Show and Rodeo. For over 100 years the Kendall County Fair Associa-tion, as a nonprofit agency, has maintained its agricultural mission for Kendall County and the greater Texas Hill Country.

At the gate to the beautiful Texas Hill Country, a vibrant rural community where agricultural industries are encouraged, agricultural education is promoted and where agriculture, horticulture and live stock manage-ment are flourishing, the Kendall County Fair Association works hard to maintain the agricultural

traditions, enhance agricultural education and encourage rural development both now and into the future.

The Ferdinand Ludwig Von Herff family deeded 56 acres of land to the KCFA to be used for its annual county fair and to erect buildings for the event and for public use.

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• BOERNE ISD TRUSTEES6:30 p.m. third Monday, BISD boardroom123 W. Johns Road, Boerne

• COMFORT ISD TRUSTEES7 p.m. second Monday in the board offices 327 High St., Comfort

• COW CREEK GROUNDWATERCONSERVATION DISTRICTsecond Monday at the Kendall County Courthouse204 E. San Antonio, Boerne

Kendall Countyby the numbers:• 33,410 - 2010 Census population• 10,471 - Population of Boerne• $50,495 - Average per capita income.• 662.5 - Land area, square miles• 14,055 - 2010 Housing units• 30 - Miles from San Antonio on I-10• 1500 feet - Mean elevation• 40 - Average inches of rainfall per year

• Median age - 44.1 • Persons per household - 2.57

STATE, FEDERAL REPRESENTATION:• 21st U.S. Congressional District• 25th Texas Senatorial District• 73rd Texas House District• 216th Judicial District


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Kendall County recently rededicated the historic courthouse following extensive renovations,

adding another jewel to the area’s historic attractions.

The Historic Kendall County Courthouse and the adjacent historic jail became Recorded Texas Historical Landmarks (RTHL) in 1970. Both were individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and designated as State Archaeo-logical Landmarks in 1981.

After many years of research, master plan work and applying for grants, the Kendall County Historical Commission was successful in obtaining a $1.2 million historic preservation grant in 2008 when the project was accepted by the Texas Historical Commission’s Historic Courthouse Preservation Program. Construction was completed and the building rededicated in the spring of 2010.

The courthouse was built in 1870 when the county contracted with J.F. Stendebach to construct a one-story courthouse designed by Philip

Zoeller. In 1885, a second story with a gallery was added. Charles Buckel was the builder. In 1909, a two-story addition designed by Alfred Giles was constructed by E.H. Clemens.

The restoration brings the court-house back to its 1909 appearance. To go back further would mean tak-ing the second story off since it was

not original to the courthouse.MJ Boyle Contractors of San

Antonio started construction work on May 18, 2009 and the work was

completed in April 2010, according to Barry Wagner of Wagner and Klein Architects & Preservation Consultants of Fredericksburg.

“In this major phase of restoration there was work on the windows, doors, roof and exterior masonry but the majority of the work was on the interior,” he said. “New mechanical, electrical and plumbing, along with a new fi re alarm and sprinkler system and a new elevator. In-terior fi nishes were restored.”

Some county offi ces are lo-cated in the historic courthouse and the courtroom is available for use by both the courts and for other func-tions. Visitors strolling through the downtown area may enjoy the newly polished exterior and grounds of the old building that sits across from the “new” courthouse.

Two courthouses refl ect county heritage


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The spacious limestone building in downtown Boerne serves as the official seat of county government. It was built in a style to reflect the classic Hill Country look embodied

by the historic courthouse across the street that still remains in use on a daily basis.

Inside the new court-house are most county offices, such as the county clerk, county attorney, county auditor and county tax assessor-collector, as well as the dis-trict courtroom, district offices and the district clerk.

Also located on courthouse square in the center of downtown Boerne are the old jail and the old commissary building, both of which served as office and storage space following their original pur-poses. Old and new coexist in har-mony in the county seat of Kendall County.


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The 150th anniversary of the formation of Kendall County in 1862 kicks off April 28 with several events planned at the

historic Kendall County Courthouse and old jail.

A four-member steering committee appointed in January started work on the project that will continue through December.

Th e four members — chairman Ron Cisneros, Paul Barwick, Mike DeLeeuw and Bryden Moon Jr. — are members of the Kendall County Historical Commis-sion.

Activities planned April 28 include the opening ceremony and proclamation, starting at 10 a.m., tours of the historic courthouse and jail, displays and history behind artifacts, German food and music, beer tasting, book signings by authors of 20 books about Kendall County and a 25- to 30-minute re-enactment of the Edward Degener treason trial in 1862 at the courthouse.

Barwick said they expect 500 to 1,000 people to attend the opening ceremonies and at least 50 organizations are taking part in the event in some form or fashion.

“We have a broad community support

base,” he said. Th e celebration will continue through-

out the year thanks to a Heritage Passport tour available through December at vari-ous historical sites in the county.

“Th is will give residents an oppor-tunity to visit historical places in the county,” Cisneros said. “Th ey will get their passport book stamped when they visit those places. At the end of the year, if they have their passport complete, they will be eligible to win a grand prize.

“Even those who don’t complete the book will have a chance to win prizes.”

Cisneros said the concept of the passport book is to get people out into the community and to have newcomers become aware of what is in the county and the events that take place here.”

De Leeuw said “some residents have never been to other parts of the county and are not familiar with businesses that are out there.”

Moon said the passport tour will cover two sites in Boerne, two in Comfort, Sisterdale, Bergheim-Kendalia, Waring-Welfare, historic trails and the railroad bridge crossing the Guadalupe River.

Cisneros said communities countywide will organize and schedule their own

events through December as part of the passport tour.

“Th is is a way for people to have fun learning about our county’s history such as the railroad bridge and tunnel at Alamo Springs,” he said.

Events are scheduled May 5 in Boerne include the Hauptstrasse Quiltfest on Main Street and passport events at Herff Farm and the Agricultural Heritage Museum.

Th e Treue Der Union Monument dedi-cation will be held Aug. 10 Comfort and Comfort walking tours Oct. 6. Bergheim and Kendalia events are planned for Dec. 8.

Kendall County Celebrates 150 Years

The Kendall County 150th anniversary steering committee talks over plans for the April 28 opening

ceremonies at the historic county courthouse and jail. From left are Paul Barwick, Mike De Leeuw, Bryden

Moon Jr. and chairman Ron Cisneros.


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Curington Elementary, grades kindergarten through sixth, 601 Adler Rd., 830-357-4000

Cibolo Creek Elementary, grades kindergarten through sixth, 300 Herff Ranch Rd., 830-357-4400

Kendall Elementary, grades kin-dergarten through sixth, 141 Old San Antonio Rd, 830-357-4600

Boerne Middle School North, grades seven through nine, 240 Johns Rd., 830-357-5200

Boerne Middle School South, grades seven through nine, 240 Johns Rd., 830-357-3300

Boerne Samuel V. Champion High School, grades 10 through 12, 201 Charger Blvd., 830-357-2600

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Bracken Christian School: non-denominational Christian school, kinder through 12th. Old Boerne Rd., Bulverde. (830) 438-3211; www.brackenchristian.com.

Vanguard Christian Institute: Abeka Christian academy for stu-dents kinder to 12th. Near Welfare. (830) 537-5244; www.vanguard-

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cal Christian education, K-12, 113 Cascade Caverns Rd., Boerne, 830-755-6101; www.genevaschool.org.

Hill Country Montessori: 18 months-12 years, 50 Stone Wall Dri., Boerne, 830-229-5377; www.hcmon-tessori.org.

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This festival is free and will capture the imagination of both visitors and a broad range of hill country residents as it explores the synergy of Boerne’s culture, community and commerce.

Imagine the fl ickering lights of a string of bonfi res refl ected in the rippling water of the Cibolo Creek, and the aromatic wisps of smoke rising from the burning wood drifting through the evening skies. Guests will meander along the newly completed Heart of Boerne Trail.

In the midst of this dramatic setting, you will experience live music by world famous Donald Braswell and other local performing artists. You’ll witness Boerne’s heart while viewing the inspired creation of sculpture and paintings in the open air. See presentations by local busi-nesses in the huge tent at the trailhead and along the path beside the creek that connects both festival performance stages. Savor locally prepared food for sale by some of the area’s best restau-rants and caterers.

Many retailers and restaurateurs along the Hill Country Mile in downtown Boerne will be open, inviting everyone to enjoy an early spring Saturday night strolling.

Another stop might be the Chalk Art Garden adjacent to the Business Show-case where families can stop and make their mark on this inaugural event.

One highlight of the evening will surely be the dramatic lighting of the creek and the dedication of the Heart of Boerne Trail, commemorating the completion of yet another signifi cant community amenity that will be the talk of the Hill Country.

Finally, you’ll sing along while dancing to the beat of a popular local band, the Court Jesters who will perform free from 8 to 10 p.m. on Main Plaza.

Hauptstrasse QuiltfestSaturday, May 5, 10 am – 3 pmCome and enjoy all that Downtown

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In the heart of Boerne is Main Plaza, the home for festivals, school pep rallies and celebrations of all kinds.

The city has committed to making the space welcoming and functional. The focal point is a large gazebo serving as a grandstand for rallies and a band-stand for concerts by various bands. The Boerne Village Band continues to perform at the plaza as it did over a century ago. New memories are made each year as young people gather there for con-certs and when families shop at the monthly market days or just relax for picnic.

Providing a transition from busy Main Street to the more peaceful Main Plaza is a unique water gar-den adding the soothing splash of water.

In addition to being a popular gathering spot, the plaza serves as a peaceful place tempting passersby to stop and relax.

The center of the plaza is landscaped to provide open green space for the various activities that take place there, ranging from concerts and rallies to homecom-

ing pep rallies and family fun festivals – including the premier Hill Country event, Berges Fest.

At various times throughout the year, car shows sponsored by various owner groups call the plaza home, from street rods and classic Corvettes to racy “muscle” cars and VW Beatles. Corvettes, Dune Bug-

gies, MGs and motorcycles all have their days to shine.

The annual series of Tuesday Abendkonzerte – summer

musical concerts are held on the plaza.

Abendkonzerte trans-lates simply as “evening concerts” in English, but in any language, it means fun. The music starts at dusk and show-

cases the historic Boerne Village Band. The plaza is bounded by

historic structures on three sides. To the north is Ye Kendall

Inn and the Joseph Dienger building – both on the registry of National Historic Landmarks. Both are also reported to be residences for ghosts and featured on a Discover Channel television series. Boerne’s first waterworks is to the west and to the south is the historic Carstanjan building.

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Historic Scenic Driving And Walking Tour Of Boerne

* Denotes building is a Texas Historic Landmark

1. MAIN PLAZA - A famous meet-ing place since the early days and often the site of festivals, fun.

2. YE KENDALL INN* - 128 W. BLANCO. Built as a home in 1859. Later expanded as a hotel and stage stop.

3. DIENGER BUILDING* (1884) - 210 N. MAIN. Has been a grocery store, residence, restaurant and office. Now home to the Boerne Public Library.

4. ST. HELENA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH* (1881) - 410 N. MAIN. Original church built on this site by English settlers; replaced with this love-ly Gothic church in 1929.

5. HAGEMANN-McGINNIS HOUSE (1890) - 508 N. MAIN. Originally three rooms and basement. Interesting additions enhance early theme.

6. BESELER-HARZ HOUSE* (1905) - 518 N. MAIN. Built by Max Beseler as a home with locally quarried limestone. Note lovely curved porch.

7. A.S. TOEPPERWEIN-WILCOX HOME (1894) - 612 N. MAIN. A.S. was "Ring Tail Rino,” a master craftsman. Note unusual spiral turret and porch.

7. LEESCH-HARZ HOUSE (1907) - 712 N. MAIN. 1.5 Story Victorian-style house built by Henry Clemens for Louis Leesch, a decendant of early German settlers. Large, wrap-around porch with pressed tin and gin-gerbread trim.

7a. HISTORIC BOERNE CEMETERY (1867) - ADVOGT & SCHOOL STREETS. Many early pio-neers are buried here including George Wilkins Kendall. The first burials were of a family scalped by the Indians. Well cared for by the city and the Boerne Cemetery Foundation.

8. FOOTE-HAWKINS HOUSE (1879) - 717 N. MAIN. Built by Avery Foote, an undertaker who died of small-pox. Note unusually steep roof and the two windows at staggered height.

9. KUHFUSS-SCHWEPPE HOUSE (1865) - 512 N. MAIN. Built by William Kuhfuss. Used as court-house and clerk's office in early county days.

10. LUCKENBACH HOUSE (1860) - 265 N. MAIN. Originally a log cabin expanded on two levels. Recently restored.

11a. HISTORIC KENDALL COUNTY COURTHOUSE (1870) - 204 E. SAN ANTONIO. Second oldest Texas courthouse in continuous use.

The front portion, designed by Alfred Giles was added in 1909. Renovated in 1999 for county use when the new courthouse was built.

11b. NEW KENDALL COUNTY COURTHOUSE (1999) - 210 E. SAN ANTONIO. New 42,000 sq. ft. building houses official county offices with state-of-the-art facilities.

12a. KUHLMANN-KING HISTORICAL HOUSE* (1885) - 402 E. BLANCO. Built for Wm. Kuhlmann, a German immigrant and later owned by Salina King from England. The house and kitchen are operated by the Historical Society and open Sundays 1 to 4 pm for tours.

12b. HENRY J. GRAHAM BUILDING* (1891) - 402 E. BLANCO. Originally a bank and has been moved several time with different uses. Now is a museum and open with the Kuhlmann-King House.

13a. BOERNE CITY HALL* (1910) - 402 E. BLANCO. Originally Boerne High School, designed by Alfred Giles. Now city offices and utili-ties building.

13b. OLD BOERNE PUBLIC SCHOOL* (1870) - 402 E. BLANCO. The first Boerne public school. Restored, now City Hall annex. Displays of old school memorabilia.

14. PHILLIP-MASSEY HOUSE* (1900) - 116 N. PLANT. Built by Julius Phillip and has stayed in the same fam-ily for 100 years. Unusual vertical clap-board construction.

15. FABRA SMOKEHOUSE* (1887) - 200 BLOCK S. MAIN.Was part of the Fabra Grocery and Butcher Shop. Incorporated into the architecture of the big building to preserve it.

16. OLD CITIZEN'S STATE BANK (1880) - 210 N. MAIN. Note architectural columns and arches, unusual for this area. Now used for commercial businesses.

17. THEIS HOUSE* (1858) - 100 BLOCK NEWTON. One of the oldest structures in town. Of rare palisades construction. Was home to the Theis family with blacksmith shop in front. Restored by Ruby and Edgar Bergmann.

18. WENDLER-HOUSTON HOUSE (1860) - 303 S. MAIN. Built by Henry Wendler, a cabinet maker and early Boerne businessman.

19. KRAUSE BLDG AND ORT'S SALOON (1900) - 259 S. MAIN. Was residence for the Frank Krause family, a store and saloon. Now a part of Olde Towne and home to the Tall Pony.

19a. OLDE TOWNE - 265 S. MAIN. A collection of old, original historic buildings, including Alte Stadt Mall, now a shopping complex with quaint one-of-a-kind shops.

BOERNE CHAMBER OF COM-MERCE - 126 E. ROSE WOOD. Be sure to stop in for the most current information.

20. SCHRADER-HARTMAN HOUSE (1890) - 115 E. JAMES. Has been in the same family since it was built. Note unusual porch and wood-work.

21. LUCKENBACH-ASHER HOUSE (1894) - 118 E. JAMES. This house and the next door, LUCKENBACH-MITCHELL HOUSE, are two of the oldest German pioneer limestone homes in Boerne, built by Julius Luckenbach.

22. VOGT-CLEGG CABINS* (1876) - 221 S. PLANT. The only dog-trot type construction in town, these started as one log cabin and were expanded. Restored in excellent condi-tion.

23. EBENSBERGER-FISHER FUNERAL HOME (1882) - 111 ROSEWOOD. Oldest continuously operating business in Boerne. One of only two Art Deco buildings in town.

24. ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH (1929) - 217 E. ROSEWOOD. Original church dates to 1829 with this and other expansions. Unique interior.

25. PAUL HOLEKAMP HOUSE (1906) - 507 E. JAMES. Pioneer family home. Excellent example of Victorian architecture, built by Ed Clemens of cream brick, rare in area.

26. CLEMENS/HEATH HOUSE (1909) - 608 E. THEISSEN. Built by Ed Clemens with rare cream brick. Note large, rounded porch.

27. DAVIS-KIDWELL HOUSE (1910) - 228 E. THEISSEN. Was in Davis family for many years. Was moved to 324 Hickman and restored to make way for church expansion.

28. KUTZER HOUSE* (1890) - 208 E. THEISSEN. Has been greatly altered with added porch and room. Now used as Methodist parsonage.

29. GOTTLIEB WEISS HOUSE (1887) - 106 E. THEISSEN. Mr. Weiss was a German pioneer blacksmith with his shop in the back. Was in the same family for over 100 years. Now com-mercial.

30. JOE VOGT BUILDING (1912) - 401 S. MAIN. Originally a grocery and dry goods store. Now a bakery.

31. PEACH TREE COUNTRY KITCHEN (1900) - 448 S. MAIN. Note this is one of three Victorian house built in a row by Ed Clemens. All had picket fences, some of which have been restored.

32. VOGT-RICHTER HOUSE (1914) - 124 PECAN. Another Ed Clemens house with Victorian porch and columns. Note trees, unusual for

It’s the best way to see Boerne’s notable homes & buildings up closeWALK HISTORIC BOERNE


the area.33. BELL-URBAN HOUSE

(1895) - 312 RIVER RD. This was moved in and little is known of origin. Tastefully restored, it is now commer-cial.

34. DIETERT HOUSE (1850s) - 604 RIVER RD. Early pioneer home of Wm. Dietert who had the first business in Boerne; a mill where the dam is located across the street.. Very interest-ing house and history. Now commer-cial.

35. EBENSBERGER-MURPHY HOUSE (1925) - 136 COTTONWOOD. A unique design for this area; made of hollow brick with white stucco cover.

36. EBENSBERGER-THOMPSON HOUSE (1914) - 116 COTTONWOOD. An Ed Clemens house built for Pat Ebensberger before 136 Cottonwood was built.

37a. AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM (1986) - on PARK RD. An out-growth of the 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial in Kendall County, it is a working museum that preserves examples of early farming & ranching. See blacksmith and carpentry shop, smokehouse and the pioneer house, built by volunteers on the prop-erty.

37b. CIBOLO NATURE CEN-TER (1988) - S. CITY PARK RD. A 70-acre wilderness preserved the

way it looked to pioneers in 1840s; four distinct trails of marsh, prairie, cypress creek bottom and upland woods; gift shop and casts of Dinosaur tracks found in Boerne after flood of 1998.

38. PHILLIP MANOR (1860) - 706 S. MAIN. Started as a house and grew into a hotel. Note winding stair-case and antiques inside.

39. KIDWELL HOUSE (1879) - 714 S. MAIN. Was originally a grocery store and renovated in 1950 as a residence. Note rough limestone exterior.

40. ST. PETER THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCHES - The little church on the right was built in 1866 by George W. Kendall for his French wife.* The 1923 church was enlarged after saving most of the original struc-ture which was built by parishioners with rocks from their ranches; designed after Mission Concepción in San Antonio.

41. KRONKOSKY TOWER (1911) - HIGHLAND DR. Built by Albert Kronkosky as part of his estate, now the property of the Benedictine Sisters. The best view in town.

42. BENEDICTINE CONVENT (1933) - On Highland Drive property. Served as the Mother house for many years; a school, St. Albert’s Hall is operated by nuns who have made pool facilities available to senior citizens.

43. SCHWARZ-OPPERMANN

HOUSE (1860) - 911 S. MAIN. Early family home in the “Sunday House” style with outside stairs. Has been restored and used as a bed and break-fast.

44. DAVIS PIONEER HOME (1860) - 103 KRONKOSKY. “Sunday House” restored by Harry Davis fami-ly.

45. AMMANN-DAVIS-NICCUM HOUSE (1905) - 207 S. LANDA. Restored by the Niccums to its original exterior. Note unusual side door on right.

46. VETERAN’S PARK (1923) - Monument erected by the Graham fam-ily to honor all local men who died in military action defending the United States. Sculpture representing the dif-ferent services was later done by J Hester, local artist.

47. CARSTANJEN HOME-EL CHAPARRAL (1872) - 705 S. MAIN. Also known as the Hall Mansion, it was once used as an annex to Phillip Manor Hotel in the early days. Now a restaurant.

48. ROBERT E. LEE HOUSE* (1860) - 525 S. MAIN. It is said that General Lee stayed here on his way to Ft. Sam Houston from Camp Verde. It was part of the O’Grady Inn, operating before the Civil War.

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If the lacy lines of ink on Bettie Edmonds’ draw-ings could be measured, they might just outstretch the distances she’s traveled along Kendall County roads - miles she’s driven in search of buildings to draw.

Edmonds is more than just a prolific artist. She’s also a meticulous archivist of Boerne’s past and has also put a definitive thumbprint on the area’s future.

She is also the author, artist and historian responsible for the Historic Walking Tour feature and map published in Gateway to the Hill Country.

The importance of her work is underscored in remarks by Joe Mills, director of the national architectural pro-gram “Communities by Design” and one of the American Institute of Architects’ 2008 Boerne RUDAT experts.

“Artistic contributions like hers can capture community

identity and build pride of place for generations,” he said of Edmonds’ drawings and archival work. Access to such unique drawings, Mills added, provides a crucial orienta-tion for the town as it confronts future change.

Of course when Edmonds moved to the area, develop-ment hadn’t much scratched the countryside’s limestone surface. She retired from the Air Force at the rank of colonel in 1974, when she became a true Hill Country devotee.

“I just fell in love with Boerne,” Edmonds said. She’d been in San Antonio for a while after living all over the world - her last post requiring that she manage global assignments for the Air Force’s 5,000 nurses.

Her original Kendall County home was in Bergheim where Edmonds connected with the old Bergheim Store and the hamlet’s “Aunt” Helen Marquardt.

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“We were always ‘meine freundes,’” Edmonds recalled. “We were friends. She took me all around and got me through the gates to places I couldn’t have otherwise gone,” she explained.

“We took pictures and I got to meet everybody. They let me draw their homes and their old buildings; I did Bergheim and everything around there, the church up at Honey Creek – I just got to do all kinds of things.”

On the cream-toned paper of those first rural drawings, Edmonds began to unconsciously assume a role of local history curator.

Although Edmonds lived in Bergheim for 13 years, most of that time was spent going back and forth to Boerne, so she eventually “moved into town.” Impracti-cal not to do so, she says, given her heavy, time-intensive involvement with local groups.

Throughout the years Edmonds has served on numer-ous Kendall County organizations, including the county’s Historical Commission, the Boerne Area Historical Preservation Society, the Cemetery Foundation, the Boerne Area Art League, Hill Country Women In Business, the Boerne Concert Band and the Con-vention & Visitors Bureau advisory board.

These volunteer positions didn’t stop Edmonds from shorter-term projects too. For example, she was on hand when RUDAT, a planning effort aimed at preserving Boerne’s character and history, took place. And, when UTSA carried out a survey of Boerne’s older structures, Edmonds’ work was used extensively as well.

While these “urban” endeavors focus primarily on Main Street and its peripheries, Edmonds has done much more. According to the artist, many of the

county’s treasures, hidden in the countryside, are being lost to the gradual drifts of memory and time.

“Oh, back in the hills - there are all kinds of buildings back there,” Edmonds exclaimed, “old sheds and old farmhouses, things that are now gone. And that, I think, is where my work is so important.”

If J.J. Audubon had a regional, architectural counter-part, it might arguably be Edmonds. Rather than fowl, Edmonds is enamored of structures - and not merely the construction alone, but their “spirits” too. She believes there’s more to buildings than just foundation and wall and rafter.

“They’re alive,” the artist said. “If buildings could just talk…so much has happened within these buildings. They were there when all this happened, the people who built them had families in them and died there.”

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Edmonds has made it her mission to articulate what lumber and limestone can’t say for themselves. At times, that has been a heartbreaking job.

“Back in the 1980s somebody called me and said, ‘Bet-tie, you’d better get down there. They’re tearing down the Lavallee House’ (also known as Lavalle, the house stood close to what’s now the county courthouse).”

“I got there just in time to watch them bulldoze that house down. It was the oldest house in town,” she said, still sorrowful almost three decades later. “It was made into rubble for the sake of two and a half parking spaces. That hurt. It really did. These buildings are like people to me. They’re family.”

Her intimate connection with old structures convinced Edmonds that key buildings needed Historical Marker status. She tackled applica-tions and red tape, and as a result, 19 historical marker plaques were eventu-ally placed on buildings within Boerne and 10 more marked structures in outlying areas.

Although the designation used to imply protection for a structure, Edmonds now carries the weight of knowing that such safeguards no longer hold true.

“It used to be that if you did something wrong to a house you could be fined up to a $1,000 a day by the His-torical Commission in Austin,” Edmonds said. “Now the

thing to do is to be on the National Register of Historic Places. That is the protection. Only the Dienger Building and the old Courthouse are on the National Register.”

To the end of protecting her cherished buildings, Edmonds has particularly enjoyed the friendship and alliance she’s found in Boerne’s senior city planner, Paul Barwick - and that appreciation is obviously shared.

“There is no telling the full extent of the impact she has made, reminding us of our heritage,” Barwick said of the artist. “This community is indeed fortunate to have such a preservation patroness.”

These days the “patroness” laughs dismissively about having “retired” in 1974, saying she’s once again being forced to consider what she’ll do “when I retire.” Having worked so many thousands of volunteer hours in the Historical Research area of the Boerne Public Library, part of that process means passing her knowledge and work on to others.

While discussing these efforts, Edmonds reveals the extent of her artistic immersion in Boerne’s history.

“I’ve always had this in me, I sup-pose, but it just evolved and evolved

and evolved,” Edmonds said. “It just took over my life.” She adds contentedly, “I found my niche. You give me an old building that I want to draw - you can’t stop me.”

Boerne architect and Historical Landmark Com-missioner Ben Adam refers to Edmonds’ energies as “tireless” and Edmonds bears that out. Her art and history

avocations have resulted in an astonishing yield: approximately 800 of the county’s historic buildings have been carefully chroni-cled in pen and ink.

Now, whatever the future brings to Kendall County, the artist knows she’s done what she can – to the best of her dedicated talents, she has preserved the architec-tural history of the region.

“Just like the Lavallee House that was torn down,” Edmonds said, remember-ing the painful day, “I got it. It’s saved.”

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In 1862, a new county was formed from parts of Bexar, Blanco and Comal counties. At

the request of the residents, the Texas legislature ordered that it be named Kendall County in honor of a prominent member of the Hill Country community - George Wilkins Kendall.

Kendall (1809-1867) was born Aug. 22, 1809, at Mount Vernon, New Hampshire. While still a boy, he learned the printer’s trade with Horace Greeley and that became his means of livelihood. In January 1837, he co-founded the New Orleans Picayune. His fi rst sight of Texas, in 1841, began an everlasting love and admiration for what became his adopted state. In 1846, when war was declared between the U.S. and Mexico, he became the fi rst war correspondent to send dispatches from the front by Pony Express.

Kendall developed innovations in sheep raising that are in use today. He raised fi ne merinos from the Rambouil-let Estates in France, which he bred with his Mexican churro ewes from Texas. This produced fi ne-fl eeced

sheep, timed carefully so that lambing would occur in April during safe weather. He invented the dipping vat, still in use today, to combat scab and other diseases, and a method of baling wool. In Boerne, there stand

two reminders of Kendall’s legacy. One is the old St. Peter

Catholic Church that he had built for his wife, Adeline Suzanne de Val-court. The other is his tombstone in the Boerne Cemetery remembering him as “eminent in all.”

Boerne is named for Ludwig Börne (1786-1837) a German writer who espoused the cause of freedom in his native land. When he began to develop a hatred against the prohi-bitions of government in Germany, Börne gave up the study of medicine and turned to political science. Anger against tyranny and bad government became the ruling passion of his life. He became the first German journalist whose writing almost

exclusively criticized the political order in Germany.

Ludwig was to inspire troves of young men to leave Germany in the late 1840s and seek a new life in the New World. At the universities of Giessen and Heidelberg, a group of students organized themselves under the leadership of Gustav Schleicher, later a U.S. Congressman from Texas, and Dr. Ferdinand von Herff into a society called “The Forty” and emi-grated to Texas with the Adelsverein. Several of the more resolute members of the society founded the town of Boerne, the anglicized spelling of Börne, at a place first called

“Tusculum.” Gustav Theissen, who bought the property from them

to form a new town, was a great admirer of Börne and named the site in his honor.

Boerne...it rhymes with Journey. Although Ludwig Börne’s name was spelled with just the one “E” at the end, when his name was

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15-17Boerne Berges FestJune 15, 5:00 PM - June 16, 1:00 AM, June 16, 10:00 AM - June 17, 2:00 AM, June 17, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM @ Downtown BoerneBerges Fest has it all, a pa-rade, a dance, a carnival, a queens contest, a weenie dog race, a watermelon eating contest, an egg toss, live music, games, many vendors selling good food and lots of cold beverages.

16Boerne Berges Fest ParadeJune 16, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM @ Downtown BoerneThe Parade will start at 10am on North Main and go to River Road. There will be over a hundred entries.

19The Boerne Village Band’s AbendkonzerteJune 19, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM @ Main PlazaConcerts in Main Plaza every other Tuesday eve-ning during the summer. The Boerne Village Band is the longest continu-ously playing German Band in the world outside of Germany! Regulars to the concerts come early to grab their favorite spot at the Plaza, to hear the ooom pah pah of their favorite tunes and watch the kids do the chicken dance! Concert goers bring lawn chairs, blan-kets and picnics.

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28Cibolo Songs and StoriesJuly 28, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM @ Cibolo Nature CenterBring a chair or blanket and a picnic. Enjoy live music under the Oak Trees at the Cibolo Nature Center.

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The survey laying out 301 town lots completed by Ernst Altgelt on Sept. 3, 1854 continues to outline

the unique community of Comfort, nestled in a pastoral Hill Country valley just minutes from Boerne, Kerrville, Fredericksburg and San Antonio.

It’s a popular get-away with many top-quality bed and breakfast inns, RV parks, wineries, restau-rants, antique and specialty shops and other attractions.

When Kerr County was separated from Bexar County in 1856, Comfort was the county seat. When Kendall County was formed in 1862 from parts of Kerr and Blanco Counties in answer to a petition from residents of Boerne and Sisterdale, Boerne became the county seat and Comfort remained part of Kendall county.

The town grew but it was never incorporated. Many of the original homes built by the pioneer settlers are still occupied by their descen-dants. Some are featured on the Heritage Foundation’s Tour of

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The Comfort School District was the first formed in Kendall County. The first school building was con-structed in 1856. As the community has grown, the Comfort ISD now has enrollment of about 1,200 stu-dents in pre-kindergarten through high school. The school campuses have expanded and a new high school on Hwy. 87 near the football stadium serves as a hub of activity for the community.

Among the attractions downtown is the Comfort Public Library, located in the historic Arno Schwethelm Memorial Building at 701 High Street. Formed in 1956 with a collection of 3,000 books

The past reflected in a window of the Comfort Historical Museum, housed in a 1908 bank building

A get-awaysteeped in history

from a community-wide book drive, the library was previously housed in various locations, includ-ing Zimmerman Studio, located in the Comfort Theater; Hunter’s Casa de Cazador, now called the Gast House Inn, or Meyer Bed and Breakfast; Stieler Motors, presently Comfort Cable Building; and even-tually the Old Bank Building in 1961. In 1981, on the 25th anniver-sary celebration of the library, the board of trustees accepted the gift of the Arno Schwethelm Memorial Building and the challenge of reno-vating the building for use as a library. In 2000 the building was renovated to accommodate growth and change. Today, the library’s updated collection of books, which includes an excellent selection of local history, is supplemented with online features and access. The annual Taste of Comfort benefit for the library supported by local res-taurants is among the community’s most popular events.

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ible, one of Texas’ better known resorts in late 1890’s (left)5.5 Peaceful Habitations Rose Gardens, 37 Seewald Rd.7.6 Wasp Creek7.9 Wasp Creek School - original part still present, but

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Register as Historical District11.1 Guadalupe River11.9 Intersection of FM 473 (right)12.1 East Sister Creek12.2 Sisterdale - First known as Zink’s Settlement,

named for Nicholas Zink who settled in 184712.3 Sister Creek Winery (left) 12.5 Lohrbeer House* - Built in 1897 (left)12.6 Old Dance Hall (left)12.7 Old school house (right)12.9 Cemetery (right) Turn left at intersection of FM

473. Dr. Kapp’s Hydropathic Clinic (entrance 12.7 miles on right). Sisterdale. On the National Register as an Historical District. West Sister Creek

15.9 Turn left on Waring-Sisterdale Road (no signs).18.2 Guadalupe River20.1 Mira Sol Girl Scout Camp owned by Alamo Area

Council of Girl Scouts (left).20.5 Waring - community created in 1888. First known

as Windsor, later changed to Waringford and finally Waring. Baptist Church, general store, post office, Waring school** makeup historic town. Just outside Waring is old Windsor Stage Stop, built in 1860s to accommodate overnight stage-coach travelers.

20.6 Railroad Depot (right)22.7 Joshua Creek23.9 Welfare - first known as Bon Ton. Like Waring

Welfare was cut off with completion of Hwy. 87 and later IH-10, bypassing these small German settlements.

24.1 Railroad Depot (right)24.1 Old Welfare School (left)25.3 Nicolaus Zink Home* - built in 1868. Zink select-

ed to lead group of German immigrants overseas to estab-lish settlements on Texas Land Grant, buried in unmarked grave on this property.

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and ranchers, who operated automotive garage, filling sta-tion and lunch stand. Po-Po Restaurant built in 1929 first as dance hall.

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27.5 Enter IH-1030.2 Site of Andrew Jackson Potter’s Home (1868-

1883). Potter, a Methodist minister for 30 years, traveled the Texas frontier, preaching in saloons, the only public buildings in the early settlements (left)

30.4 Boerne City Lake - Kendall County’s only lake (right). Exit at Boerne business exit, take the frontage road.

31.0 Take Boerne exit to Hwy. 8732.0 Ernest/Walter Pfeiffer Home - in 1974 the Pfeiffers

received Texas State Family Land Heritage Award for own-ing and operating same agricultural land for over 100 years

32.9 Traffic Light (Main Street).

EAST TOUR (45 MILES)Turn east off Main St. at the Cibolo Creek Bridge. Start

your mileage count.0.3 Cibolo Creek Dam - site of Boerne’s first business,

the Dietert Saw and Grist Mill (right).0.9 Agricultural Heritage Center - museum of antique

farm equipment - Open Wednesday afternoons 1:30 to 4:30 pm and Sundays 1 to 4 pm (right).

0.9 Boerne City Park & Cibolo Nature Center (right).1.1 Herff Park - home to Kendall County Fair on Labor

Day weekend, Hill County Antique Show, South Texas Trade Fair, Oma’s Christmas Fair (right).

6.6 Pleasant Valley School - now used for Community Center (left).

7.2 Cecil Smith’s Polo Field - home of America’s most famous polo player and training site for polo ponies (right)

10.0 Bergheim General Store* - old general store (right) which has been in the same family since 1900, and O'Briens Restaurant (left)

Optional TourContinue on Hwy. 46 to Guadalupe River State Park

(3.2 miles from Bergheim), a 1,900 acre park with camp-grounds, nature trails and more.

11.0 Smith Cemetery - family-owned cemetery (right)14.7 Old Schiller Post Office and site of first Bergheim

General Store - located on Cielo Ranch.15.0 Guadalupe River - old charcoal burners were active

in this area.19.1 Curry Creek.21.0 Rawls Creek.21.9 Kendalia* - town first known as Bech’s Flat, but

later changed. Named after George Wilkins Kendall. Many historic buildings in Kendalia including Kendall Community Church,* Old Lawhon General Store, log cabin Elbel General Store, dance hall and Kendalia Library with historical marker for George Wilkins Kendall. Turn left on FM 473 (left)

25.8 Shepard’s Creek & schoolhouse.26.9 Dry Creek.28.0 Curry Creek.29.3 FM 474 intersects (left) Turn here.36.3 Guadalupe River.37.2 Guadalupe River Ranch (left).38.6 Kreutzberg Road (left).Optional Tour (approximately 10 miles)Turn left on Kreutzberg Rd. Pass Kreutzberg Shooting

Club and School which dates back almost 100 years. On top of hill behind shooting club building is large cross erected by Joseph V. Phillip in 1847, used as landmark for the area. Kreutzberg (German for Cross Mountain ) (left). Alzafar Shrine Camp (left) and Cave Without a Name, one of Texas’ most beautiful caves (right)

Return and continue on FM 474 to Boerne

Make Boerne your headquarters for day trips through the countrysideTake a Driving Tour in the Hills


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WEST TOUR - 10.5 MILESTapatio Springs

SOUTH TOUR - 9.5 MILESCascade Caverns

EAST TOUR - 45 MILES Bergheim, KendaliaGuadalupe River,

NORTH TOUR - 33 MILESGuadalupe River, Sisterdale, Waring, Welfare, Nelson City

42.2 Malakopf Monument* - monument erected inmemory of Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Von Herff, well-known doctor in late 1800s (right)

43.4 Intersection of Adler Road (turn right).43.9 Kendall County Law Enforcement Center (right).44.1 Boerne Area Community Center - built in 1987.44.2 Boerne Curington Elementary School - (left). Adler

Rd. (will take you back to Main St.

WEST TOUR (10.5 MILES)Turn left off Main St. onto Johns Road (westbound).

Start mileage count.0.2 Henry Fabra Elementary School - dedicated to

Henry Fabra, descendant of early settlers (left).0.2 Boerne Middle School North originally built in 1929

and served as Boerne High School until new high school was built in 1972.

0.3 Cibolo Creek.0.5 Tusculum - first settlement in Boerne. Located

behind Schwope’s Water Well Drilling Company. Settled in 1849 by German immigrants hoping to bring higher stan-dard of living to the United States. Only one stone building remains today. (Not visible from John’s Road).

0.9 Lex Sanitarium*- Lex family home used as sanitari-um from 1919 to 1939. Owned and operated by Emilie Lex

(Mrs. Adolph). Boarding house, also for people traveling long distance to visit friends and family members who were parents. Dr. John Francis Nooe, at one time Boerne’s favor-ite doctor, operated and cared for parents here. Still owned by Lex family. (left - visible only from IH-10).

1.2 IH-l0 Overpass5.2 Tapatio Springs Golf Resort Country Club - hotel

conference center, golf, tennis, restaurant. Return to Main Street by way of John’s Road

SOUTH TOUR (9.5 MILES)Start tour on S. Main St. and Hwy. 46 (Bandera Hwy.,

southbound) intersection and drive south. Start mileage count here.

0.9 Enter frontage road of IH-10 (left).2.1 Turn left on Cascade Caverns Rd., follow signs to

Cascade Caverns4.7 Cascade Caverns - 10-acre park, campground and

cave. Cavern named for beautiful waterfall which plunges 90 feet.

Return to Main Street by way of Cascade Caverns Rd.* Denotes Texas Historical markers.

Compiled from Kendall County Historical Commission and Boerne Area Historical Preservation Society records.


ompa!OBoerne Village Band preserves German music heritageBoerne Village Band preserves German music heritage

The Boerne Village Band was organized in 1860 by Dr. Karl Dienger, who had mi-grated from Germany

in 1855. The band members came from all

of the communities in the area and played for Sangerfests and dancing in all of them, namely, Bergheim, Kendalia, Welfare, Waring, Com-fort and Boerne.

During the two World Wars the band was not very active but did not disband. It was after World War II that the band re-assembled stron-ger than ever. This re-assembled group included Henry Schrader, Jr., Eugene Ebell, Erhard Ebner and the Grosser brothers. They also be-gan at this time to develop the band in the Boerne High School.

No longer just a backup for an old time Sangerfest, the band became prominently known in its own right.

In 1986 the group obtained authentic uniforms with the help of Otto Schicht from Bavaria. These uniforms were worn for the fi rst

time during the 1986 Sesquicenten-nial performances.

The band plays not only for Boerne Bergesfest but all over Texas: At the San Antonio Fiesta and Folk Life Festival- At the New Braunfels Wurstfest-in Helotes - in Fredericksburg-at the “Indianola Pilgrimage” honoring the immi-gration of Germans to Texas-at the grand opening of the restored General Land Offi ce in Austin.

The Texas House of Representa-tives honored the band in 1991 “for providing the people of the State of Texas with the fi nest in Ger-man music and for keeping alive German music as part of Our Heritage.”

In 1995 an of-fi cial Texas His-torical marker was dedicated on the Main Plaza in Boerne to commemo-rate “Early German Music in Boerne” and

its signifi cance to the community heritage.

In 2010, the band celebrated 150 years of German musical tradition with a community-wide celebra-tion.

The band’s series of summer concerts, Abendkonzerte, have grown in popularity with audiences of all ages.

This year’s Abendkonzerte con-certs are scheduled May 22, June 5, 19, July 3, 17, 31. Part of the City of Boerne Parks and Recreation summer programs, the free con-certs are held on Main Plaza from 7:30 to 9 p.m.


WWho do you think you are Find out at the Genealogical Society of Kendall County’s Family History Place?

Since the new library and research center of the Genealogical and Historical Society of Kendall County, The Family History Place, opened its doors it’s become a fertile dig-ging ground for finding ancestors.

For many years the GHSKC has provided research assistance and maintained its collection of research materials - the new location at 725 N. Main, Suite 3 (across from the fire station) is the group’s latest innovation.

Open from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday and from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1st and 3rd Saturdays, 1:30 to 5:00 p.m., the center is staffed by a group of 29 dedicated GHSKC volunteers offering one-on-one assistance to family history researchers by knowl-edgeable genealogists.

In addition to the collection of over 2,000 volumes, compact disks and microfilms featuring family records of local, county, state, regional and national scope, com-puters are available for the public to access Internet genealogical websites.

In addition to the main library room with a large research table, there is a smaller private research room and a media room with computers, copier, printer and microform reader.

A particularly prized item is a large wall map showing Kendall

County’s original land grants, which gene-alogist and Family History Place Admin-istrator Mary Alice Dell says has become an attraction for family researchers.

Three other rooms at the Family Place house the society’s county historical record archives, file cabinets and a small meeting room and work room for those working on the group’s many projects, such as documenting all 4,000 tombstones in county cemeteries with photographs.

The society is one of the most active genea-logical societies in the state. The group spon-sors the Hill Country Family History Semi-nar each year with a well-known national speaker as well as annual workshops for beginning genealo-gists and a seven-week in-depth genealogical

research course. For more information about the

seminars and the Family His-tory Place, call 830-331-8730 or e-mail: [email protected]. For more information about the GHSKC, visit www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgskc.


Boerne’s fi rst line of defensein case of Fire!Boerne Fire Chief

Doug Meckel and his staff,

along with department members, recently celebrated the expansion and renovation of the Boerne Donald L. Gourley Fire Station, 726 N. Main with dedication ceremo-nies and open house for the community.

More than 150 people were on hand for the event, including family members of the station’s namesake, the late Donald L. Gourley, a former chief and city councilman.

The 6,000 square-foot addition and complete renovation of existing facilities was funded by $2.5 million in bonds approved by voters in 2007. Fire depart-ment personnel continued to use the site throughout the 16-month construction project spearheaded by The City of Boerne and MJC & Associates of San Antonio.

Improvements to the Boerne Fire Station consisted of three key phases: a new 6,800 square foot building behind the existing station, an 11,200 square foot apparatus and equipment bay and renovations to the adminis-trative offi ces. The new addition is home to dorm rooms, work and storage areas, kitchen and dining space, bathrooms and a physical health training room.

The Boerne Fire De-partment has operated in the current location and facility since 1989.

The Boerne Fire Depart-ment was originally organized in 1903 as a volunteer unit to serve the needs of the citizens of Boerne and Kendall County. Currently, the department has paid staff and volunteer mem-bers.

Paid staff includes the fi re chief, assistant chief, adminis-trative assistant, three fi re lieu-tenants, three shift fi refi ghters, and four part-time fi refi ghters. The remainder of the depart-ment is comprised of volunteer members.

The department provides a variety of emergency services to the citizens of Boerne and parts of Kendall County, including fi re protection and prevention, hazardous materials response, the fi rst responder program and specialized rescue operations.

The Boerne Fire Department is consistently striving to pro-vide the best possible service to all citizens in Boerne, as well as to those who work in and visit the city, Merckel noted.


New Police, Municipal Court facility dedicatedNew Police, Municipal Court facility dedicated

In addition to a new library and fire station expansion, the City of Boerne recently dedicated a new, state of the

art police and city court complex. The new Boerne Police and

Municipal Court Complex on Old San Antonio Road houses the police force, the fire marshal’s staff, Emergency Operations Center and 911 dispatch team. The new Munic-ipal Court facility in the same complex includes office space for court staff and a new courtroom, which serves double duty as Boerne

City Council chambers.

The 28,000 square-foot facility was designed to meet current and future needs for office and evidence storage, secure parking, physical and classroom training areas.

The $7.7 million complex was designed by Wiginton Hooker Jef-fry Architects and constructed by O’Haver Construction. Boerne

voters approved the funding in the May 2007 Quality of Life bond election.

Future plans call for a new city hall facility to be constructed on the Johns Road-Main Street city cam-pus where the new Patrick Heath Public Library is located.

City’s new seat of justice refl ects Hill Country architecture

Boerne has a new com-munity facility dedicated to serving generations of Kendall County

residents. For almost three

decades programs and services encour-aging adults in the community to take an active role in main-taining their physical and mental health as they age have been offered in the Boerne community through the Rainbow Center. In 2010, those pro-grams and services moved to the new Kronkosky Place at 17 Old San Antonio Road. Kronkosky Place is a 28,000 square foot activity / nutri-tional center on a 5.8 acre site open to anyone over 55 years of age.

Today, hundreds of local seniors enjoy a variety of programs at Kro-nkosky Place, which is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and until 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursday. The center’s goal is to help area residents remain physi-cally and mentally active; to remain independent; and to remain socially

engaged with others.Kronkosky Place offers:• An exercise facility designed

for older adults. Exercise programs

include video exercise classes, walk-ing and a line dancing class.

• A technology classroom for con-tinuing education classes, including computer literacy.

• A health/wellness resource center dedicated to encouraging healthy aging.

• A hot, nutritious lunch is served at noon Monday through Friday for a small suggested donation. Nutritional Programs are partially underwritten by funds from Alamo Area Council of Governments

(AACOG) and Texas Department of Aging and Disabilities (DADS).

• Local transportation service to the center for members who are no

longer able to drive. In addition during the morning hours, mem-bers can schedule trips to local businesses, to local doctors, to the grocery store or for other similar errands.

• The Meals-on-Wheels Program for Kendall County, which provides a hot lunch to qualified homebound citizens regardless of age or income level. Volunteers deliver the

meals Monday through Friday, and at the same time provide a wellness check on each recipient.

• A wide variety of scheduled activities designed to promote social interaction and fellowship.

• Opportunities for meaningful volunteer work.

• A caregiver Resource Library, sponsored by AACOG, which offers books, tapes and other resource material discussing specific medical conditions and general care-giving information.

Kronkosky Place: Hub of activities for busy senior population


ANGLICANST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN7 Sisterdale Rd. 249-3978 or 331-4001 Don Hughes, Min.ASSEMBLY OF GODBOERNE ASSEMBLY OF GOD 603 Frey St. • 249-1314Jeremy ErricksonTEMPLO VIDA NUEVA #11 Sisterdale Rd. 249-7544

BAPTISTBIBLE BAPTIST113 Industrial St., Ste. 1 Manuel Garcia, Jr., Min.COMFORT BAPTIST104 Amber Dr., Comfort • 995-3638 James H. Holt, Jr., Min.SANCTUARY OF TRUTH28715 IH 10 West, Boerne Sunday 10am • Pastor Jim LoveCOMFORT HISPANIC BAPTIST MISSION236 Broadway, Comfort • 995-3993 Pedro Aguila Lopez, Min.CURREY CREEK BAPTIST35 Cascade Caverns Rd. 755-8806 • John Free, Min.FIRST BAPTIST 631 S. School St. • 249-2527 Mike Harkrider, Min. Worship Times: 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.FIRST BAPTIST HISPANIC114 W. Advogt • 249-9289 Tony Romo, Min.GRACE FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH28528 IH 10 West, Boerne830-981-5402Dr. Glen Schmucker, Pastor Sunday Service at 11:00 [email protected] COUNTRY CHURCH AT FAIR OAKS RANCH31375 FM 3351 (Ralph Fair Rd.)Fair Oaks Ranch, 438-8504 Eric Hightower, PastorBible Study 9 a.m.; W.S. 10 a.m.IGLESIA BAUTISTA EMANUEL 103 Chapel Hill • 537-4589KENDALL COUNTY COWBOY CHURCHKendall County Fairgrounds210-669-7819 • Fellowship 9:30 a.m.W.S. 10:30 a.m.Pastor Steve “Cowboy” Grosswww.kendallcountycowboychurch.orgLEON SPRINGS FIRST BAPTIST24133 Boerne Stage Rd.San Antonio • 698-2880 Dan Allen, Min. • S.S. 9 a.m.W.S. 10:30 a.m.Wednesdays: Adult Bible Study and Youth Group 6 pmWARING BAPTIST 995-2652 • Harvey Davis, Min.

BIBLEBOERNE BIBLE

1026 E. Blanco Rd. • 249-2343FAITH BIBLE CHURCH OF BOERNE #1 Bergmann Rd at IH 10249-8448 • Tom Lanier, Min.BOERNE COMMUNITY BIBLE 745 W. San Antonio • 210-896-2631 www.cbcboerne.com Terry Parks. Pastor • Worship 10:30 amCROSS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP 8770 Dietz Elkhorn RdSunday Service 10:30 AM Sunday School 9:30 AMPastor Gary McCarron • 210-363-3099

CATHOLICSACRED HEART CATHOLICComfort • 995-3708 James F. Cashin, Min.ST. ELIZABETH SETON CATHOLIC 8500 Cross Mountain TrailSan Antonio • 210-698-1941 Msgr. Conor McGrathMass 8am Mon. - Fri., Sat. 5:00pm and Sun. 8am-9:30am, 11:00am. Spanish Mass at 12:30pm & 7pmST. JOSEPH’S CATHOLICHC 54, Box 2074, Bulverde980-2268ST. PETER THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH202 W. Kronkosky St. • 816-2233 Tony Cummins, PastorWeekend Mass Schedule:Saturday 5:30 pm; Sunday 9 am, 11 am, 12:30 pm (Mass in Spanish); 6 pm (Life Teen Mass) Weekday Mass Schedule:Monday & Tuesday 8:30amWednesday & Thursday 6:15 am; Friday 10 am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:Each Wednesday: 4:30 – 8:00pm,First Fridays: 10:30am – 5:00pm

CHRISTIANCHRISTIAN CHARACTER MINISTRIES43360 IH-10 West • 537-5244 Walter H. Tracy, Jr.CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUPChurch and Sunday School; Wednesday Testimony MeetingFor info call: 830-331-9779 www.spirituality.comUNITY CHURCH OF BOERNE(Church of the Daily Word)121 Scenic Loop Rd. Sunday Services 11am830-755-5419 • www.unityofboerne.org830-895-5673 • Rev. Eddy EdwardsVAN RAUB CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP8770 Dietz-Elkhorn Rd. Jim Boring, Min.

CHURCH OF CHRISTCHURCH OF CHRIST1 Upper Balcones Rd. • 249-2685 Randy Couchman, Min.

CHURCH OF CHRIST SOUTHSIDE 46 Old San Antonio Rd. 816-4819 or 210-316-3824 Howell Moore, Mins.

EPISCOPALST. BONIFACE EPISCOPAL 130 Hwy 87 North, Comfort 830-995-3897 • The Rev. John Rayls Sunday 8:45 & 11 Sunday School 9:45www.stboniface-comfort.orgST. HELENA’S EPISCOPAL410 N. Main St. • 249-3228The Rev. William H. Allport, II, Rector

INTERDENOMINATIONALCROSS MOUNTAIN 24891 Boerne Stage Rd.Sundays at 9 am, 11 am, 12:30 pm Randy Ayers & Jerry McNeilwww.crossmountain.orgnineteen:ten church Boerne Champion High SchoolSundays at 9:30 am and 11 amPastor Jason Brown • 830-249-1217 www.1910church.com

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSJEHOVAH’S WITNESS 304 N. School • 249-2452

LUTHERANIMMANUEL LUTHERAN318 High St. Comfort • 995-3756 Robert Kaul, Min.MESSIAH LUTHERAN 9401 Dietz-Elkhorn Rd. • 755-4300OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN WORSHIPING COMMUNITYBoerne YMCA • 1361 S. Main St.Sunday Communion Service - 10:30 amPastor Steve Rode • 210-260-0317ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH 315 Rosewood Ave. 249-3651 • 816-1853 Pastor Henry Schulte Pastor Jeff CarpenterPastor Mariola BergquistWorship 8:00 am, 10:30 am Sunday School 9:15 am

METHODIST

FIRST UNITED METHODIST205 James St. • 249-2565 Pastors, Ricky Burk, Kim Burke, Beverly Burk Sunday: 8am, 9:30am, 11:00amGADDIS UNITED METHODIST141 Hwy. 87, Comfort Jason A. Teague, Pastor

See page 54 for more churches

Area churches welcome you


ain Plaza’s shaded areas, the surround-ing hills and scenic roads and the hospi-

tality of the people have all added to Boerne’s reputation as the per-fect site for car rallies and shows. Fanciers of Corvettes from classic to current, the muscle cars of the ‘70 and street rods prior to 1948 all hold events on the plaza.

The first – and biggest – of these to be held in Boerne was the Pride of Texas Street Rod Car Club’s Key to the Hills Rod Run, now in it’s 26th year. It is always held the sec-ond weekend in October. Hundreds

of pre-1948 cars and their owner-families begin arriving late Friday evening and early Saturday morn-ing, jockeying for space on Main Plaza or the surrounding streets.

In 2003, almost 500 of the vin-tage beauties filled downtown, parked hubcap to fender for viewing.

Corvettes of all vintages are on display in April for the Texas Cor-vette Association Open Car Show, an official Fiesta event sponsored by the San Antonio chapter. Over 30 classes and hundreds of cars are on display each year.

The 1960s come to live again each Labor Day weekend when dune buggies roll into Boerne for the annual Texas Manx Dune Buggy Club roundup. The Buggy Roundup will draw both restored early dune buggies along with buggies sporting new fiberglass bodies. Almost all the buggies coming to Boerne were restored or built by their owners and will

represent a variety of shapes and colors, each reflecting the owner’s own taste in what he considers the ideal dune buggy.

In addition to being on display on Main Plaza, the buggies are fea-tured in the annual Kendall County Fair parade.

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Riverside MarketGAS • GROCERIES • BEER • ICE

Home Owned

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BAR-B-Qwith Hometown Service

• WondeRoast Chicken • • Brisket • Turkey Breast • Chicken • Pork Ribs • Sausage

OLD FASHIONED MEAT MARKET


making life easier when it matters most

Boerne City Center194 South Main Street, Suite 100, Boerne, Texas 78006

(830) 331-9272 www.LasFinezas.com

The Cibolo Nature Center in Boerne is located on 162 acres of natural lands at

Boerne City Park off Highway 46 just west of the Kendall County Fairgrounds. The Cibolo Nature Center’s mission is con-servation of natural resources through education and steward-ship.

Thousands of volunteer hours have made the Cibolo Nature Center a prime example of com-munity caring and an excellent model of a local community’s efforts to preserve its natural heritage.

Open to the public since Earth Day 1990, the Cibolo Nature Center provides education, research, entertainment and outdoor activities for more than 100,000 visitors a year, while promoting sound stewardship of land, water and wildlife.

Across Cibolo Creek from the nature center lays a true gem - one in need of some polishing, and luckily a crew of enthused working groups has risen to the occasion to plan the restoration and renewal of the Herff Farm.

The 62-acre green space includes a

farmhouse, barn and other structures built by some of the area’s original Ger-man immigrants. In December 2009, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The house also fi gured prominently in the early settlement of Boerne, was confi scated during the Civil War for a Confederate Prisoner of War camp and served as the site of one of the last Na-tive American-settler confl icts.

It was the summer home of Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, a medical

pioneer in San Antonio and the great-great-grandfather of Carolyn Chipman Evans, the Cibolo Nature Center’s founding director.

Its location at the confl uence of Cibolo and Menger creeks makes it a key habitat area within the larger Cibolo Conservation Corridor.

In 2007, the Friends of the Ci-bolo Wilderness, with help from supporters and foundations across Texas, purchased the property in order to preserve its resources for

current and future generations. Local community members have

embraced the potential of this valuable place and are hard at work planning its future. Among the goals is for the farm to function as a sustainable living center, demonstrating home gardening, rainwa-ter catchment and conservation, sustain-able energy practices, backyard chicken coops, composting and partnering with the community to create a community garden and farmer’s market, comple-menting a farm and garden education program for children and adults. Learn more at www.cibolo.org.

Protecting heritage, conserving nature

Cibolo Nature Center, Herff Farm


The Agricultural Heri-tage Museum is located in

Boerne City Park on over fi ve acres. From tractors to butter churns to

wagons, the Museum has something for everyone.

A blacksmith shop, woodworking shop, pioneer house, wagon house, main museum building and many outdoor exhibits showcase antique farm machinery and implements.

Antique farm machinery and tools

include a thresher machine, com-bines, wagons, corn shellers, fruit juicers, plows, binders, and more.

Farming and ranching history come to life in displays and pro-grams in the Big Red Barn, on the front porch and in the Blacksmith Shop.

The museum is open on Satur-days, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and by ap-pointment. Admission is $5; free for kids age 12 years and younger.

gricultural Heritage shines in museumA

MICHAEL GLICK Insurance and Financial Services Agent

CAVE TOURS IN KENDALL COUNTYThe vast stretches of limestone that honey-

comb the Texas Hill Country and in many places form aquifers that serve as the primary source of water in the region, also contain some of the most unique geologic formations in living caves.

Cascade Caverns, 226 Cascade Caverns Road Exit 543 off I-10, gets its name from it’s 100 foot waterfall – the grand finale of a one hour guided tour.

Tours are available year round. Call 830-755-8080 or visit www.cascadecaverns.com.

Cave Without A Name , 325 Kreutzberg Road, Boerne, is also a showcse of fabulous formations and educational exhibits. Tours are available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Memorial Day through Labor Day. 10am-5pm after Labor Day until Memorial Day. Call 830-537-4212 or visit www.cavewithoutaname.com.OLD TUNNEL WMA, The smallest Wildlife Management Area in Texas at 16.1 acres. The abandoned railroad tunnel is home to up to three million Brazilian free-tailed bats

from May to October. Visitors watch the bats emerge from the tunnel each night, and nightly educational programs are available. Take IH-10 to Comfort, exit at Hwy. 27, west to the blinking light in town and veer right on Hwy. 87. Turn right on FM 473 and go east for 5 miles. Take Old # 9 Hwy. for 8 miles to the site.

ACTIVITIES IN ADJACENT COUNTIESFredericksburg, founded by German

settlers in 1846, is located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Activities include museums, a historic district, a wildfl ower farm, vineyards and wineries, an herb farm, peach orchards, brew pub, living history farmstead, art galleries, live music, lavender farms, scenic drives, golf and more.

Specifi c attractions include: the National Museum of the Pacifi c War, the Pioneer Museum Complex, Wildseed Farms, Freder-icksburg Herb Farm, Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Luckenbach, Rockbox Theater and other unique sites. Fredericksburg has over 70 restaurants and bakeries and over 150 shops.

For more information about activities, visit the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce website, www.fredericksburg-texas.com, or call 830-997-6523.

The National Museum of the Pacifi c War, 340 East Main, Fredericksburg, is dedi-cated to perpetuating the memory of the

Pacifi c Theater of WWII . Supported by the Admiral Nimitz Foundation, the museum has a complete schedule of summer events. A list is available at www.pacifi cwarmuseum.org, where hours of operation, admission fees and other information is also available.

Every May, descendents of settlers along with more recent arrivals celebrate Fredericksburg’s heritage with Founders Day at the Pioneer Museum, 325 W. Main, a memorial to celebrate a unique community that was created by early settlers for future generations.

For information contact the museum at 830-990-8441 or www.pioneermuseum.net.

Also near Fredericksburg is the LBJ State Park & Historic Site, Hwy. 290 East, 199 State Park Road 52, Stonewall, TX 78671. More in-formation about the Texas Parks and Wildlife facility is available at www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/lbj or by calling 830-644-2252 .

Kerrville, located just 30 miles northwest of Boerne on I-10, also has a busy schedule of events.

Headquarters for learning about all there is to do there is the Visitors Center, 2108 Sidney Baker Dr., open seven days a week, or visit www.kerrvilletexascvb.com.

For information about more events and at-tractions, such as the headquarter of James Avery Craftsman and historic downtown Kerrville, visit www.kerrvilletexascvb.com.

Hill CountryAttractions


METHODIST

SPRING CREEK UNITED METHODIST28970 Old Fredericksburg Rd.Fair Oaks Ranch, Tx 78015 830-981-8331 Rev. Stephen Sanders

MORMONCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS203 Stonegate Rd. • 249-9197 Victor L. Heller, Min. W.S. 9 a.m.- noon

PENTECOSTALBOERNE UNITED PENTECOSTAL235 Frey St. • Kerry Hammer, Min. Sunday 9:30 a.m. • 830-249-5993 www.boerneupc.org

PRESBYTERIANLEON SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN23943 IH-10 West • 698-2325Wayne R. Urbanowski, Jr., Min.PIPE CREEK PRESBYTERIAN8598 St. Hwy. 16 S., Pipe Creek Raymond Powell, Min.ST. MARK PRESBYTERIAN208 W. Bandera Road 830-816-3000 or 830-249-3232Sunday Services: Contemporary 9am-Traditional 11:10am Sunday School Classes from 10:10 - 11:00am Michael Brundeen, Minister www.stmarktx.orgTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN (PCA)Sunday 10 AM Worship, Meets at Cibolo Creek ElementaryPastor Allen Taha • (830) 815-1212 www.trinityboerne.org

QUAKERSRELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS2100 Memorial Blvd, Kerrville, Tx (Located on the Schreiner University Campus)Sundays 10:00 am • 210-698-2592

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTLAUREL HEIGHTS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST

703 W. Ashby Place • 210-732-6898

OTHERA GATHERING IN CHRIST23 Hwy 87 in Comfort 210-508-1606 • Buddy Brooks, Min. 1st & 3rd Sun. at 11 a.m.A HILL COUNTRY CHAPEL886 Mountain View Lane Pipe Creek, just off Hwy 46 510-4731 • www.hillcountrychapel.org Albert “Skip” Marks, Minister, Nathan Marks, Youth MinisterSunday School, 9am for all ages, Morning Worship, 10am, Evening Worship, 6pm, Wednesday Bible Study, 7:30pm for all ages, First Sunday Evening of the Month isFamily Night at 6pmBOERNE FIRST WARD-JESUS CHRIST203 Stonegate Rd. • 249-0016CALVARY TEMPLE CHURCH OF CENTERPOINT AND COMFORT4 mi. west of Comfort on Hwy. 27, Comfort, 995-2459 • David James, Min.CENTERING PRAYER 16 W. Highland Dr. • 210-286-4320THE CHURCH AT BOERNE1100 N. Main, Ste. 102, Boerne Pastor Ryon ButlerWednesday: 7:00p.m. 830-864-5577 • 210-414-8616CIBOLO CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH 30395 Ralph Fair Rd.Fair Oaks Ranch • 830-981-8989 Paul Wilson, Min.COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH 745 West San Antonio, Boerne 210-496-5096 • Pastor Terry ParksSundays at 10:30am, Old Rainbow Senior Centerwww.cbcboerne.com COWBOY FELLOWSHIP AT THE CROSS5831 Hwy 27 • Center Point www.gettinreal.org • • 830-249-0300Pastor Mike McDaniel FAITH HARBOR CHURCH29157 Noll Rd. in Fair Oaks 755-5205 • Pastor Dorothy PettySunday Afternoon service at 2:30. Church open for prayer Tuesday - Friday 1-5pm. End of the Road Prayer Room opening soon for 24 hours a dayFULL LIFE FELLOWSHIP

Meetings at Nelson City Dancehall 825 Hwy 289 • 210-823-9332HAVEN IN THE HILLS CHRISTIAN809 N. Main, Boerne, 78006 (830) 249-3040 • Pastor Frank AutryHIS HANDS CHURCHMeetings upstairs at America’s Best Value Inn 10 a.m. Sunday • 830-230-5352Pastors Ronnie & Jo Ann SquyresJESUS NAME FULL GOSPEL402 E. Theissen Sundays at 10am • 830-537-5060www.reachtheharvest.comKENDALIA COMMUNITY336-2880FAIR OAKS CHURCHPraise & worship each Sunday, 10:30 a.m.Discipleship Bible study Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m.28703 IH 10 West, suite 211 Boerne • 830-981-5355ten10 Church31007 IH 10 West, Suite 211, Boerne 830-377-9846Services at 10:30 am Sundays Pastor Larry WilliamsTHE CHURCH AT BOERNE A COWBOY FELLOWSHIP Pastor Ryon Butler • 210-602-29401100 N Main Ste 102. Wednesday 7:00p.m. VIDA NUEVA BOERNE 11 FM #1376 • 249-1314

Area churches welcome you

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There’s a lot going on here! For more about things to do and see, contact:The Boerne Visitors and Convention Bureau1407 South Main Street • Boerne, Texas 780061407 South Main Street • Boerne, Texas 78006830.249.7277 • Toll Free: 888.842.8080 Fax 830.249.9626830.249.7277 • Toll Free: 888.842.8080 Fax 830.249.9626


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St John’s Anglican Church

“In Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge”

Sundays at 10:00 am

(from intersection US 87 and 1376, just up the hill on the right)

(830) 249-3978www.stjohnsboerne.com

7 Sisterdale Road, Boerne

830-249-0130 www.missionforhealth.org

When the Civil War broke out and Texas began to talk of seceding from the Union, the German immigrants of the Comfort area strongly opposed secession, both

because they were against the institution of slavery and because of their feeling of allegiance to their adopted country.

Some of the German farm-ers openly backed the Union government, an act that the Con-federates considered treasonous. To make matters worse, the local residents of Comfort formed the Union Loyal League to pro-tect themselves from Indian and outlaw attacks. A nervous Confederacy felt that the group might be a serious threat to their government.

Finally, martial law was declared, and the Texas Rangers were sent to order all males over 16 years old to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. When many refused, farms and homes were burned, and some dis-sidents were lynched. Some accounts say as many as 150 citizens were killed.

With these mounting troubles and threats to their fam-ilies, a group of Comfort men decided to leave Texas and head to Mexico and perhaps join the Union forces. A band of 60 left on Aug 1, 1862, not knowing that the

Confederates had been told of their move.The Unionists were followed to the banks of the

Nueces River before the attack known as the Battle of the Nueces began. Nineteen Comfort citizens were killed in battle and nine others were captured, but later executed.

On Oct. 18, eight other Unionists were killed while crossing the Rio Grande near the Devil’s River. The bodies of these farmers and those killed on the Nueces River were left unburied.

A group of Germans gath-ered the bones of their friends and buried them at this site in 1865.

On Aug. 10, 1866, the first monument in Texas was erected at the gravesite to remember

the Germans killed. The Treue der Union, or True to the Union, Monument is a simple obelisk, inscribed with the names of the men who were killed.

The Treue der Union Monument, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was designated in 1991 as one of only five sites in the nation where the flag is allowed to be flown at half staff at all times. The flag flown here is the 36-star American flag, representing the flag used at the dedication in 1866.

Comfort’s Treue Der Union Monument‘Loyalty to the Union’


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Hill Country Assisted Living provides a safe and caring environment for the elderly. We offer respite, 24-hour care and caregiver assis-

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On May 12, 2007, the residents of Boerne voted for a $5 million bond to build a new library. Less than a week later, the city purchased land on Main Street across from St. Helena’s Episcopal Church on North Main St.

The Boerne Public Library Founda-tion, which was established in 1993, launched a capital campaign to raise an additional $2 million to build the Patrick Heath Public Library, named after Boerne’s former mayor. The library’s groundbreaking took place in May of 2010, and just over one year later, the dream of a new 30,000 square-foot, 2-story building became a reality.

The new library opened its doors on June 4, 2011, with hundreds of excited patrons eagerly checking out all the new and wonderful services in a large, light and spacious facility. In October of the same year, the unique facility was awarded the Gold level in Leadership in Energy and Environ-mental Design (LEED) Certification.

Today, the staff and 60-plus vol-unteers of the Patrick Heath Public Library serve the residents of Kendall

County, the State of Texas, the country, and even the world. The library is open six days a week and houses a collection of approximately 48,000 items. Nearly 143,000 people came through our doors in 2011, and checked out more than 234,000 items. Nearly 12,000 children and adults attended 373 library programs.

While the library itself is a beautiful new facility, the grounds are just as fabu-lous. In addition to gorgeous native plants, there is also a Heritage Plaza and natural and cultural resource interpretive program. The new Friends of the Boerne Public Library book store is adjacent to the plaza. The nonprofit organization supports the library by funding new equip-ment, supplies, public programs, and special projects that are not covered by other funding sources.

Boerne Public Library Foundation

The BPLF believes in cultivating interests in lifelong learning and cultural and enrichment opportuni-ties. They advocate and fundraise throughout the community for the continued development of a vibrant library that provides program and educational opportunities for those who live in, work in, and visit our community.

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History: In 1985, 48 women came together to form the Hill Country Women in Business. Their purpose - - “to encourage and support adult women in business, working to cooperatively provide advice and to foster the economic stability of member-ship”. This lofty goal has been achieved throughout the club’s history. Several of the founding members are still active in the club and enjoy successful businesses.

Focus: Hill Country Women in Business is a non-profit organization which was organized to promote, encourage and support women without regard to age,

national origin, or race, who own and operate businesses; to provide a voice for women who own and operate businesses; to encourage ownership by women in business; to foster the economic stability of businesses owned and operated by women; and to provide relevant principles of business management through educational programs, meetings, networks, seminars, and the promotion of public awareness and acceptance of women in owning and operating their own business.

Membership: Are you or your business new to the Hill Coun-try area? Do you enjoy meeting and making

friends with like-minded women? Could your business use some super networking opportunities? Have you been searching for affordable business advertising in the local paper?

If you answered yes to any of the ques-tions and want more information about joining HCWIB check out our website at www.hcwib.net here you will find our business directory, with photo gallery and information about membership.

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ACCOUNTING SERVICES

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The Flower ShopYour Professional Florist

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SENIOR CARE INSURANCESpecializing In Long

Term Care and Medicare Supplements

CAROLYN DUTSON

Toll Free: (877) 684-9277

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Lucy Ziegler MA, LPC, LLC

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The Hauptstrasse, Main Street, Downtown … whatever you call it, it’s where things are happening in Boerne. Several years ago, the City of Boerne, along with the Greater

Boerne Chamber of Commerce, began what is known as the Main Street Project. Since that time the changes have been quite noticeable.

First came larger bur-gundy street signs bearing the name “Hauptstrasse” throughout the historical business district. The name of Main Street didn’t actually change - it just took on a German trans-lation to accentuate the community’s heri-tage.

As the new street signs went up, so did a lot of other new signs. Shops began springing up in every vacant location as gift sellers, antique dealers, restaurateurs, residents and visitors began to discover the area had something special to offer. Older firms began sprucing up their faces and welcoming new customers.

Other changes included the installation of old-fash-ioned lamppost lighting, planting of trees and the removal of the unattractive, overhead, urban-style

streetlights. Colorful banners on each lamppost mark the season of the year, a special festival, support for the Boerne High School Greyhounds and the Champion

Chargers or simply the wel-come that is always

extended to visitors.Park benches have been added

throughout the length of the Hauptstrasse to encourage visitors and residents to pause and enjoy

the uniqueness that is Boerne.Parking is ample on the

street, on adjacent side streets and at three public parking lots. The lots are located on the 200 block of North Main St., the 100 block of South Main St., and at Main Plaza. Modern rest-

room facilities are located at the South Main lot and Main Plaza.

Now Downtown Boerne has become a favorite desti-nation for visitors from other areas who flock to town, not just on weekends, but every day.

Boerne Market Days on the second weekend of each month transforms Main Plaza into an old style “market days” shopping mecca with booths filling the plaza with antiques, collectibles, arts and crafts, food and a lot of fun for the family.

The HaupstrausseBoerne’s historic downtown district refl ects Hill Country charm


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Boerne is a unique city located where South Texas meets the Texas Hill Country - the ‘Gateway to the Hills.’ The city is nestled in the Hill Country approxi-

mately 22 miles northwest of San Antonio, Texas and can be accessed from Interstate 10 West using exits 543, 542, 541, or 540.

Tourists visit Boerne year-round, the residential population continues to grow, and business development is expanding. Visitors and residents alike are inspired by the natural sur-roundings. Meander through charming downtown Boerne and visit the gazebo and water feature at Main Plaza. Enjoy shopping and dining throughout our historic district, spend the day golfing at area golf resorts or hiking the hike and bike trail.

Boerne, the county seat and largest community of Kendall County, was incorporated in 1909. The city gov-ernment, headed by a mayor, five city councilmen and a city manager, is forward thinking, yet fiscally conserva-tive. Citizens benefit from a low tax rate and full utility services provided by city-owned systems.

Boerne was one of the first cities in South Texas to provide curbside recycling for all of its residents. To maintain the historical beauty of the community, the

city has enacted landscape ordinances and has defined a downtown historical district to maintain the architectural heritage of the area.

Fire protection is provided by a fire department, which, although staffed primarily by volunteers, is highly trained and equipped with state-of-the-art fire-fighting equipment.

Emergency medical services are pro-vided by the Kendall County EMS, another group of highly qualified per-sonnel. The city police department has full-time officers who pride them-selves on knowing the citizens, while welcoming visitors.

The city maintains a parks system that is unique and citizen-oriented, ranging from sports facilities and a city lake to small plazas and hike, bike and walking trails. The city also offers year-round recreational programs. Leagues are offered on an annual basis. Addi-tionally, youth activities such as swim

lessons, swim team, Punt, Pass and Kick competition, track and field team, tennis camps, tennis lessons and tournaments are annual programs. A Community and Convention Center offers amenities for meetings large and small with a centrally located, spacious two-story facility with ample parking.

More information is available at www.ci.boerne.tx.us.

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