The Boerne Greyhound Athletic Booster Club will host its annual fundraiser at The Roundup Outdoor Music Venue this Saturday, Feb. 3, featuring American

singer-songwriter, Kevin Fowler.

Guests can enjoy food trucks, a three-acre play-ground for the kids, a full bar and beer garden. All ages welcome and children 5 and under get in free. Minors must be accompa-nied by an adult during the

event.Fowler was born in Ama-

rillo and has had four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including “Pound Sign.” He also wrote Sammy Ker-shaw’s 2003 hit “Beer, Bait,

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American Dreaming 4At the Trail 16Bookworm 7Capital Highlights 4Classifieds 13-14Crossword 5Focus on the Family 5Off the Main 4Paws for Thought 5Reports 6Service Directory 6Sports 9-10Viewpoints 4-5

For complete obituaries, see page 2 and online at www.boernestar.com.

DeathsMickie Diane MortonGlena Fay GrishamCarol Cartwright

Haufler

Hounds, Chargers at district meet

Charger CoCo Jarvis and BHS’s Sydney Bell leaving the blocks at last week’s district meet. For results, see pages 9-10.

Sports

Deadly fire ruled accidental

A home fire that killed one woman and put two people in the hospital and was ruled accidental. Kendall County

Fire Marshal Jeff Fincke said the cause of the blaze was most likely a log that rolled out of the fireplace.

Mickie Morton, 61, died in the Jan. 25 fire. Her husband Millard Gene Morton and their 8-year-old granddaugh-

ter were hospitalized at San Antonio Area Military Center. Fincke said Morton, a retired fire fighter with Olmos Park Fire Department and former Kendall County deputy, was released. Their granddaugh-ter was moved to University

Hospital in San Antonio. The home was a complete

loss. A GoFundMe account was launched to help the fam-ily with expenses, go to www.gofundme.com/crystalcau-dill. Donations may also be made to the Mickie Morton

Memorial Fund at Frost Bank in Boerne, via The Centurions of Kendall County in care of Caudill Family or at P.O. Box 1741, Boerne 78006. The Appletree Day School in Boerne is also accepting donations.

BY JESSICA GOODE■ Managing Editor

As dozens of attendees looked on, city and county officials put shovel to dirt Monday morning in a groundbreaking ceremony for The Bevy Hotel Boerne. Located on Waterview Parkway in the South Main area of Boerne now labeled SoBo, the Doubletree hotel - an offshoot of the Hilton global hospitality group - has been designed as what Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Larry Woods described as an artisan locale.

Star Photo by Elena Tucker

Hotel Breaks Ground Weather Ahead HIGH LOW

Tuesday 60 40

Wednesday 60 50

Thursday 70 44

Friday 58 47

This week’s skies will be partly cloudy to mostly

sunny, with a slight warm-up Thursday

afternoon.

Give road crews a ‘brake’

Upper Cibolo Creek road at the 2.4-mile marker will be under construction through Feb. 2 while Kend-all County Road & Bridge crews replace the box culvert under the roadway. Drivers will be detoured around the site. Expect delays.

Rare lunar event tomorrow

For the first time since 1866, Wednesday’s morning sky will host a quadruple lunar event. Skygazers will be treated to a blue moon, supermoon, blood moon and lunar eclipse.

A blue moon occurs when two full moons happen in the same calendar month. A supermoon occurs when

a full moon is in perigee – when it comes closest to Earth in a single orbit and appears about 14 percent larger than an average full moon. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes into Earth’s shadow.

The maximum part of the eclipse will be visible in San Antonio for only about four minutes, so those lifting their heads to witness the rare sight may want to plot their unobstructed west-northwest

view on high ground ahead of time. The eclipse will begin Jan. 31 at 4:51 a.m. The max-imal eclipse will be visible at 7:21 a.m., then the moon will dip below the horizon at 7:25 a.m., according to timeand-date.com.

Other than a telescope or telephoto lens, no special viewers are needed for a lunar eclipse and it is safe to watch with the naked eye. Look for the moon to become covered in a blood red shadow.

BY DALLAS BOERNER■ Boerne Star Writer

singer songwriter Kevin evvenentttBY DALLAS BOERNER

Country music star coming to a Boerne area stage

BY JESSICA GOODE■ Managing Editor

In a ground breaking cer-emony Monday morning, developers celebrated the onset of construction for a new hotel in South Boerne. The Bevy Hotel Boerne, a full-service hotel and con-ference center, should be

open and ready for busi-ness by April 2019.

Hosted by the Boerne Convention and Visitors Bureau (BCVB), Boerne Mayor Mike Schultz, County Judge Darrel Lux and other noted community members helped commem-orate the event. BCVB Director Larry Woods told Boerne City Council mem-

bers last fall that various organizations all over the state were ready to book their conferences at the hotel.

Located at 101 Herff at the corner of Herff and Waterview, the Bevy, a DoubleTree by Hilton facility, will have 120 rooms and suites and fea-ture outdoor event spaces,

a resort-style pool, fire pits and a 7,500-square-foot conference center. The hotel will occupy four acres of the 20-acre parcel that is owned by Ross Partlow and Tim Lange of Partlow Properties & Investments, LLC. Partlow and Lange are also co-owners of the

BY JESSICA GOODE■ Managing Editor

See HOTEL, page 13

See CONCERT, page 13

City accepting hotel occupancy tax applica-tions, see page 13.

Chamber of Commerce names Business Woman and Man of the Year, see page 13.

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hotel with Ed McClure and John Corcoran of Phoenix Hospitality Group. The total project cost is about $25 million.

Currently, Boerne has 435 hotel rooms to rent, which generated approx-imately $2,008,577, according to reports. The

Bevy is expected to increase that number by $120,000 in its first year at 60 percent capacity.

City Council members approved last year an incen-tive package worth more than $4.75 million that includes a 75 percent ad valorem, sales and hotel/motel tax rebate for 10 years, and 50 percent of hotel/motel taxes for an additional five years. Ken-dall County commissioners

also approved granting 75 percent of ad valorem tax rebates for 10 years, which could total $75,000.

“The new hotel project will dramatically increase group business into the Boerne market, and stop the seepage of Boerne guests to area hotels such as those at The Rim and La Cantera,” according to a press release. “The project will positively impact the Boerne economy directly with jobs, taxes and

utilities, with indirect impli-cations for Main Street, other independent busi-nesses and the city’s arts programs and festivals.”

Calling yesterday’s event an historic event for the city’s tourism and hospi-tality industry, Woods said the hotel will attract peo-ple who have never been to Boerne.

“We’ve just come off the best year for tourism. We did $9 million in revenue,

ran 58 percent occupancy, and that’s without a hotel with adequate convention meeting space. The Bevy is going to allow Boerne to have conventions and large groups that aren’t only going to fill up this hotel, but th at will overflow into our existing hotels. This is a great opportunity for people who haven’t had the oppor-tunity to come to Boerne to come here for the first time.”

HOTELFROM PAGE 1

& Ammo,” Mark Chesnutt’s single “The Lord Loves the Drinkin’ Man,” and Mont-gomery Gentry’s “Long Line of Losers.”

Gates open at 6 p.m. and showtime is 8-10 p.m. Parking is free. General admission is $35 at the gate or buy online at www.ther-ounduptx.com for $30.

VIP tables are also avail-able for $1,000 and includes eight VIP tickets, VIP din-ner, premium stage views, cocktail service and a meet-and-greet backstage with Fowler. All proceeds benefit the booster club.

CONCERTFROM PAGE 1

Boerne ISD hires new HR officerDr. Elaine Howard has

been named Chief Human Resources Officer for Boerne ISD. Howard’s appointment was approved Monday evening by the Boerne ISD Board of Trustees.

Howard comes to Boerne after serving in a similar

capacity at Hays Consoli-dated ISD since 2014. From 2010 through 2014, she served as Executive Direc-tor of Human Resources at Judson ISD. She also has experience as a middle school science teacher in Judson ISD.

At Hays ISD, Howard

was responsible for all human resources functions, including compliance, management of district compensation plan, admin-istration of employee benefits and services, and recruiting and retention initiatives.

Howard is active in

a number of profes-sional organizations including PeopleAdmin Executive Advisory Board, Texas Association of School Administrators, Texas Asso-ciation of School Personnel Administrators and Soci-ety for Human Resources Management.

City accepting hotel occupancy tax applicationsEach year, the City of

Boerne receives hotel occu-pancy tax (HOT) revenue from a tax that is levied on guest rooms at local hotels, inns, and bed and breakfast facilities.

Organizations that offer programs to attract over-night tourists to the city’s hotels and motels may be eligible to receive a portion of these HOT funds to sup-

port their programs. State law requires a

two-part test to meet the eligibility for HOT funds. Part 1 – Every expenditure of hotel taxes must attract overnight tourists to the city’s hotels and motels, thus promoting the city’s hotel industry. Part 2 – Every expenditure must fit into one of the following nine categories (1) conven-

tion and visitors centers; (2) convention registration; (3) advertising the city; (4) promotion of the arts; (5) historical restoration and preservation; (6) sporting events in a county under one million in population; (7) enhancing or upgrad-ing existing sports facilities or sports fields (only in certain cities); (8) tourist transportation systems;

and (9) signage directing the public to sights and attractions that are visited frequently by hotel guests in the city.

The Boerne Convention and Visitors Bureau is now accepting applications from local groups or businesses. The application can be downloaded from the city’s website boerne-tx.gov; on the Finance Department

page. City staff will conduct an

orientation session on Tues-day, Feb. 27, at 4 p.m., at the Visitors Center located at 1407 S. Main in Boerne. The application deadline is Tuesday, April 17, at 5 pm.

For more information, contact Jeanette Teague, Convention and Visitors Bureau assistant director, at 830-249-7277.

The Greater Boerne Chamber of Commerce awarded Businessman of the Year to Matt Nelson of Prime Capital Investment Advisors, LLC and Businesswoman of the Year to Lorelei Helmke of Helmke Agency in a ceremony Saturday evening .

Star Photo by Alora Plocheck

Business People Of The Year

Boerne ISD board of trustees were presented with artwork created by students in Jordan Pease’s Champion High School art class for School Board Recognition Month. The original art pieces were painted by Champion High School Junior Arianna Bohman. The ac-companying wire sculpture kites were made by CHS artists Jordan Mandry, Kimberly Hierholzer and Devon McDonald. This is the fifth consecutive year BISD has presented original student art to their trustees as part of Board Recognition Month. Pictured are BISD board trustees Carlin Friar, Joe Tidwell, Alan Rich, Dale Adams, Maritza Gonzalez-Cooper, Donna Sharp and Rich Sena.

Star Photo by Dallas Boerner

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