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FORwARD AND ONwARD | 34Leo and Vivian Wood reflect on four decades in Georgetown

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND COUNTING | 40See Georgetown’s past through centenarian Anita Rode’s stories

d E pA R T M E N T Slive And leARn

INSpIRING TOMORROw’S SCIENTISTS | 11Zion Lutheran science teacher is a STAR

A Stone’S tHRow

“wE DON’T RENT pIGS” | 16Mosey to the Lonesome Dove exhibit at Texas State

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AN EYE FOR MURDER | 21Investigate mystery novels with author D.A. Featherling

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GEORGETOwN LEGENDS | 26Meet three RecognizeGood honorees from Georgetown

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DROp ZONE | 30She’s a sky diver—and a grandmother!

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EYE ON THE FUTURE | 46Grad student eyes a career in environmental science

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MY FAVORITE THINGS | 50What will your favorites list reveal about your life?

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SUNRISE TO SUNSET | 54What’s in a day’s work at Dyer Dairy?

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MEG MORiNGEDITOR’S NOTE

When I was eight, my family moved from a small farming community in the Texas Panhandle to the Tall City—Midland, Texas. I missed the country, but oh, the city was like a candy shop in which I could indulge my passions: ballet classes, art lessons, giant public swimming pools, and a downtown city library that seemed as big as the whole town I’d come from.

When my husband (also from Midland) and I take our son back there to visit relatives, we drive around to check on our memories. “Looks like that old mulberry tree finally fell over,” I’ll say as we cruise by my old—and somehow shrunken—house. “When I went to that elementary school, we didn’t have air conditioning,” my husband will inform our son, to whom such a thing is unthinkable. Always, there are changes since the last time we visited.

Change has happened in Georgetown, too. In this issue, we look back at many of the changes through the eyes of those who’ve witnessed, if not propelled, many of them. Writer Emily Treadway shares entertaining tales about early Georgetown and the surrounding area told to her by Anita Rode, who was born in a nearby German-speaking community one hundred years ago. Writer Nancy Bacchus faced a challenge after she interviewed former mayor Leo Wood and his wife, Vivian, who retires this year as Williamson County Treasurer. Leo and Vivian have been a part of Georgetown’s transformation from a struggling town to a vibrant city, and oh, the stories they have to tell. No way could Nancy cram them all into one article!

As you drive around Georgetown after reading these stories, you might tend to see things you didn’t see before: farm families coming to the Square for dry goods and soda waters, a handful of volunteers laying the stones to form a flower garden in San Gabriel Park, a crew pouring concrete for a public pool on Williams Drive. Look around at the vibrant city Georgetown has become, imagine its rich past—and envision the future that awaits you here.

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“By tomorrow, do fifteen of these,” Mariann told the class. “That’s your homework.”

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She smiles. “That’s the joy of teaching, to me, to find something like that where they’re learn-ing, excited, and engaged, and it makes them want to keep doing it.”

Mariann Brown discovered the NOVA app last June while attending the Siemen Teachers as Researchers (STAR) program.

Participating in STAR helped her to find new ways to engage her students with hands-on learning while sharing a passion for sci-ence with the next generation.

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Mariann and twenty other ap-plicants from a variety of middle and high schools around the country were selected for the STAR program after a rigorous selection process that included making a YouTube video, com-pleting an application, and un-dergoing an interview. During the two-week program, they conduct-ed research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee in order to bring real-life applications of science, engineering, technology, and mathematics back to their classrooms.

Inspiring Tomorrow’s ScientistsSTAR winner ignites passion for science in her classroom


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Mariann partnered with a high school physics teacher from Roscoe, Texas. They were assigned to the Fuel, En-gines, and Emissions Research center to measure vehicles’ fuel emission and efficiency at certain speeds.

She also toured the other facilities and networked with teachers. During networking sessions, she learned about other research taking place at the pro-gram and new resources teachers used back in their classrooms.

Mariann said these connections were among the most valuable assets she gained from the experience.

“I don’t have a science department at my school that I can bounce ideas off of,” says Mariann, who is the only sci-ence teacher at Zion. “To have the other teachers offer ideas and resources was very helpful. Even since we’ve gotten back, we’ve been emailing each other with ideas and questions.”

REIGNITING A SpARKThe trip refreshed Mariann’s interest

in science and engineering and inspired her to continue working to instill that passion in the next generation. She of-ten tries to motivate children to pursue these fields by sharing her own work experiences at NASA and at the U.S. Geological Survey.

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They’re just starting to really decide what they’re interested in. … I feel re-ally strongly about trying to get them excited about science.”

Hands-on learning tools, Mariann believes, get students jazzed about science. With grant money from STAR, Mariann plans to purchase robotics materials to help students discover en-gineering outside their textbooks. She hopes the materials will engage them even more than the NOVA app about the periodic table.

Mariann also hopes to teach students that they don’t have to wear lab coats to be scientists or engineers. “I want them to know that they don’t need to be Albert Einstein or Madame Curie to go into science if they like it,” she says. “They picture the crazy scientist with the big test tubes boiling over. But I try to teach them about all the different career choices and different things they can do with science. They could one day design things that we can’t even think of right now.”

Or they could go on to become world-class scientists. “We’re going to have to have some very smart scientists and engineers to help us” address important world needs and issues in the future, Mariann predicts. And where else will those professionals come from but the classroom? Whatever her students do with their knowledge as they choose careers, Mariann hopes that they leave her classroom with a good understand-ing of—and perhaps a passion for—sci-ence.

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A S T O N E ’ S T H R O W

if Gus McCrae could speak today, he might express awe as Lonesome Dove fans from all over the world make their way to the Wittliff Collections

at Texas State University in San Marcos to see original props, screenplay drafts, photographs, and even his own one-legged corpse prop from the miniseries.

Bill Wittliff, Lonesome Dove’s co-executive producer and screen-writer, donated every draft of his screenplay, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, along with his photographs

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Gus’s letter to Clara exists only in the Wittliff Collections. The words are neither in the novel nor in the movie. They were improvised by Robert Duvall during the scene in which Gus lies on his deathbed writing his last missives. Duvall could have merely scribbled on that paper as the cameras were rolling, because the shot did not reveal his actual writing. Instead, Duvall, the consummate actor, writes a real letter as Gus.

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The Wittliff Collections are located in the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas

State University in San Marcos, Texas. For more information, visit

www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu or call 512-245-2313.

The Lonesome Dove Collection repre-sents the entire production record of the miniseries, and much of the material is on permanent display in the Lonesome Dove exhibition room at Texas State’s Alkek Library.

Lonesome Dove fans can marvel at the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign declaring “We don’t rent pigs,” complete outfits worn by Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall (as Woodrow F. Call and Augustus “Gus” McCrae), and examine the portrait of the three Texas Rangers that hung in the San Antonio bar where Gus taught a surly bartender a lesson. As visitors move through the exhibition, the movie’s soundtrack plays softly in the background, evoking the 1870s and the presence of the beloved characters who pushed the herd north to Montana.

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Admission to the Wittliff Collections—including the Lonesome Dove room—is free, and walk-ins are welcome. How-ever, calling ahead is strongly advised, as the Wittliff Collections may close during college breaks and holidays and as hours are subject to change. To re-quest a tour, simply ask the Wittliff desk attendant on the seventh floor of the Al-kek Library. Michele Miller, Wittliff Col-lections’ publications specialist, says, “We’ve given tours to folks from all over the world—as far away as Norway.”

The Lonesome Dove collection makes up only a fraction of the Wittliff Collec-tions at Texas State. “What we hope is that, when folks visit the Lonesome Dove exhibition, they will be amazed and delighted by what else is actually here,” Michele explains. The Wittliff

Collections’ public spaces occupy 6,600 square feet that spotlight the literature, film, music, and photography of this region—preserved for the discovery and encouragement of students, scholars, researchers, and the public at large.

“The main thing for me is that [the Wittliff Collections] be a place of inspi-ration for someone who has the itch to create but not yet the courage,” Bill Wittliff says.



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AS A wRITER OF MYSTERY NOVELS, wHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES FOR A GOOD MYSTERY?

I’m a mystery fan. It’s what I most like to read … so I’m picky about what constitutes “good” for me. I think a good mystery has to have authenticity as to its setting, characters, and the unfolding of the story in a logical sequence. A book has to have appealing char-acters involved in situations that evoke sympathy and … empathy. I read for the sweep of the novel—the setting, the action, the charac-ters. … I like to be surprised with the ending.

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writing and see what happens. That works okay for some kinds of fiction, but I’ve discovered, when you write a mystery, you need to have a logical train of events that led up to the crime and then follow through for the solution to the crime. I may start writing, [but] after a few chapters in which I establish my characters and setting and the crime is com-mitted, then I do start outlining in my head and eventually noting on paper what can be the sequence of events the hero or heroine must go through to reach a suc-cessful conclusion.

wHERE DO YOU BEGIN wHEN wRIT-ING A MYSTERY, OR ANY BOOK FOR THAT MATTER?

For some reason, whatever I write, I have to have my title first. … [And] since I do enjoy writing humor, as in my romantic com-edies, sometimes my book and series titles have a bit of pun in-volved, or humor, as in the series title It’s Murder at the Office and its double meaning. Sometimes the title comes to me and then I un-fold a story from that; other times, the storyline is in my head and the title comes up after I’ve mentally chewed on how I want it to end.

HOw DO YOU DE-VELOp YOUR pLOT, BEFORE YOU wRITE OR wHILE YOU ARE wRITING?

There are two kinds of writers—those who outline books chapter by chapter or use a similar arrange-ment and those known as “seat of the pants-ers” (SOTP). They start


AN EyE fOR MuRdER from page 21 HOw DO YOU DEVELOp COMpELLING CHARACTERS—INCLUDING THE MURDER-ER—IN A NOVEL?

You have to have believable charac-ters. Your hero or heroine needs to be someone people can relate to, and your villain someone they love to hate. Of course, your villain needs to evoke a little sympathy, but the reader needs to feel satisfied that villains deserve to be caught and punished for their crimes. Tradition says “the butler did it,” but

real life shows that many people kill, and many others are affected by the ripple effect such a crime has.

wHAT CAN BE CHALLENGING ABOUT wRITING A BOOK THAT CENTERS ON A CRIME?

A challenge any mystery writer faces is accuracy. You have to be accurate with things like your murder weapon of choice, with police (or detective) procedure, and with how people really act and react to crime and its intrusion into their normal life. I want to make

sure I’m as accurate as pos-sible, so I find experts who will advise me. I’ve found that law enforcement folks are generally extremely helpful. Sometimes the quest for information can be a bit humorous, too. When I was researching police proce-dure for my futuristic suspense Time Out, I called a metropoli-tan police department [about] … the procedure they went through when someone went missing. The person on the other end of the phone listened to … [my] request for informa-tion, then very coldly informed me, “Ma’am, it’s not a crime to be missing!” I thought that was a great line and actually used it in my novel.

wHAT DO YOU FIND ENjOYABLE AND REwARDING ABOUT wRITING MYSTERY NOVELS?

Throughout my life, reading has been my “retreat” for a short time, after which I’m able to deal in a refreshed manner with what’s going on [in my life]. The main reason I started writing … was picturing someone reading a book written by me. If, as they closed the back cover, they were smiling, then I felt I would have done a very good thing. I know from some readers that my books have given them escape from some pretty huge issues in their lives [and] have helped them recharge to face whatever their reality is. That’s a worthwhile reason to write.

Dorothy’s first book in the It’s Murder at the Office series, It Adds Up to Murder, was published in March

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Waiting for Leo’s return from his first city council meeting, Vivian, too, doubted they’d made the right move. Council meetings in Rosebud had never taken so long. What could be the problem? When Leo finally arrived at mid-night, he explained: “I just found out they’re broke.”

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ing in the Community Center, and oversaw construction of Georgetown’s first swimming pool available to all citizens. During a casual park inspection years ago, Leo, an inveterate “good Samaritan,” saw an older lady stranded in the park with a flat tire. After changing the tire, he discovered that her husband directed Texas Parks and Wild-life grant programs. She closed their brief encounter by saying, “If you ever need a grant for your park, let me know.” Later, he did just that, as park ameni-ties were expanded.

While Leo worked as city manager, Vivian plugged into the town’s heartbeat on the Square. In the early seventies, she served as secretary of the fifty-member Chamber of Com-merce. The Chamber office at 810 Main Street also housed the Georgetown Credit Bureau and Western Union, so Viv-ian’s job included diverse duties like checking credit status on request and conducting prop-erty searches. Vivian recalls that Southwestern’s president at the time, Durwood Fleming, communicated extensively by telegram, “something really different from today’s electronic world.” Hardly a day passed without his secre-tary calling to dictate a message.

She also enjoyed a few years in retail at Gold’s Department Store until she became office manager at Heritage Printing, dealing directly with a cross-section of Georgetown citizenry at each business. She gained marketing expertise at both companies as they sought customers beyond Georgetown. This skill, along with Vivian’s friendly personality and her previous Chamber work, prompted the Chamber search committee to approach her about interviewing for executive director. Leo encouraged her as well, and Vivian held the position over ten years. The Woods were sensitive to the unique alignment in their public duties, but both “made sure [the] personal relationship did not affect the business relationship.”

During those first fifteen years in Georgetown, the Woods were part of

significant steps forward: the southern boundary set between Round Rock and Georgetown, a dam on the North San Gabriel River, runway expansion at the airport following tornado damage, the new Westinghouse facility, plans for a future road loop, new schools, explosive growth in subdivisions, and, of course, revitalization of downtown through the Main Street Project. They saw it all. The town expanded, and efforts continued to promote “George-town as a great place to live and visit.”

“I can remember in the early eighties not being sure Georgetown was going to make it,” Vivian says. “The economy had just flattened out, local merchants were really hurting. But everybody just stepped up. Additions came in, lifted this part up, strengthened that part. … The good fortune [we had] far out-weighs the bad.”

Leo will never forget a particular ex-ample of generosity that occurred when

Georgetown built the Olympic-sized pool on Lakeway. After securing grants and matching city funds, the city still lacked $45,000. Leo approached a local businessman, who wrote a check for the full amount, saying, “Here, Leo, go get your pool. And this is anonymous. Don’t be talking about it.” Not all of the city’s anticipated proj-ects came to fruition, but when Leo resigned in 1985, he left the city coffers with over five mil-lion dollars in reserve funds.

From the mid-eighties through most of the nineties, Leo worked in management for the City of Austin water and wastewater utilities. Vivian left the Georgetown Chamber to become manager of special projects in nine counties for the Texas Association of Private In-dustry Councils. Both, however, found time for service through numerous boards and civic organizations.

In 1992 Leo successfully ran for mayor, serving until 1997. He describes the recruitment of Sun City during his may-oral service as “the icing on the cake.” In 1994 Vivian was approached by then District

Judge John Carter to seek the position of Williamson County Treasurer. Again, Leo was supportive, along with other local leaders and friends. For eighteen years, she’s been an effective steward, overseeing the county’s financial obli-gations. Vivian’s duties became more challenging during the past five years, as Wilco growth soared to second place nationally.

Feeling blessed that all three sons live in Williamson County, Vivian is retir-ing this year to spend more time with the grandchildren, but Georgetown can still count on her friendly pres-ence and dedicated effort. Leo says, “I’m not stopping. … I’m committed to Union State Bank, to my consulting firm, to this town.” Their spyglass view of Georgetown, like their stories, has depth and breadth and color, and they smile at each other as Vivian modestly admits, “There are things we haven’t told.”

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Anita Rode remembers a time when Christmas and birthday parties were less about the presents and more

about the family and friends who came to share the day. Gifts were simple: a stocking filled with fruit, nuts, and candy, and one useful present—perhaps a new dress. On Anita’s twelfth Christmas, she received a comb and mirror set that she still has today. Anita cherished that gift because it rep-resented “a big Christmas.”

Anita believes most holi-days are overdone today. When she was young, she recalls, “if someone in the neighborhood had a birthday, you went there with sandwiches or cake. And you shared. The men would play dominoes or cards, and the ladies would visit, and the children would play. That’s the way it was.” In her lifetime, Anita has had her share of birthday parties. This past fall, more than 150 fam-ily and friends came to a catered event at the Walburg Community Center to celebrate Anita’s 100th birthday. They came to celebrate a woman whose memory offers a peek into the Georgetown area’s past.

Anita Rode was born Anita Wolbrueck to a German-speaking

family on September 23, 1913. Like many people of her time, she was born at home on her family’s farm, which is located between Weir and Jonah. Anita lives on the same land today, although not in the same house. All but five years of her life have been spent on that land.

As a child, Anita attended Jonah schools, but only until she mastered the basics of reading, writing, addition, and subtraction, which was all the education her family considered necessary. She was also sent to German school for six weeks every summer for three years. The school met at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Wal-burg. “I can still write in German!” she exclaims.

Her family spent their week working on the farm, but Friday afternoons they would go into Walburg, a predominantly Ger-man community, to the Doering Store, which is now the Walburg German Restaurant, for any necessities. They could buy new tools, or if tools were broken, they went to the blacksmith shop in the back for repair. These trips were also social occasions to catch up on the news with neigh-bors and friends.

A visit to Georgetown only occurred about once a month, and Anita and her siblings didn’t


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Anita has always been a strong, God-fearing woman. During most of her younger years, she attended St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Walburg, where she was involved with the Lutheran Church League, a youth group of about sixty members. On Sunday evenings, the Lutheran Church League took turns hosting parties. “We kind of rotated houses,” Anita says. “Everyone was welcome, and we’d clean out the room and we’d dance with music furnished by a Victrola. … We played bunko, we [square danced], and we’d all sing and promenade.”

Anita met her husband, Rupert Rode, through the Lutheran Church League in the late 1930s when a church in Doss, Texas, a farming community north of Fredericksburg, invited the Lutheran Church League for a visit. In 1938 Anita and Rupert married and moved to his family’s farm outside of Fredericksburg, an area Anita refers to as “up yonder.”

Initially, Anita was unhappy moving to Fredericksburg and admits to crying in the beginning of her marriage. “The difference between Georgetown and Fredericksburg was like day and night,” she says. Georgetown was considered a very progressive community, and Fredericksburg was not. By the time she and Rupert married, Anita’s parents had electricity and an Electrolux refrigera-tor. “Up yonder, it was … dark,” she laughs. “When I moved to Fredericks-burg, there were no lights, no tele-phone, no mail routes, nothing.” Anita and Rupert lived there five years before they moved back to the Wolbrueck farm.

Generally, married women of Anita’s generation stayed home and tended to their families, but Anita and Rupert were not blessed with children. Anita worked outside the home. Despite her lack of formal education, Anita proudly declares, “I was never without a job!” She was a hard worker whose employers thought highly of her. Anita often worked at Key’s Variety Store

in Georgetown. Key’s stocked diverse goods, from dresses to coffeepots to Easter baskets. “I always had a job with Miss Keys,” Anita says. “I could leave her to do something else, and she would always take me right back if I asked her.”

Miss Keys recommended Anita for her job at Neuman’s Department Store, which was located on the west corner of 7th Street on the Square. Neuman’s was later bought out by Gelman’s, and Anita worked for them, too. She recol-lects that the Square was also home to a men’s clothing store called Hoffman’s, and on the south side of the Square there was a barbecue café where one

could buy a plate of barbecue and a cup of coffee for thirty-five cents.

Georgetown’s Square today is a hub of the community, but during the late 1960s, Anita remembers, Georgetown wasn’t very busy at all. “It was empty,” she says. “Not like it is now. … I went to work, and if I met three or four cars going to work, that was all. … There wasn’t a car around the Square. It was dead. My boss, Mr. Neuman, would walk to the front door of the store and look out at the courthouse and say, ‘The courthouse is a tombstone this after-noon.’” Anita drily adds, “I heard that more than once.”

Anita hasn’t worked out of the home in many years, but she still keeps busy. She does her own laundry and her own cooking and cleaning. Much of her time is now spent crocheting and embroider-ing. Anita has crocheted more than sev-enty afghans, and she embroiders cup towels as gifts for her church, family, and friends, all of whom have remained the one constant in her century of life.

Anita’s friends and family know she is a gift to them as much as they are to her. She sets an example of how to live an admirable, faith-filled life.

And she’s not done yet.

A visit to Georgetown only occurred about once a month. “If we got to go, Mama and Daddy gave us each a nickel to spend for soda water or ice cream; that’s what you could buy for [that amount] in those days.”



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“Those are just a couple of ex-amples, but once you destroy the environment, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to restore it to its natural state,” he points out.

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Additionally, Germany’s “melting pot” environment provides him with a chance to live among and communicate with other cultures, preparing him for a future in international diplomacy.

Environmental issues are vast and complex; they affect everyone either directly or indirectly, Jonathan believes. “I think that, for the coming world, it will be a very important topic that will engage many people,” he says.

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My Favorite ThingsCreative writing exercise uncovers gratitude and love

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In a creative writing exercise, Tory had compiled a detailed list of 100 things she loves—things like bonfires, rooftop gardens, and Cheshire Cat-grin-shaped cres-cent moons.

When I finished reading her list, I was so inspired that I immedi-ately made my own, scribbling down things like squirrels, bright lamps, and long kisses in the warm summer rain.

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“This list sounds just like you,” a friend commented when he saw my post. “I laughed in recognition of a few—like semicolons.”

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At its original 101 items, the list was far from exhaustive, though it was a valid representation of my personality and values. I’ve continued adding to the list since then, making note of past and new favorites—the things I love.

Today I have the list pinned to my office bulletin board to read in moments when I’m down, uneasy, or overwhelmed. As I reflect on simple pleasures like lunch dates with friends and sleeping on soft, clean sheets, I smile with relish at the things in life for which I’m deeply grateful.

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Visitors from around the world attend the two-day BP MS 150 bike ride to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Stretch-ing from Houston to Austin, the route spans the ruggedly diverse hills and plains of the Texas coun-tryside. Breakpoints for riders are stationed at eight- to ten-mile intervals, and a supply and gear (SAG) wagon, staffed by volun-teers, sticks close to riders for

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puree with the beans.3. Add puree back to hot rendered bacon fat. Turn heat to low/

simmer.4. Cook mixture for 10 minutes, stirring to keep from burning.5. fold in cheese and allow mixture to cool.6. Spoon 2 Tbsp of masa and then 2 Tbsp of bean mixture onto

a corn husk.7. Roll and tie the husk. Repeat with remaining husks. 8. Steam for 30 minutes.

Masa DoughYields 12 tamales

Ingredients:½ cup milk1½ cup corn kernels1 cup masa harina1 cup butter, room

temperature1 tsp baking powder½ tsp salt

Preparation:1. in a sauté pan, simmer milk and corn about 10 minutes.2. Strain corn, reserving one cup of the kernels.. Then puree the

remainder with the milk.3. Add the puree to the masa harina and mix using a whisk.4. in a mixer, using a paddle attachment, combine butter, baking

powder, and salt, until light and fluffy. This step can also be done in a mixing bowl by hand using a wooden spoon.

5. Slowly add the masa mixture, little by little, until incorporated.6. Mix on high speed for 2 minutes. do not over mix, as this will

make the dough tough and sticky.

Scratch Chorizo and Green Chile TamalesServes 8–10While you can purchase premade chorizo at most grocery stores, I prefer to make my own. Start a day ahead so that the chorizo ingredients can marinate overnight.

Ingredients:For the chorizo:2 pounds ground pork 1½ tsp cinnamon1 Tbsp smoked red chile powder1 tsp Mexican paprika1 tsp dried Mexican oregano1 tsp dried thyme¼ cup cider vinegar

For the tamales:Marinated chorizo mixture1 cup chopped onion4 green chiles, roasted, peeled,

seeded and chopped, or 2 small cans diced green chiles

½ cup Oaxaca cheese ½ tsp salt½ tsp pepper8–10 corn husks, soaked until

pliable, dried

Chicken TamalesYields 8–10

Ingredients:Masa dough½ pound shredded cooked

chicken¼ cup unsalted chicken stock½ cup green onions, chopped4 cloves garlic, roasted and

minced½ tsp salt½ tsp pepper1 tsp chili powder1 tsp dried Mexican oregano8–10 corn husks, soaked until pliable, dried

Preparation:1. Season the chicken with salt, pepper, chili powder, and

oregano.2. in a sauté pan, heat chicken stock.3. Add cooked, shredded chicken and allow the stock to be

absorbed, about 5 minutes.4. Add green onions and cool the mixture.5. Spoon 2 Tbsp of masa and then 2 Tbsp of chicken mixture

onto a corn husk.6. Roll and tie the husk. Repeat with remaining husks. 7. Steam for 30 minutes.

Preparation:1. Combine all chorizo

ingredients in a stainless steel bowl and marinate overnight.

2. in a sauté pan, cook onion until soft. Add chorizo mixture and cook until browned.

3. Add green chiles, and then cool mixture.

4. fold in cheese, salt, and pepper.

5. Spoon 2 Tbsp of masa and then 2 Tbsp of chorizo mixture onto a corn husk.

6. Roll and tie the husk. Repeat with remaining husks.

7. Steam for 30 minutes.


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H E A l T H y V i E W

debra McGarry settles on a stool at the Red Poppy Coffee Co. with yoga-like poise. The fingers she wraps

around a steaming cup of green tea are both soft and strong from her years as a licensed massage therapist. Her gaze, as she leans forward to talk, is frank.

“I thought I needed to go to a psychiatric ward,” she admits.

Debra, now sixty, shudders as she recalls the time when her body went crazy and her brain “seemed to have a mind of its own.” She’d just turned fifty when her symptoms began, symptoms that her doctor diagnosed as pre-menopausal. Little did she know that those symptoms were also those of a malfunctioning thyroid gland. As her hypothyroidism (low thyroid) went untreated, Debra

was plunged into a frightening ordeal.

Nightmares appeared first—dark dreams set in her child-hood—followed by depression and increasing claustrophobia. Anxiety attacks left her struggling to calm her pounding heart. Her body puffed up; bags appeared beneath her eyes. Her skin, she remembers, became “like snake skin,” and she “felt cold from the inside out.”

The second year, Debra’s brain seemed to dwell in constant fog. “I began to feel like I was a third person looking into me,” she says. She lost her thoughts mid-sen-tence, and she couldn’t compre-hend what others were telling her, either. “My thought process wouldn’t connect. It was horrible. It was embarrassing.” Maintain-ing her massage therapy practice got harder as she swelled all over, her energy plummeted to “hardly anything,” and she could barely walk. “I felt like my legs weren’t connected.”

Alarmed, Debra went back to the doctor yet again. The nurse had trouble finding Debra’s pulse, and Debra’s blood pressure was extremely low. She was driving home after a blood test when her

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cell phone rang. “You’re thyroid is really low,” the doctor said. “Come back tomorrow so we can test it again.” The next day, blood work revealed that her thyroid level was .05 mU/L—barely function-ing. Normal adult thyroid levels range from 0.4–4.2 mU/L.

“I was just hours from being in a coma,” Debra says.

Debra’s doctor immediately put her on the thyroid medication Levothyroxine. “It took about a year to get back to feeling like my old self,” she says. As her body re-turned to normal, so did her mind. It was a great relief, she says, “to know that I wasn’t going crazy!”

The thyroid gland secretes a hormone that controls metabolism. Hypothyroidism occurs when the thyroid doesn’t make enough hormone.

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The Georgetown Boys and Girls Club awarded fifteen-year-old Car-men Wain the Youth of the Year award in 2013.

Carmen, a high school freshman, frequents the Boys and Girls Club after-school program. During her time there, she has grown as a leader and found a second home.

wHY DID YOU jOIN THE BOYS AND GIRLS AFTER-SCHOOL CLUB?

I was hanging out at home before coming here because my mom, Holly, and her partner, JoDee, both work. They’re the ones who raise me. Last school

year, my brother and sister came [to Boys and Girls Club], but I didn’t want to

because I thought I was too old. But it was really different than I thought it would be. I like being with little kids and helping them, I get my homework done here, and I like the staff.

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Probably because I am the president of our leadership club. It’s called the Torch Club. We do community service projects. We’ve gone to the Wesleyan nurs-ing home to play board games and interact with the elderly people. We’ve also had a couple of bake sales.

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wHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED BY LEADING THE TORCH CLUB?

I’ve learned that it takes effort to achieve great things because you won’t get anywhere without trying. Our bake sale last year, at first, didn’t go so well. But then we worked hard to advertise. We had bright colored signs, and everybody made more stuff.

DID YOU SELL MORE?Yes! With the money we raised,

we got to go to Mel’s Lone Star Lanes bowling alley, and all the kids got to have fun. They learned that if you work hard, it pays off.

wHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB?

There are lots of good things! It’s probably how everyone comes together as a family. I’ve had a lot going on at home in my life, and when I come here, it’s a safe place where I don’t have to worry about things. Everyone is just together. Whatever the kids need, it just fills that. Carmen’s

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Whooping Cranes on a Local LakeCitizen scientists help track endangered birds

After a long afternoon armed with only a pair of binoculars and a notebook, a citizen scientist on the trail

of whooping cranes will call the day a success if she sights one bird or perhaps a small family of three. The largest birds in North America, these rare cranes—which number fewer than 500 in the world and fewer than 400 in the wild—have been listed as an endangered species for more than fifty years. But their populations are growing, and over the past few years, Central Texas sight-ings of the five-foot-tall waders, replete with red crowns and black “moustaches,” have increased.

Mark Klym, information special-ist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, explains that some of the birds have been overwin-tering at Granger Lake since the winter of 2011–2012. Mark ex-plains, “Given the migration route, they may have stopped over in the area historically, but it is not documented anywhere. Granger Lake is a new location for these

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birds to be spending the winter. … We are interested in [whatever] may help us to better understand why.”

Mark helps train a small but growing cadre of citizen scientists to observe the cranes’ movement and behavior without interfering with or spooking the birds. Why these rare birds are choosing to winter in Central Texas, hun-dreds of miles from their his-toric winter habitat, is a puzzle. Mark explains that, in addition to questions about food sources, experts are interested in finding out how the birds “are thriving in an area where waterfowl hunting is present. How are landowners responding to the presence of an endangered species on or near their property, and what are the habitat features that determine whether or not these birds will use an area?”

Because the birds are an endan-gered species, strict guidelines—set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—govern people’s interac-tion with the birds. These guide-lines include keeping a distance of

at least 2,000 feet from the birds, so as not to spook them. For Gail McAdoo, a member of the Good Water Master Naturalists and one of the citizen scientists who has observed the cranes in nature, the opportunity makes the careful training more than worthwhile. “They are incredibly beautiful birds,” she says, “both in flight and on land.”

To learn more about whooping cranes, Mark Klym recommends the following websites and books: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department at www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/whooper

International Crane Foundation at www.savingcranes.org/whooping-crane.html

Kathleen Kaska’s The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The Robert Porter Allen Story (University of Florida Press, 2012)

Linda Campbell’s Endangered and Threatened Animals of Texas: Their Life History and Management (Texas Parks and Wildlife Press, 1996)

If you’re interested in training as a citizen scientist to assist with observing the

whooping cranes, contact Texas Whooper Watch at 512-389-TXWW (8999).

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