Celebrating 126 Years of Serving the communities of Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Bigfoot, and Moore in Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties
For a very long time I have been friends with a fellow I will call Robert. He worked for many years in a large financial planning organization, before breaking off and starting his own firm. It is sort of a 1 person deal with a part-time administrative helper. Robert is one of us “LUCKY DUCKS” who married WAY up and his wonderful Bride had her own very successful career for many years before retiring not too long ago.
Continue reading “We may be a little bit lost be we are making Good Time!”
Being prepared for emergencies is a favorite topic of mine. I can always find ways to be more prepared or imagine things that might happen. So, does that mean I spend my time thinking about the worst-case scenario? No, but it does require a little effort. So, when does it become a priority, or where does emergency preparedness get put in our risk level of things? Or, does it happen to other people and not me?
Continue reading “Health Unit NewsWhat If You Only Have 10 Minutes…”
by Butch Cook, Mayor
City of Devine
MARCH 19, 2024
I’d like to focus this week on opening the lines of communication at city hall as I promised. Our Devine City Administrator David Jordan and his staff have recently added some additional communication resources, put in place for the City of Devine to keep citizens up-to-date as much as possible.
We now have added several more layers of communication which will be very useful in emergency situations as well as informational.
Well despite the awful gloomy forecast, we ran off and took a weekend trip to Bandera over Spring Break. Felt kind of funny staying at a hotel just an hour down the road, but we had one of the best times ever. Bandera really has a lot of fun stuff to do.
Been a good week so far. Got 1.2 nches of rain out to Black Creek. Hallylooya! praise the Lord! Brings us to 8.7 inches for 2024 so far. Took us till May 15 last year to reach that number.
My son turned a big 6 years old Sunday, and he sure is proud of it. That night he got a craving for eggs, and he ate one after another until he had devoured 3 eggs, said it was because he was 6 now. If he eats 3 eggs now that he is 6, I hate to see how many eggs we’ll have to cook for breakfast when he’s 16! I have a feeling we are gonna need more chickens if that’s the case.
This morning, (Sunday) when I got ready to go to church, I stuck my head out the door to check the thermometer, and went back inside and got a jacket! It was 42º out there and too cool for shirt sleeves. Of course, I had the heater on to go to church and then around noon, when I went to town to run a couple of errands, the air conditioner was on, ho hum…this is Texas. This past week was busy as always…meetings, pokeno, and working at the gift shop.
By Butch Cook
It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago, I made the decision to run for Mayor of Devine and now another election season is upon us for our fair town. The turnout for last spring’s election was approximately 50% higher than the previous two elections, and my hope is the trend will continue with two council seats up for grabs in May for District’s 1 and 3. Both races have quality candidates opposing each other, and the more citizens take an interest in our city government the better.
I’ve been talking about volunteering lately and even been a volunteer for blood donations in the last few articles. I wanted to mention a few words from Rhonda, one of our public health nurses here at the Health Unit. Here, she talks about volunteering and its health impacts. Want a quick way to feel better? Try volunteering!
Recently, while I was working in our hospital gift shop, a copy of the weekly newsletter was on the desk and it contained some information that caught my attention. People frequently ask me “Where do you get your ideas for a column”? My answer is usually “Wherever I can find one”. Well, a little article on the reverse side of the newsletter gave me the idea for this week’s column. Of all things it was about carrots, and I realized that I have never written about this beautiful, delicious orange vegetable!
