Happy Thanksgiving week! Last week your Lytle P.D. officers handled 45 calls for service and conducted 68 traffic stops. Of those 68 stops, 40 resulted in a citation and 28 were warnings.
Our officers made one arrest last week. Ofc. J. Cortez was dispatched to the Stripes C-Store for a report of a person eating food without paying for it. When all was said and done, a 45-year-old male was arrested for theft, public intoxication, failure to ID, and felony possession of narcotics. He was booked into the Atascosa Co. Jail.
There were three property crimes reported last week. Two, once you take off the above theft at Stripes. #1 – A complainant at H.E.B. Plus reported that an unknown person “keyed” their 2012 GMC Pickup. #2 – Family Dollar reported that a female shoplifted a basket full of merchandise.
Not too many arrests, not too many property crimes. That’s good if you are a resident, but not so good if you are looking for material to make your weekly report enjoyable.
Here is some vital information if you are a City of Lytle Waste Management customer: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, Waste Management will pick up your trash on Friday versus Thursday. Please have containers out by early in the morning on Friday as they will start picking up trash in the early hours. This might be the most useful information that I provided this week.
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DHS Students of the Month
Devine Lion’s Club recognizes Students of the Month for November. Pictured are: Kellen Nixon, Juan Gonzales, student Tate Wisenbaker, Lewis Stroud, and student Savannah Parker, and Bill Herring.
DHS Student of the Month: Savannah Parker
School and Community Involvement:
My involvement in school and the community is a huge part of my life. I stay active by playing sports, which not only keeps me fit but also teaches me teamwork and discipline. My time in the FFA gave me a chance to develop my skills of leadership and learn more about agriculture, which is really important to me. I volunteer whenever I can, either helping out at events or participating in community service projects. These experiences have helped me build strong connections and make a positive impact within my community.
Future Plans
In the future I plan to take flight classes and acquire my private pilot’s license. Once I have my license, I aim to work for a company like UPS or Amazon, delivering packages. This career path excites me because it combines my passion for aviation with the opportunity to play a crucial role in logistics and delivery services. I’m looking forward to the adventure and responsibility that comes with being a pilot.
It’s Here! Happy Thanksgiving
If you don’t have your turkey thawed and almost oven ready…. you may have a problem!! I’m so very lucky my son and his wife do most of the cooking for Thanksgiving. All I need to do is one side dish, which as always is Sweet Potatoes and Apples, and make the dressing. My week has run away from me, I’ve messed up a recipe by having my butter too soft to cut into some cake mix, doubled part of a recipe and forgot to double the rest…and the list is not finished. Luckily for me, with the recipe using the butter, I remembered a bar cookie recipe I could use, the other recipe, I caught it in time to double the rest of the ingredients.
My daughter was here this past week, and we (mostly she) put my tree up and decorated.
The following recipe is fairly quick, just requiring several varieties of sliced apples. Just one word of advice, be sure to use the Marzettti’s Caramel Apple Dip, I made it using caramel ice cream topping and there was sticky caramel over several surfaces in my kitchen!
Green Jell-o® Salad
1 large or two small boxes lime gelatin
1 can (15-oz) crushed pineapple in juice
1 carton (8-oz) small curd cottage cheese
1 can whipped topping (i.e. Cool Whip)
Pour pineapple into pot: add gelatin, cook and stir until gelatin is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and chill or 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in cottage cheese. Place whipped topping into a serving bowl and gently fold gelatin mixture into topping. Chill before serving
Missy’s Apple Dip
2 blocks cream cheese, softened
½ cup sifted powdered sugar
1 carton Marzettis Caramel Apple Dip
1 to 2 cups Heath toffee bits
Apples to slice for serving (I used 1 Granny Smith, 1 Gala, and 1 other red apple)
Cream together cream cheese and powdered sugar, then spread this mixture onto an aluminum disposable pizza tin. Evenly spread the caramel apple dip over this and then sprinkle with the toffee bits. Serve with sliced apples of various types.
Sweet Potatoes and Apples
5 sweet potatoes or use 2 or 3 cans sweet potatoes
5 cooking apples (I use Granny Smith)
½ to ¾ cup of each Brown sugar, Cinnamon
½ stick Butter
½ cup Water
Preheat oven to 350º. Peel potatoes and cut into 1-inch-thick slices, set aside. Peel core and slice apples into ½-inch thick slices. Place a layer of sweet potatoes in a Dutch oven or stockpot, top with a layer of apples, sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon; repeat layers finishing with apples. Melt butter and pour over apples. Pour water into pot, put in oven and bake for about 1 hour or until potatoes are done or about ½ hour if you have used canned potatoes. Check the apples for doneness.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends!
Painting your own picture while helping other paint theirs
I have a former student who is great at helping others in terms of their Life and Career Choices. Insightful, Empathetic, Supportive, the adjectives of Advance Awesome could fill the page.
I was discussing this wonderful ability with her recently and listened as she spoke of some of her own lack of clarity in certain parts of her Life. It caused me to “sit back and ponder a while” on why someone can be so good at something and not seem to be able to help others do the same.
BUT ALSO, how someone could help others so well, and still feel a sense of incompleteness in their own personal development.
The effort of moving towards a sound and logical solution to such a challenging question is something akin to mastering Einstein’s’ Theory while riding a bike with one leg when it comes to my own feeble thought processes. But I did give the above question some considerable effort, although that might NOT mean much of a quality conclusion was formulated. However, I DID try!
Here is where I kind of “landed” on the above subject.
I am not sure anyone’s Life Picture is completed UNLESS we give up on trying to make it a little clearer and better. But if we can offer up a little bit of support and encouragement to others as they struggle with the same process of discovery, maybe we are, at the same time, bringing our OWN Picture into a better focus.
WOW. That was SOME SERIOUS Mental Effort for this Old Aggie Doc. Maybe I better stop this strenuous Brain exercise and go take a Nap!
For Liz.
$1000 Pull Tab at VFW
First Wednesday Bingo
No Bingo the Night Before Thanksgiving
VFW Post 3966 will have a $1000 Pull Tab on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. The $1000 Pull Tab is a monthly occurrence on the “First Wednesday” of the month. VFW Bingo has moved to Wednesdays every week. There is no Thursday Bingo currently.
There will be no Bingo on Wednesday, November 27 due to Thanksgiving.
Bingo was moved to Wednesdays so that it did not conflict with middle school and high school JV and freshman youth sports. Fall normally has smaller crowds and it is hoped that this move will increase attendance. Despite the smaller fall season attendance, the Post has maintained full pay outs for Bingo. If attendance increases, we will have larger jackpots.
As a charitable organization, bingo profits go to support veteran aid programs and community organizations.
Pull Tab sales start around 6 pm. Regular bingo starts at 7 pm. Doors open at 5 pm. Food, snacks and drinks are available so come early and get a good seat.
San Antonio Food Bank Distribution
Monday, December 2
There will be a San Antonio Food Bank Distribution on Monday, December 2, 2024 at VFW Post 3966 in Devine. The Post is located at 211 W. College Ave., Devine, TX 78016 across from the U.S. Post Office.
Registration for the distribution starts at 7 am. Food distribution starts at 9 am. Food Distribution is first come, first served and only while supply lasts. The line starts at the entrance to the VFW parking lot.
To find other distribution locations and dates or to determine your eligibility, go online to “safoodbank.org”.
Lytle 2024 Holiday Schedule/Waste Pickup
Trash collections will be adjusted to accommodate the holidays. Collection services will be delayed by one day for each holiday, with regular schedules resuming the following week.
Thanksgiving holiday collection normally on Thursday will be on Friday, November 28 instead. Regular Friday Collection will be on Saturday, Nov. 30. No change for normal Saturday collection.
Christmas collection will follow the same pattern. If you get regular pickup on Wednesday it will done the next day on Thursday, December 26. Regular Thursday pickup will be on Friday, Dec 27 and Friday pickup will be on Saturday.
New Year’s Day will be collected on January 2. Thursday’s regular collection will be done on Friday, Jan3 and Fridays will be done on Saturday, January 4.
Lytle’s Christmas Lighting & Santa’s Hayride Dec. 14
Every year Lytle holds its Annual Christmas Lighting and Santa’s Hayride. The festivities begin at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 14th at the Lytle Community Center. Santa arrives at the Community Center to turn on the lights at the Community Center and Main Street. After the lighting, Santa accompanies the children and their guardians on his hayride.
The 2024 Annual Christmas Lighting and Santa’s Hayride will start loading trailers at 5:30 p.m. at the Community Center, 19031 Priest Blvd., Lytle, Tx.
Admission is $1.00 or one canned good.
For information call 830-709-3692.
Please also join us at the Shops of Lytle at 15126 Main Street where we will have Santa’s Workshop with events for the kids to include an Ornament Workshop, the North Pole Post Office and Gingerbread Bakery.
The event is brought to you by the City of Lytle, Lytle Chamber of Commerce, Pena Family, Patriot Automotive, Lytle VFW Post 12041 and HEB Plus.
FCCLA launches “Give a Pet a Home”
Devine 7th grader Kamden Paige
Devine seventh grader Kamden Paige is setting a goal to help our local Devine Animal Control shelter this year for his FCCLA project titled, “Give a Pet a Home”. Last week, he organized a donation drive at Devine Middle School for the most needed items the shelter is in need of. To generate interest, he was given permission by Mrs. Darnell to offer an incentive for the grade level that donated the most items. At the end of the week, the drive garnered 127 items and the 7th and 8th graders tied! Paige donated the items on Monday, November 25th.
He has also created a board that is placed at Triple C Steakhouse in Devine with pictures and biographies of available pets for adoption. Paige plans to update it every other week, as required, to keep it current for those looking to add a pet to their family.
When asked why he chose this for his project, he stated, “Because I wanted to help animals get adopted. I’m an animal lover and want them all to have a home.”
National Wreaths Across America Day
National Wreaths Across America Day
The Current Events Club is proud to sponsor Wreaths Across America for the third year. Members are soliciting sponsorships from the public for the approximately 680 wreaths needed for veterans’ graves in Evergreen and St Joseph. Wreaths are $17 each and sponsorships are available through our website at http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/TX1147P, QR code below, or by contacting a Current Events Club member. There is still time to sponsor wreaths before this year’s ceremony.
On Saturday, December 14th, a ceremony honoring our veterans will take place at 11 am under the oak tree between Evergreen and St. Joseph cemeteries. Current Events Club members and community volunteers will then place a wreath decorated with a simple red bow on veteran’s graves. Volunteers are still needed. If you or your organization would like to volunteer at this event, contact WAA coordinators Martha Wall (210-213-5620) or Linda Kreinhop (713-562-7504).
Thank you for helping the Current Events Club and Wreaths Across America to reach its mission to Remember, Honor, and Teach.