Briefly
• Incumbents Carl Hoelscher, Doug Schaefer and Andy Wheeler are unopposed for seats on the GCISD school board. Therefore, no school board election will be necessary in May, according to School Secretary Kathy Wheat.
• Thanks to all of the volunteers who showed up to install new radios in the fire trucks and ambulances. Keith Burnett says the radios are working great and it’s a real help to have good communications. Volunteers are: Eric McMillan, Marck Schafer, Burnett, Christy Seidenberger, Galen Schwartz, John Kinnibrugh, Bryan Cypert, Eric Seidenberger, Linda Avery, Bart Belew, Daniel Kujawski, Frankie Alvarado, Wendell Halfmann, Allen Jansa, Darren Jost, Dennis Hoelscher, Kyle Schwartz, Mark Frysak, Harold Hoelscher, Courtney Strube, Baylor Walker, Russell Halfmann, Doug Jost, Brant Murphy and Brent Gully.
• The regular GCISD board meeting was postponed until March 20, and therefore was not covered in this issue of the GC News.
• Glasscock County’s Senior Citizens will meet March 21 at 6 p.m. This is snack night, so please bring snacks or finger food.
• Spring Fling ’06 is a program for people 50 and over sponsored by the Texas Cooperative Extension April 24 – 28 at the 4-H center on Lake Brownwood. The event specializes in great food, educational workshops, tours, recreational activities, and warm, friendly people. Learn more by calling 354-2381 or 352/784-5482 or at http://texas4h-ctr.tamu.edu.
• A new scoreboard for the football field has been ordered, thanks to generous donations from area businesses. The Bearkat Booster Club has elected to buy one of the spaces on the scoreboard. If any Bearkat backers would like to donate toward the scoreboard, the Booster Club would greatly appreciate it. Please send any donations to the "Bearkat Booster Club" c/o Tibby Niehues, 1550 CR 125, Garden City, TX 79739.
• Kim Halfmann thanks the community for making the effort to vote during the recent primary election. She congratulates her opponent, Wilburn Bednar, and extends her best wishes to him for a successful term. She also sends special thanks to those who supported her campaign efforts.
• Incumbents John Phillips and Larry Wheat are unopposed for seats on the Glasscock Groundwater Conservation District’s Board of Directors. No election will be necessary in May, according to GGCD Secretary Donnita Coats.
• County Judge Wilburn Bednar thanks all the folks who supported him in the recent primary election.