🌱 How Bandera County families can claim new Guadalupe River flood relief funds
Bandera, Texas Patch AM: a 3 min readHello Bandera! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How Bandera County families can claim new Guadalupe River flood relief funds
- Why Bandera walked away from Texas’s fast-growing license plate camera network
Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 97 and low of 75 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: A t-storm around in the p.m., temps: high: 97, low: 73.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 97 and low of 71 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Flood-relief aid coming to families (boernestar.com) — Families in Bandera County affected by last year’s Guadalupe River flooding can now apply for up to $1,500 in direct relief, with Hill Country Family Services helping distribute nearly $100,000 in aid. Applications run through the Rebuild Texas Hill Country website, and HCFS is already issuing payments as requests come in. 
• The Insider Who Walked Away: How One Flock Safety Employee Saw the Surveillance Machine Up Close (webpronews.com) — Bandera is singled out as one of the Texas communities that chose to walk away from Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, even as many smaller departments signed on. A former company insider describes how the rapidly growing surveillance system raises privacy, ICE-cooperation, and misuse concerns that state lawmakers are only beginning to address.
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School Board Meeting
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Monday August 10
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Thursday August 6
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Found cat!!!
He seems to be really missing his family and has been hanging around with our other outdoor cats. Still intact male smoky grey and white. (Nextdoor Medina Lake) - I received the Boil Water notice for Bandera River Ranch.
I called to ask if that only applies to customers using the River View plant or all customers. Left vm, waiting for callback. Does anyone know the… (Nextdoor Bandera River Ranch)
- Avir Health Group posted a job opening for Housekeeper / Laundry in Bandera. Apply here.
- Elara Caring posted a job opening for Caregiver Personal Care Aide PCA in Bandera. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Bandera here.
🗞 Nearby News
Comfort
- What another Texas flood revealed about the state's warning system (grist.org)
Boerne
- Six Boerne ISD baseball players named all-state by Texas Sports Writers (boernestar.com)
- Bond, donors aid Ag Barn for Boerne ISD (boernestar.com)
- $300 Million Abound Advisors Joins Prospera (wealthsolutionsreport.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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