November Schertz magazine

NOVEMBER 2011

C O N N E C T I N G T H E C O R R I D O R Z

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•Member Barbeques

•Monthly Family Activities

•Movement & Motion Toddler Class

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Dear Friend, I want to give credit where credit is due. So, perhaps a confession can help clear the air so there’s no misunderstanding, Before I talk about my confession, though, let me say a few other things first. Let me start by explaining the photo in this letter. You know, when I meet people in town they usually say, “Oh, yeah, I know you, you’re Dr. Martin. I’ve seen your ad with that picture of you and the two cute kids.” Well, I’m the guy in the middle. Years ago I was a college baseball player, but I developed a painful neck, shoulder and arm condition. In my case it came on suddenly. The pain in my hands was so intense that I couldn’t raise my arm above my head or even throw a baseball. I was afraid that I would lose my scholarship if it continued. I went to my trainer and medical doctor and was given anti-inflammatories. The problem with those medications is that they just mask the symptoms and in my case did not help. Finally, after steroid injections I decided against it. But, there’s more…A family member of mine convinces me to give their doctor a try. This new doctor did an exam, took some films, and then “adjusted” my spine. The adjustment didn’t hurt, it actually felt good. I got relief, and I could use my arm again. Oh, did I mention that this doctor is a chiropractor. It worked so well that I went to chiropractic school myself. Now for McKenna and Cooper, who are the cute kids in the picture. They get adjusted regularly and are some of the healthiest kids you will know. Their mom is also problem-free

even with all the bending and lifting a busy mom

of two does. It might seem

like a small thing, but it makes a big difference to her.

“A DOCTOR’S CONFESSION TO THE CITY OF SCHERTZ…” It’s strange how life is, because now people come to see me with their neck, arm and shoulder problems. Also they come to me with their headaches, migraines, chronic pain, carpal tunnel, whiplash from car accidents, backaches, ear infections, asthma, allergies, numbness in limbs, athletic injuries, just to name a few. Here’s what some of my patients had to say: “I have not had a headache in months”- (Mary J.) “Mood and attitude have improved” – (Lisa A.) Several times a day patients thank me for helping them with their health problems. But I can’t really take the credit. My confession is that I’ve never healed anyone of anything. What I do is perform a specific spinal adjustment to remove nerve pressure, and the body responds by healing itself. We get tremendous results. It’s a simple as that! Forty-eight million Americans no longer have health insurance, and those who do have found that their benefits are reduced. That’s where my I come in. I have a significantly lower fee plan so that more people are able to afford the care they need. A whole week of care in my office costs what you could pay for one visit elsewhere. Studies show that people actually pay less for their long-term overall health care expenses if they are seeing a chiropractor. You Benefit from an Amazing Offer- Look, you are going to write a check to someone for your health care expenses, you may as well write one for a lesser amount for chiropractic. When you bring in this article, you will receive my entire new patient exam for $17. That’s with an evaluation and X-Rays….the whole ball of wax. But, please call right away because this offer expires on November 30, 2011, and I don’t want you to miss out.

By the way, further care is very affordable and you’ll be happy to know that I have affordable plans. You see I’m not trying to seduce you to come see me with this low start up fee, then to only make it up with high fees after that. Further care is very important to consider when making your choice of doctor. High costs can add up very quickly. Great care at a great fee…Please, I hope that there’s no misunderstanding about quality of care just because I have a lower fee. You’ll get great care at a great fee. My qualifications…I’m a Magna cum Laude graduate of Cleveland Chiropractic College and a Strength and Conditioning Specialist. I’ve been entrusted to take care of tiny babies to pro athletes that you may know. After practicing for four years in San Antonio I moved my practice to Schertz. I just have a low exam fee to help more people who need care. My Associate, Dr. Kyle Stringer, brings over five years of experience to our practice with the latest in pain-free techniques. My assistant is Melissa, and she is really a great person. Our office is both friendly and warm and we try our best to make you feel at home. We have a wonderful service, at an exceptional fee. Our office is called Schertz Chiropractic and it is at 17323 IH 35 North Ste 106, (we are between 3009 and Schertz Parkway on the 35 South Access Road). Our phone number is 210-646-6000. Call Melissa or me today for an appointment. We can help you. Thank you. -Patrick W. Martin, D.C.

P.S. When accompanied by the first, I am also offering the second family member this same examination for only $10.

P.S.S. Your time is just as valuable as ours, that’s why we will be with you promptly at your appointment.

Not applicable to Medicare Beneficiaries due to regulations.

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In a fitting tribute for Veterans Day on November 11, this month’s Schertz Magazine features two stories about military personnel – one active, one retired. We visit with Maj. Gen. David Rubenstein, a Clemens High School graduate, who is back in a command position at Fort Sam Houston, and Col. Don Ellis, a legend in these parts for his work with returning POWs. Also, we reveal what is really behind that row of trees on Schertz Parkway as you near IH-35. Mortellaro’s Wholesale Nursery is a wonder to behold on 90 acres. The photos and text will leave you smiling. Also, look for a story on local business Marshall Shredding, which will host a free community shredding event in December. And read about the great job Schertz EMS does serving thousands in this area and their Passport to Care program that can save money on ambulance calls. All that and more in this month’s issue.

Editor’z Letter

Chuck McCollough,Editor

City Council

NOVEMBER 2011

C O N N E C T I N G T H E C O R R I D O R Z

On the CoverCol. Don Ellis, one of the most devoted Aggie football fans in our area, shows his A&M pride by wearing maroon while sitting in his living room. He played foot-ball for A&M many years ago.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY

B. E. Bailey Director, Public Affairs, Publisher

Chuck McCollough Editor

Alexis Souza Creative Director

Chris Matzenbacher Sales Director

Mary Spence Events Coordinator

Linda Ervin Business Manager

Shelby O’Neill Copy Editor

Brittany Losey Senior Writer

Contributing WritersB.E. Bailey, Chuck McCollough, Mary Spence, Lucille Sims Thomas, Andrea Allinger, Joel

Williams, Kari Bridges, Kiko Martinez, Denise Marcos, Donna Thompson, Gabby Ford, Alexis De

La Garza, Elsie Baker, Ashley Festa

PhotographersB.E. Bailey, Chuck McCollough, Mary Spence,

Robert Burton, Mike Harris, Bryan Nguyen, Joe Herczeg, Diana Webb, Andrea Allinger, Kari

Bridges, Zachary Carter

Schertz Magazine is published monthly by the Public Affairs Department of the City of Schertz.

Our mailing address is 1400 Schertz Parkway, Schertz, Texas 78154. The official publication of

the City of Schertz promotes city, community, and business activities associated with the City.

© City of Schertz, Texas.

The editorial office of Schertz Magazine is at 1400 Schertz Parkway, Schertz, Texas 78154.

Call (210) 619-1630. Fax (210) 619-1619. Website is schertz.com.schertzmagazine.com

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November 2011

Departmentz

Talk of the Townz10 Updatez

14 Clemens Chatter

15 Bargainz & Prizez

16 EMS Newz

18 Momz

Feature Storiez22 Mortellaro’s Nursery

29 Marshall Shredding

34 Colonel Ellis’ Life Story

38 Photo Spread of Schertzfest & BlitzCreek

Columnz26 Biz Spot: Korn Helps Mold Future Business Leaders

31 Focuz: Debbie Krause

40 Profilez: Clemens Grad has Role at Fort Sam

City Newz44 Crossing the Line: Battle Over Bounderies

49 Civic Newz

50 Calendarz

51 Contactz

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TalkoftheTownz

November 2011

RACAP Taking Applications for

Holiday ProgramsThe Randolph Area Christian Assistance Program (RACAP) is accepting applications for Christmas holiday assistance programs. Applications will be accepted from families in need of help for the holidays because of limited or no income or who are at or below the Federal Poverty Guidelines. The deadline to apply for this Christmas is Nov. 23.

RACAP welcomes organizations, businesses, groups or individuals who would like to participate by “adopting” families or donating food or money. This help is greatly needed and much appreciated. Donations may be dropped off at the RACAP office or mailed to 307 Pfeil St., Schertz, TX, 78154.

Applicants for assistance must live in the following ZIP Codes: 78108, 78109, 78132, 78148, 78154, 78247, 78233 or 78266.

For more information or if you are interested in helping, call (210) 658-1613 or drop by RACAP at 307 Pfeil St. in Schertz on Monday through Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

Schertz Sweetheart Court Active in the Community

Members of the 2011-2012 Sweetheart Court have been active in the community since the beginning of the school year. Along with assisting at SchertzFest with trophy presentations for the 3rd Annual Texas Gulf Coast Barbecue Cookers Association (TGCBCA) BBQ Cook-off on September 24, the Court participated in the 38th Annual Night in ‘Ole Converse parade on October 1 and helped instruct attendees at the 2nd Annual Fancy Nancy Book Party on October 8 at the Schertz Public Library. Court members include Miss Schertz, Caitlin Baumgarten; Miss Freedom, Brittany Schall; Miss Friendly City, Emily Poole; Miss Sunshine, Tabitha Joseph; and Miss Liberty, Kayley Carter.

Sweetheart Court at Fancy Nancy Book Party


TalkTownz

CBQ Eatery Represents Schertz in Taste Of SA

Hundreds of people packed the grounds of the Old Pearl Brewery to taste the best of the best restaurants in the San Antonio area, including CBQ Eatery of Schertz.

CBQ Eatery owner Chuck Stanley represented the culinary delights of the city at the 34th Annual Taste of San Antonio on October 9 by serving up his classic barbecue dishes.

The annual event, which is organized by GLI Distributing and the San Antonio Restaurant Association, includes some of South Texas’ top restaurants, including Barbaresco, Texas De Brazil, The Guenther House, the Old San Francisco Steakhouse and the Magic Time Machine.

Veterans Plaza in Schertz

Moving Forward

Another sign of the Schertz area’s devotion to our nation’s veterans can be seen in the sign to the left. The Veterans Plaza is slated to open near the Schertz Area Senior Center in the spring or summer 2012.


Schertz Post Office Bill Passes U.S. Senate

Almost one month before Veterans Day on November 11, the U.S. Senate voted on October 4 to rename the Schertz Post Office the Schertz Veterans Post Office.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted for the name change on June 22. After that vote, U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar said, “We must never forget that the freedoms and liberties we enjoy are due to the sacrifices of our veterans.”

Library Offers Adult Computer Classes

The Schertz Public Library has started offering adult computer classes on Tuesday evenings covering a variety of topics. Classes are one hour in length and begin at 6:30 PM. Registration is required. Visit the adult information desk in the library or call (210) 619-1700 for more information and to register.

On Saturday, November 5, at 12:00 PM, the library will hold the first meeting for the new Quilter’s Bee. This group is for both beginning and advanced quilters. Registration is encouraged for this program. The group will meet Saturdays at 12:00 PM at least once a month. Please visit the adult information desk or contact the library at (210) 619-1700 for more information

Here Comes the Buffalo

Stampede 5KThe Clemens girls’ soccer program will host its second annual 5K Buffalo Stampede on November 19 at 8:00 AM. Runners and walkers of all ages and speeds are welcome to participate in this event that will begin and end at Clemens High School.

Registration begins at 7:00 AM at the entrance to Buffalo Stadium.

There will also be a one-mile children’s run for young athletes. Awards will be given for age group winners in the 5K, along with food and refreshments for all participants.

Registration paperwork can be picked up from the athletic office and the Clemens athletic website, www.scuc.txed.net, or by calling (210) 945-6566.

Please support the girls’ soccer program by giving yourself a running start to the holiday season.


Family Fun Time Coming to the Library

The Schertz Public Library is offering a special three-day program from November 21 to November 23 called Family Fun Time. This program offers a variety of ways for families to spend quality time together and a special chance to make memorable Thanksgiving crafts.

Here is the schedule:

• Monday, November 21, at 10:00 AM - Cooking Together: An opportunity for your family to learn how to make Oreo truffles! Yum! Pre-registration online is required.

• Tuesday, November 22, at 10:00 AM - Family Centerpiece Extravaganza: Turn your family into a tribe and make a paper turkey that hands down will become a family favorite. Pre-registration online is required.

• Wednesday, November 23, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Craft Together: Drop in for fall-themed crafts and a chance to show some thanks to our troops by making cards to send overseas.

Randolph JBSA Civilian of the Quarter Honored by Chamber

The Schertz Chamber recognized Greg Bean and Scott Ridenour as winners of the Civilians of the Quarter for Randolph Air Force Base. This program recognizes the accomplishments of top performers, both military and civilian, within the five major organizations on Randolph AFB. Thank you to Chamber businesses Wal-Mart, HEB, La Quinta Inn and Suites, Anytime Fitness, Fairfield Inn and Suites, Youz Guyz, Hampton Inn and Suites, CBQ Eatery and Tim and Nancy Brown of RE/MAX Corridor, all of whom presented the two winners with wonderful gifts. A special thank you to Broadway Bank for sponsoring their Chamber lunches. Congratulations! Photo courtesy of Straughan Photography.

Two New Members Welcomed at Chamber September Luncheon

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With the loss of the homecoming game against Hays, Clemens students will be riding out the feeling of bitter disappointment at least until their next win. Despite the fact that the homecoming game is only Clemens’ second loss of the season (as of press deadline), students are still reeling from the unexpected loss. While the loss may be the biggest thing on students’ minds right now, homecoming week brings more than just a football game. With homecoming comes Clemens’ Light Up the Night tradition; Spirit Week, a tradition of themed outfit days like retro day or western day, and the crowning of the homecoming queen. This year, Light Up the Night took place on October 5. The parade of clubs and organizations showed off their pride with various banners and slogans. The cheerleaders and dance teams performed, and the band marched their UIL show. Also, as a part of the tradition, the lights went out in Lenhoff Stadium, and glow sticks lit up the night as the students celebrated homecoming. The Spirit Week days this year were twin day, retro day, western day, jersey day and blue and gold day. While some of the outfits cause dress code issues, students typically enjoy taking part in dressing up. Spirit Week is often a welcome change from the usual school week. Of the 11 girls on the homecoming court, only four are crowned at the game. This year, the court consists of Alicia Nickerson (Marquesa), Lillian Meiss (Dutchess), Fallyn Gawlik (Princess) and Monica Youngblood (Queen). And while Clemens did lose their homecoming game, the night also came with the traditional festivities of homecoming. Despite the loss, students still went all out for the festivities and to dance the night away at the homecoming dance.

Despite the Loss,Celebrations Continue

Clemens Chatter

By Gabby Ford and Alexis De La Garza

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BARGAINZ& PRIZEZ NOVEMBER EVENTS

After-Hours MixerHampton Inn, 17702 I-35 North

Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PMGreat food, fun, door prizes and more! Must be present to

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Member Appreciation and Awards Luncheon

Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 11:30 AM at the Schertz Civic CenterCost: $15 Schertz Chamber Members/ $25 (pre-paid) Non-

MembersRSVP by Tuesday, Nov. 8

Please visit our Chamber website for luncheon policy.

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Contact us at 210-566-9000,

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EMS Newz

Siren SongSCHERTZ EMS OFFERS NEW MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION

SERVICE

By Kari Bridges

Schertz Emergency Medical Services (EMS) serves as a leader in pro-viding the communi-ty with some of the best medical transportation services in the San Anto-nio region. With the new-est technology available, paramedics now have the equipment and skills to save more lives using innovative methods that

were unimaginable just a few years ago.

Training for the newest service to come to the state of Texas, the Ambu-lance Bus (Ambus), be-gan at the Schertz EMS in August and contin-ued through September. “We were fortunate to be receiving one out of 10 Ambuses for the entire

state,” said Jason Mab-bitt, operations manager of the Schertz EMS.

The Ambus, as part of the Schertz EMS, would collaborate with other EMS agencies in the San Antonio Region to form strike teams of up to sev-en ambulances and two Ambuses to provide ser-vices anywhere in the

state. Mabbitt explains that this service can help in emergency situations such as evacuations or at the scene of bus acci-dents in which up to 20 patients at a time could be taken to the closest hospital in the Ambus.

Another method of uti-lizing this service is to provide firefighters with


the critical medical sup-port that is necessary at any large fire or in sea-sonal heat waves. The rehab services at on-site locations would provide firefighters the oppor-tunity to cool off, re-hy-drate and receive imme-diate medical attention so they could quickly get back to their job of fight-ing fires.

The Schertz Ambus was purchased with state and federal grant funds by the regional Emergency Medical Task Force and is being given to Schertz EMS, who has agreed to operate it anywhere in the state in exchange for using it locally, accord-ing to Schertz EMS Di-rector Dudley Wait.

to Wait, the process in-volves sedating the pa-tient and slowly cooling the body down to 92 de-grees Fahrenheit for at least 24 hours.

“This process of cooling off the body and slow-ing everything down pre-vents the brain from be-ing damaged by cellular waste byproducts that are in abundance in the body after the heart has stopped beating and then is restarted,” Wait said. “After the process is completed, the patient is slowly brought back to normal body temper-atures over a 12- to 16-hour period.”

The Schertz EMS cur-rently operates four am-bulances from four sepa-rate locations, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The service employs 24 full-time paramedics, 15 part-time paramed-ics and five part-time EMT intermediates who respond to more than 7,000 requests for emer-gency medical services and transportation each year. In addition to pro-viding services to the city of Schertz, they also serve Universal City, Ci-bolo, Live Oak, Selma, Garden Ridge, Marion and Santa Clara, cover-ing an area of approxi-mately 225 square miles.

Schertz EMS IS TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR ITS

PASSPORT TO CARE PROGRAM THAT CAN REDUCE THE COST OF AN

EMERGENCY AMBULANCE TRANSPORT

Another example of the cutting-edge technology used by the Schertz EMS is induced hypother-mia. This technique has been used successfully in many patients to help maintain brain func-tion and reset the cellu-lar process in cardiac ar-rest victims who would otherwise not survive a heart attack. According

Passport to Care allows citizens to pre-plan for emergencies. Nobody ever plans to have an accident or a medical emergency and have to dial 911 for an ambulance. As a result, these events are always accompanied by unplanned and often very expensive medical costs. Schertz EMS now has a plan to help you avoid some of these expenses. This plan works like this: If you have insurance that covers ambulance transportation and are transported by Schertz EMS, you will pay nothing out of pocket for that transport. If you do not have insurance or your insurance says the ambulance transport was not necessary, you will receive an automatic 40 percent discount off of your ambulance bill, and with our average transport bill of approximately $1,000, this is a potential $400 savings. continued on page 18


EMS Passport To CareCONT’D FROM PAGE 17

So, for the low, low price of $50 to $75 a year, you can now rest assured that if you or a member of your family has a medical emergency, transportation to the hospital will be taken care of potentially with no cost to you. That’s right, no co-pay, no deductible, and no out of pocket costs (as long as your insurance deems it medically necessary). This plan is available to everyone who resides or works in Schertz EMS service area regardless of your insured status with the lone exception of Medicaid recipients. The State of Texas does not allow Medicaid recipients to participate in an EMS Membership plan because Medicaid does not come with any out of pocket expenses so the plan would be unnecessary for Medicaid recipients. Cost is: • $50 for an individual (insured) • $60 for family (insured) • $65 for individual (uninsured) • $75 for family (uninsured)

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A Mom’s Guide to Managing Stress

By Elise Baker

Does anyone have one? Oh, you thought I was going to provide one?

I have been thinking a lot lately about what causes moms to be stressed. Are we putting our kids in too many activities? Is the homework too much or too hard? Or are we trying to be good at everything? Bingo! (At least in my case.)

When I got married, I could barely boil water, and I’m not exaggerating! But somehow, over time, I have taught myself to cook and bake. I am no artist, but our dining room table is covered with supplies for my kids to be as creative as their hearts desire. I am a self-taught soccer coach; everything I know I learned on the Internet!

Why can’t I just can’t accept that I’m not good at everything? It doesn’t help that there are moms out there who can do it all. They are creative and pretty and fit, and their houses are perfectly kept and decorated. How do they do it?!

I ordered our Halloween costumes online - no sewing for me! I will probably buy a premade turkey for Thanksgiving. But I am a good mom, because I love my kids through good times and bad. (And if anyone has a preteen girl, you know times aren’t always good!) Hey, I think I can now write A Mom’s Guide to Managing Stress! It goes like this:

Being a good mom means loving your child(ren).

I can’t be in two places at once, I can’t read their minds, and I admit that I have set off the smoke alarm while cooking. But from now on, when I feel the need to be perfect, I will just re-read my new guide. The approaching holidays will be a good test of my new-found acceptance of my less-than-perfectness. One kid will complain about her itchy holiday dress. One kid will whine that I take too many pictures. Nobody will notice the effort I put into decorating or cleaning. But I love my children, so I will not stress. It’s as simple as that! Right? Let’s toast to a stress-free holiday season!

Momz

For more information go to schertz.com or call EMS at (210) 619-1400

Help Blue Santa!

Send your favorite person to jail during Holiday Lock Up.

The Schertz Police Department and EDC will hold their annual Holiday Lock-Up to benefit the Blue Santa Program. The event will be held on Thursday, November 8th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

Holiday Lock-Up is an annual event where an employee can have a fellow co-worker/boss/friend etc. “locked up” because of a warrant issued by Santa. Once a person is “arrested” they will be taken to the “jail” until they are bailed out. The money raised will go to the Blue Santa program which helps local area families by purchasing gifts, etc. for Christmas.

Interested in donating an unwrapped child’s toy or making a monetary donation? Contact Mendoza at (210) 619-1213 or [email protected].

Brothers Joe (left) and James Harden Help Run Mortellaro’s Wholesale Nursery.



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THERE’S MORE THAN MEETS the eye at Mortellaro’s Nursery, a business many of us have spot-ted countless times as we drive on Interstate 35 just north of Schertz Parkway. In fact, there’s much more. Behind that sign lays a 90-acre en-terprise, but as a wholesaler, that enterprise is not open to the public. Much of the Mortellaro’s acreage is devoted to growing plants for sale to landscapers and other nurseries throughout the state. The compa-ny’s catalog does not even list pric-es or availability, but directs those in the nursery plant trade to con-tact the Mortellaro’s office or regis-ter online for that information. “Landscapers around San Anto-nio are our bread and butter,” said Joe Harden, comptroller and web-master for the company started by his grandparents, Joe and Lucille Mortellaro, as a backyard nursery on San Antonio’s south side. In 2001, the company moved its headquarters to the Schertz loca-tion, which included the family property where Harden grew up. His boyhood home is still there, near the house where his grand-parents used to live. It adds to the color of what today remains a strong family-centered business. “We chose Schertz due to the im-mediate access to IH-35 and IH-10 close by, connecting us to all the

Mortellaro’s Nursury Booming, Blooming Business

By Joel Williams

major cities,” Harden said. “It con-tinues to serve us that advantage to this day.” Riding on Harden’s golf cart through the sprawling site and its massive horticultural inventory, one gets the realization that this place literally spawns all those re-tail store plant departments. The vehicle rolls past thousands of ornamental grass plants grown from cuttings, past hundreds of mountain laurel bushes of various sizes, past many other varieties of drought-tolerant native plants, trees and flowering plants. Many of the plants, especially the very young ones, live beneath a special mesh material that reduces the im-pact of the intense South Central Texas sun. The majority of sales by Mortel-laro’s over the years has shifted from retail garden centers to land-scapers directly, while still serving retailers. “So we have focused on the land-scapers’ needs starting from bed-ding plants in small three-inch containers up to large trees with six-inch caliper,” Harden said. “In doing this, we are able to continu-ously focus on the diversified land-scaping customer that starts at the homeowner’s backyard to the large shopping centers and apartment complexes. In doing this, we can still serve the retail nurseries like before.”

Because an operation like this re-quires massive amounts of water to keep the plants alive and help them to grow, Mortellaro’s keeps retaining ponds totaling several acres toward the back of the prop-erty. The water is a combination of reclaimed wastewater from the Cibolo Creek Municipal Authority and runoff that the nursery cap-tures from its own watering activi-ties. The retaining pond reduces the need for pumping fresh water from the Edwards Aquifer. And, indeed, the place operates like a farm. Workers in one area water plants according to their specific needs, while others are busy trans-ferring small plants to larger pots as part of the process of growing them to sizes sought by landscap-ing companies. Joe and Lucille Mortellaro estab-lished the business in 1956 as a backyard nursery that was an ex-tension of the produce business called Joe’s Vegetables that he had started as a young man. When changing times meant that con-sumers had less of a need for his produce deliveries, the couple shifted gears and focused more on the nursery. The fledgling business moved to what was then a rural area along what is now Loop 410 on the north side of San Antonio.

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In the ensuing years, the company continued to grow and change at that location. Joe Harden’s father, James Harden, joined the compa-ny in 1963 and then mar-ried the Mortellaro’s daugh-ter Joanne in 1964. In 1967, Joanne took on the majority of the bookkeeping respon-sibilities, which her mother, Lucille, had been handling. The company incorporated in 1970. In 1972, Joe and Lucille Mortellaro began a field-grown operation near Po-teet. The company still pro-duces plants for the nurs-ery on the tract in Atascosa County. Returning to grow in the field was a dream come true for Joe Mortella-ro, who passed away the fol-lowing year. On the 80 acres under cultivation there to-day, Mortellaro’s grows the small plants, which are then dug up, containerized and transferred to the Schertz location until they are ready for sale. James Harden took over management after the death of Joe Mortellaro and today serves as president and CEO while Joanne serves as chief financial officer. The Hard-ens began acquiring the land for the Schertz location in 1975, one tract at a time, including the home site. The Hardens’ son James Jr. joined the company in 1991 after graduating from Tex-as A&M and today serves as vice president of sales and production. His brother, Joe, started with the com-pany after graduating from

Texas Tech in 1997. Mortellaro’s Nursery orig-inally used the Schertz lo-cation only for growing and shipping until the company built its corpo-rate and sales office there in 2001. That made it pos-sible for Mortellaro’s to have all of its sales, ship-ping and corporate offices under one roof, surround-ed by large, picturesque display gardens with sam-ples of all of the available plants. Plant inventory on display ranges from vines and groundcover to season-al, tropical and perennial flowering plants to trees and shrubs, most of which is grown by Mortellaro’s. Joe Harden estimates that no more than 20 per-cent of the inventory came from somewhere else. The largest plants on the property are trees in 125-gallon containers lo-cated near the IH-35 side of the nursery. “Some of these were plant-ed from seeds a decade ago,” said Joe Harden, adding that trees grown in containers have a better survival rate than those dug up from the ground. “And winter is the best time to plant.”

The company still oper-ates with a strong fami-ly element. Children and family dogs sometimes still run around the nurs-ery, where the kids take tractor rides with the grandpa.

“One of the biggest ad-vantages of working with family is the ease and swiftness of making busi-ness decisions and imple-menting changes,” Hard-en said. “We can quick-ly shift our focus, intro-duce new crops, even focus on customers in a bind. That would not be possible with a top-heavy management or board of directors.” The place also hosts a va-riety of wildlife from time

to time, including migra-tory birds, butterflies at-tracted to the flowers and a large heron that was walking around the re-taining pond on a recent morning. A fox some-times prowls around at night.

So now you know what is behind that wall of trees along Schertz Parkway as you come up to IH-35: Mortellaro’s Nursery -- the greenest place in town.

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the time to mold her into a professional and taught her things both personally and professionally that she could never have learned in any classroom.

It was then that she learned the importance of building relationships among co-workers and networking with other business professionals to support building a successful business.

“State Farm helped me make a living, but the agents I worked with gave me a professional life through the relationships I made while working there,” she said.

The transition of a military family relocating to a new city brings many challenges, but as an established insurance agent, Korn soon found herself working for Alex Hartman State Farm Insurance Company off Schertz Parkway. Though she felt welcomed by the community, she experienced the lack of personal connection that every military wife faces and reached out to Maggie Titterington, the president of the Schertz Chamber of Commerce, in hope of being a part of a young professionals group that would give her the opportunity to meet and network with other business professionals in the community.

Titterington believes young professionals are the future of business and saw the need in the community to create a program that would give professionals between the ages of 21 and 40 a place to share their resources and support one another. She was encouraged by Korn’s enthusiasm, and together they established a program through the Schertz Chamber of Commerce called hYPer, which stands for Helping Young Professional Entrepreneurs Resource and meets twice a month.

Since the program’s creation in February, the group has grown to 30 members and continues to draw support from the business community. As president of the Chamber, Titterington meets with potential new members and sees the interest from the community.

“hYPer is expanding very quickly,” Titterington said. “I see the enthusiasm of the group spreading throughout members and non-members alike because it’s a group they want to be a part of.”

“We are the future professionals and leaders for our generation,” Korn said. “Together, we can learn how to lead, how to empower and how to make a


LLIKE MANY OTHER MILITARY SPOUSES BEFORE her who have left different parts of the country to start new lives in Schertz, Windy Korn packed up her household items and moved to Schertz when her husband, William, was re-stationed to Fort Sam Houston. The young professional and mother came to the city a year ago to begin a different chapter in her life away from friends and family in Georgia.

As an independent working woman, Korn’s interest in the insurance business began 15 years ago when she had an after-school job. Later she moved to Monroe, Georgia, where she believes a significant point in her career came when State Farm agent Patti Souther took


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difference. All of our members bring something very different to the table, and in such a diverse group comes great opportunity and great ideas for growth.”

Though this program is offered exclusively to members of the Schertz Chamber of Commerce, any individual or business who wishes to join this group who is not a member can join the Chamber to be a part of this exciting group.

“hYPer is unique in its come-as-you-are attitude,” Korn said. “We want anyone and everyone who wants to be a member. It doesn’t matter what you do or where you come from; you are a resource that we didn’t have prior.”

Korn is proud to have been brought up in a family that offered many examples of strong men and women who served as role models to her and encouraged her to be a leader with a strong work ethic. She shares this trait with other hYPer members who desire to help within the community and realize the importance of mentoring youth to help them reach their dreams.

“We want to pay it forward for our youth and give back to the people who have paved the way for us,” said Korn.

Together, hYPer members are currently making a difference in the lives of members of the Schertz Senior Center and the Schertz Housing Authority.

ESTABLISHING PROFESSIONAL contacts within a community ranks as a top component of reaching business success. But those contacts often depend less on how long you have lived in a community and more on how a person takes the initiative to establish those professional relationships within the community.

Windy Korn and her family recently relocated to Schertz from Georgia. Korn saw the need within the Schertz community to establish a networking young professionals group.

With the help of Maggie Titterington, the president of the Schertz Chamber of Commerce, Korn took an active role in developing the program known as hYPer, which stands for Helping Young Professional Entrepreneurs Resource and benefits young professionals in our community between the ages of 21 to 39.

The traditional method of networking, as in meeting people face-to-face, is what Korn believes is important and makes the difference in relationships with clients and retention of those clients. Meeting somebody and getting to know them as a person creates a rapport with somebody that the Internet, email and social networking cannot duplicate.

“Trust is built on relationships,” Korn said. “The hYPer group is all about relationships to me. I feel that it’s very important to form relationships within the business community to create trust in people on a personal level.”

If you are a young professional and would like to be a part of this dynamic and unique group, contact the Schertz Chamber of Commerce at 566-9000, and find out how you can make a difference in your life and those living in the city of Schertz.


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SHREDDING KEEPS FOCUS ON

FAMILY AND CHARITY

By Ashley Festa

ROB MARSHALL BUILT HIS multimillion-dollar business, and a second business, on the premise of destroying stuff. If only we could all be so lucky. The 41-year-old father of four is the owner of Marshall Shredding, a Schertz-based business that just celebrated its 10-year anniversary in August. What began as a one-man operation, and “quite the crapshoot,” according to Marshall, has developed into a statewide operation with 36 employees.

That’s more than double last year’s 15 employees. Ten years ago, Marshall was working in commercial real estate in Dallas when he noticed shredding companies filling a need in North Texas. After discussing it with his wife, Jennifer, the couple decided to move back to South Texas and give it a shot. “I don’t mind taking risks – calculated risks,” Marshall said. “I just work as hard as I can to make

it work out the way I hope it’ll turn out. Many of my friends thought I was crazy, and, sometimes, my wife did too. There were a lot of sleepless nights and hard work. But it’s starting to pay off.” Not only did his career gamble turn out as he had hoped, but it is also the fulfillment of a dream. “I always wanted to be in a service business,” Marshall said. “I just didn’t know what that would look like. Turned

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out that the shredding business was it.” The business is a service to the community in more ways than one. Companies appreciate that they are able to securely and cost-effec-tively destroy sensitive documents so their customers are protected, and because Marshall Shredding recycles 100 percent of those pa-per documents, Mother Nature is grateful for the protection of her environment. The nearly 4,000 tons of paper recycled last year alone is an enormous savings of precious trees, energy and water required to make new paper, a fact Marshall explains with pride. Marshall also noticed a need for the disposal of medical waste, so in 2008, he and a partner began a sec-ond niche company, MedSharps, a removal and treatment facility also based in Schertz. Marshall Shred-ding has a second location in Dal-las, and he’s able to service the en-tire state with both businesses.

MedSharps’ efforts are not going unnoticed; the company recently won a Going Green Award from the San Antonio Business Journal. Besides running two businesses, Marshall also takes his turn chas-ing four kids under the age of 10 around the house to give his wife a break from time to time. “Be-

cause of my hard work at the office, she’s had to work twice as hard at home,” he said. The couple had a daughter soon after they moved back to South Texas and a son in 2002. Later, they had twin girls, who are now 5 years old. “It’s a whole lot of work, and with the two businesses on top of that, it keeps us pretty busy,” he said with a laugh. “It keeps us on our toes.”

In addition to his work and home life, Marshall is involved in several service organizations. He partici-pates as a member of the Order of the Alamo and the German Club, both of which work to raise money for children’s and other charities.

A golfer, he also enjoys assisting the San Antonio chapter of ARMA (Association of Records Manag-ers and Administrators) Interna-tional and the San Antonio Police Department with its annual golf

tournament, Swing and Bear It, which benefits the department’s Care Bear Program, providing teddy bears to children removed from abusive homes. “The teddy bears help make kids feel safe and at home,” Marshall said.

“Many of my friends thought I was crazy, and, sometimes, my wife did too... But it’s starting to pay off.”

Marshall Shredding will host a free City Shredding Day event during Schertz Market Dayz on Saturday, December 3 in Pickrell Park. The community shredding event will run from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Marshall Shredding also offers a community-wide free shred day in partnership with the San Anto-nio Credit Union. The first Satur-day after tax day, the entire city is invited to bring a box of sensitive documents for shredding at no cost, and those taking advantage of the service are invited to make a donation, which Marshall Shred-ding then gives to Dress for Suc-cess. The charitable organization provides professional attire and offers career development for bat-tered women so they’ll be prepared to go to job interviews. “It helps start their lives over again,” Mar-shall added. In the little spare time he has, he loves to play golf with his fam-ily. “I’m trying to teach the kids to play golf and spend more time with them doing something we all en-joy,” he said.


History LessonsDEBBIE KRAUSE HAS HAD A FRONT-ROW SEAT FOR SCHERTZ’ METAMORPHOSIS

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throughout the past five decades.

It is a change that has taken Schertz from May-berry to the Metrocom’s premier city and future metropolis.

“When I was a kid, I could walk down Main Street and know the name of everyone I saw because our population was about 2,000 then,” she said, stopping to look out the window at Main Street in

autumn 2011. “It hasn’t changed all that much,” she added with a smile.

Krause works in Develop-ment Services, one of the busiest Schertz depart-ments because it deals with growth issues for a dynamic city of 34,000 residents, a number that increases daily.

Working in Development Services is a bit iron-ic for a small-town girl who can trace her fam-

ily four generations back in this area and who grew up in a slower, less hec-tic Schertz. Her grandfa-ther’s farm was behind Polly’s Pets in Universal City, and her father was born in the old hospital on Main Street in Schertz.

Krause’s pleasant per-sonality shines brightest when she talks about how Schertz was back then and the present day ef-fort to preserve the best of that past.

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DDEBBIE KRAUSE AND Schertz grew up togeth-er. They both came of age during the same time pe-riod and share a unique story of change.

Krause watched Schertz history unfold before her eyes and from a variety of vantage points including a malt shop, fire depart-ment, police department and her mom’s job at the old city hall. She has seen the city evolve and change in monumental ways

In addition to working in a city department charged with helping to plan for Schertz’ future, Krause also focuses on the past.

A longtime member of the City’s Historic Preserva-tion Committee, Krause was recruited for that body by Mayor Hal Baldwin about six years ago. “May-or Baldwin knew my fam-ily history and that I had lived in Schertz and knew its history,” Krause said.

According to Krause, May-or Baldwin decided to push for a Historic Preservation Commission after sev-eral historic buildings on Main Street were moved to Bracken and converted to shops. “He wanted to stop that kind of thing be-fore any more houses or buildings disappeared,” she said. “So the mayor formed the group, asked me to help, and I have en-joyed doing that since.”

The truth is that Krause is literally surrounded by his-tory. Her home was built in 1949 and sits in one of the oldest sections of Schertz near Cibolo Creek.

“My house needs a good bit of restoration work, and it is a work in progress,” she said. “I can remember as a kid walking from my house to a grocery store that is now the Vineyards Church. It had a butcher shop, smokehouse and also its own cheese. My dad would send me there for a pack of cigarettes and a six-pack of beer, and I would sign for it because back then every-

one charged their grocer-ies.”

She remembers that the Schertz area had a lot of farms, few subdivi-sions and few military families. With the ad-vent of more subdivisions came military families as well as others and the beginning of a new, bigger Schertz.

“Before I worked at Ol’ Bossy’s (located in what is now a real estate office on Main Street) in the early 1970s grilling burgers and making old fashion sodas and malts, I worked at the original city hall, helping my mom after school and sometimes on weekends to get the water bills out,” Krause recalled. “My job was to hand-stamp little metal plates with any new water customers’ infor-mation. I can’t remember what that machine was called but I loved doing it.

“I also helped the police chief and his four patrol men with manually re-cording all traffic tickets in a log book, washing their two patrol cars and filing things,” she continued. “I also helped the fire chief with sweeping the floors and writing the address of a fire on a blackboard for the volunteers coming in to see and find the fire. I did all of that for the wage of a cherry coke or vanilla ice cream cone on the days I worked.”

Krause has lived in Schertz most of her life. She moved away for a while to work at

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a nuclear submarine base in San Diego and a nuclear energy site in Washington state. Her son Paul, 26, is in the Navy.

“My paternal grandpar-ents had a farm in what is now Universal City,” she said. “I can remem-ber when Pat Booker Road was nothing much more than a gravel road with only three businesses on it. My grandmother’s parents came over from Germany and had a store in Fisher, where she was born. That town is now at the bottom of Canyon Lake.” When she is not helping someone get a city per-mit or researching an area cemetery for the Historic Preservation Commission, Krause can be found at an artisan area along Main Street. Because of her hob-by of working with stained glass, Krause helps out at the Anything Goes With Glass shop on Main Street. She also has developed an interest in ceramics of late, in part because of a pottery and ceramics store nearby called Cibolo Creek Pottery.

“I have a degree as a graduate gemologist and worked in a wholesale diamond business for awhile,” Krause also said. “My loves are my son and animals! I have been a fos-ter mom for several orga-nizations here and other cities for ferrets, dogs, cats, various wild birds and exotics.” Krause’s other include gardening (she is a master gardener with Guadalupe County), stained glass, pottery, jewelry repair, canning, motorcycles, knitting and crocheting. Krause teaches stained-glass classes and is look-ing forward to taking ce-ramic classes.

“We are hoping to bring more focus on Main Street and the arts by holding classes and having trav-eling teachers come into these two shops,” Krause said, looking out the win-dow onto the Main Street she has come to know so well though five decades of history.

(Above) Krause points to a boarded up window where, years before, there was a serving window where handed malts and hamburgers to customers at Old Bosse.


RETIRED AIR FORCE COL. ELLIS RECOUNTS HIS JOURNEY THROUGH THE SKIES

By Lucille Sims Thomas

Colonel Ellis’ Life Story Reads Like a Book

“I’VE ENJOYED MY LIFE. I’ve been blessed.” And with that modest statement, retired Air Force Col. Don Ellis quietly sums up his extraordinary life – a life in which he managed to intertwine football and military service in some very unusual ways.

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IEllis, who spent 27 years in the Air Force and flew fighter jets over Viet-nam, grew up in DeQuincy, Loui-siana, a small municipality about 30 miles west of Lake Charles and until about five years ago had not been back to see what had become of the place he describes as “a very wholesome town filled with salt-of-the-earth people.”

As he thinks back over his 79 years of life, the decorated veteran re-calls that sports and churches were the two most important things in DeQuincy. The town, which has a population of a little over 3,000 people, still has 13 churches.

Thanks to football, Ellis, who let-tered in four sports and was


all-state in football and basket-ball, was able to leave DeQuincy in 1950. He transferred to Texas A&M to play football after only one semester playing football at LSU. Ellis had a stellar career as an Ag-gie football player and later was on the Texas A&M coaching staff of Paul “Bear” Bryant for one season.

Ellis’ talents did not go unnoticed, and Ellis was picked up by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadi-an Football League, but those am-bitions were cut short by a shoul-der injury. By now, Ellis was mar-ried to his wife, Reni, and also had a three-year commitment to the military.

Ellis was sent to Moore AFB in Tex-as for his basic flight training and Bryant Field near College Station for advanced training with jets. As luck would have it, football contin-ued to be an important part of El-lis’ life.

When Ellis got to Moody AFB in Georgia for flight training and in-structor training, he once again found a way to incorporate football into his life by coaching a team af-ter-hours at the base.

A couple of years later, Ellis found himself at the Air Force Academy, this time as a role model for the ca-dets. He was assigned to the foot-ball staff in 1964, cutting short a tour to Alaska, to take the job. After four years there, Ellis volunteered for a tour in Vietnam because he felt it was the right thing to do.

“I thought this was important be-cause we’d seen all these young kids coming through, and that’s ex-actly where they were going,” Ellis said.

He went to Vietnam in 1968 and flew 100 missions in 67 days, set-ting a record for that time. While

there, Ellis had all of the Air Force Academy fliers who were mem-bers of his squadron fly with a spe-cial football in their planes, asking maintenance people to put it some-where inside. The pilots would write where over Vietnam the ball had flown. He later sent the names of all of the Air Force Academy graduates who had flown with the ball and the ball itself to the acade-my. The ball is now in a museum at the academy. One of the pilots who flew with the special football was John Blaha, a native of San Anto-nio who would go on to become an astronaut for NASA. Ellis said the two of them still keep in touch.

After his tour in Vietnam ended in 1969, Ellis returned to the Air Force Academy for a two-year stint as offensive coordinator for the football team.

“I wouldn’t trade anything for the experience I had working with the cadets and seeing how they dealt with adversity and all kinds of things,” Ellis said. “They’re under a lot of stress and how they handle themselves is really the makings of

a true leader.”As his Air Force career continued, Ellis became commander of the 560th Flying Training Squadron at Randolph AFB during the time when American POWs from Viet-nam were returning. Ellis and his staff, including his operations of-ficer Rocco Defelice, who he want-ed to give special credit to, were in charge of making sure the return-ing POWs were taken care of – put-ting some back on active flight sta-tus and giving symbolic ‘freedom flights’ to others.

The former POWs hold a reunion

every year that has become the lon-gest sustained unit celebration in the Air Force today. The group has been meeting for the past 35 years, most of the time at Ellis’ house.

Ellis’ favorite story to tell about his time in the Air Force involves his dealings with a Saudi Arabian prince who brought a group of roy-al air force pilots to Randolph AFB during his time in the 560th. The


Retired Air Force Col. Don Ellis and his wife, Reni, in their living room.


pilots came to observe how the U.S. trained its fighter pilots, and dur-ing his stay, the prince and his wife had dinner with Ellis and his wife. The prince also went to the Air Force Academy to meet the staff there.

The prince must have been most impressed with the way Ellis did things because he offered him the chance to go to Saudi Arabia and work for him training the roy-al air force pilots. Ellis declined.

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This proud father of three and grandfather of four spent his last days in the Air Force back at Ran-dolph AFB before retiring in 1982. Looking back, Ellis said, “I’ve had a wonderful ca-reer, I had a lot of good people who I worked for, and I really enjoyed working with the mainte-nance people here.” Ellis has become reac-quainted with his home-town in the past few years, occasionally re-

turning to speak at ban-quets. He said DeQuincy is still pretty much the same wholesome kind of place it was when he grew up there. He has recon-nected with a cousin from the town and also enjoys reading the local newspa-per.

The town now has a mu-seum with a photo of him prominently displayed, a testament of how proud they are of their native son and his achievements both on the football field and serving his country. Ellis also has been in-ducted in the Texas A&M Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.

Ed Azzoz (aka Grumpy) of Grumpy Mexican Café, one of Ellis’ favorite res-taurants, has nothing but good things to say about him and sums up his longtime patron and

friend’s life in one short sentence: “He is a true American hero.”

Mayor Hal Baldwin said Col. Ellis “embodies what is best about our commu-nity.” The mayor met Col. Ellis at Grumpy’s where both men often take their wives for lunch several times a week.

“Col. Ellis is a hero in ev-ery respect. Texas A&M football and the Air Force are two of his great loves and he loves to talk about them. And he played an important role in the re-turn of our POWs after the Vietnam War and he flew many missions in Vietnam,” Baldwin said. “He is one of those guys you really want in your community because he is such a dedicated volun-teer with his time and tal-ent,” the mayor said.

“He is a true American hero.”

Ed Azzoz (aka Grumpy) and Col. Don Ellis at Grumpy’s Mexican Restaurant.

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and Communities in Schools for providing volunteers from their respective businesses as well as to the many community volunteers who donated their time. The musical entertainment in-cluded the 1950s-style, all-female group Shake, Rattle & Roll, as well as Grupo Maldad, Cinco Doce, Kris Kimura Band, Meyer Ander-son Band, Zack Walther Band and headliners David Lee Garza y los Musicales Friday night and Grang-er Smith Saturday evening. SchertzFest was sponsored by Walker Partners, HEB, GVEC and the Schertz Parks & Recreation Foundation.


SSCHERTZFEST 2011 HAD A little something for everyone this year. The fun included a Kidz Zone area with face-painting, a petting zoo and choo-choo; a BBQ Cook-off; a carnival, the first ever BlitZcreek 5k adventure run and music, music, music ! Schertz Fest started in 2008 to cel-ebrate the city’s 50th birthday and has grown to become one of the most popular fall festivals in the area. Great community support helped make the event a HUGE suc-cess; thank you to Schertz Bank & Trust, Smart Moves Realty, SACU of Schertz, Vallance Security, En-canto Grill, Randolph-Brooks FCU, Xerox, Northeast Lakeview College

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Army Medical Service Corps.

He has a master’s from Baylor in health administration and a master’s in military art and science from the Army’s Command and General Staff College.

When he was growing up, Rubenstein recalled that Clemens was out in the middle of nowhere with a Catholic Church (Good Shepherd) right next to it. “That was really kinda neat,” he said. “There was nothing to get in the way or bother you. You were just out there to go to school.”

While at Clemens, Rubenstein said bad knees prohibited him from play-ing sports, so he spent his high school years as an athletic trainer for foot-ball, basketball and track. “I lived in the field house,” Rubenstein recalled.

He did run track and participate in the high jump during his senior year because he thought it looked like fun. The future general also was in some academic clubs including science club, math club and the National Honor Society.

TTHERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. It was true for Dorothy in “The Wiz-ard of Oz,” and it’s true for a highly decorated army officer of 34 years who clearly loves what he does for a living.

Maj. Gen. David Rubenstein, a 1973 Clemens High School graduate, is back at Fort Sam Houston for the fourth time in his Army career – and he couldn’t be happier. Rubenstein serves both as the commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School and concurrently as the chief of the U.S.


Clemens Grad has 2-Starring Role at Fort Sam


Rubenstein joined the Army to pay for college. He was one of five chil-dren, and realized that if he was go-ing to become the first person in his family to go to college, he was going to have to pay for it. Rubenstein re-ceived a four-year Army ROTC schol-arship and entered the military after graduating from Texas A&M Univer-sity. During his long military career, the general traveled the globe but said nothing compares to being in the San Antonio area.

“Over the last 38 years, I’ve been all over the world and what I miss is people who really know each other – the comfortable feel of a small town. You don’t get that same feeling when you are living in downtown Washing-ton D.C., (while stationed at the Pen-tagon) as I have. You don’t get that when you are living next to Seattle,” Rubenstein said.

Among Rubenstein’s numerous duty stations are: Fort Bragg, N.C., Fort Bliss, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Fort Belvoir, Va., Fort Lewis, Wash., Fort Gordon, Ga., Fort Hood, Land-stuhl, Germany and Heidelberg, Germany. He has performed duties in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Op-eration Iraqi Freedom, Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia & Herzegov-ina, and Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada. He remembers Main Street in Schertz being a lot like it is today with small mom-and-pop shops and streets that came off of it where people lived. “If you were doing business in Schertz, that’s where you did it if you weren’t in Univer-sal City or San Antonio,” the gener-al said about the Old Schertz area. Rubenstein is married to his high school sweetheart, Pat, and they have two adult children.



In his job as commander of the U.S. Army Medical De-partment and School, Rubenstein said, “I make medics.” About 30,000 students come through the school each year taking courses that range in length from one week to two years.

Rubenstein says Fort Sam Houston has a special relation-ship with San Antonio and that’s one of the reasons why it is nice to always come back here. In addition to that, his mom, father-in-law, two brothers, two sisters and lots of high school buddies live nearby. “It is nice to come home,” he said smiling.

Mayor Hal Baldwin said Maj. Gen. Rubenstein gives the Schertz area more bragging rights.

Clemens Grad Maj. Gen. David Rubenstein


“I first met Gen. Rubenstein at the opening of the Schertz Medical Home facility and I was shocked and tickled pink to find out the two-star general at the ribbon cut-ting is a Clemens grad.”

“It brings pride to our community and the school district to have a distinguished local leader like Maj. Gen. Ru-benstein who hails from our area,” Mayor Baldwin said.

Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School Dis-trict Board Chairman David Pevoto is thrilled the dis-trict has such an accomplished graduate.

“I personally feel that is such a great reflection on our school district as a whole. I am certain that, along with his family, SCUC and Samuel Clemens High School had a very positive influence on Maj. Gen. Rubenstein and helped form the basis of his character.”

“It is a tremendous honor for our school district and for Clemens High School to have such a high caliber gradu-ate. Maj. Gen.Rubenstein is representative of the qual-ity of education available in our school district and in this case, at Samuel Clemens High School,” Peveto said.

(Left) Mayor Hal Baldwin and Maj. Gen. Rubenstein

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GUADALUPE County Commissioners

Court precinct lines will be in place before the Texas Pri-

mary Election on March 6, 2012, but not everyone is happy about

the precinct boundaries. Federal law mandates the redraw-ing of county commissioners pre-cinct lines after each 10-year na-tional census. The aim is to get the same number of residents, or as close as possible, in each of the four commissioner precincts. Guadalupe County’s population in-creased 48 percent, from 89,000 to 132,000, between 2000 and 2010, and the majority of that growth was in the Schertz-Cibolo area. The ideal number for each precinct would be about 33,000 people, but achieving that parity is easier said than done, and the process has proved rather bruising for all sides.

Crossing the LineThe Battle Over Boundaries

By Chuck McCollough

Officials in the fast-growing west end of Guadalupe County, which is dominated by Schertz’ and Cibolo’s burgeoning populations and large property tax contributions, are frowning at the soon-to-be com-missioners precinct lines. Schertz Mayor Hal Baldwin and Cibolo resident Allen Dunn, the chairman of a citizens committee that advised the Commissioners Court on the redistricting process, have both said the western portion of the county is under represented in the new Commissioners precinct lines.

The mayor bluntly said that Schertz was short changed by the county. “I think the citizens committee chaired by Mr. Dunn got it right when they developed a map that more closely represented what we hoped for,” the mayor said about Map 6, which supporters say gives

Schertz and Cibolo each a better voice on the Commissioners Court. According to the mayor and Dunn, Map 6 has precinct lines that allow the Pct. 3 Commissioner (currently Jim Wolverton) to represent most of Schertz in Guadalupe Coun-ty (the remainder of Schertz is lo-cated in Bexar and Comal coun-ties) and the Pct. 4 Commissioner (currently Judy Cope) to represent most of Cibolo, which is entirely within Guadalupe County. The citizens committee, made up of two representatives from each of the four precincts, ended up sug-gesting another map, but the Com-missioners Court adopted yet an-other map--Map 8, which effec-tively splits Schertz and Cibolo among Pct. 3 and Pct. 4.

The redistricting map adopted by the Commissioners Court must be



approved by the U.S. Department of Justice to make sure it protects mi-nority voting rights in accordance with federal law. Election filing be-gins November 12 for the Texas Pri-mary, and County Judge Mike Wig-gins said the DOJ is expected to give its blessing to the Commissioners Court precinct redistricting plan be-fore that date.

While the Map 8 boundary lines technically give Schertz and Cibo-lo two representatives on the Com-missioner Court, both Mayor Bald-win and Dunn feel it actually dilutes the representation each city has on the county’s governing body. “I can’t speak for Schertz or Sel-ma, but the general consensus I got from the Cibolo City Council is that Map 6 gives our city a louder voice at the Commissioners Court,” Dunn said. “In fact, Map 6 is favored by most, if not all the municipalities in the Schertz-Cibolo area of the coun-ty. I never heard a good reason why Map 8 was adopted, even after a lot of people from Schertz and Cibolo came to the Commissioners Court voicing their support for Map 6 be-cause it gave them greater represen-tation.”

After serving on the citizens com-mittee and talking to many people about the redistricting plan, Dunn has many opinions on the subject.

“It is my feeling that a lot of dynam-

Crossing the Line

The Battle Over Boundaries


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ics are in play over this redistrict-ing matter and other issues,” he said. “Seguin has long been the economic and political center of power in Guadalupe County. And now the incredible growth in the western part of the county looks like a wave coming this way, and it throws the question of where the center of economic and political power is up in the air. It is causing a lot of concern and uncertainty. This issue may awaken a sleeping giant in the west part of the coun-ty that will make dramatic chang-es. But the change only will come if enough voters in Schertz and Ci-bolo make it happen.”

Mayor Baldwin echoed Dunn’s statements. He said Map 6 would have given Schertz and Cibolo a shot at getting their own commis-sioner, one that lives in each of the cities, on the court.

“The Schertz-Cibolo area has a lot of the county’s population and contributes a lot in tax revenues but has been largely ignored by the county for many years,” May-or Baldwin said. “We have enough population in our area to elect two county commissioners from our area. Over the years, we have had a lack of interest in both cities when it comes to county politics, espe-cially the Commissioners Court. As a result, we have let representation slip out of our fingers, and now we need to get it back and make sure

we are represented by two local peo-ple who reside in Schertz and in Ci-bolo. In the meantime, we will have to do the best we can with Commis-sioner Cope and hold her feet to the fire when it comes to what she does for Schertz.”

According to the Mayor, Cope has stressed that she has done a lot for Schertz, but usually that was because the topic benefited the county first and Schertz second, like support-ing the Schertz Area Public Library, which saves the county money.

“We appreciate the support Commis-sioner Cope has shown, but we will be watching how much support she gives Schertz in the future,” the mayor said.

County Judge Wiggins said he main-


Primary ProblemsELECTIONS OFFICE

WORKING STEADILY DESPITE REDISTRICTING SETBACKS

By Chuck McCollough

NEW VOTING CARDS LIKELY WILL go out in January, and voters will be able to cast ballots in the Texas primary on March 6 despite a perfect storm of elec-tion issues that is slowing the process, ac-cording to Guadalupe County Elections Administrator Sue Basham. “A presidential election year like 2012 is our busiest election cycle, and right now, we have a number of road blocks prevent-ing us from doing our job as fast as we would like,” she said. Those roadblocks include delays in re-districting because of lawsuits and new county commissioner precinct lines and congressional district lines that have yet to be approved. And some of that redis-tricting could put more than one congres-sional district in a county. “Any time you split a county with differ-ent congressional district lines, it cre-ates new voting boxes and more polling places,” Basham said. “And that costs the taxpayers more money. The Secretary of State’s office has delayed sending voter registration certificates until new com-missioners court precinct boundaries are established, so we know which precinct to put the voters in.”

November 12 is the first day to file for the March primary. Filing ends December 12. February 1 is the first day to register to vote, and February 21 is the first day of early voting.

Basham remains optimistic that all of the Guadalupe Commissioners Court pre-cinct lines and congressional district lines will be worked out and approved before

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tained a neutral position dur-ing the redistricting process and vowed to support whatever plan the majority of the Com-missioners Court voted for. The Map 8 plan was approved by a 3-1 vote with Wolverton voting against it. Cope, Pct. 1 Commis-sioner Roger Baenziger and Pct. 2 Commissioner Kyle Kutscher voted for the plan.

Wiggins stated that up to 15 maps of proposed precinct lines were studied during the redis-tricting process with early ones being rejected because they didn’t meet federal guidelines, primarily the one about pro-tecting minority voting rights. Eventually, the citizens commit-tee studied a number of maps

that seemed to meet the federal guidelines. The maps reflected various ways to get the parity or near the parity mandated by fed-eral law, but the committee ulti-mately realized that the only way to balance the population evenly in all four precincts is to redraw precinct boundaries in a way that takes population from high-growth areas like Schertz and Ci-bolo and adds them to less popu-lated precincts.

“By law, one precinct’s popula-tion cannot exceed five percent above or below a neighboring precinct,” Wiggins said. “So be-tween two precincts, there is a 10 percent window we can use to try

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Crossing the Line The Battle Over Boundaries


and balance population numbers.”

All that population shuf-fling also has to take into consideration the federal requirement to protect mi-nority voting rights. “Pre-cinct 2 is our minority pre-cinct because the majority of its residents are minor-ity members--Hispanic and black residents,” the county judge said.

Because Pct. 2 had ap-proximately 10,000 peo-ple below the ideal popu-lation of 33,000 and Pct. 3 covering Schertz and Cibolo had 16,000 more population than the ide-al number, new precinct lines move a chunk of pop-ulation into Pct. 2.

And there was yet anoth-er consideration - a wild card of sorts regarding the Schertz-Cibolo area.

“There is a little known provision that says if your population is more than 18,000 people inside a city solely within one pre-cinct, which is the case in Schertz right now, you have to establish a second Justice of the Peace office and second Constable of-fice,” Wiggins said. “That would have cost the coun-ty more than $200,000 to set up the second JP and Constable, and we would be expanding county gov-

ernment at a time when we are trying to go the other way.”

The Map 8 precinct lines re-flected that desire to avoid having to fund another JP and Constable, as well as all the other factors.

“Map 8 was drawn up by the law firm the county hired (Austin-based Alli-son, Bass & Associates) to help us with the redistrict-ing,” Wiggins continued. “We didn’t ask the law firm to create Map 8; they did it on their own after listening to concerns and comments from residents during the two redistricting meetings and factoring in all the oth-er things like protecting mi-nority voting rights. The law firm instructed us to proceed with the filing pro-cess for the Texas Primary on the assumption the DOJ will approve our new com-missioner precinct line be-fore filing begins in early November. And that is what we are doing.”

It remains to be seen what election results the new Commissioners Court pre-cinct lines produce and whether Dunn’s prediction of a sleep giant awakening comes true. Time will tell, perhaps as early as 2012.

Primary ProblemsELECTIONS OFFICE

WORKING STEADILY DESPITE REDISTRICTING SETBACKS


the end of the year and that every-thing will run smoothly with the new border lines after that. “In a worse case scenario, if the new precinct lines and district lines are not approved by early next year, ev-eryone would vote in the same poll-ing place they are using now,” Bash-am said. “We anticipate that the new lines will be OK’d and that people will be getting new voter registration cards in January.” All Guadalupe County voter regis-tration cards expire at the end of the year, so new ones will be sent out. In early October, Basham’s staff purged the old cards and assembled more than 73,000 names of voters who will be getting new cards. That num-ber will increase through the end of the end of the year. “By the time the General Election rolls around in November 2012, Gua-dalupe County could have 80,000 registered voters out of a population of around 135,000,” Basham said. “We have had a lot of people move into the county in the past 10 years, and most of them settled in the west end of the county, in the Schertz-Cibolo area.” Then Basham stopped to answer a phone that will ring a lot more often the closer it gets to elec-tion time.

For more information on the elec-tions office, visit www.co.guadalupe.tx.us/guadalupe2010/elections.


CivicNewzNovember 2011

Sewer Averaging WILL AFFECT RESIDENTS’

2012-2013 BILLS

Sewer averaging for the winter months began on October 24 and contin-ues through March 6 for cycle billing. Meter read-ings taken over this period determine your sewer av-erage for the next billing year, which begins April 1. The readings will be av-eraged, and that average will be multiplied by $2.65 for residents with an aver-age below 12,000 gallons. For residents with averag-es over 12,001 gallons, the average will be multiplied by $2.84. That total will be added to the base rate of $3.75 for residential use. That average will be your sewer charge for the next 12 months. For more infor-mation, visit schertz.com or call (210) 619-1100.

Schertz Celebrates NATIONAL NIGHT OUT

In the photo above, May-or Hal Baldwin (center) presents a National Night Out proclamation to one of the many neighbor-hoods holding NNO ac-tivities. Also representing Schertz are City Council-man George Antuna (far left in blue shirt) and City Manager John Kessel (far right in blue shirt).

Among Schertz commu-nity members taking part in National Night Out

The 28th Annual Nation-al Night Out (NNO) held Oct. 4 throughout Schertz and the rest of Texas was a big winner. Driveways, streets, cul-de-sacs, pa-vilions and parks from Northcliffe to Ware-Se-guin Road were packed with neighbors who just wanted to get together, hang out, discuss their community and meet (and thank) area emer-gency services personnel and other local officials.

this year were Schertz Bank and Trust, Ran-dolph Realty, Sycamore Creek Apartments,and subdivisions such as Dove Meadows, Wood-land Oak, Savannah Bluff, Oak Trail Estates and Fairway Ridge. NNO events also were held at the Northcliffe Pool and the Columbia Communi-ty Swimming Pool. Originally designed to promote cooperation be-tween local law enforce-ment and the commu-nity, the City of Schertz has taken this concept to the next level by inviting all of Schertz Emergen-cy Services, the Schertz administration staff and the Schertz City Council to meet the citizens they serve. Numerous street parties were attended by city personnel, and many more were visited by on- and off-duty police officers.


November 2011Tuesday, 1City Council,

6:00 PM, Council Chambers

Thursday, 3Transportation Safety Advisory Commission,


Monday, 7Library Advisory Board,

7:00 PM, Schertz Public Library

Tuesday, 8City Council,


Wednesday, 9Planning & Zoning,


Friday, 11Veterans Day, City Holiday





Monday, 23Planning & Zoning,


Thursday, 24 - 25ThanksgivingCity Holiday

Monday, 28Parks & Recreation Advisory Board,

5:30 PM, Bob Andrews Room

Board of Adjustments, 6:00 PM, Council Chambers

***Meeting locations may change, please visit the calendar at www.schertz.com for confirmation.***

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CivicNewzNovember 2011

Help Blue Santa by Sending SomeoneTO JAIL DURING HOLIDAY LOCK-UP

The Schertz Police Department and Economic Development Coor-poration will hold its annual Holiday Lock-Up to benefit the Blue Santa Program on November 8 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. During the annual Holiday Lock-Up, an employee can have a fel-low co-worker, boss, friend, etc., locked up because of a warrant is-sued by Santa. Once a person is arrested, they will be taken to the fake jail until they are bailed out. The money raised will go to the Blue Santa program, which helps local area families purchase gifts for Christmas. Blue Santa Coordinator Esther Mendoza said the Schertz Police Department will begin its Blue Santa Program in November. Any-one who is interested in donating an unwrapped child’s toy or mak-ing a monetary donation can contact Mendoza at (210) 619-1213 or [email protected]. For those who would like to receive assistance from Blue Santa, the applications will be available on November 1. Please call (210) 619-1213 for more information.

IMPORTANT SCHERTZPHONE NUMBERSCity of Schertz Elected Officials

Mayor: Hal Baldwin 210-658-6466

Council Members:Michael Carpenter (210) 619-1045Cedric Edwards, Sr. (210) 566-4540Jim Fowler (210) 658-1442David Scagliola (830) 606-1130George Antuna, Jr. (210) 467-7914

City Departments:City of Schertz (210) 619-1000Animal Control (210) 619-1550Business/Utilities (210) 619-1100City Manager (210) 619-1000City Secretary (210) 619-1030Civic Center (210) 619-1600Customer Care/311 (210) 619-1000Economic Development (210) 619-1070EMS (non-emergency) (210) 619-1400Fire (non-emergency) (210) 619-1300Human Resources (210) 619-1150Information Technology (210) 619-1180Inspections (210) 619-1750Marshal Services (210) 619-1650Municipal Court (210) 619-1500Parks & Recreation (210) 619-1850Planning & Zoning (210) 619-1780Police (non-emergency) (210) 619-1200Public Affairs (210) 619-1630Public Library (210) 619-1700Public Works (210) 619-1800Records (210) 619-1030Website schertz.com

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Downtown Schertz Seeing BUSINESS BOOM

In photo to the left, (L-R) City Councilman George Antuna, Java Nook coffee shop owner Don Counts, Mayor Hal Baldwin, May-or Pro Tem Jim Fowler and City Manager John Kessel gather in Java Nook after a big ribbon-cutting October 6 for the coffee shop and a number of other businesses in the renovated Main Plaza Building at 509 Main Street.

The Shops at Main Plaza are part of an ongoing renaissance of the Main Street/FM 78 area that is Downtown Schertz. The shops and their owners are Java Nook, Don Counts; Rubye’s, David and Rubye Collins; Bud and Bloom Flowers, Donna Epley; Hands N Harmony; Nancy Brewington; Cibolo Custom Decks and More, Keith Jones and Grace Tom; and A Moment in Time, Maggie Titterington.

Mayor and Police Chief Wait Tables FOR GOOD CAUSE

At the Chili’s Restaurant in Schertz, tips were a bit higher on Sept. 26 as Mayor Hal Baldwin and Police Chief Don Taylor served as celebrity waiters in part of a nationwide effort on be-half of Chili’s to donate all profits that day to the St. Jude’s Chil-dren’s Hospital. A City Council member, City of Schertz staff, family members of the celebrity waiters and local business people waited patiently (and with increasingly loud stomach growls) as the mayor and chief did their best to sling hash and get orders right. Lots of laughs and no dropped plates later, the mayor and chief were seen sitting down and rubbing their feet. The celebrity waiters event helped the Chili’s in Schertz raise $400 for the St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.KABB Fox 29 TV station cameraman Alex Garcia films Schertz Police Chief Don Taylor (foreground) and Mayor Hal Baldwin at the Chili’s Restaurant in Schertz, where they were celebrity waiters for a charity event on Sept. 26.

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