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AACOG REGION
Volume 7, Issue 9
September 2005
AACOG
Contact Information
8700 Tesoro, Suite 700
San Antonio, TX 78217
(210) 362-5200
Fax: (210) 225-5937
mail@aacog.com
www.aacog.com
2005 Chairman
Hon. Tommy Adkisson
Commissioner
Bexar County
2005 Vice-Chairman
Hon. Richard Evans
County Judge
Bandera County
Executive Director
Al J. Notzon III
anotzon@aacog.com
Deputy Executive Director
Gloria C. Arriaga
garriaga@aacog.com
Deputy
Director
Dean Danos
ddanos@aacog.com
Serving the Counties
of:
Atascosa
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Bandera
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Bexar
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Comal
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Frio
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Gillespie
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Guadalupe
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Karnes
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Kendall
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Kerr
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Medina
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Wilson
SEPTEMBER 2005
EVENT CALENDAR
This
is an excerpt only, to view entire calendar of events, visit
www.aacog.com/calendar.
100th Kendall County Fair, Parade & Rodeo
Thursday, September 1-
Sunday, September 4, 2005
Kerrville Wine & Music Festival
Friday, September 2 -
Sunday, September 4, 2005
Celebrate Bandera
Friday, September 2 -
Sunday, September 4, 2005
Elders' Advocacy Network Education Workshop
Tuesday,
September 6, 2005
Community Disaster Preparedness Fair
Saturday, September 10,
2005
TARC's 40th Annual Conference
Tuesday, September 13 -
Friday, September 16, 2005
Comal County Fair
Wednesday, September 21 -
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair
Friday, September 23 - Sunday, September 25, 2005
AACOG Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday,
September 28, 2005
Earl Lewis Symposium on Urban Affairs
Monday, August 29 -
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
ADDITIONAL
LINKS:
AACOG Board of Directors
AACOG Employment
Air
Quality News
Elders' Advocacy Network
Frequently Asked Questions
General
Information
Housing News
September Aging Events
Membership
Kit
Monthly Tax Tip
Region TV Show
Transportation News
What's new on AACOG
site!
Back Issues of
AACOG Region
AACOG Home
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A New Kind of Station for
San Antonio…
and Texas! |
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August 5, 2005 Bexar County announced the upcoming
construction and availability of the first publicly
accessible alternative fuel station, which is scheduled
for completion in October. The station will be the first
of its kind in Texas, making propane and a new fuel blend,
E85, available for public use. The fueling site will be
located in northeast Bexar County at 4023 Interstate 35
North at the Bexar County Fleet Maintenance Facility.
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Alternative Fuel Article
Point of Contact: Isabel
Chacon |
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Retired Texas Ranger H. Joaquin Jackson to
speak at Class 2004-Charlie Academy Graduation |
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Law Enforcement Academy Class 2004-Charlie will hold its
graduation ceremony on September 30, 2005, at 7:00 p.m., in the
UTSA Business Building, 6900 North Loop 1604 West.
Approximately 20 cadets will be graduating.
The keynote
speaker for the ceremony will be H. Joaquin Jackson, who retired
from the Texas Rangers in 1993, ending a career that began in
1966 when he served with distinction as a Texas Ranger from the
Hill Country to the Big Bend. He has pursued criminals on
horseback, vehicle, and on foot on both sides of the Rio Grande.
Joaquin took part in the prison riot shoot out at Carrizo
Springs, the horrific homicide case in Big Bend's Colorado
Canyon, and many other high profile investigations. He was
the role model for actor Nick Nolte's movie "Extreme Prejudice",
and appeared in other movies such as "Gold Old Boys" (based on
the novel by Elmer Kelton), and starred Tommy Lee Jones.
His memoir "One Ranger" is the biggest seller in the history of
University of Texas Press. He currently lives in Alpine,
Texas, and is a frequent speaker on topics of Texas Ranger Lore
and Texas Law Enforcement.
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Law Academy Point of
Contact: Denton
Lankford |
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SchoolPool is Back in Session |
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Vacation is
definitely over in the Alamo City. As students find themselves back behind a
desk for hours a day, parents and commuters are finding themselves back in what
seems like hours of extra traffic. Each year when school goes back into
session, many parents find that they now have two commutes:
the first driving their child to school and the second driving
themselves to work. It’s stressful for the parents, for
other commuters sharing the road, and for the environment.
The additional traffic couldn’t come at a worse time. As the dog days of
summer roll on in late August and September, summer heat combines with extra
pollution emitted by the vehicles sitting in traffic to make ground-level ozone,
an invisible but very harmful air pollutant. Exposure to ground-level
ozone causes symptoms ranging from headaches and nausea to shortness of breath
long-term lung damage. The effects of ground-level ozone are most profound
on active children and those already suffering from lung diseases such as
asthma.
Fortunately, the Alamo Area Council of Governments is able to announce it’s
2005-2006 SchoolPool program, which will help relieve parents and commuters, and
help safeguard students.
Click here
to read the entire article.
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SchoolPool Contact: Heather
Willden |
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TEXERCISE to Feel
Better and Live Longer |
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 TEXERCISE
is an exciting new health initiative designed to help you make
those small everyday changes that can pay big dividends in feeling
better and living longer. To help you get started, a special
session of Alamo TEXERCISE will be held Friday, September 23,
2005, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the San Antonio Botanical
Garden, 555 Funston Place, San Antonio, Texas.
Read press release...
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TEXERCISE Point of Contact:
Burma Hyde |
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Community Disaster Preparedness Fair |
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Saturday, September 10, 2005, the Alamo Regional Citizen Corps
will host a Community Disaster Preparedness Fair at the 9/11
Memorial, 6622 Hwy 90 West, San Antonio. The event will
kickoff with a 5K Fun Run Walk at 7 a.m., and will include exhibit
and activity booths, a SAPD Bike Rodeo and a CERT Rodeo, a
luncheon, and first responder demonstrations.
Click here for more
information.
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Fair
Point of Contact:
Adrienne Cohen |
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Walk & Roll Challenge
Save money and improve air quality at the same time!
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To prove to the Alamo Region that we can get around town
using alternative
modes of transportation, we are challenging citizens to
log a total of
500,000 miles during the month of October. Commute
miles, recreation miles,
training miles, errands-they all count. Every time you
utilize an
alternative mode of transportation that is in one of the
competition
categories, you can log your miles using the event
website. Prizes will be
awarded to the winners of each of the competition
categories.
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Walk & Roll Challenge
Point of Contact: Heather
Willden |
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Area Agencies on Aging offer Informational
Sessions on Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit |
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Starting January 1, 2006,
Medicare will begin offering an added benefit that will cover
prescriptions. Everyone on Medicare will able to participate in
the new Medicare Prescription Benefit, regardless of income.
People will be able to enroll in the plan of their choice
starting this fall, and "Extra Help" will be available for people
with low-incomes to pay for most of the out-of-pocket expenses
associated with the plans. Applications for "Extra Help" are
available now through the Social Security Administration.
AACOG's Alamo and Bexar Area
Agencies on Aging are currently conducting outreach to inform
residents of Bexar County and surrounding counties about the new
Medicare Prescription Benefit (Part D). The outreach includes
several informational sessions. A Train the Trainer session will
be Tuesday, September 27, 2005, from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon in
the AACOG Board Room, 8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 100, San Antonio,
Texas. The session will include information on the new
Medicare Prescription Benefit and the Low Income Subsidy ”Extra
Help” application. If you would like to attend, please RSVP
Tina Smith at
tsmith@aacog.com or (210) 362-5217.
The Area Agencies on Aging are also
available to give presentations to groups on the new Medicare
Prescription Drug Benefit. For more information or to schedule
a presentation, please contact Dana Long at (210) 362-5307 or
dlong@aacog.com.
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Informational Sessions
Point of
Contact: Dena
Long |
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Public Hearing
The Alamo Area Council of
Governments (AACOG) is seeking public comment on its
Section Eight Annual Public Housing
Authority (PHA) Plan for fiscal year 2006
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A public hearing to receive
written or oral comments is scheduled for Wednesday, September 21,
2005 at 8:30 a.m. in the AACOG 6th floor Classroom 1
located at 8700 Tesoro Drive, San Antonio, Texas. For a copy of
the Annual PHA Plan or questions call 1-800-749-2010.
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