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AACOG REGION
Volume 8, Issue 10
October 2006
AACOG
Contact Information
8700 Tesoro, Suite 700
San Antonio, TX 78217
(210) 362-5200
Fax: (210) 225-5937
mail@aacog.com
www.aacog.com
2006 Chairman
Hon. Richard Evans
County Judge
Bandera County
2006
Vice-Chairman
Hon. Jack Leonhardt
Mayor
City of Windcrest
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
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Quality News
Atascosa County Sesquicentennial
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Frequently Asked Questions
General
Information
Gov. Perry Appoints Ray To Texas Department of Housing and Community
Affairs
H-GAC to host TARC Conference on Regionalism
Membership
Kit
October is Domestic Violence Awareness
Month
Seven-String Barbed Wire Fence: Many Faces of Latino Immigration
in the United States
Transportation News
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 To
promote a better quality of life in the San Antonio region, AACOG and
the San Antonio-Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
challenge area citizens to practice "smart miles". Smart miles refers to
efficient and healthy modes of transportation that reduce our trips to
the gas pump, save us money, improve our air quality, and provide health
benefits. These include such options as carpooling, vanpooling, riding
the bus, riding a bicycle, or walking.
During October, AACOG and the MPO are conducting the second annual Walk
& Roll Challenge to reward local residents who log the most "smart
miles" between October 1 and October 31. Whether for work-related trips
or recreation, participants with the best records in each of four
categories will be recognized for their successes and awarded prizes.
The four competition categories are:
The overall goal of the
2006 Walk & Roll Challenge is to accumulate 500,000 smart miles.
That’s the equivalent of removing over 1,800 pounds of pollutants from
our air. An accomplishment of that type means everyone’s a winner
because we’re all breathing easier! Visit
www.walkandrollchallenge.com for more information.
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A
Regional Weapons of Mass Destruction Functional Exercise will be
held October 10-12,
2006.
The exercise is two days of functional exercise play and a half-day
after action review facilitated by representatives from the National
Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center. These exercises will
include the Incident Command Post consisting of all the
primary players from the first responder arena, the Emergency
Operations Center and the Disaster District Committee. Each location will have exercise observer/ controllers
to control
the sequence of events for the exercise and provide the players with
guidance and recommendations.
For more information, contact
Don McFarland at (210)
362-5296 or
click here.
The Energy Systems Laboratory of the Texas A&M
University System and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will host
the Air Quality 2006: Energy Leadership & Emissions
Reduction Conference to be held October 10-13, 2006 in Houston,
Texas, at the Hilton University of Houston. This unique forum provides a
focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies for cleaner
air, recognizing development and the built environment as resources for
broad, cost-effective solutions. This year's theme will be "Creating the
Clean Energy City." For more information, visit
Air
Quality 2006.
 Beginning
on October 19, 2006 the Texas Rural Innovators Forum (TRIF) will
launch a new rural communities program. TRIF will bring to
Texas some of the nation's experts in rural economic and community
development. These speakers will share ideas and innovations that have
successfully made a difference throughout the nation's
rural communities.
The forums
will be held in central Texas approximately every six to eight weeks and each
forum will last about three hours. As a community leader in rural Texas,
if you think that your community can improve or must improve, be
a part of the TRIF forums. Visit
www.ruraltx.org for more information.
On
October 21, 2006, members of more than 20 area car clubs will embark on
AACOG’s sixth annual Scenic Hills Cruise. From 8 to 9:30 a.m.,
participants will catch a beautiful panoramic view of Leon Valley at the
starting point for the cruise—the parking lot for the Church on the Rock
located where Bandera Road goes over what the old stagecoach drivers
called “Nine Mile Hill. The historic Huebner-Onion Homestead at 6613
Bandera Road is another great stop in Leon Valley for history buffs and
lovers of local lore. To find out about all the hospitality stops on
the scenic hills cruise,
click here.
The
 Marion
ISD Community Library is joining hands with the Alamo Area Agency on
Aging and the Texercise program to sponsor a 10,000 Steps Program.
10,000 Steps helps seniors meet new people, get fit, and
earn prizes. Join us for the kick-off!
Location:
Marion ISD Community Library, 500 Bulldog Dr., Marion, TX
Date: Friday, October 20, 2006
Time: 10 a.m.
Light refreshments will be served, and step counters will be available for check out.
We will also have a grand opening of the new Caregiver Library.
For more information, call
Marion ISD Community Library at (830) 914-2803 ext. 430.
 More
than 600 laboratory designers and engineers will come together for the
Laboratories for the 21st Century (Labs21) 2006 Annual Conference in San
Antonio, Texas. This one-of-a-kind event will be held October 17-19,
2006, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. For more
information,
click here.
Public
Notice:
AACOG Regional Review Committee Scoring Meeting has been
rescheduled from November 16, 2006 to January 9, 2007 in the AACOG Board
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