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As Boerne, Kendall County and the Hill Country grow, so grows the Greater Boerne Chamber of Commerce.

A fire ignited in Comfort during the very early hours Sunday that took down Fati’s Café and roughly 10 units at Comfort Hatchery Apartments on Business Highway 87.

With smaller wildfires claiming more and more acreage around Kendall County and larger-scale fires encroaching on the county line, Kendall County Judge Darrell Lux is looking to Gov. Greg Abbott for approval to issue a disaster declaration in the county.

Governor Greg Abbott recently reappointed Boerne’s Emma Faye Rudkin as well as Kori Allen, Evelyn Cano, Richard Martinez and Joseph Muñiz to the Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities for terms set to expire on February 1, 2024. Additionally, the governor appointed Benjamin Willis to the committee and named Martinez as chair.

The Texas Department of Transportation wants motorists to be aware of dangerous conditions in road construction zones after crashes in those zones killed 244 people last year.

The Boerne incubator program – known as Das Greenhaus – was granted $500,000 in funding from the Kendall County Commissioner’s Court late last month in a split vote, and the money was handed down with some objection from commissioners.

Van Raub Elementary School played host to its Fiesta Fair last Friday after school as children and adults were invited to partake in the activities, which included games, carnival rides, auctions and food. One of the activities was a dunk tank in which children could throw a ball at a target in an attempt to dunk a teacher or other community member. One such dunkee was Van Raub first-grade teacher Krista Kimball, who survived a half-hour in the tank, as well as the throws of youngsters, including Mitchell McVickeo (top). Kimball put on a good act for the children and encouraged them to take good aim before they threw. She also said the tank water was very cold. Star photos by Keith E. Domke

Kendall County and Boerne continue to develop a new hazardous mitigation plan, and a presentation late last month identified the 12 natural hazards the county faces.

The severed leg of a man killed by a passing motorist on eastbound Interstate 10 in north Boerne on March 22 turned up about 43 miles away in Cibolo after it dropped off a tractor-trailer rig, officials confirmed.

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