The Kerrville Times from Kerrville, Texas • Page 5

Kmuillc filailu Si Lifestyle Tuesday, November 10, 1992 5 Old buildings come to life in dowtown area A refreshing breeze is blowing down Water Street these days. "Ghosts and goblins" peering from the windows of the Arcadia Theatre lured Halloween party-goers inside and volunteers outside to clean up the riverbank. After years of hiding behind a false facade the old Louise Shop is getting a face-lift, revealing a page of Kerrville's past. A few blocked parking spaces seems a reasonable price to pay as a community for the activity taking place. It's amazing how a new coat of paint can change the feel of the whole block.

Near the library the lights are on in the yards of the recently purchased stately historic Schreiner houses. A former Kerrville couple will be bringing the brown stucco A.C. Schreiner home back to life. A moving van was unloading another new family's belongings at the Charles Schreiner Jr. home.

The yard light highlights one of my favorite trees in downtown Kerrville. We associate "revitalization" with major economic development, yet it can take many forms. In essence it is a form of recycling, whether it's coming up with new ideas for old buildings or neighborhoods, or buying someone else's house, car, furniture, books or doodads. It's putting new life into something that already exists, but no longer holds favor with its original owner. And it's something that can involve all of us.

Continuing down Water Street to Lemps Street another form of economic recycling is taking hold. It supports the old adage of "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Lately, a few more stores opened offering a new lease on the life for the variety of cultural artifacts, saving them from a one-way trip to the landfill. (There's even an echelon of items). Some folks buy used things to collect, others to display, or to resell, some because of budget restraints. Collectors scour the flea markets, rummage and garage sales, secondhand stores looking for bargains.

Re- salers stock the trenfiy old stuff in Susan Sander ECO-NOTES antique stores. All are like museums of real-life stuff: the gaudy ceramic tea sets in every form imagineable, embroidered linens, post cards, chamber pots, cookie cutters, the gag-gifts of Christmas parties-past, even furniture and clothing from any era. And we all kick ourselves when we see something staring at us from our past, now long gone but it could've been worth $12 if only we had held on to it for 25 years. But it's really the concept of shops that I like. It helps the local economy; it keeps things out of the landfill; and it keeps us from digging up new raw materials.

While Texas may never run out of room for landfills, there is still a problem of what to do with the old and broken stuff that an original owner doesn't want. For example: what do you do with delapidated buildings? The Riverside Nature Center filled three large dumpsters with dead-buildings that couldn't meet code, and couldn't be salvaged. If you stand in the grocery or department stores and look around at the laden shelves piled high to the ceiling, imagine that it is all meant to be bought and taken out of the store. Most of it involves packaging, or something that once used or broken will go somewhere and there are trucks waiting at the warehouses to bring in more. It's humbling.

Many things could be "recycled." Maybe if we thought in terms of "revitalizing" we could better meet the challenge of keeping the "stuff we buy alive for greater and longer use. Susin Sander li executive director ol the Rlverelde Nature Center Auoclition. Travel Texas' style show set tonight KERRVILLE The Women's Division Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a "Travel Texas" style show tonight at the Y.O. Hilton. Cash bar begins at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., and the Travel Texas style show at 7:30.

Tables of eight may be reserved with Mary Jane Farmer at 895-5000. Tickets to the dinner and show are $14 and may be purchased from Women's Division members at these locations: The Hummingbird, Brehmer's Jewelry, Town and Country Hair Salon, Lesa's Hair Country, Bank of Kerrville, First National Bank and the participating stores. Interspersed among fashions from 18 area boutiques, Hill Country designers, and local department stores, there will be comic relief from Doug Brougham and Virgil Justice, singing and acting of Point Theater director Susan Balentine and Big River's Ridge Floyd. While Andy Ritch emcees the Travel Texas fashions, Doug Balentine will keep the audience "on the move" with his improvisational piano rhythms. One dollar donations are being accepted now by all division members for a drawing which includes six Texas mini-vacations.

Although winners do not have to be present to receive their prize package weekend, Chairman Lezlie Yurrita promises recipients "a truly unique experience." Besides the drawing for the various weekend packages there will be other souvenirs from local merchants for the audience of Texas "travelers" to take home. A number of Kerrville residents have been planning tonight's style show. They Include: R. J. Holley, posing with Kerrl Barnet and Linda Uecker (kneeling), and Robert Flores, Grace Ayala Nancy Wendland, Paula Giles, Lezlie Yurrita, Mary Janson, Barbara Nemec and Mary Jane Farmer.

Friends of Library host membership dinner tonight University of North Texas anthropology professor Reid Ferring will speak at the Friends of the Library annual membership dinner tonight at the Inn of the Hills Medallion Room. Dr. Ferring received the Teaching Excellence award for 1989-90 and was Regents' Faculty Lecturer. He also won the President's Award, the highest honor bestowed by the university. His research activities brought national and international attention to UNT.

Ferring discovered and excavated one of the best preserved Clovis Man sites in North America. He discovered the site while conducting an archaeological survey for the U.S. Corps of Engineers at Lake Ray Roberts 10 miles north of Denton. The Aubrey Site is considered one of the best preserved and best documented examples of the Clovis Indian culture in the southern plains states. It is particularly valuable to scholars because of the completeness of its samples and the rarity of Clovis campsites, Ferring says.

Ferring will talk about his find and discuss what scientists are learning from the wide range of artifacts and environmental and geological samples collected at the site. He will also explain how and why the col- New officers Officers of the Kerrvl lie Klwanls Club for the upcoming year are, front row from left, Steve McPhaul board member; Susan Goodwin, board member; VI Bowers vice presided Joe Ralne member and assistant treasurer and Joe Herring president. In second row are board member; D. Allen, board member; Jeremiah O'Flhelly, board member and past president- and Curtis Flnley, president-elect. In back row Is John Rich, treasurer.

Not pictured Is John Woods Winning artists Two Kerrville women were among the winning artists at an exhibition of paintings held Oct. 18-31 at the Barton Creek Country Club. Members of Waterloo Watercolor Group were Invited to paint at the Tom Fazio Golf Course, and the winners were announced Nov. 2. Pictured are Idonna Coffelt, left, who took second place with "Some Ball at right Is Susie Short who won first place, Purchase Prize, with "Barton Creek Flash 8th Tee View" and third with "The 16th at Barton Creek." (Photo by Dan Thompson) History professor to lead next Discover program Butl-Holdsworth Memorial Library announces that Dr.

Felix Almaraz will be the featured speaker for the November Discover Program on Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. The San Antonio professor will present a slide lecture, "The Spanish Legacy in Texas" which deals with early colonization in Texas. Dr. Almaraz is professor of history at UTS A. Author, speaker and senior Fulbright scholar, he received degrees from San Antonio College, St.

Mary's University, and the University of New Mexico. He is a fellow and life member of the Texas State Historical Association. History buffs, students in high school and college history classes and the general public are urged jo attend the free lecture. EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH "Trusting, Teaching, Applying Cod's Word' Visitors are WELCOME! Call 792-FREE lecting and analysis are performed and show slides of activities at the dig site. Dr.

Ferring's talk is entitled "Pa- leoindian archaeology: 12,000 years of American history." He is the son of Kerrville resident and Friend Mrs. Harvey (Clydic) Ferring. Buy tickets from Executive Board Members or at the library's circulation desk. The date is Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

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