Speakers

We need all hands on deck for Breakfast with Santa in December.  This club assembly will focus on preparing for the main activities and making sure everyone has a job to do. A key item is to prepare the invitations and make sure they get to the right organizations in order for us to get the RSVP's back timely. 

 

The Hill Country, “sweet spot of Texas,” is in danger of being loved to death, or so it seems. The good news is that all the growth and development has triggered some serious conservation efforts. Folks are joining forces to protect the lands and waters of this extraordinary region—families have been partnering with land trusts to save their legacies; citizens have been creating parks, greenways, trails, natural areas, wildlife refuges, and nature centers, thoughtful stewardship is helping damaged lands recover; a network of conservationists has been hard at work; and Texas voters have been supporting conservation measures.

Featuring photography by John Freud and a compelling narrative by longtime conservationist Brent Evans, this unique book on the Texas Hill Country includes inspiring images of conserved land, provides a history of conservation efforts, and highlights the contributions of regional land trusts, county programs, community projects, a community-based nature center and farm, and private landowners. With a goal of celebrating and inspiring grass-roots conservation, Freud and Evans showcase, through words and imagery, places that have been cared for and preserved by a generation of local landowners, local governments, and local nonprofits. As Evans writes in the preface, “the Hill Country is saving some of itself, and this is our story.”

As a record of the many conservation efforts in the Texas Hill Country, Replenishing Our Hills serves as an invaluable and inspiring resource for those new or familiar to land stewardship.

Autumn Hills Village is an LTO Ventures community to be developed in southern Kendall County and Mark provides consulting and project management services to Boerne Aquaplex (www.boerneaquaplex.org), an indoor all-weather aquatic complex that will be co-located on the campus with Autumn Hills Village and its Community Inclusion Center.

Glen Boehm

President

Boerne Aquaplex

Glen graduated from Texas A&M University in 1992, received his MBA from St. Thomas University in 1996, and has been a licensed Texas Real Estate Appraisal Consultant, Texas Real Estate Arbitrator, and a Texas Commercial Real Estate Key Note Speaker.  He’s held leadership positions at AT&T, Alcatel USA, Teradata, Transwestern Commercial Real Estate and Keller Williams Commercial

 

Mark L. Olson, President

(www.ltoventures.org)

Mark is a recognized national expert and speaker on housing, employment, and social options for adults with IDD, and state and federal regulations including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Final Settings Rule. He has served on the Nevada Autism Commission, Nevada Governor’s Commission on Services for People with Disabilities, and the Nevada Governor’s Task Force on Integrated Employment. Mark is a proud graduate of the University of Kansas

 

 

"I am am artist who appreciates traditional compositions, rich color and unique spaces.
I try to find something that speaks about humanity and the irony of life, even though only a few of my photos feature people. "

 

Having spent the vast majority of my life as an educator , the camera would be a natural  tool as I considered analyzing reality around me.  Growing up on the  high plains in Montana  the vast sky  pierced by a variety of  mountain peaks  dotting the horizon  led me to worship the light.  Most of the events of my youth were recorded by cheap plastic cameras.  For a long period of my early years as an elementary school teacher, the camera was in a drawer somewhere.  It was only while teaching on the island of Sicily in the early 60s. that I again treasured what was being captured, recording places and people entirely foreign to me.  Once the  PhD was in hand and  the college classroom was filled with inquisitive minds , art historical data needed to be  recorded and replayed, reviewed, sharing the place and time.  Here again the camera was priceless.  Family and friends began commenting on the artistic nature found in some of the  slides.  In the opening years of this century, this was reinforced by Professor Weller at Texas State University, so under his encouragement I began to seek out the artistic  qualities found in the world around me.  After finding the results of two one-man shows satisfying, I joined the New Braunfels Art League and the Carriage House Gallery where my work can be found today.