Monday January 5th or Tuesday January 6th?
I’ve heard both but I’m not sure what day is correct.
I don’t want to send my kids to school on the wrong day?
Please help…Thanks
Where I am from we go back the sixth. That Monday is usually used for a teacher’s work day, that means no school for kids!
Hays County, Texas
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Hay guys, i really need coming up with some ideas to this question. the only thing i could think of was education. Please help me? thanks.
I’m not familiar with that county’s politics but you could examine their governmental website and maybe find some more information… maybe some hot issues.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/government/
name of the company: Hays County Towing
Do you know of any clever tow truck slogans? Thanks!
"You maul ‘em ; we’ll haul ‘em !"
~OM~
By DARIN FENGER, The Sun August 22, 2006
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YUMA (AP) – About a dozen vehicles used to smuggle humans sit in a quiet and dusty row, at first glance blending in with the hundreds of cars and trucks with more innocent pasts that fill the scrap yard of Dick’s 25-Hour Towing.
A visitor to the yard just walking by could easily never notice that these automobiles are different.
For example, the rear seats are gone and unnecessary interior side panels have been crudely ripped out.
All of this done with two goals in mind: To avoid detection and maximize the ability to haul more of their living, human goods.
"Basically it’s all the same. There’s really nothing to it," said Mark Schlamann, a tow truck driver for Rautenberg. "They pretty much just take the seats out and pack them in."
Dick Rautenberg, owner of Dick’s 25-Hour Towing, is one of the few Yuma residents who sees firsthand what’s left behind when smugglers fail to make good on their promise to deliver the chance for new lives.
"Imagine stacking 20-some railroad ties into a vehicle," he said.
Comparing people to cargo becomes almost impossible to avoid when describing how vehicles are packed with people in the business of smuggling humans across the U.S.-Mexico border.
"People are just laying on top of each other," Rautenberg said. "We’ve seen a pickup and camper shell with 21 guys piled in the back. It’s just really terrible."
The smuggling vehicles seen at Dick’s are almost always the products of theft – most often from San Diego – with the most common license plates being from California and Nevada, according to Rautenberg. After a set period of time has passed, the towing company files with the state to legally own the vehicles, most often using them for salvage. Only rarely do lending institutions come calling, Rautenberg said, and even less often does he hear from the original owners.
The vehicles that come to Rautenberg’s scrap yard, and others around Yuma, are the ones used in smuggling cases that were damaged before or during their apprehension by the U.S. Border Patrol.
But the most recent smuggling vehicle towed by Dick’s was nowhere to be seen.
That vehicle was the white Suburban involved in the deadly accident that claimed 10 lives and injured 11 more people Aug. 7. In cases like that, where a criminal investigation promises to be sizable, the automobiles are instead sent to be impounded by the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office.
Schlamann said he’s seen many dented and beat-up vehicles in his 13 years with Dick’s. But he said the Suburban that came to a deadly halt 30 miles outside of Yuma was the worst.
"There’s no comparison," Schlamann said. "Normally, they don’t roll over like that. You don’t hardly ever see it like that."
Schlamann was grateful not to have all the facts – or haunting visuals – on that day when he was called to the gruesome accident scene.
Richard Hays, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma sector, stressed that smugglers simply don’t care at all about the safety of the people who have paid them for a trip across the border.
Hays pointed out that no special consideration is given to pregnant women, children or elderly people.
Calls to pick up vehicles left behind by arrested smugglers are shared by towing companies throughout Yuma. Dick’s is certainly one of the companies that’s been at it the longest.
But what’s more interesting is just how often the phone at Dick’s has been ringing lately.
"We haven’t had many here this last two months or so. There’s maybe been five of six," Schlamann said. "Before that we were getting two or three a week."
Both Schlamann and Rautenberg credited the government’s recent increases in border security
Before it’s all over, legal Americans will be
a) blamed or
b) sued
because illegals are all so innocent.
The coyotes should serve a mandatory life in prison.
We need to stop all Federal Aid…and there are billions of dollars sent out each year…to Mexico for encouraging their poor and their criminals to illegally enter our nation.
Arrested in Hays County, Texas. The gun was found in the trunk of a car. It was unloaded. How much time could/ would he have to serve? Is probation possible?
Hello Susan. You didn’t mention if the person has a previous record or not. If he has a clean record and the weapon is not stolen, probation is a very good probability.
Having a loaded weapon is Carrying A Concealed Weapon. With the weapon unloaded, the technical charge would be Possession of a Dangerous Weapon. Both charges are felonies, but PDW can usually be probationary.
As noted, if priors are involved, it completely changes the picture here. A convicted felon cannot own, possess, purchase or be in the same area of any weapon, unloaded or not. If that is the case, it is a charge of Weapons Under Disability and carries a mandatory 5 years.
The only other thought I have is the circumstances surrounding the Officer finding the unloaded weapon. There could be other charges relating to the circumstances that led to the discovery.
I hope this helps and you can find it useful
My brother owes land in Hays county (kyle,tx) near the construction of the new 800 bed Seton Hospital. He is ready to sell but I’m telling him to wait. Right now his 2 acres are valued at 50,000 but he is one block away from the site. So I’m sure the value will skyrocket in time but not sure how much. So is there a website that can give us projections.
No I can’t find any but you can look backwards like 10-20 years ago. Get a history of the place. Or, you can contact an appraiser and get a feedback.
I am trying to find a pumpkin patch in King or Pierce county, but it must have a hay maze (my son is fixated on the idea of hay maze). Anyone know of one?
There is a place in Snohomish that has both a hay maze (in the barn) and a corn maze outside with the pumpkin patch.
It’s not king or pierce county, but it’s not too far from Seattle:
"The Farm"
7301 Rivershore Road
Snohomish, WA 98290
I’d check first about any days they are open to the public before going. They do mainy school groups and have limited open days.
Have you discovered some unique thing to do within Macomb county-Did you know that some of the coolest Haunted Houses and Halloween activities are in this area? Its cool to be on the farm going for a hay ride!
lol@kg22-there has to be more to do than that
mopar-pontiac is in oakland county not macomb. pontiac is the detroit of oakland county, lol
the rayarama fishfly festival is goin on right now. thats usually prettty fun