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.~ < . ,~ P Juø- )~~ '1t:;J ~ - 7a ~~ I - 7t, ~~ For Diana - ~ ~~ . About the picture at fountain taken Octìber 21 More Information (background, facts --stziff) than you will propablj..care to read about the The project to erect security lights along the San Marcos River Walk ---- sponsored by the Heritage Association of San Marcos the summer of 1993. Bob Sappington president The project to further enhance the River Walk, (identified" San Marcos River Walk of Texas" because it recaeived a federal gramt of $10,000 from the national Bicentennial . , Commission) the City's Parks and Recreation department director Rodney Cobb suggested I \ completing the erection of lights all along the River Walk. This was coordinated by Bill Daniels '- working with Jim Hull of Widelite and Frances Stovall of the River Beautification Committee who was the San Marcos Bicentennial Commission Chairman 20 years ago when the project began. The lights are the "cadillac" of fixtures produced by Wide-Lite. (or something like that!) In observation of this further improvement to the River Walk, a ceremony will be held Novermber 12 at the fountain in Veramendi Plaza. A new bronze plaque embossed with the River Walk logo. will be placed. This is in honor of both the 20 years of the beginning of the River Walk and an observation of the 200th birthday of Stephen F. Austin. (Heritage organizaitons in TexLIS have been encouraged to observe his birthday.). Austin touched in the vicinity of San Marcos when he was escorted by Juan Veramendi , on authorization of the new Repubilc of Mexico, from Nacogdoches to Bexar (San Antonio.) The ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. sponsored by the River WalkJPark Beautification Committee of the Heritage Association of San Marcos and will be followed with refreshements in the Bicentennial Room. The public is invited. , To augment funding from the The Heritage Association memorial endowment , fund, bake sales were held each Friday during June and July in connection with Friday lunches. , The endowment fund was set in place for the River Walk and most of the money has come from memorials made to the memorial grove. The money may only be used for the grove, the parkland and the River Walk. Additional contrtibutions this summer came from many of those who have long been associated with "beautification along the river" when the River Walk was constructed beginning in 1973 as a nationally recognized "improvement to the environment" under the San Maracos Bicentennial Commission. At the time, the first two lights were obtained from Wide Lite. Later Wide-Lite, as Broze Lite, approached the Heritage Association, which evolved from the City's Bicentennial Commision , with the offer to rmke the fountain in Veramendi Plaza operable by installing a complete new system as a contribution during the Sesquicentennial of Texas.(This cost $10,000) Thus they will be given special recognition at the November 12 ceremony.