Junior Gardeners Plan Project
Andrea Hillger, accompanied by Darren Hillger and Keith Batla, asked the commissioners’ court at their special meeting July 31 for permission to do a 4-H Junior Master Gardeners’ project of landscaping under trees around the courthouse and the area north of the community center. The group plans to install drip irrigation, plus grass, plants and shrubs. The court gave the project its approval. Hillger, a Master Gardener herself, subsequently obtained a $3755 grant from the Permian Basin Master Gardeners for the project, which will begin in January.
Susie Hillger has been hired as the deputy county clerk, replacing Doris Hoelscher, at Hoelscher’s salary of $23,000. County Clerk Rebecca Batla reports there were 15 applicants for the job. Hillger’s former job of part time courthouse custodian and grounds keeper is to be filled Sept.10 (see separate article).
Materials for a fence around the shooting sports area at the county’s west dump ground will cost $1,000, according to a figures provided by Steve Sturtz, with the labor to be provided by 4-H youth, 4-H leaders and county road crew.
Dierschke told the court he does not believe that a woman who was injured in an automobile mishap in Glasscock County in June is a resident of Glasscock County, and he does not think the county will have to pay her medical expenses. He said the woman is now in a Lubbock hospital undergoing treatment for injuries sustained in that incident.