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Retired Air Force Lt. Col. George Alan Rose, was shot down during Operation Linebacker II, one of the most high-profile air missions of the Vietnam War. Rose’s Distinguished Flying Cross Citation reads:
First Lieutenant George A. Rose distinguished himself by extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as an F-4C Pilot in Southeast Asia on 11 November 1966. On that date, Lieutenant Rose was scrambled on two occasions from the F-4C alert area in response to friendly forces in heavy contact with determined hostile forces. Each scramble required Lieutenant Rose to expend his ordnance within fifty meters of friendly positions. Displaying exceptional pilot skill and disregarding personal safety, Lieutenant Rose struck time after time with pin-point accuracy to relieve the beleaguered friendly forces. The professional competence, aerial skill, and devotion to duty displayed by Lieutenant Rose reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
Madison quarterback Dante Heaggans is the Express-News Offensive Player of the Year. He led Madison to a district championship and signed with UIW.
Mary Nethery bought her home in San Antonio in 1990 in the historic King William area not realizing her property taxes would eventually shoot up to nearly $9,000. A Republican-backed plan to tackle skyrocketing property tax growth would save Texas homeowners precious little in the initial years. And by the time the savings of the median Texan hit $650 a year, the state would have to cough up more than $7 billion annually to offset the lost revenue for schools, according to a Hearst Newspapers analysis.
San Antonio Food Bank President and CEO, Eric Cooper, runs the largest hunger-relief organization in Southwest Texas, providing 58,000 meals per week. Cooper has been in top positions within the organization since 2001.
Mark Koehler is a South Texas farmer that produces hops the popular grain made to make those famous pale ale beers and many other varieties. He’s a unicorn because nearly all hops production is done in the Pacific Northwest. He is able to do it with an aquaponic greenhouse operation and his hops are also being used to make local beers now.
Married couple Marisa Bushman and Ignacio Gallego are part of the Agaria chamber ensemble in San Antonio.
LaShawn Stewart-Baylor is President & CEO of Integrated CM Solutions in San Antonio.
Nature’s Herb Farm was started by Shane Dunford’s mother Mary with a homemade greenhouse in the 1980s, he got involved in the family business six years later. Today, the farm is a wholesale distributor that sells vegetables, succulents and herbs to places across the state.
Penny Ayarzagoitia is a San Antonio real estate broker and cast member of “Texicanas,” the new Bravo reality TV series set in San Antonio.
The Chef’s charcuterie board is a mixture of cured and dried meat, pts, cheese, terrines and condiments. Chef Brooke Smith has turned The Esquire Tavern into a symbiotic experience: bar food in the century-old saloon upstairs, elegant charcuterie plates and oysters at the speakeasy space called Downstairs at The Esquire. Each one is just fine at what it does. But play one off the other and their powers multiply like Voltron. A 2-star review.
Nikki, center, looks for scraps as herring salad is being prepared at the home of Maria Pfeiffer in San Antonio on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022.
Cindy Mills Sowers was born in the car as her Earl, 85, father drove her mother, who died last year, to the Nix Hospital hospital in 1959.
Sen. Kevin Ranker brings to the Legislature 15 years experience in community development and public policy in the private and public sectors. Sen. Ranker has worked at the local, regional and international level developing and advancing coastal and ocean policy, community development strategies and conservation initiatives.
His most recent public service has been as San Juan County Councilmember from 2004-08 where in his freshman year he served as Chair of the Board of County Commissioners. Prior experience includes working as a program officer for the Pacific Region for The Ocean Foundation – a philanthropic organization where he was responsible for all funds and policy for the west coast of the United States, Mexico and Canada. He also served as the Chair of the Washington Counties Transportation Committee; Chair of the Washington Coastal Counties Caucus, which represents the state’s 14 coastal counties; Chair of the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Council; and as a board member of the Puget Sound Partnership and a member of the Washington State Shoreline Hearings Board. Previously, Kevin counseled at-risk high school and middle school students.
Senator Ranker serves as Vice Chair of the Agriculture & Rural Economic Development Committee, Vice Chair of Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation Committee and is a member of the Environment, Water & Energy and Transportation Committees.
Kevin has a B.S. in Coastal Ecology & Community Development from the Evergreen State College. He is an avid paddler, diver, fisherman and surfer and lives with his wife and daughter on San Juan Island. Carlos Javier Sanchez / TESC
Johnson High School’s Garrett Martin is the 2019 Express-News co-golfers of the year.
Marco Cervantes, UTSA professor and hip-hop artist Mexstep will release his 3rd album featuring a mix of styles and musical commentary against the violence on the border.
Participate in the 21st annual United San Antonio Pow Wow will take place at Mission County Park on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.
The Evergreen State College women crew teams compete during the Daffodil Cup in Lakewood, Wa, on March 29, 2009. Carlos Javier Sanchez/TESC
One80 Solar CEO Patrick Attwater
Derrick Fox as president and CEO of the nonprofit San Antonio Bowl Association, he is responsible for the administration of the Valero Alamo Bowl.
Cody Courtney and his wife Katie opened what they call the tiniest hat shop in Texas inside a 1900s bank vault on main street in Gurene, Texas.
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Hank Koehler and his grandson Mare are South Texas farmers that produce hops the popular grain made to make those famous pale ale beers and many other varieties. He’s a unicorn because nearly all hops production is done in the Pacific Northwest and he is able to do it with an aquaponic greenhouse operation. His hops are also being used to make local beers now.
Madison quarterback is the Express-News Offensive Player of the Year. He led Madison to a district championship and signed with UIW.
San Antonio Food Bank President and CEO, Eric Cooper, runs the largest hunger-relief organization in Southwest Texas, providing 58,000 meals per week. Cooper has been in top positions within the organization since 2001.
Colonel Joseph Brennan is an ENT-otolaryngologist in Lackland A F B, Texas and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System and South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and has been in practice for 29 years. He is one of 4 doctors at Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System and one of 10 at South Texas Veterans Health Care System who specialize in Otolaryngology.
Cinco Ranch golfer, Dina O’Brien, keeps her eye on the ball as she blats her way out of a bunker during the first round of Class 5A Region III girls golf tournament in Mt. Mont Belvieu on Wednesday, April 27, 2005. Carlos Javier Sanchez : For The Chronicle HOUCHRON CAPTION (04/28/2005) SECSPTS: HAVING A BLAST: Cinco Ranch’s Dina O’Brien follows through on a bunker shot in the first round of the Class 5A Region III girls golf tournament.
Reid Clanton, 95, was in Normandy and was in the battle of the Bulge with the 84th infantry division. Veterans Jeff Coy, Alan Uecker, Wes Kimball, and Mike Martinez have been training this spring for one last ruck march, decided a long march to the Normandy beachhead was the best way they could salute the veterans of D-Day and Mr. Clanton.
A Daschund runs behind three snowmen on the beach on Saturday morning. Galveston island saw a white Christmas with a record snow fall as residents estimated five inches on the grown. Carlos Javier Sanchez : Chronicle
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San Antonio street photographer, Erik Gustafson, uses 35mm film to capture urban life and architecture is photographed downtown San Antonio on Sunday, July 14th, 2022.
On a recent weekday, Chris Hotchkiss stood barefoot at the top of a set of stairs inside CaptureRx’s office downtown, surveying the employees gathered below him. He pulled a chunky billfold out of his pocket and told employees they’d get $100 if they could recite the company’s values. The price went up if they knew the mission statement.
Restaurateurs like Andrew Weissman are lending their brands to developments and helping revitalize San Antonio neighborhoods.
Fred Hines is retiring this year after working as the CEO of Clarity Child Guidance Center for the past two decades. Hines has been a major advocate for children with mental illness, overseeing a nonprofit that serves close to 9,000 patients each year and provides inpatient and outpatient services, crisis assessment and other treatments for children ages 3 to 17. The facility is a teaching hospital for students from UT Health San Antonio and Baylor College of Medicine. Under Hines’ tutelage, Clarity expanded its services and worked to create a national model pediatric psychiatric care.
Chef Johnny Hernandez is a chef and graduate from the Culinary Institute of America-Hyde Park in New York. He founded True Flavors Culinary Concepts, San Antonio’s premier catering company, in 1994.
Lobbyist Frank Burney clients include Silver Ventures the developer behind the world renown destination The Pearl.
Young Harvill is a co-founder of Pulse Mobile, and is responsible for the company’s technology vision. He holds an MFA from Stanford University, where he was involved in exploring the intersection of art and technologies, and received a research grant for work in computer controlled holography. A fascination with light, vision and illusion compelled Harvill to join VPL Research in 1985 and to work on the first generation of Virtual Reality systems. He wrote Swivel, one of the first 3D modeling and animation packages for the desktop and, with Chuck Blanchard and Jaron Lanier, pioneered the first VR authoring environment (RB2).
Harvill is also co-inventor of the Data Glove, with Tom Zimmerman, and was principal investigator for several patents at VPL involving fiber optic sensing, optical tracking, and parallel rendering. Harvill joined Paracomp as VP of R&D in 1989, and with Bill Woodward and Fred Angelopoulos, built one of the first multimedia companies in San Francisco. After Paracomp merged with Macromind to form Macromedia, Young was tasked with integrating core technologies as a research fellow. Projects included architectural design of multimedia players, and the design of next generation multimedia systems.
The first Sikh to graduate from Air Force basic training with exceptions allowing him to wear a beard and turban, Airman Sunjit Rathor, finishes Security Forces training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on Thursday, Sept. 2019. Rathor will serve as a recruiting assistant at home, in New York City, before going to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.
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and his wife Katie opened what they call the tiniest hat shop in Texas inside a 1900s bank vault on main street in Gurene, Texas.
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