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San Marcos Daily Record
101st Year No. 315
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
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New brew
in town
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A Differ ent View
of t he river
Courtesy Photos
Main photo: A diver explores the San Marcos River headwaters at Spring Lake. Top inset: A crawfish makes
its way from its cover. Bottom inset: A view of the underwater habitat at Spring Lake. Bottom left: An alligator
gar cruises swims through the crystal-clear water.
Documentary film focuses on SM River
By ANITA MILLER
News Editor
Local residents have a chance to
be a part of history by contributing
to an effort to bring a stunningly
beautiful film about the San Marcos
River to a world audience.
Yakona, which means “rising
water” in a Native American tongue,
is the name of the film, which offers
the history of the San Marcos River
New engine
for SMFD
See River, Page 3
75 cents
Page 6
Downtown restaurant,
brew-pub in the works
By DALTON SWEAT
Staff Reporter
New food and new
locally-brewed beer
may be on its way to
San Marcos with the
proposed Aquabrew
restaurant and brewpub downtown just off
the square.
Even though the
eclectic food has a
Latin-American vibe, it
sounds like it will be a
unique destination for
San Marcos.
“We’ll have empanada with pine nuts
and raisins or a
panko-crusted shrimp
with an aji chili tartar
sauce,” Carlos Russo,
owner of Aquabrew explained. “The style of
food is leaning toward
South America and
Central America but
not Mexico. We’ll have
items that originated
from Brazil, Peru,
Venezuela and the
places that I’ve tried
food that I know is
going to hit here. It has
a similar flavor profile
to Mexican food, but
it’s different. I know
people are going to love
it.”
Russo is from
Venezuela originally,
but moved to San Marcos in 2000.
The other half of the
Aquabrew is the beer.
“The idea of the
restaurant part is to
incorporate the beer
into our food and tie
the two parts of the
concept together,”
Russo said.
The planned 15-barrel brewery inside the
See Pub, Page 5
Lawyers to read
from Declaration
of Independence
On the day before
Americans celebrate
their freedom, a local
group has stepped up
to remind us how it all
came about.
Representatives of
the Criminal Defense
Bar will host a reading
of the Declaration of
Independence at noon
on Wednesday, July 3
on the steps of the
Hays County Courthouse.
Billed as an informal
affair, the reading is
expected to take 10 to
15 minutes.
The Bar is not connected to any political
organization or movement.
• Anita Miller
From Staff Reports
With a mighty heave — and help
from its motor — the San Marcos Fire
Department’s newest fire engine was
pushed into its home at Station 1
Monday.
Firefighters, city staff, and city
council members participated in the
vehicle’s pushing in ceremony, a tradition that dates back to the days when
new horse-drawn fire engines would
be unhooked from the team delivering
them and pushed into the station.
“This isn’t just our apparatus, only
for our firefighters. It’s something that
See Engine, Page 3
San Marcos City Council members, firefighters, police officers and other city employees push Engine 1 into its berth at Fire
State 1 Monday. The ceremony dates back 100 years, celebrating the arrival of a new fire engine.
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Low: 74
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