Bandera Nursing & Rehabilitation center resident Vicki Torres, in foreground in photo at left, looks out the window at her granddaughter Mackenzie and other families who had come to visit her but had to do so outside the facility because of new safeguards implemented in nursing centers because of the coronavirus outbreak. In photo above, resident George Huth uses a tablet computer the center has to keep in contact with his sister during the health emergency. Rehab officials said they are taking extra steps to keep residents and their families in touch during the difficult times created by the coronavirus. COURTESY PHOTOS

Silver Sage has expanded its senior services in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic that threatens older people more often than the young, officials said.

Lonnie Waldrup, a Winter Texan from Missouri, walks his dog “Beener” in Bandera City Park on Monday, March 23, in front of a playground and pavilion that had been co rdoned off with caution tape as a safeguard against the spread of the coronavirus.

Duane and Phyllis Thomas, at left, listen to Margo Denke with the Friends of Hondo Canyon explain the objections that group has to a water use permit a corporation building a Christian youth camp in the Tarpley area is seeking from the state during the Friends’ Saturday, March 21, meeting in Tarpley. The Friends group has been asking more people to file complaints with state regulators by an April 3 deadline about the allegedly wasteful and improper water use the camp is proposing with the hopes of blocking the permit. Developers of the camp have disputed the critics’ claims.

Bandera High School Cafeteria Manager Ashley Trevino, cafeteria worker Erica Artega and Bandera Independent School District Nutrition Services Director Bryan Crelia hand out breakfast for a student whose family had come to pick up the meal outside Bandera Middle School on Friday, March 20. BISD and other area school districts are continuing to provide breakfast and lunch to students during the extended school closure that has resulted from the coronavirus outbreak. BISD said during the first week of deliveries, about 50 breakfast and 100 lunches were served daily to those who drove up to get them at Bandera Middle and Hill Country Elementary School.

Jennifer C. Kulick, owner of Suzoo’s Wool Works, left, teaches weaving tips to Mary Thorp, center, and Dot Gay at one of the classes held on the dosing day of the Bandera Fiber & Arts Festival on Saturday March 14. The festival was held at Suzoo’s and two other locations this year as participants learned about fiber-related skills and shopped at fiber product vendors. BULLETN PHOTO/Bill Pack