COVID-19 and Mother Nature tried and failed to stop the Back to School Bash this year. A united Bandera community was determined to get school supplies and backpacks into the hands of Bandera County students on Sunday, Aug. 2, at the Lakehills Civic Center grounds. Last year’s event, the first time it was held at the civic center, used most of the civic center itself along with its grounds. COVID-19 forced event officials and supporters to innovate with a 2020 plan that kept parents and their children in cars as the vehicles followed a serpentine course past dozens of fun stations handing out ...