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🎉 Ring in 2026 at Tapatio Springs — Roaring 20s Casino Night, jazz, fireworks, dinner & stay-and-celebrate packages
📖 A Christmas Carol published this date in 1843 — first run sold out by Christmas Eve
🛍️ Boerne Police host Shop with a Cop — kids fill carts ahead of Blue Santa weekend
🏥 Boerne set to get a VA outpatient clinic on Water Street — $12.3M project, construction starts February
🏛️ Fair Oaks Ranch City Hall, Court & PD close early today for staff development
🎂 Boerne Birthday Club — Stacy Husted, Clint Buck & Mary Liang-King celebrate today
🥧 Day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas — win a 6-lb Tootie Pie apple pie plus all previous prizes
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And by Tapatio Springs Resort and their Ritz and Riches New Years Eve Party…

This is the greatest way to ring in 2026 - doors open at 6:30 - and the theme is a Roaring 20s Casino Night with Vegas Style Casino Tables…live Music by the Dirty River Jazz Band…an incredible dinner buffet they are calling the Best of Chef Eric MacIntyre’s creations.  And there’s 2 ticket levels available - $120 gets you in that includes dinner…and $195 bumps you up to open bar status.  And the best way to do it is after the fireworks are over at midnight on Hole #18 - you check into your Tapatio Springs Resort room…ask for the Stay and Celebrate Package when you get your tickets and book your room at tapatiosprings.com.

 It’s Friday December 19th…just 12 days left in 2025… 

And it was on this date in 1843 that a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published.

The first run of 6000 copies sold out by Christmas Eve, and if you’d like a copy for your collection, it can be found for around $75,000.  There is a surviving copy at the New York Public Library that was created by Dickens himself.

Yesterday the Boerne Police Department hosted Shop with a Cop at the Boerne Walmart. Three special kids got 15 seconds to fill their carts with as many toys as they could grab with the help of local law enforcement and first responders. Each kid walked away with hundreds of dollars in NERF guns, legos and barbies, ringing in Saturday’s Blue Santa Giveaway at the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office off of Adler. 

The Boerne Life broke the news that Boerne is about to get a dedicated VA Clinic. A filing was just submitted with the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation for a Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic on Water Street, just behind the traffic circle near Sauced Wing Bar and REMAX. It is estimated to cost about 12.3 million, with construction beginning in February and finishing in August of ‘27. 

And for our friends in Fair Oaks Ranch, City Hall, the Municipal Court and the Police department will be closed after 3 today. Although it might seem like a long weekend, staff will actually be participating in staff development for the remainder of the afternoon. 

Checking the Boerne Radio Birthday Club Happy Birthday to Stacy Husted who’s doing a great job over at the Fair Oaks Emergency Room - a great sponsor of our 12 Days of Christmas Contest.  Also to Mr. Clint Buck with the Branscomb Law Firm here in Boerne.  And a special happy birthday to Mary Liang-King.

Boerne Radio News is delivered to you by The Boerne Star and our 12 Days of Christmas Contest…it’s Day 10 that’s brought to you by Tootie Pie!  The prize is their 6 pound Apple Pie! And if you need pie for Christmas their holiday trio is the answer…pecan, apple, and pumpkin…that’s all you need… the new prize is their famous 6 pound apple pie - Tootie Pie is there on South Main next door to Borrego’s Fine Jewelry …and if you win today you’ll also get all the other prizes from the previous 9 days from Singing Water Vineyards, Fair Oaks Emergency Room, The Tobin Center, Boerne Community Theatre, Liberty Capital Bank, Wild Birds Unlimited, My Urgent Care Clinic, Olde Town Plumbing, and Chilito’s Express and if you sing the special song you get the bonus prize from The Crumbling Castle Lights in Comfort …its Day 10 in our 12 Days of Christmas contest - register now at boerneradio.com in our great partnership with the Boerne Life.

Baron Wiley - this is Boerne Radio 103.9FM