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Spring Break San Antonio
8:05 pm
Wed February 27, 2013

Botanical Garden Announces 24-Ton Sand Adventure

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The New England Sand Sculpture Festival held at Revere Beach, Revere, Massachusetts.
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Ted Siebert, an internationally renowned sand sculptor, is leading a design team in building three massive artworks at the San Antonio Botanical Garden using 24 tons of sand.

The designs will include the Alamo and the Moy Grand Hibiscus flower.

The Moy Hibiscus was first produced at the Botanical Garden in a cross-breed experiment by Dr. Ying Doon Moy, whose colleagues eventually got the hibiscus planted along roads in China.

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San Antonio's Missions
1:05 pm
Wed February 27, 2013

First Mass In Newly-Restored Mission San Juan Capistrano

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The inside of the newly-restored, intimate Mission San Juan.Capistrano
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The old buttresses are absent from the new exterior of San Juan, whose exterior surface was refinished in natural limestone plaster
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The altar from the San Fernando Cathedral was renovated and sized for use San Juan
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The Archbishop's chair from San Fernando also was remodeled and sized for its new home at San Juan Capistrano
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The low wall across the compound from San Juan is the new burial site for 15 Native Americans whose remains were unearthed during the stabilization of the mission
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A floor tile near the altar depicts the reinterment of other human remains unearthed at the mission in the early 20th Century
Father David Garcia shows where 15 sets of remains were found
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Mission San Juan Capistrano has had restoration work done numerous times over the years to keep it from collapse, and the tiny colonial church re-opened this week to its first mass since the extensive renovation started almost two years ago.

It was a big undertaking -- more work needed to be done than with any of the other mission restorations -- but San Juan was about to collapse. Its buttresses struggled to restrain the cracking walls, and the ground was giving way.

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Child Abuse
1:10 pm
Tue February 26, 2013

Childsafe Expanding Outreach To Include Physical Abuse And Neglect

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Bexar County's only child advocacy center, ChildSafe, has announced a realignment to serve more children, but there are some challenges in the move.

For 23 years, ChildSafe has served child victims of sexual abuse, but the now it's expanding to provide services for children of physical abuse and neglect. The organization is one of the last advocacy centers in Texas to expand to this role.

President Kim Abernethy said she thinks that is because the center started with a major focus on sexual abuse.

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Museum Reach
7:25 am
Tue February 26, 2013

Updated (with pictures): Winds Damage F.I.S.H. Sculpture On Museum Reach

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F.I.S.H. sculptural artwork by Donald Lipski was damaged in Monday's high winds.
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Some of the fish in the art installation were badly damaged.
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This F.I.S.H. was knocked off its hanger during the windstorm. It was fished out of the San Antonio River and is being assessed for damage
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(Update: 12:35 p.m.) Staffers have cleaned up the fallen pieces and SARA now says they have re-opened the west bank side of the river.

The other side -- the wider east bank of the river -- is still closed so that crews with equipment can access the sculptures for assessment and repair. Visitors can use the stairways to go up to street level and back down again on the other side.

The damage noted by SARA: One of the fish fell down completely, one is barely hanging on and some of the other seven-foot-long sculptures were broken apart by the winds.

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