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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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City Government
11:51 am
Wed February 27, 2013

Mayor Castro Outlines Progress In State Of The City Address

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Mayor Julian Castro talks to supporters following his annual State of the City address.
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Standing on a stage inside Ballroom A of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center downtown, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro began his annual State of the City address by joking that people should pick up a copy of Vogue.

The mayor and his brother, Congressman Joaquín Castro, are featured in the March edition of the trendy fashion magazine.

Before long Castro was into a list of items he and the city council have taken up over the last year:

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City Government
11:37 am
Wed February 27, 2013

Rey Saldaña Running For City Council Office (pun intended)

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Dist. 4 Councilman Rey Saldaña (middle of the pack in red shirt), along with Mayor Julián Castro, runs to City Hall to champion the early education initiative, Pre-K 4 SA ahead of the November general election.
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The deadline for candidates to file for the San Antonio City Council elections is Friday. So far,  District 4 is the only office with no candidates listed.

The incumbent, Rey Saldaña, said that’ll change Thursday when he runs for the office, quite literally.

The Stanford graduate and former Stanford Cardinal baseball player will run seven and a half miles, do nearly 100 push-ups, 170 squats and finish with 10 burpees – a sort of squat-push up combo.

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NISD Student Locator Project
10:24 am
Wed February 27, 2013

Northside ISD Testing RFID Locators On School Buses

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The inside of the RFID chip of John Jay sophomore Andrea Hernandez, who refused to wear the ID and brought suit against the district.
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Northside Independent School District has begun testing its radio frequency identification project on its buses. While the district has previously stressed that students are only tracked on the two campuses in the RFID pilot, the bus readers are not actively collecting data.

Out of its 850 buses, five special education buses in NISD now have the RFID readers installed. According to the district, that is to test functionality.

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