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And that was, he shot through his car window before stepping out of the vehicle.

Uh, before opening fire, he yelled out insults regarding the women of Bell County.

Survivors noted that he stood over specific female victims, called them bitches, and told them, "This is what Bell County did to me," before shooting them.

Jesus.

A man named Tommy Vaughn would become known because he saved dozens of lives during-

... expo.

It used to be the Cadence Expo Center or the Bell County-

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I know you could.

So this is, uh, is this a first time at Bell County Expo event or has this been taking place?

No, this is actually the first of its kind event-

So in nine- in 1883, the ag school at Montpellier sent their, their leading soil person over to the States to see if they could possibly find some place in the United States that had soil that was sort of like that in France.

And so they, they went to, uh, Washington, D.C. and met with Riley, C.V. Riley, who was then, then the head of entomology in Washington, D.C. And he and, uh, he and Riley worked together and they found that in Bell County, Texas, there's a plot of soil, a pretty good sized plot of soil, that's almost exactly like the limestone soil in France.

So the Frenchman went down to, to, uh, Texas where he met with, with, uh, T- with Munson, who was a, a grapes scientist in Texas who had been doing hybridizing and trying to, trying to raise up American viticulture through hybridization.

He, he wrote a book called "Foundations of American Grape Culture." That was the standard book on how, on how to grow grapes in America for about 25 years around the turn of the century.

And Munson and the Frenchman went out, I can't remember his name, sorry, went out into Bell County and found three different species of grapes out there.

Uh, main one being Berlandieri, the other being a Mustang grape.

And it was completely at home in these, these limey soils.

Right.

So, um, when I was at that church, the Baptist church we went to, like, the organiz- the Baptist churches in that area, Bell County, Texas, um, all b- brought their youth to a big, and organized a big summer camp every year.

And I went there, and Man, there was a guy, John Shirley, that led the wor- uh, the worship there, and he was, he was amazing, and it sort of inspired, um, some other people that I didn't even know to start a band.

This is how I remember it anyway, and they were called Plumline.

Join Charles as he talks about the people and issues that are affecting you and your family at the local level of government.

On November 3rd, Bell County voters will decide whether to create a county hospital district.

If they say yes, Bell County gets a new unit of government with the power to tax property, issue debt, and deliver health care run by a board of managers that voters did not elect.

Now, the ballot language allows a rate of up to 75 cents per $100 evaluation, which, if it were ever leveraged at the ceiling, would make the hospital district the single highest taxing entity in the county, higher than the county itself, the cities, and the school districts.

And here's how it got there.

Not a percentage of a turnout, not a share of registered voters, a flat number written into state law.

That has nothing to do with the amount of people who turn out for an election.

The Bell County Commissioner's Court did not vote for this because they wanted to.