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Yes, it’s still August and feels like 100 degrees ev-ery day.

However, with the end of the month approach-ing and September near-ing, dove season is close.

Depending on where you hunt, the regular sea-son opens in the north and central zones Sept. 1.

The special white-winged dove days for the south zone runs Sept. 5-6 and Sept. 12-13.

If you love spending time outdoors, I have al-ways felt dove season is the opening of the best time of the year for me.

Sure, it might still feel hot as a desert at times while retrieving doves in the field, but the bacon-wrapped snack afterward will be well worth every-thing.

September also means bass fishing begins to pick up as water temperatures slightly decrease in many bodies of water.

And with our upcoming outdoor life special sec-tion coming next month, I’m lucky enough to go cover hunting and fishing stories for the publication: one for The Progress and one for the Countywide, which will delve into both

spectrums of the vision of the section.

I’ll learn about an out-fitting operation near George West and see their preparation in offer-ing turkey, quail and dove hunts with lodging.

The ranch raises cattle and farms hay, but also provides an outfitter ser-vice for bird hunters.

My story for the Countywide will focus on kayak fishing a stretch of the San Antonio River south of Falls City that will feature two sets of falls along the way.

Since my time as edi-tor for the Countywide, I have yet to find any kayak fishing stories in Karnes County.

I will show you how to legally access the San An-tonio River for a similar trip.

Now those two assign-ments are ones I’m going

to look forward to since naturally I love spending time outdoors.

Whether you hunt, fish, camp, hike, geocache, or anything else, please take a child outdoors with you.

With the age of tech-nology and children im-mediately influenced by cell phones, YouTube, or other technology driven distractions, let them play in the dirt.

Let them safely look for game in the field if you hunt.

Or tie a fisherman’s knot for a jig in search of a largemouth bass.

Just take a child with you. My folks did and that is what I try to pass along to my children.

I know they love fish-ing off my kayak or filling feeders with me.

And that makes me feel pretty good.

Dennis WadePublisher

Before you build it…they will comeThe movie, released

in 1989, was “Field Of Dreams” starring Kevin Costner. Costner por-trayed a farmer in Iowa, struggling to make farm-ing work, when one day, quite mysteriously, a fig-ure from the baseball-past strolled out of his corn field and wanted to play baseball. An empty field held a promising future, if Costner would take a risk and build a baseball diamond in the middle of a corn field in Iowa, they would come. The line from the movie was; “If you build it, they will come.

Costner built his base-ball diamond, and the players from the past did come, along with thou-sands of fans from across the country to watch them play America’s fa-vorite pastime.

Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) is building an out-standing steel production facility in Sinton, Texas, and we are really thrilled they selected Sinton. SDI chose an empty field to make a difference and to help realize their cor-porate dreams. SDI has

intense and deliberate in-tentions of being the very best at everything they do.

The really smart people at SDI conducted an ex-haustive study to deter-mine the best location to locate their new state-of-the-art steel manufactur-ing facility. Sinton won!

When choosing a site to locate or relocate, the site-selectors of the world look for reasons to eliminate a targeted com-munity, and after their elimination process their list is much shorter; usu-ally it has only three com-munities from which to select. One of the most impactful qualities any community must have in order to stay on the list is a qualified workforce.

Typically, workforce is the No. 1 consideration. Other mission critical and qualifying factors are: infrastructure, location, land, taxation and com-munity support.

Sinton passed these site selection tests with flying colors, especially regard-ing the qualified work-force. That was mani-festly displayed when, on Aug. 15 and 16 during the open applications day held at the Sinton Com-munity Center, thousands of individuals showed up and braved the elements (it was HOT) and stood in line for hours in order to submit their applica-tion. Before the plant is even finished, they did come.

Without knowing the specificity of the quali-fications SDI is seek-ing, I can share some of them in general. It is well known that there is not an abundance of people anywhere that know how to build steel. So when considering qualified ap-plicants, what does SDI look for:

• A very strong safety-first mindset

• A passion for learning• Willing to be an inte-

gral part of a team that is compensated based on quality and quantity of results

• Non-negotiable ac-ceptance of an enviable corporate culture

• A desire to be a part of a caring corporate family

• Entrepreneurial spiritIf you are fortunate

enough to be selected to work in the Sinton SDI facility, they will teach

you your part in making the finest steel products on the market and you must treat this selection as one of the greatest op-portunities of your pro-fessional life.

Should you not be se-lected, it does not mean that opportunities are not still available. SDI will at-tract other businesses that will locate on the SDI campus (some already have), and they will need qualified workforce as

well. So keep the faith. Also know that, for ev-

ery one job created inside the SDI campus, there are four created outside the campus.

My deep admiration goes out to all of you hearty individuals that made an appearance dur-ing open application days and showed SDI that their choice to come to Texas was the right one.

Even before it was built…

Aspiring applicants complete applications during Steel Dynamics Inc.’s open appli-cation days, August 15 & 16, at the Sinton Community Center. The event attracted thousands of individuals from across the entire region. (Photo by Dennis Wade)

Approaching fall season leads to spending more time outdoors

HABITS OF A WRITER

By Chris FiloteoEditor