Director Don Servais retires from KSAT after 36 years
Read full article: Director Don Servais retires from KSAT after 36 yearsDon Servais has been in the director’s chair at KSAT for life changing events, like flooding coverage, hurricane evacuations, and yes, Spurs Championships. He is retiring on July 1st.
Longtime Frost Bank executive Don Frost to retire at the end of the month
Read full article: Longtime Frost Bank executive Don Frost to retire at the end of the monthDon Frost, an executive vice president at Frost Bank and great-great-grandson of the company’s founder T.C. Frost, will leave the bank after 41 years.
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San Antonio couple hopeful to travel again one year after the coronavirus crashed their cruise
Read full article: San Antonio couple hopeful to travel again one year after the coronavirus crashed their cruiseSAN ANTONIO – Wednesday marks one year since a San Antonio couple was allowed to return home after a period of quarantine at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The order to stay on the military base came after the couple and other U.S. citizens were pulled from a cruise ship where some passengers tested positive for COVID-19. The couple was told to stay inside their cabin on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship as it sat off Japan’s coast. Some of those passengers, including Don and Natty, were able to board a plane back to the United States. Don remembers when he was finally able to go back to his home in San Antonio.
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AP Was There: Don Schollander wins 4 gold medals in swimming
Read full article: AP Was There: Don Schollander wins 4 gold medals in swimmingEDITORS NOTE With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. It looks at the four gold medals won in swimming by American Don Schollander a record at the time and three gold and a silver by fellow American Sharon Stouder. Pair Big Fish At Tokyo-By JIM BECKER-Don Schollander and Sharon Stouder made quite a swimming team all by themselves. They won seven gold medals and one silver between them in the Tokyo Olympics, and each wound up by swimming on a winning relay team in the windup Sunday night. Schollander, 18, from Oswego, Ore., is the first man to win four gold medals in Olympic swimming.
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One of the subjects of the hit Netflix documentary ‘Tiger King’ is from San Antonio
Read full article: One of the subjects of the hit Netflix documentary ‘Tiger King’ is from San AntonioSAN ANTONIO – Hey, all you cool cats and kittens, have you seen the Netflix documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness?" It’s the story of an eccentric zoo owner who goes by the name Joe Exotic, and it turns out one of the main subjects of the documentary is from San Antonio. If you haven’t seen “Tiger King” then stop reading here because there are spoilers ahead. ’Tiger King’: Where are they now? For more Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin content you can listen to Robert Moor’s Wondery Podcast “Joe Exotic: Tiger King."
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From quarantined cruise ship to isolation at Lackland: SA native gives first-hand account of coronavirus evacuation
Read full article: From quarantined cruise ship to isolation at Lackland: SA native gives first-hand account of coronavirus evacuationA “very slow” process has brought a local couple once quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship back to San Antonio, but they haven’t made it home. Feds: 7 cruise ship passengers that landed at Lackland tested positive for coronavirus, sent to NebraskaThe number of Americans evacuated from Japan. Don and his wife, Natty, were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. For the departing Americans, the evacuation cut short a 14-day quarantine that began aboard the cruise ship Feb. 5. The Department of Defense said JBSA-Lackland’s coronavirus quarantine zone will remain available to patients through mid-March.