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A native Texan, Bishop John Yanta was born on a farm in Runge on October 2, 1931. He passed away in his San Antonio home on August 6, 2022. Most everyone knows that Bishop Yanta was Polish and embraced his ancestry. So much so that he was instrumental in establishing the Polish Heritage Center in Panna Maria. He so loved this small Polish town that he made Panna Maria his
VISITORS TO LA VILLITA, SAN ANTONIO’S popular attraction saluting the city’s Hispanic heritage, will soon notice construction crews putting up a two-story octagonal building across the street at the previously moribund HemisFair. No, La Villita is not expanding. The vaguely Victorian brick pavilion, which is designed to fit in with the surrounding historic buildings, will honor San Antonio’s unheralded German heritage instead. The new building is a key element in German Heritage Park, an ambitious scheme hatched three years ago by William Dielmann III, the former president of San Antoni...