The Kendall Gentleman

The October 2026 issue of The Kendall Gentleman, the monthly Kendall County magazine for men published by Oakridge Media in Boerne, Texas, features Wes Holekamp on the cover. This is Volume 2, Issue 10.

Cover Story

Wes Holekamp: The Long Road Home. He left Comfort to build a career, then came home years later to raise his family in the Hill Country community that raised him.

In This Issue

• Publisher’s Note: Faithful in the Small Things
  A Publisher’s Note on a word we use so often it loses its edges, and what faithfulness means beyond marriage and church.
• Cover Story: Wes Holekamp: The Long Road Home
  Wes Holekamp, a fifth-generation Comfort, Texas native and Comfort ISD trustee, is The Kendall Gentleman’s October 2026 cover story.
• History: The Holekamps: A Family That Helped Build Kendall County
  The Holekamps came to Texas when Fritz and Betty Holekamp left Germany in 1844, before Kendall County, Boerne or Comfort existed.
• Hope for Heroes: More Than the Medicine
  Kendall County EMS paramedic Pete Macias on military medicine, compassionate care, and answering the call.
• BetterMENt: Following the Ratio
  Why the most effective leaders listen twice as much as they speak, and why leadership often begins with a pause.
• Outdoors: The Call of the Wild
  A father and his son Hunter head across Northwest Texas and New Mexico toward Colorado’s Rocky Mountains near Wyoming.
• Faith & Leadership: Rails
  Stan Leech on Friday nights at Greyhound Stadium in the fall of 1986, back when the home side had wooden bleachers and no video board.
• Musings of JEV: The Boerne Limited
  The railroad came through Boerne in 1887, and JEV remembers the morning train rolling north through town at about ten o’clock.
• Cigar Review: Undercrown 10
  Reviewed by a columnist who smokes a cigar a day as part of his calming routine, on the way to meetings or after long days.

Previous issue: September 2026.