March 7, 2018 Issue
Thank you for joining or renewing your membership in OBCCPS for 2018. If you have not yet joined, you will have an opportunity at the annual membership meeting on March 15, 2018. Your membership and interest in the Old Courthouse are essential to the OBCCPS mission of restoring and maintaining the Old Blanco County Courthouse as an historic site and as a well-used treasure of the Blanco Community.
OBCCPS encourages all members and other interested persons to attend the annual meeting.
The Hill Country Astronomers and Keep Blanco Beautiful have teamed up with the First Baptist Church to host its first Family Star Gazing Night at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 12, 2018.
Blanco County resident John Watson of the Hill Country Astronomers will present a demonstration in the church’s Fellowship Hall to start the evening’s activities.
“Rain or shine, we’ll start with a computer-generated planetarium of what we’ll see in the sky,” Watson said.
March 6 marked the 182nd anniversary of the fall of the Alamo.
A convention of delegates met at Washington on the Brazos to write the Texas Declaration of Independence, as well as the Constitution of the Republic of Texas. Fifty-nine delegates from North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky as well as others were among the Texans in the delegation all calling Texas their home.
Stanley Towers Lane passed away March 1, 2018, at Elan Westpointe, New Braunfels, Texas. He was born July 17, 1924, in San Antonio, to Gideon and Katie Towers Lane. He grew up in Bandera and San Antonio and graduated from Breckenridge High School. Stanley served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Grace Elizabeth Colgan, of Blanco, Texas passed away on Sunday, March 4, 2018.
Grace was born on April 23, 1993, in Columbia, Maryland to Deb Lunceford Rossi and Michael Colgan. She graduated from Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas in 2011. Grace was an avid lover of animals, especially her dog Dixie, who she considered her baby and accompanied her everywhere.
