The Combined Community Action (CCA) Senior Nutrition Program also known as “Meals on Wheels” of Blanco, sponsored by Trinity Lutheran Church was facing a hole with the loss of former coordinator Claudia Smith.
Lainie Parker, a 23-year-old Blanco resident knew she had to answer the call to serve after Smith left; having seen the benefits of the program firsthand when her grandfather was a recipient while she was a little girl.
Parker performs multiple tasks as the coordinator.
Standardized testing in the state of Texas doles out pressure to every person in school. The district and administration feel the weight, especially with prospects of outcome-based funding, currently being discussed during this legislative session. However, the burden is most heavily shouldered by teachers and students.
That’s why it didn’t go unnoticed when the parents of Laura Johnson’s third grade class at BES found a letter written to their children from Johnson herself the day of ...
Most days in the downstairs area of Cranberry’s Antiques on the square, perhaps sitting at a mid 1900s Coca-Cola table, among rusty farm tools, lanterns, antique toys and old books, you will find 12-year- old Stephen Bowie Arnold. Stephen is the youngest vendor in Cranberry’s. Although he has only been running his booth in Cranberry’s for four months, his passion for antiques has been around for much longer.
Stephen has always had an interest in antiques, but the passion was really sp ...
