February 24, 2016 Issue

Conference 2A 1. Panhandle 2. LaPoynor 3. Weimar 4. Gruver 5. Windthorst 6. Martin’s Mill 7. Evadale 8. Frost 9. Muenster 10. Mason

First Grade A Honor Roll Rylee Bradley Rodee Brooks Derric Burch Hudson Burns Victoria Dominguez Reese Edwards Grace Gonzales Ruby Hills Whitley Lopez Ava McCrea Jancie Miller Grant Nobles Davis Rosberg Tristyn Salinas Camille Schmidt Leah Schmidt Heidi Smith Noah Sparks Hudson Terrell George Velez Derek Wartenbach AB Honor Roll Ricardo Alvarez Nathan Baker Skylar Burroughs Hadley Couvillion Reece Evans Izzabella Gaskins Mia Martinez Taylee Miller Landyn Moore Anson Parker Nata ...

For the third consecutive year, the Mason Junior High won the UIL Academic District competition held in San Saba. On January 19, 2016, led by an outstanding eighth grade class, Mason won the meet by nearly 200 points. Individual placings, coupled with the overall strength of Mason’s teams, resulted in this victory, followed by San Saba, Junction, Harper, Johnson City and Center Point, respectively. This year’s participants were: Pictured with the Champion plaque - 8th : Aaron Reardon, Alex ...

The Mason tennis team is off and running this spring as they have completed several dual matches as well as playing in two JV tournaments and hosting two varsity tournaments. Although several of the boys and girls that will be playing tennis later are still MIA due to basketball season, we have had lots of good tennis played. The top goal for our team this year is to recapture the state team tennis championship that escaped us last year when Brock dethroned Mason after twelve consecutive 3A tit ...

Mason Elementary is teaming up with Headstart to have their annual PK/Kinder and Headstart Roundup (pre-registration) on Monday, February 29, 2016 in the Elementary/Junior High Library from 2:30—5:30 pm. If your child will be attending Pre-Kindergarten, HeadStart, or Kindergarten NEXT school year (August 2016), please come anytime between 2:30 pm and 5:30 pm to the library to register your child.

Notice is hereby given of a General Membership Meeting of the Ft. Mason Golf Association, to be held Monday, March 7, 2016, beginning at 5:30 p.m., in the Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church, 224 Broad Street, Mason, Texas. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and approve an Association membership drive proposed by the Board of Directors for April 9, 2016, changing the date of the annual fundraising event from April to August, and possible action to generate additional operating ...

The Gooch Cemetery’s annual meeting will be held at Mason Bank on Thursday, March 10th at 10:00 a.m. Cemetery Board members invite all interested parties to this meeting.

The Mason Hospital Facilities Board is in need of several people to serve on the Facilities Board due to the expiration of terms, relocations and other factors. The Board oversees the Mason Clinic Property which includes the clinic building currently occupied by Frontera Clinic and the Annex building, currently occupied by a home health agency.

On April 1, 2016, the Friends of the Mason Library will hold their Annual Book and Bake Sale. Members of the Friends of the Library can browse and buy from 2:00 to 6:00 on Friday, April 1. On Saturday, April 2, 2016 from 8:00 – 4:00 everyone is invited to come and purchase some gently used books, movies and CDs and as well as some delicious homemade baked goods. On April 2, 2016, you can also pick up plants for your spring garden on sale in the Library parking lot by the Mason Garden Club.

Mason County Library will host Nonnie’s Kitchen on Friday, February, 26, 2016 from 12 noon to 1:30 in the Stribling room. This hands on cooking class will cover Southern Funeral Food. Pimento cheese is a staple in the southern diet so just imagine biting into a pimento cheese fritter (fried ball of cheese) then top it with hot pepper jelly?

Musician and singer Lauren Pelon will perform at 7:00 P.M. in the Stribling Room of the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library tomorrow night, Feb. 25th. Ms. Pelon will present “Music from Backyard & Front Porch,” and she will perform on approximately twenty ancient and modern wind, string and free-reed instruments, and voice.

All interested local charities and organizations must fill out an application for distribution of funds from the 2015 Lions 5K/10K event. Application forms are available at all 3 Mason Banks. The deadline is March 1st.

The 26th of February marks the start of Operation Desert Storm. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8554 Mason will hold a remembrance of this event in our history. We invite all interested parties to attend on the 1st of March at 1:30 p.m. at the Post on Post Hill St. Questions about VFW post 8554 may be directed to Lawrence Spell, Post Commander, at 325 429 6224.

AUSTIN, TX – Austin-area artist Sabine Zimmer will be featured at the 2016 People’s Gallery exhibition, an annual, year long visual art exhibition at Austin City Hall. The People’s Gallery is a program of the City of Austin Economic Development Department/Cultural Arts Division. Now in its 12th year, the People’s Gallery is designed to showcase regional artistic endeavors and to encourage public dialog, understanding, and enjoyment of visual art.

Dorris Marie Cole, 92, of Fredericksburg and Mason, Tx, formerly of Sebastian, Tx, was born on October 28, 1923, in Patroon, Texas, to Quincy Tucker Chandler and Almira Eddins Chandler. Dorris passed away on February 20 in Fredericksburg. Dorris was the youngest of four children. Preceding her in death were her parents, brothers and sister, Earl Chandler, Thomas Chandler and Lucille Hanks. Dorris married “the love of her life”, Jesse Howard Cole, on December 20, 1941.

Eddie L. Eckert, Jr., of Mason, passed away on Friday, February 19, at the age of 79. Eddie is survived by two daughters Brenda Gibson and husband Gerald, of Mason and Barbara Pfeil and husband Roy of Mason, a half-sister Irene Thurman, 7 grandchildren: Eddie McBee and wife Penny, Kimberly Brown, Chris Gibson, Travis Eckert, Jaclyne Grosse, Royce Pfeil and Reece Pfeil, 8 Great-grandchildren: Shalla McBee, Austin Miller, Alexis Brown, Hannah Brown, Kadynce Bradley, Kyleigh Bradley, Rylee Bradley ...