The Llano Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for several awards, which will be given out at its annual awards banquet at the end of the month. Nominations are being sought for the Hall of Fame, Citizen of the Year and Agricultural Producer of the year awards, plus teacher of the year awards at each Llano County campus – Llano High School, Llano Junior High, Llano Elementary School, Packsaddle Elementary School and Llano Christian Academy.
Life has been a mission field for Sarah Smith. The chairman of LADI (Llano Alliance for Drug Intervention) spent almost three decades working at a San Antonio mission before fulfilling a lifelong calling later in life at the age of 70 – going on four mission trips to Africa.
Smith said she knew from the time she was young that she would be a missionary one day.
“When I was 14, the Lord spoke to me out loud.
Dec. 31, 2016, the end of the year and for many a time to look forward to new beginnings, resolutions, and a time to get out and celebrate. Private parties to full-blown, formal affairs were taking place all over the area, and the skies were lit from early evening to a climax at midnight as 2017 rolled around.
One private party, at the residence of David and Doris Messer, was not only a New Year’s party, but a showing of recent artwork by local artist Lou Quallenberg.
Castell General Store held its 8th annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day. Those who took part in the plunge were Glenn Hadeler, Janice Jensen, Linda Briant, Philip Lang and Billie Nugent.
BELTON — The dateline — the city mentioned a few words ago — isn’t totally a stretch. I did see Mary Hardin-Baylor beat Linfield College of Oregon, 27-10, here, November 26, in the second round of the Division III playoffs. That was en route to a national championship, and Llano’s Colton Center was part of the perfect-season ride.
“The first time I thought we could win the big one this year was the third game of the regular season when we ran over then third-ranked Linfield, 66-27.
Llooking back at Llano in 2016, the John L Kuykendall Event Center comes of age, Llano sees a new city manager, The Llano News becomes the city’s only newspaper, and a new librarian comes to the Llano County Library. Most of all, it was a year to remember in the Deer Capital of Texas.
The year got kicked off with a bang at the John L Kuykendall Event Center and Arena with new manager Ray Craig, and the City of Llano officially took over the facility.
The Llano Recycling Opportunities is thankful for its new baler and appreciates everyone who donated to the effort, said Jerry Land of the LRO.
The LRO had been operating for months with just one baler after one of its two balers became unoperational earlier this year. With only one baler, operations greatly slowed, as did income coming into the center.
“With the $14,700, the new baler was purchased and it is a wonderful machine,” Land said.
An oath ceremony for incoming elected officials will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 30, at the Llano County Courthouse at 801 Ford Street in Llano.
Officials will be sworn in for the coming year at the ceremony.
Those who will be sworn in include: Allan Garrett, 33rd District Judge; Wiley “Sonny” McAfee, district attorney; Rebecca Lange, county attorney; Bill Blackburn, county sheriff; Kris Fogelberg, county tax assessor-collector; John Ables, county surveyor; Peter Jones, precinct 1 co ...
Llano County Democrats celebrated Christmas together on Dec. 21 in Llano at the home of Linda Gammage. Along with fellowship and sharing food and spirits, club president Dick Maddern presented a gratitude plaque to the outgoing Democratic Party chair and welcomed this year’s annual scholarship winner (and her mother) to the celebration.
Shali Niemeyer has finished her first semester at Texas State University in San Marcos and is studying to be a teacher with a specialty in music education.
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