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Ted H. Smith, Chief Appraiser for Mason Central Appraisal District (MCAD) is retiring after 15 years of service.
Ted is a life-long resident of Mason County. He attended Mason schools and graduated from Mason High School in 1971. Upon graduation he attended Texas A&M University where he earned a degree in Landscape Architecture in 1975.
Mason Study Club met April 25th in the Stribling Room of the Mason County Library for their monthly meeting. The group was privileged to have Gerry Gamel, editor of The Mason County News, speak on the role of a small town newspaper.
President Mary Carlman thanked the hostesses for the luncheon meeting.
The CASA quilting crew that meets once a week at St. Paul Lutheran have been very busy.
There are seventeen quilts of all colors and sizes in this second group and ten more stuffed animals, which brings the total of each, quilts and stuffed animals, to twenty-seven. But we are still a long way from reaching our goal of providing a quilt and an animal to each child that is helped by CASA.
When interviewed on Charley Jordan’s radio show a few months back, one of the advocates mentioned th ...
Junction, Texas (April 30, 2018) – Kimble Hospital is one of the 20 highest ranked critical access hospitals in the U.S., according to a National Rural Health Association (NRHA) announcement. This elite group of 20 hospitals was selected from a Top 100 list released in 2017.
Bill Barnes, administrator, could not be more proud of the providers and staff at Kimble Hospital and Junction Medical Clinic.
On May 24, at 6:00 pm, award-winning author and land management specialist, Dr. Jim Stanley, will present “Your Hill Country Land; Its History, The Problems, The Solutions, and Why It Matters” at Fredericksburg High School. The presentation will offer insights for anyone interested in the preservation of Hill Country land, from new property owners to multi-generational ranchers.
Stanley, a chemical researcher by profession, has lived in the Hill Country since 2000, devoting his time to ...
For the fifth consecutive year Hill Country Memorial has been recognized by Women’s Choice Award as an America’s Best Hospital for Obstetrics. For the 2018 award period, HCM was one of 452 hospitals that have met the highest standards for obstetrics in the nation.
“We are honored to have consistently received this recognition for obstetric care,” said HCM CEO Jayne Pope.
The Mason Lions Club met April 24 for its weekly luncheon meeting. 32 members and two speakers were present.
On April 24, Lion Armando Subia, District Governor, sent each Mason Lion an email congratulating the Mason Lions Club on winning the “Retention Award” for the third quarter in the large club category.
When traveling this week, I noticed the roadside flowers are mostly yellow. Usually, yellow flowers are thick in late May and June. We really need rain. Perhaps we should organize a community prayer meeting for rain.
Sunday, May 6, is Communion Sunday at the Art United Methodist Church.
The Art United Methodist Women will have their Spring Luncheon at the parsonage on May 8, at 11:30.
Many times in our lives we give or get thanks. We teach our children to say, “thank you” to others when something is done for them. Appreciative thanks can never be overrated.
It is actually a motivator for further acts of this same kindness to others. Thanks can be a form of renewal.
Denison students who have been awarded major prestigious national and international academic awards and scholarships also were announced. These scholarships, including Fulbright, Gilman, Rhodes and Cambridge, provide opportunities for Denison students and graduates to work and study abroad. Awardees include:
Chelsea Chen ’17: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Turkey
Sarah Curtin ’18: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany
Angela Gloninger ’18: Fulbright Engl ...
At the end of Wednesday’s play, the Punchers were tied for second place and the Cowgirls were in fourth place. Not much sleep took place Wednesday night thinking about what needed to be done the following day. The wind changed directions now coming from the North. The air temperature dropped 20 degrees in the morning.
Despite Strong Fight, Mason Cowgirls Varsity Can’t Top Comanche
Mason Cowgirls fought back after falling down by six runs in the fourth inning. The comeback fell just short though, in a 13-12 defeat to Comanche on Monday. Mason Cowgirls scored eight runs in the failed comeback on a double by Alana Evans in the fourth, a single by Kelcey Doss in the fourth, a single by Aunnecy Elliott in the fifth, a error in the fifth, a error in the sixth, a error in the seventh, and a in the seventh.
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The Hill Country Sheep & Goat Organization offered scholarships under two different sets of qualifications for 2018:
Graduate of a Hill Country county high school, accepted or enrolled at a Texas college/university/technical school, and majoring in an Agricultural field.
Child of an active Texas State Trapper, accepted or enrolled at a Texas college/university/technical school.
The scholarship application deadline was 4/15/18.
On Thursday, May 9, The MHS Pioneers will be presenting on their two ongoing projects at the Mason County M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library, 410 Post Hill Street.
The program will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the students will speak about the Dark Skies Initiative and the Rainwater Harvesting Project. The Pioneers is a group of students who are learning to be leaders in their school and leaders in their community.
The Pioneers Youth Leadership Organization (http://www.pioneersyouthleadershi ...
Our recent award of the Night Sky Friendly Business Recognition Program, sponsored by the Mason County Chamber of Commerce goes to Benjie’s. This program recognizes businesses that use light fixtures that use less electricity and preserves our beautiful starry skies. Benjie’s is located at 208 Ft. McKavitt on the square in Mason.
Enrollment for the 2018 Summer Program is underway for Kingdom Kids, River of Life’s Mom’s Day Out program. Kingdom Kids mission is to provide a loving, Christ-centered environment where children are nurtured and mother’s needs are met. Summer activities for children ages 3 months to 5th grade include age appropriate Bible stories, music time, crafts, baking, and recreation time.
This summer we will be offering (2) three week sessions for ages 3 months – 5th grade.
Denison students who have been awarded major prestigious national and international academic awards and scholarships also were announced. These scholarships, including Fulbright, Gilman, Rhodes and Cambridge, provide opportunities for Denison students and graduates to work and study abroad. Awardees include:
Chelsea Chen ’17: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Turkey
Sarah Curtin ’18: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany
Angela Gloninger ’18: Fulbright Engl ...
Mason Young Life is having it’s 7th annual car wash to help send kids to camp Saturday, May 5th on the South side of the square. As you can see in the picture we will wash almost anything! Please bring your cars, trucks, tractors, emergency vehicles and and bicycles out and we’ll give them a good rinsing.
All we ask for is a donation to help send over 20 kids to Frontier Ranch near Buena Vista, Colorado from June 3nd to the 10th.
Beckmann – Reimherr
Christianna Reimherr and Tyler Beckmann were married on Sunday, April 15, at a private ceremony held at the Beckmann Ranch at Harper. Rev. David Priem of Holy Ghost Lutheran Church conducted the service. A reception and dinner followed at Crossroads Steak House in Fredericksburg.
Christianna is the daughter of David and Jennifer Reimherr of Helotes.
The CASA quilting crew that meets once a week at St. Paul Lutheran have been very busy.
There are seventeen quilts of all colors and sizes in this second group and ten more stuffed animals, which brings the total of each, quilts and stuffed animals, to twenty-seven. But we are still a long way from reaching our goal of providing a quilt and an animal to each child that is helped by CASA.
When interviewed on Charley Jordan’s radio show a few months back, one of the advocates mentioned th ...
The Hill Country Sheep & Goat Organization offered scholarships under two different sets of qualifications for 2018:
Graduate of a Hill Country county high school, accepted or enrolled at a Texas college/university/technical school, and majoring in an Agricultural field.
Child of an active Texas State Trapper, accepted or enrolled at a Texas college/university/technical school.
The scholarship application deadline was 4/15/18.
On Thursday, May 9, The MHS Pioneers will be presenting on their two ongoing projects at the Mason County M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library, 410 Post Hill Street.
The program will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the students will speak about the Dark Skies Initiative and the Rainwater Harvesting Project. The Pioneers is a group of students who are learning to be leaders in their school and leaders in their community.
The Pioneers Youth Leadership Organization (http://www.pioneersyouthleadershi ...
Our recent award of the Night Sky Friendly Business Recognition Program, sponsored by the Mason County Chamber of Commerce goes to Benjie’s. This program recognizes businesses that use light fixtures that use less electricity and preserves our beautiful starry skies. Benjie’s is located at 208 Ft. McKavitt on the square in Mason.
Homeowners, native plant enthusiasts, landscapers, architects, nurserymen, Master Naturalists and Master Gardeners can all benefit from a course being offered by the Fredericksburg chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas on May 5th at the Central Texas Electrical Cooperative office located at 386 Friendship Lane, Fredericksburg, TX 78624.
This introductory course in the Native Landscape Certification Program covers the value that native plants add to the landscape, differences between ...
Homeowners, native plant enthusiasts, landscapers, architects, nurserymen, Master Naturalists and Master Gardeners can all benefit from a course being offered by the Fredericksburg chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas on May 5th at the Central Texas Electrical Cooperative office located at 386 Friendship Lane, Fredericksburg, TX 78624.
This introductory course in the Native Landscape Certification Program covers the value that native plants add to the landscape, differences between ...
Enrollment for the 2018 Summer Program is underway for Kingdom Kids, River of Life’s Mom’s Day Out program. Kingdom Kids mission is to provide a loving, Christ-centered environment where children are nurtured and mother’s needs are met. Summer activities for children ages 3 months to 5th grade include age appropriate Bible stories, music time, crafts, baking, and recreation time.
This summer we will be offering (2) three week sessions for ages 3 months – 5th grade.
LLANO TEA PARTY DINNER MEETING
THURSDAY, MAY 3RD
AMERICAN LEGION HALL
SOCIAL 6:00 DINNER/MEETING 6:30
Speaker: Trayce Bradford
Trayce has been President of Texas Eagle Forum since 2016. Previously she served for four years as President of the Dallas Eagle Forum. Additionally, she founded the Tarrant County Eagle Forum in 2012.
Texas Eagle Forum is a grassroots organization dedicated to educating, inspiring, praying and working together for conservative values within Texas to stren ...
Jamie Osbourn, County Extension Agent-Agriculture, Llano County
This year’s Llano County Beef & Range Field Day is set for Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the John L. Kuykendall Arena & Events Center, 2200 Ranch Road 152, about 1.7 miles west of Llano. The program will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. and there is no charge to the participant.
“Geese with Attitude” is a unique quilt now on display in the Stribling Room of the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library, located at 410 Post Hill St.
This gorgeous quilt was an auction item at the 2017 Riata Fall Fundraiser that benefitted the Mason Clinic. It was constructed and pieced by Pam Scott and quilted by Tess Geistweidt.
The Mason County Historical Commission will be sponsoring the annual spring meeting of the Edwards Plateau Historical Association Meeting at the Mason County Library in the Stribling Room on Saturday, May 5th with registration and coffee beginning at 9:00 a.m. The program will begin at 10:00 with a catered lunch break at noon catered by Nachos.
Hill Country Astronomers (HCA) will meet at 6:30 PM, Monday, May 7, in the HEB Activity Room at Hill Country University Center in Fredericksburg.
The presentation will be the second in a short series of programs that HCA will present over the next few months aimed at bringing novices “up-to-speed” with club members who have been doing this for a while.
Central Texas Electric Cooperative (CTEC) will be collecting food at each of their four office locations in Fredericksburg, Kingsland, Llano and Mason. Individuals that bring in a donation will receive a free koozie.
In Fredericksburg, CTEC is working with the Hill Country Community Needs Council in their Food 4 Kids program.
When traveling this week, I noticed the roadside flowers are mostly yellow. Usually, yellow flowers are thick in late May and June. We really need rain. Perhaps we should organize a community prayer meeting for rain.
Sunday, May 6, is Communion Sunday at the Art United Methodist Church.
The Art United Methodist Women will have their Spring Luncheon at the parsonage on May 8, at 11:30.
The public is invited to the opening reception for Samuel Shelton, "Touching Life with Light" exhibit on Thursday, May 3, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Arnold Art Gallery on the square in Mason, Texas.
Samuel Shelton is an oil painter whose portraiture and figurative work is reminiscent of the Baroque Masters of yester-year.
Mrs. Juanice A. Scott, 83, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, April 23, 2018, surrounded by family and friends.
The funeral service was conducted on Thursday, April 26, at 12:30 p.m. at People’s Baptist Church.
Burial was in Pinewood Memorial Park. The family received friends at the church from 10 a.m.
Jamie Stephens passed away on Monday, April 2nd peacefully in her home.
Jamie was born December 19, 1941, in Brady, Texas, the daughter of Perry and Cleo (Adams) Wartenbach. She was raised and attended schools in Mason, Texas. She was employed at Mason ISD as the Food Service Director and also drove the Band Bus to all the away football games, to their UIL competitions and any other special events.
After moving to College Station in 2003, she drove a bus for that CSISD that served the spe ...
Dorothy Lee Jeffreys, 99, of San Diego, California, passed away April 15, 2018, in a hospice care facility.
She was born in Holt, Texas, on September 22, 1918. Dorothy married John Leslie “Les” Jeffreys on May 24, 1936. Dorothy and Les moved to California in the early 1940’s for Les’s job in the aircraft industry.
Mason Young Life is having it’s 7th annual car wash to help send kids to camp Saturday, May 5th on the South side of the square. As you can see in the picture we will wash almost anything! Please bring your cars, trucks, tractors, emergency vehicles and and bicycles out and we’ll give them a good rinsing.
All we ask for is a donation to help send over 20 kids to Frontier Ranch near Buena Vista, Colorado from June 3nd to the 10th.
So, What Happens on Sunday Morning?
I have a rather static routine on Sunday mornings.
I get up around 6:00 a.m., check my email and messages, look at the weather and headlines, then start getting ready for early church. I attend the first service at First United Methodist Church at 8:30 a.m., so I try to be in town by 7:45 so that I can take care of my tasks at the News office, including feeding the cat and recording the weather for the NOAA.
Graci Weber, First Place Winner in the 2017 VFW Patriot's Pen Essay Contest
Freedom is a gift, but it is not a gift that keeps on giving, unless you nourish it, freedom will wilt like a neglected house plant. Freedom is great and strong, but unless we take care of our freedom it will slowly begin to die. Think of our freedom as a thorough bred race horse.
Once you ride and get a taste of it, you will not want anything less.
Angel Biscuits
courtesy: Emily Bruno
Is there any such thing as having too many biscuit recipes? I didn't think so! This recipe produces one of lightest, flakiest biscuits that you ever slathered gravy on; matter of fact, you may want to hold the biscuits down so that they don't float off your plate.
We had a fabulous week last week. Barbara Ortwein’s book talk was very entertaining, and she’s such a cheerful, friendly person that it was a real pleasure to get to visit with her. We have all three of her historical fiction novels available for checkout. They form a trilogy about a German immigrant family who come to the Texas Hill Country in 1844.
What’s wrong with this country?
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it didn’t fall apart in a day. Societies change over time, values are adjusted, mores shift, and public opinion is swayed by rhetoric offered through news media. America’s ox is in the ditch, but it didn’t fall in there all at once.
A Rotten Day…
“Ya can’t fix stupid.” It’s a line tossed about daily with abandon.
In my case--and this is an admission made “frog-throated” and typed with shaky fingers--I plead guilty.
The sting is even greater when our judgment--in certain moments when efforts are squeezed to save a few bucks--is sorely lacking, maybe totally absent.
Crock Pot Pork Chops With Jalapeño Pecan Corn Bread Stuffing
Well, I’m hearing more and more about Pork being the new white meat. This is one of my favorite new dishes. The pecans really add something extraordinary to this meal. As you know I am a big fan of anything I can cook in a crock pot, too.
Emerald.
As in green.
Esperanza.
As in yellow.
Lily of the Valley.
Lilies DeValle.
English or Spanish, May is here.
Mayo e aqui.
Green as an emerald.
Thanks to the mighty rain.
Such power to paint an entire county.
And in every shade of green at that.
Even the newly leafed mesquite is aglow with green.
The official May flower is blooming too.
It being the mayflower.
Accompanied by a plethora of others.
May is not full of promise.
It IS the promise.
Of new l ...
Greetings to all from Mason Texas! Never a day goes by that I am not enthralled, educated, or just flabbergasted! That’s right I said flabbergasted! To be struck dumb with astonishment or surprise. I bet you haven’t used that word in a while. Much of my day is spent in the company of some of our communities’ finest, the Senior citizens of Mason County.
