January 30, 2019 Issue

ABILENE, TX (01/22/2019)-- Stephen Horn of Mason TX has been named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s Honor Roll for McMurry University. To be eligible for the Dean’s Honor Roll, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking six to eleven credit hours. McMurry University was founded in 1923 as a United Methodist institution, and is a vibrant and comprehensive center of higher education.

Mason’s Scarlet Punchers, those intrepid women “of a certain age,” who absolutely insist on enjoying life to the fullest, got more than they bargained for on January’s journey to Brady. Four women who still had enough pennies in their pockets to eat out after the deluge of spending that engulfs Christmas, met at the Methodist Church parking lot and attempted, for the second time in three months, to eat at Joe’s Italian Grill.

Last week, on a cold and windy morning, the Mason County Chamber of Commerce welcomed its newest member, My Space Rentals, owned by Hunter & Koda Geistweidt and Zach and Donna Langehennig. My Space Rentals is the newest addition to Mason County and we are here to offer the best storage with the friendliest service.

RECENTLY, THE OPERATION ROUND-UP Board of Directors at Central Texas Electric Cooperative approved a grant to Bluebonnet CASA. Bluebonnet CASA provides and supports trained community volunteers to advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children involved in the court system, and to facilitate placement of these children in safe, loving and permanent homes as quickly as possible.

Lion president Marty Bentson opened the January 22 meeting of the Mason Lions Club, and he recognized two guests, senior students from Mason High School, Cassidy Schneider and Reagan Standard. Lion Charlie Reichenau filled in as a substitute speaker to loud applause and cries of “again” when he announced that he would be speaking about his thrilling adventures while fishing in the wilds of the Amazon jungle rivers. Lion Charlie is serious about fishing in Brazil; he has fished there 3 ...

As we begin working on the needed projects for the City this spring, there are several issues that seem to jump out in importance and urgency. There are the regular tasks such as dealing with water leaks and filling more potholes, as well as preparing the parks and public areas for the spring growing cycles.

Last April, a Mason County couple entertained visitors for a long weekend. They went rock hunting, climbed some of the granite uplifts in the north end of the county, and attempted to visit the Eckert James River Bat Cave. Though the cave is closed in April, Bat Cave Steward Vicki Ritter agreed to meet the visitors and show them around the property.

Mason County 4-H sent four teams totaling 14 members to San Angelo on Wednesday, January 23 to compete in the District 7 Food Challenge. This competition, that is a part of the 4-H Food and Nutrition Project, challenges teams to create a dish using only a predetermined set of ingredients.

ABILENE, TX (01/22/2019)-- Stephen Horn of Mason TX has been named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s Honor Roll for McMurry University. To be eligible for the Dean’s Honor Roll, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking six to eleven credit hours. McMurry University was founded in 1923 as a United Methodist institution, and is a vibrant and comprehensive center of higher education.

The football banquet will be held at the community building on January 31st at 6:00 p.m. We will recognize the varsity and junior varsity accomplishments as well as recognize the cheerleaders and trainers. Guest speaker for the banquet will be former Texas Tech quarterback, Cody Hodges. Puncher Club will be providing the meal and we hope that you can make plans to attend.

This year CTEC is offering twenty-five $1,000 college scholarships, bringing the combined amount of financial help awarded to area students over the program’s 22-year history to $584,000. Completed scholarship applications must be in the Fredericksburg CTEC office by 5 p.m., Friday, February 22. In order to be eligible, applicants must attend a recognized Texas institution of higher education in the fall 2019 semester and be considered a full-time student.

Mason Cowgirls vs. San Saba Tuesday, 1/22 Mason 9—14—12—6 = 41 San Saba 10—10—3—11= 34 Scoring—Pr. Anastas 7, T. Guice 6, Magnus 17, Cano 11. Rebounds—Pr. Anastas 2, A. Guice 5, Hanscheck 1, T. Guice 3, Magnus 12, Cano 13. Assists—A. Guice 1, Keller 1, Hanscheck 2, T. Guice 2, Magnus 1. Record: 29—1. Mason JV Purple vs.

Mason County 4-H sent four teams totaling 14 members to San Angelo on Wednesday, January 23 to compete in the District 7 Food Challenge. This competition, that is a part of the 4-H Food and Nutrition Project, challenges teams to create a dish using only a predetermined set of ingredients.

Fishers of all sorts will be flocking to the James River Crossing on Highway 2389 Saturday, February 2nd in hopes of catching a rainbow. One thousand Rainbow trout will be released as part of Mason County WinterFisch, a partnership with Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD). The first release of 1500 fish occurred on December 8th and has been attracting many local and visiting anglers ad providing loads of outdoor fun.

The Mason Community Foundation wants to invite the many volunteers in our County who give of themselves and their time to provide the basis for all of the valuable activities and projects around town. Because volunteering is so much of our life in Mason we often do not appreciate just how important this area of our life together is.

Mason’s Scarlet Punchers, those intrepid women “of a certain age,” who absolutely insist on enjoying life to the fullest, got more than they bargained for on January’s journey to Brady. Four women who still had enough pennies in their pockets to eat out after the deluge of spending that engulfs Christmas, met at the Methodist Church parking lot and attempted, for the second time in three months, to eat at Joe’s Italian Grill.

When: February 19, 2019 Where: Valeria Ristorante Italiano 109 Waterview Parkway, #108, Boerne, TX 830.331.1393 Speaker: Donna Taylor from the Cibolo Nature Center Time: Social starts @ 10:00 a.m. Meeting starts @ 10:30 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. Cost: $18.00 per person Contact: Please RSVP call or text to Kitty-Sue Quinn at 512-644-3508 or [email protected] on or before February 12, 2019 Directions: Please call the restaurant

Pete Van De Putte of Dixie Flag Manufacturing Company in San Antonio will present “The History of the Texas Flag” at the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library, 410 Post Hill St., on Thursday, February 7. The program will begin at 6:30 P.M. in the Stribling Room. Admission is free. Mr.

The Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library offers two traditional handcraft classes: Beginning Continental-style Knitting and Embroidery. The classes are free and may be joined at any time. Jutta Dreyer teaches the knitting class, which meets at 6:00 P.M. on Mondays. For this class, please bring one skein of medium-weight yarn and one set of size 8 circular needles.

The construction of the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library’s Camp Discovery project is officially launched! Library Board member J. D. Kidwell is directing the project and estimates that it will be open by May. J. D. and volunteers Bob and Linda Laury and Dan Barton set the cedar corner posts for the pavilion, and the roof should be installed very soon. This nature discovery play area, funded entirely by grant funds, will encompass spaces for discovery play in drama, building, mus ...

Storytime is held Mondays at 10:30 am in the Kid’s Zone of the Mason Co. M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library. Children ages 2-6 are welcome and should be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. Weekly stories are led by Carol Lampman, an elementary school teacher. On Monday, February 4 we’ll be reading Don’t Wake up the Bear by Marjorie Dennis Murray.

The football banquet will be held at the community building on January 31st at 6:00 p.m. We will recognize the varsity and junior varsity accomplishments as well as recognize the cheerleaders and trainers. Guest speaker for the banquet will be former Texas Tech quarterback, Cody Hodges. Puncher Club will be providing the meal and we hope that you can make plans to attend.

Tickets for the 30th Heart of Texas Country Music Festival will go on sale at 9:00 AM, on Tuesday, January 29. The event will run from March 15-23, in Brady, Texas, and will feature fifteen shows and dances plus the Darrell McCall and Friends Golf Tournament. Country Music Entertainers being featured this year include Johnny Bush, Johnny Rodriguez, Moe Bandy and the Americana Band, Mel Tillis Jr and the Statesiders, Darrell McCall, Tony Booth, Justin Trevino, Amber Digby, Jeff Woolsey, Mary ...

When: February 19, 2019 Where: Valeria Ristorante Italiano 109 Waterview Parkway, #108, Boerne, TX 830.331.1393 Speaker: Donna Taylor from the Cibolo Nature Center Time: Social starts @ 10:00 a.m. Meeting starts @ 10:30 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. Cost: $18.00 per person Contact: Please RSVP call or text to Kitty-Sue Quinn at 512-644-3508 or [email protected] on or before February 12, 2019 Directions: Please call the restaurant

A date change for the 55th annual Frontier Days, benefiting the Harper Community Park, has been announced. The event will now take place on Friday and Saturday, May 17-18. After decades of holding this community park benefit during Labor Day weekend, the park board recently voted to move activities to the third weekend in May. Upon reviewing Labor Day weekend and the many events in the area, it was determined there were a total of nine events competing with each other, according to boar ...

Last week, on a cold and windy morning, the Mason County Chamber of Commerce welcomed its newest member, My Space Rentals, owned by Hunter & Koda Geistweidt and Zach and Donna Langehennig. My Space Rentals is the newest addition to Mason County and we are here to offer the best storage with the friendliest service.

This year CTEC is offering twenty-five $1,000 college scholarships, bringing the combined amount of financial help awarded to area students over the program’s 22-year history to $584,000. Completed scholarship applications must be in the Fredericksburg CTEC office by 5 p.m., Friday, February 22. In order to be eligible, applicants must attend a recognized Texas institution of higher education in the fall 2019 semester and be considered a full-time student.

The MCF is now accepting applications for our spring grant cycle. In the past 12 years, the MCF has awarded over 135 grants for a total of $364,000. We have provided grants for upgrades in medical services in our community, area fire departments, school programs, city beautification, and many other areas. If your non-profit group has a project that will benefit the majority of our community, and you have not received a grant from MCF in the last year, you can pick up and return a grant ap ...

Where did January go? This month is marching on. Our family has a series of birthdays in January and February. We are having a lot of celebrations. It is good to have family over and have a good visit. Birthday cake sweetens the deal. The Mission Team of the Art United Methodist Church needs cookies on Sunday, February 10.

The Odeon theater celebrated its 90 year anniversary last October by showing the first movie ever presented at the theater. At the event the audience had the opportunity to select 5 movies from the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest Movies that they would like to see brought back to the Odeon for a regular classic movie night. The top movie requested was…drum roll…To Kill a Mockingbird, followed by Casablanca, Wizard of Oz, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Citize ...

The City of Mason will be holding a City Election, Saturday, May 4, 2019. City positions up for election this year are: City Commissioner District 2 and City Commissioner District 4. Residents of the City of Mason who desire to place their name on the ballot for one of these positions may do so beginning Wednesday January 16, 2019 until Friday February 15, 2019.

January 13, 1932 – January 22, 2019 Nelson William Geistweidt, 87, of Doss, Texas, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, at Hill Country Memorial Hospital, Fredericksburg. Nelson was born on Jan. 13, 1932, in Fredericksburg, Texas, the son of Edgar Geistweidt and Eleonora Meyer Geistweidt. He married Evelyn Welgehausen on June 7, 1953, at Zion Lutheran Church, Fredericksburg, and she survives. Nelson was a rancher in the Onion Creek community, northwest of Doss. He retired from the County of ...

Dennis Dale Land, age 65 of Harper, passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2019, in Kerrville. He was born July 31, 1953, in Junction to Lester F. Land and Alma (Oehler) Land. On October 10, 1994, he married Caroline Ann Scherder. Dennis retired from DPS where he worked in Narcotics. He was a member of Harper Methodist Church. Dennis loved his family.

Charlene Bratton Schuessler, of Mason, passed away on Thursday, January 24, at the age of 84. She was born on November 8, 1934, in Fredonia to Charlie Bratton and Laura Hayes Bratton. Charlene married Elroy Schuessler on November 12, 1952, in Fredonia. Their marriage was blessed with two sons Jimmy and Buddy and a daughter Pam. Charlene was known for having a beautiful yard out in the country filled with blooming rose bushes and numerous pretty plants.

Where did January go? This month is marching on. Our family has a series of birthdays in January and February. We are having a lot of celebrations. It is good to have family over and have a good visit. Birthday cake sweetens the deal. The Mission Team of the Art United Methodist Church needs cookies on Sunday, February 10.

As a pastor of a growing church in a small community, I have rarely taken the opportunity to write an article for the paper. There have been occasions where I have witnessed or experienced situations that have urged me to publicly engage the community outside of the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Mason.

Wining and Dining on a Saturday Night! Our community is renowned for its ability to raise funds to meet almost any need. If someone is sick, we'll hold a fundraiser to help them with their expenses. If a public structure is in need of updates or repairs, we'll hold a fundraiser to finance the project.

As a pastor of a growing church in a small community, I have rarely taken the opportunity to write an article for the paper. There have been occasions where I have witnessed or experienced situations that have urged me to publicly engage the community outside of the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Mason.

Mother’s Brown Bread courtesy: Cooks.com This old recipe dates back to the Second World War. The brown bread loaves were made and sold by patriotic women all across the United States so they could buy War Bonds and support the effort. Real easy; real good; quite different. Ingredients: 1 cup molasses 2 cups buttermilk 1 handful bran 1/2-1 cup raisins 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon salt Process: Mix all ingredients toge ...

Over the past few years, the Mason Garden Club has replanted the front flowerbeds near the statue, the one to the left of the front door as you come in, and constructed the butterfly flowerbed to the right as you come in. They have also spent hours watering and maintaining the beds year-round, and the results are beautiful!

The sea ice is melting, the oceans are rising, climate change is causing hurricanes to be more frequent and more powerful, and I have a bone spur on the ball of my left foot that’s driving me nuts. Actually, not all of that is entirely true. Or at all true.

Friends Will Rogers Never Met… Will Rogers--a long ago American favorite whose gentle humor and keen observations made a world smile often, and sometimes even think--claimed he never met a man unworthy of his liking. Dying too soon in a 1935 plane crash, this gift to America from the Oklahoma Territory would have included women, too, had he not lived in an age of unbridled chauvinism. Caught in the jaws of the Great Depression, we needed him.

Robin. Right there on the Courthouse lawn. Bob-bobbin along. Maybe that means early Spring. Or maybe it means nothing. Or maybe it’s like the old saying: The early bird gets the worm. Those old sayings may be old. But they’re full of common sense. Which is not so common. Just look at our politicians. A lotta brouhaha. No one makes sense. No matter which side. It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. Nonsense, after all, is NON-sense. In simpler times, one took he ...