June 26, 2019 Issue

The Board of Trustees of MISD met for a special meeting on June 10, 2019 at the MISD Administration Office. Board President Jeff Durst called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm with members Jim Bob Smith, Cole Farmer, Tina Cantu-Navarro, Ryan Jordan, Mary Donaldson and Kathryn Martin in attendance.

The Board of Trustees of MISD met for a special meeting on June 17, 2019 at the MISD Administration Office. Board President Jeff Durst called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm with members Jim Bob Smith, Cole Farmer, Tina Cantu-Navarro, Ryan Jordan, Mary Donaldson and Kathryn Martin in attendance.

Mason High School held the annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony on Monday, May 20th in the auditorium. High School Principal Chris Habecker opened the evening with the following words, “Tonight it is my honor to welcome you to the Scholarship Awards Ceremony honoring the Mason High School class of 2019. To the organizations and individuals who make the scholarship opportunities available, the students, parents, teachers, and community are forever grateful.

Menard, Texas, artist, Marcy Holmes-Wheeler, has been presented the winner, Peoples Choice Award, for her gourd title "Anasazi Places and Pieces of the Past," which was recently entered in the Southwest Gourd Fine Art Show at the Kerr Arts and Cultural Center in Kerrville. Marcy also won a second place with that same gourd and another second for a gourd made into a clock titled, "One Minute Past a Lady Bug."

The Mason County Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Office welcomes new agent Angie Daugherty to town. Daugherty brings with her a background in product development, marketing and events, and nonprofit management. Her love and appreciation for the agricultural industry and passion for people brought her to Texas Farm Bureau. “Mason felt like the perfect place to plant some roots,” says Daugherty.

Members of Central Texas Electric Co-op, Board District 3 (Mason County), met Tuesday, June 4th in the Richard P. Eckert Civic Center. The members were welcomed by CTEC Chief Executive Officer, Robert A. Loth, III. Mr. Loth opened with The Pledge of Allegiance and the introduction of members of the co-op’s board of directors in attendance.

On June 18 the Mason Lions Club met in general session at Nachos presided over by Boss Lion Marty Bentson. Guests included Mark Hahn, who said he would soon be a new member, and Lion John Gammill, past district governor of 214-1, and son of Lion Gene Gammill. The Mason Lions Club recently provided numerous scholarships to graduating high school seniors, and Boss Lion Marty Lion read their gracious thank-you notes. Lion Gene Gammill had the program this week, and he introduced the speaker, ...

Last week I talked about the annual Water Quality Report that we have completed for the City, and it is now available on our website and there is a special link for it that will be noted on the back of your utility bill that should be in the mail next week.

Mason High School held the annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony on Monday, May 20th in the auditorium. High School Principal Chris Habecker opened the evening with the following words, “Tonight it is my honor to welcome you to the Scholarship Awards Ceremony honoring the Mason High School class of 2019. To the organizations and individuals who make the scholarship opportunities available, the students, parents, teachers, and community are forever grateful.

All JH & HS athletes. Boys and Girls 6pm-7pm Monday -July 1st, Tuesday - July 2nd Monday-July 8th, Thursday - July 11th, Friday - July 12th. Monday - July 15th through Thursday - July 18th Wednesday - July 24th through Friday - July 26th. Monday - July 29th through Thursday - August 1st.

In June, children found out at the library why Da Da Squirrel loves Little Squirrel and what wide-mouth frogs like to eat, along with what likes to eat wide-mouth frogs! It’s frightening enough to make a wide-mouth frog pretend to have a very tiny mouth! Kids surprised their fathers with personal rock portraits of Dad because “Dads Rock.”  They also made Wide-Mouth Frog puppets complete with a fly to eat. On Monday, July 1, it is all about Independence Day with a patriotic story and ...

Unlike the Scarlet Punchers, those women "of a certain age," who absolutely insist on living life to the fullest, the weather outside is hot! hot! hot! So what makes perfect sense to us, in the alternate world in which we all reside, is that July is the perfect time for a cold-weather holiday.

Good Afternoon! July 4th Celebration: The Llano Tea Party presents “The American Revolution” 1754-1776-1788. The LTP will have its 7th Annual “July 4th Celebration” at the Re-Opening of the American Legion Hall Post #370, Thursday July 4th. Doors will open at 10 am. The Christian Motorcycle Club will bring the Color Guard. Hamburgers and Hot dogs will be served for donation only, and all proceeds will go to the American Legion toward their repair/rebuild fund.

All JH & HS athletes. Boys and Girls 6pm-7pm Monday -July 1st, Tuesday - July 2nd Monday-July 8th, Thursday - July 11th, Friday - July 12th. Monday - July 15th through Thursday - July 18th Wednesday - July 24th through Friday - July 26th. Monday - July 29th through Thursday - August 1st.

Fredericksburg, TX (Jun 23, 2019) – Due to popular demand, the Fredericksburg Theater Company (FTC) has added an additional Thursday night performance of The Sound of Music on June 27th at 7:30 p.m. The production will be held at the Steve W. Shepherd Theater, 1668 Hwy 87 South, Fredericksburg, TX, 78624. “The board of directors would like to thank the community along with all of our volunteers, cast, and crew for their overwhelming support of this production,” said FTC Board Presiden ...

Welcome Summer. We have had a few hot days. This is most likely a preview of the weather to follow for several months. I am totally comfortable at 70 to 76 degrees. This is not my best time of year. It is often out of my temperature range at night and always out of range during the day.

The public water system of the City of Mason in anticipation of the hot weather to come, and the City Administrator John Palacio are requesting our citizens to observe Voluntary water conservation measures.  While we do not fear immediate water shortages, we feel it is necessary to move to Voluntary measures to protect the water levels for everyone and the demand on our water system.  We have been blessed with much needed rain these last few weeks and as it dries out and the hot summer wind ...

Hill Country Astronomers (HCA) will meet at 6:30 p.m., Monday, July 1, in the HEB Activity Room at Hill Country University Center in Fredericksburg. The program will feature a video lecture from Professor David M. Meyer’s series Experiencing Hubble: Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe. Professor Meyer says he has “… found no better way to communicate the joy of discovery in astronomy than through the beautiful cosmic images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope.” ...

Gary Lynn Hey passed away on June 20 at the age of 74 in Dallas, Texas. He was born on March 21, 1945 to George and Audrey Hey. He was an avid outdoorsman and loved hunting and fishing. Gary lived in Mason his entire life but moved to Dallas in 2016 to be close to family. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Kristi and Paul Scully of Dallas and five grandchildren Barrett, Grayson, Alec, Walker and Gigi, a sister Penny Goin and many nieces and nephews. Gary was proceeded in de ...

The Earth Is Flat... The Moon Landing Was Fake... Vaccines Aren't Safe.... Many years ago, there were strange rumors and wives tales that trickled through our conversations. The subjects were often quite trivial; but, in our young lives, they were of substantial importance. We all believed the rumor that Bubble Yum bubblegum was so soft and chewy because it was made from spider eggs. We questioned if Paul McCartney was dead, because on the Abbey Road album, he was out of step with his b ...

Landfill A Landfill is not like a Tuxedo I’ve rented a tuxedo twice in my life...prom 1964 and when I got married. What I learned during my 73 years is it makes sense to rent a tux, but not a landfill. Shipping trash 160-mile round trip to rent space in Brownwood’s landfill every time trash is dumped is crazy.

Waste Monday night’s Commissioners meeting was a grass roots example of democracy in action. It was so moving to see our community come together, in a positive way, over a mutual concern. It was apparent that the landfill decision currently under consideration brings out strong feelings. As well it should. The city forefathers were thinking about us, the future generations, when they made certain Mason would have a method in place to address the inevitability of trash. It is understanda ...

Pepper Crunch Cornbread courtesy: Genius Recipes If you’d like to try a different twist on your cornbread, whip up a batch of this. It’s baked more like a biscuit or a scone and the same cold pockets of butter that make your biscuits and scones work, work their magic on this pan of cornbread. Ingredients: 3 cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup sugar 1 cup cornmeal, preferably coarse, but fine will work fine 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 ½ teaspoons salt ...

The kids had great fun last week and yesterday with our special programs for Summer Reading. Entertainer Joe McDermott over 50 kids singing, dancing, and laughing, and they loved Repco Wildlife’s animals! We have one more special show coming next Tuesday, July 2—OSCAR MUNOZ will perform his MAGIC!! The show starts at 1:00 P.M.

Over the bounding Visa card Back when I was a little kid, and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would usually offer the normal, expected kid answers. I would say I wanted to be a fireman or a doctor or the guy who sits in that little room behind the ATM and sticks the money through the slot.

Shutters Closed on Red Light Cameras… Attention drawn to “red light cameras” has a broadened focus in Dallas. Some “Big D” traffic signals--designed to be effective for 25 years--have been in service since 1940, with almost all in use since 1980. If tell-tale cameras had been that old, there’d have been black-hooded photographers straddling elevated supports trying to apply matches to magnesium at precisely the right moment to provide lighting for incriminating photos of lawbr ...

Welcome Summer. We have had a few hot days. This is most likely a preview of the weather to follow for several months. I am totally comfortable at 70 to 76 degrees. This is not my best time of year. It is often out of my temperature range at night and always out of range during the day.

Somewhere it’s five o’clock. And somewhere it’s NOT 90 degrees. Wonder where that is… Possibly the other side of the world. Since it’s Winter in the Southern Hemisphere. June, July, and August. Down under. Australia. New Zealand. In the Andes. Patagonia. Antarctica. Not all of them get snow and ice. Except Antarctica. And that’s year round. Just the thought of it brings relief to the heat. DQ did good creating The Blizzard. Just saying it cools yo ...