June 17, 2020 Issue

The Brownwood Area Fellowship of Christian Athletes is honored to recognize Mason High School coach Denis Cano as the Area Huddle Leader of the Year for the 2019-2020 school year. Cano was selected from more than 30 FCA huddle leaders in the area. Cano has served as Mason’s FCA huddle leader for the past three years.

Lately it seems that most of Texas would like to get back to “business as usual” even with the concerns that there are more cases of Covid-19 being reported throughout the State. In Mason we have not seen any new cases for about three weeks, but it is still a good idea to continue wearing face masks and keeping a reasonable distance from others as you go about shopping, church services, getting the mail and many other situations.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (June 10, 2020) - The students listed on the Dean’s List of Academic Honors at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, are undergraduates who have achieved a grade point average of at least 3.5 out of a perfect 4.0 in all work attempted while enrolled in not less than 12 semester hours.

The annual Puncher Club Tournament will be held this Saturday June, 20th. This will be a 4 person A,B,C,D scramble format with a length of string for continuation of shots. The price is 50$ per person with mulligans available for purchase at the club house. You may have pre-arranged teams or sign up individually by noon on Saturday.

The woodcarvings of Mason artist Gene Zesch will be displayed in a special retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville titled “Looks Like We’ll Just Have to Tighten Our Belts Again.” The exhibition runs from June 19 through August 1 and features over 60 of his pieces. The Kerrville exhibition will be the fifth single-artist museum show of Zesch’s career.

The Brownwood Area Fellowship of Christian Athletes is honored to recognize Mason High School coach Denis Cano as the Area Huddle Leader of the Year for the 2019-2020 school year. Cano was selected from more than 30 FCA huddle leaders in the area. Cano has served as Mason’s FCA huddle leader for the past three years.

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Since I received no reply to my question, “What do you want to do for Father’s Day?”, we will proceed as normal. Summer is officially here June 20. Maybe I should ask what he wants to do to celebrate summer. There will be no class meeting this week.

Ronald Dale Johnson, 76, got his promotion to Heaven on June 11, 2020. Ron was born in Roswell, New Mexico on April 1, 1944, the first of two children born to AJ and Dorothy Johnson. While serving his country in the Army National Guard, he met the love of his life, Dorothy Louise Metze (Dottie), in San Antonio, TX.

The Brownwood Area Fellowship of Christian Athletes is honored to recognize Mason High School coach Denis Cano as the Area Huddle Leader of the Year for the 2019-2020 school year. Cano was selected from more than 30 FCA huddle leaders in the area. Cano has served as Mason’s FCA huddle leader for the past three years.

Everything You Can, In Every Way You Can... Last Sunday, for the first time in two months, First United Methodist Church reopened its sanctuary for worship on Sunday morning. Every other row of pews was taped off. Masks, though optional, were widely worn. There was no handshaking or hugging, though there was a lot of elbow bumping and delighted grins.

Dry County Coach Paul Smith I am surprised to see your petition on Masking Mason County a wet county. When we moved here thirty years ago, Mason was, indeed, a dry county. Today we have drinks sold on three sides of the square and in our grocery store. We also have an alcohol problem among our teenagers who are getting their drinks and examples from the home or illegally.

Training Dear Readers, I ran across these stats and, if these are representative or even close, I think we can see why police in some places find it difficult to do a better job. TRAINING! N. Carolina Police: 620 hrs. Barber: 1,528 hrs. Two cities require 278 more hrs. of police training. California Police: 664 hrs. Cosmetologist: 1,600 hrs.

The Father in the Mirror My dad has been dead since 1979. But I saw him this morning! Head tilted forward emphasizing the dewlap under his chin, looking down at me over that slightly elongated nose with those distinctive Birk brown eyes -- it was him all right. No question about it.

The Father in the Mirror My dad has been dead since 1979. But I saw him this morning! Head tilted forward emphasizing the dewlap under his chin, looking down at me over that slightly elongated nose with those distinctive Birk brown eyes -- it was him all right. No question about it.

The Father in the Mirror My dad has been dead since 1979. But I saw him this morning! Head tilted forward emphasizing the dewlap under his chin, looking down at me over that slightly elongated nose with those distinctive Birk brown eyes -- it was him all right. No question about it.

Oatmeal Cookies (Best Ever!) courtesy: Grace This is absolutely one of the best oatmeal cookie recipes I’ve ever tried, and I’ve tried a bunch over the years! The cookies hit just the right notes on every level and always turn out beautifully. Ingredients: 1 ½ cups flour 3 cups oats 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 1 cup Crisco (or butter, if you prefer) 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup chopped pecans (optional) ½ cup ...

For this week’s activity packet, the kids will be making princess and sorcerer hats! We even have a few pirate packets left over from last week and a couple of unicorns as well. Our hours are 10-4 and we will continue to run curbside services from 10-6. New to the Library: DVDs: Back to the Future Complete Trilogy The Call of the Wild Father Brown, Season 3 Hallmark’s A Summer Romance A Hidden Life Ordinary Love The Way Back Young Adult: A Ballad of Songbirds and Sna ...

A Quiet Week in Lake Wobegon?... It is ironic that author/broadcasting legend Garrison Keillor’s mythical hometown of Lake Wobegon is only an hour’s “crow fly” journey from Minneapolis. I saunter in where angels fear to tread--this needless mixing make believe with reality in the same paint can--but serious news folks do so all the time, so why not? Once asked about Lake Wobegon’s exact “location,” Keillor maintained the place of his upbringing to be in “Stearns County, ...

Frozen Wedding Punch This being June and the month of Matrimony, it brings back memories of weddings and showers. This was before cucumber water, bird seeds and bubbles. We drank sugary punch and threw rice at the newlyweds. It seemed like when I was a child we were going to a wedding or a shower all summer long.

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Since I received no reply to my question, “What do you want to do for Father’s Day?”, we will proceed as normal. Summer is officially here June 20. Maybe I should ask what he wants to do to celebrate summer. There will be no class meeting this week.