Announcements

The Peter’s Prairie School Community Association is holding its usual affair for friends and neighbors to get together for an evening of visiting and a nice meal. We’re providing the Barbecue (brisket, sausage & chicken), Pinto Beans, Pickles, Onion & Jalapeños, Barbecue Sauce, Bread, Tea & Coffee. Please bring a dish to go with the above menu.

On December 9th at 7:00PM, the Odeon presents Gospel (music) according to Johnny. Bluesman Johnny Nicholas with Kelley Mickwee will perform a Blue Christmas special. Johnny Nicholas knows the blues. Speaking of Johnny, B.B. King said, “(He) learned from some of the same guys I did and sings and plays the real down-home blues.” For Kelley Mickwee it all comes down to just making music and singing.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Llano County, will be having a Private Pesticide Applicator Training Class on Monday, December 4, 2017. Class will begin with registration at 8:00 a.m. with the training beginning at 8:15 a.m. Cost of the training if you pick up your materials is $80. If info is mailed to you, cost will be $90.

Alpha Beta Psi will be hosting its annual Light Up Our Town Saturday, November 25th. Santa and Mrs. Clause will be arriving at 4:00 p.m. They will be on the courthouse porch, so parents bring your cameras. Thank you to the Little Tykes Express of Mason who will also be on the courthouse lawn giving train rides from 4:00 – 6:00. Beginning at 5:00 area youth will entertain.

Fletcher Clark is coming back to the Mason Co. M. Beven Memorial Library, located at 410 Post Hill St., to present a Christmas music program on Monday, Dec. 4th, at 6:30 P.M. in the Stribling Room. Admission is free. Fletcher is a veteran musician and songwriter from the earliest days of the emerging music scene in Austin and its famed concert hall Armadillo World Headquarters.

The Hilda Community Club will host their Annual Christmas Party and Business Meeting on Saturday, December 2nd at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Susan and Tom Doell, 23614 Salt Branch Loop, Mason, TX 76856. Please RSVP to [email protected].

The First United Methodist Church of Mason invites the community to join them on the three Wednesdays of Advent for special Christmas music and a brief message in the sanctuary - lunch and visiting in the Fellowship Hall follow. The dates are: December 6, December 13 and December 20, and the time is from noon till 1:00 p.m. They hope to see you there, and there will be more information in next week's paper.

Happy Thanksgiving. With all the running around, I let Thanksgiving slip up on me. As I write this on Sunday evening, I feel the first hint of holidays coming up. We decorated the Art United Methodist Church this morning. I like that my holiday season begins with decorating my church. This is the week that my daddy would have been 100 years old.

The Mason County Historical Society will be holding an Old-Fashioned Christmas at the Fort and Mason County Museum Open House on Saturday, December 2, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This time will be in conjunction with the tours that the Seaquist House Foundation will be holding. Fort Mason, located at 204 West Spruce Street was established on July 6, 1851 in present day Mason County, Texas.

The public is invited to attend the November 27, 2017 meeting of the Texas Master Naturalist Hill Country Chapter to hear Rufus Stephens, wildlife biologist, and Jan Wrede, educator, discuss their new publication. After years of working with landowners, land managers, naturalists, county officials, and others about wildlife management and land stewardship for birds in the Texas Hill Country, Stephens and Wrede teamed up to write a practical guidebook on how to improve habitat for birds on b ...