If you’ve had the happenchance to be in your home on a fall afternoon and heard some drums beating from downtown Mason, you are not hearing the Mighty Mason Puncher Band. It will most likely be the drums beating from the DANZA AZTECA TONANTZIN, the matachines (ma-ta-chee-nes) procession. The matachines are a dance troupe that adorns themselves in brightly colored ritual attire called bouffon.
For a great beginning to the sacred season of Advent, you are invited to join us for “Love Made a Way” Sunday, December 1, 6:00 pm at St. Paul Lutheran Church. If you have never attended one of the Mason Community Choir cantatas, consider coming and listening!
You’ll hear a little bit of everything in this work, new songs, familiar carols, fresh settings of timeless Christmas favorites and ministry songs that will reach deep into your heart.
The singers are Amy Capps, Kay Evans, Jon ...
For a great beginning to the sacred season of Advent, you are invited to join us for “Love Made a Way” Sunday, December 1, 6:00 pm at St. Paul Lutheran Church. If you have never attended one of the Mason Community Choir cantatas, consider coming and listening!
You’ll hear a little bit of everything in this work, new songs, familiar carols, fresh settings of timeless Christmas favorites and ministry songs that will reach deep into your heart.
The singers are Amy Capps, Kay Evans, Jon ...
Happy Thanksgiving. I trust that each of you will have a great holiday with family and friends. Remember to take time to give thanks for all the blessings in your life.
The Art United Methodist Church was decorated for the season Sunday morning. The hanging of the greens is a great time for members to get together and spruce up the church.
Have ya’ll seen the new Anna Martin exhibit? So far this month, visitors from Iowa, Oklahoma, California, Virginia, Colorado—in addition to sixteen Texas towns and cities—have learned that Mason is the home of the first woman bank founder and president in the U.S. Even visitors from Japan now know Anna Martin’s story!
Storytime read-alouds in October were topped off with spooky crafts featuring mummies, masks, skeletons, and pumpkins. Don’t miss Monday, November 25, as we give thanks and celebrate the holiday with a turkey story and craft activity.
Storytime is held Mondays at 10:30 a.m. in the Kid’s Zone of the Mason Co.
Our Seaquist “elves” have been busily preparing for the Seaquist House Foundation’s annual “Christmas at the Seaquist House” event to be held on Saturday, November 30th from 6 p.m. till 8 p.m. This open house will follow Mason’s “Light up the Town” from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. when the square’s Christmas lights will be turned on.
This will be our sixth annual event, the first one being held in November of 2014 outside in front of the house since we hadn’t purchased it yet.
The Mason ISD Board of Trustees meeting for November 25, 2019 has been changed.
The Board will meet for Special Training, “Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse” on November 25, 2019 at 5:00 pm in the Administration Building.
The regular Board Meeting will take place at 6:00 pm immediately following the training.
We hope it is to the Peter’s Prairie Schoolhouse for the Annual Community Christmas Party. The party will be held Saturday, December 14th @ 6 PM.
The Association will be serving BBQ (brisket, sausage & chicken), Pinto Beans, Potato Salad, Coleslaw, Pickles, Onion, Jalapeños, BBQ Sauce Bread, Coffee & Tea.
If you attend, please bring a Dessert ~~ or dish of choice.
We are requesting Monetary donations to Bluebonnet Casa to purchase Christmas gifts for the children.
Happy Holidays to ...
Alpha Beta Psi will be hosting its annual Light Up Our Town Saturday, November 30th 4:00 – 6:00 p.m!
Santa and Mrs. Clause will be arriving by fire truck 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 be on the courthouse lawn giving train rides and Mason Building Supply for donating the bounce houses.
