Third graders at Mason Elementary learned to think and plan about garden space in week three of their Learn, Grow, Eat and Go (LGEG) lesson. The students are gaining knowledge that will help them in planting a vegetable garden. The lesson title was “Don’t Crowd Me In.”
Students participated in “paper towel gardening” with carrot seeds.
The Mason Study Club gathered for their monthly meeting and were served a delicious lunch by hostesses Jan Appleby, Barbara Brunken, Carol Holmes, Gladyd Kaderka and Linnda Graham. In addition, the Club was treated to a fascinating presentation by Judy Hutcherson of ShelterBox USA.
ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that provides immediate emergency shelter and other lifesaving aid to survivors of a disaster or humanitarian crisis.
Fortunately, the Hill Country has not been impacted as wind farm developers have been rushing to start wind farm projects before the federal Production Tax Credit phase down increasingly takes effect. However, nearby areas such as Mills, Hamilton, McCullough, and Concho counties are seeing a progression in industrial wind farm projects.
Riata met on Tuesday, October 24 for their monthly meeting at the home of Tess Geistweidt. Co-hostesses were Amy Capps and Rene Ince, wth 26 members in attendance.
Megan Bierschwale & the 2017 Mason High School Pioneers presented their ‘Pioneers Water Conservation Project’. The objective of this project is to irrigate the band practice field using a rainwater harvesting system.
43 girls from 9 children residential and foster homes came to Camp Gene Ashby, Friday, October 27th. The girls came to participate in the Operation Orphans, Inc. hunting program. This season will be the 58th year that Operation Orphans, Inc. has organized hunting trips for kids who are wards of the State.
On October 24, “Boss” Lion Jim Heidelberg gaveled to order the weekly meeting of the Mason Lions Club. Twenty-seven members, three visitors and our speaker attended the meeting. Our visitors were Lion Chad Smith’s wife, Angela, and Lion Mona Soland and her husband, Lion “Honey”, of Kingsland. Lion Honey said, “There’s a story behind that too.” Stay tuned.
“Boss” Jim presented Lion Joel Kuykendall with a Lifetime Membership plaque and diamond lapel pin from the Texas Lion ...
The weather still seems confused with being both late summer and mid-fall in the same week, but with Homecoming and the Fall ArtFest both this past weekend and Halloween this week, I am pretty sure we are now well into Fall. The City continues to make small improvements that sometimes make big statements.
This is my favorite week. On Saturday night before I go to bed, I will take back the hour that was stolen in the spring. My clocks will be reset and my body says thank you. I have not saved any daylight. There were no more daylight hours. I was forced, however, to change my world to comply with someone who dreamed up getting up earlier for the summer months.
Saturday night, November 4th, will be the Queen’s Coronation.
After we had lived in Mason for about a year, I asked several people how long you have to live in Mason to be called a true Masonite. I asked this question to Doris Grote and she replied with a sweet smile, “Well at least 3 generations.” The same question was given to a parent of a high school student and she replied with a question, “Well, have you had your house wrapped yet?
The Mason County AgriLife Extension along with the Natural Resource Conservation Service sponsored a Fall Range Supper on Thursday, October 19 from 4 to 8 pm at the Waltisperger Ranch.
The evening program started with brush control demonstrations by Rocky Oaks Ranch Construction featuring their Monster Line Attachments. Douglas Waltisperger welcomed the guests and gave a brief history of the ranch.
