Volunteers, visitors, bats, snakes and critters....all these help make up a truly remarkable experience at The Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve.
The Preserve is really looking great (thank you volunteers!) and the bats are in wonderful form. The visitors are really enjoying their visits Thursday through Sunday night. I open the gate at 6:45 P.M.
Summer begins today. However, this is Texas and we have had summer for months. This past week has been brutal. Maybe summer will bring spring weather.
Class Meetings at the Art United Methodist Church have been changed from Tuesday to Wednesday evenings. Soup is served at 6 and the meeting is from 6:30 to 7:30.
Choir practice scheduled for June 28th has been cancelled.
Thank you to John Villegas-Grubbs, brother of Claudia Fahrenthold, who preached Sunday morning.
Dead Sea Strolls
You can’t sling a cat in Israel without hitting a historic site, where something happened during Bible times. There are over 6,000 sites identified as historic, so far. The Jews could save some time and money by putting up signs where nothing happened, instead of the other way around.
H. C. (Henry Carl) Reichenau 99, went through the gates of heaven Tuesday June 13, 2017, just four months short of his 100th birthday. He said, “I hate to leave you all, but I can’t live forever.“ Now he is living his promised Eternal Life. He said he was ready to go see Gen, his wife of 70 years and Jesus.
Rachel Leigh Denzin of Memphis, TN and Paden Leonidas Hemphill of Mason, TX were married March 19, 2017 at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens in Memphis, TN. Dr. Lance Hawley, assistant professor of Old Testament at Harding School of Theology, officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Susan Suggs of Memphis, TN and the granddaughter of Luther and Retha Suggs of Fort Lauderdale, FL.
We gathered on May 17th to present our annual wards and mark the end of our school year. The school initially thanked our faithful volunteers for their collective 1000+ hours of time spent helping here at the school! Our volunteers include Jim Cox, Judy Uherek, Sheri Jordan, Karen Jennings, Tai Weber, DeeAnn Loeffler, Arett Wireman, Earl & Judy Koch, Melinda Baker, Cole & Dawn Farmer, Don Durflinger and Fritz Landers.
We then moved on to Character Trait certificates in which we identify ...
Saddle up for Mason’s Round Up Rodeo and Parade Weekend coming up July 6th-8th! Come on down to Mason to celebrate this annual tradition with fun for the whole family. Round Up has new, exciting events this year that you will not want to miss!
The Round Up Parade starts at 10 a.m.
From June 9th-12th, five Mason students took a trip along with a group from Brady to Washington, D.C.
They visited such places as Mount Vernon, the Capitol building, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam wall, Holocaust Museum and several Smithsonian Museums to name a few. The students that were able to go were Tiffany Snow, Kyra Wilson, Will Ince, Derek Ontiveroz, and Grady Wallace.
I would like to thank Aaron Faith and Dave Ince that came along for the trip as well but helped me out along the way.
Members of Central Texas Electric Co-op, Board District 3 (Mason County), met Tuesday, June 6th in the new CTEC Mason Branch Office. The members were welcomed by the Co-op’s 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.
The clientele for ‘Camp MeMaw’ has dwindled down to only one. Oh, the alumni come by for a visit, but are no longer involved with the camp. So, it was just my Jitter Bug, Casen! But, we had fun. The rabbit population is down in Grossville. Now, I have the grand dogs as clientele.
