The Mason Garden Club met on January 17, 2017, at the Stribling Room of the Mason County Library, with 17 members and 4 visitors attending. The program, “Back Yard Bee Keeping”, was given by Jim Lindley, MD, now retired, from Fredericksburg.
He has been interested in bees since he was a child and has a wealth of knowledge on bee keeping and continues to have his own hives.
Fredericksburg, TX (Jan. 23, 2017) –Rehearsals are underway for Fredericksburg Theater Company’s (FTC’s) production of the popular musical, Hello, Dolly! Appearing in the production are Dawn Hahn as Dolly Levi, William Joseph as Horace Vandergelder, Brett Ellis as Cornelius Hackl, David Wilkinson as Barnaby Tucker, Leanne Finnegan Ellis as Minnie Fay, Donna Jackson as Irene Molloy, Donna Vaughan as Ernestina, Daniel Hoffman as Ambrose, and Lucinda Harvey as Ermengarde, The pr ...
Our CTEC branch office in Mason will be closed from 10-1 on Friday January 27th.
The drop box will be available for payments and crews will be on call for outage issues. All incoming phone calls to the Mason branch office during those few hours will be forwarded to our Llano branch office.
Also our headquarters office in Fredericksburg can be reached at 1-800-900-2382 for assistance.
With the old year passed and the New Year ahead, it’s time to think of new projects to benefit Mason area residents!
The Mason Community Foundation is currently accepting applications from local non-profit groups for grants that could make life in Mason safer, healthier, smarter, prouder or just more enjoyable!
The Mason Lions Club met Tuesday, January 17th, for it’s weekly luncheon meeting. There were 31 members and 3 visitors in attendance. Among the visitors were 2 Mason High School Seniors, Lupe Callejas, and I did not get the name of the other young lady but both plan on attending A.S.U.
I’d like to remind everyone that we’re starting to collect books for the annual Friends of the Library Book and Bake Sale. You may bring books to the library but please bring them in—don’t leave them on the porch. Also, please check to see if the books are in fairly good shape and dusted off.
It’s only (someone else’s) money
Several years ago, not long after Carter Smith became Executive Director of Texas Parks & Wildlife, I cornered him at a Texas Outdoor Writers Assn. conference and bent his ear for a while. Well, I didn’t literally bend his hear. It’s just an expression. It means to whine about something to the point where you cause excessive irritation to your listener(s).
And they called the wind Mariah.
The wind came thru and pruned the trees, and pretty much anything that wasn’t nailed down went into the wind and off to places unknown! I even received a few items from parts unknown. Just before the storm struck I had finished pruning and cutting back.
The internet has a delete button. The Facebook has a thumbs up, sad, and happy buttons. What we need is a DISGUSTING button. This goes for the news stations. I know you can turn the channel or station off, but still I would like to hit the DISGUSTING BUTTON.
You have to push one for English.
