The members of the Fort Mason American Legion Post 285 and Ladies Auxiliary opened their meeting with the pledge of allegiance and a prayer. The pledge was led by Commander Lawrence Spell and a prayer was offered by Finance Officer Bruce Fowler.
Post Adjutant Holly B. Gilmore reported that the delegates for Boys State; Austin Habecker, Grant Stockbridge, and Jackson Chapman, will be leaving this Sunday for Boys State in Austin.
The Melchior and Rosina Bauer descendants held their 46th annual reunion June 5, 2016.
Family members gathered in Castell, Texas, at the restored school building, the site where most of the fourth generation of Bauers had attended school.
Wayne Carl Hofmann catered a barbecue dinner to some fifty attendees. President Vernon Fritze called the group to order.
Ode to the Crape Myrtle:
I think that I shall never see
Anything quite so lo-ve-ly
A tree that blooms while we sweat
And summer isn’t here yet.
A bush that looks
Like a bouquet
To make us forget
That one day
It will be hot
And hot
And hotter.
Better pray for rain
So we don’t have to water.
[The end.]
And the end of spring.
And the beginning of summer.
Next Monday.
One season ends.
Another begins.
As the saying goes:
“When one door closes,
A window opens.”
Which doesn’t make sense.
Why ...
Summer is flying by. Everyone seems to be running in a different direction.
Jan and Max Jordan hosted the Luchenbach Reunion at their home on Saturday, June 11, with assistance from John and Susie Jordan and Gail and Nolan Sholar. They reported about 40 people who enjoyed good barbeque and visiting.
Sterling Jordan celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday afternoon at the Stribling Room.
A Lesson Remembered...
Sobering lessons sometimes occur when we are caught between the unforgiving jaws of reality. The “clamped down and locked position” is preferable, though, to jaws grinding away for the next bite of life.
In such situations, our prayers may hit the ceiling with a thud. At the thought of the next step--big time chewing--we are apt to seize the moment, ready to make a deposit into our memory bank of bitter experiences.
Though I hold three university degr ...
Telemarketers have a new twist on irritating you. They call, but they let a recorded message answer when you answer. The other day I was giving them down the country, only to have them keep talking. Then I could push the right button to talk to a real person.
Excuse me, you called me.
The times, they are a-staying the same
We live in amazing times. Technology has grown by greater leaps during the past one hundred years than it did during the previous six millennia. Airplanes, telephones, helicopters, and plenty of other great inventions have come along. Just think where society would be today if William Whoopee hadn’t invented the cushion, or Alex Cell hadn’t invented the telephone, or AlGore hadn’t invented the internet, or Shirley Penter hadn’t inv ...
If you didn’t come to hear John Erickson last week, you missed a terrific time! We had about 115 people, and he thoroughly entertained us. Be sure to mark your calendars for the special programs next week: Percussion Things (comedy sketches, stories, and drum performances) on June 20th; the O’Donnells (musical performance on recorders) on June 21st; and Wild Things Zoofari (exotic animals) on June 23rd.
The Mason Lions Club met Tuesday, June 7th for it’s monthly business meeting. There were 33 members and 1 visitor in attendance.
It was decided at the board meeting which preceded the business meeting that the Mason Lions Club would do a hamburger cook at the Mason Rodeo this year. Last year the Mason Lions provided the hamburgers and Mason Young Life provided the drinks and chips and served the meals.
A free health and wellness program offered by Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc.
Methodist Healthcare Ministries and the Texas A&M AgriLife County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences invite you to take part in U.S. Diabetes Conversation Maps, a free diabetic education program. If you have diabetes, are predisposed to diabetes, take care of someone with diabetes, or are just interested in knowing about diabetes, please join us this summer!
