Operation Orphans - More Than Just One Season
Elsewhere in this week's paper, Lyla Crouch has a report on the latest activities of Operation Orphans.
For many people, they think of the activities out at Camp Gene Ashby only during the fall during deer season. They know all about the way that landowners open up their properties to children's homes from around the state to allow the youngsters a chance to spend a weekend experiencing something we often take for granted.
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The 5th Annual Mason County Youth Rally was a roaring success this past February. If you weren’t there, you missed the big event that included over 150 of our youth and it seemed, about that many adults. The rally was kicked off by a sandwich meal provided by the Lutheran and Methodist Men.
The youth were divided up into teams and then they made flags and slogans for their teams.
We had 18 youth baseball players participate in a baseball clinic on Saturday, April 23rd. It was a fun event with a focused effort on batting technique.
The boys also spent some time on fielding drills and a few were able to get on the mound and display their pitching skills.
A special thank you to our baseball instructors, Danny Jordan and Mike Brown.
The Texas AgriLife Extension Service Mason County is accepting applications to the Youth Agricultural Lifetime Leadership (YALL) program. 4-H members that have a strong interest in production agriculture and are outgoing high school freshman through outgoing seniors or ages 15-18 as of September 1, 2016, should apply. The program is limited to 30 students.
The Mason Division of Emergency Management will conduct its monthly test of the emergency siren warning system at noon on Thursday May 5. The test should last from 1 to 3 minutes.
Monthly tests are to be conducted on the first Thursday of the month at noon, weather permitting.
The Mason Tennis Association Tennis-A-Thon fundraiser was a smashing success in raising over $10,500. The money will be used to improve our tennis center.
Many of our tennis playing youth, ages 4 to 18, played tennis for one and a half hours on March 20th and acquired sponsors who donated money to them for playing.
The top fundraisers, who tied for first place were freshman, Corbin Norris and first grader, Toryn Tinney, raising $500 each.
A two week tennis camp will be offered this summer, June 6th through June 16th, at the Mason school courts. This camp will be for players ages 3 through high school, and will be offered on a first come-first serve basis.
Sign ups will begin immediately. We will have three 1.5 hour time blocks.
8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
The Mason Study Club held its monthly meeting on April 27 in the Stribling Room of the Mason County Library. Serving a delicious chicken chalupa lunch were our hostesses Judy Branch (chairman), Karen Olson, Diane Evans and Margaret Persky.
Introduced by Mary Carlman, our special guest was Kay Knight of Kay Knight Designs.
Retired professor, Michael Murphy, inspired members of the junior English 3 AP classes on April 27th & 28th. The English class, led by Glendene Underwood, are currently reading “Things Fall Apart,” an African-based novel centered around the rituals of the African culture.
Mr. Murphy, a connoisseur of the African way of life, enlightened the juniors with many artifacts, artworks, and stories.
It was a perfect spring evening, the atmosphere laid-back, food was outstanding, barrel aged cocktails, mixed drinks and wine were exceptional, the music pleasant and the community support for Second chance was very generous--as only the people of Mason can be!
The Second Chance Mason Animal Rescue’s Board, Officers and volunteers wish to thank each contributor and attendee at the Second Chance Capital Campaign kick-off fund raiser.
