The Mason County Child Welfare Board’s Annual Hamburger Picnic Fundraiser and Community Easter Egg Hunt was a smashing success again this year! The citizens of Mason County once again came out in full force to show their support for the work the MCCWB does towards raising community-wide awareness regarding child abuse, neglect and prevention.
Soft rain.
Slight breeze.
Still a chill in the air.
Kids cut across the grassy lot, talking talking.
Walking to school.
And above, the towering pecan.
Its limbs stretched over the three teenagers walking on...
On into their lives.
They know not what lies ahead.
But then, who does?
Forward they go, oblivious of the witness.
The pecan tree watching, listening.
As it has for more than 60 years.
And what it has seen...and heard...it keeps to itself.
Confidentiality is key.
Being a tree, there isn
I trust you had a good week. There is always a letdown after Easter when the company goes home, you eat all the leftovers, and the Easter Chocolate is gone.
Our family was saddened to learn of the death of my aunt, Linda Kensing, this past week. She was 93 years old and had lived a long, happy life.
Spring has definitely arrived in Mason, and with it we have the variety of benefits and activities that crowd our calendars every year at this time. This last weekend was the Chamber Music Festival, the Artfest around the Square, the gun show and rattlesnake roundup at the City park for the Loyal Valley VFD, the annual book sale at the Library and several other planned activities.
A “Fine” How-Do-You-Don’t...
Easter Season reminds us annually of the “ultimate wrongness.”
Christians hope to make good on half of the directive to “go, and sin no more.” We go, but we sin some more.
Creative, we mere mortals be--adding new “wrongs” on a daily basis. Thankfully, seasons are not named to commemorate our blunders.
Some miscues are the result of fiendish premeditation inflated by dreams of “15 minutes of fame.” I remember extreme tackiness l ...
I really need to get out more. Because when I do, I hear things that are really good material for this article. For example, some folks feel like I do. And there are those who don’t feel like I do. Of course I appreciate the ones who think like me and the ones that don’t won’t make it in print.
Mildly threatening
Those of you who have absolutely nothing better to do might want to check out the listing for alligators, found in the ‘Reptiles & Amphibians’ section of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park website. And when I say ‘absolutely nothing better to do,’ that includes rearranging your sock drawer and rotating the wheels on your lawn mower.
We want to send out a huge “Thank you!” to the Friends of the Library. They have the setup, sale, and take down for the annual Book & Bake Sale down to a science—it was a wonderful success! We also thank everyone who came and donated to the library—I’m always amazed at the unbelievable generosity of this little community!
DVDs:
The Peanuts Movie
A Place in the Heart
A Walk in the Clouds
A Country Called Home
Daddy’s Home
Audiobooks:
No Safe Secret by Fern Michaels (CD F MIC)
Orh ...
What a Great Beginning to Our Spring!
Were you in Mason last weekend?
Though spring officially began almost three weeks ago, I think we could all agree that, with weather and events, this last weekend was a poster-perfect example of how exciting and fun a few days in Mason can be.
The flowers along the highways had already started drawing them in on Thursday and Friday, so there were lots of cars all around the square.
Tennis players were popping in and out of downtown between ...
The Mason Division of Emergency Management will conduct its monthly test of the emergency siren warning system at noon on Thursday April 7. The test should last from 1 to 3 minutes.
Monthly test are to be conducted on the first Thursday of the month at noon, weather permitting.
