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Evergreen Baptist Church had a full house of members and visitors for Sunday morning worship services April 2. There was an Easter Egg Hunt and lunch afterwards with lots of good food and desserts. Everyone had a wonderful time.
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Continuing the Bookman family history in Grimes County and Trinity University we find that Jesse Bookman’s two children, Pickens Butler and Mattie J., both attended Trinity University at its original location of Tehaucana, Texas. The University was founded there in 1869 and relocated to Waxahachie in 1902, before making a final home at San Antonio.
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April Fool’s Day was Saturday, the day of our BBQ sandwich sales. The day started early with presales. We had a few rough spots throughout, but they ended quickly. We sold all the meat the firemen cooked. Thank everyone for making this fundraiser the best we have had in months.
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The Grimes County Mobile Food Bank will be open Thursday, April 13 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. in the back-parking lot of the Grimes County Fairgrounds. Any resident of Grimes County will be served and will only need to show their driver’s license when they complete the once-a-year Client Assistant Intake form. For more information contact Chris Albright, caanavasota@gmail.com or 713-962-2144.
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St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary, 6731 Pavlock Rd. in Navasota is hosting a Birthday Party for the Wolves Saturday, April 15 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Join for keeper talks, Artisan vendors, food trucks and a kid’s zone. For more info call Nicole, 936-494-9765.
Mental Health First Aid free virtual trainings will be held April 27-28, 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. For more information contact Rachel Brauner, 979-321-5021.
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The Lone Star State continues to lead the nation in jobs added with 58,200 new positions in February, bringing the state to nearly 14 million total nonfarm jobs, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. February also marked two full years of uninterrupted job growth in the state.
“The past 24 months of uninterrupted job growth show the strength of the Texas economy and ongoing economic opportunities for Texans,” said TWC Chairman Bryan Daniel.
The state’s jobless rate in February was 4.5%, which is higher than the national rate of 3.9%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The highest jobless rate in a Texas metropolitan statistical area is 6.8% in McAllen-Edinburgh-Mission. The lowest rate in an MSA is 3.0% in Midland.
A Tennessean, John Boyd, who came to Texas in the fall of 1835 to become a Republic of Texas legislator, could be considered the father of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church’s Trinity University that is approaching its 150th anniversary at San Antonio.
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After 41 years, Brac Jones, husband of Patsy, is retiring from Texas Farm Bureau Insurance. His last day at the office was March 31. A come-and-go retirement reception was held in the Grimes County Farm Bureau meeting room.
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