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The local food pantry at the Iola Missionary Baptist Church Fellowship Hall had 75 people come out to receive food including one new person. Food distributed will feed around 208 people. The pantry is open the third Saturday each month. Everyone in need are welcome
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Doris Eickenhorst, who claims to be my favorite reader, and her husband, Curtis, will be married for 40 years, April 28. Happy anniversary to them. It’s also his birthday. He told me Doris is the best present. Happy birthday to him.
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FREE GED Evening Classes will be held Monday, May 5, from 5:30–8:30p.m. at the Navasota Center, 101 Stadium Drive. For more information call, 936–438–1756.
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The Evergreen Baptist Church fish fry and silent auction hosted at the Iola VFD, was successful. There was all sort of baked goods sold in addition to the fish fry. The fish was certainly worth eating. Money raised will help Evergreen children go to camp. Thanks to everyone that assisted and purchased items.
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter celebration. Our family gathered in Dobbin at my Uncle Darrell Herzog’s home for our traditional feast and Easter Egg Hunt. Thank goodness the weather held off for the kids. They ran wildly from the word “go” to hunt eggs. Nowadays, plastic eggs are the thing, but I remember when only real eggs were used. That awful smell finding an egg that wasn’t found the next time you mowed.
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Texas DPS Sgt. Stephen Woodard has been tapped to speak at the May 15 Grimes County Crime Stoppers Law Enforcement Awards Dinner. Many may recognize Sgt. Woodard from “Let’s Talk Traffic,” formerly on Willy 1550. There he teamed up with DPS Sgt. Justin Ruiz and deejay Kenny Graves to provide valuable information ranging from road safety and accident statistics in Grimes County to the significance of the 20-digit DD number on your driver’s license.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made it official last week, announcing a challenge to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in next March’s Republican primary. The fireworks already have begun, the Austin American-Statesman reported, with Cornyn calling his rival “a con man and a fraud.”
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