“A Cause for Paws” fundraiser Saturday

Winner number 30 of the 2nd Annual St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 52-week gun raffle was drawn Sunday, March 20. The winner of a Ruger Mark 4 Target, 22 LR is Matt Wyatt of College Station. The next drawing will take place Sunday, March 27.

On Friday, March 25, the Knights of Columbus #4054 will hold a fish fry at the KC Hall in Anderson on Hwy. 90 beginning at 5 p.m. until sold out. Plates are $12 each which includes fish, French fries, coleslaw, mac and cheese, hush puppies, dessert and tea. You can dine in or take out – whatever fits your schedule.

Mark your calendar for the upcoming 2nd Annual Grimes County Animal Rescue’s “A Cause for Paws” fundraiser Saturday, March 26 at the Grimes County Expo Center beginning at 5:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner, dance and live auction are $20 presale and $25 at the door. Children 12 and under are free. The Derek Spence Band will be on hand with a tribute to George Strait. Tickets are available at outhousetickets.com or at the door. All proceeds will go toward the building of an animal shelter. Find out more at www. grimescountyanimalrescue. com.

The Fanthorp Inn Focus weekend is Saturday and Sunday, March 26 and 27 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in Anderson. The theme this month is mail call. Take a ride through history and experience what travel in early Texas was truly like on their replica stagecoach. After your journey you may want to write your folks about your experience; luckily interpreters will be on hand to demonstrate how to write, fold, seal, and post your letter just as they did when Henry Fanthorp ran the post office. The Inn was built in 1834 by Henry Fanthorp as a home for his bride, Rachel Kennard and later enlarged for hotel purposes. It also served as the first mercantile establishment and first post office (1835) in the region. Stage lines from Houston to Old Springfield and Nacogdoches to Austin crossed here. Come out to the Inn this weekend for a very interesting history lesson.

Raffle winners from the St. Joseph’s Altar Society Stew Supper includes: Glider Swing – Mike Ricks; Queen Size Quilt – Betty Lott; $500 gift certificate – Karen Kimmey; $300 gift certificate – Kevin Young; $200 gift certificate – Richard Villarreal; $100 gift certificate – Michelle Mock; $50 gift certificate – Jacob Rahdarian; and $50 gift certificate – Cindy Lensing.

Happy Birthday to those celebrating this week: March 24 – Rachel Klawinsky, Chris Lewis and Justin McCoury; March 25 – Cynthia Coronado and Alenda Lara; March 26 – Meg Mock, Matt Foster, Bodie Wrobleski, Kara Finch, Carolyn Johnson and Charlie Boggess; March 27 – Marti Stephens, Carter Vezurk, Ralph Burzynski, Donna Kott Hejny and triplets Thomas Moriarty, Megan Garza and Macy Hamlet; March 28 – Carley Burzynski, Anna Mae Vezurk, twins Caleb and Abigail Schoessow and Grace Ann Mock; and March 29 – Ryan Schroeder and Ray Merola.

Happy Anniversary to those celebrating this week: March 25 – Scott and Tori Pasket, five years; March 26 – Thomas and Sonya Floyd, 34 years; and March 27 – Santwain and Sylvia Calhoun, 12 years.

Doyle “Coop” Cooper, a resident of Hill St. in Anderson, passed away Sunday morning, March 20. Coop is the husband of Rita Cooper and step-dad to Angela Schroeder. He will be missed as so many have seen Coop sitting on his front porch many times throughout each day. That front porch just won’t be the same!

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