Announcements

The fifth and final performance of the Blanco Performing Arts eighth season, Flights of Fancy, was a spectacular and magnificent end to a masterful season of stellar chamber music. The outstanding concert showcased the memorable duo Jonah Kim, cello, and Sean Kennard piano, who held their audience spellbound during their vibrant performance.

Everyone has heard of the term “hot topics”; in the past two years I don’t know of any historic site in Blanco that has been a hotter topic. Blanco’s Town Creek runs through the Pecan Bottom, and at the north edge of Town Creek, behind the large stores on Third St., is a dry-stacked, historic rock retaining wall.

Children of all ages are invited to Fredericksburg Thurs., June 21, to participate in the World’s Largest Swim Lesson at the Hill Country Memorial Wellness Center (1006 S. State Hwy. 16). The lesson is free, and children are required to register to participate. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m., and the lesson begins at 1:30 p.m. Certified swim instructors from the HCM Wellness Center will lead the 30-minute swim and water safety lesson. The World’s Largest Swim Lesson was created i ...

The Blanco Basketball Camp was held Monday, June 4 through Wednesday, June 6. More than 60 students participated in the camp. Awards were given on the last day of camp. Incoming 1-5 Graders Campers of the Week Hailey Longoria Emme West Sawyer Kersten Jake Snow Henry Pluger Lay-ups Landry Meyer Natalie Ruiz Diego Soto Wyatt Allison Free Throws Harper Balmos Landry Meyer Ryder Balmos Eli Longoria Hot Shots Natalie Ruiz Skylar Finch Ryder Balmos Fletch ...

2nd Grade Allison Wyatt Ryder Balmos Gonzalo Caballero Keegan Darling Matthew King Garza Henry Pfluger Avery Smith Alice Sorrell Leah Staas Jayden Taylor 3rd Grade Trent Bath Chloe Clark Jacob Carrasco Lochlainn Cook Payton Craft Nola Faught Jolene Forsberg Emma Haley Hudson Monasmith Amelia Muniz Mattie Smith Emme West Res Wisdom 4th Grade Dominick Avila Mondragon Karla Bacilio Arreguin Miley Brock Mamie Chambless Natalie Dupont K ...

6th Grade Tori Adkinson Miguel Avila Alexandra Beliveau Erika Calzoncit Celeste Campa Callan Drum Craddock Faris Alexandra Hartman Brayden LaRue Henry Lewis Nessah Marquette Keirsten Sauceda Jacob Shell Carson Smith Trent Smith Torynce Soli Jess Whitehead Wesley Whitehead Whitney Whitehead Katherine Windham Trevin Young 7th Grade Roanna Acosta Noe Alegria Cielo Bamberger Benjamin (Cooper) Berne Tristan Brown Aviv Buchenbacher Aolani Ca ...

Join Garrison Brothers Distillery from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 16 for its annual celebration of everything Hye, along with sister city Stonewall. Immediately after the Stonewall Peach Parade, everyone is invited back to the distillery for a fried yard-bird lunch in the barrel barn at the distillery. Tickets are available for $28 online at https://garrisonbrothers.ticketspice.com.

Lavender farms around Blanco are the foundation of Lavender Fest. On their property growers take a hands-on approach to making their products. For them it is a labor of love, more than a way of making a living, but to work with something they enjoy. Lavender is easy to grow in most any garden soil, or gravel and sand with a sunny dry open space and good drainage.

Blanco’s population is estimated to swell tenfold this weekend as the chamber of commerce plays host to the 13th annual Lavender Festival. The three-day event will take place Friday through Sunday in the Old Courthouse Square. “The festival has become a premier event in the Hill Country,” festival organizer Libbey Aly, Blanco Chamber of Commerce executive director said.