Mason County 4-H Club meeting will be held on Monday, May 23 at 6:00 PM at First Baptist Church fellowship hall, 325 E. College Ave., Mason, TX.
For more information about the meeting please contact the Texas AgriLife Extension Office at 325-347-6459.
Chances are you know a young person who could make good use of a scholarship!
The Hill Country Cattle Women work diligently each year to raise funds to award to scholarship recipients. These are awarded to students who attend a Texas college or university, and are at the Junior or Senior level.
He or she must have accumulated at least 60 credit hours, have a grade point average (GPA) of 2.8 or greater, and must reside in one of our 14 counties.
April was a busy month with it being wild flower season. It brought a total of 360 visitors to Mason. We had people come from all over the states and even a few from Australia & Switzerland. It was a great month!
We recently welcomed Dos Rios RV Park and Laughlin Homes & Restoration as new members to the Mason County Chamber of Commerce.
The Fredericksburg Chorale under the direction of Mark Hierholzer will present Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor on Saturday, May 7 at 3 PM. The performance will take place at the Mansefeldt Sheep Barn, 1532 Cherry Spring Road. The performance will be accompanied by Hierholzer on the piano and Sheila Kraus on flute.
Bach’s B minor Mass, completed in 1749, just a year before his death, is considered to be perhaps the greatest musical achievement of Western culture.
We had 18 youth baseball players participate in a baseball clinic on Saturday, April 23rd. It was a fun event with a focused effort on batting technique.
The boys also spent some time on fielding drills and a few were able to get on the mound and display their pitching skills.
A special thank you to our baseball instructors, Danny Jordan and Mike Brown.
The Texas AgriLife Extension Service Mason County is accepting applications to the Youth Agricultural Lifetime Leadership (YALL) program. 4-H members that have a strong interest in production agriculture and are outgoing high school freshman through outgoing seniors or ages 15-18 as of September 1, 2016, should apply. The program is limited to 30 students.
The Mason Division of Emergency Management will conduct its monthly test of the emergency siren warning system at noon on Thursday May 5. The test should last from 1 to 3 minutes.
Monthly tests are to be conducted on the first Thursday of the month at noon, weather permitting.
The Mason Tennis Association Tennis-A-Thon fundraiser was a smashing success in raising over $10,500. The money will be used to improve our tennis center.
Many of our tennis playing youth, ages 4 to 18, played tennis for one and a half hours on March 20th and acquired sponsors who donated money to them for playing.
The top fundraisers, who tied for first place were freshman, Corbin Norris and first grader, Toryn Tinney, raising $500 each.
A two week tennis camp will be offered this summer, June 6th through June 16th, at the Mason school courts. This camp will be for players ages 3 through high school, and will be offered on a first come-first serve basis.
Sign ups will begin immediately. We will have three 1.5 hour time blocks.
8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Every year a handful of Texas teenagers die suddenly due to sudden cardiac arrest that can be caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a rare condition that causes part of the heart muscle to stiffen, trapping blood in the heart and producing an abnormal cardiac rhythm. It is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death for active teens, affecting approximately one in 500 young people each year in the US.
To catch this potentially fatal condition, Hill Country Memorial ...
