The Mason High School National Honor Society and United Blood Services are teaming up once again to host the annual Mason High School Blood Drive! The Blood Drive will be held in the high school auditorium from 10:00 am to 2:00pm on Friday, November 6th. Walk-ins are welcomed, but you may also schedule an appointment by contacting the high school office or by going online to www.blood hero.com and entering the sponsor code: masonhs.
The countdown is on for Mason's first Fall Art Fest scheduled for this Saturday, October 31 from 11-4pm. Artists of all shapes and sizes from the Texas Hill Country will be taking to the sidewalks with their creative endeavors. Some will even be working their magic right before our eyes!
Texas born award winning sculptor Irene "Cookie"
The Hill Country Astronomers (HCA) will meet at 6:30 PM, Monday, November 2, at the Hill Country University Center, 2818 East US Hwy 290 in Fredericksburg.
Club members Ryan Behrends, Mark Ward and Jack Petersen will talk about the three club telescopes available for members to borrow.
Earlier this year, a local amateur astronomer passed away, and his wife, Susan Weddington, donated his telescopes to Hill Country Astronomers.
Hill Country Memorial Hospital Foundation is hosting an annual Wills Clinic Thursday, November 5, at the Fredericksburg Inn and Suites Barons Creek Conference Center which is located at 201 South Washington Street, in Fredericksburg.
The HCMH Foundation is sponsoring the event as a free public service to the community. The clinic will begin at 1p.m.
It's that time of year! The Mason County Chamber of Commerce Wild Game Dinner is scheduled for November 14, 2015 at the Ft. Mason Park Community Building. The doors will open at 6:00 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. This year we are giving away 40 + guns including a unique, original Henry Rifle.
The Mason Volunteer Fire Department received a check for $150 recently from Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies as an expression of thanks fro the department's work on the property of Mike Merrill.
The money will be used for their loss prevention program.
The Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies pay fire departments this amount when the department works at a fire in rural areas, involving property insured by them.
The Insurance Company believes fire departments have contributed to reduce the ...
On November 7, 2015, the Castell School will be serving homemade chili, cornbread, desserts and all the trimmings from 11:00 a.m. until 3 p.m., or as long as it lasts.
You will be able to drive through the old Castell schoolyard in "Downtown" Castell and get your chili and fixings to go, or "come on in"
Pamela Jary Rosser, the first onsite conservator at the Alamo will speak at the annual Friends of the Library meeting at 6:00 p.m. on November 5, 2015. For over 300 years, the Alamo has been a crossroads for history. From its early days as a Spanish mission and site of the 1836 battle that enshrined it in the hearts of Texas, to its role in the commercial development of an American city, the Alamo is a place like no other.
Our speaker, Pamela is native to San Antonio.
I am really getting excited. My favorite day of the year is the day that Daylight Savings Time goes away. This year, that is on November 1. I am an old math teacher and I know that you cannot save daylight. Daylight is not saved by artificially changing the time so there is less daylight in the morning and more daylight in the evening.
The Mason Lions Club met Tuesday, October 20th for it's regular weekly luncheon meeting. There were 28 members and 7 visitors in attendance. Among the visitors were 3 Mason High School Seniors, Amber Hengst, Whitney Gainer and Heather Shaw. Lion Ken Cordero asked for prayers for Treasurer Fritz Landers who had heart surgey yesterday.
Lion Jim Heath was responsible for the program and introduced Pam Kruse, Mason ISD Superintendent.
