November is National Picture Book Month, and if you have little ones, you'll find a great selection of both fiction and non-fiction books in the Kid Zone of the library. Picture books are often a child's first experience in finding pleasure in stories and stimulates a desire to read words.
Keep Emeth Bauer in your prayers. He has been hospitalized with pneumonia and heart problems. Hopefully, surgery will help with the heart problems soon.
Pastor John Alsbrooks is having voice trouble. Stephen Mutschink brought the message Sunday. Our lay leaders will continue with the sermons until his voice is better. We wish him a speedy, if silent, recovery period.
The fall weather seems to be trying to show up with cooler mornings, but by the afternoons it still feels more like summer with temperatures near 90 or above. We are expecting a good chance for rain later in the week, but I could have predicted that several weeks ago when we set this weekend as the free dump time.
Celiac disease is a problem some people have with foods that contain gluten. Gluten is a type of protein. It's found in the grains wheat, barley, rye, and triticale (a wheat-rye cross).
When you have this disease and you eat food with gluten in it, the gluten triggers an immune response that is not normal.
While I like to keep my articles light hearted and humorous, sometimes it's a sad time. This is a sad time for me, as my sister Jo Jo passed away. While I knew the time was close, it hit with just as hard a punch. I didn't want Jo Jo to have to linger and suffer anymore, there was that hope in my heart that she'd pull through.
I referred to Jo Jo, as the Timex watch.
No doubt you, like many Americans, have been asking yourself, all day, "What can I do to make the world a better place? Huh?"
Well, one thing you can do, as a concerned, caring, feeling, touching, touchy-feely person is to watch your language. Never use swear words, or even say rude comments, especially when you're talking to, uh, livestock.
According to a Daily Mail article which was copied and pasted and sent to me by an alert reader who shall remain unnamed, because it was Pat Wentworth, the ...
We had 15 golfers show up for the 10/14 Scramble, and they were formed up into four teams. We teed off promptly at 5:00pm, and by 7:00pm the teams began returning to the club house to post their scores. It appears that the skill balance between the teams was pretty closely matched, since 3 of the 4 teams carded a score of 4 under par.
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Mature Driver Program Coordinator, Debbie Tahiri' will be speaking to us at the Mason Senior Center Thursday morning, October 22nd at 11:00AM. Ms. Tahiri will speak about traffic safety educational opportunities. The talk will include the effects of aging on driving and the problems and common challenges aging drivers might face.
These members of the Mason Community Foundation Board met recently to review grant applications received for the fall cycle. The approved grants to area non-profits are to be recognized in issues of this newspaper, so stay tuned!
The MCF Board is comprised of 15 members of the community who meet monthly to handle the affairs of the non-profit Community Thrift Store.
Last week, the Mason County Chamber of Commerce welcomed its newest member, Hill Country IT Services, LLC, owned by Mark Dockal, Jr. Mark has 20 years of experience in the Information Technology field. He can do anything from diagnosing hardware and software issues, setting up networks to writing custom software.
