Stopping into the Burnet County Meals on Wheels & Senior Center Wednesday, Feb. 3 are this group of friends: Patty Smith, Carol Price, Dorothy Williams, Carolin Clark, B.J. Burton, Debra Denn and Mary Burcham.
By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
Burnet County Meals on Wheels & Senior Activity Center in Marble Falls is inviting the community to an open house on Friday, Feb. 12, from 10 a.m.-noon at the Boys & Girls Club Seriff Center on Broadway.
Meals on Wheels serves lunchtime meals each weekday at the Boys & Girls Club, in addition to home deliveries for homebound people. Last year, Meals on Wheels volunteers were able to switch from heating frozen meals to cooking “heart-healthy meals” at the Boys & Girls Club kitchen.
The organization has been operating in Marble Falls for almost a year and diishes up nutrition to 20-40 people at the community center, plus another 45 individuals through home delivery.
The 4th annual Designer Purse Bingo benefit for the Hill Country Children's Advocacy Center (HCCAC) broke previous numbers in both attendance and fundraising this past Saturday afternoon, Feb. 6.
"We're smashing through the previous records," said an excited Katherine McAnally, assistant Burnet County attorney and president of the HCCAC Board of Directors, at the event.
Both attendance and fundraising figures almost doubled over last year's totals, with more than 750 women raising “darn close to $60,000” gross, McAnally said, adding final fundraising figures are not available yet.
An event dubbed the “Thank you for Everything Pancake Breakfast!” has been scheduled for 8 a.m.-10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13.
Political candidates in every race from Texas Senate District 24 and Texas House District 20 to local races have been invited to meet and greet constituents at the event sponsored by Burnet County Emergency Service District #6 and the Marble Falls Area Volunteer Fire Department (MFAVFD).
“This is a free breakfast, just to say thank you,” said Nancy Hansen, president of the board of directors of ESD #6. “We hope it can be an annual event.”
The Bluebonnet Chorale of The Highland Lakes will perform at the annual Christmas Outreach Soup Supper to be held Thursday, Feb. 11 at Grace United Methodist Church, 4007 Valley View Lane in Granite Shoals.
The performance, under the direction of Mary Williams, will begin in the sanctuary at 5:30 p.m. and the supper will follow immediately in the fellowship hall.
The supper of chicken tortilla and minestrone soups with cornbread is a thank you for support of Granite Shoals Christmas Outreach, a program that has grown over the years to provide families in need throughout the entire Highland Lakes area. However, donations are frequently offered and always accepted, since each year, Christmas is coming again.
Boots & BBQ to benefit Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of the Highland Lakes takes place at Marble Falls Lakeside Pavilion, 307 Buena Vista Drive on Feb. 20, with barbecue 6:30-8 p.m. and dancing to the music of Les Hartman and his band until 11:30 p.m.
Reservations at $40 per person are available at the CASA website, highlandlakescasa.com or by calling the CASA office at 325-388-3440.
In a world where almost everything already has been discovered, with only the deepest depths of the oceans and the farthest expanse of the universe left to be explored, it is hard to imagine the thrill of being the first to lay eyes on a place.
Such was the experience white explorers had upon seeing the Western U.S. for the first time in the 18th century.
Folks who attended the Bear Creek Free Trappers’ presentation at the Herman Brown Free Library in Burnet on Wednesday, Jan. 20, learned about Western life through the lens of artifacts, including several kinds of furs, axes, firearms and traps. Many of the artifacts told the story of interactions and trade between Americans and Native American tribes in the region.
Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
Cottonwood Shores VFD Fire Chief Travis Hockensmith, Firefighter Bobby Amick, and Firefighter Thomas Jacobs receive their "Life Saves" pins on Tuesday night.
By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
It was just after 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day when two members of the Cottonwood Shores Volunteer Fire Department (CWSVFD), Chief Travis Hockensmith and Firefighter Thomas Jacobs, helped paramedics from the Marble Falls Area Emergency Medical Service (MFAEMS) save the life of a man in the city after being called to a house where a man was reported unconscious and not breathing.
On Dec. 19, Firefighter Bobby Amick assisted Cottonwood Shores Police Department officers perform CPR on a similar call. In that case, a woman had been choked to unconsciousness by her husband.
The Horseshoe Bay Property Owners’ Association (HSB POA) will lose revenue from service fees it has charged when assigning 800 mailboxes around the city, according to discussions at the HSB POA Board of Directors meeting, Jan. 20.
The post office has taken over the duty of assigning mailboxes, a responsibility the HSB POA had for at least the last 10 years, said Nancy Ritter, HSB POA general manager.
During that time, the HSB POA has made around $14,000 from service fees, she said.
The silver lining is that assigning mailboxes “is something we no longer have to do.”
Short term rentals, the rentals of residential property for less than 30 days that has become a hot button issue in some cities, emerged quietly Tuesday, Feb. 2, in a joint workshop of the Marble Falls City Council and Planning & Zoning Commission.
Read the report in the Friday, Feb. 2, edition of The Highlander.
In a cost share agreement between Faith Academy and the City of Marble Falls, the school will have better fire protection and the city will get a bargain in infrastructure into its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
As approved by the Marble Falls City Council Tuesday night, Feb. 2, Faith Academy will pay an estimated at $162,000 toward a new water main to the school and the city will add $40,000 to bring the line from proposed 4-6-inch service to the requisite eight-inch main.
See the full story in the Friday, Feb. 4, edition of The Highlander.
