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As we spend our days at home with loved ones, searching too often bare shelves at our local retail stores, or making a quick stop at a favorite eating place for a to go meal, please take the opportunity to offer an encouraging and cheerful word to all within speaking or waving distance. Our hearts need that essential uplift, perhaps now more than any time in recent memory. Thank you to all who remain at their duty stations (including our local newspaper outlets) and to those who are keeping the home fires burning during this season of trial and testing.
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Give the Gift of Blood! The Knights of Columbus Council #4054 will host a Blood Drive on May 10, in the St. Stanislaus Parish hall. Blood and blood products are in short supply and donors are needed now to provide for this critical need. Donors must sign-up in advance online at www. giveblood.org. The Blood Center is adjusting their appointment schedule to balance out donations and prevent over-crowding during blood drives. To make an appointment, log onto the website, click on schedule to donate; under quick links select city search and enter Anderson, scroll down to St. Stanislaus, click on schedule and select a convenient time between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to donate.
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As all of you know the coronavirus is still with us. I guess we will have to continue to be careful. Just keep praying for it to end.
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It appears we will continue our current situation for some time. As some of the people state, especially Mattress Mack, “spend time with your family and pray more.” I am sure most of you believe the same.
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As we spend our days at home with loved ones, searching too often bare shelves at our local retail stores, or making a quick stop at a favorite eating place for a to go meal, please take the opportunity to offer an encouraging and cheerful word to all within speaking or waving distance, our hearts need that essential uplift, perhaps now, more than any time in recent memory. Thank you to all who remain at their duty stations and to those who are keeping the home fires burning during this season of trial and testing.
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Well, another week has come and gone and no new news, just the same old stuff. Social-distance, wash your hands, wear face masks, stay at home, and the list goes on and on. This pandemic sure is hard on reporters since there are no events scheduled. I know one thing for sure, I’m getting a lot of stuff done around the house that I have been putting off or just didn’t have time to do. Geez, I sure do miss my “social life,” although that was the main reason I never got anything done around here. As most of you know, my mother Dolores Hoffart passed away recently. So, I brought some boxes home from her house that had my name on it. Oh, my goodness, I knew she was a special lady but each week I find out more and more how special she was. One whole box was filled with newspaper clippings of every single article I have written for the
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Every day of my life I have turned onto Washington Avenue and have driven through downtown Navasota. When I was younger, the streets were full of families going about their business, stopping into Noto’s or P. Nemir’s or grabbing food or ice cream. They smiled and laughed as they stopped to talk to their neighbors and fellow citizens, exchanging hearty handshakes and giving hugs. We epitomized good southern—good Texan—hospitality.
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Many of us will be missing our cherished Easter celebrations and joining with friends and family for those wonderful Easter traditions. Please let us not forget the true reason for our gathering together and continue to hold in our hearts that faith and hopefulness the season teaches us to proclaim and mirror in our daily lives.
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