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Black History Month is Feb. 1-29. The Brazos Valley African American Museum will host their 23rd Annual Appreciation Banquet Saturday, Feb. 24. For more information visit, bvaam.org/banquet Plantersville-Stoneham VFD is hosting their 45th annual bazaar Sunday, April 7, beginning at 11 a.m. at the station, 15985 FM 1774 in Plantersville. There will be a gun raffle, kid’s zone, live and silent auction and more. Follow the department on Facebook or call, 936-894-9566, for more information.
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Macedonia Baptist Church, 6957 CR 206 in Plantersville along with Minister Earnest Ray Heard, Jr. invites Grimes County to their Black History Program Sunday, Feb. 4, at 11 a.m. Minister Robert Mays of Cherry Chapel United Methodist Church in Industry will be the guest speaker.
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Hopefully all of you made it through the first really cold spell of the season. It really got bad for a few days. Temperatures dropped to 17 degrees Jan. 16. Hope everyone that was able to, stayed home in a warm place. Hopefully that will be the last of the really bad weather. Some dumpsites were closed due to the weather. Some were also closed while some started late. Some people had to stay with others so they could stay warm.
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As I sit here earlier than normal this morning, I’m trying to keep calm, because after all, I do have electricity now. However, that does not guarantee consistent power. Yesterday evening the power was out for over two hours. Once it came on, I made sure to drip my faucets to assure no frozen pipes.
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I always think of Mother Teresa’s “Anyway” poem as kind of a new year’s resolution. Here it is almost the end of January already so I wanted to share this poem that we should all live by. It’s a lot to think about for sure.
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Mason Urban, an eight-year-old in the third grade at John C. Webb Elementary School in Navasota, killed his first deer while hunting with his dad, Matt Urban, on a family lease in Gause.
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Samuel Walker Houston was born a slave near the end of the Civil War on President Lincoln’s birthdate, Feb. 12, 1864, at Huntsville to Joshua and Sylvester Baker Houston. They were slaves of the Republic of Texas’s first president, Sam Houston.
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The Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas.
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