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Plantersville Christmas Parade is Saturday, Dec. 10, beginning 10 a.m. at the fire station. Plan to attend the annual Christmas celebration.
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For many, many years on the third Saturday of October, the children of Sylvester and Laura Sechelski put on a Czarnina (duck soup) party to honor their Polish heritage. Besides the Czarnina, there is homemade chicken noodle soup with real homemade noodles made each year by Debbie (Sechelski) Klawinsky, as well as fried chicken and all kinds of sides and homemade desserts.
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Thlaspi arvense, field pennycress, is found on every continent with debate about Antarctica. It is in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, with the same characteristics as other family members such as cabbage, kale, etc. Leaves and stem of family members have a pungent mustard odor when crushed. Flowers, white or yellow, have four petals in the pattern of a cross with 6 stamens, 4 tall and 2 short.
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In 1891, an albino slave child started up the Navasota Echo as publisher/editor of a black newspaper in Navasota. His name was Charles Love. His mother was born a mulatto slave in 1842 in what became Grimes County. She carried the name of Sarah Jane Holland.
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The Family Sowell will be in the morning worship service at Evergreen Baptist Church Sunday, Oct. 23, at 11 a.m. Come feed your soul and be blessed by some great Gospel Bluegrass music. There will be a covered dish meal following the service. If you wish, come enjoy the activities. All are welcome to attend. Iola’s Annual Hay Day Celebration is Saturday, Oct. 27. There will be a parade on Main Street at 9 a.m. and a variety of booths and all sort of fun activities.
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Charm and Sewing 4-H Club has various ongoing community service projects. • Through March 27, 2023, they are collecting pull tabs from beverage or canned food items. Eula Mae Leggett is in charge of the project. • Through May 22, 2023, Homeless care packages are being collected.
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The deadline for the Grimes County VFW contests; the Patriot’s Pen, Voice of Democracy and SMART Maher Teacher Certification is midnight, Oct. 31. For more information visit, https://vfwauxiliary. org/what-we-do/Scholarships. The SMART Maher can be found at, https:// www.vfw.org/community/ youth-and-education/teacher- of-the-year Please feel free to contact me if you should have any additional questions or if you need to meet me to “hand-off” applications.
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Abraham Zuber, before coming to Texas in the early 1830s, seemed to be a foot loose merchant relocating in different states about every 2 years. So why did he come to Texas as a farmer securing a land grant in the very eastern edge of what would become Grimes County? He acquired his grant March 4, 1833. A footnote on page 166 of E. L. Blair’s “Early History of Grimes County” relating the Abraham Zuber early years in Texas, refers to Zuber’s son stating the reason “his father changed from a merchant to a farmer in 1816 was that his wife, Mary Ann Mann, whom he married, Feb. 16, 1816, inherited from her grandfather, Robert Deshazo, a ‘lot of valuable negroes,’ which enabled his father to become a farmer of considerable importance.”
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