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This has been a week to remember. I am blessed because I was only out of power around 31 hours and the only damage were limbs and leaves all over the yard. Some of my neighbors were not so lucky. They had downed trees and damages to their homes and other property. I hope everyone’s power has been restored now as temperatures rise.
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Workforce Solutions is offering on QuickBooks, Excel, Word, and professional communication. The training will help you in the accounting field. Class is from Sept. 16 through Dec. 18. Call, 936–438–1756 for more information.
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Iola Food Pantry at the Iola Missionary Baptist Church Fellowship Hall will be open Saturday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. All those in need of helping hand are invited to attend. Volunteers are welcome to help set up the pantry around noon July 19, and July 20 for food distribution. Come out and help those in need.
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The second concert in the FREE Navasota Sounds of Summer Concert Series is Friday, July 19. Mango Punch performs from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on the grounds of city hall. Food trucks and drink vendors will be on site. Lawn chairs and coolers are encouraged.
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Few women would be granted Stephen F. Austin’s early Texas league of land grants. But, in Washington County, we previously wrote about Arabella Harrington, who as a widow followed a son to Texas in 1826 to be granted her own league. Most of Brenham, Texas has been built on it.
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Habranthus tubispathus, rain lily, is a native of Texas, southern U.S., Mexico and Central America. The plant has several synonyms including H. andersonii, H. texanus, Zephyranthes texana, Z. tubispatha, etc. It’s in the Amaryllidaceae or amaryllis family and is not a true lily in the Liliaceae family. There are several plants that pop up after a rain with the common name rain lily.
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Richards Civic Club will meet July 15, in the Richards Global Methodist Church Activities building.
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Funeral services for Lynn Wood Lawson, 88, were held at Madisonville Funeral Home Saturday, June 29. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery. He was well known in the Keith and Iola area and is a 1953 graduate of Iola High School. He was born Dec. 26, 1935 to William Andrew Buster Lawson and Corine Ira Glass Lawson, one of 12 children. He was married to Jenny Lee Manning and Linda Flynt Rucker and had multiple children. Keep his wife Linda and other family members in your prayers.
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