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• A free scrapbooking workshop and demonstration will be given Aug. 19 from 6–10 p.m. at the school cafeteria by HollyAnn Petree, a Creative Memories Consultant. With hands-on assistance, she can teach you how to quickly and easily turn those boxes of precious photos and memorabilia into keepsake, scrapbook photo albums. If you already scrapbook, just bring your supplies and come work. Petree’s tools will be available for your use. If you have never scrapbooked, then now is the time to start! Call her at 354-2680 for more details!
• Trash barrels are available from the Garden City Lions Club for $10 each. Contact Warren Multer, Steve Sturtz or John Kinnibrugh to arrange pick up, or delivery is available.
• A benefit for Brian Pelzel is being sponsored by the St. Lawrence Knights of Columbus on Aug. 24 at the St. Lawrence Hall. A barbecued chicken dinner will be served from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. An auction of donated items will follow the meal. To order extra chickens, beans or sauce, contact Tommy Hoelscher at 354-2449 or Wilbert Braden at 535-2206 by Aug. 17.
• Piano lessons are available from Leroy Moore. He will be in Garden City at the Methodist Church on Mondays and Tuesdays beginning Aug. 18. Thirty-minute lessons are $20. If you are interested, call Karen Wheeler at 397- 2753.
• The 30th Annual Sheep and Goat Field Day will be hosted by the Texas A & M University Research and Extension Center in San Angelo Sept. 4. Registration begins at 9 a.m., with the field tour starting at 9:30. There will be six stops on the tour, featuring topics that include “Super Juniper-eating Goats,” “Range Ripping,” “Wool Measurement in the Future,” “Salt Cedar,” and “Texas Rambouillet Superior Genetics.” After a Kenny Blanek-catered lunch from noon to 1 p.m., the afternoon program will consist of industry updates from several organizations. For more information, contact the Extension Center at (325) 653-4576.
• Our heartfelt thanks go out to all who called, sent cards or flowers, brought food or made memorial contributions after our mother, Alice Wilde, passed away July 1. Your kindness is truly appreciated. May God bless you all! --- Floyd and Sandra Wilde, Leroy and Jeanie Wilde.
• The Glasscock County Historical Commission thanks all the generous people who contributed toward the historical marker to be placed at the Garden City cemetery. The marker has been ordered and will be set on a stone from TexaStone Quarries, according to committee chairman Helen Wilkerson, who reports that $1,000 has been collected so far.
• The Howard County Library is having its annual book sale Sept. 19, 20 and 21 in the basement of the library at 500 S. Main in Big Spring during regular hours, which are: M – F 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m. – 1 p.m., Sun. 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. They are accepting donations of books that are clean and in good condition, but do not want magazines, Reader’s Digest condensed books, or National Geographics. For more information, call Hollis McCright at 264-2260.
• A livestock association dove hunt fundraiser has been set for Sept. 23. Send registration fees to the county extension office at P. O. Box 299, Garden City, TX, 79739 by Sept. 15. Cost is $125 per person and includes a steak meal, a raffle ticket for a shotgun and the hunt. Only the first 50 people who register will be accepted. Partial proceeds go toward a livestock association scholarship.