Briefly
• School starts for all students Aug. 15.
• Glasscock Co. Senior Citizens will meet Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. Please bring snacks. Stew will be furnished at the Sept. 6 meeting. Please bring something to go with stew. Anyone 50 years or older is invited.
• The deadline to file nominating petitions for Farm Service Agency Local Administrative Area (LAA) #1 has been extended to August 15 in an effort to give agency personnel, community-based groups, farmer organizations and others more time to continue their outreach efforts. This gives county farmers and ranchers an extra two weeks to decide if they would like to serve on the FSA committee, or to nominate one of their neighbors to run for election.
• Leroy Moore will give piano lessons on Tuesdays in Garden City at the First United Methodist Church beginning Aug. 15 for adults and children first grade and up. Thirty-minute lessons are $20. To schedule a lesson time, call Karen Wheeler at 397-2753.
• Congressman Mike Conaway invites you to discuss issues of the day as he hosts a town hall meeting, Aug. 16 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. at the Center for Energy and Economic Diversification, 1400 N. FM 1788 west of Midland.
• Jeremy and M’Lynn Niehues Taylor leave Aug. 15 for China where they will teach conversational English at Blue Sky University in the city of Nanchang in the Jiangxi Province. They will return to the States June 27, 2006. Carey and Renee Niehues, Walter and Kathy Taylor, Jeremy and M’Lynn are grateful for the love and support from this community. Please contact Carey or Renee at 432/354-2419 for more information.
• J’Layne Niehues Kemp is the head junior high girls track coach and the assistant junior high girls basketball coach at Muleshoe ISD. Her husband Layne is employed at Kemp Pump Service in Muleshoe. She is the daughter of Carey and Renee Niehues.
• The All-America 6-man football game held here July 15 would not have been possible without all the hard work from the community. Thanks to the Knights of Columbus for buying food, supplies and for cooking an evening meal, the Garden City Lions Club for helping cook and for setting up the community center, the Glasscock County Coop for use of their barbecue pit, cooking and helping out and to Glasscock County employees for helping clean up the next morning. Special thanks for all the extra kitchen help! --- The All-America Football Association