Briefly
• Glasscock County Senior Citizens will meet July 15, and this is snack and finger food night. On Aug. 5, bring sandwiches or homemade ice cream. All Glasscock County senior residents are invited to come and enjoy.
• Volunteers are badly needed for Emergency Medical Technician training!! Constable Mark Frysak says new, younger volunteers need to replace those who have been providing the service for many years. Deputy Sheriff Keith Burnett says with more people in the county due to wind turbine activity, and more motorcycles on the road due to gas prices, more accidents are occurring. As many emergency calls have been answered already this year than in all of last year. It takes a minimum of 10 people to have a class taught in Garden City, and the county pays all the expenses. If you can help with this important work, contact Christy Seidenberger, 354-2314, within the next 4 weeks so she can schedule a training class.
• The First United Methodist Church would like to say “THANK YOU” to all the volunteers who helped out after the big storm. We would have been out enormous expense moving the trees and debris from our church parsonage and church yard. Also “thanks” to those who fed the volunteers. It’s great to live in such a giving community! -- Melissa Hoch, Chairman, Administrative Board, First United Methodist Church
• We would like to thank everyone for the many cards, calls, visits, Masses, food, memorials and acts and words of kindness during the illness and passing of our husband, father, and grandfather, Andy Schaefer. All of your love and support has helped immensely during these difficult two years. We realize that the support of the best community imaginable made such a great difference. May God bless each and every one of you! -- Loretta Schaefer, Douglas & Karen Schaefer family, Gena & Nathan Halfmann family, Doyle & Jacque Schaefer family.
• The USDA is accepting nominations for eligible candidates to serve on the local FSA County Committee. The nomination period runs until Aug.1. The seat up for election represents Local Administrative Area (LAA) Number 1, which is all area of the county located north of County Road 110 and north of Hwy 158 (the LAA boundary map is posted at the FSA office).
For more information or nomination forms, call the local FSA office, or visit http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/elections.
• A Sheriff Appreciation Celebration is being planned to honor Sheriff Royce “Booger” Pruit. Tentative plans call for a Saturday noon meal early in November, but a firm date has not been set.