Summer months seem to loom ahead for children who are out of school and wondering “what is there to do next?” Here is a “do-it-yourself” (themselves) project that can keep kids busy and in the garden.
Each spring and summer I feel challenged to cook and eat as many fresh, gorgeous, colorful vegetables I can get my hands on. But I still get hungry for thick, hearty concoctions to put on the table.
PATTON POMP Patton Springs High School held their commencement ceremonies Friday night. Members of the Class of 2022 are, from left, Skylar McCleskey, Katlynne Cornett, Dylan Bates. Back, Ralph Garza, Kinley Chandler, Richard Klemisch and David Leyva.
The Spur City Council turned a page to new leadership May 17 after canvassing votes of the May 7 municipal election, with newly elected Hope Ortiz taking the oath of office before participating in her first regular monthly meeting. The oath was also administered to reelected incumbents Laidy Vazquez and Glenda White.
Five communities between Spur and Lubbock on the four-lane Highway 62/82 have joined together again in 2022 for Truckin’ Along US Route 62/82 Yard Sales.
STATE ACADEMIC COMPETITION Last week, the state UIL academic competition took place in Austin, and Jayton had two students participating. Jayme Braly (below) competed in in persuasive speaking, and Erielle Coulter (top) competed in poetry.
MACKENZIE TROOPS MEMORIAL Among the many U.S. flags displayed in the Spur Cemetery this week is one honoring soldiers in the nineteenth-century Indian Wars campaigns on the Texas plains: “In Memory Of Private Gregg, William Max, W. H. Kilpatrick and other soldiers who met death in this region while serving under General R. S. MacKenzie, Fourth U.S. Cavalry, 1871-1872 and 1874-1875,” reads the 1936 Texas Centennial Marker.
“Oceans of Possibilities” is the theme for this years’ Collaborative Summer Reading Program we will be participating in here at the library. The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is a nonprofit, charitable organization that supports literacy, education and science through summer reading events in public libraries across the United States. All of the programs we will be having this summer are local.