RISD contributes to Roundup’s success

RISD REPORT As in prior years, students and staff members from all four Rockdale ISD campuses had the opportunity to volunteer during our annual Rockdale Christmas Roundup. Rockdale Intermediate School led the way in cash and food donations.

Serving in the mundane

He told me to tell you that I’m working from home today getting ready for Christmas sermons. I keep thinking about what I should tell people when I step behind the pulpit, what do they really need and what will really change their life.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Nursing home seeking gifts for its residents Dear editor, Many of our residents at Renaissance Villa don’t have families or anyone in their lives that are able to provide necessities such as shirts, pants, socks or life’s simple little pleasures such as perfumes, body washes, makeup, shaving cream...

Letter to the Editor

Dear editor, This little kitten was found on a sparsely populated county road. One of my granddaughters was riding with me when we spotted this tiny little fellow hunkered down in the middle of the road.

Letter to the Editor

Dear editor, I had heard about the hospital closing for awhile and now it is a reality. I also thought about the elderly ones and even younger people who depend upon the doctor being in Rockdale, as many can’t drive, or have a family member who can take them there.

Christmas: In a way, it defeats time

EDITOR’S CORNER For the first time, I took my grandson, two-and-one-half-year-old Elliott Brown, to a mall. They say malls are dying and I suppose it’s true if you count the ones which are still open and compare them to the way it used to be.

Cow-calf clinic at end of challenging year

The 38th Annual Central Texas Cow/Calf Clinic will be held Thursday, Jan. 3, at the Milam County Youth Exposition Building in Cameron. This program is presented by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension of Milam, Robertson, Bell, Burleson, Falls and Williamson Counties. Registration is from 7 to 8 a.m.

Book or chapter?

EDITORIAL Health care closings can be viewed as the end, or start of a new era When the doors of Little River Rockdale Hospital—the former Richards Memorial Hospital—were locked last Wednesday for the first time in 45 years it’s difficult to know what exactly happened on so many levels.

Cleanliness can make you sick

OUTLAW INLAW Now that I’m back in Rockdale part-time and I’m a lot older, I’ve been pondering many philosophical questions about life, the universe and everything. Namely, how long a person can go without washing their office coffee mug before co-workers start thinking they’re unsanitary?

It was history, but it was something more

EDITOR’S CORNER Idon’t write political columns and this isn’t one. But I surprised myself last week by watching the coverage of the funerals, and journeys, of the late 41st President, George H. W. Bush, almost in their entirety.