Big ‘bucks’

EDITORIAL Deer hunting has huge economic impact on Texas and it’s growing This week there’s something new in your Reporter. Our first annual deer hunting guide is included as a tabloid insert in this issue, to provide you information as gun deer hunting season gets underway on Saturday.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to volunteers for music festival work Dear editor, The Kay Theater Foundation Board would like thank all of the volunteers who helped with the 5-Kay Zombie Run/Walk and 1K Trick or Treat Run held during the recent Rockdale Fall Music Festival.

In U.K., everything’s just 10-minute walk away

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Everything in the United Kingdom is just a “10-minute walk” from wherever you are. Four Rock-dale couples can attest to this.

We didn’t need printers; we had carbon paper

EDITOR’S CORNER Thursday morning there was a major crisis at The Rockdale Reporter. Our printers didn’t work for about half an hour. Of course I had already sent seven different things to the printers before discovering nothing was printing.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO.... The world-wide flu pandemic continued to ravage Rockdale. A. M. Evard, 31, appeared to be recovering one morning but “had something like a congestive chill” in the afternoon and died. Particularly sad was the case of housewife Mrs.

Get slow cooker in shape for fall

COMMENTS FROM MICAH It is that time of year again where more and more families are cooking in the slow cooker because of the cold months. If the slow cooker in your house hasn’t been used in a while or even if you use it on a regular basis, it is a good idea to test it for accuracy.

Christmas Cottage Friday in Cameron

4-H AND FCH NEWS Christmas Cottage provides you an opportunity to shop for holiday gifts and decorations, get new ideas and enjoy a great lunch. Mark Nov. 2 on your calendar for the Christmas Cottage and Craft Fair at Bea’s Kitchen on the courthouse square in Cameron.

It’s the ‘cement’

In Young People’s Conference, more years ago than I would ever admit, we sang a little song with big meaning: Here are the lyrics as I remember them: “It’s love, it’s love, it’s love that makes the world go round.” It’s true. It’s love that makes the world go round.

BIBLE VERSE

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad. —Matthew 12:33 19:18 (NIV)

Christmas cottage ahead Nov. 2nd

COMMENTS FROM MICAH Christmas Cottage provides you an opportunity to shop for holiday gifts and decorations, get new ideas and enjoy a great lunch. Mark Nov. 2 on your calendar for the Christmas Cottage and Craft Fair at Bea’s Kitchen on the courthouse square in Cameron.