Rockdale is lucky with our food choices

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE Last Wednesday morning it was 68 degrees at my house. Most who know me well know that 68 degrees is my cutoff between summer and winter. That’s just how my body reacts. As I do every day, I went outside with my hot tea to sit in my chair.

Participation in process is fundamental

E ach year Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District (POSGCD) holds their Groundwater Summit in Caldwell. Last week I had the pleasure of addressing an audience of about 300 people there.

Looking back...

called attention to the half-page display ad concerning the Sixth annual Paramount Week, which was to start the following week. All over the U.S. this demonstration would enlist the support of more than 17,000 theaters. During the week of Sept.

God has g iven us so many blessings

Paul writes to the Christians in Corinth, “I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus, for in him you have been enriched in every way . . .” Mark Tidd of Webster, New York once described a family experience from his college days.

Church is happy place

We have t a lked about this before but happy places matter. I have several happy places. For the most part any place the Blonde is present is a happy place for me. I love to be around the Blonde. The golf course, the tennis courts, even the treadmill has become one of my happy places.

A lesson in plotting land

Aplat is a legal map of property. It’s been required in Texas since the early 1900s for any land division.

Bipartisan immigration reform needed

U.S. immigration policy has been badly broken for more than two decades. Attempts by former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to craft reasonable, sweeping immigration policies stalled, then cratered under the weight of partisan opposition in Congress from the party not in the White House.

As easy as shooting fish in a barrel

“It’s a piece of cake.” We have all said this phrase which means something is easy. I’m not much of a baker so I don’t think making a cake is easy. Maybe the phrase means how easy it is to eat a cake. Here are a few examples of how other languages say something is easy.

Working on the budget for 2024

When we came into office in January, I met with all the department heads and then explained that we would be working on the budget starting in February with the goal of being about 80% complete by the time we had the public hearings for budget proposals in early July.

LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO… A dear little 10-pound son made his appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Trim Hale and is so well pleased with the warm welcome and surroundings that he announced he had come to stay. Joe Garrett, small son of T.P.