ORGANIZATIONS

Milano Lions hold Pancake supper The Milano Evening Lions Club will have their annual Pancake and Sausage Supper on Sat., March 26 from 5-7 p.m. at the Milano Civic Center. Plates are $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12. There will also be live music and a silent auction.

Mediterranean chicken dishes

This week I have two Mediterranean recipes for you and they are both easy and both chicken dishes.

GAUSE NEWS

Hope everyone has a great spring break. The weather is nice enough to get out and go somewhere. I like it better when the sun is shining which it is not doing this Monday, but maybe before the week is over. Remember what I said last week about dogs running loose all over town?

Patrick returned with Christ, literacy

On Dec. 31, 406, the river Rhine froze solid, and hundreds of thousands of barbarian Goths crossed over the ice and down into Italy; and one morning, the city of Rome awoke to find Alaric, king of the Visigoth, and all his forces parked at their gates, and great was the fall of the Roman Empire.

CHURCH NEWS

Rockdale Ministerial Alliance to hold three Holy Week services The Rockdale Ministerial Alliance wishes to invite the community to three special Holy Week services. On Monday, April 11 at 5:30 p.m. at Rising Star Baptist Church. Pastor Lance Walch will lead the service. Masks may be required.

ROCKDALE CHRISTIAN SERVICES

RCS food pantry Rockdale Christian Services operates a food pantry at 224 West Cameron Avenue, open the second and fourth Thursday and Friday of the each month from 10 a.m. to noon.

BOIL WATER NOTICE - 03.15.2022

Due to loss of pressure in City's distribution system, the City has issued a BOIL WATER NOTICE until further notice for the customers at Hunters Chase Apartments. Updates will be posted as available.

Water Outage on Monday, March 14

Beginning around 9 p.m. on Monday, March 14, the city will tie in the 12" PVC pipe from the AC pipe replacement CDBG project at Texas Street. Hunter's Chase and a few residences near Texas Street will be completely off and will be subject to a Boil Water Notice.

QUICK LOOK

#Post358Cares The American Legion Post 358 will be boxing care packages for active duty military from Milam County on Saturday as part of their new #Post­ 358Cares program. The post received a major grant from H-E-B to kick things off.

Rockdale’s TxDOT project one year in

Rockdale’s downtown TxDOT project started in April of 2021 so it has now been going on for almost a year. Numerous setbacks have plagued this project from the beginning and it has only gotten worse. So what’s been done in a year?