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Monday—Cranberry chicken, mashed sweet potato, roasted herb tomatoes, wheat roll, scalloped pineapple, milk. Tuesday—Beef steak fingers, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, corn O’Brien, wheat bread, Mandarin oranges and cherries, milk.

GAUSE NEWS

Looking forward to seeing you at the annual Gause Community Improvement Program Founders Day activities Saturday. We are in need of auction items. If you have something to donate, get it to me or Delores Fisher or bring it with you Saturday morning. It will be appreciated.

REUNIONS

Milano High School class of 1959 will celebrate homecoming on Saturday, Sept. 28. The catered event at the Methodist Church, 410 W. Ave. D, Milano, will begin at noon on Saturday, a day after the MHS homecoming game, which is on Friday, Sept.

City council sets tax rate vote Monday

QUICK LOOK The Rockdale City Council is expected to act on the 2019-20 tax rate during its regular monthly session a 5:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall. Unless something changes over the weekend that tax rate is expected to be virtually identical to the current 91.18 cents.

One impressive building

If you think the new Rockdale Estates & Rehabilitation nursing home, next to the intermediate school on US 79, looks impressive from the outside—and it does—it’s just as impressive from the inside.

City dodges TCEQ water fine

A $95,500 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) fine, looming over the city’s water system since last November, is going away. City Manager Chris Whittaker told The Reporter the city has reached an agreement with TCEQ to install six manholes along US 79 in lieu of the fi ne.

First ‘Distinguished Alumni’ named

The first five honorees in the Rockdale ISD’s new Distinguished Alumni Program have been announced and will inducted in an Oct. 11 ceremony. They are astronaut Ken Cockrell, local minister and educator Dr. Dennis Brooks Sr., former State Rep. L. B. Kubiak, ophthalmologist Dr.

Rockdale Blues legend gets his due

After years of living in relative obscurity, West Coast Blues guitarist Curtis Connie “Pee Wee” Crayton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in May along with the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Ida Cox, Booker T and the MGs and eight other music industry professionals.

14 sentenced in 20th District Court

CAMERON—Last week’s District Court. according to Prosecutor Bill Torrey: • Jacob Tyler Richardson, 28, Thorndale, 10-year prison term, $180 restitution to DPS after pleading guilty to possession of controlled substance (4-200 grams) with intent to deliver.

Meth in police car nets arrest

Rockdale police charged a 31-year old local woman with two felonies last week after discovering methamphetamine stuffed into the back seat of a patrol car. Lt.