ROCKDALE CHRISTIAN SERVICES

RCS food pantry Rockdale Christian Services operates a food pantry at 224 West Cameron Avenue, open 10 a.m. until noon weekdays. Donations of non-perishable food items are welcome, especially one-pound bags of rice, pinto beans, macaroni and cheese, canned soups and peanut butter.

iTigers more than just after-school activities in RISD

The Rockdale Intermediate School’s iTigers Coordinator Sandy Robbins is very proud of her program and the impact it has had on the intermediate campus.

LEARNING ROBOTICS

About 75 Milam County Girl Scouts, troop leaders and volunteers recently gathered in the Milano Civic Center for a presentation of Texas A&M University’s Spark! PK-12 Engineering program.

EDUCATION NOTES

Rockdale Elementary Wednesday—First Grade PLC Meeting, 7:30 a.m.; college colors day; math presentation, Central Office, 2 p.m.; Rising Star Baptist Church Fourth Wednesday meal, 5 p.m., at the church. Thursday—Kindergarten PLC meeting, 7:30 a.m.

Cotton program deadline looms Dec. 7th

COLLEGE STATION- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Gary Six reminds Texas producers Dec.

Roundup seeking names, volunteers

Rockdale’s Christmas Roundup, which provides holiday cheer for the less fortunate, needs nominations of those to serve and volunteers for the massive effort, according to drive spokesman Allen Sanders.

TURKEY TIME TRAFFIC

Downtown and Central Rockdale become a bottleneck on US 79 for a couple of times every Thanksgiving season. This was the scene the day before Thanksgiving looking west from Burleson toward Wilcox. The scene repeated itself on Sunday with returning Thanksgiving holiday traffic.

QUICK LOOK

Thanksgiving closings many around area Here are holiday closings for Thanksgiving: • Area schools are out all week. • City Hall and the City Library will be closed both Thursday and Friday. The library will also be closed Saturday.

Bitmain: The beat goes on

Bitmain may have paused for 45 days to facilitate going public with its stock, but there’s no change in the pace of preparing the former Alcoa smelter for its new task as a cryptocurrency mining center.

Smooth driving ahead on ravaged streets

Cameron Avenue (US 79) will undergo a major renovation, including sidewalk projects, in upcoming months and years, but several streets in residential areas of Rockdale already have projects started.