LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, Thank you for covering my storyboard idea. The coverage highlighted the great work that the Milam County Historical Commission is doing throughout Rockdale and how they acknowledge the community. I am forever grateful to them and their support. Thank you again.

Help! I’m in bad trouble with the law

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE Last Wednesday night I was sitting at the kitchen table with Mom and Dad when my phone rang. It was my friend Barbara Holly. It’s unusual for her to call me because more often than not we text or email. She wanted to go to lunch.

LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO The all-day street working holiday pulled off in Rockdale was one of the biggest days from a get-together standpoint that this city had ever seen.

Rest in peace Judge Hashem

So many times in life we let various events go by and forget to take the time to acknowledge someone and their time here on ea r th. La st week former Milam County Judge Roge r Hashem passed away at the age of 81.

DID YOU KNOW . . .

According to the National Occupant Protection Use Survey conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the prevalence of drivers using handheld cell phones at any given daylight moment decreased from 5.2 percent in 2012 to 2.5 percent in 2021.

Giving Jesus to kids

I’ve been working on a sermon entitled, Good Sundays Make Better Families. Deuteronomy 6 tells me I have the responsibility to teach my kids about God. It’s not the Sunday School teacher’s job they provide nothing more than the gravy that goes with the biscuit.

A church for ‘whosoever’

On the Victoria Embankment of the River Thames, the oldest monument in London, Cleopatra's Needle, stands 68 feet high. It's made of pink Egyptian marble fashioned in 1475 BCE. It is quite possible that young Moses had looked up at it.

Spirit of volunteerism in Milam County

Inormally attend the monthly meeting of the Milam County Fire Chiefs Association where we discuss many issues and challenges that our local Volunteer Fire Departments face on a daily and longterm basis.

Good advice for the 60-and-above crowd

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE Idon’t know where this came from or who wrote it, but it sounds like good advice to me. Between 60 and death. It’s time to use the money you saved up. Use it and enjoy it. Don’t just keep it for those who may have no notion of the sacrifices you made to get it.

Work week

Is a four-day work week appropriate for Rockdale businesses? Recently the Rockdale Independent School District sent out a message to parents asking if they would like to move to a four-day week instead of five days. It made us wonder how this would go over.