Homecoming ‘Cookes up’ a winner

After the 2018 Rockdale Homecoming drew a crowd generously estimated at 80, organizers were looking for a new approach that would boost attendance for 2019. They found it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

June 10—Karley Breithaupt. Anniversaries June 9—Irby and Rebecca McWilliams

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Proudly sponsored by: 221-225 E. Cameron • Rockdale 512/446-5838 • Fax 512/446-5317 www.rockdalereporter.com THURSDAY, MAY 30 • Area 12 Groundwater Districts meeting, Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District Building, Milano, 10 a.m.

Ag booster club teen dance set for Sunday

Milano/Gause Ag Booster Club will host a teen dance on Sunday at the Patterson Center in Rock-dale. Cost is $5 per person and includes ages 13-19. No re-entry allowed. The New Connection DJ will provide tunes from 8-11 p.m.

102 new RHS grads at Tigerland

“You don’t have to know all the steps you’re going to take in your life, just the next step.” That was part of the wisdom imparted by commencement speaker Rev. Ken Ansell during the first graduation in the new Tiger Stadium Friday evening. Rev.

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May 23—Pam Thomas. May 26—Ruth Whitmire. May 27—Dick Boundy. May 29—Judy Cabral, Laura Baker, Caryn Bland, Noelia Cooke, Brody Willard. Anniversaries May 27—Bobby and Lorna Gibson. May 28—Ronnie and Sandra Burrough. May 29—Jerry and Wanda Waggoner, John and Sharon Shoemake.

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May 16—Madeline Beitel, Charlie McGregor, Peggy Meaker. May 18—Billy Headrick. May 20—Kassie Roddam. May 21—Orman Hoffman. May 22—Becky Phillips, Jerry Waggoner, Cheryln Ellis, George Wall, Ian Gibson.

Fifth-graders ‘Walk Through History’

It wouldn’t be May without the annual “Walk Through History” play staged by fifth-grade students at Rockdale Intermediate School. The play, which has been a part of the final month of each school year for more than a quarter century, was staged recently in the intermediate cafetorium.

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221-225 E. Cameron • Rockdale 512/446-5838 • Fax 512/446-5317 www.rockdalereporter.com THURSDAY, MAY 9 • RISD School Board, 8 a.m., Central Administration Office. FRIDAY, MAY 10 • Music, BBQ cookoff, Ledbetter Park, Cameron (see page 1A).

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May 9—John Norton May 10—Paul Warner, Jocelyn Lewis, Katie Roddam. May 12—Bill Zimmerman. May 13—Della Grimaldo, Frank Rogers, Nancy Willis, Dorothy Lewing. May 14—Tamra Vance. Anniversaries May 12—Wayne and Melba Luker. May 14—Larry and Donna Pipkin.