GAUSE NEWS

I have the best family and friends! Saturday was my birthday and they went all out for me. We had a delicious meal and I got so many nice gifts! Can’t beat that. Wanda and Al Coats, Sherri and James Rasco drove to Lubbock for Alfred’s nephew’s funeral. That’s a long trip!

Recipes with farmers market produce

The farmers market has been having some good watermelons lately. In my family we tend to eat it plain—some with salt and some without—but Lynn Young sent me this recipe for a watermelon salad that sounds very good and refreshing.

ORGANIZATIONS

SPECIAL GIFT—Rockdale Memorial Post 6525 Auxiliary presented a check in the amount of $300 to Elissa Benford-Roberts for the City of Rockdale Friends of Veterans Park monuments project.

Pre-K virtual event set for August 3rd

Milano ISD has changed its Pre-Kindergarten Round-up to a virtual event rather than in-person. Parents of children turning 4 by or on Sept. 1 have their first opportunity to learn more about Pre-K for the 2020-21 on Aug. 3. This will all be done via a Zoom meeting.

Sow the seeds of a higher and happier life

To sow spiritual seeds means that we do spiritual work. Spiritual work is always interior work first, even if, as a matter of course, this work becomes manifest through exterior action. What is this interior work by which we sow the seeds of the celestial within us?

FOOD TRUCK

The final July visit of the Central Texas Food Bank to the KC Hall parking lot was Thursday. The truck visits Rockdale every first and third Thursdays at 9 a.m. There are no eligibility requirements. Masks and social distancing are required for volunteers.

Results listed for 4-H record books

Here are results from this summer’s 4-H Record Book competition, according to County Agent Micah Holcombe: Thirty-one books entered by Milam members, with 28 books competing at district. At district, Milam County had 11 firsts, 6 seconds, 7 thirds, and 3 fourths place books.

4-H activities continue through summer

There are many activities still to come this summer through the Milam County AgriLife Extension Service for 4-H'ers: T-Shirt Design Contest Design a T-shirt to promote the FCH 4-H Projects: • Food and Nutrition. • Healthy Lifestyles. • Fashion Design. • Consumer Education.

Rockdale, Milam and MDD sales taxes okay through half of 2020

It’s the same refrain sales tax figures have been singing since the COVID-19 Pandemic hit. We’re going to have to wait at least another month to see sales tax receipts plummet, if they do, because of the Pandemic.

MILAM COUNTY COURTHOUSE RECORDS

Milam County courthouse records for July 7 to 15. Compiled from public records available on the Milam County website, www.milamcounty.net. Warranty Deeds Jimmy L. Dixon, trustee, to Gwendolyn Dixon - 1.62 acres, Jose Leal Survey (2,616). Gwendolyn Dixon to Elias C. Martinez - 1.