ORGANIZATIONS

Alcoa retirees slate meeting for June 13th THORNDALE—The next meeting of Rockdale Alcoa Retirees will be Thursday, June 13 at the Thorndale VFW Hall, according to Doug Williams, organization president. He said doors will open at 5 p.m. with a short business meeting around 5:45.

REUNIONS

Downey Reunion set Saturday in Milano MILANO—The Williamson—J. T. (Jake) Downey family reunion is set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Milano Senior Citizens Center in Milano. Lunch is at 12-noon and all friends and family are welcome. To RSVP call or text Colton Popham at 979-229-9859.

Youth car wash, bake sale set for Saturday at Milano VFD

MILANO NEWS Youth from the area will be holding car wash and bake sale on Saturday to raise funds for church camp this summer. The event will start at 10 a.m. at the Milano VFD fire station on Hwy 79. Please come out and support the kids.

Row Crops tour ahead June 21

CAMERON—The annual Milam County Row Crops tour is set for June 21 beginning at the Texas AgriLife Extension Office in Cameron. It will feature a grain sorghum demonstration plot at the Jay Beckhusen place near Buckholts and a corn demonstration plot at the Buddy Johnson place near San Gabriel.

Lots of summer activities ahead at Rockdale High

Just because the 2018-19 school term is over, that doesn’t mean activities have ceased in the Rockdale ISD. High School Principal Tiffany Commerford Whitsel provided this information in her most recent newsletter: The campus received STAAR EOC scores the last day of school.

Kovar early CV graduate, heads on to Blinn College

COLLEGE STATION—Angella Grace Kovar graduated a year early from College View High School in May and attend Blinn College this fall. There she will study to be an Emergency Medical Technician/Paramedics and eventually a Nurse Practitioner.

AT SEA WORLD

Rockdale High School and Junior High Bands traveled to San Antonio and participated in the “A Note Above Music Festival” at Sea World. “Both of our bands had wonderful performances and received Superior ratings,” director Adrian Acevedo said.

Temple College lists awards, dean’s lists

EDUCATION NOTES TEMPLE—Temple College has listed a number of local and area students as recipients of award, and earning dean’s list recognition for the spring semester of 2019 as follows: AWARDS • Karmjeet Gill, Rockdale, recipient of the Anna Davis Clinical Care Award in Associate Degree Nursing.

SCHOLARSHIP

Victoria Elliott, daughter of David and Sherri Elliott of Thorn-dale, received a $20,000 Houston Area Go Texan Scholarship at NRG Center in Houston on May 29.