LAST YARD OF THE MONTH FOR 2021

LAST YARD OF THE MONTH FOR 2021—The yard of Jan Beery was chosen as Rockdale Earth Day’s Yard of the Month for September. She will receive a $25 gift certificate to Bloomers Garden Center in Elgin. Rockdale Earth Day will start giving out the award again in March or April of 2022.

Elissa Benford-Roberts and David Melton

Elissa Benford-Roberts and David Melton stand amid their projects at Veteran’s Park.

Tiger Business of the Week

Rockdale Tiger Athletics Booster Club selected Tisket A Tasket as last week’s Tiger Business of the Week. To be eligible, decorate your business inside and/or out or show your spirit in another creative way. Then take photos, post them on Facebook and tag Rockdale Tiger Athletics.

Brain Health Awareness webinar for Texas Veterans on Oct. 5th

The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is holding a free webinar for Texas veterans and their families on Tuesday, Oct. 5 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. to provide them with information about brain health, memory screenings and veterans benefits.

GAUSE NEWS

Hope all of you had a nice Labor Day. Monday was kind of a bad day for a holiday. If you have Saturday, Sunday and Monday off, who wants to get up and go to work on Tuesday? Believe me, when they say you are too old to work, that’s an insulting remark.

MILANO NEWS

SUNFLOWER FUN RUN/WALK—The Melodie Hope Jones Memorial Scholarship “Sunflower Fun Run/Walk” will be held Sept. 25 at Davidson Creek Park in Caldwell. There is a kids’ one-mile color run at 9 a.m. and the 5K starts at 9:30 a.m. Cost is $30 for the 5K and $25 for the kids run.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Sept. 10—Thomas Coffield. Sept. 11—Denise Starnes. Sept. 15—John Williams.

Don’t live in the past

God tells us in Isaiah 43:18-21, “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Why surely the Lord is in this place

In the 28th chapter of Genesis it is told how Jacob was traveling and had stopped at night in the wilderness to sleep. The story says that as Jacob dreamed, “The LORD stood by him” and spoke promises to him: “Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go.

Excuses for not allowing God to use us

The story of Jesus’ compassion shown in the Gospel of John about feeding the five thousand with a little boys lunch, paints a vivid picture of God taking the little we have to offer so people can see him through us. Jesus had taken the disciples to a place where he could minister and teach to them.