Understanding egg packaging labels

This week’s lesson is on buying products 100% or All Natural (Eggs), Vitamin Enhanced (Hens), Made with Organic, Organic, 100% Organic, USDA Certified Organic, USDA Organic (Eggs), Omega-3 Enriched (Hens), No Antibiotics (Hens), No Added Hormones (Eggs), Free-Range (Hens), and Cage-Free (Hens).

4-H winners

Top photo: The Milam County senior 4-H plant identification team won the senior division first place honors in the statewide MJ Hanna Plant Identification contest held in Coryell County on April 10.

Museums to celebrate ‘triple header’ day May 8

Be sure to set aside May 8 as a day to visit the Rockdale I&GN Depot, or the Milam County Railroad Museum in Cameron or the Hearne Depot or all three as they celebrate National Train Day with what they are calling a “triple header,” a term used when three locomotives are coupled together to pull a...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

April 15—Jane Katz. April 18—Jillian Eubank. April 19—Kenneth Haverkamp. April 20—Randy Fletcher.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

April 8—Chris Wall. April April 9—Barkley Lagrone. April 13—Kathie Bassler. Anniversaries April 8—Jeff and Kelly Pickel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

April 2—Alice Faye Haverkamp, Bill Martin. April 3—Briana Bassler.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

March 28—Cole Rickman. March 30—Helen Zapata.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY—Members of the Thursday Reading Club helped Dr. Lucile Estell celebrate her 91st birthday last week. Submitted photo

Roast chicken dinner done Italian style

The other day Mom wasn’t feeling well and I guess Geri Burnett didn’t trust either Dad or I to make her something delicious so she brought over a roast chicken dinner which none of us had eaten in a long time. So simple and delicious with the chicken surrounded by onions, carrots and new potatoes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

March 14—Justin Breithaupt. March 17—Kaleb Breithaupt.