Preliminary enrollment figures: 1,458 students

Preliminary school student totals were announced this week with a reminder that they could change after school starts on Wednesday.

Austin top nursing exec at Barnes-Jewish

Rockdale native Tommye Cashaw Austin is going places—St. Louis, Missouri, to be exact. The 1982 RHS graduate will take on a new role at Barnes-Jewi sh Hospi tal as Senior Vice President of Patient Care Systems and Chief Nursing Executive reporting directly to the CEO effective Oct. 3.

Clean-up day set for Sept. 10

Rockdale Earth Day is holding a fall clean-up day on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a free movie, Monkey Kingdom, following at The Kay. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department.

Marek annual picnic slated September 11

The Marek Community will host their annual Homecoming Picnic on Sunday, Sept. 11, at Saints Cyril & Methodius Church located on FM 2269, seven miles northwest of Cameron. Mass begins at 10:30 a.m. with games and a drawing following at 11:30. Food service begins at 11 a.m.

Genealogical society meets August 23rd

The Milam County Genealogical Society will hold their August meeting at The Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23. Visitors are always welcome. For more information, contact Jack Brooks 512-955-1834.

I was a stranger and you welcomed me

Hidden in Christ with God GREG NICHOLS “Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD; and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

MEMORIAL GIFTS

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DONATION

The Pi Epsilon chapter of Beta Sigma Phi donation of DripDrop packets to the Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department. Members Glenda Wiley (left) and Ellen Luckey made the presentation to James McQuinn. The Rockdale VFD has been getting a lot of donations for DripDrop packets, but what are they exactly?

MCT’s auditions set for Sunday, Monday

Milam Community Theater will hold auditions Aug. 21 and 22 for Ken Ludwig’s new adaptation of the Agatha Christie masterpiece “Murder on the Orient Express,” the final show of the 2022 season. Auditions will be at the Williams Event Center in Cameron at 7 p.m. both days. Go to milamcommunitytheater.

County 4-H banquet scheduled for September 14th in Cameron

MILAM 4-H NEWS MICAH HOLCOMBE Extension Agent Once again, we are preparing to celebrate the accomplishments of our Milam County 4-H members with our annual Awards Banquet. Each year, we honor those 4-H members who have excelled in their projects, leadership and contests throughout the year.