CHURCH NEWS

St. Monica’s to hold BBQ fundraiser Sunday The St. Monica’s Ladies will hold a drive through barbecue chicken and Green’s sausage dinner on Sunday starting at 10 a.m. Plates are $10 and also include potato salad and beans. There will also be a prize drawing and sweet shop. St.

There are three types of God’s Divine love

Historically and theologically, we distinguish among three types of divine love. There is God’s love of benevolence, where God has a kind spirit to the whole world. His benevolent will and love fall on everybody.

Above all else, God is a father like that

In the living room the little girl was busy with paper and crayons when her father came home from work. Looking at her masterpiece, he asked what she was doing. Without so much as an upward glance, she answered, “I am drawing a picture of God.

ROCKDALE CHRISTIAN SERVICES

RCS food pantry Rockdale Christian Services operates a food pantry at 224 West Cameron Avenue, open the second and fourth Thursday and Friday of the each month from 10 a.m. to noon.

TISD closes on purchase of land

Thorndale Independent School District closed on the purchase of 16 acres of land to the east of Stadium Drive on April 15, according to Superintendent Adam Ivy. “It will more than double our current footprint and it is adjacent to our stadium,” he said.

Winning design

Pacey Rutherford won the T-shirt design for this year’s Rockdale Earth Day contest. His design will appear on this year’s t-shirts which are for sale by Rockdale Earth Day for $15. Pacey is a junior at Rockdale High School and is the son of Casey and Kelcie Rutherford.

Stashing trash

Bulldozers gather up trash for one of the huge dumpsters at Fair Park on Saturday during the April 17 Stash Your Trash day held by the city of Rockdale.

NEWSBRIEFS

Farmers’ Market is now every Saturday morning The Rockdale Chamber of Commerce is holding a farmers’ market on the grounds of the historic Coffield Stone Tree House at 1203 W. Cameron. The market is held each Saturday from now until the end of October. The hours are 8 a.m. to noon.

Former ‘Idol’ contestant arrested

A Milam County resident who once competed on the reality show, “American Idol,” was arrested last week in Rockdale on a charge of burglary of a habitation. Cecil Ray Baker, 20, of Rockdale was arrested at 8:08 a.m. on Friday. He was booked into Milam County Jail on Saturday at 3:27 p.m.

Rockdale woman included in federal indictments

Twenty central Texas residents, including a Rockdale woman, face federal drug trafficking and firearms charges stemming from five separate, but related, federal grand jury indictments unsealed last week in Waco, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and others. Indictment No.1 is U.S. v.