Spring Break ‘Rock the Park’ set for Saturday

With all area schools, including Rockdale, getting out for Spring Break this week, the City of Rockdale has scheduled a “Rock the Park” event for Saturday at Fair Park. The event, which runs from 3 to 8 p.m.

POSGCD workshops set for Friday in Milano

MILANO—The Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District (POSGCD) will host a pair of workshops Friday at its Milano headquarters. Rainwater Harvesting 101 will be held from 10 a.m. to 12-noon, with Turf Management to follow from 12:20 to 2:30 p.m.

Farmers Market back with new location

The Rockdale Farmers Market is coming back for a new season and will be at a new location. After a winter’s hiatus, the market will resume on Saturday (March 7) at its new “home,” the Rockdale Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, 1203 West Cameron (US 79). Hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 12-noon.

RVFD fund raiser tickets now on sale

Tickets for the Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department’s annual fund raising night at the KC Hall will go on sale Monday, according to spokesman Mike Korenek. The fund raiser is set for April 18. Tickets will be sold to persons on a year-to-year list.

Fund raiser slated for Milano cancer patient

A benefit is planned March 22 for Milano resident Richard Melton and family as he battles gastric cancer. Melton is receiving treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the event is being held to help with expenses during his battle to win this fight.

Prayer walk slated March 10th at FBC

The Rockdale Ministerial Alliance will host a community prayer walk on March 10, according to Rev. John Seaton, Alliance president and pastor of St. John’s United Methodist Church. “It starts at 6 p.m.,” he said. “The group will meet at First Baptist for a short walk and time of prayer.”

One treated after Sunday accident

A 46-year-old Rockdale man was flown to St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bryan, after a 6:25 p.m. Saturday one-vehicle accident on FM 908 south of County Road 429. Trooper Broderick Sims said Michael Montoya’s vehicle ran off the road and hit a tree. Vehicle damages were termed “extensive.

First Friday social ahead at city library

The monthly First Friday Get-Together is scheduled for this Friday (March 7) at the Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library. Light refreshments will be provided, Hours are 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Book donation

Members of the Rockdale Earth Day committee recently presented Junior-High Librarian Brandy Beaver with a new book, an annual tradition. This year’s book is “The Photo Ark Vanishing:, The World’s Most Vulnerable Animals” by Joel Sartore.

Rockdale gets ‘flood buyout’ money

Wonder whatever happened to the City of Rockdale’s plan to buy out a half-dozen sometimes flooded homes in East Central Rockdale along the East Ham Branch drainage? So was the City of Rockdale. Patience was reward Tuesday when Texas Land Commissioner George P.