FOR BROWN SANTA—

Bad to the Bone Riders and the 14th Annual Buddy Oney Toy Run presented Milam County Sheriff Chris White with a $950 check for the Sheriff’s Department Brown Santa program recently. That represented Brown Santa’s share of the approximately $8,000 raised for children-oriented entities by the run.

ORGANIZATIONS

Master Naturalists set training class El Camino Real Master naturalists will host training beginning Jan. 16 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Hermit Haus in Cameron on Thursday evenings. The class is a joint effort of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension program.

GAUSE NEWS

Happy New Year! I hope you and your family had a great holiday season. Here it is time to start planning our daily, weekly, monthly activities for this new year. Teachers return in Gause School on Monday and then on Tuesday students return.

Loaded cauliflower casserole

Kyle’s Kitchen Happy New Year! If you thought I was going to start my food-related column with diety-type food, you’d be wrong. Today it’s all about cauliflower casserole, and this one is so delicious. I have made this many times and it is super easy to make and super easy to change it up.

Blood drive set for Wednesday

MILANO NEWS Welcome to the new year and the new decade. I pray that 2020 holds great things for everyone. There is an American Red Cross blood drive set for Wednesday at Milano High School. Donations will be accepted from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.