MASTER GARDENERS

MASTER GARDENERS—The Little River Basin Master Gardener Association recognized four newly-certified Master Gardeners (L-R) Reneé Ryan of Gause, Mary Ann Fenske of Rockdale, Charlene Barnes of Killeen and Don Smith of Cameron.

ORGANIZATIONS

Cemetery associations to meet September 1 Murray Cemetery Association annual business meeting will be held Saturday, Sept. 21 from 10-11 a.m. at the Perry Community Room, 109 N. Main, Rock-dale. An appetizer social will follow.

Ag fundraiser tickets available

MILANO NEWS Time is running out to get your chance at a “freezer full of meat.” The Milano/ Gause Ag Booster Club is selling tickets as a fall fundraiser. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20. Prize includes 7-cu.-ft. freezer, processed pig, turkey, and chicken, along with processing cost cuts.

SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER MENU

Monday—Cranberry chicken, mashed sweet potato, roasted herb tomatoes, wheat roll, scalloped pineapple, milk. Tuesday—Beef steak fingers, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, corn O’Brien, wheat bread, Mandarin oranges and cherries, milk.

GAUSE NEWS

Looking forward to seeing you at the annual Gause Community Improvement Program Founders Day activities Saturday. We are in need of auction items. If you have something to donate, get it to me or Delores Fisher or bring it with you Saturday morning. It will be appreciated.

REUNIONS

Milano High School class of 1959 will celebrate homecoming on Saturday, Sept. 28. The catered event at the Methodist Church, 410 W. Ave. D, Milano, will begin at noon on Saturday, a day after the MHS homecoming game, which is on Friday, Sept.

City council sets tax rate vote Monday

QUICK LOOK The Rockdale City Council is expected to act on the 2019-20 tax rate during its regular monthly session a 5:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall. Unless something changes over the weekend that tax rate is expected to be virtually identical to the current 91.18 cents.

One impressive building

If you think the new Rockdale Estates & Rehabilitation nursing home, next to the intermediate school on US 79, looks impressive from the outside—and it does—it’s just as impressive from the inside.

City dodges TCEQ water fine

A $95,500 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) fine, looming over the city’s water system since last November, is going away. City Manager Chris Whittaker told The Reporter the city has reached an agreement with TCEQ to install six manholes along US 79 in lieu of the fi ne.

First ‘Distinguished Alumni’ named

The first five honorees in the Rockdale ISD’s new Distinguished Alumni Program have been announced and will inducted in an Oct. 11 ceremony. They are astronaut Ken Cockrell, local minister and educator Dr. Dennis Brooks Sr., former State Rep. L. B. Kubiak, ophthalmologist Dr.