Happy Spring! Isn’t this a wonderful time of year? Warm sunshine, cool breezes (some breezes are a little stronger than others), new life all around us. The Texas Mesquite trees are budding out along with Bluebonnets, pecan trees, and beautiful wildflowers in every ditch and road shoulder.
April 5 – Crazy Kicker Bike Ride, 8 a.m. at 200 W. Hubbard St., Mineral Wells. Riders are invited to the 21st Annual Rotary Crazy Kicker cycling tour across scenic Palo Pinto County.
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ROWENA — In Rowena, Olivia Hoelscher, a Ballinger High School student and member of the FFA, stands beside 9 months of hard work in the form of a 1959 Ford 641 diesel tractor that she rebuilt as part of her Ag Mechanics pursuit.
As many of you will probably read, an article is in today’s paper regarding the Turkey Peak Water Reservoir Project to be built as an extension of Lake Palo Pinto in the south part of the county. I attended the meeting at the Lone Camp Baptist Church.
March 22 – Live music by The Poorly Governed, 7-9:30 p.m. at Bankhead Texas Wine Bar in Mineral Wells.
This greatly enlarged photo printed on canvass hangs in the Strawn Historical Museum along with the story of the event.