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Glasscock Co. Senior Citizens will meet May 19 at 6 p.m. and this is snack food night. At the meeting June 2 at 6 p.m., pizza will be furnished, so bring a salad or dessert. Home care nurses from Accolade will attend the first meeting of the month to take blood pressures. Please join us.
MC Summer Junior Tennis Program by Lance Armstrong will hold a camp at the Garden City courts June 22 25. Times: 9 11 a.m. for ages 4 - 8 and 9 a.m. 12 p.m. for ages 9 18. Cost: $100 per week for ages 9 - 18; $80 per week for ages 4 8. Register by June 19 by filling out the form available at Halfmann's General Store and turning it into Lance Armstrong at Armstrong's Racquet Shop at Midland College.
A surprise retirement reception honoring Kenneth Chandler for his twenty-eight years of service with Glasscock County ISD will be Thursday, May 14, at the school cafeteria from 4 5 p.m. Come and go.
NOTICE: Texas Hooter Honeys event rescheduled to July 3 from May 23. At the fundraising dance and auction July 3 at the St. Lawrence Hall from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., the Jake Hooker Band is teaming up with the Texas Hooter Honeys to raise money for the battle against breast cancer. Tickets are $15 per person with limited VIP tables available. The Texas Hooter Honeys is a team of local women walking 60 miles over 3 days for the Susan G. Komen cure of breast cancer. Net proceeds will support research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer.
Contact any team member for tickets and details: Kristin Schwartz, Charlene Belew, Lyndi Dieringer, Jennifer Driver, Melinda Gaines, Ashley Glass, Tana Halfmann, Carol Jost, Kimberly Jost, Shana Kirkland, Joli McCombs, Tibby Niehues, Christy Seidenberger, Shay Strube or Julie Whitaker.
Garden City Elementary School and staff participated in an 8-week virtual trek across Texas. Walk Across Texas is a fun, flexible and free way to exercise offered by Texas AgriLife Extension Service. It promotes fitness, weight control, cardiovascular health, stress reduction and quality time with family and friends! As a reward for collectively walking over 9,000 miles, the elementary students and faculty were treated to Trauma Awareness Day with the Midland RockHounds. Special thanks to e-on Climate & Renewables, Glasscock County Volunteer EMS, Constable Mark Frysak & Linda, Glasscock County Bank, Texas J Rac, Academy Sports & Outdoor, Kristin Schwartz, Charlene Belew & the Texas AgriLife Extension.
GCISDs regular board meeting of May 11 was rescheduled for 8 a.m. May 13, which is after publication of the May issue of the Glasscock County News. We will report information from that meeting in the June 2009 issue.
County Sheriff Keith Burnett is getting around in a wheel chair after recent surgery. Bone was taken from his right knee and used to repair damage to his right ankle, which was injured in 2006 when he was hit by a car while working a traffic accident on Highway 87 in eastern Glasscock County. Burnett expects full recovery from surgery to take four months. Presently, he is working from home. He expects to be back in the office in a month and should be walking with a hard boot in ten weeks. He underwent a surgery in 2006 to repair damage to his shoulder, which was injured in that same incident.