April 16, 2008

The Llano Uplift Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, will celebrate its 12th birthday on Saturday, April 26 with a luncheon at the River City Grille in Marble Falls. Welcome time will start at 9:

Cory Halliburton, a 1995 LHS graduate, was recently elected and appointed to serve as a Director of the Fort Worth - Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association. Founded in 1928, FW-TCYLA is a voluntary Bar Association for young lawyers living or practicing law in Tarrant County, and is a local affiliate of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division.

Kyndel L. Howell, a senior at Angelo State University, is among 56 other Angelo students chosen to be a honoree for the 2008 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

The Highland Lakes Chapter of Texas Exes announces the holding of their Annual Round-Up. It will take place on Thursday, April 24 at 6:

Civility is the by-word of 2008 candidates for the Llano City Council. Although they came into office with clear personal goals for serving the city, the three aldermen who did not run for re-election – Bryant Ratliff, Shane Gray and Bubba Bollier – often found themselves in the middle of acrimonious debate.

Mark Chesnutt will highlight the 19th Annual Llano Crawfish Open slated for this weekend. Held each year at Llano’s Robinson Park, this year’s event is stacking up to be another great one, benefitting local charities.

The county received high praise in the audit of fiscal year 2007 accounting. In a review of the 2007 fiscal year, Mary Rosas of the outside auditing firm of Stovall, Grandey & Allen, LLP of Fort Worth, praised both the county’s financial and budgeting processes, despite increased state-mandated practices.

On Friday, May 2, Chrissie Spangler, Jacob Wright, Claire Byrnes, and Geoffrey Sanders, all seniors at Llano High School, will head to the State UIL Academic Meet held at the University of Texas in Austin to compete in their four different academic events. At the Regional Meet held at Texas A&M in Kingsville over the past weekend, April 10-12, these students won this opportunity against tough competition.

When a golfer shoots a 58 and someone else IN THE SAME foursome grabs a portion of the headline (What did the other guy do, drive with a fishing pole? ), you know it was truly one of the most unbelievable rounds since a three-wood was truly made out of wood.

Llano’s Brian Cottle, April 11, received a cake for the 100th win of his seven-year softball coaching career; what propelled him to the impressive number was an 18-1 battering of Bandera: it was truly “icing on the cake. ”

Some of the greatest wins in sports are those that come after a team is way behind, given up as a lost cause as fans “head to the exits. ” Conversely, the most painful defeats occur when the losing team looks back on a big advantage that’s squandered. Please Google:

So you’re reading this mystery which is making sense to someone, you suppose, but not to you, and then everything comes together nicely, and you think, “that was well-done,” and you give high marks to the author for a perfect saga. That’s one way (fortunately, there are others you might be musing) of saying the softball Jackets scripted a decent chapter here and one or two more there, came through with some whoppers at the end and the title read, “14-0.

You take on Bandera these days and your goal is to score a run--you’d have a better chance of WINNING at the Boston Garden. These guys, on April 11, not only sported a 19-4 overall record, but they were 5-0 in district play, and “0” is a well-known number on campus: the Bulldogs had thrown five shutouts!

On April 27, the Castell Community Club is hosting an open house from 2 p. m. to 5 p.

It’s time for Burnet and Llano county residents to search their homes for unwanted chemicals for free disposal at a household hazardous waste collection event Saturday, April 26. The event will be held at LCRA’s Western District Complex at the intersection of RR 1431 and Highway 29 in Llano County.

The Kingsland/Lake LBJ Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors on Thursday welcomed the Junction House Restaurant & Lounge as their newest member with a formal Ribbon Cutting. “We are so pleased to have the Junction House as part of our family of Kingsland businesses,” said chamber president Lynda Shroyer.

The Kingsland Library will be celebrating fifty years of bringing library services to the Kingsland area. Join the library staff and Friends of the Library on Friday, April 18 between 10:

Mark your calendar and make it a date to take someone special in your life out to eat on Saturday, April 26, at participating restaurants. Your participation will help aid abused children in local communities.

The FFA Meats and Livestock Judging Teams competed at their respective contests in College Station on April 5. The Meats Judging Team placed fifth in their contest and the Livestock Judging Team placed seventh.

The FFA Meats and Livestock Judging Teams competed at their respective contests in College Station on April 5. The Meats Judging Team placed fifth in their contest and the Livestock Judging Team placed seventh.

Grace Episcopal Church, Llano, recently completed a fund raiser to sponsor a mission trip to Uganda, April 9 - May 3. A giant yard sale and quilt raffle earned monies to assist local member, Judy Waddell, who will travel with the Hands of Hope Tapestry Ministry from the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.

The “Oldies But Goodies Car Show and Social Club” will host its first ever canned goods drive for the Llano Food Pantry on Friday, May 2. Mark your calendars and make plans to meet us in the parking lot at Inman’s Bar-B-Q on Highway 29 West in Llano.