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It’s time to “tee it up” at the 12th Annual Ron Pruitt Memorial Golf Tournament at beautiful Barton Creek Country Club in Lakeside. The tournament – set Monday, May 12 – benefits the Spicewood and Pedernales EMS and Volunteer Fire Departments and honors the memory of Ron Pruitt, a Lakeside member and EMS Committee chair.

Congress has cut victim assistance funds 22 percent over the past two federal fiscal years under the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA). The Administration’s 2009 budget request would cut another 20 percent from VOCA victim assistance funding.

The Hill Country Cattlewomen, hosted their annual scholarship fundraising luncheon and style show at the Inn of the Hills in Kerrville, on Tuesday, April 15. Raffle drawings, a silent auction, and a live auction were all a part of this fundraising event.

When Rudy Cunningham put his name on the Inks Ranch Goat Hunt donated to Project Graduation for their silent auction, he was standing on flat ground, when he arrived at the ranch on April 12, to collect his prize, he and his son Ron were looking up, at the 600 plus acre granite mountain where the Catalina goats roam. These wild goats have roamed this mountain for decades and are the offspring of a plan gone bad.

There are two spectacular events scheduled at the Lakeshore Library. Come, see, and learn.

Lee Gann retired recently as chief clerk of the Kingsland Post Office where he spent his entire postal career. “We’re sorry to see him retire after 27 years,” said Postmaster Steve Machacek.

Granite Shoals Police Chief J. P. Wilson remained in critical condition Tuesday following a motorcycle accident at midday Saturday on RR 1431 in Kingsland.

May 3 - Flashbacks, dance, 7: 30 p. m.

The Fine Arts Association of the Hill Country will host the First Annual Art Show on May 3 and 4. The public is invited to attend the show in Mason at the historic Lucia Holmes’ Guesthouse located on the southeast corner of the town square.

Llano County Judge Wayne Brascom presented county employee Ron Moore with the Floodplain Administrator of the Year Award. The award is made by the Texas Colorado Floodplain Coalition which represents cities and counties from Lampasas to Wharton on the Colorado River.