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Warrior’s Weekend May 18 & 19 This is my 10th year to help with Warriors Weekend. What an amazing Blessing! I have welcomed 15 different heroes to my home and shared life with them. I have made breakfast, desserts and treats. I have cleaned fish and dishes and boats. I have sculpted sand and written […]

Well, it is just my opinion, but I think the dredging is a great thing. I was down at the beach this week and walked the whole distance from retaining wall to jetty and took lots of pictures. I stopped and talked to the foreman on the work team from RLB Construction in Port Lavaca […]

Hometown Point Of View by Kelly Gee…

Posted by Joyce Rhyne on 16 Mar 17 - 0 Comments

STEM Activities and so much more at the POC Library Recently more than 18 POC students and many of their parents spent Saturday morning at the POC Library building skyscrapers, moving machines and others structures from Legos©. Ordinary toys that just felt like play for the preschoolers to middle schoolers that enjoyed the morning’s activities, […]

Hometown Point of View, by Kelly Gee…

Posted by Joyce Rhyne on 19 Jan 17 - 0 Comments

One POC Page in the Book of Texas History Did you know that the lighthouse on Matagorda Island was unmanned or decommissioned just before 1956? The last lighthouse keepers were Arthur and Ruth Barr. They had lived for years caring for the lighthouse. Arthur Barr was a fourth-generation lighthouse keeper. He married the lighthouse keepers’ […]

Did you ever wonder about the children on the Angel Tree? What happens to the toys brought in by the Toy Runners? How do gifts get to the children? Well, here is the true story of one family and what the Angel Tree Christmas meant to them. A local family whose parents both grew up […]

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