The Calhoun County Democratic Club holds its monthly meeting at the IBC Bank in Port Lavaca on the last Thursday of the month. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. with a social with snacks and soft drinks. The General Meeting starts at 6:00 p.m. and usually there is a guest speaker. The meeting usually lasts […]
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E-mails from the Mission Field By Rebecca Cayford
Many people of faith have at one time entertained the idea of becoming a missionary to foreign lands, but the realities of everyday life – falling in love, getting married and raising a family, and then providing for and nurturing that family – pull their attention away from foreign peoples as they concentrate on their […]
Horrorscopes By Erny McDonough
Professor Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society caused an uproar earlier this year by suggesting in a Minneapolis newspaper interview that shifts in the Earth’s orbit meant stars no longer aligned the same as when the zodiac calendar originated centuries earlier. Thousands of angry and panic-stricken horoscope followers took to Facebook, fearful that their […]
Another Fun-Filled POCIFT Celebration Comes To An End By Nancy Pomykal
As the last boat was –“undecorated”, the last twinkling light clicked off and taken down, and the last festive decorations were removed, the 16th official, 15th annual Port O’Connor Invitational fishing tournament closed another chapter in its journey through life. Looking at Kingfisher Beach and tournament headquarters, one would never know that anything really happened […]
Indianola Commeration Pre-Events
Wed., Aug. 17, 6-8 p.m.: Bauer Community Center- How to organize, establish and sustain a Ballet Folklorico Dance Group Thurs., Aug. 18 & Fri., Aug. 19: Folkorico Classes All ages/levels; everyone invited to participate in the instructional classes at the Bauer Extension Bldg. at the Fairgrounds: 9-11 a.m. Beginning Students 1-3 p.m. Intermediate Students 3-5 […]