Sponsored By The Port O’Connor Lions Club

Mark your calendar for this free event filled with hand made and good quality items for your shopping pleasure. Also check out our raffle items for the 4:00 p.m. raffle. We’ll have some good items.

TO BE HELD WHEN: Saturday, March 16th, 2013

WHERE: At The Port O’Connor Community Center Pavilion

SALE TIME: Open to Public 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

There will be Art and Artists, art items, crafts, handmade quilts, handmade knives, handcrafted crosses, jewelry, nautical items, T-shirts, visors, baby items, lunch bags and diaper bags, candles and other items along with jewelry made out of fishing lures. This you must also see.

For food, so far, there will be hot-dogs, chips, corn chip pies, drinks, and baked items along with a Bake Sale including cookies and brownies.

Who said you can’t have your cake and eat it too? Port O’Connor ladies are known for their great cakes. Come early as the baked items sell fast.

Booth spaces under the Pavilion are completely reserved. But for vendors – spaces outside the Pavilion are still available. Bring your own equipment and a 12’x12’ space is $20. If you need more room, we can accommodate you.

DON’T DELAY – Get your reservation for an outside booth today and join us for the fun. Or, have your purse handy, slip on your comfortable shoes and get ready to enjoy shopping! We’ll see you soon!

Members of the Port O’Connor Lions Club are working hard to make this an enjoyable event for everyone. Even the Seadrift Lions Club will have a booth and join us.

We’ll be accepting donations for the Lions Clubs’ “White Cane Day” for those who would like to donate to the Lions Club Eye Bank of Texas to help others with cornea transplants, eye problems and the ultimate gift of sight. Make a donation and receive a White Cane Pin. Also, we will accept donations of your used eyeglasses to send for refurbishment and to be given to those who need them. So please bring your old eyeglasses.

For reservations and additional information: Please phone Joyce Jordan, President, Port O’Connor Lions Club at Cell #361-655-7999 or #361-983-2500.

Joyce Jordan

Evelyn A. Smith, 93, of Austin and Port O’Connor, more recently of Port Lavaca, died Thursday, January 24, 2013. She was born on November 26, 1919 in Caldwell County, Texas to Kyle Achilles Woodland and Annie Rena Alexander Woodland. Mrs. Smith’s family originally settled in Texas as part of the Stephen F. Austin Colony. She was retired from the Austin National Bank and had previously been active with the Port O’Connor Service Club and Bridge Club.

Mrs. Smith is survived by sons: Joe Lee Smith and Lawrance Smith; daughter, De Lois Kelldorf; 8 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great-grandchild.

Graveside services were held Monday, January 28, 2013 at Cook-Walden/Forest Oaks Memorial Park with Richard Cheatham officiating.

In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Smith had requested that memorial donations be made to Grace United Methodist Church in Austin or a charity of choice.

Condolences may be made at cookwaldenforestoaks.com .

A.J. Clayton, Sr., 75, of Seadrift, passed away January 19, 2013. He was born October 25, 1937, in Austin to the late Alvia Baylus and Hazel Mae Clayton.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara Ann Clayton of Seadrift; children, Shawn Dee Clayton and husband Hawk of Batrop, TX, Alva Jerald Clayton, Jr. and wife Tina of Lockhart, TX, Charles Mitchell Clayton of Austin, TX and Elizabeth Kathleen Bell and husband Rick of Lago Vista, TX; step children, Susan Renee Pope of Nashville, TN, William Ryan Newman of Livingston, TX and Ernest Dale Newmsan, Jr. of Kentucky; 19 grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Including his parents, he was preceded in death by his sisters and brothers, Muriel Letane, Alice Juanita, Charles Elmo, Clovis Dewitt and J.B. Sherwin; and one grandchild.

Graveside services were held January 25, 2013 at Rock Church Cemetery, Pastor June Cantrell officiating.

To leave a comforting message or share a fond memory, please go to www.heritagefhvictoria.com .

Calhoun County employees recently completed a six-week Challenge called “Maintain No Gain” as part of their Wellness Program. They were challenged to gain no more than two pounds during the six week period from Thanksgiving to New Years.

For maintaining and reaching that goal each week, employees were entered into a drawing weekly for a prize among county employees. At the conclusion of the six weeks, all qualifying entries were sent to the Texas Association of Counties for inclusion in a statewide drawing.

Grace Gonzales of Calhoun County won an iPod Nano from TAC for her participation in the Challenge.
We have recently started a “Lunch and Learn” program with Tina Trevino of the Extension Office. We had over 20 employees come to lunch and listen to a talk on nutritional information. This will be a monthly program, each with a different meal and subject.

These are some of the Programs sponsored by the Wellness Program in an effort to help our employees get and stay healthier. We have a good participation rate in our programs, and I’m proud of the enthusiasm of the employees.

Susan Riley- Calhoun County
Wellness Coordinator