The Republican Club will meet Monday, July 2, at the Grace Episcopal Parish Hall, Guadalupe and Austin St (Hwy 238). Dinner will be served from 5-6 p.m. (by Reservation Only). The meeting begins at 6 p.m. Guest speaker is Calhoun Port Authority Director, Charles Hausman. Public is invited, coffee and tea are furnished at no cost.

Dinner menu is fried pork chops, rice w/gravy, green beans, rolls, cake. Price $11 per person, cash or check. Please make check payable to: CC Republican Club.

Reservations for dinner must be received no later than Monday, June 25. For reservations, please contact Connie Hunt, 552-0917; or Lisa Peterson, 552-6313.

Important Election Coming Up!

I know you all have “voter’s fatigue”. HOWEVER: Perhaps the most important election is coming up on Saturday, June 30.

Nine candidates, including Democrats, Green Party, Independents; basically, anyone who wants to — have signed up to be on the ballot. If we do not have one candidate (Michael Cloud) with 51% of the vote, that means another runoff in September to see who goes to Washington to serve approximately 18 days! Remember, the Congress is only in session for 3 days each week then recesses for 2 weeks before the General Election in November. Then, they break for Christmas holidays.

Each county (local taxpayers) will foot the bill for all general elections. The only way we can avoid the runoff and give our man (Michael Cloud) a 6-month jump on all the other freshman congressman, is to GET OUT THE VOTE on June 30. -Connie Hunt

My neighbors Parker and Patty are always telling me how proud they are to be a part of Port O’Connor, Texas. They say it is a great community and so friendly.

Parker used to say to his kids, “You don’t know what you don’t know.” Well, recently one of the youngest grands made that really clear when he let Patty and Parker he did not know about giant Texas Grasshoppers.

Parker took the grandson to the farm for the week to work. One afternoon Parker was ‘resting his eyes’ in his easy chair when he heard the grandson hollering Parker hurried to the bathroom to find the grandson standing on top of the counter in the sink, eyes wide, tears dripping, pointing at a 4-inch black and gold south Texas grasshopper. Payton had never seen the raspy mouth, big eyes and huge legs of this creature up close. The boy was sure it ate small children in a single bite.

Pappaw Parker caught the grasshopper, showed the youngster the harmless nature of the thing, calmed the boy and dried the tears. Careful not to follow his first impulse and scoff at Payton’s fear of a harmless bug, it was a teachable moment.

A few days later, young Payton was heard telling his sister that he had several grasshoppers in a jar under his bed. Pappaw was again reminded how scary things can be when you “don’t know what you don’t know.” Payton sure had fun scaring his sister with those grasshoppers. Guess Pappaw is gonna get some more teachable moments with both his grands.

Happy Summer Y’all!

All A’s Honor Roll
First Grade: Marcos Blanco; Haiden Dean; Madden Guevara;
Riley Pagel; Skyler Pessall; Emma Sanchez; Clara Stryker

Second Grade: Laela Aranda; Bradley Eure; Remington Eure;
Pryncess Few; Abygail Gonzales; Audrey Rhoads; Corbin Washburn

Third Grade: Grace Brown; Kyndra Carriles; Connor Ferrell;
Landon Jones; Gracie O’Shields; Nicholas Ragusin; Dane Spencer

Fourth Grade: Byron Ferrell; Emily Ferrell; Alex Lopez

Fifth Grade: Maddix Delgado; Justice Epley; Antonio Gloria;
McKenna Guevara; Jackie Gutierrez; Rylie Ragusin;
Christopher Richter

A&B Honor Roll

First Grade: Jakob Donaldson; Mimi Mezzell; Addilynn Ruddick

Second Grade: Christian Gutierrez; Leon Hill; Caiden Hobbs;
Lexi Ruddick; Waylon Thomas

Third Grade: Aubrey Ragusin; Mato Sanchez; Alexis Soechting;
Brayson Thumann

Fourth Grade: Blake Bowman; Layne Brown; Anthony Flores;
Kamyla Guzman; Lyric Lopez; Kitty Mezzell; Jaydin Rhoads;
Brodie Riley; Cole Spicak

5th Grade: Stephen Bowman, Keegan Short

Pre-K: Amara Brown; Jameson Washburn

Kindergarten: Anamika Brown; Pierre Wilburn

First Grade: Haiden Dean; Avery Gosnell; Madden Guevara;
Mimi Mezzell; Clara Stryker

Second Grade: Bradley Eure; Caiden Hobbs; Audrey Rhoads;
Waylon Thomas; Corbin Washburn

Third Grade: Landon Jones; Aubrey Ragusin

Fourth Grade: Alex Lopez; Jaydin Rhoads; Cole Spicak

Fifth Grade: McKenna Guevara; Christopher Richter; Keegan Short