The Calhoun County Republican Party would like to invite the public to our Lincoln Reagan Dinner on October 5, 2024.

Social Hour begins at 5:00 p.m. at the Bauer Community Center in Port Lavaca. The dinner and speaking program begins at 6:00 p.m. including Don Huffines with the Liberty Foundation, LJ Francis with District 2 State Board of Education, and the candidates for the 13th Court of Criminal Appeals and many others.

Please call (361)552-6313 or (361)920-5467.

POC’s Book Club, “Hooked On Books”, will resume meetings starting on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 2:00 p.m., and our book of the month is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

If you are interested in joining us, please email your contact information to alanehaardt@yahoo.com.

All Ladies are welcome.

Hello Dolphin Talk folks, I’m Kenneth Reese and since 2017 I have had the honor of being an elected member of the City Council of Seadrift. Starting out in 2017, I was assigned to oversee Harbor operations and later when the city decided to go into the trash business, I was placed over Seadrift Solid Waste department.

Harvey visited our town during my first term and the city got into the FEMA business. I was assigned Harbor debris cleanup duties, seawall replacement duties, west end erosion duties and, just for fun, I got to do Restore project also.

Going into my seventh year, I am now over Utilities Department (everything water) and Waste Water Treatment Department (every thing sewer) and, just for fun, I’m still involved seawall, Restore, and overall city drainage project. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job and hope to continue giving the City my time.

There is still work to be done. I hope to see the new water tower project, our waster water plant and our seawall project come to fruition. Won’t it be great to have better water pressure, toilets that flush and a seawall park with grass and hopefully new playground equipment. That’s another department, but I hope to see it happen. I love the ‘drift and I hope to keep it the ‘drift!

Grass is always greener and growing at the POC Community Garden! A heartfelt thank you to Triple R Tractor Service for mowing the community garden area. Special thanks to Willy, Dawn Ragussin, and their sons for their support. It is people like you who truly make our community special!

What a fantastic field trip to Danny May’s farm to pick sweet corn. Two separate groups participated, and we even enjoyed wine tasting along with the corn picking! Who knew farming could be so fun and educational? Thank you, Danny, for two wonderful afternoons!

The regular monthly educational garden programs are taking a summer break. No meetings are planned for June or July. We will begin again in August. Have a great rest of the summer!

Michelle Lippold
and Val Tiemann.

(L-R) Cindy Hanson, Kimberly Lucas, Laurane Debowski, Terry Twomey, and Danny May

Made off stainless steel and 14 feet long, this alligator is being created by Dieter Erhard as an homage to Texas.

“While I work on it, it’s like having a little Texas with me here in Germany.,” said Dieter. “My little neighbor friend is asking me every day if it is yet finished.”

Only the bottom/belly part is finished by now. The stainless steel hide will include about 70 LED light sections changing colors just like the ArtBoat (in Seadrift) in the evenings.

The gator will also have a built-in speaker to start the alligator growling, once the motion control is activated.

Once finished, it will be displayed at the city of Kronach Light Festival next year. -Dieter Erhardt, proprietor of ArtBoat, Seadrift.