At the treats table are Grace Stone, Susie Onishi, Carol Lide and our USCG Commander In Charge, Joshua Martin.

First National Bank of Port O’Connor once again held a Cookie/Sweet Treat Contest at Christmas time. Twelve talented bakers entered the contest and 45 bank patrons participated in the tasting and voting.

The winners were:

“Best Tasting” won by Paige Satterfield with “Diabetes” cookie bars.

“Most Original” won by Dawn Ragusin with candy cane dusted white chocolate covered pretzels.

“Best Display” won by Brandy Boriskie with Brandyland Christmas sugar cookies.

Dawn, Debbie and Amber at First National, Port O’Connor wish to thank all who came out to share in the spirit of Christmas with them.

Port O’ Connor Improvement District has changed billing systems so please keep an eye out for your bill. If you go to www.eonlinebill.com/uswgu and create an account you can view your bill, pay your bill, view payment history, get set up with automatic bank draft, and paperless billing. If you have any billing questions or concerns, you may contact the office.

The main water line from GBRA to Port O’Connor Improvement District had a break in the line on Highway 1289. The leak was repaired on Monday January 8. Due to the leak in the main line a Boil Water Notice was issued by TCEQ. The Boil Water notice was a precautionary step due to the break in the main water line.

The Boil Water Notice was lifted on Wednesday January 10, at approximately 3:45 pm.

The Port O’ Connor Improvement District and LaSalle WCID No.1A customers will need to make sure to sign up for alerts on the District website as we had a lot of customers that were not alerted of the recent Boil Water Notice due to the 12” line break on Highway 1289.

Please note, to receive an alert in regard to POCID activities, please sign up at our website pocid.org. It only takes a few minutes and then you will receive alerts in regard to water, sewer, storm events, outages, etc. Please sign up.. all it takes is an email address.

Call our office at 361-983-2652 for any questions.

The Next time for the Roll Off Container will be February 3, 2018

All residents of Port O Connor on the Air Vac System please take time to look around your yard for possible infiltration or inflow into the sewer system. Such as clean out caps off, your candy cane or vent is loose allowing rain water to enter into the system. Finding these problems will help in reducing unwanted water into our sewer system.

I believe it all started in 2008 or 2009, when my daughter went off to college, as she teased me that she was replaced by 19 girls! It started in the kitchen of the fellowship hall at First Baptist Church in Seadrift TX. There was a call to get something started with the kids. Jennifer Mikolas and I got in the kitchen and started to teach these young ladies to cook along with lessons in life and devotions as well. We called them The GA’s like Rachael Ray. The girls made a pecan pie, crust from scratch and even cracked the pecans! Great talk time when you’re doing that!

Soon the boys came by to sample the cooking, the crowds grew, and we found ourselves cooking and feeding over 100 children on Wednesday evenings, and filling them with the knowledge of the Lord and songs of Praise. You think they had a blessing; the workers were the ones getting the Blessing! We learned missions by feeding sick members with food we had prepared. We even prepared the snacks for the grand opening of our new library. Each Wednesday was a miracle of its own; on a shoestring budget, the crowd was nourished in more ways than one.

The Lord saw the need and used the ideas of Tommy Stanfill and manpower of the church body to build and fund a million dollar building. The kids moved from the fellowship hall to a spacious building that also houses a gym. We have had many leaders over the years. At times we didn’t have a leader, but it was consistent; these kids learned the stories in the Bible. We have had setbacks and this year Charlotte Wooldridge, Nancy Henson and many others fed and clothed folks in the youth building in the aftermath of Harvey, The call is still there; the children of our community need to learn about Jesus Christ. So, the workers cleaned the youth building and we are preparing to begin again with the Youth.

We were formerly known as WOW-Worship on Wednesday, we will be going forward as KFC –Kids for Christ. We will be meeting on a new day, Mondays! The times will be from 6:00 to7:00 pm. For middle school and up, we will be in the kitchen cooking up a snack at 4:30, and learning how to clean up also.

If you feel you would like to help be a part of serving the kids of this community, we will welcome you.

Church office hours are 9:00 to 1:00 Monday – Friday.

361 785-3411

SEADRIFT – Kanshie ‘K’ Mathis Jr., 66, of Seadrift, passed away on January 6, 2018. ‘K’ was born in Ashburn, Ga. on September 25, 1951.

He is preceded in death by his parents, AME Rev. Kanshie Mathis, Sr. and AME Joyce Bell Ragin, along with several brothers and sisters.

‘K’ is survived by his loving wife of 34 years, Glenda Gail Southern Mathis. The couple spent the last 25 years residing in Seadrift.

There will be a Celebration of Life for ‘K’ in a private graveside service with family and friends at a future date.

SEADRIFT – Sheryl Dawn Herring, 43, of Seadrift, TX passed away December 17, 2017. She was born February 22, 1974 in Edna, TX.

She is preceded in death by her father, Michael D. Herring. She is survived by her children Emmalee and Justin Harris; mother Sue Ellen Herring; brothers Carl Venglar and Mike E. Herring, and sisters Janna Gregg and Melissa Cannady.

A Memorial Service was held January 6, 2018 at Central Church of Christ in Victoria, TX.