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The 18th annual Live Oaks and Dead Folks Cemetery Tour will take place at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Columbus Saturday, Nov. 6 beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 each, and are available at the Nesbitt Memorial Library and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. The number of tickets are limited. Please call the library at (979)732-3392 to make a reservation or stop by to purchase tickets.
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The moment a person is diagnosed with cancer can elicit a variety of emotions. Fear of what’s to come is a common reaction to such a diagnosis, and some people may feel alone upon learning they have cancer. But no cancer patient should face their diagnosis and treatment alone. In fact, a strong support network can be vital to patients’ recoveries.
Read moreBreast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer diagnosed among the female population. Though breast cancer may seem like a disease that’s exclusive to women, breast cancer can affect men as well.
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If you came to our parsonage, you would discover all over our property, plants and flowers. Just don’t ask me to identify what they are. I can tell a plant from a flower, but that’s as far as it goes with me.
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Grow Wings 4-H Club is looking for more members to consider joining their club. This club was created as a project of a now graduated 4-H member, Jessica Shank, who had the opportunity to attend a Leaders in Equity Institute that was held at the National 4-H Center in 2019.
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Bobbe Shapiro Nolan opens her exhibition, “Flyover Season”, at Arts for Rural Texas Saturday, Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. Nolan’s fiber art pieces are a unique approach to the more traditional fiber arts of quilting, embroidering, weaving and others. Here she incorporates unexpected items that flow, move through and often erupt from her soft fibers, telling a story of time and transition. Her works have been recognized nationally and been included in such notable exhibitions as the “Form Not Function” show and exhibition at the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana.
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“A More Beautiful Community,” a monthly column to The Colorado County Citizen by The Columbus Garden Club, is a new addition to the newspaper. Velma Harrington said, “I’d like to call the column ‘A More Beautiful Community’ because for a very long time this has been the motto of Columbus Garden Club. It is reflected in the programs and projects of the club. Those programs include the Yard of the Month and Community Beautification Award; the pocket gardens and planters throughout the city; sharing plants through their annual plant sale; education about plants, pollinators and landscaping through monthly club programs and community programs.”
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