COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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FRIDAY, MARCH 08 Rotary Club meets, Masonic Lodge Hall, 219 IH-30 S. Service Road, noon.
Lifestyle
Changes in your garden are inevitable
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Inevitably when gardening, things that were standard a few years ago become outdated or just wrong. For example, the literature used to recommend placing an egg and banana in the tomato planting hole. In fact, you can still occasionally find such a recommendation today. Such recommendations, however, ignored the rotting time needed before the basic elements could be used by a growing tomato plant.
Embrace the power of flowers this spring
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There’s no time like the present — especially when it comes to plants for a spring garden. Much of the state has experienced early spring weather, which means the sooner you can get to certain garden tasks, the better off your yard will be.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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FRIDAY, MARCH 01 Rotary Club meets, Masonic Lodge Hall, 219 IH-30 S. Service Road, noon.
A Bar H Custom Processing opens
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Winnsboro native Caden Hamm along with his father-in-law, Donnie Alexander, have joined forces to form a new meat processing company called A Bar H Custom Processing. While a soft opening was held a little under a year ago, this newly established small business held their grand opening ribbon cutting event this past Wednesday February 7.
Forest Service’s pruning tips to prevent spread of oak wilt
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While winter is the ideal time to prune trees, pruning after recent droughts and freezes may cause more damage than good this year. Oak wilt is one of the deadliest tree diseases in the U.S., killing millions of trees across 76 counties of Texas.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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FRIDAY, DEC. 22 Franklin County offices close early at noon today for the Christmas Holidays, including the FC Library.
Wreath ceremony a touching reminder
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The Christmas season is an ideal time for the Wreaths Across America program to call citizens to remember fallen veterans and remind citizens of how and why our country came to be.
More than 70 individuals joined in the Saturday morning program and then spread across the Mount Vernon City Cemetery, some with multiple wreaths in hand, to place them at the resting places of 352 individuals, who were identified as having served in the U.S. military. Those placing the wreaths were asked to take a brief moment to call out the name of the veteran as a rememberance.
Frankincense and Myrrh for Christmas
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We all know the story of the Magi bringing gold, frankincense and myrrh to Joseph, Mary and Jesus, but there was always the question of what was it, and why was it so important to warrant giving to the Christ child. Further, why has it been traded as an object of value for thousands of years.
