Martin Luther Lutheran Church Hosting Blood Drive

ARMINE News

Martin Luther Lutheran Church is hosting a Blood Drive on Sunday, Jan. 22 from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall, in conjunction with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center. To schedule an appointment, you may contact khardin@ giveblood.org or log on to your Digital Donor account. The drive is in conjunction with Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Round Top.

There continues to be an exceptional need for both whole blood and plasma, so please consider giving the gift of life.

Carmine Cemetery Association

The Carmine Cemetery Association annual meeting will be held on Jan. 29 at approximately 11 a.m., following the Martin Luther Lutheran Church Sunday service. It will be held in the MLLC Mission and Ministry Building.

RT-C School News

Round Top-Carmine varsity Girls and Boys basketball teams play at McDade Jan. 10 at 5 p.m. They host Fayetteville on Jan. 13, also at 5 p.m.

Jr. High girls and boys host Buckholts Jan. 19 at 5.

Jan. 16 is a holiday for Martin Luther King Day.

Carmine VFD

Drill night for the Carmine Volunteer Fire Department is Jan. 12 at 7 p.m.

If you plan a controlled burn, call the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department at (979) 968-5856 to give them your name, location of burn, and telephone number. In Washington County, call their non-emergency number at (979) 277-7373.

Confirmation class meets Wednesday from 4:15-6:45 p.m.

Women of the ELCA meet Thursday at 1 p.m. for their general meeting, and Rebekah Group follows at 2 p.m.

Saturday worship with Holy Communion is at 6 p.m.

Sunday worship with Holy Communion is at 10 a.m. The service will be on the mllccarmine. com website. The Rev. David Tinker is the pastor.

The annual congregational meeting follows worship.

Domino Party is Monday at 1 p.m.

MLLC News Recycling Trailer

The recycling trailer is at the Carmine Hall on Thursdays from noon until 4 p.m.

Attendants are available to help unload dry newspapers, telephone books, magazines, cardboard, paper, junk mail, clean no. 1 and no. 2 food grade plastics (milk cartons should be separated from other plastic), all colors glass, steel food cans, and aluminum cans.

The trailer is in Ledbetter from 8:30-11 a.m., also on Thursdays, behind the Ledbetter Fireman’s Hall.

Visitors’ Center

Carmine Chamber of Commerce Visitors’ Center at the restored Train Depot is open on the second and fourth Fridays and Saturdays of the month from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Birthdays

Birthday wishes are extended to Michelle Pratt and Brayden Scheffer-Jan. 11; Colter Sipatk-13; Jennifer Mohr-14; Ron Mueller and Sheryl Pratt-15; and Terry Roemer-16.

Have News?

If you have news for the Carmine column, you may email me at w5ten@industryinet.com or call (979) 278-3645, or send it to P.O. Box 95, Carmine,TX 78932.