Carmine Lions Club will meet Tuesday, June 14, at The Carmine VFD Annex Building with the meal beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by the meeting. New members will be installed. Pork steaks, potatoes and a vegetable mix left from the 50th anniversary celebration will be served for the meal.

Jon Walker Ballard graduated Summa Cum Laude from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in three years, and completed all his flight courses and certifications in Prescott, Ariz. Jon is the son of Michael and Lynn Ballard and the grandson of Jon and Maxine Ballard of La Grange. He is exploring job opportunities as a certified flight instructor of a medical transport company. His ultimate desire is to become a commercial airline pilot or fly freight and pilot for UPS or Fed Ex.

A Honor Roll 3rd Grade Charli Hadaway Kirtley Kallus Zach Kocian Brooklyn Pool Mary Streiff 4th Grade Tabitha Smith Annabelle Zoch 5th Grade Abby Cernosek Lyla Cowen Kenlie Kallus 6th Grade Malee Kleiber Madison Markwardt Allyson Queen Gold Outstanding Academic Excellence Madison Markwardt Silver Outstanding Academic Achievement Malee Kleiber A & B HONOR ROLL 3rd Grade Cody Cernosek Giah Garcia Henry Gross Leah Gulash Sam Janacek Maddox Kleiber Taylyn Newton Kacie Nichols Emma Wilkerson 4th Grade Adalyn Bishop Hannah Garza Audrey Jackson Fallon Wallace 5th Grade Eliana Anzaldua Lilly Bell Makenna Emmel Aiden Harbers Lyria Hartley 6th Grade Morgan Bertsch Dylan Henneke.

VVA Chapter 870 recently awarded a scholarship to Madison Daniels, the granddaughter of C.W. Leonard of Schulenburg. Pictured here is Madison receiving the Award from her grandfather C.W. Leonard. She is a graduate of Kilgore High School in Kilgore and now majoring in graphic design at Kilgore Junior College.

La Grange Mayor Jan Dockery proclaimed June 14 as Flag Day in La Grange. KJZT Family Life Society No. 31 accepted the proclamation. National Flag Day honors the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as our national symbol by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. In 1885, an official Flag Day to commemorate this was suggested by a Wisconsin teacher, but it was not until 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson officially decreed June 14 to be a day to celebrate Old Glory.

The Fayette County Country Music Club will host their monthly Opry on Monday, June 20 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in La Grange. The show starts at 7 p.m. and the doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Admission is $7.

Megan Mauro, Manager of Government Affairs at Texas Association of Business was the featured speaker last week at La Grange Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly lunch and learn event at the Fayette County ag building. Mauro spoke about the Texas Association of Business’ role in protecting Texas’ pro-business climate. Photos by Jeff Wick

The Juneteenth Committee is pleased to announce the final schedule of events for the weekend of June 17-19. Events will be held at the Randolph Recreation Center, 653 E. Pearl St., La Grange, unless otherwise noted. Please visit www.juneteenthtexas.org for more information.

Fayette County Judge Joe Weber has proclaimed June 14 as Flag Day in the county. KJZT Family Life Society No.

Last Wednesday, June 8, was the first event for the summer reading program at the Fayette Public Library. Entitled “Science Tellers: Pirates Lost at Sea,” this event was a pirate-themed storytime narrated by a science educator with various experiments mixed in throughout to highlight important plot points.