To the Editor: I have considered our pre-COVID life and our lifelong acceptance of sickness. Whether it’s sun and melanoma, tobacco and heart/lung disease, alcohol and liver complications, colds, flu, chicken pox, food poisoning, stomach virus, bladder infections and dozens of others smaller and greater.

To the Editor: Andy Behlen, please keep your instructive and interesting garden articles coming. I anticipate the newspaper just to read them.

To the editor: I want to clarify information printed in an article which appeared in the FCR’s July 21, 2020 edition, page B1, titled “Voting Amidst Coronavirus…”. The article, in part, concerned the July 14 Primary Run-Off elections in Fayette County.

To the Editor: We really enjoyed Jeff Wick’s column, Pandemic Road Trip: To Stay or To Go, in last Friday’s paper. It brought back great memories of the years of travels with our three children in our motor home.

To the Editor: On Wednesday, July 15 I called Monument Hill Rehabilitation and Nursing Center to see if I could bring some of my friends some baked goods. They told me yes, but I couldn’t come inside.

July 24-31, 1970 Trustees of the La Grange Independent School District accepted the bid of La Grange State Bank for five-year warranties to cover purchase of two new school buses, stiffened its policy with respect to the vaccination of schoolchildren and decided to re-advertise for bids on the house built by trades students of the Area Vocational High School. Board President Dr.

Margaret Atkins and Rhoda Gersch have set Aug. 22 and Sept. 26 for the first fall Quilt Block classes. Classes will be limited in size so that social distancing may be maintained, face masks will be required and hand sanitizer will be provided. The class will be held at Zilss Hall in Winchester and will start at 10 a.m. Registration is $50 per person and must be received prior to the class. All supplies will be provided. You are asked to bring a sack lunch and/or snacks, as the class will continue until 4 p.m. You can complete the registration form on the website, www.quiltblocktrail.com, or you may call Margaret at (979) 242- 3085 or Rhoda at (979) 242- 3213 for more information.

Over this weekend you might have noticed the amount of rain we have had due to Hurricane Hanna. The rainfall totals are around 1-2 inches of rain which is very much needed this time of year. Hanna is not an anomaly but is making waves as it is the eighth earliest named storm ever. This is setting us up for an extremely active season for storms in the Gulf as the ocean surface temperatures are ranging from 80 to 90 degrees, giving any systems that move through those very hot waters some extra energy to grow. On that note, there is tropical storm Gonzalo just off the coast of Venezuela that is tracking towards the Gulf Coast in a few weeks time.

July 3-7, 1970 The Fayette County Sheriff’s Department was investigating thefts at a Houstonian’s weekend place three miles north of Round Top. Three saddles, four bridles, an electric clock, a vacuum cleaner and a variety of tools were stolen from the Harold Schneider home and workshop.

My husband told me I couldn’t do it. I showed him or did I? We have a sink in our garage which has been very useful over the years.