Round Top Family Library to Host Beginners Mosaic Class
Round Top Family Library presents a mosaic class for beginners Saturday, Dec. 11 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 12 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Library Annex. Instructor, Stephanie Shroyer, will teach you how to create a wonderful piece of art of hang on your wall. Stephanie has 20 years of teaching mosaics. Thanks to a grant from the American Library Association for the Libraries Transforming Communities, participants will only pay a $50 supply fee. Please call or email the library by Dec. 9 if you would like to attend. Class size is limited to 10 people ages 18 and up. Lunch will be provided both days.
Christmas Tour of Homes
The Round Top Area Historical Society 2021 Christmas Tour of Homes is Saturday, Dec. 4 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased ahead of time Monday - Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Round Top Real Estate or the day of, at the Round Top Historical Society campus located at 399 E. Mill St. behind the Post Office. This year guests will tour four homes and two newly-opened businesses built in period structures. Each place will be magically decorated to get you into the Christmas spirit. Christmas Activities
Beginning at 4:30 p.m., enjoy more Christmas fun with live music, shopping and delicious treats. The lighted Christmas parade begins at 6:40 p.m. and will travel from FM 1457 to Main St., down Hwy. 237 to Bauer Rummel, up White Street, and back down Hwy. 237 to the staging area diagonal from Round Top Mercantile. A full visual of the tentative parade route is available at exploreroundtop.com.
Wreath Making at Winedale
Sunday, Dec. 5 come to Winedale for wreath making from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. These will be used for decorations at Christmas at Winedale, to be held the following weekend, Dec. 11. This will be a fun morning of food and fellowship. Contact Winedale at (979) 278-3530 for more information.
Carmine Christmas Fest
Also on Dec. 5, the Carmine Chamber will host a Christmas Fest from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Carmine Hall. Enjoy a ride on the Polar Express, take your picture with Santa, bid on silent auction items, grab a bowl of homemade beef stew or a hamburger and much more. To reserve stew, please call (979) 451-1507. For information on vendor booths, please call (979) 533-2904.
Soup Social
The Round Top Rifle Hall will ring in the holidays with a delicious homemade Soup Social on Monday, Dec. 6. Enjoy potato and vegetable beef soup for a free-will donation. Local musicians will provide lively German and holiday music. This will be the only Monday night social this month. Hamburger socials will resume Jan. 3.
Porch Concert
Round Top Family Library FYI is featuring a porch concert with the Red Barn Cross Louie Sellers and Craig Dinsmore Thursday, Dec. 9 from 5-7 p.m. Bring your own chair, drink, blanket and cooler or just come and enjoy the music under the stars. This is a free event.
Young Farmers Christmas Party
The Round Top-Carmine Young Farmers Christmas Party will be Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. at the Round Top Rifle Hall. This is open to members and guests.
Christmas at Winedale
Christmas at Winedale is set to be held on Saturday, Dec. 11 at 12 p.m. Come enjoy a 19th century Christmas with folklife demonstrations, crafts, music, theater performances, a petting zoo, food and drinks and more. This event is free and open to the public. Interested in volunteering? Contact tricia.blakistone@ austin.utexas.edu for more information.
Operation Christmas Child
Come get a shoebox. Operation Christmas Child boxes and information are available for pick-up from the Round Top Family Library. For more information contact Eric and Deborah Kolber at (281) 948-5081 or (281) 217-7762 or visit samaritanspurse.org.
Old-Time Christmas Caroling
The Shelby Area Historical Society’s evening of old-time Christmas caroling and silent auction will be held Sunday, Dec. 19 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the old church building on Skull Creek Road in Shelby (across from St. Paul Lutheran Church.) This is a wonderful evening of singing and fellowship with neighbors, family and friends. Refreshments will be served afterwards. You are welcome to bring your favorite dish to share. The old church does not have electricity so bring a flashlight and blankets if you’d like. There are no instruments, just pure voices singing together, celebrating the season. It’s quite magical.
Area Church Services
St. Martin’s Catholic Church in Warrenton holds service the second Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m. for the intentions left at the alter.
Round Top Christian Fellowship Church holds service at 10 a.m. For more information, please visit their website at www.roundtopchurch.org.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church holds services with Pastor John David Nedbalek Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Sewing circle will meet Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 9 a.m. The Adult Bible Study class has been cancelled for December. There are no scheduled midweek Advent services at either Bethlehem Lutheran Church or St. Paul Lutheran Church in Shelby. Instead, services will be held at Martin Luther Lutheran Church on Dec. 1, 8, and 15 at 7 p.m. A meal will be served at 6 p.m. The Christmas program will be held on Dec. 12 this year. Contact Stacy Eilers if your child would like to be a part of this year’s program. BLC will begin volunteering at Second chance Emporium, a resale store in La Grange serving all of Fayette County. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Sherry Pennington at (512) 626-5754.
The City of Refuge Church on 237 in Round Top holds bible study on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. followed by church service at 11 a.m. For more information visit their Facebook page at facebook.com/cityofrefugeHC.
St. Paul Lutheran Church in Shelby holds Worship service at 8 a.m., followed by fellowship, coffee, and Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Game day is the first and third Wednesday of each month at 2 p.m. Church Council will meet on Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. and Quilting will meet on Dec. 15 at 8:30 a.m.
Round Top Family Library
Round Top Family Library is open Monday-Friday from 1:30-5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Arts After School is held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-5 p.m. for 4th – 6thgrades.
The After School Kids Garden Jr. Master Gardener meets Wednesdays from 3:30-5 p.m. for 4th – 6th grades.
Chess Club for adults and children ages 7 and up meets on Wednesdays from 3:40-4:45 p.m. This club includes free Chess instruction.
For more information about the library, call (979) 249-2700, or visit ilovetoread.org.
Weekly Fitness Dance Class
A weekly fitness dance class, Refit Revolution (similar to Zumba), that meets on Tuesday nights from 6:30-7:15 p.m. at Goodnight Round Top. Please bring water, your own towel and hand weights for extra workout. $5 per class or $30 for a 10-class punch card. Goodnight Round Top is located at 10900 Mayer Cemetery Rd.
Historical Society Museum
The Round Top Area Historical Society Museum would like to invite you to learn the rich colorful history of Round Top, Texas. The museum is located at 397 E. Mill St. in Round Top, behind the Round Top Post Office. The museum is open free of charge to the public on the second Saturday of each month from 1-4 p.m. For more information visit www.RTAHS.com or call (979) 249.5058.
Birthdays
Happy birthday wishes go out to Fritz Schoenst - Dec. 3; Carolyn Bruening - Dec. 4; Amy Bone, Kim Taylor, Suzanne Morehead - 5; Jessica Jasek - 6; Bonnie Dube - 7; Marie Voelkel - 8.
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