Dave Weishuhn, President of Round Top State Bank is presenting a $1,000 donation to Kristi Glasper, Executive Director of CASA. CASA serves as advocates on behalf of abused and neglected children in Bastrop, Fayette & Lee County to improve their lives.

This article will be a simpler one than the previous weeks, but something that I bet all of you have been wondering; Where do cold fronts come from? As I informed y’all in a previous article the movement of fronts is just the way the atmosphere tries to equalize pressure in the atmosphere. There cannot be a cold front without there also being a warm front in the area. As of the publishing of this article, we are in a warm front, even if it does not feel so warm, so that the cold front on Wednesday night can give us some cooler weather. This upcoming cold front is coming from northwest Canada and is being moved down here by the upper air movement of the jet stream. The jet stream is high in the upper atmosphere around 6-12 miles above the ground that moves at speeds of 150 mph. The Jet Stream moves the lower atmosphere the same way that if you run your hand through tall grass. If you hit the top of the grass the top moves drastically, but as you go farther and farther down the blade of grass right near the bottom it barely moves compared to the top of the blade of grass. This is a good example as the grass is connected from top to bottom as one blade of grass and the atmosphere is connected by the friction between the air molecules. So the upper atmosphere is moving very fast but at the ground it’s just a fraction of the speed of the upper atmosphere.

Benjamin Joseph Newton, of La Grange, was recently named to the University of Mississippi’s Fall 2020 Honor Roll lists. Newton was named to the Chancellor’s Honor Roll, which is reserved for students who earn a semester GPA of 3.75- 4.00.

Dec. 25-29, 1970 The La Grange Leopard reserves salvaged half of a twin bill at Somerville Tuesday night by winning a close 56-54 decision.

No Paper Friday There will be no Fayette County Record published this Friday. We always skip one issue annually closest to Christmas.

Local legendary K9 officer Lobos recently spent a week in Texas A&M’s veterinary hospital after having been diagnosed with cancer. Lobos gained national acclaim for the hundreds of millions of dollars in drugs he sniffed out along Interstate-10 in Fayette County overs the years before he retired in 2018 and was replaced by the county’s new drug dog – Kolt.

The St. Rose of Lima Catholic School 7th & 8th grade Drama Club presented “Visions of Sugarplums” by Anne Coulter Martens for their Christmas performance on Wednesday, December 16. The play tells the tale of the Benson family, who in the whirlwind of holiday preparations almost forgets what Christmas is all about. Thanks to a visit from their Aunt Vinnie and a children’s Christmas pageant they are reminded of the reason for the season. The students rehearsed after school twice a week to bring the characters and storyline to life. The group is looking forward to planning their spring performance.

David Husmann, who coached Schulenburg to back-to-back state titles in 1991 and 1992 died Friday at South Austin Medical Center from complications of COVID-19 his family has confirmed. Husmann was 67.

Friday morning Father Brian Phillips went to help “Cindy Snowflake” drop of the stockings to the residents of Jefferson Place. Sacred Heart School students stuffed the stockings with the items sent by their families to share holiday cheer.

There was no Christmas Miracle for the treasuries of area cities, but La Grange did at least hit the $2 million mark for sales tax revenue from the state as the year of Covid-19 ended. In November, it looked like it might not.