The La Grange High School Class of 1980 recently held their 45th Class Reunion. Back row: Mark Friedel, Ralph Frerichs, Nelson Darden, Kenneth Ebel, Frank Moellenberndt, Don Huelsebusch, Doug Vanek, Jeff Cook, Gary Roensch, Ray Palla, Mike Kovar, Charles Bippert, Jon Quinn; Middle Row: Horatio Valdez, Gloria Koopmann Debault, Susan Kappler McMahon, John Lindemann, Wendy Norsworthy Spear; Front Row: Phyllis Cernoch Chavarria, Wendy Ullrich McDaniel, Sherry Weber Jaster, Nancy Gore Bippert, Tammy Rogers Mozisek, Lisa Brandt Primrose, Anne Kappler Seidensticker, not shown Linda Weishuhn Luce.

Last week Fayette County Judge Dan Mueller announced that he had sent a letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) calling for them and state regulators to hold a public hearing over proposed changes to pollution discharge limits at the Fayette Power Project.

Before La Grange photographer Diane Mueller’s solo show and Artist’s Reception, the AC cooling system at the Live Oak Art Center in Columbus quit working last week, so the event is being postponed until Thursday, October 30 from 6-8 p.m.

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The Rose mobile mammography bus was at Tejas Health Care in La Grange on Tuesday, Oct. 7, to offer free breast cancer screenings for uninsured women. Tejas Health Care will host another screening event at their clinic in Giddings on Dec. 9.

This month the Fayette County Country Music Club Opry is proud to host a gospel show with D’Vine Testament, Mary LouAnderle, and Wayne Beseda on Monday, Oct. 20 at the La Grange Knights of Columbus hall. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m. Admission is $8.

Presley’s Power appreciates the La Grange Noon Lions, Bluebonnet Lions, Evening Lions and Leo Club for the amazing snack drive donation that was received the end of September. The snacks donated will be delivered to Dell Children’s Oncology.

Church bells tolled when the Constitution was signed by all the delegates in 1787. The Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR, initiated this observance in 1956 when they petitioned the US Congress to dedicate Sept. 17-23 of each year to the commemoration of Constitution Week. Congress adopted the resolution, and on Aug. 2, 1956, President Dwight D Eisenhower signed it into Public Law #915. This ceremony is called Bells Across America.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of Fayette County is conducting a soil, water, and hay testing campaign from Oct. 7-28. This program is being held in conjunction with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of Fayette County, Fayette County Commissioner’s Court, and the Fayette County Groundwater Conservation District.

It was the Summer of ’59 and my brothers and I were staying with our grandparents, helping to bring in a late season cotton crop. We were near the tiny community of Pin Oak, just across the Fayette/Bastrop County line. After a long day in the field, we were standing on a neighbor’s driveway where my Grandfather Andy was telling a story. Facing south, toward a dry Spaulding Branch, he pointed southeast to a nearby tree-covered hill. “There is where the old Spaulding homestead was located--where as boys my brother Robert and I would play among the fallen cedar logs,” he said. “You could still see where the gun ports were hand cut into the old logs.” It would be almost forty years before I would climb that hill for myself to search for the old cabin/blockhouse site. The land had changed much since my grandfather told that story. Trees had been cleared and in their place were metal towers. The soil had been turned by plow, but I knew the story.