The Fayette County Firefighter’s Association reports the following calls for the week of Jan. 14-20: Medical - 3 Accidents - 4 Structure Fire - 1 Fire Alarms - 3 Gas Leak/Odor - 1 Electrical Fire - 1 Grass Fire - 1 Smoke Report - 1

Game Warden Shaun Bayless along with the Fayetteville Volunteer Fire Department rescued a man who capsized a boat on Cummins Creek Wednesday. Bayless said he received a call around 1:50 p.m.

A wet weather pattern developed across the eastern half of Texas last Sunday, when a large trough of low pressure from the Pacific pushed inland and stalled over the desert Southwest. The wind flowing through the trough has allowed a series of small disturbances to track around the trough and northeast across Mexico, then across Texas. The first of these disturbances arrived Sunday night, causing widespread soaking rains over an area generally along and east of Interstate 35.

In response to some information from Progressive Health Group published in the Jan. 19 Record about their attempt to acquire the closed La Grange hospital, St. Mark’s Medical Center Board Chair Dudley Piland provides this response: “St.Mark’sisgladthatPHG (Progressive Health Group) is still interested in acquiring the hospital. After all, we have the same goal to return some level of hospital services to our community. With that being said, several of the statements made by PHG’s Mark Hallman in the January 19 edition of the Fayette County Record need to be put into context.

Schulenburg Police Chief Troy Brenek reports on the following incidents his department responded to during the week of Jan. 7-13.

Texas Ramp Project The Texas Ramp Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit that provides free wheelchair ramps to low-income older adults and people with disabilities identified by local health care providers. Ramps are built exclusively with volunteer labor, keeping costs to a minimum and are built without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, age, or gender.

Join the Red Door Fund for Mental Health in building stronger, safer, and more vibrant communities where every door is a gateway to hope and support. In 2021, this heartfelt initiative, motivated by a four-year-old artist’s innocent creation, came to life with the establishment of The Red Door Fund for Mental Health, a program of the Fayette Community Foundation.

An unusual weather pattern passed over Fayette County early this week, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places from Monday through Wednesday (according to LCRA Hydromet, 12.03 inches fell at the power plant in La Grange and 10.91 at their station north of La Grange). The relatively warm, wet weather came less than a week after an arctic blast dropped temperatures here into the teens.

Schulenburg native and international businessman Carman Kobza attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. He was there to promote LadyBWell, a breast cancer education and prevention program he launched in India about 10 years ago.