For the Record

Greater Vision Team School is a Christian homeschool co-op that offers science, history, geography, writing, P.E. and electives to children ages newborn to 8th grade, and science, writing and personal finance for highschool age. The co-op meets every Tuesday at Camp Lutherhill in La Grange for 12 weeks each Fall and Spring semester. Families can join for the academic classes in the morning, the elective classes in the afternoon, or both. The fall welcome meeting will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 4 in the meeting room of the Fayette Public Library, from 5:307:30 p.m. Check them out on Facebook or call Brianne Bernsen at (979) 966-9672 for more information.

Third Local Entity Mulls Partnership With ICE

The Schulenburg City Council were scheduled to meet in executive session Monday night, Aug. 3, to consider a participation agreement between the Schulenburg Police Department and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency through the 287(g) program.

Downtown LG Updates

A few other items of interest came out of last Tuesday’s public workshop meeting over the Downtown La Grange revitalization grant. During the conversation at the meeting last Tuesday, La Grange Main Street Manager Caleb Parks spoke about the City’s public parking lot just off the Square at the corner of S.

Sacrifice of the Altar

After the Hostyn church was destroyed by a gas explosion five years ago, Bob Stanzel of La Grange was asked by some parishioners if he could use his carpentry skills to turn some wood of the nearby damaged trees into bowls for a church auction. “Well Father Eddie (Winkler) sees a bowl and, you know, he’s got these ideas,” laughed Stanzel.
Father Eddie Winkler, left, chats with Bob Stanzel, right, as they examine the altar Stanzel is building for the new Hostyn Catholic Church. Photos by Jeff Wick

Early German-Texas Art Talk Coming Up at Library

“Brushstrokes of South Central Texas & Beyond: German Immigrant Artists and the Shaping of Early Texas Art,” presented by Jon Todd Koenig is next in the speaker series sponsored by the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives. The public is invited to this program at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, August 13th in the meeting room of the Fayette Public Library in La Grange.
Jon Todd Koenig

Flatonia Baptist Team Shares Faith Through Germany Sports Camp

Penny and Steven McFarlin, Lora Cherry and I were among 32 mission team members from the Flatonia Baptist Church to head to Germany. We traveled to Bunde, Germany, to put on a baseball and cheer camp. It was a wonderful trip where our host homes took us to some German attractions before we got down to the work of baseball and cheer camp.
Members of the Flatonia Baptist Church traveled to Germany on a mission trip. Here’s a picture of the whole group.
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