About 1,800-2,100 children and youth are reported as missing from foster care in any given year according to an annual report from the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). In many cases, “missing” in reality means that they have run away. Running away from foster care puts youth at risk of many dangers, including abduction, physical harm, exploitation, homelessness, substance use and more.

Navidad Valley Community Connections (NVCC) Senior Center in Schulenburg has a full calendar for the month of October and is hard at work on the November calendar as the holiday season approaches. Speakers for the month are lined up, but are always looking for more topics to cover and any businesses or individual may approach NVCC with an interesting topic, to introduce yourself and your business to the elders, tell members about your product and how you contribute to the community, and what brought you to the Schulenburg and Fayette County area.

Baby Shower Kelly Evans was honored recently with a baby shower for the upcoming arrival of daughter Ellie. It was a nice little gathering of family and friends who wanted to help Kelly and get her ready for the arrival of her first daughter.

The Bluff Schuetzen Verein, a German shooting club, was organized in the late 1860s by Heinrich L. Kreische, best known as the builder and brewmaster of the Kreische Brewery, which was operated from circa 1860 to 1884. Having been a stonemason before his brewing endeavors, he built a number of homes, stone bridges and commercial buildings in the area, as well as the second courthouse and an early jail.