The Fayette County Retired Teachers Association (FCRTA) met on June 8 at Robert’s Steakhouse in Flatonia. The meeting was called to order by Co-President Peggy Halamicek at 1:28 p.m. Twenty-five members were present including three new members.

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La Grange girls athletic director Ryan O’Neal, his wife Tiffany, and their four kids took The Fayette County Record along on their visit to a number of historic American sites over the July 4th weekend, including Virginia’s Historic Triangle formed by the Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg and Yorktown. Shown above is the family at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown. To the right they are shown at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home.

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In the Round Top Parade Saturday, the historic wagon representing the Smith-McMillan Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was pulled by Wagon Master Ricky Lowe and Indian George of Hempstead and their beautiful Belgian draft horses. DAR members riding in the wagon and dressed in Revolutionary era attire included Carolyn Caflisch, Laurie Patterson, Marie Watts, and two multi-generational family members of DAR members. One was Jackie Head with her son Derek and his wife Kayli Head, who’s also a chapter member, and their 3 year old daughter, Holly Head. The other was Sherry Hebert and her eight-year-old granddaughter, Claire Stewart, who is the daughter of Rebecca and Forrest Stewart. A wide variety of candy and America 250 promotional items such as slap and wrist bracelets, white pearl beads, assorted red-white-blue beads, colorful cylinders of bubbles, rubber duckies and squeeze balls, patriotic sunglasses, and more were tossed to revelers along the entire parade route with just enough remaining to toss to the revelers on the final stretch through the pasture behind the Rifle Hall.

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Farmers Lumber Company held a grand re-openeing celebration last Thursday for their historic storefront at 150 N. Jackson St.

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