News 

The annual Valentine’s Concert and Bybee Library Reception is Saturday, Feb. 10. The 2 p.m. concert supports the Festival Institute’s Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Library and Study Center. Tickets can be purchased online at www.festivalhill.org or by calling the Festival office at (979) 249-3129.

Weekend Events 

The next Game Day at Holy Cross will be held on Thursday, Feb. 15 from noon-2 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Lunch is served and bingo, dominoes and other games are enjoyed by all. Everyone is welcome to attend.

FLHS Spring Raffle 

St. Paul in Fayetteville will host a pancake supper on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 13. This event is open to the public and will benefit the Fayetteville Volunteer Fire Department. The dinner will be from 5:30-7 p.m. at the church, 201 N. Rusk in Fayetteville. All you can eat pancakes, sausages and beverages will be served.

SLM Lenten Services 

The four churches in Shared Lutheran Ministry will each take turns hosting the Wednesday Lenten Services.

The AMEN Food Pantry continued to be very busy in the month of January. Three hundred and thirty families were served for the month for a total of 1,013 individuals. A total of 135 volunteers for 290 hours served the pantry. A total of 5,204 pounds of food were donated. When comparing to 2019, five years ago, the pantry served 174 families for a total of 504 individuals, as noted the volume has almost doubled in five years.

The mobile food pantry at Waldeck was cancelled on Jan. 16 due to inclement weather conditions.

Fayette County animal expert and rancher Ralph Fisher was again in Bee Cave outside Austin on Groundhog Day (Feb. 2) with his armadillos for the annual Texas version of the weather-prediction-byanimal party. Since 2010 Fisher has been providing an armadillo for a festivities, which has grown into one of the biggest Groundhog Day events this side of Pennsylvania. This year the groundhog in Punxsutawney, PA, predicted an early spring as did Fisher’s armadillo.