There’s a lot going on Veterans Day. The Fayetteville ISD Veterans Day Parade is honoring all who served. Veterans meet at the town square at 8 a.m. this Saturday. FISD Superintendent Dr. Jeff Harvey and Technology Director Mr. Ray Brother, former Marine and retired Air Force, will lead veterans from the town square to the school for the parade.

Don’t forget to register for the 7th annual Round Top Turkey Trot held Thanksgiving morning at 8 a.m. Choose from a 10k, 5k, or kid’s 1-mile fun run and support the Round Top Lions Club while you’re at it. Register online at athleteguild. com.

Lighted Christmas Parade Not to step on the Turkey’s toes, but a little Christmas news for you – Round Top’s Annual Lighted Christmas Parade is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 2. Enjoy a lighted float parade, food, drinks, live music, and shopping around the town.

Live and Local

Mark and Sherry Hebert are seen in front of the Barcelona Lighthouse on Lake Erie at Westfield, New York. Highlights of their recent trip were visiting her mother’s remaining relatives in Dunkirk and Sheridan, New York, spending time at Lake Chautauqua, Jamestown, and Buffalo, New York as well as the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and the scenic Niagara-On-The-Lake in Ontario.

In this monthly series, local realtor Andrea Schutter Riebeling does a Q & A with local business leaders about what inspires them. This month’s interview is with Libby Schmidt of Libby’s Kitchen and Studio of Round Top.

Ere’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria reopened for business on Friday November 3, 2023, and was welcomed back into our community by Deokie Ramlochan, Chair of the La Grange Area Chamber of Commerce who visited to show support from the Chamber representing the business community.

Visar Halilaj, the owner of Ere’s was in a serious motorcycle accident on Thursday June 29. He has suffered many injuries and endured multiple surgeries and is still in the hospital. The restaurant in downtown La Grange had been closed since the accident.

Quilts will be hung all around downtown Smithville, but especially on Main St. at the town’s annual Airing of the Quilts Event from 10 a.m.

Margaret Atkins, Pat Karisch, and Rhoda Gersch completed two days of classes at the International Quilt Festival held this last week in Houston. They taught two eight-hour classes with 30 attendees from all over the United States. The ladies returned, tired, but excited to have been able to share the idea of quilt block painting with people from other states as well as different areas of Texas.

The Round Top-Carmine classes of 1965 to 1968 held a combined class reunion on Oct. 14 at the Shelby Fireman’s Hall in Shelby. A barbecue meal of pork steaks and all the trimmings was prepared by Gary Goebel.

M Stray Gathering Cowboy Church held a Turkey Shoot the last weekend in October. It was a beautiful day for a shoot and everyone who came out enjoyed the fellowship and the sunny weather.

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