Everyone is invited to attend this Sunday’s public performance of The Fourth Ward, the one-act play Albany High School students will take to district competition next week.
The free production will be given at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 3, in the AHS auditorium.
The cast has been rehearsing for weeks and already performed at a one-act play festival earlier this month.
Shackelford County commissioners voted during their regular meeting on Monday, Feb. 25 to move forward with plans to utilize clients from the Walker-Sayle Unit in Breckenridge for special assignments.
Earlier in the month, the elected officials delayed action in order to evaluate costs of initiating the program.
Information about 15-passenger vans, cost of insurance, and options for furnishing porta-potties were all discussed during Monday’s session.
Pick-up dates for the March distribution of the commodity food program are Feb. 28 and March 1.
On Thursday, Feb. 28, certified eligible families in Moran should pick up their monthly commodity food at the Moran City Hall between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon.
Albany families who have been certified eligible for the March food distribution program can pick up their commodity food Friday, March 1, at the rear door of the JP office (the former county jail) from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Chamber manager Mary Beth Jones, three Albany High School juniors, and their mentor Chris Beard are still asking for ideas for a community service project that the students, Tyler Beard, Brayden Sullivan, and Taylor Scott, can complete over the next several months.
About 356 households are currently signed up for the City of Albany emergency call out system, and although 88 percent of those were successfully reached during a test of the One Call Now system that took place on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 20, city call out system coordinator Chuck Sheppard would like to see those numbers improve.
Several local youth placed well at the San Antonio livestock show this month, including Albany Junior High student Gracie Price, who exhibited the reserve grand champion Maine-Anjou heifer at the junior breeding heifer show, and freshman Chelsy Parsons, who won the medium weight Hampshire division of the junior market barrow show.
Price won class 1, Maine-Anjou heifers, and then led Gracie Girl 15 back into the ring to be named Champion Maine-Anjou heifer calf. The weanling, born last May, was then selected as the breed’s reserve grand champion heifer.
Shackelford County rancher John Matthews will turn 100 on March 9, and a musical recital performed by both local talent and the North Texas Caledonian Pipes & Drums will be held at the Aztec Theater at 7:00 p.m. this Saturday, March 2 in honor of the occasion.
Tickets to the free performancewere all given away before the end of the first day, according to pianist Sandy Abel.
Albany High School students were the top journalism team and came close to winning the overall title at the Stamford Cotton Classic Academic Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 23.
“I was very pleased that we were second team overall – only 11 points behind the leader, Guthrie,” said local UIL coordinator Rick Davis.
Schools participating in the practice meet last weekend were Albany, Aspermont, Lueders/Avoca, Guthrie, Hamlin, Haskell, Rule, and the host school.
Davis noted that Albany competitors have made progress over the last few weeks.
Sophomores Sidney Bartee and Tristan Edgar both earned Division 1 ratings at the UIL Region 6 East Zone Band Solo and Ensemble competition held at Abilene High on Saturday, Feb. 23.
Bartee played Etude by Concone on the tuba, and Edgar performed Andante and Bourree by Handel on the alto saxophone.
Both students were accompanied by Sandy Abel on the piano.
“They both did a good job and I was really pleased with them,” said director John Stockdale. “The judges thanked them for being so well prepared!”
Ash Wednesday is next week, and at least two Albany churches will have special services that evening.
Trinity Lutheran Church will hold a service at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6.
Jesus of Nazareth Catholic Church has Mass scheduled for 5:45 p.m. on Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday is observed 46 days before Easter Sunday and is the beginning of the Lenten season.
Lent is a time of reflection, focusing on repentance for sins, and remembering the suffering Christ endured to win forgiveness and salvation for all believers.
