By Kathy Thomson
Everyone is invited to attend next Monday’s public performance of The 39 Steps, the one-act play Albany High School students will take to district competition next week.
The free production will be given at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 2, in the AHS auditorium.
The cast has been rehearsing for weeks and already performed at a one-act play festival.
By Melinda L. Lucas
The Old Jail Art Center will celebrate International Kite Month with a first ever Kites Around the World Family Festival on Saturday, March 7.
The free event will kick off the week of Spring Break on Saturday, March 7, and will be held in the Stasney center along with other parts of the museum from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m.
OJAC staff members invite local families to come and bring visitors for an hour or two of cultural crafts, games, food, and music inspired by kite festivals around the world.
By Kathy Thomson
Children at Nancy Smith Elementary School will join others around the nation observing Read Across America Day next Monday, March 2.
Read Across America Day was inaugurated in 1998 by the National Education Association, and is held every year in early March.
By Kathy Thomson
The season of Lent began on Feb. 26, Ash Wednesday, and at least two local churches have special activities during the weeks leading up to Easter, which will be cele-brated on April 12.
Trinity Lutheran Church members will host a Lent service at 7:00 p.m. each Wednesday evening until Holy Week.
The services will be preceded by a soup and sandwich meal served at 6:00 p.m. Desserts are also served.
Everyone in the community is welcome to attend.
By Kathy Thomson
Albany siblings Newt and Alayna Koemel have both developed a passion for meat, not just eating it, but spending hours in cold lockers learning about meat science, competing on meat judging teams, and pursing a college degree and future career in the field.
Newt recently placed as the fifth alternate on the Texas Tech meat judging team that won the National Championship in Dakota City, Nebraska.
By Kathy Thomson
Various Shackelford County 4-H and FFA members showed project animals at the San Angelo Stock Show and at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo last week, and local students are still competing with market steers and market barrows at San Antonio this week.
Upcoming “majors” include the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in March, and Rodeo Austin, also in March.
Conner Clark was seventh in Class 46, Medium Wool Junior Market Lambs at San Antonio, and qualified for the premium sale.
By Kathy Thomson
Sixteen Albany students are registered for an academic invitational practice meet at Stamford this Saturday, Feb. 22, but according to UIL coordinator Rick Davis, the actual number who can go and compete may be a few less.
“We have 16 kids going to Stamford with 46 individual contest entries,” said Davis. “I am afraid some of those kids will have a conflict with softball that they did not realize when they signed up.”
By Kathy Thomson
First Baptist Church youth minister Campbell Terry has invited everyone to come to The Feed Store to eat lunch at a summer camp fundraiser this Sunday, Feb. 23 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.
Meal tickets are $20 each for adults, and are available from campers. Tickets will also be sold at the door.
Children up to sixth grade can eat for free.
By Kathy Thomson
Seven local Little Dribblers teams continued their season, playing two games each in the old Albany High School gym last Saturday, Feb. 15.
The next set of matches will take place this Saturday, Feb. 22, starting at 8:30 a.m. with a match between the Boys’ Blue and Grey teams. The first game of the day for the girls will be at 9:30 a.m. between Purple and Turquoise.
Results from the second week of play on Saturday, Feb. 15 are listed below.
BOYS
Blue 31 - Gray 21
By Melinda L. Lucas
About 30 local residents of all ages attended a no-cost self-defense clinic Feb. 8 with a chance to continue training as part of a newly formed local organization.
Self-defense and jujitsu classes are now available through a new local branch of the American Jujitsu Institute, a national non-profit, according to Blake Picquet, who is organizing the group.
