Looks like a couple of strangers rode into town this week. Gracie Johnson and Sarah Fischer had their picture taken last Friday with a Texas Longhorn in front of the Old Frontier store on their way to the Giddings high school football game. Good picture Girls. 

Little Cooper “Bronc” Mitchel has picked a horse to go riding with his dad. Cooper will be celebrating his first birthday this September with family and friends here in Paige. His proud parents are B.J. and Melissa Mitchel, grandparents Billy and Linda Mitchel, Lester Barton and the late Rosie Martinez and great-grandmother Lupe Martinez.

Community Center Founders Day

The Paige Founders Day celebration will be on Sept. 11, at the Paige Community Center.

The ladies from the Bastrop Extension Office (EE Club) will have a moonwalk and games for the children. Please bring the kids out for a good time with family and friends and visit our museum here in Paige too. The Paige 4-H will be selling cold bottled water and soda’s.

The Live Music will be inside, because of the heat. There will be outside booths and the museum will be open at 10 am 

The barbecue starts at 11:30 a.m. and will be served until they run out. The fixings will feature homemade noodles by Lillie Mae Voight, beans by Betty Light and potato salad by Eleanor Berger. Yummy.

The Paige 4-H will also be selling Raffle Tickets for a queen size quilt on the front Porch.

Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5.

The reunion of Paige students is held in connection with Paige Founders Day each year. We hope to have a lot of our Paige students show up. They are asking  the ladies in town to bring cakes or cookies for the dinner. 

Volunteer Fire Department Gives warning

Chief Troy Kunkle want the residents of Paige to remember to be very cautious about your fires. Sunday afternoon they had a 9-acre grass fire in the area. Please make sure your fire’s are put out, It’s very dry now with the heat and no rain – so if you think you put it out, just for the heck of it make sure, so the volunteer fire department won’t be at your place at supper time.

Crackers for Vets.

Kate Johnson, owner of the Old Frontier, has offered the store as a drop off in Paige for crackers for veterans. Bring your donation so Brenda Potter or Pat Abell can pick them up.

A little history of Crackers for Vets

Brenda Potter and Pat Abell met with Sid Hull, the Volunteer Coordinator at the Austin VA Outpatient Clinic on Montopolis Rd awhile back. Hull told them of a special need the clinic had: Many of the veterans arriving there are homeless or have gotten up early to travel to the clinic and arrive without eating. Hull asked if we could provide crackers in the individual packs such as cheese and peanut butter. Our volunteers took on that challenge and are making this project a major success. Brenda and Pat will personally make all the deliveries.

Paige Dates to Remember

Oct. 9, Paige Volunteer Fire Department fifteenth annual benefit, 4 p.m.

Oct. 9, Sons of Herman ‘Make a Difference’ fundraiser, starts at 7 a.m.

Thought

More than an end to all war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
- Franklin Roosevelt