Thanksgiving Day has the highest occurence of home fires of the year. Cooking fires can be avoided by ensuring all cooking projects, whether on the stovetop or the in the oven, are attended. Alexandria Randolph | dispatch record

Hanna Springs Elementary School counselor Carisa Brown snaps a photo of Sandra Ceballos and Victoria Garza. Ceballos received a pumpkin pie for making the long trip from Piedras Negras, Mexico, for Thursday’s Grandparents’ Day at the campus. erick Mitchell | dispatch record

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These Lampasas FFA members competed well in Kerrville, bringing home four banners from the area competition. COURTESY PHOTO

FILE PHOTOT Daecee Ellis showed the grand champion market goat at last year’s Lometa FFA Livestock Show. Banners will be awarded to multiple exhibitors this year as they prepare for the major shows.

November Payments to Area Cities Burnet up 15% $362,308 Copperas Cove down 1% $668,902 Evant up 24% $9,191 Gatesville up 8% $272,601 Goldthwaite up 9% $55,135 Hamilton down 1% $82,080 Kempner up 48% $21,775 Lampasas up 2% $259,072 Lometa up 16% $10,267 Marble Falls up 28% $1,595,592 San Saba down 4% $61,850 For most cities in the surrounding counties, November was a good month in terms of sales tax collections, as the gains were solid and the few percentage declines were slim. DISPATCH RECORD GRAPHIC