Texas 4-H Congress will take place at the State Capitol July 17-20. This four-day mock legislative experience allows 4-H members in grades 9-12 to assume the roles of legislators, lobbyists and press corps to gain a firsthand understanding of how the legislative process works in Texas.

Texas Ranch Sales, LLC officials were in town recently to celebrate a ribbon-cutting for the local office. Chamber members and others on hand for the event were, from left, Myles Haider, Melissa Unger, Texas Ranch Sales Marketing Director Austi Garrett, Teresa Thornton, Texas Ranch Sales Associate Alexis Thompson, Tasha Bates, Texas Ranch Sales Director of Operations/Office Manager Janelle Charles, Chief Operations Officer/Associate Broker Dave Wilcox, Sami Saucedo, Jason Pfaltzgraff and John Thompson, holding daughter Riley.

Lampasas FFA members Clayton Shaw, left, and Zechariah Randall attended a Range Management Youth Range Workshop June 19-24 at the Texas Tech campus in Junction. The workshop included sessions on range management, plant identification, soil science, wildlife management and fire ecology. Shaw and Randall were named honorary ramrods for their cabins.

Lampasas High School graduate returned from a recent mission trip to Kenya with a new perspective on the power of God’s love. Morgann Schroeder, a 2018 LHS graduate, traveled with a missionary group to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, to spend a little over five weeks developing a network of believers in what she described as a shortterm mission trip. A

After most Spring Ho festival activities have wrapped up this weekend, residents and visitors to Lampasas can round out the activities with a visit to East Second Street and Western Avenue. From 1-4 p.m., the Lampasas Heritage Foundation will host its "West(ern) Side Story" celebration at 404 E.

The Lampasas Police Department celebrated the graduation of three cadets from the Central Texas College Police Academy on June 24. Jameson Varnado, John Resa and Brandon English, three Lampasans, are newly licensed police officers.

The Lampasas Fire Department paid tribute to the late Donnell Rathman with this flag hung over North Avenue during his funeral procession to Oak Hill Cemetery. Rathman had spent 73 years as a volunteer firefighter in the community.COURTESY PHOTO

CLASS OF 1972 The Lampasas High School Class of 1972 will celebrate its 50-year reunion on July 8 from 6-9 p.m. at Putters & Gutters Fun Center, 2341 South U.S.

The Lampasas Public Library has rescheduled Reptile Day after a cancellation of the special event in June. The library will play host to slithery and scaly critters during a rescheduled visit from Tim Cole of Austin Reptile Service on July 12 from 10-11 a.m.

clarion university of pennsylvania Madison LaFrance of Kempner graduated with a master’s in education: early-childhood concentration during May commencement ceremonies at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Howard Payne University Howard Payne University in Brownwood recently held Commencement Exercises, conferring degrees on 144 graduates.