The UIL Academics teams brought home the district championship this year. Students who placed first, second or third in any contest qualified for regionals, to be held in Lubbock April 22-23.

BADGER CUTS & CLAWS PROGRAM LAMPASAS HIGH SCHOOL Two Lampasas High School seniors passed their state board exams March 23 to become licensed cosmetologists. Megan Caddies and Bella Guerra are enrolled in the high school’s cosmetology program, part of the Career and Technical Education offerings.

TROY UNIVERSITY Crystal Nunez of Lampasas has been named to the Chancellor’s List at Troy University in Alabama for Term 3 of the 2021-2022 academic year. The Chancellor’s List honors full-time undergraduate students who are registered for at least 12 semester hours and earn a grade-point average of 4.0.

The Lampasas River Watershed Partnership, in collaboration with Texas AgriLife Extension Service, will offer a Lone Star Healthy Streams Workshop April 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lampasas County Office Building conference room, 409 S. Pecan St. in Lampasas.

Lampasas County residents are invited to join the newly formed Kempner Extension Education Association Club. The group will meet on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m.

As its name implies, the Diamondback Jubilee began more than 50 years ago as a community event dedicated to rounding up rattlesnakes. It has developed into a popular festival that draws several thousand visitors to Lometa on the last Saturday of March for what is now a several-day celebration and rodeo.

Jovahn McCarrel brought home the trophy for mutton bustin’ in the Friday night competition at the Diamondback Jubilee Rodeo. COURTESY PHOTO.

Harley Brooks was the Saturday night winner of the youth mutton bustin’ competition. The event preceded the Diamondback Rodeo activities at the Bar 3 Arena in Lometa.

It all started with a trip to South Dakota. Lampasas residents Bob and Mary Howell spent their summer as volunteers at the D.C.

Area coordinator Cathy Scribner, with the Samaritan’s Purse-Operation Christmas Child project, thanked 18 Mid-Texas area attendees at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Event. The appreciation event took place March 19 at Immanuel Baptist Church in Temple.