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*****Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park is planning a free, G-rated family-friendly film showing of Oliver! on Saturday night, July 26 (rain date, Sunday, July 27). They are commemorating the Johnson family movie nights on the LBJ Ranch by showing a film they actually watched in the ranch airplane hangar in the 1960’s. Just as the Johnsons did, they are inviting everyone in our local communities to come out to the ranch with their picnic suppers and enjoy a beautiful evening under the starry sky while watching the Best Picture of the Year of 1968. The park will provide free popcorn, soft drinks and bottled water. Viewers should also bring lawn chairs, blankets or pallets for the kiddos, and flashlights. The movie will be presented on a giant 26 foot screen with professional digital sound by the Austin-based outdoor movie company, Blue Moon Cinemas. Oliver! won five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Music-Score, Best Sound, and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. Vehicles should enter at LBJ State Park and Historic Site, one mile east of Stonewall and 14 miles west of Johnson City. National park rangers will be on hand to direct traffic onto the LBJ Ranch. Parking will be on the ranch airstrip, a short walk from the movie screen.

*****June Dahmann and Cynthia Smith went shopping, had lunch and went to a movie in Austin on Tuesday, an early birthday celebration for Cynthia. Guess which movie?

*****Pearl Hedlund’s grandson, Charles, just got home from the hospital in Fredericksburg. He had his tonsils removed on the 16th and is doing well. Hurry and heal, Charles!

*****Monday’s have become the day for a group of women from JC to hit the bowling alley in Marble Falls. They have a great time bowling, visiting, and eating together. They are Sharon Riddell, Cindy Sultemeier, Joan Winters, Beverly Voron, Patty Carpenter, Helen Jones, and Susie Birck. They meet Agnes Haley, Caral Wilhite, and two of Agnes’ sisters, Ruth and Margie and her niece, Linda. What a riot to watch some of them!! Agnes bowled a 219 last week. Go Agnes! They were pleasantly surprised with a visit from Lou Holland who is back in Marble Falls after living 14 years in Mexico.

*****Taylor Buck and the 10 U Explosion softball team played in a tournament in San Antonio at Lady Bird Johnson Park. Saturday they won all 4 games by 10 runs or more. They played again on Sunday winning 3 games in a row for the undefeated championship of the tournament. The received lots of nice prizes. What a huge win for the Explosions!

*****Jerry Ann Buck and Jerry Casparis, Rhonda Stell, Jerry Cade and his friend, Cora Byars, Sherry Stueler, Delores and Bobby Fenton, Kemp Elliott and Missy Fenton and several more from Johnson City bused to Coushatta Casino in Kinder, Louisiana on Sunday, July 20.

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*****Mary Ann Bearden spent Monday with Haley and Taylor Buck swimming in their pool while mom & granddad were in Louisiana.

*****Kecia Hunt and Pat Dildine met their cousin Len Cooper of Somerset on Saturday at the Alamo Café in San Antonio to celebrate all three of their birthdays. For the older ladies it was one of those “O” birthdays. We won’t say which one!

*****Faye Lechow took her grandsons Journey and Jordan Gonsoulin to Sea World on Wednesday, July 16. They were joined by Sandra Gass, Connor Smith, Cheyenne Liesmann, Laura Farmer and her son Kevin, Sherry Hawkins, James Wittkohl and friend Jason. Can you believe the kids actually talked Fay, Sherry and Sandra into riding the “Journey to Atlantis”?

*****Get well wishes to Rochelle Pemberton who is having surgery at an Austin hospital on Thursday, July 24th.

*****Your North Blanco Emergency Services meeting will be held on July 28th at the Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department. Emergency entities will be submitting their budget in order for the ESD board to set the tax rate. The public is welcome to any of their meetings.

*****Our condolences to the family of M. B. Smith of Round Mountain. He was an important part of Blanco County all of his life. Sherry and Yvonne and family, you have our utmost sympathy.

*****After Fay Paulas of Nome, Texas, spent a few days in Johnson City, her sister, Gertrude Whittington, drove her home to Nome and returned the visit.

*****Have you met the new manager at Dairy Queen? Stop by and see her. She looks very familiar.

*****You might be a Johnson City native if you remember when Agnes Stevenson’s Beauty Salon was in the restored bank building on Main Street.

*****Happy Birthday wishes to: July 29th – Rilee Moser, Leland Corley, Louise Baker, Brandi Brussell, Sallye Baker, Regan Weirich, and Rosalie Joehnk; July 30th – Joshua Vasquez and Maxine Sultemeier; July 31st – Jason Crawford, Luke Whittington, and Mary Ledbetter; August 1st – Mary Moreland and Kyle Moreland; August 2nd – Susie Kneese, Joe Casparis, Pat Rumpf, Tammy Metcalf, Jayne Sparkman, and Joshua McKennis; August 3rd – Vera Liesmann; and August 4th – Tommy Batchelor, Max Ebeling, Ralph Ebeling, Ray Kunkel, Kenny Moore, Louise Gravenor, David Moreland and Chris Stokes.

*****Anniversary congratulations to Randy and Katherine Rutherford on July 29th; to Craig and Carrie Stark on August 1st; to T. C. and Stella Bruns on August 2nd; to Ray and Rayette Bible and Bryan and Tressy Gumbert on August 3rd; and to Todd and Jane Neely on August 4th.

*****Tip for the week: Here are the five uses for cornstarch: 1) Slide rubber gloves on and off by sprinkling inside gloves before you put them on so they won’t stick. 2) Freshen your feet by shaking a bit into socks to absorb moisture and help prevent blisters. 3) Get cooking grease off a wall by putting on a cloth and rubbing the spot until the mark is gone. 4) Squelch a squeaky floor by sprinkling a little between the boards to quiet it down. 5) Detangle a knot by rubbing some into stubborn knots in shoelaces, string, chain necklaces, etc.