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The Pleasant Hill - Rocky Community Club will host its annual benefit dinner Saturday, the opening day of deer season, for residents, community friends, and visiting hunters. Serving will begin at 5:00 p.m. and continue until 8:30 p.m. or food runs out. Meals are by donation.

The clubhouse, the historic Pleasant Hill – Rocky schoolhouse on CR 205 (Rocky Road) at U.S. 290 West, has been the scene of a Smorgasbord fund-raiser every year but two since 1958, when members of the Pleasant Hill – Rocky Home Demonstration Club decided on a charity project. In 1985 and 1986, the club tried a chili-and-bean supper and a spaghetti dinner but then decided to return to the more popular Smorgasbord with its traditional home-cooked fare.

Funds raised are used to help support the North Blanco County EMS, the Blanco and Johnson City libraries, the Johnson City and Stonewall volunteer fire departments, the Blanco County Youth Council, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the Hill Country Memorial Hospital Wellness Center, Older Adult Rural Services of Blanco County, and other such groups.

For more information, contact James Sultemeier, president (868-7323); Dorothy Uecker, vice president (868-7585); or Milton Hawkins, secretary/treasurer (868-9075).