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COLUMBUS – A project by the Texas Department of Transportation to install curb ramps, sidewalks and pedestrian elements on U.S. 90 from FM 806 to Front Street starts Jan. 9.

(Columbus) According to an excerpt taken from the minutes of Commissioner’s Court, Colorado County, Texas, regular meeting on February 12, 1973, a group of sixth-grade students at Columbus Elementary School students, along with their teacher Mrs. Peggy Justice, appeared before the Commissioner’s Court of Colorado County and made the following presentation to the court: Bobby Estrada – “The reading classes at Columbus Elementary School are asking your permission to bury a “Time Capsule” here on the Courthouse lawn. We would like for it to belong to the elementary school children of the year 2023 and that it be unearthed when Columbus celebrates 200 years.”

A small crew of about six adults and a few children were working on making the final touches to their set up for the Soup for Souls annual toy drive when the winds kicked in and the temperature began to drop rapidly. While the wind and cold weather may have stopped some families from making the trip to the host house near Glidden Baptist Church, Edward Pavlicek and the rest of the donors and volunteers fought through the elements to hand out and deliver soup and presents to the families in Columbus.

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