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COLUMBUS –The Colorado County commissioners met in regular session Jan. 23.

February is Black History Month, and The Citizen wants to highlight untold stories of local Black History makers and influential members of the community. Do you have photographs and/ or oral history you’d like to see featured for Black History Month? Please contact Citizen Reporter Shayla Kuykendall with your suggestions by FEB. 10 at shayla.kuykendall@ coloradocountycitizen. com, or call 979-732-2304.

EAGLE LAKE – Members of the Eagle Lake Chamber of Commerce and their guests gathered at the Community Center to not only celebrate but to prepare for a new economic partnership.

EAGLE LAKE – Long hours under grueling conditions by city crews helped minimize a public-safety emergency during last week’s torrential downpour, which also spawned a tornado.

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WEIMAR – The Weimar VFW Auxiliary Post 5875 honored nurses with 100 dozen cookies on Jan. 25.

LAGRANGE – The Red Door Fund for Mental Health is encouraging the community to paint their homes, businesses, classrooms or the fronts of their driveway red to show support for mental health this February.

LIONS CLUB WELCOMES NEW MEMBER

The McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La. has announced the Honor Roll for the 2022 fall semester. The honor roll lists undergraduate students earning at least a 3.0 or B average while carrying 12 or more semester hours. A local student on the list is Macee Krpec of Nada.

WEIMAR – The Schulenburg/Weimar area of Parents as Teachers is hosting its annual fundraiser to give a “hats off” to the community for supporting the organization for more than 20 years.

The Cards’ swim team will continue their season at the Feb. 9 UIL State Meet prelims in San Antonio after strong outings at the Regional meet. The relay team of Rayce Johnson, Cade Neumann, Justin Strauss and Colby Williams qualified for state in the 200-yard (fifth place) and 400-yard freestyle relay (eighth place), and also in the 200-yard medley (sixth place). Rayce also qualified in the 50-yard freestyle with a seventh-place finish. Pictured from left to right is Justin Strauss, Colby Williams, Rayce Johnson, Cade Neumann and Coach Paula Swindle.

The Columbus soccer team is riding high after last week’s 5-0 win over Hallettsville on Monday and Saturday afternoon’s 2-1 win at home against Palacios. Javier Mendoza had a goal and two assists against the Brahmas. One assist went to Rafael Gonzalez, and the other went to standout freshman Jesus Mendoza who scored two goals. Tomas Elias assisted Javier on the goal and scored one of his own as well.

The Cards have not been able to avoid close games in recent weeks as last week they completed their third game in a row with a one possession margin of victory, and their second game in a row that reached an overtime period. Columbus has found a way to pick up wins in each of those games including against Yoakum at home Tuesday night. The close games continued to end the week as the Cards faced last year’s district winners in a game that came down to the wire and tightened the district title race.

Both the girls’ and boys’ golf teams for Columbus had to deal with some chilly conditions in their respective tournaments last week. The Cards took on the Rattler Invitational Tournament on Monday, Jan. 23 and the Lady Cards followed with a Wednesday trip to Navasota. Despite the cold temperatures, both teams came away with strong results as they combined for several sub-100 scores. Their performances were reflected in the overall team standings as well. The Lady Cards finished in second place as a team while the Cards finished in the top half of the overall standings.

Sophomore Carson Wray opened the golf season with a strong performance during the fall.