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MABANK–The Cedar Creek Republican Club heard from Henderson County Elections Administrator Paula Ludtke at their regular meeting May 26 at Vetoni’s Restaurant.
In her 17 years with Henderson County, the last year with the Election Administration, Ludtke has done it all when it comes to election season and was on hand to explain just what she does and how her and her colleagues work hard to maintain fairness and integrity to all ballot boxes for all voters.

CEDAR CREEK LAKE–Nancy and Mark Ball have been organizing a Memorial Day Parade and hot dog cookout in their Key Ranch neighborhood of Marimac for the past eight years. I would say it’s a golf cart parade but participants arrive in four-wheelers, side by sides, slingshots, antique cars, motorcycles or “any other modes of transportation you deem fit for the occasion.” Decorated with every form of red, white and blue décor imaginable, whistles, cowbells and other noisemakers are also encouraged.

Malakoff ISD Superintendent Don Layton (from left), the district’s seven school board members and a former trustee turn the dirt May 23 at the site of the new Malakoff High School, which voters approved as part of a $72 million bond package. School board and political action committee (PAC) members receive a commemorative paperweight noting the May 23 Malakoff High School groundbreaking. 

GUN BARREL CITY–Gun Barrel City Council approved the use of $80,000 out of the Hotel and Motel Fund for an Electric Fall Festival in November. The festival was the idea of Council Member Gary Lerew and Mistletoe Mania Owner and Event Planner Renee Weaver. Both Lerew and Weaver say the goal is to make the festival the equivalent of the Edom Art Festival and McKinney’s Arts in Bloom festival.