November 2024

Annual Community Thanksgiving lunch to be hosted for 40th year at HPU

Area residents and visitors are invited to attend the 40th annual Community Thanksgiving Feast at Howard Payne University, to be held on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The event will take place at HPU’s Mabee University Center, located at 1219 Fisk Street in Brownwood. North Lake Community Church in May will lead and coordinate the event. 

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BROWNWOOD COMMUNITY GARDEN OPERATIONS REPORT

 Fall arrived over a month ago, so by October we could have been  sipping on hot apple cider while wrapped up in warm, cozy sweaters. Those days will eventually come, but this year October weather was nearly perfect for growing our vegetables - no cold front(s) to take out the fall crops we planted when sweat was already dripping from our foreheads by 7:00 a.m. as those seeds were going into the ground. Plus, many of our spring plants are waking up from the nap they took when the blazing hot summer temperatures left them with little strength to produce their crops.

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