Members of the Lake Cypress Springs Baptist Church are having a brisket fund-raiser event on Saturday, April 3 at the church located at 6611 FM 115 next to Vinyard’s in Scroggins.

The City of Mount Vernon’s Second Quarter Clean-up will begin Saturday, April 3, and continue Monday through Saturday, April 5-10.  County clean-up efforts coincide with that of the city’s. For more details, see the April 1 edition of the Optic-Herald.

Keira Brodigan leads the pack with her tongue hanging in exhaustion during the Rainbow Connection Trikeathon on Friday, March 26 at the daycare center at the First United Methodist Church.

Chamber members and other supporters are urged to purchase tickets for the banquet no later than Monday, April 5.