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   Angels Care Home Health Provides Helpful Tips for Protecting Your Heart and Preventing Heart Disease
   Our heart is a powerful organ that constantly works, never pausing to rest. 
   Having a healthy heart gives us more energy, helps our organs function better, keeps our bodies stronger, and ultimately helps us live longer. 
   The better care we take of our heart, the more physically and emotionally happy we will be now and in the future.
   The reality is that people young and old develop heart disease. As we get older, however, we become more susceptible to suffering from heart disease. There are some risk factors that are in our control and if you have them and choose not to attempt to control them, you are more likely to develop heart disease and have a heart attack.

   Bay City Community Development Coproration (BCCDC) hosted a luncheon debuting their free grant writer Michelle Leight, Nov. 8. 
   “We’re really excited to have Michelle on hand to provide these free services to our community,” said BCCDC Executive Director Jessica Russell. 
   Leight is an independent grant writer and owner of Leight Consulting Services, LLC. 
   Leight’s offering all of her services to Bay City nonprofits, community organizations and Bay City ISD staff including: donor research, grant calendar management, grant administration and reporting, strategic planning, database management, program design and program evaluation. 

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   The First United Methodist Church (FUMC) of Bay City and Bay City Police Department are partnering up for a county-wide food drive and distribution event from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at the church. 
   Dates to sign up for a box are: 

•     From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 28, during the FUMC Thanksgiving Feast 
•     From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, at FUMC 

   “ID is required to fill out registration forms and everyone must fill out a new registration form,” said FUMC Reverend Wade Floyd. 
   The deadline for donations is Tuesday, Dec. 17 so that the boxes can be sorted and packed the following Wednesday. 

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   Exploring waters and waterways by paddle craft can prove to be an immensely enjoyable approach to meeting a variety of objectives. 
   The alluring possibilities include, but are not limited to, wildlife observation, fitness, fishing, adventure racing, exploration, along with relaxing solitude and/or social interaction. 
   When kayak camping, everything one requires in order for overnighting along an isolated shore must be carried in, and on, their smallish, Eskimo-style watercraft. 
   So, the Matagorda County Birding Nature Center (MCBNC) has scheduled a workshop designed to equip outdoors enthusiasts with the extensive know-how needed to comfortably and safely enjoy overnight excursions to remote and/or primitive waterfront locations adventurously accessed by kayak. The topics to be covered, in depth, include:
Thoughtful selecting gear, clothing, kayaks, food, campsites and companions.

   District Judge Craig Estlinbaum recently announced that he won’t run again.
   “Earlier today I told my staff and I am now making it public that I will not seek reelection to a sixth term in the 2020 election,” Estlinbaum said in a statement posted on his Facebook page Nov. 6.
   “I look forward to completing my current term, then, Lord willing, moving on in 2021 to the next chapter and to whatever the future holds for my family and me.
   “Thank you to all who have supported me, encouraged me, prayed for me and voted for me these two decades. 
   “I am forever grateful for the trust and confidence you have placed in me.
   “My family was actively involved in reaching this decision and they support me in it 100%.
   “Thank you for this great honor and for the opportunity to serve.”  

   The Master Gardener Program is a premier and banner programming opportunity offered through Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service for residents to have the opportunity to become trained in multiple facets of horticulture and be a resource person within their county or community.  
   With regard to Master Gardener training, the “horticulture” reference is meant generically. Master Gardeners will be trained in a myriad of topic areas ranging from soils and composting, to landscape and vegetable to, working with civic groups and individuals.  
   Once trained, certified Master Gardeners will assist the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office with all thing’s horticulture in educational efforts within the county.  
   I have received a very large number of calls inquiring about a Master Gardener program in Matagorda County.  

   City Council backed off a plan to implement parallel parking on certain stretches of Texas 60 and Texas 35 downtown after a determined outcry from merchants near or on the courthouse square at council’s regular meeting Tuesday, Nov. 5.
   County Judge Nate McDonald addressed council at the first of its meeting and asked if the new state law that permits comments on agenda items would allow him to speak later.
   While the city’s parallel parking proposal – presented by City Manager Richard Morton – didn’t include any of the courthouse square or nearby angle parking on 6th Street and Avenue G, five business owners told council that any parallel parking would be bad for business.

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   Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Troopers investigated a fatal vehicle collision northeast of Blessing on Texas 35 Monday.
   The preliminary information indicates that a southbound 2017 Chevrolet Silverado traveled into the northbound lane of Texas 35, striking a 2016 Jeep Cherokee head-on at about 12:05 p.m. Monday.
   Jessica Surritt, 36, of Blessing, was identified as the driver of the Chevrolet, DPS reported. 
   Matagorada County EMS transported her to Matagorda Regional Medical Center in Bay City. 
   Surritt was pronounced (at the hospital) by MRMC staff, reports show.

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