2025 Lometa Diamondback Jubilee & Rodeo
The Lometa Diamondback Jubilee went off without a hitch. Many folks from far and wide set up their booths of bobbles for the Jubilee goers of the weekend. Food trucks left the scents of fried everything for miles around. One food truck had some phenomenal birria tacos. Yum!
As Nevaeh and Dakota walked around, they met a ton of interesting people. One man, whose name was briefly mentioned, was down by the rattlesnakes selling — you’ll never guess — taxidermy rattlesnakes! There were big snakes and small snakes, rattle earrings and rattle key chains, snake walking canes and snake belts, and the man himself wore a cowboy hat decorated in rattlesnake heads — a rattler tail even fell from the back! During the festivities, the 13th annual Diamondback Rodeo was in full affect. Horses and their Cowboys rode through the arena to team rope calves. They did an amazing job! The Fort Cavazos Calvary Band played loud and proud at the beginning of the afternoon. Two men shredded down on the guitars. Bystanders and music lovers dropped their jaws at their musical talent. When the day was over, Dakota left with a cherry red nose, and Nevaeh fell asleep in the truck ride back to the Radio Station. |
Radiogram 30 Year Anniversary!
Some 30 years ago, as I went about my chores as the local radio station licensee, I searched for an idea. "What we need," I figured. "is something to remind people that we are the local heralder of the day, with all about the town that would do telling, etc."
I couldn't afford a billboard sign like the Austin stastions, but it finally came to me that many years before, a former owner tried, but gave up on the idea of a small news sheet. So-o, I took a sheet of yellow paper and mimicked the shape of a local Western Union Telegram, and the Radiogram was born. -RW |
2024 Squared Silly
2024 Spring Ho Festival
2024 Spring Ho's Street Dance was HUGE, for more people than expected showed up. Rough estimates of the crowd, according to Mandy Johnson of the Spring Ho Committee, would be (probably) 6000 or so. Once the fire marshal's maximum capacity for the roped'n part of the square was reached, they had to remove barriers so that the crowed could expand along the streets. Treaty Oak Revival sure has a lot of fans!
The parade was longer than in has been since the Covid pandemic. There were 150 parade entries and the route was almost 2 miles long. Spring Ho was a grand 'ol time! The community gathered together to share experiences and have a blast. That's something everybody loves! |