March 2022

The Van Zandt Master Gardeners will resume their free learning series to the public with the first educational class to be held at the Van Zandt County Library from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 24. The topic will be ‘Preparing Your Spring and Summer Garden.’

The Canton Trail Riders Annual Open Rodeo will be held Thursday, March 31 through Saturday, April 2 at the Zeke Burns Arena in Canton. The rodeos will begin at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 per car for entry to the fairgrounds, or a $1 per walk in, and an additional $5 per person for the rodeo with children under 3 free. Tickers are also available online at cantonopenrodeo.com.

I20 Improvements (Van Zandt, Smith, and Gregg counties) Limits: SH 19 in Canton E to MLK Blvd. in Longview Contractor: Sefbo Pipeline Bridge, Inc.

Ann Marie (Pawelka) Collier was born Jan. 2, 1948, in Poteet, Texas, to Rudolph Pawelka and Anna Fric Pawelka. Ann Marie passed peacefully at home March 4, 2022, in Lockhart, with her daughter and granddaughter holding her hands.

Maurine Newton, 72, of West Covina, California, has passed away. She was the daughter of Lola Fay Bates and Zane Eugene Heitsche.

Nancy Charles Buchanan, 93, of Canton, passed away on Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Wills Point. She was born on July 21, 1928, in Abilene, to parents John Charles Crowley and Nila Nance Crowley..

Services for Annie Mae Alphin Burrow, 96, of Grand Saline, were held 1 p.m., Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at Bartley Funeral Home. Interment was in Creagleville Cemetery.

Ronald Lee Sanford was born to Milton and Flora Sanford in Troup, Texas, on July 20, 1940, and passed into the pearly gates of Heaven on March 14, 2022, at his home in Canton with his wife and four children by his side.

The Van Zandt County Republican Club will host a film screening of “The Mind Polluters” at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 24, at the Van Zandt County Farm Bureau, 220 Burnett Trail, Canton. “This is a timely and informative meeting on what we as a society are facing.

The Neches River Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution had its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, March 10, in Canton. Sherrie Archer, Chapter Regent, presided. The meeting featured news of many applications for new members to the chapter by Chapter Registrar Carrie Woolverton, and news on upcoming state and national DAR meetings coming up, by Ms. Archer.