Roscoe Swimming Pool Opens Friday

Summer is for swimming.

Kids will be happy to know that the Roscoe Swimming Pool is scheduled to open for the summer this Friday, June 4.

Like last year, the pool is open Tuesday through Sunday, but the hours are slightly different. This year’s hours are 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Price of admission is $2.00 per day.

The pool may be rented for private parties beginning at or after 5:00pm. The fee is $80 for two hours, $120 for three, and $130 for four, all with a $40 deposit. The price includes an approved licensed lifeguard.

For reservations or additional details, contact Pool Manager Inez Leanas at 325-829-9066.

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2021 HOMECOMING CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

Hey! All you Roscoe High School Alumni!

This is the Big Homecoming Year!!
It is set for the weekend of September 24, 2021.

If you would like to help with the festivities this year, please let me know as we are in the process of setting an organizational meeting in the near future.

You don’t have to live in Roscoe to help. There are things you can do. We must verify addresses, and there are other tasks as well.

If you are interested in helping to update your class or several classes, please contact me, and we will email you a list.

Also, we are in desperate need of graduates and addresses from exes from the 2000 decade. For some reason we don’t have those in our database.

Thanks everyone, and please share this call with other RHS alumni!

Connie Baize
cubaize@yahoo.com
Or text to 325-338-1287

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VIRTUAL VIDEO TOUR FEATURES SCHOOL PROGRAMS

This new virtual video from RCISD school personnel features highlights of the educational innovations of our school district, which are being used as inspirations for other rural school districts in upgrading their own educational systems. It is 9:57 minutes long.  

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PLOWGIRLS DO WELL AT HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTOUT

(Basketball photos by Tique Hamilton)

Three Plowgirl teams, the varsity, junior varsity, and freshmen, participated in the High School Girls’ Basketball Shootout at Roscoe this past weekend, and all did well. 

The varsity girls went 4-1, which bodes well for next year’s team success, and the younger Plowgirl teams got some good experience competing with the other schools. The shootout was a feature of Roscoe Collegiate’s summer basketball camp.

Summer league play started yesterday. 

Summer basketball camp has had a big turnout.

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ROSCOE POLICE DEPARTMENT ALERT

Attention, Roscoe! We have some thieves working our area. They are going around stealing things from yards and garages with late night hits. Keep safe and call in anything suspicious. Phone 325-235-5471.

Felix Pantoja
Roscoe Police Chief

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AMERICAN LEGION HONORS VETS ON MEMORIAL DAY

(Memorial Day photos by Jodi Kingston)

They say that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays postal workers from their appointed rounds, and the same might be said of Roscoe’s American Legion members who performed their Memorial Day ceremonies despite the rain that fell on Monday.

In addition to the 7:00am flag-raising ceremony at American Legion Post 227, they then placed 364 flags on veterans’ graves at the Roscoe Cemetery. At noon, they raised the flag at the Legion to full mast, and that afternoon they picked up all the flags on graves before lowering the flag back at the Legion Hall.

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WEATHER REPORT: ANOTHER BIG RAIN

There's a puddle at every cross street on East Broadway.

The frogs have been croaking for the third time in the past five weeks, as the Roscoe area got another big rain on Monday. At first, I thought it might miss us. The forecasters had given us 50%-60% chances of showers for the weekend, and a big cloud that hit Snyder with a downpour was headed right for us early Sunday morning but then dissipated just as it reached the Roscoe area. This does happen on occasion, especially for fronts coming at the area from the northwest.

But then, early Monday morning at about 4:30, a thunderstorm from the west passed over Roscoe, and this one dumped a substantial amount on us. When I checked my rain gauge at 7:30am, I had almost an inch and a half. Then the rain fell intermittently during the day, and by evening I had a total of 3.66”. Some people got less, others more. The range seemed to be about 2½ to 4½ inches depending on location.

So, the rain gods have been good to us recently, breaking up what was the beginning of a drought. By my calculations, Roscoe got about 7 inches total in May, and when you add that to the 5.3” we got the last week of April, we’ve received about a foot of rain in the past five weeks, which is more than some entire years we’ve endured in the past.

As a result, we don’t need any more rain for a while, and farmers are now looking for some sunshine to dry out the ground enough for them to get into the fields to plant.

If we do get more rain in the coming week, it will most likely be today or tomorrow. This morning at 8:30 it rained again for about ten minutes and then sprinkled a while after that. I checked and had about .15" in my rain gauge. But it has stopped since then, so maybe that's the end of it for now.

 

The weathermen, however, are giving us a 40% chance of rain today and 50% tonight, and a 40% chance tomorrow. After that, the chances drop to about 25% every day until next Wednesday.

Temperatures will remain mild and skies cloudy to mostly cloudy for the next few days. Daily highs will be right at 80°F through Monday and lows in the low sixties. Winds will also be mild and from the east or southeast. So, the outlook is a nice one if Mother Nature will just ease up a bit on the rain for a while.

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