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The Empty Bowls project is the largest fundraiser for the Dripping Springs Helping Hands food pantry. It accounts for more than 60% of their annual budget and, according to their website, the rising cost of food, housing, utilities, transportation and healthcare has left many in our area to make impossible choices. Two-thirds of their clients say they have to choose between buying food and paying for housing and 80 percent say they have to choose between food and medicine. The pantry, which is 100 percent volunteer, is currently serving over 100 households each week. For more information about this important, well-organized event that benefits our neighbors, go to helpinghands-drippingsprings. org.

The Little Sisters of Hoboken are back on The Wimberley Players stage to bring you Nuncrackers, the Christmas themed sequel in the Nunsense series written by Dan Goggins, opening on Nov. 17 and running weekends through Dec. 10.

Nov. 9

The Wimberley High School Texans (9-0) went to Austin to take on the Austin Achieve Polar Bears (2-7) Friday night. With a perfect regular season on the line The Texans didn’t play around for a second going up 42-0 at the end of the first quarter and taking the game 70-6 at the final horn finishing the season 10-0.

After a more than impressive season, the Wimberley Lady Texans found themselves 2nd in district with a 32-7 record good enough to give them a first round playoff game at home against the Gonzales Lady Apaches on Monday night.

With the holidays now on the horizon, police are urging people to be on their guard for the type of attempted theft that occurred in Hays County on Oct. 26.

The ghost, ghouls and goblins have headed back into their seasonal slumber but not before they swarmed across Wimberley. There were events across town all of Halloween weekend and into last week celebrating with children and adults alike donning the best costumes around. Many local organizations participated in Boo! Hole at Blue Hole on Saturday before every costumed creature in the valley showed up to the Wimberley Square on Tuesday, Oct. 31 for Halloween.

Demolition is nearly complete on the old clubhouse at the Woodcreek golf course to make way for a new event center. Purchased in April by Joe and Jennifer Gambino of Phoenix, the course is now called the Double J Ranch Golf Club. It was previously named Quicksand at Woodcreek Golf Club, although ownership had changed multiple times since it was built in 1973.

Halloween in Wimberley got underway last weekend with the Haunted Pioneer Town and Train Ride of Terror. A production of the Wimberley Players and 7A Ranch, the two-evening event raised goosebumps as actors portrayed resident ghosts in the streets, the shops, the graveyard, the chapel, and other locations throughout the Western-themed village. The town’s newly operational 12-gauge railroad provided visitors with a hairraising trip as ghoulish apparitions appeared along the route.

Today, pumpkins are a sign of fall and the coming holidays, and no thanksgiving table is complete without a pumpkin pie. But pumpkins have not always been associated with Thanksgiving.