AUSTIN (AP) After missing eight months of birthdays, anniversaries, births and deaths, 760 soldiers in the National Guard 49th Armored Division were recognized Saturday for helping keep the peace in war-torn Bosnia. The Texas troops and their families attended the party at Camp Mabry. The 49th, the first guard unit since the Korean War to lead active duty troops overseas, returned from their mission in October. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who visited Bosnia during Easter, was among the dignitaries in attendance.
Temple Elk Lodge 138 hosted its first Fireman and Policeman of the Year Award Banquet on Saturday night.The banquet was a way for the lodge, which is already involved in several different types of charity work, to honor the hard work of Roy Pitrucha of the Temple Police and Clint Baker of the Temple Fire Department.During the banquet the two men were presented with a plaque and a steak dinner, cooked by the lodge