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responders. Bottom Line: Sun City’s hams Place during the school year; Treats Army Corps of Engineers with Goodwater
are on the air and standing by to help! and Toiletries for Troops, which shipped Loop upkeep, painted trail markers at
nonperishable foods and personal items to Inks Lake for the Texas Parks and
- Authors Don Parrish & Bob Frost are active military from Williamson County, Wildlife, and contributed to multiple
both FCC-licensed ham radio operators and creating a focused drive to collect toys preservation and trail development
and current SCARS officers for older children for the Georgetown projects for Williamson County. The
Police Department’s Blue Santa program. club’s recent charitable donations include
SOLOS CARE Solos is proud of its members for taking funding the purchase of trail maintenance
the lead, going beyond socialization to tools and interpretive signage for the
Since 2009, members of Solos Chartered enhance our lives as well as the lives of Burnet-based nonprofit Friends of Inks
Club have come together through Solos others. Lake. Our volunteers participate in Public
Care to take on charitable projects for local Lands Day projects, meet monthly at the
causes, provide manpower for donation - Karen Livingston, Solos Care Chairman Estrella Oaks Care Center to walk with
collections and ensure intended recipients residents and routinely carry bags to pick
are reached. Our very first collection in HIKING CLUB up trash wherever they happen to be.
2009 was for toilet paper! We learned Finally, six members of the Hiking Club
that The Caring Place needed toilet paper, We are privileged to live in an area with are certified the by Williamson County
which is not covered by assistance to low- an abundance of natural resources, and Conservation Foundation to provide
income families. Did our members ever the Sun City Hiking Club is proud to aid Leave No Trace training, and have
respond! We delivered an entire pickup in the preservation and promotion of those taught hundreds of Sun City residents
load of toilet paper. More recent efforts resources. In addition to developing and to be stewards of the land.
have included Breakfast in a Box, which maintaining the Bonita Loop of Sun City’s
provided breakfast items to The Caring Tranquility Trail, we have assisted the
Solos President Marla Forrest and Solos Care members Richard Liardon and Bill Ramsey unload school supplies donated
for needy Georgetown students.
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