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Ennis City Commissioners will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, December 6, at 6pm at City Hall at 107 N. Sherman Street. They meet on the first and third Tuesday of each month inside the City Commission Chambers, which has seating for approximately fifty. The public is invited.

The Lights of Ennis Parade, Block Party and Christmas Market rang in December on Thursday evening starting at 5 p.m. with an anxious crowd happily ready to enjoy the festivities in downtown Ennis.

Christmas trees are often the pièce de résistance of holiday decor. Few things draw the attention of holiday guests quite like an aweinspiring Christmas tree, especially when that tree maintains its fresh, healthy sheen throughout December.

Waxahachie’s St. Mark the Evangelist Anglican Church is excited to welcome organist Stefan Engels, head of the Organ Department at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, and to invite the community to enjoy his talents. Engels will be playing for St. Mark’s during Advent, beginning with the service of Holy Communion at noon Sunday, Nov. 27. St. Mark’s is a mission work of the Reformed Episcopal Church (recus.org), currently meeting at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 301 US-287 Bypass.

December is chocked full of events for all ages

I have mentioned Evelyn Goble in this column many times before. I met her when I was first with the Ennis Daily News back around 2003. She was then in her 90s and in an assisted living facility in town. She seemed somewhat confused at times but her memory was strong and her desire to be a help to me was great and much appreciated. Evelyn’s father was J. P. Sims, a former mayor of Ennis, and her elder sister, Emma Jean Sims, was treasurer for this newspaper in the 1930s and ‘40s, possibly earlier. Evelyn herself had had a career which she didn’t start until she was over 50, working as a bookkeeper for Ennis Business Forms from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Members of the Ennis Firefighters Association, along with a support from local businesses, successfully completed their fourth annual coat drive to benefit local early-childhood through sixth grade students.

Free winter musical set for Dec. 6

A Yuletide offering at the Ennis Public Theatre, 113 N. Dallas, is busily rehearsing for opening Friday, Dec. 2.

Small Business Saturday shopping set for Nov. 26