Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Bosque County will be hosting a private applicators pesticide training on Friday, July 14, located at 104 South Fuller in Meridian. Registration will begin at 8:15 a.m.

The Meridian Public Library invites parents, guardians, and children to its summer reading program. For children ages 3 and up, the program runs every Tuesday morning from 10 a.m.

The Bosque County 4-H will host five day-long summer camps at the Bosque County Extension Office each Wednesday in July, from 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

The featured speaker for the Bosque County Genealogical and Historical Society’s July Program was Dr. Stephen Sloan, Executive Director of the Oral History Association, Director of the Institute for Oral History and Professor of History at Baylor University.

Communities around Texas will be meeting to discuss internet connectivity in their regions. The conversations at these regional meetings will help the Texas Broadband Development Office (BDO) better understand the needs of communities and shape the development of the Texas Digital Opportunity Plan — which will focus on ensuring that all Texas residents have the skills, technology and capacity needed to reap the full benefits of our digital economy.

Brady Taylor, chief meteorologist for KWTX Channel 10 Waco, will be guest speaker Sunday, July 16, at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Clifton, during the meeting hosted by Bosque River Valley Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

“Hey Flaps, what we gonna do? I don’t know….Whacha wanna do? I know, let’s flap over to….” the John A. Lomax Amphitheater in Meridian, there’s a movie on. Just imagine Disney’s The Jungle Book vulture scene with Buzzie, Dizzy, Ziggy and Flaps as you read that sentence. Or “look for the bare necessities in life, forget about your worries and your strife” and enjoy a movie with popcorn.

Members of different local organizations, clubs, and businesses volunteered their time to install new electrical lines and equipment in Meridian’s Lions Park on Saturday morning, July 8. With both city equipment and private tools, the team dug trenches to lay the new conduit for the electricity cables and filled the dirt back in.