Fourth on East Ave. 2024 parade participants wave at Wellington Care Center residents as they head north on Childress St. Become part of Wellington’s 2025 Wild & Free on 83 Fourth of July parade, set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 5. With Natasha Mixon serving as parade chairman, businesses and individuals should contact her at 940-732-0756. Mixon and her mom, Tammy Sawyer, of Lubbock, hosted their first bi-annual Fourth on East Ave. parade in 2016.

In observance of Arnie Ingram’s 45.5 years of service to the City of Wellington, his family gathers with him at the reception in his honor from noon-2 p.m. Friday, June 20 in the Club Room of the Bura Handley Community Center. From left: Kyla, Kaesyn, Presley, Taytum, Lance and Deidre Kane, Perrie and Quaid Reyna, Arnie and Janee Ingram, Shari and Matthew Reyna.

Texas 4-H Water Ambassadors, including, from left, Yolanda Escovedo, Jacy Lampe, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Program Specialist II and Program Director David Smith, Anna Granadoz and Westin Wiebe, partake in the Friday, June 13 event as instructive program panelists.