County Events

C.R.A.S.E. is a program offered by law enforcement toschools, businesses, churches and community members for direction andpresentations on what to do if confronted with an active shooter event.

The Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE)course is designed and built on the Avoid, Deny, Defend (ADD) strategydeveloped by ALERRT in 2004. Providing strategies, guidance and proven plan forsurviving an active shooter event. Topics include the history and prevalence ofactive shooter events, civilian response option, medical issues, andconsiderations for conducting drills.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and Kaufman County Farm Bureau are teaming up to provideworkshops for small acreage owners. Texas and Kaufman County is experiencing achange in land ownership.

The Mission of this new workshop series is tohelp these new landowners with the basic understanding of farm or ranchmanagement. Texas Farm Bureau has defined a small farm or ranch as “a propertyof one hundred (100) acres or less on which the owner/operator has been anactive producer of commodities for five (5) years or less.

We will offer the first workshop on February 13, 2020 at theKaufman County Fairgrounds, 4001 S. Washington (Hwy.34 South),  Kaufman starting at 5:30 p.m., but we also need to know some of the other topics you are interested in.  We want to make sure this series of quarterlyworkshops are beneficialto you as the land owner. We offer some suggestions but also give an area foryou to send questions back to us.  Pleaseclick on the survey below and we look forward to seeing your responses. To register for the workshop on February 13th, please e-mail sbburden@ag.tamu.edu or call theExtension office at (972) 932-9069.   Thank you, Sharon  

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The Kaufman County MasterGardeners are delighted to introduce “Five Seasons on the Porch” in Kaufman,Texas.  We invite you to join us for an afternoon of education andenrichment highlighted by a presentation by Jacob Eickstead with the TexasDepartment of Transportation and the screening of the documentary “FiveSeasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf ” on Saturday, February 22, 2020. Jacob has presented the Texas Wildflower seed distribution throughout Texas andwe will enjoy lunch and fellowship prior to the showing of thedocumentary.   

The program will be held at the First BaptistChurch, 2000 West Fair Street, Kaufman, Texas  75142 from 11:00 a.m. to3:00 p.m. and the cost will be $40.00 per person which includes yourlunch.