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This Mother s Day weekend many Austin-area museums are back with in-person programming for families. All have COVID-19 safety protocols, including limited attendance, social distancing and masking. Check with each location about specific safety guidelines before you go.
Here are a few events we found:
Saturday and Sunday
Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms
Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms has several Mother s Day weekend events. Celebrate Mother s Day like it s the 1800s with crafts kids can make for moms. You also can sign up for a Mother s Day Tea, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, for $5 a person in addition to admission. A special walking tour, Girls of Grit, about women and girls in Texas history, will happen at 1 p.m. both days. Kids also might want to attend the Barnyard Buddies tour (animal interactions included), which happens both days at 10 a.m. It s $10 a person. 10621 Pioneer Farms Drive. pioneerfarms.org.
How did the bluebonnet become a symbol of Texas?
Beautiful, abundant, and surprisingly hardy, these legendary blooms captivate flower lovers.
ByAlex Temblador
Email
Waves of bluebonnet flowers fill Texas highways and backroads each spring. This inspires parents to snap photos of their kids in fields of purplish blooms, and road trippers to trek from Big Bend National Park to the Texas Hill Country in search of the enchanting wildflowers.
The blooms are mostly indigo, though bluebonnets also come in shades of pink and white. From mid-March to April, they pop out, bookended by other seasonal flowers pristine white prickly poppies, dreamy evening primroses, lavender-hued Texas thistles.
Governor Newsom Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California - Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments:
Jeffery Scott Christman, 50, of Roseville, has been appointed Chief Deputy Director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Christman has been Deputy Director for the Center for Health Statistics and Informatics at the California Department of Public Health since 2020. He was Practice Area Leader for Data and Analytics at Slalom Consulting from 2019 to 2020. He served as Deputy Director and Chief Information Officer at the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development from 2014 to 2019, Acting Agency Chief Information Officer at the California Health and Human Service Agency from 2016 to 2017 and Chief of Public Health Informatics at the California Department of Public Health from 2013 to 2014. Christman was Program Director at California Health eQuality from 2012 to 2013, Assistant Director for the Cali
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