March 2025 Edition: Deer in the Spotlight

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ART PARK PLAYERS DEER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY DEER PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT SAN JACINTO MONUMENT

EMAIL - hello@scandaloussoap.com WEB - www.scandaloussoap.com

Deer Park is encouraged to support our local homebased entrepreneurs, like Robyn and Matt Smith, owners of Scandalous Soap Company. The Smiths are local residents who started their business in 2018.

Scandalous Soap includes bath bombs, bubble bath, shower steamers, lotions, scrubs, dryer balls and more.

You can order online at www.scandaloussoap.com, or find them at our local vendor markets, including La Porte’s Main Street Trade Days on the first Saturday of each month.

you name it, they have it!

Robyn has also published a book entitled Bath Bomb Revolution, and she was featured as a contestant on the 2021 TV series Meet Your Makers Showdown, where she competed along other soap-makers and earned second place. Be sure to follow them on Facebook, or contact them at hello@scandaloussoap.com.

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MARCH 2025

SAN JACINTO BATTLEGROUND

On March 1st from 7 to 9 AM, head to the grounds early for Birdwatching at the Battleground, then stick around from 11 AM to 3 PM to learn about 19th century ammo and make a cartridge box at San Jacinto Family Day. Bike the battleground on March 8th from 7 to 9 AM for Cycling Saturday and stay to see a live demonstration of spinning and weaving courtesy of the Bay Area Weavers and Spinners from 10 AM to 1 PM. On March 11th from 2:30 to 3:30 PM, we invite people living with memory loss and their caretakers to join us for our SPARK! Program- Frontier Fun: Games of the Frontier. At this themed program, guests will with classic frontier games like draughts, dominoes, faro, pick up sticks, and other merriments! Participants will also get to enjoy a special display of historic toys courtesy of the San Jacinto Museum.

Need something to do during Spring Break? On March 12th, handle non-firing replica weapons like the ones used at the Battle of San Jacinto at our Black Powder Weapon Touch Table from 12 to 3 PM. Don’t worry- they’re not real!

On March 13th, learn about frontier medicine at our Frontier Medicine Touch table from 12 to 3 PM. Finally, on March 14th from 12 to 3 PM, try your hand at writing with a quill and ink- it’s harder than you’d think!

Enjoy the thrill of black powder arms demonstrations on March 15th from 1 to 2:30 PM at Fire! Arms Demo.

View images of the battleground throughout the years and make a photographic memory of your own on March 16th at Picture Yourself at San Jacinto from 12 to 3 PM. Learn about Texan foraging and how to find and identify wild edible plants with Dr. Mark “Merriwether” Vorderbruggen of Foraging Texas from 9 AM to 12 PM on March 29th. Finally, end the month with a bang on March 30th at our Boom! Cannon Demo from 1 to 2:30 PM!