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Application Deadline November 25th
August 15, 2024 - It is not too early to start planning for the Santa’s Christmas Parade which will be led by J.J. Ford, this year’s Grand Marshall. The Parade, presented by the HR Group, will be held on Saturday, December 7th beginning at 6pm. The theme for this year’s parade is “A North Pole Fantasy.”
Categories for the 2024 Parade will include: Individuals, Schools, Businesses, Churches and Civic Organizations. Judges will award cash prizes to the top three places in each category. The Float Competition Sponsor is the City of Center. The Sponsor for the Grand Marshal is Dazzle Me Pink and Blue. Silver Sponsors are Farmers State Bank, Holiday Nursing and Rehabilitation and Specter, Inc.
Parade float entry registration is free and completed applications must be returned to the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce office by Monday, November 25th. Applications are available at the Chamber offices or on the chamber's website.
The Taste of the Holidays, sponsored by Shelby Savings Bank, will be held on Thursday, December 5th at the Windham Civic Center from 4:30-7:30pm. There will be delicious food samplings available.
For more information contact the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce at 936-598-3682 or email info@shelbycountychamber.com.
November 21, 2024 - The staff of the Fannie Brown Booth Library have been busy boxing books with the help of the JCCs and volunteers. Between 350 and 400 boxes of books have been moved to storage. We moved shelves and furniture out of the library into the Redditt room with the help of the JCCs and volunteers. We had a young man come and take apart the counter. He also helped disassemble the double wide shelves and move them into the Redditt Room. The carpet installers have prepped the floor and installed the carpet. The next step will be the installation of new lighting.
Parade float entry registration free. Deadline to enter Dec. 20th.
November 14, 2024 - Plans are underway for the 2024 Santa’s Christmas Parade which will be held on Saturday, December 7th beginning at 6:00pm. The Parade is presented by High Roller Wells. The theme for this year’s parade is “A North Pole Fantasy.” Silver Sponsors are Farmers State Bank, Holiday Nursing and Rehabilitation and Specter, Inc.
Categories for the 2024 Parade will include: Individuals, Schools, Businesses, Churches and Civic Organizations. Judges will award cash prizes to the top three places in each category. The Float Competition Sponsor is the City of Center. The Sponsor for the Grand Marshal is Dazzle Me Pink and Blue. This year’s Grand Marshal will be J.J. Ford, the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award recipient.
Parade float entry registration is free and completed applications must be returned to the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce office by Monday, November 20th.
It is summer and it is hot, but it is never too early to start planning your float. Decorate your pick up truck, golf cart, horse and buggy etc. Join in the holiday festivities and have fun!
The Taste of the Holidays, sponsored by Shelby Savings Bank, will be held on Thursday, December 5th at the Windham Civic Center from 4:30-7:30pm. There will be delicious food samplings available.
For more information contact the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce at 936-598-3682 or email info@shelbycountychamber.com.
Corn Hole Tournament 1st Place Winners
November 19, 2024 (Photo Album) - Storm clouds cleared just in time for the 7th Annual Fall Festival of Hope to bring people to the downtown Center square on Saturday, November 9th for a good cause - to support Boo's Battle Support Fund. The festival activities included a petting zoo, pumpkin patch, cake 'dance' walk, bouncy house, 42 tournament, corn hole tournament, and a vendor bingo.
Corn Hole Tournament Winners (26 Players)
1st Place - Canon Hatcher / Richard Smith
2nd Place - Polar Bear / Zach Hicks
3rd Place - Platt Matt / Micheal Liem
42 Tournament 1st Place Winners
42 Tournament Winners (14 Players)
1st Place - Jeremy and Ashley Snider
2nd Place - Donny Fountain / Billy Neal
3rd Place - Rodger and Karen Fancher
The festival raised nearly $11,000 thanks in large to event sponsors. Every $1,000 helps one person who is battling cancer.
Thank you to everyone who came to the festival regardless of the dreary weather.
Thank you sponsors! Shelby Savings Bank, Magnolia Family Medicine, Magnolia Health & Wellness, Cornerstone Construction, Freedom Heavy Duty Parts, First Baptist Church of Haslam, Boles Feed, Ay Wood Products, Subway - Joaquin, Chrisco Bragg Plumbing, H & H Investments, 4G Contractors, Maple Springs Baptist Church, Wanda Scruggs, LPC-S, Brookshire Brothers - Joaquin, Jacobs Welding & Fab, LLC, Armadillo Signs, and Ram House Cafe.
November 18, 2024 - The Piney Woods Photographic Society held their regular monthly meeting this past Saturday. There was a workshop presented on photo processing using Lightroom/Photoshop. The November Challenge was "Streetscape Photography." There were some really great photos submitted by members and the Favorites are as follows. To view all the photos submitted to the challenge view our Flickr page, https://www.flickr.com/groups/pineywoodsphotographic/
1st Place Favorite - "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" by Bobbie Jean Wood
2nd Place Favorite (3-Way Tie) - "Mail Stop" by Billie Haggard Jones
2nd Place Favorite (3-Way Tie) - "Rio de Janeiro" by Lawrence Davis
2nd Place Favorite (3-Way Tie) - "Waiting" by Julie Cantrell-Green
November 15, 2024 - The inside of the Shelby County Historic Courthouse was full of Junior Chamber of Commerce helpers on Thursday, November 14 to start the process of decorating for Christmas.
The DRT ladies with the help of the JCC students accomplished much of the decorating on the inside. The Historic Courthouse will be open for tours next week, November 21st and 22nd. However, it will be closed the week of Thanksgiving.
Mark you calendar for Monday, December 16 for a Christmas Open house event from 12 noon until 2pm with the Excelsior Choir led by Tim Verner again performing in the upstairs courtroom at 1pm.
November 15, 2024 - An account has been created at Shelby Savings Bank, “Michelle Isaac Funeral Expenses,” to help in covering the expense of funeral arrangements. Michelle Isaac, 47 of Center, passed away on November 5, 2024. Donations may be made at any of the local Shelby Savings Bank Branches.
From left: (standing) Holiday Administrator Daniel Rogers, Mike Wulf, Zachery McCormick, Derrick Roberts, Larry Hume, Gene Hutto, Joy Hutto, and Mary Fausett, (seated) Robert Clifton, Luther Lorenz, James Clayton, Levon Andrews, and Roger Paxton.
November 13, 2024 - The Holiday Nursing and Rehabilitation celebrated and honored their veterans on Monday, November 11, 2024 and invited fellow VFW Post 8904 members as well.
Larry Hume, VFW Post Adjutant, spoke to the veterans in attendance explaining the reason for Veterans Day which is to recognize and honor U.S. military personnel and their service.
It was started November 11, 1919 on the one year anniversary of an armistice between Allied nations and Germany which is generally regarded as the end of the war to end all wars. Originally, the day was called Armistice Day which can be remembered to have happened on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. November 11th was signed to be a legal holiday on May 13, 1938 by the President of the United States and was set aside to honor Veterans of World War I. In 1954, the 83rd Congress amended the Act of 1938 by renaming the day Veterans Day with the purpose of a day to honor American Veterans of all wars.
Hume then recognized all the veterans in the room giving them an opportunity to say their branch and years of service. Others in attendance were then given the opportunity to say the name of family members who are veterans.
Facility Administrator Rogers then presented framed certificates to their resident veterans who are Roger Paxton - Navy 1963-1967, USS Regulus; Levon Andrews - Army 1972-1976, tank driver; James Clayton - Air Force 1962-1966, linguist; Luther Lorenz - Air Force, bombardier; Tommie Lathan; and Robert Clifton - Air Force, Retired, supply.
Garden Club members with Larry Hume. From left: Pam Sykes, Janette Wittmann, Cherry Jones, Larry Hume, Lisa Albers, and Robbie Kerr
November 13, 2024 - The Center Garden Club gathered at the Blue Star Memorial in front of the Community House on San Augustine Street in honor of Veterans for Veteran’s Day.
Special guest speaker, Larry Hume, VFW Post 8904 Adjutant, was invited to speak, “On Veteran’s Day we like to remember all of those who are still alive, the Veterans. It's a special group that I would like to remember, the veterans of World War II. You know the 16 million men and women who served in World War II, there are less than 250,000 alive today. Can you imagine when the day comes when there'll be no more World War II veterans walking on God's green earth? It's coming, it's coming really quick too.”
Larry Hume, Veteran, places a wreath in front of the Blue Star Memorial
Hume added many can identify with WWII veterans saying, “I know I can, my dad served, and I'm sure everybody's had their World War II veteran. So, I'm gonna place this wreath in the honor of those World War II veterans who are still with us today. May God bless them.”
A Garden Club representative said, “We're appreciative of all of our Veterans, especially Larry Hume who came and spoke for us today. We appreciate their service and sacrifices for our country.”
Garden Club members listen to Larry Hume speak about the reason for Veteran's Day and highlights the decreasing number of WWII Veterans still alive.
The Blue Star Memorial Marker was installed in November of 2010 after the Center Garden Club voted to adopt the “Blue Star Memorial Highway Program” of the National Garden Clubs, Inc. to honor the men and women of the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America. The name was chosen for the star on flags displayed in homes and businesses denoting a family member serving. The Shelby County marker was sponsored by the Center Garden Club in cooperation with the City of Center.
Pictured are Community Christian Services board members (from left) Darrell Alford, Tommy Spurlock, Jody Hooper, Lauren Bonner, and Mark Lawrence.
November 12, 2024 - The Scottish Rite presented a donation to Community Christian Services during a program held at Tenaha Masonic Lodge #737 on October 29, 2024.
Scottish Rite member Mike Waldrop explained that the Waco Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation provides what are called community grants, which are for organizations, and those organizations can be lodges, Scottish Rite clubs, or a variety of different organizations to which the Scottish Rite will match up to $2,500 if that group does something for the community.
Mike Waldrop
Waldrop said the Waco Scottish Rite Valley has been providing Thanksgiving and Christmas meals to Meals on Wheels in Waco for around 38 years and they put together around 550 meals in an hour and a half.
Waldrop continued, “Last year, the chairman of this committee here of our Waco Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation said, ‘we give away about $7,500 a year,’ and he said, ‘I think we need to start doing this for other parts of our valley.’”
Waldrop described the “valley” as covering from the Louisiana border all the way to the other side of San Angelo in West Texas and many areas north and south in between.
“What he decided that we needed to do was he was going to either ask East Texas, Central Texas and West Texas, either Meals on Wheels chapters or food banks, that we would help those that submit a recommendation or submit an application to become one of the recipients of this $2,500 for West Texas, East Texas, and Central Texas,” said Waldrop.
Receiving the check on behalf of Community Christian Services was Jody Hooper, who is a member of the board, and he was also accompanied by the rest of the board to received the donation.
“I would like to say thank you to Lauren [Bonner] who did the tedious work of the application for Mr. Randy [Bonner], for all of you that help out each and every week. One thing I can I can speak for as one of the board members is that we're very scrupulous in how we spend money, and every penny goes to procure food for those that we give away to. We operate on a real small budget, but we've got a really big God, and he's never let us down. He's not going to. Every time we look around, there's more money and there's more food, and we just get to give it away. So we're very thankful for that.
“Thanks to all of you for, again, trusting us with this, and I invite you at any time to come to our pantry and watch what we do and see the people that it helps. There's people all over, Shelby County that come usually over 200 families every month that come on our pantry day. So if you think there's not hungry folks in Shelby County, just come to the pantry on November the 20th, I think is the third Wednesday, and you'll see them lined up all the way around the church over to Brookshire's and they're not sitting in line for two hours because they don't have anything else to do. They're sitting there 'cause they're hungry and we get the privilege to feed them and you guys help us do that, thank you so much.”
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