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June 8, 2017 - Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library begins 2017 Summer Reading Programs today, June 8th. Puppet Wise will be the program for ages 4-8 years. The puppet show will start at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday. The TWEEN program for ages 9-13 years will be Thursday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. This program will be building with LEGOs.

Photo: (from left) Southern Zone Director Linda Goller (San Augustine Garden Club) and Linda Bordelon (Center Garden Club).

June 8, 2017 - Representing Center Garden Club, Linda Bordelon attended the 60th District III Texas Garden Clubs Southern Zone Workshop June 7, 2017 in Newton, Texas hosted by Newton Garden Club.  

Members from 14 garden clubs in the Southern Zone enjoyed a wide variety of programs given to help with the planning for the upcoming year.  Other topics included recycling, youth contests, updated rules for treasurers, pops of color for your garden, and benefits of garden club membership.

Submitted by Linda Bordelon, Publicity Chaairman

June 7, 2017 - Troop 119 is having a Merit Badge Workshop this week for further advancement in the troop. One of the merit badges we are working on is in Communication, and we decided we wanted to let our community know more about what we are doing right now.

We are studying about important people and battles in the fight for Texas Independence. Our summer trip in July will let us visit some historic sites like the Alamo, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Goliad, and Gonzalez. Our study began back in April when we got to go to the activities at the San Jacinto Battleground reenactment. 

We appreciate the support of First United Methodist Church in Center and the community.

Thank you,
Hunter Cooper
Connor Cassell
James Spencer
Kaden Dixon
Adam Lawson
Dakota Bailey

Darrell Albert, Scoutmaster

June 7, 2017 - Due to the growing need for food boxes, Shelby County Outreach Ministries started a new "Food of the Month" drive in April to help replenish supplies in their food pantry. For the month of June, the highlighted food is canned meat!

Bring your canned meat donation such as tuna, chicken, chicken breast, spam, or chili to Shelby County Outreach Ministries located at 930 Shelbyville Street next to the railroad tracks at MLK Drive from 9am until 2pm weekdays.

Donations are always welcome of dry beans, rice, peanut butter, and can vegetables. Monetary donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 1029, Center, Texas 75935.

Volunteers are welcome as well. Thank you and God Bless!

June 7, 2017 - Center Garden Club members Cherry Jones, Carolyn Bounds, Margaret Stockton, Carole Ann Chance and Robbie Kerr attended the proclamation signing of National Garden Week from June 4-10 by Mayor David Chadwick on Tuesday, June 6.

Submitted by Robbie Kerr

June 6, 2017 - The 12th Annual Shelby County Relay for Life was held Saturday, June 3, 2017 at the John D. Windham Civic Center.

Cancer survivors were honored at an 11am luncheon with a 50s flare as this year's theme for Relay was Rocking to the 50s, Rolling to a Cure. (Survivor Dinner - Album1, Album2 )

A special guest appearance was made by Ed Sullivan, Rodney Dangerfield, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy thanks to Chris Watlington. Also providing entertainment was the great Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash performed by Sally Windham and Danny Paul Windham.

Following the luncheon, everyone moved over to the large conference hall to enjoy five hours of Relay for Life. To start the event, Becky Parfait and Becky Grant who co-chaired the event invited Shelby County Judge Allison Harbison to the stage to read a proclamation proclaiming June 3, 2017 to be Shelby County Relay for Life day. The first proclamation was read and was to be presented to Ryan Moore who is currently undergoing treatments for Leukemia. A second proclamation was read and then presented to Kelly Krembs who was a committee member for Relay for Life of Shelby County's when it began 12 years ago. Krembs was the caregiver for her and Becky Parfait's mother.

To end the event was the traditional lighting of the luminaries which honored or was in memory of people afflicted by the terrible disease of cancer. A final lap was made with glow sticks lifted high to symbolically lift up those who have been affected by cancer from survivors, caregivers, family, and friends. (Relay for Life - Album1, Album2, Album3, Album4)

More information will be coming soon about Relay for Life and what you can do to become a part of Shelby County Relay for Life 2018!

June 6, 2017 - Shelby County Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8904 and the Auxiliary gathered at the Veterans Memorial on the grounds of the Historic Courthouse in Center to commemorate the 73rd Anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. The program began with a prayer from Post Chaplain Cynthia Islas followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by all in attendance.

Post Quartermaster Larry Hume welcomed and thanked all for attending. He stated the invasion was code named Operation Neptune and D-Day was the turning point in World War II. June 6, 1944 saw the start of the largest air and sea operation in military history. On D-Day, the allies landed around 156,000 troops, of which 73,000 were Americans. The amount of equipment used was staggering. In the airborne landings on both flanks of the Normandy beaches, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders of the RAF and USAAF were used on D-Day. 

It involved huge naval forces, including 6,939 vessels: 1,213 naval combat ships, 4,126 landing ships and landing craft, 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels. Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune; 52,889 US,  112,824 British, and 4,988 from other allied countries. By the end of the 11th of June, 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches. Loss of US Forces is estimated at 6,603.

Post Chaplain Cynthia Islas had the honor of placing the D-Day Memorial Wreath on the Veterans Memorial. The program was closed out with the playing of Taps by Post Service Officer John Piersol on the Post Ceremonial Bugle.


From left: Danny Paul Windham (RSF), Jerry Pinkston (RSF), Shirley Owens (Class of 1960), Polly Smith (Class of 1960), Fred Wulf (RSF), Shirley Shofner (Class of 1960), David Chadwick (RSF), Linda Hughes (Class of 1960), Matthew Mettauer (RSF), and Wailan Hughes (Class of 1960).

June 6, 2017 - Representatives of the Center High School Class of 1960 received a plaque from the Catherine Pinkston Roughrider Scholarship Foundation (RSF) in honor of their $5,000 contribution to the foundation. The plaque was then placed by school counselor Alease Copelin inside the display cabinet in the front hallway of Center High School which is dedicated to the display donations to the Catherine Pinkston RSF.

Daniel Parker, Class of 1960 President, proudly announces the class finished raising the funds for their first $5,000 scholarship and have started plans on the next donation.

The donation provides a perpetual scholarship to a graduating senior each year forward. The donation was made in April and the first scholarship recipient to receive a RSF in honor of the Class of 1960 was Bre'Aunna Hightower, a 2017 CHS graduate.

According to the Shelby County Historical Society's website, shelbycountytexashistory.net, the following were the graduating class of 1960: La Morris Adams, Steve Adams, James Andrews, Shirley Auline Anthony, Linda Armstreet, Anita Askew, Hulon Baggett, Elaine Ballard, Polly Anne Barron, Nancy Blackstock, Clifton Bonial, Eugene Borders, Kenneth Bradshaw, Latain Bradshaw, Glenn Campbell, Joyce Anne Campbell, Mary Evelyn Campbell, Charlotte Anne Christian, Jerry Conway, Grayford Corder, Audrey Crawford, Deanna Marie Cross, Bobby Crosser, Dexter Davis, Eldora Barbe Davis, Lyndon Edge, Gene Fenley, Sheila Fleming, Karen Foreman, Joan Delores Fults, Sandra Bussey Gault, Mary Lynn Gillis, Sue Gillis, Bill Goodrich, Bobby Griffin, Eugene Haley, Nelda Fay Halliburton, George Harris, Jerry Harrison, Sue Ann Haynes, Carolyn Horne, Wailan Hughes, Alda Faye Johnson, John Keith Johnson, Johnnie Johnson, Lynda Johnson, Marlin Ray Jones, Betty Sue Keith, Nancy Lacy, Virginia Lampley, Bobby Lout, Linda McKay, La Nell McSwain, Jean Mena, Louie Don Mitchell, Charles M. Noble, Roger Noble, Marvin Oliver, Danny Parker, Judy Parker, Nancy Parker, Mary Pate, Sandra Goff Paxton, Kennard L. Peace, Donnell Peacock, Frances Penick, Wayne Perry, Libby Philips, Patsy Powdrill, Barbara Gay Ramsey, Linda Ray, Velma Reynolds, Taylor Ross, Haron Russell, Judy Samford, Linda Samford, Jimmy Scates, Martha Nell Shadowens, Linda Sherman, Barbara Smith, Douglas Wayne Smith, Judy Stack, Sarah Ruth Stanley, James Tindol, Tom Tribble, Carolyn Sue Watkins, Travis Watson, Billy Wiggins, Jimmy G. Wilburn, Judy Williams, Sue Smith Williams, Mary Wilson, Patsy Wilson, Betty Windham, Shirley Windham, and Omie Yarbrough.

The motto for the class was "Not merely to exist, but to amount to something in life."

June 2, 2017 - The Shelby County Constables would like to thank Leonard Dupuis, Bobby Head, and Gibson Environmental Services for the generous donation of five body cameras. These cameras will not only protect the constables, but also the citizens of Shelby County. We appreciate that you appreciate law enforcement and the members of our community. Thank you again for your donation.

Sincerely,
Zach Warr, Constable Precinct 1
Jamie Hagler, Constable Precinct 2
Roy Cheatwood, Constable Precinct 3
Jake Metcalf, Constable Precinct 4
Robert Hairgrove, Constable Precinct 5

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June 2, 2017 - The Relay For Life of Shelby County was such a blast last year! It gave us the chance to get together with some old friends and the opportunity to make some new ones. We shared stories of hope, strength, and love. There was laughter, tears, and feelings of connection through our Relay For Life community. The money we raised went to fund groundbreaking cancer research and patient programs. We made a real impact.

Currently in Texas, the American Cancer Society is funding 62 grants totaling $35,760,500 at the following institutions: Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor Research Institute, Texas A & M University, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, University of Houston, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas in Galveston, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, University of Texas, Austin. Wow! And that's just in Texas.

The important research funded by these grants provides life saving medicines and treatments to many needed patients. This enables them the time and opportunity to see their children get married, see their grandchildren born, attend a prom, attend a graduation, etc. Now those are what I call priceless gifts of love. And I am proud to say that we helped in giving those. So I say let's do it all again!

This year’s Relay For Life of Shelby County is scheduled for Saturday, June 3 at the Windham Civic Center. We will start the day by inviting our Survivors to a luncheon from 12 noon to 2pm. Then the Relay's Opening Ceremony will start at 2:15 followed immediately by the Survivor/Caregiver Ceremony. Our theme this year is “Rocking to the 50s and Rolling to a Cure”. I hope to see everyone there in their poodle skirts and leather jackets.

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