Shelby County Today

January 16, 2016 - 936 Crossfit held their ribbon cutting event on Thursday, January 14, 2016 at their new location at 139 Catco Drive in Center. The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors helped to introduce Grant Belrose, 936 Crossfit Owner, to visitors attending the ribbon cutting event.

"The biggest question I get is, 'what is crossfit?' and 'what do we do?' and really the best way to answer that is to get in here and try," said Belrose. "What we define crossfit as, we have three big bullet points of crossfit and that's functional movement, constantly varied and high intensity."

Belrose explained you don't have to be in his facility to do a crossfit workout, as it can be done anywhere. The type of workout is different in that it doesn't rely on machines for the most part, instead it is more about body motion.

"We're really big on functional movement, and that means as far as just picking stuff up, putting stuff overhead, moving light weights for a long period of time," said Belrose.

One thing clients can look forward to is a constantly changing workout program. Since the business first opened February 2, 2015, Belrose says members who started during that time have rarely done the same workout twice, because of the variety offered.

"I'm not going to sugar coat it, it's not for everyone, but it is for anyone," said Belrose. "Some people have tried it, and they're fit and they come in here, and they don't like it. That's fine with me, you like to do what you workout and then I like to do mine. It's not for you, and that's perfectly fine, but it is for anyone to try."

Additionally, 936 Crossfit has a fitness program for children, "Crossfit Kids is a program we started just to get kids active you know and we like to keep fitness fun. So, a lot of times what we do in here are games"

Belrose explained, starting a good fitness foundation with children will help them to have a better health and fitness awareness as they get older.

During the ribbon cutting event, Belrose introduced his mother Teresa Belrose who owns Teresa's Tumblers which offers tumbling classes for ages three and up; his fiance Tyler Paige, who is also a trainer with 936 Crossfit; and Joy Wilburn, on staff masseuse.

936 Crossfit is open all week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday there are classes at 5am and 6am. All week there are classes at 8am, 12-noon, 4:30pm, 5:30pm and 6:30pm.

For more information on 936 Crossfit contact Grant Belrose at 936-332-1415.

January 13, 2016 - Album - Go Tell Crusade with Rick Gage held a kick-off banquet for the Go Tell Resurrection Celebration which will be held at Roughrider Stadium March 25-27, 2016.

All attending the banquet were welcomed to the event by Rick Thompson, followed by the meal with a prayer and blessing led by Aubie McSwain, Crusade Chairman. Rick Gage was the speaker and he brought the message. The Go Tell Crusade has been to Shelby County twice in the past, in 1999 and 2013.

"We saw many souls saved, and many lives that were touched by the spirit of God. We spoke in many of the schools across the region and was able to touch thousands of teenagers across this region, because of the school assemblies," said Gage. "About maybe six months, eight months ago we got a call from some of the lay leaders in this community who felt a desire from the spirit of God to have an evangelistic outreach event in 2016 at the football stadium once again over the Easter weekend."

Gage stated, contacts have once again been made to others in the region about the return of the crusade and plans have been being put into motion over the past several months.

Following Gage on stage were Crusade Chairmen Rusty Hall, and David Koonce as well as Center First Baptist Church Youth Pastor Josh Sanford.

For more information on the Go Tell Resurrection Celebration, contact Rusty Hall at 318-422-1511 or David Koonce at 936-590-0994.

January 14, 2016 - Delta Gamma's January Program "Modern Day Slavery:Human Trafficking" was presented by Loretta Bedford of San Augustine. "Refuge of Light" is dedicated to establishing a safe home for victimized girls under the age of 18 years in the U.S. Human trafficking is the second largest and fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. It generates $32 billion per year and impacts as many as 300,000 American children.

January 13, 2016 - Margo Hooper of Timpson won the Louisiana State Fair Bull Show with her bull, Lucchese. She also Reserved the Heifer Show and won two divisions.

Margo is a junior at SFA who made the President's List with a 4.0 average, a member of the Honor Society, and a 2015 recipient of the FFA American Degree. Her parents are Tracy and Robin Hooper of Timpson, her grandparents are Yvonne and the late Glynn Ramsey of Timpson, and the late Tommy Mack and Barbara Hooper of Gary, Texas.