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August 27, 2016 - Children's Dental Center located on the Center square has recently become a new member of the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce and held a ribbon cutting on Thursday, August 26.
Members of the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors were present along with members of the community to welcome the owner and members of his staff.
Dr. Thomas Youngblood, DDS spoke about his facility and the services offered for ages six months to 20 years of age.
"I feel like this community needed a children's dentist around instead of having to drive a long distance to have your children's dental work completed," said Dr. Youngblood.
He introduced members of his staff including Miriam Sanchez, Krystal Fuller, Casadie Hagler, Evelyn Campos, Jesica Lopez, Mary Hernandez and Martha Garza, RDH.
"I've been doing this about 14-15 years now, and I've been very blessed to work some very talented dentists that have helped me through the years to kind of craft my art," said Dr. Youngblood.
The office is located at 128 Nacogdoches Street in Center and is open Monday through Thursday 8am to 5pm with a more tentative schedule on Friday.
For more information contact Children's Dental Center at 936-427-9070.
August 25, 2016 - The Center High School Alumni Association would like to announce the 2016 Hall of Honor Recipient, Jerry L. Bradsaw, Class of 1956. We are so proud of our accomplished Center High School Alumni.
Please plan to join the CHS Alumni Association on Saturday, September 17 at the Center Community House located on San Augustine Street (Across from Mangum Funeral Home). Please note the location change.
Doors open at 9am and the meeting begins at 10am. Coffee and cookies will be served.
Everyone is invited to attend!
August 24, 2016 - The water on San Augustine Rural WSC no longer requires boiling.
On August 15, 2016, we issued a Boil Water Notice due to a breakage in a line on FM 2213, which included the entire Roberts Community, and all customers South of City Lake. This also included all customers on 96 South and County Roads south of Bob Evans Equipment located on Hwy 96 in San Augustine, Texas. This was issed for safety precautions. We have corrected the problem and tested the water. The tests were good, therefore, the Boil Water Notice is lifted.
Our system has taken the necessary actions to be sure of adequate pressure, disinfectant levels, and/or bacteriological quality and has provided TCEQ with testing results that indicate that the water no longer requires boiling as of August 23, 2016.
The water no longer requires boiling as August 23, 2016.
If you have questions, contact Charles Sharp 936-288-0489.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
If a customer wishes to reach TCEQ, they may call 512-239-4691.
August 23, 2016 - Joaquin, Texas World War II Veteran, Mr. A. J. Procell has been selected by the Honor Flight Austin to be a part of a trip to the World War II Memorial in Washington D. C. This is a special Victory over Japan (VJ Day) event that will take place September 2nd, 2016.
Mr. Procell served in the US Navy and was aboard the USS North Carolina in Tokyo Bay when the formal surrender by the Japanese Empire took place on September 2, 1945. He lived and witnessed history that most of us have just read about.
VJ Honor Flight Austin #35 will leave Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Thursday, September 1st at 12:45 pm and arrive in Washington D. C. at 4:55 pm where the group of WW II Veterans will be taken to their hotel, have dinner and spend the night. The next morning, September 2nd starts at 7:30 am with breakfast and arrival at the Arlington National Cemetery at 9:00 am for a tour and witnessing the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown. The WW II Memorial VJ Ceremony begins at 11:00 am with lunch to follow. The group will then visit the Vietnam, Korean War, Navy, Iwo Jima and Air Force Memorials. After a full day their flight back leaves at 5:45 pm and arrives in Austin at 8:05 pm.
The mission statement of Honor Flight is to transport America’s veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit those memorials dedicated to honor their service and sacrifices. Their goal is to help every single veteran in America, willing and able of getting on a plane or a bus, visit THEIR memorial. There is no cost to the veteran other than getting to and from the airport. More information about this wonderful organization can be found at http://www.honorflightaustin.org/
Shelby County Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8904 is proud to sponsor Mr. Procell and will provide his transportation to and from Austin.
August 23, 2016 - The "Center Garden Club" presents Lois Chandler from Center with "Yard of the Month" for August 2016. She loves her gardens and has planted many Lantanas. These perennials grow vigorously most of the year. The butterflies, bees, & hummingbirds feed from her flowering garden. Perennials and Texas have a long history together. Center Garden Club thanks you Lois for planting the Perfect Perennial Garden!
Submitted by Jackie Hancock
August 22, 2016 - Send in your child's first day 'Back-to-School' photo for the 2016-2017 school year to be posted on the Shelby County Today announcement page! Email a photo with the text you would like posted with it. Email it to info@shelbycountytoday.com
August 20, 2016 - A 100th birthday celebration was held for Mrs. Oma Lee Kyles on August 15, 2016 at Pine Grove Nursing Home. Family and friends gathered to honor and celebrate Mrs Kyles' special day.
Jerry Lathan, City of Center Councilman, was the master of ceremonies and the son-in-law of Mrs. Kyles, "We are glad you came in and I hope you stay here with us a little while, we won't be here that long but we just want to appreciate this lady that her made a hundred years. That means she knows more about that past than any of us. We thank God for everything that we do and the days that we are here."
Reverend Robert Gibson, Pastor of Mt. Zion CME Church, gave the prayer giving thanks until the Lord for Mrs. Kyles and every one of her 100 years. Following the prayer, Ruby Faye Wilson sang 'Someone To Care;' Beverly Griffin sang 'Take My Hand, Precious Lord', and DeNita Kyles Jones sang 'When I See Jesus, Amen'
Mrs. Kyles was also honored by a letter from the President of the United States, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
We are pleased to join your family and friends in wishing you a happy 100th birthday. As you celebrate this extraordinary milestone, we hope you take a moment to reflect as the many memories you have made over the past century. Your generation has shown the courage to persevere through depression and war, and the vision to broaden our liberties through changing times. We are grateful for your contributions to the United States of America, and we wish you all the best for the coming year.
The City of Center also honored Mrs. Kyles with a proclamation declaring August 15, 2016 to be Oma Lee Kyles Day. Councilman Lathan read the proclamation signed by Mayor David Chadwick to all attending.
Shelby County Judge Allison Harbison spoke, "I'm so honored to be here to wish you a happy, young, 100th birthday. May we all strive to be as elegant and has as much dignity and be as blessed as you are."
Molly Clark spoke about Mrs. Kyles and her relationship to Ossie Cartwright who was one of men to assist Bob Parker, the County Clerk in 1866, to move the County Records from Shelbyville to Center in the middle of the night. Cartwright had 13 children and Mrs. Kyles is one of only two still living grandchildren of Cartwright.
A poem written in her honor: A century is 100 years and Oma Lee lived each one. She could tell many things she has seen and has done. She survived a fire and was kicked by a horse. But with strength and endurance has run this long course. There was pain to endure and ruts to stay in. With much to be done she knew she must win. All 100 years we celebrate with love. Your family and friends wish you blessing from above. Stay tough and keep smiling so others can see how rewarding your life will continue to be. Written by LaVerne Ross.
Following everyone's well wishes, all sang Happy Birthday and enjoyed delicious slice of her 100th Birthday cake.
Special appreciation was given to the staff of Pine Grove Nursing Home and Heart 2 Heart Hospice for the wonderful work that they do.
August 19, 2016 - A New Member Ribbon Cutting was held for Affinity Hospice on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at their office located at 1400 Tenaha Street, Suite C, in Center. Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, community members, family and friends gathered to celebrate the new location.
Jackie Authement, Manager of Affinity Hospice, expressed what a privilege and honor it is to be a part of this community and then spoke about Affinity Hospice, "Our focus is trying to help people to live life to the fullest until the very end and to get the maximum out of life. And for us it is just more than taking care of people, it's a ministry."
Authement joked about choosing who would have the opportunity to talk and continued, "The fact of the matter is this. I look and I see all these little children and I see adults and parents but it just breaks my heart that we are pushing God out of everything that we do. He is pushed of schools, He's getting pushed out of the work place, but I'm gonna tell you, you can't push God out of the death and dying process. You can't. And so I'm privileged to be able to say, its an honor for us when we are working with patients, we aren't just working with the patients." He finished saying, "You take care of the physical needs, the emotional needs, the social needs, but the spiritual needs is probably the most critical. And it's not just the patient, we work with the family. So, you work with families through the whole process."
Meg Camp, Chamber of Commerce Ambassador President, said,"We want to thank you. We want to thank you for coming to Shelby County and for investing into our community."
Affinity Hospice provides a team of professionals and volunteers that work with the family during an illness and provides a special way of caring for patients facing end of life decisions.
August 19, 2016 - Would like to say a big “Thank You” to the Shelby County Cookers, Tyson Foods and the community for their donations to assist Asia Garrett. Asia’s surgery went very well and is now able to assume normal daily functions.
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August 19, 2016 - A capacity crowd of Timpson Area Genealogical and Heritage Society members and guests were held spellbound for an hour last Wednesday as Timpson resident Hans Polk recounted the story of his Holocaust survival. Born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1937, Hans Polk was three years old when the Nazis invaded The Netherlands in 1940. Soon thereafter the persecution of Dutch Jews started, beginning with a requirement that all Jews wear a Star of David on their clothing, followed by prohibitions against attending public events, shopping at non-Jewish stores, and employment in certain occupations. Polk's father, David, was fired from his job in the Mayor of Amsterdam's office for being Jewish. By 1943 the Polks knew what was coming and made a secret arrangement with a non-Jewish family next door to hide the Polk's only child, Hans, from the Nazi's when they came to arrest them. On June 20, 1943 Hans' parents handed their six-year-old son across the fence to the care of their neighbors just prior to their arrest. He never saw his parents again.
Hans lived with the neighbors for a while, but since they were risking their lives by hiding him, they sent him to an orphanage run by Jews dressed as priests and nuns. Hans was eventually adopted out of the orphanage by a Dutch family but after the war ended he was sent to a facility for Jewish boys. From there he was sent to Israel in 1948, where at age 11, he fought in the war to establish the Jewish nation. Polk said that he disliked Israel and returned to The Netherlands when he could. He immigrated to the United States in 1956 where he became a citizen, married an American Catholic, and raised a family, eventually converting to Catholicism himself. Following the death of his first wife, Polk married a woman who had ties to the Timpson area, which brought them here.
Hans Polk now knows his parents' fate. Following their arrest, they were sent to the Sobibor Prison Camp in Poland where his research of Nazi documents reveals they were executed soon after their arrival. Polk said that Sobibor had no cremation ovens as some other camps had, so the bodies of those executed there were burned in the open air. “The Germans kept perfect records” he said as he shared copies of those containing his parents' names with the TAGHS audience.
Polk asked attendees to close their eyes and imagine their homes and families, what they had done that morning, and all that they hold dear and familiar. “I am here to tell you that you can lose it all,” he warned. “No one knew the depth of Hitler's hatred for the Jews when he came to power.” Polk continued that genocide did not end with the Nazis and World War II. It continues up to the present day in the Middle East and Africa. Unless we are vigilant, it could happen here he cautioned.
TAGHS meets at 2PM on the third Wednesday of each month in the Meeting Room of the Timpson Public Library, located on the corner of Austin and Bremond streets. The public is invited.
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