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Early Entry Deadline June 10th for What-A-Melon Festival Pageant

June 8, 2017 - The deadline for early entry for the 2017 East Texas What-A-Melon Festival is Saturday, June 10.

Lions Club Brooms Available

June 8, 2017 - Lions Club has brooms available! Stop by Dance Furniture in Center or King's Nursery in Tenaha to buy your broom and support the Center Noon Lions Club. Brooms available are princess brooms and warehouse brooms.

Library Summer Reading Programs Start Today

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.

Bordelon Attends Garden Club Southern Zone Workshop

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

Boy Scout Troop 119 News

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.

SCOM Food Box Needs, June 'Food of the Month' Item

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!

National Garden Week Proclamation

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.