August 19, 2016 - The Shelby County Children’s Advocacy Center (SCCAC) recently received $25,000 in grant funds from The Meadows Foundation for renovations of our new office space. The new building is larger and was modified in order to allow us to expand our mental health staff, which now includes two counseling interns in addition to our full-time counselor. We are thrilled to be able to offer free counseling to more children and families in our community, and are very grateful to The Meadows Foundation for helping to make that possible.

August 19, 2016 - The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce recently announced the East Texas Poultry Festival will be October 6-8 on the historic downtown square.  One of several preliminary festivities is the Queen's Court Scholarship Pageant. The reigning East Texas Poultry Festival Queen, Camaryn Smith, will crown her successor on Saturday, October 1 on stage at Center High School.

August 19, 2016 - We would like to send a HUGE thank you to everyone in our community for the love, support, prayers, & encouragement. We are so proud that God's faithfulness continues to shine bright! Thank you to NAPA for hosting our event! Thank you to Ace Hardware for donating a rocking chair.

August 17, 2016 - When is a bicycle path not a bicycle path?  That is the question that my wife had to decide a number of years ago in Colorado.  I had taken a new job in 1974 with an insurance company whose home office was Littleton, Colorado.  We moved there in January of that year, native Texans in a foreign country, whom the natives teased about our “accent”.  I never felt that we had any detectible accent, but the Colorado citizens felt differently.