What’s a Quarter Auction? The Nov. 2 Fun Event Benefits Lights of Life!
Meredith Caddell, Executive Director of the Hopkins County Healthcare Foundation, continues the series of fundraisers for the Lights of Life Campaign, which will culminate at the Gala on January 27, 2018. Already, the Lights of Life Style Show and a Sip’n See Historic Tour have brought in donations for purchase of needed equipment for the local hospital. The next event is the Quarter Auction to be held at the Civic Center at...
Major Fall Festival Fun…Creative Arts Contest and Arts ‘n Crafts Show ‘n Sale!
According to Johanna Hicks, Texas Agri-Life Extension Agent and organizer of the Creative Arts Contest and the Arts n Crafts Show n Sale, this should be a big year for entries and vendors. The Creative Arts Contest brings in foods, horticulture, arts, ceramics, handiwork and items created by people who live in Hopkins County. There are several dozen categories in which you can enter your items for judging. There are also age...
Community Chest Wins North Texas Food Bank “Excellence in Innovation” Award for REACHOut Program
As Executive Director of Community Chest, Judy Moore is always trying to come up with better ways to assist the needs of the low-income population in Hopkins County. While studying a 2016 list of Community Chest clients, she noticed that most had in-town Sulphur Springs addresses. She developed an idea to offer the services of Community Chest to the outlying areas of Hopkins County to see how it was accepted. It has turned out to be...
Chamber Board Members Getting Ready to “Do the Stew!”
Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Board Members Kim Beck and Amber Gilbert will be on duty before daylight on “Stew Day” in Hopkins County, October 28, 2017. By that time, the stew grounds in Buford Park will house 165 different stew sites. A walk-through of the sites is always interesting because you meet new cooks and familiar, even famous ones, too. Winners of the Super-Stew contest in Beef and Chicken categories and...
Help-A-Child Chili, Brisket, Ag Mech Contest Winners at 2017 Benefit
2017 HELP A CHILD CHILI & BRISKET WINNERS AND PRIZE SPONSORS 1st Place Chili –INTERSTATE BODY SHOP Sponsored by: INTERSTATE BODY SHOP 2nd Place Chili—SULPHUR SPRINGS PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS Sponsored by: Association Local 3237 3rd Place Chili—SULPHUR BLUFF EASTERN STAR Sponsored by: Sulphur Bluff Eastern Star CHILI PRIZE SPONSORS: INTERSTATE BODY SHOP CNB of YANTIS JAY HODGE CHEVROLET 1st Place Brisket—DEEP SOUTH Sponsored...
Fall Festival Chili Cookoff at Seniors Center Demonstrates Good Taste Among Chili Lovers
Fifteen entries of “Texas” chili were entered crock-pot style in the Senior Citizens Day Chili Classic for Fall Festival. Entries were judged, then served to local chili lovers at the Seniors’ Center at noon Tuesday October 24. The judges scored each sample of chili based on four criteria: color, aroma, consistency and taste. The points were added up and the winners proclaimed before the audience. Besides cash...
Local Musician/Songwriter Earns Guitar Endorsement from Alvarez Guitar Co.
Brad Davis of Commerce, Texas is a 53-year-old seasoned professional musician. He plays guitar plus a number of instruments, owns and operates a recording studio where he engineers, mixes and produces music projects for himself and others. He stays in demand as a sessions player in Nashville. On the client list of his music company, BDM Music, is the likes of Willie Nelson and Billie Bob Thornton. Brad is a Grammy-winner for his...
KIDZ ZONE…A Wildly Popular 2-Day Feature of Fall Festival Returns
According to Leanetta Pryor, Fall Festival Board member, this year’s Kidz Zone will offer more fun than ever for various age levels…carnival games like pencil pull, duck pond, ring toss, balloon pop, the petting zoo as well as face and hair painting stations for the younger set under the Kidz Zone tent…the Texas Snake Show and Professor Newton’s Science Show nearby …bounce houses, horse rides and...
“Main Street Uncorked” Wine and Music Fundraiser Benefits Veterans Memorial
One of the event co-coordinators for the first-ever “Main Street Uncorked” benefit tasting event is Jeanna Smith Penny. Along with Phil and Vanessa Williams, owners of Phinesse Farms Winery in downtown Sulphur Springs, Jeanna invited numerous wineries from across the NE Texas region and 14 accepted their invitation to the give-back event.That means for your $20 ticket, you may sample ten different Texas wines from the...
Como-Pickton FFA Teams Place at State Fair, Donate to Help-a-Child Benefit
According to Michael Bowen, Ag Instructor and FFA Sponsor, the Como Pickton FFA teams competed at the State Fair of Texas Agricultural Mechanics Show. The students also donated a shop-built BBQ Smoker to be auctioned at the Help-a-Child Benefit on October 21 in the Civic Center arena. Here is their report. Specialty Equipment Trailer – 2nd in class exhibited by Parker Cummings and Daniel Galvan Portable Milking Parlor –...
