Local author’s memoir about a life blessed despite disability
Ana L. Cueves lives in Sulphur Springs, Texas and has just self-published her first book, “In the Land I Did Not Choose”. Available on Amazon and on Kindle, the book is a memoir that describes her life’s journey as a person with the disability of blindness. Far from feeling dependent, she feels that her disability has allowed her a measure of success, enabling her to enter a life’s work and to discover a way to...
Trading Post December 13, 2016
For Sale: 1 treadmill, 2 exercise bikes, 3 small propane heaters, chest of drawers, and 1 desk. Call 903 885 9637. For Sale Till Friday Evening or until Sold. MISSING: A 9-MONTH-OLD GREAT PYRENEES FEMALE DOG, WEIGHING 75 POUNDS. SHE WENT MISSING FROM THE MIDWAY COMMUNITY ON HIGHWAY 19 SOUTH NEAR J AND S STORE, 10 MILES SOUTH OF SULPHUR SPRINGS. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS DOG, PLEASE CALL 903-440-3343. THIS PARTY...
Local Civil Air Patrol Cadet remembered
Charles White grew up in a dairy-farming family in Hopkins County. In fact, his family’s business, White’s Dairy on I-30 West, is one of the oldest continually-operating farms in the county. But Charles never really wanted to be a farmer: the boy from the country met his life’s work.. ..flying… when he was still a student at SSHS. He already had an after-school job at the local airport, doing odd jobs,...
Christmas Calendar of Events in Sulphur Springs 2016
THURSDAY DECEMBER 1….Lights of Life Tree Lighting in the Gardens at Christus Mother Frances Sulphur Springs hospital, at 6 pm. Santa will be there to visit with children, and everyone can enjoy carols, cookies and cocoa. FRIDAY DECEMBER 2…Casa Cookie Walk from 9 am til noon at First United Methodist Church Family Life Center. Lots of varieties of homemade cookies at $5 per pound! This benefits Hopkins County CASA...
Choral Society’s “Celebration Christmas” Concert
Director Carol Allen and Northeast Texas Choral Society board member Kacey Batterton are thrilled to announce that during this Christmas season, the choir will have a wish of theirs come true at long last…to offer the public a FREE concert as a gift from the twenty-year-old singing organization. In an interview on the Morning Show with Enola Gay, the two explained how recent weeks of rehearsal will culminate on Celebration Plaza...
Senior’s Gift Tree needs people like you!
The Golden Ager’s Gift Tree is up at the Seniors Center! There are about 56 names that have not yet been selected. Can you help brighten Christmas for a homebound senior citizen that lives in the Sulphur Springs area? It’s easy…stop by the Senior’s Center at 150 MLK Blvd and select a name off the tree. On your selected card, you’ll find some suggestions of things that person wants or needs. Go out and...
Trading Post Wednesday November 23, 2016
FOR SALE: PEKING DUCKS, TWO FOR $25 OR $15 EACH. ALSO LAYING CHICKEN HENS FOR SALE 903-348-4025. FOR SALE AN 8′ X 8′ FIBERGLASS CALF SHED 903-365-3142 Will pick up unwanted appliances… 903-885-4987
Your invitation to Christmas in Heritage Park
Bill Glover, who is a 15-year member of the Hopkins County Historical Society and descendant of a Hopkins County pioneer family, is also President of the local Society. He and fellow members are inviting you and your family to enjoy their gift, an end-of-year “give-back” event, “Christmas in the Park”. Cost is only 3$ person, with children age 7 and under admitted free. Hours are 5:30-8:30pm on two Saturdays...
