Cooking Well With Diabetes Focuses On Food Choices, Healthy Food Preparation
Johanna Hicks, Extension Agent By Johanna Hicks, Texas AgriLife Extension Agent for Family and Community Health in Hopkins County, [email protected] Diabetes continues to be a problem in Hopkins County. According to Countyhealthrankings.org, 12% of Hopkins County adults over the age of 18 have been diagnosed with diabetes. The good news is that diabetes can be managed with some diligence. And more good news is that the Texas...
Johanna Hicks And Team Honored At 2022 National Health Outreach Conference
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Agent Johanna Hicks and a team of Extension Specialists and Extension program administrators were honored at the 2022 National Health Outreach Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. The is based on programs designed to meet an identified need at the individual and/or family level. The purpose of the award is to recognize Extension programs that positively influence the health of people across the United...
Chamber Connection: Have Conversations With CASA Aug. 31, Final Day To Enter Photo Contest
By Butch Burney, Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce President/CEO, [email protected] If you have cooked stew in the past or want to for the first time, now is the time to register for the 53rd Annual Hopkins County Stew Festival, presented by Alliance Bank. The Stew Festival is Saturday, Oct. 22, with Friday night activities, hosted by Bob Evans Foods, will be going on the night before at Buford Park.To register for a cook...
CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs Business News — Aug. 29, 2022
By Jennifer Heitman, Senior Market Development, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, [email protected] Sulphur Springs, Texas, August 29, 2022 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs has ONE mission: To Extend the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. Mobile Athletic Training Room and Wildcat Tailgate Thank you to all who came by our CHRISTUS tent at the first Wildcat football home game....
A Scarlet Fire Dogwood Is Ideal For Small Spaces
By David Wall, Mount Pleasant Master Gardener Scarlet Fire Dogwood (Photo: Arbor Day Foundation) Horticulturists are always trying to find something better with regard to plants of all types. Sometimes a “new” variety can be developed in just a few years, but others take much longer. Such an example is the Scarlet Fire Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa ‘Rutpink’), which took Rutgers University 45 years to develop. It first appeared in 2016,...
Trading Post for August 29, 2022
For Sale: a Polara Sportsman 500 four wheeler. “In great shape.” Asking $4,500.00 for it. Also for sale, four Michelin tires. Size 2 55/55-20. Asking $100.00 for them. And, a 350 gallon portable septic tank. Asking $150.00 for it. If interested in any of these items, or for more info., please call 903-348-5820… Children’s bikes: Girl’s 20″ Huffy Sea Star bike, blue with silver streamers on handle...
Flag Flying Parade Planned For Sept. 11
A “Flag Flying Parade” is planned for Sept. 11, 2022, in Sulphur Springs by a local group called Freedom Flyers. All are encouraged to show their patriotism by turning out along a designated parade route with flags starting at 4 p.m., with a flag parade slated to begin at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, according to Mark Maddox, president for the local group. “My goal is just for us to roll, have a good time, putting a...
Meal A Day Menu – Aug. 29-Sept. 2, 2022
Volunteers prepare meals at the Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center and deliver them five days a week to Meal A Day program recipients in Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County. The Meal A Day Menu for the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2, 2022 includes: Monday – Chicken Parmesan On a bed of Egg Noodles, Italian Vegetables and Garlic Toast.Tuesday – Ham and Potato Casserole, Pinto Beans and Brussels Sprouts.Wednesday – Cheesy...
Dinner Bell Menu for August 31, 2022
The United Way has been a supporter of The Dinner Bell feeding ministry for many years. The Dinner Bell is very grateful and gives a loud “shout out” to the United Way and wishes great success on its upcoming financial campaign. This meal is a thank you to the United Way. GRAB and GO with a meal from the distribution area under the covered driveway (porte cochere) on the Northeast corner of the First United Methodist...
Hopkins County Records — Aug. 27, 2022
Land Deed Transactions The following land deed transactions were filed and posted between Aug. 4-6, 2022, at Hopkins County Clerk’s Office: Record books at Hopkins County Clerk’s Office Jim Edward Brattan and Jennifer Brooke Goggans to Billy Paul Bratten; tract in the HL Ward surveyGretchen Roberts, independently and as independent executor for the William Archie Highfield Estate, to Cole Boseman and Elyssa Boseman; tract in the...
