New Event! WCA ‘Cowboy Poetry Gathering’ in Winnsboro October 18, 19
Oct16

New Event! WCA ‘Cowboy Poetry Gathering’ in Winnsboro October 18, 19

Winnsboro event organizers Jim Willis and Brenda Buck invite you to attend! Winnsboro Center for the Arts, 200 Market Street Winnsboro, Texas is adding a Cowboy Poetry Gathering to it’s calendar of cultural arts events. Back in March 2019, Mary White, President of Winnsboro Center for the Arts, and Brenda Buck, Director of Winnsboro’s Main Street Project and Cultural Arts District, attended a Gathering in Alpine, Texas....

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Meal A Day In Jeopardy Of Closing 2 Days A Week Due Lack of Cooks; Route Driver Needed Starting Next Week
Oct16

Meal A Day In Jeopardy Of Closing 2 Days A Week Due Lack of Cooks; Route Driver Needed Starting Next Week

Meal A Day is in desperate need of Wednesday and Thursday cooks, and starting next week will need a Como-Pickton delivery route driver. Meal A Day is in jeopardy of having to shut down on Wednesdays and Thursdays due to lack of cooks to help prepare meals to be delivered to elderly shut-ins and serve to senior citizens at the Martin Luther King Drive activity center, according to program manager Karon Weatherman. “If you can...

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Tradin’ Post for Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
Oct16

Tradin’ Post for Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

For Sale: 2 Dearborn Heater, 1 Hearth Glow Heater. 903 423 0697 For Sale: fresh pickling cucumbers, green tomatoes for pickling, decorative guords, and sweet potatoes. If interested, or for more details, please call 903-243-0472. For Sale: 3-point bale spear and a climbing tree stand lounge #18. Call 903 438 8274 Wanted: Cargo Trailer, 6 ft high, 10 – 16 Long, 903 588 1010 For Sale: (A list of four items.) #1.) A Smith Corona...

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Health Care Foundation’s Mardi Bras For A Cause Will Fund Free Mammograms For Uninsured Women Over 40
Oct16

Health Care Foundation’s Mardi Bras For A Cause Will Fund Free Mammograms For Uninsured Women Over 40

Hopkins County Health Care Foundation will be hosting Bras for a Cause this month as an awareness campaign as well as a means to raise funds. Community members are encouraged to decorate a bra, promote Breast cancer awareness and raise funds for the cause. “This year, we are raising money to provide free mammograms to uninsured women over 40,” stated Meredith Caddell, executive director of Hopkins County Health Care...

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Lady Cats Volleyball Loses In Close Match
Oct16

Lady Cats Volleyball Loses In Close Match

Lady Cats Volleyball Takes Royse City to Fifth Set Before Losing Heartbreaker, 3-2 Tuesday Night A grueling district volleyball match between the Lady Cats and Royse City Tuesday night ultimately came down to a fifth and deciding set which the Lady Bulldogs won at home taking the match, 3-2. The anticlimactic fifth set was won by Royse City, 15-7 as the Lady Cats struggled. The Lady Cats got off to a slow start in set one trailing...

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Grand Opening for the Northeast Texas Children’s Museum
Oct15

Grand Opening for the Northeast Texas Children’s Museum

The Time is Here! (October 15, 2019 Commerce, Texas) – The streets have been painted; Amazing Airways is installed; and the businesses are ready to open. Children are now needed to complete the scene at the Northeast Texas Children’s Museum. Children and families are invited to the Grand Opening on Saturday, October 26 from 9:30 to 4:30 at 100 Maple Street. The Grand Opening will feature a new look for Main Street with detailed...

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Hopkins County United Way Adds Nearly $4,000 Toward 2019-2020 Campaign Goal
Oct15

Hopkins County United Way Adds Nearly $4,000 Toward 2019-2020 Campaign Goal

Mario Villarino turns in donations packets to Hopkins County United Way Co-Chair Bill Owens and Executive Secretary Susan Berning during the Oct. 15 campaign report meeting Hopkins County United Way campaign workers turned in nearly $4,000 in additional pledges and donations collected during week three of the 2019-2020 campaign to benefit 20 local organizations. As of the Oct. 15 report meeting $45,812.54 of the overall $165,000 goal...

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Pecan Season! Corsicana Shelled Pecans Offered Through the Sr’s Center
Oct15

Pecan Season! Corsicana Shelled Pecans Offered Through the Sr’s Center

Corsicana pecans for the 2019 season Karon Weatherman, Director of the Sulphur Springs Senior Citizens Center, knows that the good cooks of Hopkins County want fresh pecans for their holiday baking, and she is making it easy to get the freshest from Northeast Texas trees. She also knows the community is eager to help with fundraising for the proposed Senior Citizens Center, so here is a great way to do both! You can place your orders...

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Tradin’ Post for Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
Oct15

Tradin’ Post for Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

For Sale: fresh pickling cucumbers, green tomatoes for pickling, decorative guords, and sweet potatoes. If interested, or for more details, please call 903-243-0472. For Sale: 3-point bale spear and a climbing tree stand lounge #18. Call 903 438 8274 Wanted: Cargo Trailer, 6 ft high, 10 – 16 Long, 903 588 1010 For Sale: (A list of four items.) #1.) A Smith Corona PWP typewriter for $20. #2.) A Sharp UX-510 fax machine for $20....

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Take Diabetes To Heart
Oct15

Take Diabetes To Heart

Johanna Hicks, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Family & Consumer Sciences, 1200-B West Houston St., P.O.Box 518, Sulphur springs, TX 75483; 903-885-3443 – phone 903-439-4909 – Fax, [email protected] By Johanna Hicks November is National Diabetes Month, a time when communities across the country team up to bring attention to diabetes. In partnership with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), this year’s focus...

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