Delorean Biopic “Driven” Closes 2018 Venice Film Festival
By Chad Young Venice, Italy-Closing the Venice Film Festival is the John Delorean biopic “Driven” starring Lee Pace as DeLorean and Jason Sudeikis as Jim Hoffman, an FBI informant that is the undoing of John DeLorean’s career. Throughout the movie, you get the feeling that Delorean himself is his own undoing through his narcissistic and flamboyant demeanor that catapulted him to his meteoric rise through GM in the 60’s and 70’s, but...
Meet Central Baptist Church’ New Pastor Chris Stevens and Plan to Attend Revival October 21-24
September 7, 2018 – Chris Stevens likes small towns. During his lifetime he has lived in many of them in 49 different states, and pastored churches in Alabama, Kansas and Texas. He has a broad base of interests and experience, having worked part-time in radio and in sports officiating, even in farming and breaking horses, all to supplement his income at times as a pastor. Pastor Stevens feels his calling to become a pastor came...
The Two-Day Quilt Show in Sulphur Springs Will Celebrate History, Heritage and 20 Years for Local Guild
After 19 consecutive years, the Quilt Show held each Fall in Sulphur Springs has acquired a name for itself amongst those who embrace the timeless link between the craft of quilting and family heritage. In fact, the forging of Hopkins County’s Lone Star Heritage Quilt Guild in 1998 came through passion by local quilters and the assistance of existing skilled guilds in surrounding counties. According to the website...
Downtown Business Alliance Members and Volunteers Gear Up for a Busy Season!
At this month’s Downtown Business Alliance meeting, the agenda was filled with planned events that equal a lot of fun for the whole community! President Billie Ruth Standbridge called the meeting to order in the new meeting room of the Backstory Brewery. DBA officers are Vice President Joy Wilson, Secretary Linda Galligher and Treasurer Lynda Hager. Fourteen members and guests attended. Incidentally, you do not have to be a...
Drunk Driving Victim Invites Public to Local MADD Walk on September 29 at Shannon Oaks
MADD NE Texas Program Director Beth Powell with Melinda McDonald, crash victim Back in 2017, Melinda McDonald had almost arrived back home in Hopkins County from a Christmas shopping trip when her car was suddenly struck from behind by an intoxicated driver. Melinda remembers little from the impact except the sensation of the car rolling and anxiously hoping for the safety of her infant granddaughter who was in a car seat behind her....
Tradin’ Post for Wednesday, September 5th, 2018:
For Sale: four burial plots in lot 151 at Restlawn Memorial Park. Prices are negotiable… For more details, please call 903-692-1921… … … For Sale: 9 ft Norfolk Pine in pot $150. Call: 903-885-8686. Wanting: to haul off junk, iron, metal, cans, etc… For for info., please call Troy at 903-243-5961… … … For Sale: a Huskey 20 ton wood splitter. Asking $500.00 for it… If...
Fall Festival’s New Event for October is the Hay Bale Sculpture Contest
Shirley Patchen, left, and Sue Potts, right Local history researcher Shirley Patchen’s current interest in the era of 1914 made her realize the role that farmers played in the early growth of Hopkins County. Through their tireless labor, industry and innovation, Hopkins County became the Dairy Capitol of Texas. Patchen suggested that, as a tribute to past and present dairymen, farmers, ranchers, cattlemen and hay growers, Fall...
Dinner Bell Menu For September 5, 2018
DINNER BELL MENUSeptember 5, 2018 Community Sponsor: Alliance Bank Fall is upon us. Football is back. Yeah Wildcats! It is time for HOPKINS COUNTY STEW! Hopkins County Stew Cheese Sticks and Pickles Garden Salad Chili Cheese Cornbread Muffins Pineapple Delight Pineapple Yogurt Pudding (the no added sugar dessert) Served Wednesdays at 11:45 AM at the First United Methodist Church in Sulphur Springs,...
Casting Call for Video Promotion of Book by Local Author C J Davidson
CJ Davidson of Hopkins County wrote and published her first book in 2017 and that summer, attended her first book signing in Nashville, Tennessee. That’s where she, by chance, met singer/songwriter Beth Crowley who penned a song inspired by the book. Now a video has also been inspired, and a casting call for actors is set for September 8, 2018 in Sulphur Springs, Texas. She shared her amazing story during the KSST Good Morning...
