Livestock Shows By Mario Villarino
Livestock Show Season Raising and exhibiting a livestock project is not only instructional, concerning raising livestock for show, but also serves as an excellent teaching tool to illustrate livestock production techniques and animal science principles. Participating in a livestock project promotes sound livestock production practices. To be successful, families need to start by learning the essentials. Some of the major areas...
Are You Crafty? We Need Your Talents! By Johanna Hicks
Are You Crafty? We Need Your Talents! Last week, I told you about the Hopkins County Fall Festival Creative Arts Contest, with promises to tell you about the Arts & Crafts Show this week. Each year, a major attraction for the Fall Festival is the Arts & Crafts Show. If you have not visited this event, make a point to go this year! The Arts & Crafts Show is for artisans of all kinds to sell their hand-crafted items. The...
NETBIO September Sale Averaged Over $900 Per Head
Producers shipped a record number of pre-conditioned cattle to the Sulphur Springs Livestock Commission for the September Northeast Texas Beef Improvement Organization (NETBIO) sale held Wednesday. Producers consigned 6,955 head of calves and yearlings to the NETBIO sale that drew a big crowd of sellers, buyers and visitors. That number exceeded the previous September sale record by more than 1,000 head. “We had a lot of good cattle...
Terrific Tuesday Fundraising Mini-Walks Going Terrifically!
Tammie Reardon, Director of Terrific Tuesdays in Sulphur Springs, is participating in each of the mini-walks for the fundraising drive for her program. Tammie asks the community to be generous in support of Terrific Tuesday, a weekly program which assists caregivers of victims of Alzheimer’s and various dementia by giving them a day off each week from their caregiving duties. Since many caregivers are spouses or family members...
United Way Begins 2017-2018 Campaign, “Help Starts at Home”
Wednesday at the Southwest Dairy Museum, Hopkins County United Way 2017-2018 Campaign, “Help Starts at Home”, began with the annual workers’ luncheon. The goal for 2017-2018 is $175,000. Funds received during the drive will be allocated to: Boy Scouts of America, Circle Ten Council, $3,500 CANHelp, $11,000 East Texas Council on Alcohol/Drug Abuse, $1,000 Heritage Christian Counseling Center, $9,000 Hopkins County 4-H, $2,700 Hopkins...
Unique Sentence Handed Down for Sexual Assault
In Eighth Judicial District Court Wednesday, a sentencing hearing for Juan Daniel Santana Mendez, 20, assessed a sentence of 10-years deferred probation with 120 days in the county jail. Also, as a condition of probation, he will spend the victim’s birthday and the date of the rape in the county jail every year for the duration of his probation. Mendez had previously pled guilty to the offense of sexual assault of a child. Factually,...
Chamber Connection September 21, 2017
The deadline has come and gone for last year’s cooks to keep their stew site, but we have a few sites left in the 48th Annual Stew Cook-off. The absolute deadline for entry into the contest is Friday, October 6th at 5:00 p.m. All cooks signed up for the 48th Annual Stew Cook-off will need to attend the cooks come-and-go reception on Tuesday, October 17th at 6 p.m. at the Southwest Dairy Museum. Cooks will receive their grocery...
Blue Blazes Booster Club Plans Dinner, Auction to Send Girls to NYC in 2018!
Five of the Sulphur Springs High School Blue Blazes Drill Team officers interviewed at KSST about their upcoming fundraising Dinner and Auction on Saturday September 23, 2017 at 6pm in SSHS Cafeteria. There will be silent and live auctions where you can bid on exciting prizes and experiences. The dinner will be catered by Don Lalos. Blue Blazes will help serve. Tickets are still available this week at $10 each. The fundraiser is for...
