Community Chest Wins North Texas Food Bank “Excellence in Innovation” Award for REACHOut Program
Oct26

Community Chest Wins North Texas Food Bank “Excellence in Innovation” Award for REACHOut Program

As Executive Director of  Community Chest, Judy Moore is always trying to come up with better ways to assist the needs of the low-income population in Hopkins County.  While studying a 2016 list of Community Chest clients, she noticed that most had in-town Sulphur Springs addresses. She developed an idea to offer the services of Community Chest to the outlying areas of Hopkins County to see how it was accepted. It has turned out to be...

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ReachOut Events at the Hopkins County Community Chest
Aug02

ReachOut Events at the Hopkins County Community Chest

Fridays from 12pm -3pm Councelors travel to ReachOut sites to provide the same services offered at the main office to low income households in our community sites are as follows:  1st Friday of each month – Arbala Community Center On the corner of FM 1567 @ FM 2081 Arbala Texas 75433 2nd Friday of each month – Como United Methodist Church 309 Lynch Street Como Texas 75431 3rd Friday of each month – Peerless Assembly...

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Miller Grove News
Oct23

Miller Grove News

I don’t know if anyone caught the error in last week’s column but I believe that a paragraph of another writer’s community news was accidentally inserted into my column.  It was the paragraph talking about having a birthday and going out to eat with “my husband Chip”.  One of my cousins called me laughing and telling me about it and of course I laughed too. If you haven’t driven by County Line Baptist Church lately I would suggest...

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Vivian Lanell Shell
Jun26

Vivian Lanell Shell

A funeral service for Vivian Lanell Shell, age 83, of Sulphur Springs will be conducted at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home at 10:00 a.m., Monday, June 29, 2015 with Rev. Steve Cook officiating.  Interment will follow at Arbala Cemetery, with Jeff Mannis, Nate Rowland, Kelly Robbins, Mike Clem, Marvin Jimenez and Michael Pennington serving as Pallbearers. Vivian Shell passed away Friday , June 26, 2015 at Sulphur Springs Health and Rehab. ...

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