Dinner Bell for July 3rd, 2024
LET’S CELEBRATE OUR COUNTRY’S INDEPENDENCE!!! The Dial Study Club was organized in 1951 when the Junior Waverly Club realized the need for an additional study club for young women in Sulphur Springs. Gretchen Dial was their sponsor and naming the new club after her was in recognition of her many community activities. The young ladies in Dial believed then as they do now in community improvement and involvement...
Paris Junior College Introduces new Vice President to Help Student Success
New PJC vice president pursues passion to help students succeed June 28, 2024 – For many years, Paris Junior College has been transitioning beyond being an “open door” college where everyone is welcome towards a primary focus of successful completion for every student. A major step on this path has been taken with the hiring of Dr. Lisa Elliott as Vice President of Student Access and Success. Her arrival at PJC on...
Dinner Bell for June 26th, 2024
The Mother’s Culture Club is the Community Partner for June 26, 2024. The Mother’s Culture Club was established September 20, 1929 for the mutual improvement of “our children, ourselves and our homes”. Fund raisers have included bake sales, golf tournaments, charity auctions, cookbook sales, and the yearly much loved Father-Daughter Dance plus many more. Amounts raised each year are in the multi thousand dollar...
City Managers Report June 4th 2024
CLAIMS – We did not have any workers’ compensation claims or liability claims in May. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN – We have applied for a $250,000 grant from the General Land Office (GLO) to help pay for the plan. They required an amendment to our Financial Management Policy. The amendment was approved at the last meeting. We are still awaiting word from the GLO. COLLEGE STREET – The street itself is ...
Dinner Bell for June 5th, 2024
IT IS DAIRY FESTIVAL TIME IN SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS!!! The Reigning Dairy Festival Queen, Caroline Prickett, and the 2024 contestants will grace the feeding ministry with their sleeves “rolled up” to fill the meal boxes and hand them to those persons in line to secure a meal. 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...
Sulphur Springs City Manager’s Report for April 2024
CLAIMS – We had one minor workers’ compensation claim and no liability claims in April. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN – We have applied for a $250,000 grant from the General Land Officeto help pay for the plan. They require an amendment to our Financial Management Policybefore they approve the grant. The amendment is on the agenda. COLLEGE STREET – We are on the home stretch. I still think we will have the street open by June 01.HOLIDAY DRIVE –...
Dinner Bell for May 1st, 2024
The Ladies Golf Association of the Sulphur Springs Country Club has existed as long as women played golf on the course! In 1975 the present day golf association was organized with golf rounds of a competitive nature being played the last Wednesday of the month followed by lunch. Tallying scores (low score wins) and remembrances of the day’s rounds make the luncheon the ladies share a memorable event. The golfers take special...
Dinner Bell for April 24th, 2024
Alliance Bank, its Board of Directors and shareholders, officers, employees and account holders, has supported the Dinner Bell feeding ministry many times yearly since 2016. Chartered on June 13, 1927 as Sulphur Springs State Bank, the name was changed to Alliance Bank as it began operations beyond Hopkins County in October of 1996. Presently it operates locations in the six different counties of Hopkins, Hunt (Greenville, Commerce,...
Dinner Bell for April 17th, 2024
The City National Bank, its shareholders, officers, employees and account holders, support the Dinner Bell Ministry, feeding those who need a meal, multiple times yearly since 2016. The City National Bank headquartered in Sulphur Springs is the 75th largest bank in Texas. It was organized in 1889 making it the oldest still operating banking institution in Hopkins County. It has 18 branches in Hopkins, Wood, Rains, Van Zant, Gregg,...
Dinner Bell for April 10th, 2024
The Kiwanis Club of Sulphur Springs is part of the Texas Ramp Project and constructed more then 50 wheelchair ramps for all ages with restricted mobility in Hopkins County in 2023. What the Kiwanis Club is famously “known for” is the Pancake Breakfast held each year at the Civic Center. A Pancakes Breakfast of pancakes, sausage and bacon with milk, coffee and juice is the fundraiser that supports the charitable programs of...
