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April 14, 2020 - Just didn’t want to leave anything up in the air. To comply with Social distancing The PWPS (Piney Woods Photographic Society) will not be holding their regular monthly meeting this month. But there will be an online challenge “Double Up” of photographs submitted by members featuring reflections of their choice.
Enjoy viewing all the photographs submitted by members by going to https://www.flickr.com/groups/pineywoodsphotographic/.
For more information about PWPS memberships or meetings text or call Billie F Jones, 936-591-2426 or billiejones602@gmail.com and remember to stay safe and practice social distancing, hopefully we’ll see everyone at our next meeting.
April 14, 2020 – Michele Clark, representative with the Texas Extension Education Association (TEEA) presented the Cooking with Herbs program at the Women on the Go meeting hosted by AgriLife Extension on Wednesday, March 5, 2020. Clark’s program involved properly growing a variety of herbs and using herbs for cooking and making homemade herb mixes.
Feleshia Thompson, County Extension Agent-Family and Community Health, welcomed everyone in attendance and thanked Clark for providing the meal and program for the meeting. Before the program presentation, Clark shared with information about the XYZ Club hosting the District 5 Spring Conference, Dollars for Scholars and Coins for Friendship supporting the 4-H program and the Quilts of Valor sewing program.
Clark started her presentation showing the display of herbs from her own garden, discussing the homemade jars of herb mixes as well as sharing recommendations how to purchase herbs.
“Herbs are easy to grow…if you need basil or mint in the spring or summer for cooking, don’t buy it from the produce department, but buy it from the garden department,” said Clark. “Herbs will last longer and the plants are better.” Clark also recommended using terra cotta pots for planting your herbs because other pots tend to hold the moisture, which it not good for the plant’s roots.
Clark shared a handout with information for making basic homemade spice mixes using fresh herbs and seasonings you might have in your own pantry. “I dried my own parsley and rosemary, and if you seal the herbs in a jar, most will last up to a year.”
When cooking with herbs, Clark recommended starting small with adding herbs to your recipes to suit your own taste. She added, “When cooking with herbs, you don’t want to add them at first because the flavor will cook out, you want to add later, even if the herbs are dried or fresh. But there are the French stews where you put in the bouquet garnis or when stuffing the turkey for Thanksgiving that you leave (the herbs) in the whole time.”
After the presentation, one question asked about the recipe for Garam masala and how it is used in cooking. Clark explained, “Garam masala is an Indian cooking seasoning and it is just a combination of cumin, coriander seeds, sesame seeds, black pepper, cloves, mace, cinnamon and cardamom,” she added. “I sprinkle it on chicken and other things and there’s just a hint of flavor.”
About AgriLife Women on the Go Club
The focus of this, hands-on club is about learning tips and shortcuts to be more productive and successful in balancing home, family and work through a healthy lifestyle. While the focus of the club is geared toward women, it is open to men who also want to participate.
April 13, 2020 - The Easter Bunny made an appearance at 3Ps food distribution Good Friday, April 10.
Practicing social distancing, the Town & Country Real Estate Easter Bunny was feeling a little lonely this year and decided to pay a visit to those stopping in to pick up meals at the food distribution site.
Those that pulled in to the location waved to the Easter Bunny and received a special Easter egg from the Easter Bunny with their meal.
April 10, 2020 - During a typical year, Shelby County Today would have been busy all week taking photos of Easter Egg Hunts and photos of the first Easter Bunny meeting of many little ones. We have greatly missed seeing and visiting with the community at these various events.
SCT with the help of Rhonda Samford, owner of Always Say A Prayer Handmade Crafts, has an Easter egg patch setup in front of the office at 202 Field Street for families to take an Easter photo!
We encourage everyone to come out while practicing social distancing with one family at a time. If you see a family taking their photo, please wait in your car until they are finished.
If you would like your family's photo to be posted on Shelby County Today in a photo album, we will try to be available and if you don't see us, give us a call at 936-591-9334 and we will come outside.
Due to COVID-19 and trying to limit the spreading of the virus there is not a bench. Please bring a chair if it is needed. If you have a baby and something is needed to place the baby on, please bring what is needed.
We will be sanitizing the display throughout the day. If you or someone in your group is immune compromised and would like to have the display sprayed before using, please call first.
April 9, 2020 - Area residents amassed in their vehicles in the Nacogdoches Medical Center - Shelby Emergency Department parking lot April 9, 2020, to show their love and support for the medical personnel working day and night to save lives.
This isn't the first time they have received this outpouring of support from the community as April 6 vehicles showed up and residents honked their horns and flashed the lights of their cars to cheer on the medical staff as they continue to join in the fight against COVID-19.
As the horns honked and lights flashed during shift change, a group of staff took a quick turn waving at their fans outside the building before they returned to their duties.
April 7, 2020 - You are invited to a Facebook Live event on Thursday! We need community now more than ever. The Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas (CACTX) and Women of Courage invite you to a Facebook Live event April 9th, from Noon until 12:30pm on the CACTX Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/cacoftexas/. Please join Joy Rauls, CACTX Chief Executive Office and Jenna Quinn, advocate and survivor behind Jenna's Law, as they discuss the importance of children's advocacy centers and the issues surrounding child abuse prevention during this time. #childabuseprevention
April 8, 2020 – Center community residents united on the evening of Monday, April 6 to show support for the healthcare workers at the Nacogdoches Medical Center (NMC) Shelby County Emergency Department (ED).
Several residents met in the parking lot of the ED to show appreciation for the staff during a shift change. To respect social distancing, the residents stayed in their vehicles while honking their horns and flashing their lights in unison.
The community efforts were reportedly formed by a public Facebook group called the 'Pop-Up Parking Lot Tribute,' a place where group followers share information when they will be visiting the ED and showing support for the healthcare workers.
According to Tammy Hanson, RN at NMC Shelby County ED, sharing publicly on her personal Facebook page and giving Shelby County Today permission to reprint, “Tonight (Monday, April 6), I got to witness something pretty amazing from Shelby County that brought me to tears. Family and friends of Shelby ED came out to support us at shift change. You have no idea how much this means to us. We are working hard and tireless often unnoticed. Love you all for caring. Thank you, Shelby County!"
The description for the page says, "Please join us for a celebration to honor our local health care workers during their shift change with a pop-up parking lot tribute. This will take place at the Shelby Emergency Department on Monday and Thursday (April 9th) at 6:35 PM. Fill the parking lot with our vehicles for an applause (honk) parade! These men and women are risking their lives to help our community get through these trying times. Lets gather in our vehicles to show our appreciation!"
Shelby County Today would like to advise anyone coming out the Parking Lot Tribute today, please make sure you don't park in a place which will block the flow of traffic. ACE Hardware's parking lot is across the street and can accommodate any over flow. Be safe!
April 8, 2020 - In response to schools rolling back meal supply due to COVID-19 safety protocols, James Ragan with 3Ps Auto Detailing, Pressure Washing has joined with volunteers to help fill the void and prevent the hunger.
"We just don't like to see kids go hungry by no means, and with the school closing we just took it upon ourselves to try and give back where we could," said Ragan.
The group provided meals out-of-pocket Monday and donations are now being accumulated through the community.
"We're just trying to keep this going for as long as possible, as long as we've got the funds and manpower with volunteers from the community. I'm overwhelmed with the support," said Ragan.
The group is hoping to provide meals as long as they can. The next two weeks will be their initial goal, while the school will not be providing meals for the coming week and the week thereafter, which is Spring break.
They plan to reassess after the first two weeks and hope to be able to increase output, as the need is great.
Donations are continuing to be accepted and one method is via a PayPal account set up by Morgan Ragan to accept funds for the cause. James Ragan says 100% of the proceeds go to providing the meals. (Click here to follow the Paypal link)
"The school was providing about 800 meals a day, we're not there yet. [Sunday] we did 100, [Monday] we did 150 and hopefully the numbers keep increasing daily," said Ragan. "I just don't like kids going hungry."
Kids 18 and younger are welcome to a free meal at 717 Southview Circle in Center. Pickup starts at 11am.
In precaution to help prevent the spread, they ask each person to stay in their vehicle as the volunteers hand out sack lunches while wearing gloves and masks.
April 7, 2020 - The Center Garden Club's Yard of the Month award for April has been presented to Melba Williams for her line of white-bloom-laden dogwood shrubs at the end of the drive, her rock collection outlining the flower beds, and her immaculately groomed lawn located on Highway 96 South.
April 7, 2020 - Center Garden Club's March meeting program featured Mrs. Janette Wittmann and her voice and piano students from Joaquin who delighted the Club and its guests with a musical tribute to nature. Mrs. Wittmann designed the program to remind the audience of how nature has influenced the development of music since time began.
Music has been our vehicle to express our thoughts and feelings through sound. Throughout history, composers have used the muse Nature for inspiration. Among the categories included in Mrs. Wittmann's exploration of nature's influence on our music were space, seasons, water, birds, mountains, hills and valleys, prairies and meadows, trees, garden critters, flowers, air and wind. For each of the natural categories, examples of orchestral, movie music, spiritual, opera, children's songs, songs of yesteryear, choral, madrigals and rounds, Christmas, ballet, cowboy, college songs, patriotic, metaphysical, folk songs, sacred, pop and other genre were performed or cited.
Student performers and their Nature selections included: Madalyn Bryant, "The Puffin" (vocal) and "The Butterfly"(vocal and piano); Kinsey Bryant, "Icicles" (piano); Emma Lewis, "Trees" ( a reading) and "The Birch Tree" (vocal); and Anna Claire Lewis, "Over the Rainbow" and "Little April Showers" (both vocal). The Bryant sisters are the daughters of Tracy and Jonathan Bryant. The Lewis sisters are the daughters of Brandi and J.C. Lewis.
In the final segment of the program, Mrs. Wittmann also introduced several unusual instruments: the 'Sea Organ" in Zadar, Croatia and the Jean Sibelius Monument of six hundred pipes in Helsinki, Finland. Mrs. Wittmann had visited both of the unusual instruments. She also introduced the beautiful manual Stalactite Organ located in the Virginia's Luray Caverns which Center's own Ann Harmon had once played. Mrs. Wittmann also cited the annual ice music festival held in Geilo, Norway where instruments are carved from ice and then played. In conclusion she encouraged everyone to view these musical wonders on YouTube.
Through this most informative, inspirational, and moving program, produced and narrated by Mrs. Wittmann and performed by her piano and voice students from Joaquin and her, the audience became vastly more aware of how the marriage of nature and music is therapeutic and inspirational, expressing beauty and showing us as Louis Armstrong used to sing: "What a Wonderful World"!
Following the program, the Club served lunch to the performers, their parents, and other guests in the Fellowship Hall of the First Baptist Church.
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