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April 20, 2017 - Shelbyville Junior Chamber of Commerce (JCC) members are having a food drive!!! The food drive will be held April 24-28 and it’s going to help the Shelby County Outreach in Center. Food can be dropped off at Shelbyville school and can consist of any canned goods or nonperishable food items including bottle water, beans, rice, canned meat, pasta, instant potatoes, ramen noodles, soup, peanut butter, crackers, etc.
April 20, 2017 - The Sheriff's Association of Texas has awarded a scholarship for the Spring 2017 Semester to Bethany Birdwell, daughter of Shelby County Sheriff's Office Investigator Del Birdwell and Joanna Birdwell.
Bethany is a student at Stephen F. Austin State University, majoring in Education.
The Sheriffs' Association of Texas offers scholarships to eligible students pursuing an academic degree at a college or university. In addition to the Sheriffs' Association of Texas scholarships, several others are made available through the generosity of individuals or other organizations. These funds are managed by the Sheriffs' Association of Texas for award to qualified students. The scholarships are awarded once in the Spring Semester and once in the Fall Semester of each year. Since 1981, the Sheriffs' Association of Texas has awarded 1,891 youth scholarships, totaling $945,500.
On hand for the presentation of the scholarship to Bethany were Shelby County Sheriff Willis Blackwell, Investigator Birdwell and Chief Deputy DJ Dickerson.
Submitted by Leah Chase, SCSO Media Relations
April 20, 2017 - Texas is home to more than 70 children’s advocacy centers, as unique as the communities they serve. But each has one thing in common: a table that functions as a regular place of meeting for people who care. These tables welcome police detectives, CPS investigators, prosecutors, forensic interviewers, medical experts and therapists, united in one guiding goal: to win justice for the victims of child abuse and place them on a path toward healing.
While not physically present at those tables, there is an unseen network of supporters who help make this process work. We all have a part to play in making sure that our children are protected. #takeyourseat https://vimeo.com/202235324
April 19, 2017 - April is Confederate History Month and in honor of Shelby County Confederate Veterans, The Sons Of Confederate Veterans Capt. Jesse Amason Camp # 282, placed Confederate Flags designating the veterans service and burial. The veterans of the Corinth and Buena Vista cemeteries were chosen for the annual flagging tradition. SCV members participating were Gene Hotto, Glenn Hartt, Jim Barrett and Roger Doyle.
C.S.A. - SGT. John F. Bell, CO. K, 52 GA. INF. and James L. Wilson, Born July 8, 1842, Died June 29, 1882
April 17, 2017 - The Shelbyville Athletic Boosters would like to thank the Shelby County Cookers for cooking hamburgers at our Junior High track meet on March 30th and our High School District track meet on April 10th. Hundreds of hamburgers were prepared on both days for the athletes.
Athletic Booster President
Beth Harrington
April 14, 2017 - VFW Post 8904 members joined with Center High School yesterday, April 13th in honoring Adam Ramirez as our Post HS Teacher of the Year. He was presented with a framed certificate, check for $100 and an engraved pen set. Adam teaches basic and advanced graphic design and illustration.
Photos courtesy of Sydney Brookshire, District Media Coordinator. Congratulations Adam Ramirez!!
April 14, 2017 (Album1, Album2) - The community gathered on the downtown Center square to unit against child abuse. April is Child Abuse Prevention month and the Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center along with the Shelby County Rainbow Room meet on the square to the Blue Ribbon Tree and the Butterfly Release.
Bro. Rob Merriman, pastor of First Baptist Church of Shelbyville, said a prayer for the safety of the community and a safe place to raise our kids.
Wayne Christian, Texas Railroad Commissioner, spoke about the constitution and what it instructs us to do, “[In 2016] 222 children have lost their lives in the state of Texas. Folks, what did our constitution say was the most important thing that government was here to protect? Number one was life. And when we don’t protect those young lives, then we are not doing the duty, number one that God gave us here, and number two our forefathers gave us the order to do.” He thanked everyone for being at the event as a community to unite to help prevent child abuse and protect those who can't protect themselves.
Shelby County had 83 confirmed cases of child abuse in the year of 2016. There were zero child deaths due to child abuse reported in Shelby County since the last Blue Ribbon Tree event which was the first time in over four years.
Alice Pate, Rainbow Room representative, spoke about the Blue Ribbon tree ceremony as members of Child Protective services handed out a ribbon for each of the confirmed victims of child abuse in Shelby County. “We tie a blue ribbon for each of the 83 confirmed cases of abuse in Shelby County. Then we have thrown in a few extras for the children we don’t know about yet so we are tying 90 ribbons.”
Following everyone tying the blue ribbons in the tree, Mayor Chadwick, president of Farmers State Bank who is the sponsor of the Butterfly Release, shared the story of the butterfly as members of the Shelby County Advocacy Center handed out the delicate butterflies in their envelopes.
With a countdown from 10, everyone opened up their envelopes releasing their butterfly to carry their wish to God.
April 13, 2017 - The 16th Annual Agriculture Appreciation & Awareness Banquet presented by TFP Nutrition was held April 10 at the Nacogdoches County Exposition & Civic Center. The Nacogdoches County Agriculture Committee honored award recipients and presented Gary and Sue Atkins Agricultural Scholarships to four students.
The 2017 agriculture award recipients are:
- Agribusiness of the Year, Borders Poultry Supply, Inc. (sponsored by First Bank & Trust East Texas);
- Agriculture Educator of the Year, Melvin Adams (sponsored by Citizens 1st Bank);
- Pete Smith Agriculture Pioneer, Hank Curbow (sponsored by Heritage Land Bank);
- Farm Family of the Year, Hyman and Benjamin Boozer Family (sponsored by Tipton Ford-Lincoln).
Scholarship recipients are:
Johnathan Lowery and Clayton Sestak Douglass High School; Brooke Petty, Nacogdoches High School; and Matthew Matlock, Cushing High School.
April 11, 2017 - This week marks the annual National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW). Held every year during the second week of April, NPSTW is a time to recognize telecommunications personnel in the public safety community for their service and commitment to the profession.
Telecommunicator Week provides an opportunity to recognize the men and women who staff our Police Departments, Sheriff’s Office, EMS Offices and 9-1-1 centers across the Nation. It highlights a profession that demands unique professional skills and personal attributes of people willing to make sacrifices like working weekends, shifts, and holidays, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. It is to help to instill a sense of pride and personal satisfaction in telecommunications, knowing that their essential, and often heroic work, is being recognized and not forgotten.”
The Center Police Department and the PD’s Ladies Auxiliary extends its appreciation to the telecommunicators and other public safety personnel for the important work they do every day to keep their communities safe and secure.
Submitted by Donna Dugger
April 11, 2017 – Center One of Smallest Texas Communities Receiving Award
The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) is pleased to announce that the City of Center, Texas, has received the GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its budget.
“The City Council and staff are committed to the concept of transparency in our organization. We have worked for years to develop our budget document into one that presents complex information in a manner that can easily be understood,” explained Center Mayor David Chadwick. “We are honored that a national organization has recognized these efforts.”
The award represents a significant achievement by the City. It reflects the commitment of the governing body and staff to meeting the highest principles of government budgeting. In order to receive the budget award, the entity had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation. These guidelines are designed to assess how well an entity’s budget serves as a policy document, a financial plan, an operations guide, and a communications device.
Budget documents must be rated proficient in all four categories and the fourteen mandatory criteria within those categories, to receive the award. When a Distinguished Budget Presentation Award is granted to an entity, a Certificate of Recognition for Budget Presentation is also presented to the individual or department designated as being primarily responsible for its having achieved the award. This has been presented to the Administration department.
For budgets beginning in 2015, 1,565 participants nationally received the Award. Award recipients have pioneered efforts to improve the quality of budgeting and provide an excellent example for other governments throughout North America. Center City Manager Chad Nehring described, “Staff worked extremely hard to allow Center to earn the distinction of being one of the smallest rural Texas communities to receive this award. The only other cities in our region to earn this honor are Tyler, Longview, Lufkin, Texarkana, and Huntsville.”
The Government Finance Officers Association is a major professional association servicing the needs of more than 18,000 appointed and elected local, state, and provincial-level government officials and other finance practitioners. It provides top quality publications, training programs, services, and products designed to enhance the skills and performance of those responsible for government finance policy and management. The association is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with offices in Washington, DC. The GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program is the only national awards program in governmental budgeting.
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