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November 14, 2016 - On Veterans Day afternoon, November 11th, Shelby County Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8904 and the Auxiliary visited 15 veterans at Holiday Nursing Home. Each was recognized and presented the emblem of their military service.
It was a double special day for Mr. Charles Sanford as it was also his 95th birthday. Mr. Sanford served in the US Army with the signal corps during World War II and was on Omaha Beach, D-Day plus 2.
The post and auxiliary would like to thank activity director Heather Allen for setting up the program and providing refreshments afterwards.
November 14, 2016 - Donna Dugger, for the City of Center Municipal Court, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Texas Court Clerk's Association (TCCA) at their annual conference banquet on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 in San Marcos, Texas. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a service, program, task or endeavor performed by an individual in a court profession, serving in a non-judicial capacity, which benefits the entire membership in a distinctive way by showing dedication and commitment.
November 14, 2016 - Shelby County Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8904, Center, Texas is proud to announce the winners of this year’s VFW youth essay programs Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen.
Co-winners of the Voice of Democracy program are both seniors at Joaquin High School, Reagan P. Hovey and Darby D. Hughes. Each wrote and recorded an essay on the theme “My Responsibility To America”.
The theme for Patriot’s Pen was “The America I Believe In”. The essay of Joaquin Jr. High School student Kayla Fletcher won first place.
Awards were presented at the Joaquin ISD Veterans Day program that was held Friday, November 11th. Along with a framed certificate the Voice of Democracy winners received a $100 check from the post and the Patriot’s Pen winner was presented with a $50 check.
Each will now compete at the District level with the district winner competing at the state level and then on to the national competition. The National Voice of Democracy winner receives a $30,000 scholarship and the National Patriot’s Pen winner is awarded $5,000 cash.
Our post and auxiliary wish each the best in the upcoming competition. The district results should be known by the end of the month.
November 11, 2016 - Congratulations to Breanna Westerfield on being selected as employee of the month at the Center ISD Intermediate campus. Way to go Breanna!
Farmers Insurance and John Michael Burns are proud of our educators.
November 11, 2016 - I would like to congratulate Leigh Porterfield and Terry Scull, on them being elected to the City of Center City Council, I feel both candidates will do a great job to help Center. I would also like to thank all the people of Center that came out and voted. I appreciate all the support I received.
Thank You!
Jud Matthews
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November 10, 2016 - Texas Quick Care, PLLC. received a warm welcome in Joaquin on Haslam Strip Wednesday, November 9, 2016 as they celebrated their grand opening with a ribbon cutting event.
Members of the community from both sides of the river including Joaquin's City Councilmembers and Mayor and Logansport's Mayor and Mayor Elect were part of the crowd of excited attendees of the celebration as well as Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors.
Jessica Hopkins, Practice Manager, LVN thanked everyone for attending the grand opening.
"This has been a long time coming and I know everybody has waited and waited and waited for this grand opening and here it is. We're just so grateful that you guys are out and we can't wait to take care of you and take care of the community," said Hopkins.
She introduced Christine Owens, FNP, provider for the facility and Dr. Mark Mettauer, Cardiologist and owner.
Dr. Mettauer extended his appreciation to Bill Baker, Joaquin Mayor, for the invitation to be in Joaquin and working with their schedule. He said when he spoke with the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce last year, he did so with the expectation of opening multiple clinics in East Texas, mainly in Shelby County where he is from.
"What I do for a living, being a heart surgeon, you really kind of have to be in a big area, big city to be supported and also to be good at what you do," said Dr. Mettauer.
Taking care of patients in the Shelby County area, friends and his family is part of what Dr. Mettauer says is an added motivation to being a business owner in Shelby County.
"That's really what I love doing and when I'm at St. Luke's in the Woodlands, which is really their second biggest hospital in Texas now, they always talk about how really great the people are from East Texas," said Dr. Mettauer.
He spoke of when he was a child living in Shelby County and how far away health providers were, being over an hour and 15 minutes away.
"I just want to do my little part to help take care of the folks back here, because rural East Texas is in sore need of some good care and we just thank Christine for being a good product to this community and giving back to the community, and that's what I would like to do here as well," said Dr. Mettauer.
Mayor Baker shared his appreciation of Texas Quick Care for having established itself in Joaquin, "On behalf of the city of Joaquin we welcome you, we are so happy you're here. It did have a few bumps, but it's finally here and we've got Christine a local P.A. that's going to help a lot. Somebody told me it was 1950s since we've had a doctor in Joaquin. Hopefully we can grow from here. This is our first step in trying to provide healthcare, make people want to stay in Joaquin, make people want to retire in Joaquin."
"I'm beyond excited, it's where I've always wanted to be, it's what I've always wanted to do. So, I knew going off to Shreveport and Natchitoches to study for the last seven years at Pineland finally paid off. So, I'm just excited to be able to help out my community," said Owens.
Frances J. Freeman, Ph.D., spoke on behalf of the Logansport Chamber of Commerce in recognition of the business opening.
"We've got three mayors here today to help you cut. We've got our outgoing mayor from Logansport and our newly elected mayor of Logansport and of course the mayor of Joaquin, all three of them here. We are representing coalition between Joaquin and Logansport, we are two towns separated by a lot of good rivalry and a river and two states, but economically and in terms of getting married, knowing people, we are very closely related. The more we work together I think the more we can both accomplish for our people, and we've been really pleased at all we've been doing this last year," said Freeman.
Texas Quick Care, PLLC. is located at 12815 U.S. Highway 84 East in Joaquin. Their phone number is 936-269-3210 and their office hours are Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm.
November 11, 2016 - Center Garden Club members Robbie Kerr, Jackie Hancock, Linda Bordelon, Cherry Jones, and Carolyn Bounds attended the District III 4th Annual Fall Garden Club Meeting on November 10 in Palestine, Texas.
With a theme "Reduce, Recycle, Reuse," over 100 East Texas Garden Club members learned about programs and projects from garden clubs in the Northern, Central, and Southern Zones. Stephen Chamblee, Chief Horticulturist for Chandor Gardens in Weatherford, Texas and serves as consulting editor and author for Neil Sperry's Garden Magazine, presented a program "Peace, Love and Milagros:Life Lessons from the Road."
Submitted by Linda Bordelon, Center Garden Club Publicity Chairman
November 10, 2016 - CASA representative, Lindsey Welch, gave an informative program to the Delta Gamma members for their October meeting at Lynne Locke's, in Center.
These key women educators will make donations to CASA for their project in November.
November 10, 2016 - Buster Bounds, the local town historian, has recently been working on a project documenting the demolition of the former Shelby Regional Medical Center on Hurst Street which was also formerly Memorial Hospital. The land is currently being prepared for the construction of a new church building.
The first video is an interview for the Coffee Shop Cafe which he recorded in 1993 with the hospital's new administrator, Tony Zurbrugg. The renovation of the medical facility had just been completed.
The second video is a four minute project that covered months of work - the razing of the building.
November 9, 2016 - Recently, Center Garden Club members met at the home of Carolyn Bounds to participate in a hands-on hypertufa workshop.
Members mixed Portland cement, peat moss, perlite, sand, and water to create the hypertufa which they ultimately molded into various garden pots, troughs, stones, and ornaments. Everyone enjoyed this outdoor activity and will continue to enjoy their hypertufa creations for many years.
Those who participated in the hypertufa workshop are Robbie Kerr, Cherry Jones, Alison Scull, Carolyn Bounds, Jackie Hancock, Judy Matthews, and Lisa Albers. Also participating but not pictured were Peggie Williams and Rachel Campbell.
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