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Around Town
January 16, 2015 - On Wednesday, January 14th, 2015, the Center High School Health Science Department under the direction of Ms. Kathy Camp and Mrs. Nicole Vaughn, hosted their regular blood drive with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center. GCRBC Donor Recruitment Coordinator, Tessa Loveless reported that they collected 59 units of blood which makes the largest amount of blood donations at CHS since 2009. This means the students at CHS save 180 lives on Wednesday. It is amazing to see these students give a piece of themselves in order to save others. Congratulations Center High School and thank you for giving life!
January 15, 2015 - Texas State Historian Dr. Bill O'Neal gave a history of Texas Music to members and guests of the Delta Gamma Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International at their January 12 meeting in Timpson, Texas. Members were able to purchase from a variety of his 44 published books. Delta Gamma is made up of women educators from Sabine, Shelby, and San Augustine Counties.
Texas State Delta Kappa Gamma Society International District I Area Coordinator Belinda Lowrance visited with members of Delta Gamma at their January meeting.
Delta Gamma 2015 Officers
From left- Tommie Thomas, Treasurer; Nora Robinson, 2nd Vice President; Fannie Watson, President; Belinda Lowrance, Area I Coordinator; Maggie Bowden, Recording Secretary; Tammy Sparks, Corresponding Secretary; Linda Bordelon, Parliamentarian; and Melba Pahal, 1st Vice President
Submitted by Linda Bordelon
January 15, 2015 - According to an article in the Jasper Newsboy, Jasper County, the annual Martin Luther King Day Rally March and Rally will be held on Monday, January 19th and Ms Lenola Wyatt-Tutt of Shelbyville, Texas will be the guest speaker at the rally in the Jasper High School auditorium following the march.
The annual march will begin at 10am. President of the NAACP Jasper branch, Booker T. Hunter announced those wishing to participate in the march should come to the Greater New Bethel Church on Martin Luther King Drive prior to the 10am start time. The march will take its traditional path west on MLK, south on Main Street across Highway 190 and finally south on Bowie Street to the Jasper High School Auditorium.
Wyatt-Tutt will speak at the rally and it should be an informative and exciting speech celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King. For more information concerning the march or the speaker please contact Booker T. Hunter at 409-382-3434.
January 13, 2015 - 
Local wildlife expert and Cryptozoologist, Jeff Stewart recently filmed an episode of Survivorman starring Les Stroud here in East Texas. This marks the second television show for the Tenaha resident, who will be filming his third show in the near future for the Discovery channel.
Jeff has been featured on Moore Outdoors and Texas Fish and Game Magazines radio program. Mr Stewart also works very closely with Childrens Kingdom Ministries and Kingdom Zoo along side with Chester Moore.
In March, Jeff will be a key note speaker at the Texas Unity Fest in Dallas speaking on cryptid cats in Texas.
January 7, 2015 - With a winter storm possibly in the forecast, Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative is busy making preparations. We encourage you to also prepare now for the possibility of weather-related problems. We urge everyone to make necessary preparations including:
Be sure you have an ample supply of firewood, blankets, non-perishable foods and water.
If you or someone in your household is dependent upon life support, have an alternate power source available or identify a location you can move to that has an alternate power source.
Check backup generators for proper operations and remember to carefully follow generator safety precautions including NOT operating a generator indoors.
Above all, we want to ask you to be safe - STAY AWAY FROM ALL DOWNED LINES. Consider them all to be live and dangerous. Call DETEC at 1-800-392-5986 to report downed lines and outages.
Should outages be experienced, our crews will be working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.
Please report all outages, by calling: 1-800-392-5986
Panola College is proud to announce the names of those students named to the President’s List for the fall 2014 semester. To qualify a student must complete a minimum of 12 semester hours with a grade point average between 3.8 and 4.0. Only courses applying toward an associate degree or certificate are included in the computation.
Center
Piper Andrews
Hailey Arndt
Hailey Baldwin
Kurstin Dockens
Jannie Garcia
Breanna Garrett
DeYonna Jameson
Aaron Liker
Khrystane Patton
Chloe Rogers
Haley Shofner
Joaquin
Samantha Whitaker
Shelbyville
Precioous Gillaspie
Justin Taylor
Tenaha
Brady Tovar
Timpson
Monica Montoya
Taylor Morris
January 6, 2015 - Janet Hughes, a former resident of Center, has had 2 of her photographs selected for the “Focus on Photography – Perspectives” show that will debut on January 10, 2015. The exhibit will include photographers from the Mid-South Region. The judge will be O.Rufus Lovett, head of the Kilgore College photography department as well as a well published photographer. The Longview Museum of Fine Arts is providing a venue for photographic artists to exhibit their work in a museum setting. The scope of work is intended to show varied aspects of the photographic art form. From traditional to digital, all photographic techniques, subject matter, and styles are welcome.
The pieces accepted for the show were from a trip last fall to Ridgeway, Colorado. They are classic landscapes taken in the same area where the 1969 movie “True Grit” was shot.
Janet is very excited to have been accepted into this show. While she has won several awards, including Best of Show in the Adult category at the East Texas Poultry Festival last year, this is the first time her work has hung in a museum. The show will run January 10-February 21. The museum has free admission on Fridays (http://www.lmfa.org/)
Janet is currently President of the Piney Woods Photographic Society in Center. The club meets once a month to critique each other’s work as well as learn new shooting and editing techniques. For more information about the club visit the website at www.pineywoodsphoto.com
January 5, 2015 - The Timpson Area Chamber of Commerce, community members, family and friends attended a ribbon cutting for the new Our Town Times, formerly known as Timpson & Tenaha News, with owner Chad Pate on Monday, January 5, 2015.
Paul Smith, Chamber of Commerce President, said, "The new year began with Timpson on the balance of maintaining or losing the oldest business in town." He continued speaking about the history of Timpson & Tenaha News saying it is the oldest business in town which had announced at the end of the year it would be no more.
"Thanks to a hometown young man (who) just days earlier received his college degree, Chad Pate took on the challenge to continue this paper. Chad has energy, lots of youthful ideals, and the ability to accomplish them" spoke Smith. He spoke about changes and how Timpson and Shelby County is growing and said what we have to do is grow with it.
Smith finished by saying, "Thank you Chad for taking this responsibility on and helping our town out."
Chad Pate then cut the ribbon and invited everyone to enjoy refreshments and visit with one another. Pate said, "I really appreciate everybody that is here in support; it really means a lot. You guys and all the surrounding communities and surrounding towns have been showing unbelievable support for us and encouragement and that has really meant a lot." He also mentioned appreciation of the staff saying, "I may be the owner but this is your paper and that's really important to me, all of us. The greatest things that came along with this has been the staff that was here." Pate finished saying, "Thank you and I really look forward to going into the 130th year."
Local officials attending was City of Timpson Mayor Debra Smith, City of Tenaha Mayor Orintha Johnson, and Tenaha City Council Member Claudine Howard.
December 29, 2014 - City of Center and Drewery Construction workers have been making repairs on Monday, December 29, 2014 to the end of Riggs Street at the intersection with Shelbyville Street and separately to the end of Runnels Street at the intersection with Austin Street just off the Center square.
Chad Nehring, City Manager, explained the work is being done in these areas on valley gutters where rainwater historically has ponded since TxDOT did some work on these streets. The workers are attempted to remedy this ponding situation and are planning to pour concrete tomorrow on Tuesday, December 30, 2014.
Riggs Street will remain closed until sometime Tuesday, December 30, 2014 for gas line work before reopening. The street is expected to also be closed for several days on the following week.
December 23, 2014 - Project String Power's Super Group String orchestra preparing to present a concert for the Delta Gamma Chapter's December 8th meeting at Tenaha First Baptist Church. Delta Gamma invited the public to attend an evening of classical Christmas music. Over 80 people enjoyed this inspirational gathering. The orchestra is under the direction of Leonard Kacenjar, who has been conductor of the Marshall Symphony for 39 years. Members of the group are from Shelbyville, Tenaha, Carthage, Shreveport, and Marshall.
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