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July 25, 2025 - Back to School is almost here! Give yourself or your child the best start to the school year with confidential, compassionate mental health support.
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July 22, 2025 - The Piney Woods Photographic Society held their regular monthly meeting this past Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Center, Tx. at the First Methodist Church.
The July Challenge was "Show Me Your Patriotism" where club members may submit up to 3 of their pictures that represent Patriotism, a reminder for everyone what it means to be an American.
To view all the challenge photos, check out Piney Woods Photographic Society Flickr page, https://www.flickr.com/groups/pineywoodsphotographic/ or for more information about the PWPS check out our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/PineyWoodsPhoto.
July Challenge
"Show Me Your Patriotism"
1st Place Tie: Debra Cockrell, "God and Country"
1st Place Tie: Julie Cantrell-Green, "Beneath The Flag They Served"
3rd Place: Charley Cantrell, "A Seat For The Stars And Stripes"
Photos submitted. From left: Pam Hall, Darren Whiteside, Benita Collard, Sherry Harding (Outreach Ministries), Collin Mathews, and Taighen May.
July 18, 2025 - The team of Mathews Realty in Center had an incredible day giving back to the community they love so much!
For the past month they have been collecting fans of all shape and sizes to donate to Shelby County Outreach Ministries with hopes of helping someone in need beat the Texas heat. The turnout was phenomenal and they surpassed their goal of 100 and collected 141 fans to help local families stay cool this summer.
Also, they delivered comfort bears to the Center Police Department as part of Project Blue Bears. The mission is to provide new stuffed animals for children facing accidents, domestic disputes, or any other crisis situation.
From left: Darren Whiteside, Charlene Jackson, Lt. Andrew Williams, Pam Hall, Collin Mathews, Lt. Billy Lusk, Benita Collard, and Taighen May
Mathews Realty thanks the local law enforcement and outreach organizations for the work they do every day to help others!
July 17, 2025 - The Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of the 2025 Texas Book Festival Grant for the development of their book collection. The grant is for $2500 and will be used to enhance the library's Young Adult and Spanish book sections. The Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library is one of only 50 libraries in the state of Texas to receive the award. This is the third time in recent years that the library has received the award, having also won it in 2018 and 2023.
The Texas Book Festival has contributed over $3.7 million to Texas libraries since launching the grant program. The Texas Book Festival is proud to support the work of local libraries by fostering a love of reading and best serving library patrons with books that meet their needs and interests.
Look for announcements and promotions from the library when the new books arrive.
July 15, 2025 - Donations are being accepted to help the Oscar Rios Family with medical and travel expenses. On the 4th of the July Oscar Rios was traveling to see a fireworks show when he was involved in a horrible crash and he is still in a coma.
Prayers are also greatly appreciated!
To donate via Cash App, click here. To donate via GoFundMe, click here.
July 4, 2025 - The Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights were recited at the 1885 Historic Courthouse on July 3, 2025, in recognition of Independence Day.
Lawyers April Prince, Stephen Shires, Scott Peal and Jeff Adams gathered before the courthouse and took turns reading portions of the text.
The program opened with Stephen Shires explaining what they would be reading and introducing the other lawyers present.
The reading of the Declaration of Independence (Video 2:50) was performed first followed by the reading of the Bill of Rights (Video 12:15) which are the first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
A new addition for 2025 was the includision of "The American's Creed," read by Maggie Casto (Video 17:20) who was present and is a member if the Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
A goal of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association is for there to be a formal reading of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to be performed annually in each of the 254 Texas counties.
July 3, 2025 - What better way to celebrate 4th of July than to present veterans with quilts! The Scrap Happy Quilters group visited Pine Grove Nursing Center in Center and presented Quilts of Valor to resident veterans. The patriotic quilts were given to Clyde Smith, David Boyd, Darry Rushing, David Satterwhite, and Aubrey Wilson.
Pine Grove expresses their appreciation to the group of quilters for their gifts which brought excitement and joy to the veterans. Happy 4th of July from the Scrap Happy Quilters and Pine Grove Nursing Center!
Photos submitted
July 3, 2025 - Scrap Happy Quilters will not meet in July. The group typically meets the 1st Saturday of the month at the James/Antioch Community House at 9am. Happy 4th of July!
July 2, 2025 - Planning for the largest festival ever, Frontier Days will move to July 10 through July 13, 2025. Changes to the dates of this year’s Frontier Days have been made for the first time in 62 years moving the festival from the first weekend to the second weekend of July.
This move will allow a full carnival for Thursday evening, Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday after church. All our regular Frontier Days activities will continue these days. Although, the carnival will continue Sunday afternoon we will still have our community church service that evening and Saturday will still be the main day starting with a parade and ending with the street dance with even more activities added in between.
Make your plans to join in the largest and best Frontier Days yet!
More information on events will be posted soon. This year will mark the 63rd year of Timpson Frontier Days and 140 years since Timpson, Texas was founded in 1885. We do have a celebration due, come one, come all!
From left: O'Neal Jones, Feleshia Thompson, Misty Wright, Laura Romero, Courtney O'Rear, Ginger Borders, Clay Ihlo (not pictured: Felicia Cloudy)
June 30, 2025 - The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Shelby County Class of 2024-2025 was recently honored with a graduation celebration.
Chamber President, Deborah Chadwick congratulated the class during opening remarks. Diplomas were presented to the 2024-2025 graduating class. A donation to the Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library has been made in honor of the Leadership Class 2024-2025.
Class members are: Ginger Borders, Farmers State Bank; Felicia Cloudy, Center ISD; Clay Ihlo, Shelby Savings Bank; O’Neal Jones, City of Tenaha; Courtney O’Rear, Children’s Advocacy Center; Laura Romero, Shelby Savings Bank; Feleshia Thompson, Texas A&M Extension Agency; Misty Wright, Work Force Solutions.
Leadership Shelby County is a nine month long program presented by the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce designed to identify potential leaders and develop within these individuals the knowledge, skills and vision necessary to enable them to actively participate in the enhancement of the quality of life in their communities.
Each month, starting in October, with a “hands on” approach, the class studies specific topics including Heritage, Local Government, Economic Development, Health and Social Services, Agriculture, Education and Quality of Life.
Thank you to all the local leaders and businesses for sharing your time and knowledge. Also, a huge thank you to Center ISD transportation department for transporting us all over the county each month.
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