Category: Charitable

Angela’s Hope Searches for T-Shirt Sponsors

AngelaAngela’s Hope is searching for sponsors for this year’s Angela’s Hope t-shirts. The 2nd Annual Angela’s Hope Walk & Festival will be coming in June. Details to come soon! If anyone is interested in being a sponsor on the shirt, contact [email protected] or Tonya Rose-Smith on Facebook.

Angela Richardson is a loving wife to David, mother to Samantha, Brandon, Zackary and Christian. She attended Malakoff HS and currently lives in Eustace. Her and David are the High School Youth Leaders at Liberty Baptist Church in Gun Barrel City. She love’s the Lord with all her heart. In 2011, Angela went in for an MRI to determine if she had possibly had a stroke. What the MRI revealed has since been life changing! They found a large mass on her brain. She was transported to ETMC Tyler where she had emergency surgery the next day. Later test results revealed that she had brain cancer. All the different treatments make her really tired & fatigued and she is on a strict diet. This family needs all the prayers and support that they can get. Please lift Angela and the whole Richardson family up in prayers daily. She is scheduled to have another brain surgery March 28.

Kaycin Jade Morrison Benefit This Saturday

The Kaycin Jade Morrison Memorial Benefit will be held Saturday, Feb. 22, at the VFW Post 7103 in Athens starting at noon. All proceeds of this event will go to the family to help cover expenses incurred during the illness that took Kaycin’s life on Jan. 17. The benefit will include a live auction, band and barbecue plates for $10.

Donations may also be made to the Kaycin Jade Morrison Tragedy Fund at any Citizens National Bank branch. Kaycin Jade was the daughter of Larry Morrison of Cross Roads and Jenni Gabbert of Athens.

Kaycin Jade Morrison was born on Nov. 30, 2013, two months premature. Unfortunately, Kaycin suffered from a horrible defect of the abdominal wall, which left her intestines outside of her body. Kaycin went through multiple surgeries, but lost her battle on Jan. 17 and passed away in the arms of her parents.

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GBC Beautification Committee Seeks Recipes for Community Cookbook

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The Gun Barrel City Beautification Committee is publishing a cookbook, and we are asking the community to help submit a few of their favorite recipes to be featured in the second edition of “What’s Cookin’ Around Cedar Creek Lake.”

Ever wanted to be featured in a cookbook? Well now is your chance. We need your recipes that you enjoy cooking for your family whether they are top secret, award winning or just down right delicious. We want them all to be a part of our second edition cookbook that should be released late this summer. Please keep in mind you do not have to be from the lake area to participate. We would love to feature your friends and families recipes as well no matter where they live.

This year we have set up two ways to submit recipes. We are using the Morris Press Cookbook’s website to easily submit them online. Just go to www.typensave.com and click Login. Next, enter the username: gbcbc and the password: basil676 and click submit. Make sure to add your name and where you are from in the boxes provided, and then type your recipe, and then submit them to us. Several tools are located on the website to help you with the process. If you do not have internet access, our committee can enter them for you by simply stopping by the Gun Barrel City Hall. City Hall has hardcopies of our recipe collection forms, just swing by to pick up the forms, pass them out to friends and family and write down your own recipes and gather them back up and drop them of at the front desk. Make sure to include your name and where you are from on these forms as well. We have set a deadline of May 1 so we can begin the production process soon after. If you need help with the online submission or have any questions please contact Pat Cassady at [email protected]

The cookbook will be completed by the end of the summer and will be available for $20. Proceeds from the book will go to the Beautification Committee here in Gun Barrel City to help fund future projects. The first edition was a huge success, and we anticipate a great demand for our cookbooks. If you are interested in preordering a book please email Pat Cassady at [email protected] with the number of cookbooks you will be purchasing. You can also reserve your cookbook at City Hall by filling out the back of the recipe collection form.

Black History Month Ends With Two Big Events

By Delanda S. Johnson/HCBHC

Henderson County Black History Committee and Johnson Chapel AME Church both are looking forward to a big bang at the end of February.

On Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Malakoff Community/Senior Center, the HCBHC will host its Annual Scholarship banquet. Time for the event will be 7 p.m. and tickets are $20 each; with door prizes to be raffled off.

This year the HCBHC has a total of 17 recipients who will be honored at the scholarship banquet.

The theme for Black History month is: “Civil Rights in America” with a sub-theme: “A light in the Darkness.” The speaker for the evening is Ms. Shani Scott; Hot 107.3 Jamz Brand Manager (Home of the Steve Harvey Show) in Tyler.

Ms. Scott began her radio career in August 1994 and has also achieved becoming a published author, actress, and spokesperson for various organizations. Continue reading “Black History Month Ends With Two Big Events”