ETMC Auxiliary News for September

ETMCPress release

Hello again! Please mark your calendars for the special events coming. Some of these are for our auxiliary members, but everyone is invited to the sales!

Sept. 11 – Our first ever $1 Bake Sale. Come get good homemade snacks for your bunch at work or home! From 7 a.m. until all is gone.

Tuesday the 22nd – Auxiliary Party at the Arboretum, from 4 to 7.

Thursday and Friday, the 24th and 25th – Book Fair – lots of books and educational toys and some electronics. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, 8 to 3 Friday. Continue reading “ETMC Auxiliary News for September”

Around the Town: New Bingo

Bingo

By Loretta Humble/Around the Town

This is a story about a little blind dog named Bingo who went on a very long walk, the trouble he got into, and about all the kind people who cooperated to save him when his owners had just about given up on him.

I’ll start by telling you the names of everybody I know of who had a hand in saving him.

  1. Jerry Seilheimer.
  2. Lisa King.
  3. Staci Price
  4. Martha Sample
  5. Larry Sample.
  6. Lady Groomer at 4 Paws.
  7. Don Hughes
  8. Henderson County Now
  9. Shelly Fuget
  10. Linda Rogers

And countless folks who posted and re-posted the Facebook picture and message that Staci Price posted. And every person driving the Cross Roads road who was alert and caring enough to dodge that little bitty black and white blind dog. Continue reading “Around the Town: New Bingo”

TVCC professor selected to Mayville State HOF

Kirk OvermoeBy Mark Meredith/TVCC Public Information

Trinity Valley Community College professor of piano and choral accompanist Kirk Overmoe has been selected for induction into the Mayville State University Performing Arts Hall of Fame. Overmoe is a 1978 graduate of the university, where he was a member of a jazz band that brought the national spotlight to Mayville. The group won “Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band – College Division” by the prestigious journal of jazz, DownBeat, in 1978, winning the Shure Gold Microphone Award. Continue reading “TVCC professor selected to Mayville State HOF”

Community cleanup scheduled in Athens

Keep Athens Beautiful file photo.
Keep Athens Beautiful file photo.

Press release

Keep Athens Beautiful is asking the community to be a part of a community wide cleanup on Saturday, Sept. 12. There are several community events coming up in the near future and our city needs some sprucing up. This exit clean Wollongong is aimed at raising awareness for maintaining cleanliness.

Participants will meet at the Athens Partnership Center, 201 West Corsicana at 8 a.m. to receive garbage sacks and assign areas that need picking up. The first 100 individuals will receive a t-shirt.

Come by yourself, bring your family or form a team. Everyone is welcome and needed to assist in the cleanup. You can help Athens put it best foot forward so sign up to be a part of this clean up. Continue reading “Community cleanup scheduled in Athens”

More than 500 peace officers trained on new laws

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Pictured are Assistant DA Justin Weiner and District Attorney R. Scott McKee.

Press release

Every two years the Texas Legislature meets and creates and modify laws that impact peace officers all over the state. With over 11,000 bills filed there are many that change current law or actually create new laws that affect the duties, roles, and safety of peace officers.

Over the last week, Henderson County District Attorney Scott McKee and Assistant District Attorney Justin Weiner have been teaching a training course for East Texas peace officers. The two have taught the same training in 2011 and 2013 exclusively to Henderson County peace officers. This year, with growing demand, the training included peace officers from Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt and Anderson counties. Continue reading “More than 500 peace officers trained on new laws”