On June 28-29, the Fifthannual East Texas Medical Outreach Event will be held at Van Junior High School (630 South Oak Street in Van,).
Free health services will be provided to anyone without health insurance, starting at 8 a.m. on both days and will conclude at 4 p.m. on both days.
“Our goal for this program is to provide preventative and primary medical and dental screenings to uninsured East Texans. We want to refer participants that do not currently have providers to medical homes as much as we can and ultimately want to encourage participants to adopt healthy lifestyles to improve their quality of life,” says George Roberts, Chief Executive Officer of NET Health.
April 29 was supposed to be a happy day for Clyde Scott and his guests. A wedding was to be held at the Scott’s property, a union of two people that promised forever through thick and thin, good and bad.
Needless to say, Scott and the 40 guests that were on the property were about to get hit with bad times, before the wedding was even over.
Preparations had been made for inclement weather in case the outdoor wedding needed to be moved under an awning at the home, but preparations probably didn’t include planning for multiple tornadoes.
Splash Kingdom Waterpark owners Johnny and Marcie Blevins stand with their son, Brett, in front of temporary buildings at Splash Kingdom.
By David Barber Senior Reporter
On April 28, a portion of the Splash Kingdom Waterpark was destroyed by an early morning fire. According to Splash Kingdom Owner Johnny Blevins, no official cause for the fire has been given after investigations from local and county fire officials.
“The investigation is over,” said Blevins. “The fire officials investigated for two or three days before being interrupted by the massive outbreak of tornadoes that struck April 29 and we totally understood that. Everything in front was burned so completely. They were able to determine that there were no accelerants but they could not determine the start or the cause of the fire.”
Carter BloodCare and the city of Wills Point are teaming up June 15, hosting a blood drive at the Wills Point Community Center from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in helps of replenishing local blood supplies and making a positive impact on those in need throughout the North and East Texas areas.
Each year, Carter BloodCare provides “life-saving transfusion resources to more than 200 medical facilities in over 50 counties throughout North, Central, and East Texas…with more than 300,000 units of blood products to meet patients’ treatment requirements.”
General information and guidelines provided to those interested in potentially donating includes:
-All donors must present a valid photo ID at the time of donation. IDs must be issued by state (DL or ID), school or U.S. government (passport, military ID, resident alien ID, green card or work visa).
Just in time for summer vacation, Dallas-based Apple Texas has announced that kids eat free all day, every day in all 67 of their Applebee’s restaurants from June 1 – 30.
“This is a great way for us to give back to the communities where we have restaurants,” said Chris Dharod, chief operating officer of Apple Texas. “Families are an important part of our business and not only is this a special offer for the kids, it’s an opportunity for families to go out for a great meal and save money at the same time.”
Kids' meals range from a mini burger or chicken tenders to chicken mac and cheese, Caesar salad, or even a sirloin steak. All kids’ meals include a side item as well as a choice of juice, milk or chocolate milk.
Details of the offer: One “Kids Eat Free” meal per adult meal purchased. Kids’ meals are for kids 12 and under. Dine-In only.
The proposed Hardman Watson Memorial Playground, honoring the lives of five locals who passed away in a tragic accident on their way to the vacation of a lifetime to Florida in November 2014.
Wills Point primary school teacher Trudi Hardman, her husband Michael, who was employed at John F. Kennedy Elementary in Terrell at the time of the accident, and three children from their blended family (Adam and Kaci Hardman and Dakota Watson), lost their lives in a single-vehicle accident that shook the Wills Point community.
Since that time, efforts have been underway to honor the lives of those lost with the construction of a memorial playground.
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City of Wills Point is hosting a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, June 15, at 307 North 4th St. in the Chamber of Commerce parking lot on the Carter BloodCare bus.
For more information or to schedule an appointment time, contact Dana Clair at 903- 873-2578.
Organizers behind the city’s annual Juneteenth event have been hard at work in recent weeks, putting in dozens of hours to put together the finishing touches for the largest Juneteenth celebration in the area.
This year’s event will take place June 17. As has become tradition, highlights of this year’s event will once again include a parade, games, food and fellowship.
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston with the news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free.
Wills Point graduate Norma Cunigan won the discus with a throw of 53.92 meters at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Bradenton, Florida.
Information courtesy of West Texas A&M
Former Wills Point standout Norma Cunigan has not missed a beat since graduating to the collegiate ranks and West Texas A&M, following up a stellar multi-sport career locally with an impressive two-year run that now includes an individual national title as just a sophomore.
Cunigan has been a major contributor for the Lady Buffs’ program since stepping foot on the West Texas A&M campus in 2016, following in older sister Holly Cunigan's footsteps by building an impressive resume in both her freshman and sophomore seasons.
During the indoor portion of her freshman season, Cunigan earned All-American honors
in the shot put, breaking two freshman records and winning her first career Lone Star Conference individual title in the process. Cunigan would win the shot put at the LSC championship, and finish sixth overall in the weight throw at the same championships.
