The Canton/Edom TEA Party will host an Education Forum at 7 p.m. Monday, April 10 in the Canton Elementary School Cafetorium located at 1163 South Buffalo Street.
A panel of educators and citizens will be discussing educational issues especially legislation being considered by the Texas Legislature.
Panel members will include Jay Tullos, Canton ISD Superintendent; Kevin Ellis, Texas State Board of Education District 9 Representative; Jay Ferguson, Grace Community School Headmaster, the largest private school in Tyler, and Vice-President of the Texas Private School Association; Alice Linahan, Founder and Director of Women on the Wall, a grassroots organization advocating for quality education; Peggy Venable, Texas Public Policy Foundations Center for Education Freedom; Jill Dutton, Van ISD School Board trustee; and a representative from the Texas Home School Association.
Volunteers with Keep Wills Point Beautiful and the city of Wills Point will host their annual city wide cleanup event April 6-8 at the open lot located next to Fire Tech located on the corner of W. High St. and N. 5th St.
Cleanup hours will run from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day of the event.
The two entities traditionally schedule for the event to be held in proximity to Texas Trash-off Day, which has been scheduled for April 8 this year.
According to www.dontmesswithtexas.org, the “trash-off is the single largest one-day cleanup event in the state and serves as Texas’s signature event for the Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program.”
Accepted items are set to include appliances, brush, residential trash, bulky items, cement/rock and construction debris not to exceed 10 cubic yards.
To ensure a bright future for its members in Van Zandt County and across the state, Texas Farm Bureau recently invested $35,000 in scholarship funds for students of Texas State Technical College.
The initial investment is targeted to help Van Zandt County Farm Bureau members follow their dreams while building a skilled workforce.
The award-winning Wills Point High School Tiger Band will be hosting one of their signature events before the close of the month, welcoming the community for this year's Evening of Music Dinner Concert.
The 18th annual Evening of Music Dinner Concert will at 6:45 p.m. April 21. at the WPHS cafeteria.
Tiger Band director John Young stated, “We will be featuring the Symphonic and Concert Band. Our guest soloist is Nathan Ascano on clarinet as well as our Winterguard and some other special guest musicians.”
Tickets for the event are $18 each and tables of eight can be purchased for $144. Tickets are available at the WPHS office or from a high school band student.
Brookshire’s and Del Monte have teamed up to fight hunger in communities throughout Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas with the new “You CAN Help” program.
Through April 18, customers will receive one free can of Del Monte products for every five Del Monte cans (13.5 oz – 15.25 oz) purchased in a single transaction. They are encouraged to donate some or all of the canned goods or any other non-perishable food items to be distributed to local food banks and pantries in their community. As bins are filled throughout the program, all donated products will be distributed to the organizations predetermined by each store.
The Council of Van Zandt County Communities met at the Van Zandt Country Club in Canton March 14. The VISIONS group heard a presentation from Dr. Dana Harader, executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of VZC and Brad Blakemore, publisher of the Van Zandt News.
Dr. Harader has an “extensive,” background in working with children and youth with emotional disturbances in school and mental health facilities.
Dr. Harader and Blakemore both spoke on IMPACT Van Zandt, an organization that has a goal of “
reducing the number of children affected by child abuse and neglect by joining together to cross promote resources, obtain needed resources and gain community awareness throughout the year.”
Shoppers from all across Texas and beyond will get to enjoy in one of their favorite events of the year April 14-16, with the return of the Historic US 80 Hi-way Sale.
The sale stretches from Mesquite, Texas, all the way through Jackson, Mississippi, and was established as a way to “promote and increase tourism trade and traffic along historic US 80, the first coast-to-coast, all-weather highway in America.”
Wills Point has become one of the biggest and best participants of the event, drawing thousands annually with deals for bargain hunters throughout the area and beyond.
Local law enforcement officials are urging caution from those participating in sales, or just traveling through the area, citing the extra traffic flow and a larger than usual crowd of pedestrians.
Volunteers with Keep Wills Point Beautiful and the city of Wills Point will host their annual city wide clean-up event April 6-8 at the open lot located next to Fire Tech.
The location, on the corner of W. High St. and N. 5th St., will be open from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day of the event.
Accepted items are set to include appliances, brush, residential trash, bulky items, cement/rock and construction debris not to exceed 10 cubic yards.
Prohibited items that will not be accepted include commercial dumping, chemicals, hazardous materials, paint, pesticides, roofing materials, tires and batteries.
April is right around the corner and for 20 years Sandy Hilliard, President of the Child Welfare Board has been a driving force behind the mission to end child abuse and neglect in Van Zandt County.
Unfortunately, Hilliard, her board of directors and countless numbers of volunteers and family resource groups in the area have been fighting an uphill battle.
How serious is the problem? Out of 254 counties in Texas, Van Zandt County ranks in the top 15 percent in terms of children who have been removed from their home due to child abuse and neglect.
