The Chamber Connection

 

by: Meredith Caddell

 

September 9, 2010

Get your stew tickets NOW!!!  Stew Contest is Saturday, September 18th

If you don’t like to wait in line…then you need to stop by Alliance Bank, City National Bank, Guaranty Bond Bank, Pilgrim Bank and Texas Heritage National Bank and pick up your tickets to the World Champion Hopkins County Stew Contest.  The price is still just $5 for all-you-can-eat stew which includes cheese and crackers! After you get your tickets…all you have to do on the 18th is go straight to one of the 3 service tents!

 

I would like to thank the sponsors that are sponsoring the stew contest: Alliance Bank, City National Bank, Guaranty Bond Bank, Orthodontics at Summit Dental, A & S Air Conditioning, Audley Moore Construction, Lone Star Dodge, Luminant, Allstate Insurance-Patty Brown, AgriLand Farm Credit, A.K. Gillis, Richard Drake Construction, Ocean Spray, NETBIO, Judge Cletis Millsap, Town & Country Cleaners, Chris Brown, Powers & Blount, ReMax, Southwest Dairy Museum ABC Autoplex, Jordan Health Services, Vista Care and Winzen Film.  Many others have donated items for the stew contest and they include: Farmers Electric Coop, Chicken Express, Southwest Dairy Museum, Alliance Bank, City National Bank, First United Methodist Church, Plain & Fancy Sandwich Shoppe, Morningstar Foods, Furr’s, Chili’s, GSC Enterprises, The Lodge, Latson’s, Heritage Park, and the City of Sulphur Springs.  If you are interested in being a stew sponsor, please give us a call.

 

Steve Littlefield’s T-shirt design was the winner of the T-shirt contest

Thank you to all who entered the t-shirt design contest!  All of the entries were fantastic and obviously the community thought so as well.  We had over 600 votes on the t-shirts, with Steve Littlefield’s design winning the top award.  Steve was awarded $50 and since he is a stew cook, had to pass on the opportunity to be a stew judge (conflict of interests).  His t-shirt design has been modified, with his approval, to be on a black t-shirt in order for all of the beautiful colors to really pop!  We will be selling the t-shirts for $10 at the stew contest, Saturday, September 18th!

 

 

 

Ribbon Cutting at Pioneer Café, Wednesday, September 22nd at 11:00a.m.

We are so pleased to welcome the Pioneer Café to the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce!  We would like for you to join us at the Ribbon Cutting on Wednesday, September 22nd at 11:00!  The Pioneer Café is located at 307 Main Street!   

 

Check out the New Canteen at the VFW

If you have not stopped by the new canteen at the VFW, you are missing out!   They have just recently built a beautiful new canteen filled with pool tables, shuffle board and lots of big screen TVs!  The VFW is open 7 days a week, so stop by and play a game of 42 or dominos and see the changes at the VFW.

 

 

 

Candy Bouquet Ribbon Cutting

Candy Bouquet is open at the mall Thursday, Friday and Saturday with other times by appointment.  They are always available, any time, by calling and placing an order over the phone or set up a time for pick up at the mall or for delivery.  And, as always, there is never any charge for delivery in town!

You may reach Carol Palmer at Candy Bouquet at 903-885-6742 or www.5795.candysurprise.com or Email: candybouquetss@verizon.net.

 

 

Thank you High School Leadership Sponsors

Without our many sponsors, the High School Leadership Class would not be possible.  I would like to thank the businesses that are sponsoring the Leadership Class for 2010-2011: Alliance Bank, Bulkley & Associates, Charles Helm, Dhawal R. Ram, MD, First United Methodist Church, Grocery Supply Company, Guaranty Bond Bank, Hopkins County Dairy Festival, Kiwanis Club, Northeast Texas Farmers Co-op, Southwest Dairy Museum, Southwest Mobile Imaging, Town & Country Cleaners, Winzen Film, Inc., Trinity Harvest Church, Hopkins County Fall Festival, Quality Craft Cabinets, Heath Hyde, Attorney at Law and Joel Sheffield, Attorney at Law, Fieldhouse Sports, Johnson Law Firm and Rotary Club.

 

Each year, we also have 8 county students that will be participating in the program along with the students from SSHS.  The county students are:

Blair Bassham and P.K. Harlin from North Hopkins; Brooke Lane and Kimber Thompson from Saltillo; Jeremy Coberley and Hunter Vaughan from Sulphur Bluff and Austin Baxley and Krysten Duprey from Como-Pickton.

 

The Fall Festival Parade is on Saturday, September 11th

The whole parade will be geared towards the United States of America and 9/11.   Our Grand Marshals this year will be Jim and Dena Lloyd who lost there son in the Military.  The Fall Festival Board will also be honoring all of the different groups that were helping with 9/11.  The Hopkins County Historical Museum has graciously loaned us the use of their Antique Fire Truck for all of the Grand Marshals and Representatives from the Police Department, Fire Department, Medical Community, Volunteer Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Technicians.  Everyone is asked to decorate their Cars, Floats, Trailers and Golf Carts with Flags and Red, White and Blue decorations.

 

If you attend the Parade or your house or business is on the Parade Route, please decorate your cars, business and houses with Flags and Red White and Blue colors.  If you have a Flag to wave that would be

wonderful. We really want to show our Love, Respect and Patriotism to our great nation. 

 If you would like to enter the Parade you can line up at Buford Park   The Parade will begin at 10:00. 

 For more information please contact Lisa Smithers at (903) 438-1605. 

 

Don’t miss these opportunities

9/11—Fall Festival Parade—10:00am—Don’t forget to wave the American Flag!

9/13—Fall Festival Golf Tournament—SS Country Club—11:00am

9/14—Senior Citizen Day--$10—2:00-???

9/15—Carnival Opens—Armbands available at Super Handy Stores

9/17—Arts & Crafts, Baby Crawling Contest, Youth fishing contest, petting zoo, Quilt Show plus more

9/18—41st Annual World Champion Hopkins County Stew Contest

9/18—Catfish and Country Concert and Fish Fry competition—6:00pm--$10.00

9/22—Ribbon Cutting for Pioneer Café—11:00am—307 Main Street

 

Congratulations to the

Chamber of Commerce Business of the Week

Sulphur Springs Public Library

611 N. Davis

Sulphur Springs, TX 75482

903-885-4926

Thought for the week: Cheryl Lawson

“Sulphur Springs Public Library is pleased to be recognized as a viable contributor in the economic growth and development of the downtown business community of Sulphur Springs and looks to continue in its commitment as an information center to inform, enrich and empower every individual through knowledge and lifelong learning.” Dr. Cheryl Lawson, Director, Sulphur Springs Public Library.

 

 

That’s all for now…have a GREAT week!

 

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