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Tickets are on sale now for the 12 Annual Sweetheart Soiree benefitting The Children’s Advocacy Center of Paris. Call today to purchase your tickets. 903-784-5787.
Please click on the poster above if you would like information about sponsoring this outstanding event.
United Way of Lamar County cordially invites you to our Annual Meeting & Campaign Celebration, Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 11:30 am – 1 pm in the Paris Junior College Ballroom.
United Way will formally conclude the 2013 fundraising season at the meeting and share the total amount raised for our community over the last year. On-site registration will begin at 11:15 a.m., and advance reservations are required. Speakers will share stories of how United Way support improves the lives of people across our community, and we will salute local organizations and leaders whose efforts impact lives and make Paris and Lamar County a better place to work and live.
Come learn more about how United Way’s network creates results that make a difference in education, financial stability and health. To begin the registration process, just send an e-mail message to unitedway@suddenlinkmail.com with your contact details and the number of seats your organization requires. Seats must be reserved in advance, and all seating is confirmed in advance of the event. Seats are $10.00 each, with a table of eight discount price of $75.00. Deadline for reservations is 2/15/2013, or price increases to $12 per ticket day of the event.
After a successful campaign last fall with the MAN2MAN Program at Paris High School, this spring features a WOMAN2WOMAN Program which plans to be just as successful.
The program is designed to provide intervention that’s needed in our student’s lives in a real talk forum that lets the youth explore what they have always been told about being a woman from society’s view against what they discover in a calling to be a real woman of principle and character. The program will attempt to discuss the important aspects of being a woman who takes responsibility for their actions, what it means to integrity, generosity, selflessness and the willingness to stand for what is right even if it means standing alone.
WOMAN2WOMAN program features several influential women of the community including Joanie Moore (Principal of Paris Alternative School), Claire Haslam (counselor of the Safe-T), Shelia Daugherty (Educator and the all-time winningest Girls High-School Basketball Coach in Lamar County), Joan Mathis (Long-time Educator and Paris Junior College English Instructor) and Financial Experts from Guaranty Bond Bank to name a few that will speaking this Spring.
Plus, several area restaurants in the community will be donating a meal to the students on Thursdays in February and March.
The program begins February 5th and commences on March 28th. It is sponsored by Eva Williams and John Toppings.
Paris Junior College’s Foyer Gallery will feature the photography of two students from Feb. 5-28. Shown is “Old Sanitorium, Paris, TX” by Montel Thomas. (Click to enlarge)
As part of their final semester at Paris Junior College, two students will show their photographs at an exhibit in the Foyer Gallery beginning Feb. 5. An opening reception will be held from 4:30-6:00 p.m. on Feb. 5 at the gallery and the public is invited to attend. Featured students are Jessica Guajardo of Sulphur Bluff and Montel Thomas of Paris.
“The exhibit will celebrate their body of work as they prepare to graduate in May,” said Visual Arts Instructor Susan Moore. “Montel is fascinated with nature and abandoned buildings and how they reflect on our society. Jessica’s work focuses on how hands are like portraits of their owners and her close-up work becomes abstract and organic beyond the simple nature of hands.”
The exhibit will be open at PJC’s Foyer Gallery to the end of February. For more information call 903-782-0438.
By CHARLES RICHARDS
eParisExtra.com
PARIS – Mike Harmon scored 21 points, including 11 points in a crucial three-minute span of the second half, and Paris Junior College defeated Trinity Valley Community College 65-61 Wednesday night.
Mike Harmon
Paris improved to 11-12 overall and 5-7 in Region 14 play. Trinity Valley fell to 14-8 and 5-6.
Octavius Ellis led TVCC’s Cardinals with 17 points, including 9-of-9 at the free throw line.
Anthony Adams, with 12 points, was the only other Paris player in double figures.
The Dragons led 29-22 at the half, but Trinity Valley went on a 21-4 run over the first 6:30 of the second half to lead 43-33.
The last two points of that came on two free throws on a technical foul on Paris coach Chuck Taylor when he charged onto the court to protest a non-foul call against forward Eddie Leal, who took a spill during a rebound.
It fired up the Dragons, who scored 19 of the next 26 points, including two 3-pointers and a third 3-point play the old fashioned way – a goal followed by a free throw.
PJC moved into a 50-50 tie on two free throws by Chris Jones with 8:24 to play. Adams scored twice and Jones added two more free throws for a 56-51 Paris lead, and the Dragons led the rest of the way.
But victory didn’t come without some nail-biting over the last couple of minutes.
With 1:41 to play, Paris led 61-55, but Ellis, a 6-10, 210-pound freshman, drew a foul on a rebound and cashed both his free throws to pull the Cardinals to within 61-57.
Paris broke Trinity Valley’s full-court press and Antonio Arnold went to the free throw line with 1:35 remaining. He made his second free throw, and Paris’ lead was 62-57.
Trinity Valley coach Kris Baumann called a timeout to diagram a play, but Paris’ defense was unyielding, and he called a second timeout. Back on the court, the shot clock was within two seconds of going off when Trinity Valley’s Tyler Corley fumbled the ball and Leal was called for a foul.
Corley made both his free throws to cut Paris’ lead to 62-59 with one minute to play. The Dragons broke Trinity Valley’s full-court press and ran the clock down to 26 seconds before Paris forward Morris Mitchell went up for a shot under the goal.
A Trinity Valley player was there to swat the ball away – one of several blocks by the taller Cardinals during the night.
Trinity Valley came downcourt trailing by three points, and Josh Gentry drove for a basket – basically uncontested since Paris didn’t want to risk a foul that might let the Cardinals tie the game.
Now it was a one-point game at 62-61 with still 20 seconds on the clock.
The inbounds pass came to Adams, and Trinity Valley pressed but refused to foul him. Incredibly, as Adams sought to dribble away the remaining time, 6-5 sophomore forward Tra Parker came up from Adams’ blind side and knocked the ball away.
Only eight seconds left in the game, but Trinity Valley has the ball, trailing by 62-61. Right away, Ellis had the ball, and he headed for the basket. Five times already, he had been fouled after muscling his way underneath. He turned those five trips to the free throw line into nine free throws with no misses.
Up went Ellis, but the ball was short, and there was no whistle despite the protests from the Trinity Valley bench. Adams came down with the ball and then was fouled with only one second left in the game.
Jarion Henry was livid and drew a technical foul for his protest. Leal’s two free throws on the technical made the score 64-61, and Adams then made one of his two free throws to make the final score 65-61.
In his post-game interview, the Paris coach said he liked his team’s effort.
“I know we’re just 2-2 in our last four games, but we have played four good teams over that time,” Taylor said. The Dragons beat Kilgore and Trinity Valley and lost to Navarro and Tyler. All four were close games that could have gone either way.
“Mike Harmon came out and besides his scoring, he came down with a big rebound late, and we got good contributions from a bunch of players,” Taylor said.
“It’s a win, and we’ll take it. I think this pretty well puts us in the tournament,” he said, referring to the conference format that sends the top 12 teams in the 14-team league to the post-season tournament March 6-10 at UT-Tyler.
In other league games Wednesday, Navarro defeated Kilgore 69-59, Tyler beat Bossier Parish 60-54, Lee defeated Lamar State-Port Arthur 97-80, and San Jacinto knocked off Blinn 85-80.
That leaves Navarro with a big lead in the race for the No. 1 seed in the regional tournament and the automatic berth in the national tournament.
Navarro is 10-1, and Tyler now has Region 14’s second-best record at 8-3 followed by Kilgore at 8-4, with Angelina, San Jacinto and Lee a half game back at 7-4.
In the race not to have one of the two worst records, Panola is now 0-11, Bossier 1-10 and Blinn 3-9. Paris is 5-7, and both Trinity Valley and Coastal Bend are 5-6.
Paris is at Panola on Saturday, finishing off the first half of the North Zone’s round robin play.
TRINITY VALLEY 22-39—61
PARIS 29-36—65
Trinity Valley (14-8, 5-6) – Octavius Ellis 4 0 9-9 17, Tyler Corley 1 0 1-2 3, Carl Porter 1 0 2-2 4, Josh Gentry 1 0 0-0 2, Tra Parker 3 1 0-0 7, Tim Allen 2 1 2-2 7, Jarion Henry 1 0 6-8 8, Elbert Jordan 1 1 0-0 3, Mike Miller 2 0 0-0 4, JhaustinThomas 3 0 0-0 6.Totals: 19 3 20-23 61. Fouls: 18. Fouled Out: Henry. Technical Foul: Henry.
Paris (11-12, 5-7) – Antonio Arnold 2 0 1-2 5, Mike Harmon 8 3 2-3 21, Anthony Adams 5 0 2-4 12, Chris Jones 0 0 4-6 4, David Tucker 2 1 0-0 5, Delvin Dickerson 1 0 0-0 2, Eddie Leal 2 0 2-2 6, Lamar Walker 1 0 0-0 2, Sheldon Yearwood 0 0-2 0, Morris Mitchell 2 0 2-3 6, Will Ransom 1 0 0-1 2. Totals: 24 4 13-23 65. Fouls: 17. Fouled Out: None. Technical Foul: Coach Chuck Taylor.
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