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Everyone knows of the plastic bags that sit in your cabinets at home — bag inside bag, waiting to be used. As we go to get groceries each time, our items come in small bags bearing the logo or name of Wal-Mart, Brookshire’s, Kroger, Dollar General, etc.
Some people save a few and some collect hundreds of these bags, never wanting to throw any away for the thought of recycling them. This is good.
Save as many as you can. The Downtown Food Pantry is in dire need of these bags. The uses that they get from these small plastic bags are endless, and you could help their mission of feeding the less fortunate just by giving your spares away.
There is a drop box at First Federal Bank that you can take and leave your bags, or you can take them directly to the Pantry and drop them.
The Panty’s address is 124 W. Cherry Street, Paris, Texas. Phone number: 903-737-8870 Their hours of operation are: Tuesdays 1:30pm – 4:30pm and Thursdays 8:30am – 11:30am
Article by Josh Allen/Managing Editor – eParis Extra!
When a child experiences the loss of a loved one, they need help dealing with the strong emotions of grief. Camp Brave Heart is a bereavement camp for children who have experienced the death of a loved one – a grandparent, a parent, a sibling or a friend.
The free three-day camp combines grief support with fun of a recreational day camp. Camp counselors experienced in child and adolescent grief lead fun-filled activities to help campers learn from each other about grief and ways to cope with loss. Even if the child seems to be adjusting well to the loss, many children still have concerns they may not feel comfortable sharing for fear of causing sadness to family members who are also grieving.
Camp Brave Heart is for children ages 6 -16. Most importantly the experience allows children to explore and share their feelings with other children who have experienced a loss – helping them to understand that they are not alone in their experience.
Camp activities will include:
August 7 -9, 2012
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday
8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Thursday
Location: First United Methodist Church, Paris, Texas
Cypress Basin Hospice is the only non-profit hospice serving Lamar County. Cypress Basin Hospice has offered support since 1986 throughout Northeast Texas for those patients and their families who are undergoing the effects of life-limiting illness. Care is given in the patient’s home, nursing facility, assisted living, or hospital. In addition to Camp Brave Heart, Cypress Basin Hospice offers a wide range of grief support programs to families and individuals, whether or not they are Cypress Basin Hospice clients.
If you know a child who would benefit from Camp Brave Heart, please contact Cypress Basin Hospice at 903-577-1510 or 888-429-2966, or go to www: cbhospice.org.
Article by Josh Allen/Managing Editor – eParis Extra!
The Paris 500…Lamar County’s Race for a Cure – the theme and title of this year’s Relay for Life event — couldn’t have went better. The teams that participated all did spectacular and a huge thank you goes out to all of you.
The grand total of money raised for the 2012 Relay for Life event is $50,250 — so far. The top five placing teams in fundraising were Texas Oncology ($11,055), First Federal Bank ($7,130.96), People’s Bank ($4,392), Kimberly Clark ($3,376.20), and Brookshires ($2,200.50).
These weren’t the only teams that participated though. There were over 40 teams to sign up for this year’s event, which is the most ever. There was over $13,000 raised by teams online prior to the event.
This is certainly a year for the record books for Lamar County’s Relay for Life, however, these totals could still change and more fundraising can still be done for 2012′s Race for the Cure. Money can raised up until August 31, 2012.
On Thursday, July 12 — 6pm — at Celebrate It there will be a Relay for Life Wrap-Up dinner and party for all Committee Members & Team Captains. Each person may bring a guest. There will be food and fun and a much deserved celebration for all the team’s job well done.
Please make sure and RSVP your seat so that there is enough food for everyone. You can do this by emailing Molly Woodall at mwoodall@1st-fed.com. You won’t want to miss this.
At this dinner, the first 20 teams to sign up for the 2013 Relay for Life will receive a VERY nice Welcome Back gift! In order to be eligible for this gift, you will be asked to pay the $25 registration fee that night.
A theme for teams and campsites for Relay for Life 2013 will also be voted upon and chosen at the Wrap-Up dinner. Below is a link to a list of suggested themes from around the country. Send in your suggestion to mwoodall@1st-fed.com before Thursday night. If you have another idea than those on the list, send that in as well. The Relay committee will take the top 10 and vote on them at the dinner.
There are some teams that will be participating in Flash Mobs this year and you need to be ready because you will most likely be caught off guard. They will come in a flash and leave in a flash, leaving you confused and laughing.
For those of you that are not sure what a Flash Mob is, it is a group of people who appear from out of nowhere, to perform predetermined actions, designed to amuse and confuse surrounding people. The group performs these actions for a short amount of time before quickly dispersing. Flash mobs are often organized through email and/or newsgroup postings. And you can go on youtube.com to see how these are done (just search Flash Mob).
This year’s Lamar County Relay for Life — themed Paris 500…Lamar County Race for a Cure — is less than a week away. The annual event is being held at North Lamar’s R.L. Maddox Stadium on the walking track from 7pm on Friday, June 29 until 5am on Saturday, June 30.
The idea is for everyone to get together, raise funds for a cure, and have a lot of fun celebrating the lives of those who have fought battles with cancer and to honor the memories of those that have been lost to the battle with cancer. This year has been one of the biggest fund raising years so far.
There are a lot more activities planned for the night, aside from the Relay and all the pre-Relay fundraising that has gone on in the days and weeks preceding the event. There will also be on-site fundraising on the night of the Relay.
Many local businesses and Relay teams will be offering various items, merchandise, fun, games, and food and drinks. For example: Bealls will have Lollipops, Cotton Candy, Face Painting, and raffles for two fragrance baskets, Brookshire’s will provide Snow Cones, Doing it for Ken’s Kids — egg rolls, pickles, strawberry and chocolate cupcakes, First Federal Teams 1 & 2 — T-shirts, Kimberly Clark Team 1 — hamburgers and baked goods, Kimberly Clark Team 2 — raffle for Taurus 380 Stainless Steel Hand Gun, Kimberley Clark Team 3 — memory quilt raffle, Kroger — hotdogs and raffles for a grill and $30 Gift Card, PRMC — food and face painting, People’s Bank — hotdogs, cancer bracelets, raffle for 2 baskets, PHG — cotton candy, Texas Oncology — frito pies, nachos, & water, The T-Shirt Shoppe — t-shirts, tote bags, glow sticks, Well Warriors — popcorn, and Wendy’s Warriors — watermelon.
There will also be a Mr. Relay contest which will feature several local business being represented by a man that dresses as a woman for a humorous beauty pageant. Mr. Relay contests are: Kenny Dority (Guaranty Bond), Ellsworth Corbett (Brookshire’s), Michael McLaughlin (First Federal Team 1), Bow Willis (First Federal Team 2), Joe Parris (Kimberly Clark), Caleb Gladd (Paris Regional Medical Center), Andrew Thrasher (The T-Shirt Shoppe), and Casey Gilbert (Well Warriors).
And for even more activities and fun, Bealls will have Mario Cart set up, Brookshire’s will shave their manager’s head and host a scavenger hunt, Doing it for Ken’s Kids will have a Bag Lady game, First Federal Teams 1 & 2 will sponsor a reverse lap and a hokey pokey lap, Kimberly Clark Teams 1 & 2 will host a Bubble Gum Race Car workshop and a Huggies diaper dash, Kroger may lock you up in their ‘mock jail’, Texas Oncology will have tricycle races, there will be a Limbo Lap sponsored by the T-Shirt Shoppe, and Wyatt Bowden is bring the Angry Birds game.
Be prepared for a night of memories, emotions, fun, excitement, and fellowship. This is a time when a lot of the town of Paris will pull together for a great cause. Hope to see everyone there.
Below is a diagram of the walking track with info regarding the night of the relay. Click to enlarge.
Article by Josh Allen/Managing Editor – eParis Extra!
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