San Angelo Standard Times By Staff Report Published September 16, 2016 Volunteers from the San Angelo Police Department, Atmos Energy, The Life Church, Tapia Construction, Goodfellow Air Force Base firefighters, Frontier Communications and Angelo State University’s Honors Student Association will join forces to construct ramps for the elderly or disabled. The project, a one-day-blitz set…
Freestone County Times Published on September 13, 2016 While some teens were spending their summers chasing Pokémon, a group of youth from Texas visited Washington, D.C. to develop a community action plan at National 4-H Council’s Citizenship Washington Focus. Out of all of the groups that created plan, Farm Credit chose the plan developed by the…
From NewsWest9.com Click here to view the video and the original published article Published: Sunday, July 24th 2016, 10:12 pm CDT Updated: Monday, July 25th 2016, 8:05 am CDT By Lane Luckie, Anchor TYLER, TX (KLTV) – A group of East Texans has made it their mission to change lives in a matter of hours. Volunteers…
The Paris News Lauren Corbell | Posted: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 11:18 am A Roxton man was able to move back into his home Sunday, thanks to collaboration from local health care agencies and service organizations. When 74-year-old Claude Adams was admitted to Legend Healthcare on March 25, his condition was poor. “I couldn’t move…
On Saturday, May 7th, Corgan and their 2016 Leadership Class partnered with Texas Ramps to build 5 ramps in Dallas County. Each member of the 30 members submitted a charity for the team to support prior to their graduation in June from their 9 month program. Of the 30 options presented, Texas Ramps was chosen…
With her two replaced knees and her husband’s unsteadiness following a stroke and their old ramp more useful as a one-way theme park ride, our clients needed a safe way to their car. So we ripped out the old and installed the new, a properly sloping 68-foot beast. As always good work by volunteers from…
The goal for United Fund of Cherokee County’s fall campaign was set by members of the board of directors at the annual budget hearing Monday. The goal of $110,000 covers 18 non-profit agencies. The campaign with Crystal Bateman as chairman, will kick off in September. During the hearing, representatives from each applying agency, were heard,…
Random Acts of Kindness spent a busy morning helping Mr C find a better pathway to his car. Multiple steps kept him homebound until these folks charged up batteries and changed that. Mrs C kept us hydrated on a warm winter day. Thanks, Dorothy. Oh, and after that, they ran down the road and installed…
This volunteer ramp-building crew was amazing! A huge thank you to each one of them for giving up half a Saturday to help build it. I’m not sure if there is a bigger gift from God than someone who raises their hand and says, “I will be there to help.” Y’all are absolutely the best!…
The great guys from Atmos Energy spent a few hours on Saturday morning adding 30′ of freedom to the home of “A”, who celebrated her 91st birthday the day before. Their timing was wonderful, now she can get outside and enjoy the spring weather.