Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Today is the day for the Pearl Bluegrass event and the Pearl Cottage Bookstore. The stage show for the bluegrass event begins at 1 p.m. but jamming goes on all day. If you are a band and would like to play on the stage, all you have to do is to show up and put your name on the board in the Community Center hallway. If you have questions, you can see Chris Ray or Garrett Dickey, and they will be happy to help you. Don’t forget that there is delicious homemade food in the Bluegrass Kitchen at very reasonable prices! They are open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The next Bluegrass and Bookstore Day is Sept. 14 - as it is always the second Saturday in September due to a long-standing family reunion booking in the Community Center. The remaining days for this year are Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Dec. 7. Be sure to attend all of these days if you possibly can. You will love being in Pearl!
The Pearl Church of Christ is busy preparing donations for the annual Atchley Labor Day Fish Fry and Silent Auction to be held Sept. 1. The items for bid will be out for viewing and bidding August 18-31. There are tons of wonderful things being processed already! All proceeds go toward His Kids scholarships and camp. This year, Dr. Charles Patterson, formerly of Killeen, will be speaking during the Sunday morning worship service at 10:30 a.m. Dr. Patterson was the beloved, longtime superintendent of Killeen ISD prior to his retirement. He is originally from Hamilton and is currently living in Corsicana. Everyone is invited to attend and to bring a carload with you!
The Pearl Cottage Bookstore still has a number of Pearl books available: 1 Pleasure and Profit Club book - $20; 12 Gazaway Cabin books - $10 each; 1 The Boys from Pearl (the story of the Davis brothers when they were in WWII) - $10; 1 each Pearl Annual, 1956, 1958 - $20 each; 1 Jonesboro Junior High Annual, 1999 - $20; 1 each Evant Annual, 1959, 1962, 1977 - $20 each; 1 Buddy and Tina Wright CD - $20; 1 Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader doll - $20; 1 Ronald McDonald doll - $20. There are also over 300 new romance books in excellent condition at the bookstore.
For more information about these items, please call Kay Pruett at 254-865-5864 or Linda Ray at 254-865-9282, or you can go to the next Bookstore Day on Aug. 3. If you’ve been there before, you will absolutely love it! Most other purchases besides the items listed above are by donation only, and the proceeds go toward local charities.
Speaking of Linda Ray, she only called me 14 times yesterday with Pearl updates (and I greatly appreciate every single call)! However, she promised not to call me one more time each and every time…and then the phone rang! There’s no place like Pearl, and there’s no one else like Linda Ray! Thank the good Lord for both of them!
This week’s Bible verse comes Isaiah 55:7—Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. NIV
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